Love on the Beat

Love on the Beat
Studio album by Serge Gainsbourg
Released	October 2, 1984
Recorded	Studio House of Music, New Jersey
Genre	New wave, electronic
Length	37:10
Label	Mercury/Universal Records
Producer	Billy Rush, Philippe Lerichomme
Serge Gainsbourg chronology
Mauvaises nouvelles des étoiles (1981) Love on the Beat (1984) Gainsbourg Live (1986)

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Allmusic	[1]

Love on the Beat is a 1984 album by French singer and songwriter Serge Gainsbourg. On this album, Gainsbourg used American musicians to achieve a funk-heavy rock sound. The album was controversial due to its very sexual lyrical content, with homosexuality and prostitution as the subject matters on many of the tracks. Perhaps most controversial was "Lemon Incest", which was set to Frédéric Chopin's Étude No. 3 and sung as a duet with his then-12-year-old daughter Charlotte Gainsbourg. The French edition of Rolling Stone magazine named this album the 63rd greatest French rock album (out of 100).^[2]

Track listing

All tracks composed by Serge Gainsbourg; except where indicated

1. "Love On The Beat"
2. "Sorry Angel"
3. "Hmm Hmm Hmm"
4. "Kiss Me Hardy"
5. "No Comment"
6. "I'm The Boy"
7. "Harley David Son of a Bitch"
8. "Lemon Incest" (Gainsbourg, Frédéric Chopin)

Personnel

• Serge Gainsbourg - vocals, synthesizer, arranger
• Billy Rush - bass, guitar, producer, drum programming
• Larry Fast - synthesizer, synthesizer programming
• Stan Harrison - saxophone
• George Simms & Steve Simms - background vocals
• Charlotte Gainsbourg - arranger, vocals on "Lemon Incest"
• Larry Alexander - mixing
• John Rollo - engineer
• Nelson Ayres - assistant engineer
• Jean Ber - photography
• Jean-Pierre Haie - remastering
• William Klein - photography
• Claude Delorme - photography
• Jacques Aubert - photography
• Philippe Lerichomme - producer
• Jean Marie Guérin - mastering

References

1. ↑ Jurek, Thom. Love on the Beat at AllMusic
2. ↑ Magazine Rolling Stone, n°18 of February 2010, ISSN 1764-1071