Les hommes morts sont dangereux

Infobox Album |
Name = Les hommes morts sont dangereux
Type = Album
Artist = Métal Urbain


Released = 1980, re-released 2003-04
Recorded = 1977 (earliest singles) -2003 (latest remixes)
Genre = Punk rock, electro
Length =
Label = Celluloid, Bizz Records (original), Seventeen Records (re-releases), Felicity, Polystar (Japanese re-release)
Producer = Tony Platt, Doug Bennett,
Reviews = * Allmusic Rating|4|5 [http://wm03.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:fxfixqe5ldse link]
Last album = had previously only released singles
This album = Les hommes morts sont dangereux (1980)
Next album = L'age d'or (1985) "(fan-club compilation)"

"Les hommes morts sont dangereux" (English translation: "The dead men are dangerous") was the first and only full studio album by the French electro-punk band Métal Urbain. The album was originally released in 1980 (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 October 1 2005 in France as a limited & signed 25th anniversary vinyl replica CD edition, with two bonus tracks on Seventeen Records, Metal Urbain right owners. A re-release in Japan 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) "(2005 CD bonus track originally offered on a bonus single included in the first 1000 LPs)"
# Atlantis "(2005 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 Metal Urbain official website]
* [http://www.seventeenrecords.com/ Seventeen Records (French)]