Pizza (album)


Pizza is the third album by French rocker Alain Bashung, issued in 1981 on Philips Records.

Production

This album immediately followed Bashung's breakthrough single, Gaby oh Gaby. Lyricist Boris Bergman wrote part of the lyrics, the other part was made of improvisations by Bashung. The album features a somewhat surreal mood, with abstract lyrics, full of double entendres, plays on words, puns and automatic writing. For instance, when talking about how a girl pisses him off on Vertige de l'amour, his second hit single which helped bolster the sales of the album, Bergman wrote "Si ça continue j'vais me découper", the verb "découper" being used instead of "j'vais me casser", to which Bashung improvised "suivant les pointillés".

Reception

Commercial performance

Pizza hit #1 on the French charts.

Critical reception

In 2010, the French edition of Rolling Stone magazine named this album the 19th greatest French rock album. 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".

Track listing

Bonus Tracks (CD reissue)

Personnel