Rock Around the Bunker

Infobox Album
Name = Rock Around the Bunker
Type = studio
Longtype =
Artist = Serge Gainsbourg


Released = 1975
Recorded = November 1974 - December 2, 1974
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Length =
Label = Polygram International
Producer = Alain Hortu
Reviews = * Allmusic Rating|4|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:anfpxquhldke link]
Last album =
This album = "Rock Around the Bunker" (1975)
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"Rock Around the Bunker" was a 1975 album by French singer andsongwriter Serge Gainsbourg, containing songs which combined pseudo-1950smusical arrangements in the manner of "Grease" or "The Rocky Horror Show" with lyrics relating to Nazi Germany and World War II complete with Gainsbourg's usual sex and scatology.

Considering that Gainsbourg as a young Jewish teenager in occupied France had had to hide from the Nazis and Vichy authorities, it was all the more controversial in a country that has had a long period of coming to grips with its role in World War II. Songs like "Nazi rock", "Tata teutonne" and "SS in Uruguay" further established Gainsbourg's role as France's resident pop provocateur, and was contemporarywith David Bowie's similar Nazi obsession.

Track listing

All tracks composed by Serge Gainsbourg; except where indicated

#"Nazi Rock" - 3:10
#"Tata Teutonne" - 2:48
#"J'Entends des Voix Off" - 2:05
#"Eva" - 3:13
#"Smoke Gets in Your Eyes" (Otto Harbach, Jerome Kern) - 3:28
#"Zig Zag Avec Toi" - 3:39
#"Est-Ce Si Bon?" - 3:16
#"Yellow Star" - 1:40
#"Rock Around the Bunker" - 3:25
#"S.S. in Uruguay" - 2:16

Personnel

Serge Gainsbourg - vocals, piano, guitar
*Kay Garner - vocals
*Jean Hawker - vocals
*Jim Lawless - percussion
*Brian Odgers - bass
*Alan Parker - guitar
*Judd Proctor - guitar
*Clare Torry - vocals
*Dougie Wright - drums
*Alan Hawkshaw - piano