1-29-13 Indochine
On 1/29/66 the Bob Dylan 45 “Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window?” charts at No. 17 in England. On 1/29/72 George Harrison / V.A. “Concert For Bangla Desh” 3LP boxed set was No. 1 in England. Happy birthday, David Byron (singer of Uriah Heep), born 1947. Happy birthday Derek Bailey (British improvisational guitarist), born 1930.
Sometimes thought of as the “French Duran Duran”, I always found this wonderful French band to be a bit more than that.
CD 3 ARIOLA FR 610.477
1985 9 TRKS
7″ 3e SEXE / TROIS NUITS PAR SEMAINE (PS) ARIOLA FR 107.54
1985 2 TRKS with pic sleeve
CD 7000 DANSES ARIOLA FR 258.459
1987 9 TRKS
LP 7000 DANSES ARIOLA FR 208.459
1987 9 TRKS
CD BIRTHDAY ALBUM, THE (1981 – 1991) ARIOLA CAN BMGQCD-819
1991 19 TRK Collection
CD DANS LA LUNE… MCA CAN TFD-8961
1992 11 TRKS Nicola Sirkis (singer) solo album
CD5 DES FLEURS POUR SALINGER ARIOLA FR 663.339
1990 3 TRK CD Single CD5
CD INDOCHINE AU ZENITH ARIOLA FR 257.863
1986 13 TRKS Live (2 x bonus tracks)
LP INDOCHINE AU ZENITH ARIOLA IT 207.715
1986 11 TRKS Live
CD L’AVENTURIER ARIOLA FR 251.959
1982 7 TRK CD EP
CD LE BAISER ARIOLA FR 260.358
1990 11 TRKS
CD LE PERIL JAUNE ARIOLA FR 610.218
1983 11 TRKS
LP LE PERIL JAUNE ARIOLA FR 201.963
1983 11 TRKS
As my friends will attest, I went wild for French popular music in the 1980’s. I brought LP’s back from visits to France, I trudged up to West Los Angeles to buy expensive CD’s from “La Cite”, the French bookstore that used to exist in Los Angeles. When we got the satellite about 1985, I busily air-checked Much Music and Musique Plus up in Canada, for French pop music videos.
We struck gold about 1987, with their amazing album “7000 Danses”. “Les Tzars” was a great single, and it had an amusing video clip, too!
So, for the last 25 years, I’ve bought everything that I could find with the name Indochine on it. Yes, I bought a SECAM format VHS longform music video; I don’t think anything I own at present will play a SECAM tape, drat! Yes, I probably passed on uber-expensive Indochine titles I saw in Tokyo. They have an SA-CD that I’d sure like to find, for “The Birthday Album”, their greatest hits (I wonder if it’s multi-channel?).
