666667 Club

666 667 Club
Studio album by Noir Désir
Released 17 December 1996
Genre Rock
Length 50:39
Label Barclay
Producer Ted Niceley & Noir Désir
Noir Désir chronology

Dies Irae (live)
(1994)		 666 667 Club
(1996)		 Des visages des figures
(2001)

666667 Club is an album by French rock band Noir Désir. It was released in France and other European countries on 17 December 1996. The album was certified double platinum in France on 17 September 1997,[1] which at the time signified sales of above 600,000. The French edition of Rolling Stone magazine named this album the 12th greatest French rock album (out of 100).[2]

Lyrics and Music by Bertrand Cantat and Noir Désir, except "Septembre, En Attendant".

Track listing

  1. "666 667 Club" – 3:40
  2. "Fin de siècle" – 5:34
  3. "Un jour en France" – 3:12
  4. "À ton étoile" – 4:27
  5. "Ernestine" – 4:41
  6. "Comme elle vient" – 2:25
  7. "Prayer for a Wanker" – 3:09
  8. "Les persiennes" – 4:08
  9. "L'homme pressé" – 3:45
  10. "Lazy" – 5:33
  11. "A la longue" – 4:27
  12. "Septembre, en attendant" – 3:01 – Lyrics Bertrand Cantat – Music Frédéric Vidalenc
  13. "Song for JLP" – 3:28 (not listed in album cover; bonus track)

While most of the album is based on electric guitar and can be classified easily as rock, the last track, Song for JLP, features Cantat with an acoustic guitar, without the accompaniment of other instruments, singing in a mix of rock and blues styles.

Produced by Ted Niceley and Noir Désir.

Cover Art

The original CD cover showed an entirely unlabelled photo of a blue, partly cloudy sky, printed on the front of a booklet of a 10 page booklet of photos by Henri-Jean Debon, Didier Robcis and Alexandre Gaultier. Images within included US street scenes, sunbathers in a park, asparagus tips, a scene from Gay Pride 1995, African river scenes and communion photos. Only one picture depicted the band (at a dinner table). Gaultier's odd portrait of the back of Prince Charles' head made an alternative 'cover' when the booklet was reversed and had the words Noir Desir printed black on black such that they were virtually invisible.

Notes

  1. ↑ "Disque en France". Disque en France. Retrieved 2011-09-13.
  2. ↑ Magazine Rolling Stone, n°18 of February 2010, ISSN 1764-107L