The Stranglers - La Folie
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Artist: The StranglersBrand: Dig
Edition: Music CD
Format: Explicit Lyrics, Extra tracks, Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2006-11-21
Music Label: Caroline
Soundtracks:
- Non Stop
- Everybody Loves You When You're Dead
- Tramp
- Let Me Introduce You to the Family
- Ain't Nothin' to It
- Men They Love to Hate
- Pin Up
- It Only Takes Two to Tango
- Golden Brown
- How to Find True Love and Happiness in the Present Day
- Folie
- Cruel Garden [*]
- Cocktail Nubiles [*]
- Vietnamerica [*]
- Love 30 [*]
- You Hold the Key to My Love in Your Hands [*]
- Strange Little Girl [*]
Music reviews of La Folie
Music Review: DAZZLING combination of sound sculpture and intelligent poetic lyrics
Rating: 5 Stars
OH YEAH. I have this one on vinyl too. Haven't listened in years. But just ordered it and put the headphones on.
WOW!
What a treat! I remember their other records as great. But this one seemed kind of too pop, you know, with "Golden Brown." Boy was I wrong.
On second listen now I know why they called the next one Aural Sculpture. The sound here really IS sculpture. This is SOUND on the RAZOR's EDGE. All these guys have intelligence to spare, and one wonders if it was Hugh or all of them but whatever it was... it sure clicked. Especially the original cuts. The extras are OK and historically instructing, but the first 7 are amazing examples of how simple rock forms can become works of the best kind of intelligent art sound.
The choices of timbre, harmony, mix and structure are unexpected, impeccable and swing like mad. There are no fillers and no clich?s. All instruments are used sparely to create one coherent sound. All are excellent. I can think of no better bass player and I own thousands of records. The sound he gets is incredible, vicious even. Usually the bass is a supporting instrument, but here its part of the whole contributing to the shape of the sound. The others are just as good. I was never impressed by Hugh's guitar, but now I'm smarter and I hear just how carefully considered Hugh's timbres are. He and Dave simultaneously contrast and complement each other as each player weaves the net.
The lyrics are a little difficult to make out but they are interesting too. No clich?s here either. No clear cut meanings but definitely wry comments on philosophy and modern life.
Strong 5 stars from a band inexplicably less famous than most of the standardized punk bands. Unfair of course but that seems to be the way. Challenging listening, not for the background. My only lament is there are not more of these to buy.
Description of La Folie
UK repackaged reissue of 1981 album, includes new artwork with extensive sleeve notes & previously unseen photos. 17 tracks including six bonus tracks, 'Cruel Garden', 'Cocktail Nubiles', 'Vietnamerica', 'Love 30', 'You Hold The Key To My Love In Your Hands' & 'Strange Little Girl'.Isolationist, misanthropic, and cantankerous, punk survivors the Stranglers were never a band known for ostentatious displays of affection, at least not to music journalists. However, 1981's conceptual La Folie (roughly translated as "madness") has become known in band circles as the Stranglers "love" album. Typically, these were no ordinary chansons d'amour. Songs of faith, familial strife, devotion, and dependency--spanning religion, celebrity obsession, lust, death, and drugs--the nearest the album got to being superficially palatable was on the gorgeous, harpsichord-strewn "Golden Brown," ex-jail-bird Hugh Cornwell's paean to the seduction of heroin. And then there was the chilled-out title-track, six sultry minutes of J.J. Burnel reciting--entirely in French--the true story of a Paris-based student who murdered and ate his girlfriend.
The Raven aside, La Folie found the Stranglers at their most instrumentally dexterous and melodically inventive: witness Burnel's nomadic bass lines, the discordant Four Freshmen harmonies on "It Only Takes Two to Tango," Cornwell's barb at the commercialized martyrdom of deceased pop stars on the waspish "Everybody Loves You When You're Dead." There are some great should-have-been singles too, like "Non Stop" with its cheesy organ licks, and the perky, salacious synth-pop of "Pin Up." Even the bonus tracks are excellent--"Strange Little Girl" (a Top 10 hit and a song covered by Tori Amos) and its even better B-side, the Hot Club de Paris pastiche "Cruel Garden." La Folie is easily the most underrated album from Britain's most underrated band. --Kevin Maidment
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