The Stranglers, La Folie - 1h 1m 28s

Tracks & Durations

1. Non Stop	2:29
2. Everybody Loves You When You're Dead	2:42
3. Tramp	3:04
4. Let Me Introduce You to the Family	3:08
5. Ain't Nothin' to It	3:56
6. The Men They Love to Hate	4:22
7. Pin Up	2:46
8. It Only Takes Two to Tango	3:37
9. Golden Brown	3:27
10. How to Find True Love and Happiness in the Present Day	3:04
11. La Folie	6:04
12. Cruel Garden (Bonus Track)	2:14
13. Cocktail Nubiles (Bonus Track)	7:08
14. Vietnamerica (Bonus Track)	4:01
15. Love 30 (Bonus Track)	3:54
16. You Hold the Key to My Love in Your Hands (Bonus Track)	2:40
17. Strange Little Girl (Bonus Track)	2:41

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Review

Isolationist, misanthropic, and cantankerous, punk survivors the Stranglers were never a band known for ostentatious displays of affection, at least not to music journalists. However, 1981's conceptual La Folie (roughly translated as "madness") has become known in band circles as the Stranglers "love" album. Typically, these were no ordinary chansons d'amour. Songs of faith, familial strife, devotion, and dependency--spanning religion, celebrity obsession, lust, death, and drugs--the nearest the album got to being superficially palatable was on the gorgeous, harpsichord-strewn "Golden Brown," ex-jail-bird Hugh Cornwell's paean to the seduction of heroin. And then there was the chilled-out title-track, six sultry minutes of J.J. Burnel reciting--entirely in French--the true story of a Paris-based student who murdered and ate his girlfriend.

The Raven aside, La Folie found the Stranglers at their most instrumentally dexterous and melodically inventive: witness Burnel's nomadic bass lines, the discordant Four Freshmen harmonies on "It Only Takes Two to Tango," Cornwell's barb at the commercialized martyrdom of deceased pop stars on the waspish "Everybody Loves You When You're Dead." There are some great should-have-been singles too, like "Non Stop" with its cheesy organ licks, and the perky, salacious synth-pop of "Pin Up." Even the bonus tracks are excellent--"Strange Little Girl" (a Top 10 hit and a song covered by Tori Amos) and its even better B-side, the Hot Club de Paris pastiche "Cruel Garden." La Folie is easily the most underrated album from Britain's most underrated band. --Kevin MaidmentUK repackaged reissue of 1981 album, includes new artwork with extensive sleeve notes & previously unseen photos. 17 tracks including six bonus tracks, 'Cruel Garden', 'Cocktail Nubiles', 'Vietnamerica', 'Love 30', 'You Hold The Key To My Love In Your Hands' & 'Strange Little Girl'.Digitally Remastered and Repackaged with Bonus Tracks, Fresh Artwork, Extensive New Sleevenotes and Many New, Previously Unseen Photos.

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La Folie

Tracks: 12 (-5 tracks), Disk length: 41m 27s (-21m 59s)

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