Serge Gainsbourg discography

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The discography of French singer-songwriter Serge Gainsbourg consists of 16 studio albums, 4 live albums, 1 compilation album, 80 singles and EPS, and several soundtrack albums.

Contents

Albums

Studio albums

YearAlbumChartSales Certifications
FR
[1] [2] [3]
1958 Du chant à la une 137
1959 N° 2
1961 L'Étonnant Serge Gainsbourg
1962 Serge Gainsbourg N° 4
1963 Gainsbourg Confidentiel
1964 Gainsbourg Percussions
1968 Bonnie & Clyde (with Brigitte Bardot)
1968 Initials B.B.
1969 Jane Birkin/Serge Gainsbourg 4
1971 Histoire de Melody Nelson 56
1973 Vu de l'extérieur
1975 Rock around the bunker 5
1976 L'Homme à tête de chou 85
  • SNEP: Gold [4]
1979 Aux armes et cætera 1
  • FRA: 650,000 [5]
  • SNEP: Platinum [4]
1981 Mauvaises nouvelles des étoiles 47
  • SNEP: Gold [4]
1984 Love on the Beat 3
  • SNEP: Platinum [4]
1987 You're Under Arrest 2
  • SNEP: Platinum [4]

Live albums

Compilation albums

Selected film scores

Editions

A 207-track survey of Gainsbourg's career from 1959 to 1981 on nine CDs, issued both separately and in a box: Vol. 1 Le Poinçonneur Des Lilas, 1959-1960; Vol. 2 La Javanaise, 1961-1963; Vol. 3 Couleur Café, 1963-1964; Vol. 4 Initials B.B., 1966-1968; Vol. 5 Je T'Aime Moi Non Plus, 1969-1971; Vol. 6 Je Suis Venu Te Dire Que Je M'en Vais, 1973-1975; Vol. 7 L'Homme à Tête de Chou, 1975-1981; Vol. 8 Aux Armes et Cætera, 1979-1981; and Vol. 9 Anna, 1967–1980. A two-CD highlights collection, also called De Gainsbourg à Gainsbarre, was culled from this edition in 1990. The box was reissued in 1994 with two more discs containing the later albums Love on the Beat (1984) and You're Under Arrest (1987).
An 18-CD box issued to mark the tenth anniversary of Gainsbourg's death containing each of his sixteen studio albums and the EP Essais Pour Signature (1958) in its original format (one per CD), plus a disc of rarities, Inédits, Les Archives 1958-1981. A separate 3-CD box, Le Cinéma de Serge Gainsbourg: Musiques de Films 1959–1990 (2001, Mercury) covered his film music.
A 20-CD, 271-track box issued to mark the twentieth anniversary of Gainsbourg's death. The first sixteen discs contain his studio albums and related tracks. They are followed by a disc of singles, a disc of television and radio recordings, and two discs of film music.

Albums written for other artists

Selected tribute albums and posthumous releases

Singles and EPs

The majority of his EPs (represented in italics) were also released as 7-inch promo jukebox singles.

YearSinglePeak chart positions
AUT [7] BE (WA) [8] FRA [9] NL [10] NOR [11] SUI [12] UK [13] US [14]
1958Le Poinçonneur des Lilas
1959La Jambe de bois (Friedland)
Le Claqueur de doigts
L'Anthracite
1960L'Eau à la bouche49
Les Loups dans la bergerie
Romantique 60
1961La Chanson de Prévert
Les Oubliettes
1962Les Goémons
1963Vilaine fille, mauvais garçon [upper-alpha 1] [upper-alpha 1]
Strip-tease
1964Comment trouvez-vous ma sœur ?
Chez les yé-yé
Couleur Café
1966Qui est "In", Qui est "Out"47
1967Vidocq
Anna
Toutes folles de lui
Comic Strip45
L'Horizon
1968"Bonnie and Clyde" (with Brigitte Bardot) [upper-alpha 2] 18
"Manon 70"
"Requiem pour un con"49 [upper-alpha 3]
"Ce sacré grand-père"
"Initials B.B." [upper-alpha 2] 4293 [upper-alpha 4]
Mister Freedom80 [upper-alpha 5]
"L'anamour"
1969"Élisa"
"Je t'aime... moi non plus" (with Jane Birkin)123 [15] 211158
"La Chanson de Slogan" (with Jane Birkin)
"La Horse"94 [upper-alpha 5]
1970"Un petit garçon appelé Charlie Brown"
"Cannabis"
1971"Ballade de Melody Nelson"29 [16]
1972"La Décadanse" (with Jane Birkin)1347 [16]
"Sex-Shop"
"Moogy-Woogy"
1973"Je suis venu te dire que je m'en vais"3573 [upper-alpha 4]
1974"Je t'aime... moi non plus" (re-release)431
1975"Rock Around the Bunker"47
"L'Ami Caouette"31
1976"Marilou sous la neige"50
"Ballade de Johnny-Jane"
1977"Madame Claude"
"My Lady Héroïne"47
"Good Bye Emmanuelle"
"Chanson du chevalier blanc"
1978"Sea, Sex and Sun"
1979"Des laids, des laids" / "Aux armes et cætera"
"Vieille Canaille"
1980"Harley-Davidson"
"Requiem pour un twister"
"Dieu fumeur de Havanes" (with Catherine Deneuve)8 [17]
1981"Souviens-toi de m'oublier" (with Catherine Deneuve)
"Le Physique et le figuré"
"Ecce Homo"
1982"Bana Basadi Balalo"
1984"Love on the Beat"
1985"Lemon Incest" (with Charlotte Gainsbourg)2
"No Comment"
1986"Vieille Canaille" (with Eddy Mitchell)17 [17]
"Je t'aime... moi non plus" (with Brigitte Bardot)
"Charlotte Forever" (with Charlotte Gainsbourg)
1987"You're Under Arrest"47
1988"Aux enfants de la chance"35
"Mon Légionnaire"
1989"Hey Man Amen" (Live) [upper-alpha 2]
"Couleur Café" (Live)
1990"Stan the Flasher"
1991"Requiem Pour un Con" (Remix 91)8
1995"Élisa" (re-release)36
2000"Je t'aime" (The Mixes)
2003"Lola Rastaquouère"
Marilou Reggae
"Aux Armes!" (featuring Big Youth)
2010"Les Cœurs Verts"
Le Jardinier d'Argenteuil
Si j'étais un espion
2011"Comme un boomerang" [upper-alpha 6] 40
2017"Équateur"
2020À la Maison de la Radio

Notes

  1. 1 2 "La Javanaise" on the B-side of the EP charted at number 38 in Belgium and when re-released in 2011, charted at number 87 in France
  2. 1 2 3 Also released as an EP
  3. Chart position in 2010
  4. 1 2 Chart position in 2011
  5. 1 2 Chart position in 2009
  6. "Comme un boomerang" did not chart on the Ultratop 50, but did reach #11 on the Ultratip chart [18]

Singles written for other artists

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