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| Roulette russe | ||||
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| Studio album by | ||||
| Released | April 1979 (reissued in 1980 with an altered track listing) | |||
| Genre | French rock, blues, new wave | |||
| Label | Philips Records, Barclay Records, Universal Music Group | |||
| Producer | Claude Alvarez-Pereire | |||
| Alain Bashung chronology | ||||
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Roulette russe(Russian roulette) is the second album by French rocker Alain Bashung, issued in 1979 on Philips Records. The album was reissued the following years with a couple of songs dropped and the two songs from his breakthrough single, Gaby oh Gaby, added.
Production[edit]
In 1979, Alain Bashung was 32 and although he began his career in music more than ten years before, he met no success after the commercial failures of his first singles and his first album, Roman-photos (Fotonovelas) which Bashung later disowned. He often said that Roulette russe was a 'last-chance album' of sort.
The album has a rather dark mood, with songs dealing with personal matters, like Elsass Blues about his childhood in Alsace ('J'suis né tout seul près d'la frontière, celle qui vous faisait si peur hier' which means 'I was born alone near the border, that very border that you feared yesterday'), but the absurd humour that would be his trademark on his albums with lyricist Boris Bergman was already present.
Standouts from the album include Je fume pour oublier que tu bois ('I smoke to forget that you drink') (first single from the album in 1979), Bijou, bijou ('Jewel, jewel') or Toujours sur la ligne blanche ('Still on the white line') which would remain concert staples.
Reception[edit]
Commercial performance[edit]
Roulette russe met with little success on his first issue, but after the release of his breakthrough single Gaby oh Gaby the next year, the album would be rereleased to include the song and therefore enjoyed more success.
Critical reception[edit]
In his book La discothèque parfaite de l'odyssée du rock, Gilles Verlant, although he did not include the album in his list of essential albums, qualified the album string of Roulette russe / Pizza as a 'triumph'.[1]
Track listing[edit]
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | 'Je fume pour oublier que tu bois' | Boris Bergman - Alain Bashung | 4:16 |
| 2. | 'Station service' | Boris Bergman - Alain Bashung | 3:19 |
| 3. | 'Elsass Blues' | Boris Bergman - Alain Bashung | 3:19 |
| 4. | 'Y'a un yéti' | Boris Bergman - Alain Bashung | 2:36 |
| 5. | 'Guru tu es mon führer de vivre' | Boris Bergman - Alain Bashung | 3:08 |
| 6. | 'Milliards de nuits dans le frigo' | Boris Bergman - Daniel Tardieu - Alain Bashung | 2:47 |
| 7. | 'Pas question que j'perde le feeling' | Boris Bergman - Daniel Tardieu - Alain Bashung | 3:54 |
| 8. | 'Bijou, bijou' | Boris Bergman - Daniel Tardieu - Alain Bashung | 4:08 |
| 9. | 'Les Petits Enfants' | Daniel Tardieu - Alain Bashung | 1:12 |
| 10. | 'Toujours sur la ligne blanche' | Boris Bergman - Alain Bashung | 4:39 |
| 11. | 'Squeeze' | Boris Bergman - Daniel Tardieu - Alain Bashung | 3:29 |
In 1980, a new version of the album was released after the success of the Gaby oh Gaby single. Milliards de nuits dans le frigo and Les Petits Enfants were both dropped for space, and Gaby oh Gaby and its b-side Elle s'fait rougir toute seule were added, the former becoming the first song on the album and the latter becoming the last.
Singles[edit]
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- 1979 : Je fume pour oublier que tu bois / Bijou, bijou
- 1980 : Gaby oh Gaby / Elle s'fait rougir toute seule (France : 2)
Certifications[edit]
| Region | Certification | Certified units/sales |
|---|---|---|
| France (SNEP)[2] | Gold | 100,000* |
*sales figures based on certification alone | ||
References[edit]
- ^Verlant, Gilles (2006). La discothèque parfaite de l'odyssée du rock (in French). Hors Collection. ISBN978-2-258-08007-2.
- ^'French album certifications – Alain Bashung – Roulette russe' (in French). Syndicat National de l'Édition Phonographique. Retrieved 1 February 2019.
GRAND HAVEN, Mich. (WZZM) – A Michigan teenager was sentenced to at least three years in prison for shooting his friend in the face during a game of Russian Roulette earlier this year. 18-year-old Richard Usher (pictured above) will serve two years for a felony firearm charge and then somewhere between one and fifteen additional years for manslaughter. The length of the additional sentence will be determined by a parole board.
Jannie Kuiper, the mother of the victim, 16-year-old Brandon Kuiper, asked the Ottawa County judge for the maximum sentence for what she called an act of “stupidity.”
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“His last words to me as he walked out the door were, ‘See you mom’,” she told the Judge. “I will see him again one day but until then, his friends, family, and myself will have to live with Richard Usher’s violent stupidity.”
She went on to describe in disturbing detail what occurred in the hospital before her son’s death: “Two nurses were compressing towels on his face, the towels were lifted briefly for me to see his face, his face that was gushing blood as he was bleeding.”
Brandon’s brother similarly asked the judge to show no mercy through a letter read aloud by Jannie Kuiper: “I think Richard Usher should serve the maximum sentence for what he did , he’s an adult and he pointed the weapon pulled the trigger and took my brothers’ life.”
Usher did not ask for mercy. He apologized to Brandon’s mother: “I want to say to Ms. Kuiper that I’m truly sorry about what happened to Brandon, I think about him everyday, I wish I could go back and change the past. he was one of my brothers and he always will be in spirit.”
Investigators say drugs and alcohol were involved in the incident.