Les Hommes Morts sont Dangereux (English: Dead Men are Dangerous) is the only studio album by the French electro-punk band Métal Urbain. The album was originally released in 1981 on vinyl.
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| Released | 1981, re-released December 2003 | |||
| Recorded | 1977 (earliest singles), 2003 (latest remixes) | |||
| Genre | Punk rock, noise punk, post-punk | |||
| Label | Celluloid, Bizz Records (original), Seventeen Records (re-releases), Felicity, Polystar (Japanese re-release) | |||
| Producer | Tony Platt, Doug Bennett | |||
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Songs on the album are a compilation of the group's singles from the previous three years ("Paris Maquis", "Hystérie connective" and "Panik") and John Peel BBC Radio 1 session recordings.
Re-releases
editHommes morts was re-released on CD on 1 October 2006 in France as a limited & signed 25th anniversary vinyl replica CD edition, with two bonus tracks on Seventeen Records, Métal Urbain right owners. A re-release in Japan from Polystar under licence from Seventeen Records in December 2003 took the form of a double CD with more additional tracks.
Personnel
edit- Clode Panik (vocals)
- Pat Lüger (guitar)
- Hermann Schwartz (guitar)
- Eric Débris (drum machine)
- Zip Zinc (synthesiser)
- Rikky Darling (guitar)
- Miss OD (vocals on "Lady Coca Cola")
Track listing
edit- "Hystérie Connective"
- "Ghetto" (John Peel session)
- "Clé de Contact"
- "Lady Coca Cola"
- "Panik"
- "Futurama" (Peel session)
- "Snuff Movie"
- "Numéro Zéro" (Peel session)
- "Paris Maquis"
- "Pop Poubelle"
- "50/50" (Peel session)
- "Ultra Violence"
- "Anarchie au Palace" (Peel session)
- "E 202" (Peel session)
- "Crève Salope"
- "Hystérie Connective (mix 2)" (2006 CD bonus track originally offered on a bonus single included in the first 1000 LPs)
- "Atlantis" (2006 CD bonus track originally offered on a bonus single included in the first 1000 LPs)
Japan bonus CD 2003:
- "Hystérie Connective (mix 2)"
- "Atlantis"
- "Une Bite, un Cul et Quelques Monstres"
- "Untitled Instrumental 1*"
- "Untitled Instrumental 2*"
- "Untitled Instrumental 3*"
- "Sweet Marylin" (by Metal Boys, a band featuring Métal Urbain's Hermann Schwarz, Pat Lüger and Eric Débris - this was their only single, released on Rough Trade Records in 1979)
- "Fugue for a Darkening Island" (the B-side of the above single)
- "Snuff Movie (dangerous mix)"
- "Train Demo Version 1 (demo '79)"
- "Train 2 (version 2 '79)"
- "Colt 45 (demo '79)"
- "Amour (demo '79)"
- "Little Girl of Love (unissued demo '79)"
- "Tango Sudiste ('82 reformation demo track)"