Les hommes morts sont dangereux (The dead men are dangerous) was the only full studio album by the French

France

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 electro

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-punk

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 band

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 Métal Urbain

Métal Urbain

Métal Urbain was one of the first French punk groups, formed in 1976 in Paris.-Career:They were heavily influenced by The Clash and The Sex Pistols on one hand, and on the other by an electro approach related to "Metal Machine Music" by Lou Reed...

. 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

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 BBC Radio 1

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 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

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 took the form of a double CD

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 with more additional tracks.

Personnel

• Clode Panik (vocals)
• Pat Lüger (guitar
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  )
• Hermann Schwartz (guitar)
• Eric Débris (drum machine
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  )
• Zip Zinc (synthesiser)
• Rikky Darling (guitar)
• Miss OD (vocals on Lady Coca Cola)

Track listing

1. Hystérie Connective
2. Ghetto (John Peel session)
3. Clé de Contact
4. Lady Coca Cola
5. Panik
6. Futurama (Peel session)
7. Snuff Movie
8. Numéro Zéro (Peel session)
9. Paris Maquis
10. Pop Poubelle
11. 50/50 (Peel session)
12. Ultra Violence
13. Anarchie au Palace (Peel session)
14. E 202 (Peel session)
15. Crève Salope
16. Hystérie Connective (Mix 2) (2005 CD bonus track originally offered on a bonus single included in the first 1000 LPs)
17. Atlantis (2005 CD bonus track originally offered on a bonus single included in the first 1000 LPs)

Japan bonus CD 2003:

1. Hystérie Connective (mix 2)
2. Atlantis
3. Une bite, un cul et quelques monstres
4. Untitled Instrumental 1*
5. Untitled Instrumental 2*
6. Untitled Instrumental 3*
7. Sweet Marylin (by Metal Boys, a band featuring Métal Urbain
   Métal Urbain
   Métal Urbain was one of the first French punk groups, formed in 1976 in Paris.-Career:They were heavily influenced by The Clash and The Sex Pistols on one hand, and on the other by an electro approach related to "Metal Machine Music" by Lou Reed...
   
   s Hermann Schwarz, Pat Lüger and Eric Débris - this was their only single, released on Rough Trade Records
   Rough Trade Records
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    in 1979)
8. Fugue for a darkening Island (the B-side
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   of the above single)
9. Snuff Movie (dangerous mix)
10. Train demo version 1 (demo '79)
11. Train 2 (version 2 '79)
12. Colt 45 (demo '79)
13. Amour (demo '79)
14. Little Girl of Love (unissued demo '79)
15. Tango Sudiste ('82 reformation demo track)

External links

• Metal Urbain official website
• Seventeen Records (French)