''Les Hommes Morts sont Dangereux'' ( en, Dead Men are Dangerous) is the only studio album by the

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electro-punk band

Métal Urbain Métal Urbain (meaning ''urban metal'') was one of the first French Punk rock, punk groups, formed in 1976 in Paris. Career They were heavily influenced by the Clash and Sex Pistols on one hand, and on the other by an electro approach related to ...

. 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

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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

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from Polystar under licence from Seventeen Records on 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 (

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) * 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

's Hermann Schwarz, Pat Lüger and Eric Débris - this was their only single, released on

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in 1979) # "Fugue for a Darkening Island" (the

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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

Métal Urbain official websiteSeventeen Records (French)
{{DEFAULTSORT:Hommes Morts Sont Dangereux 1980 debut albums Métal Urbain albums Celluloid Records albums Albums produced by Tony Platt