Les hommes morts sont dangereux
{{Infobox album
| name = Les hommes morts {{nowrap|sont dangereux}}
| type = studio
| artist = Métal Urbain
| cover = Metal Urbain - Les hommes morts sont dangereux, album cover.jpg
| alt =
| released = 1981, re-released December 2003
| recorded = 1977 (earliest singles), {{nowrap|2003 (latest remixes)}}
| venue =
| studio =
| genre = Punk rock, noise punk, post-punk
| length =
| label = Celluloid, Bizz Records (original), Seventeen Records (re-releases), Felicity, Polystar (Japanese re-release)
| producer = Tony Platt, Doug Bennett
| prev_title =
| prev_year =
| next_title = L'age d'or ({{nowrap|fan-club}} compilation)
| next_year = 1985
}}
{{Album ratings
| rev1 = AllMusic
| rev1Score ={{Rating|4|5}} [{{AllMusic|class=album|id=les-hommes-mort-sont-dangereux-mw0000533718|pure_url=yes}} link]
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Les Hommes Morts sont Dangereux ({{langx|en|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.
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
Hommes 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
- 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
- "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)"
External links
- [http://www.metalurbain.com Métal Urbain official website]
- [http://www.seventeenrecords.com/ Seventeen Records (French)]
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