Metal Urbain - Paris Maquis - French Punk 1978

[633ROMANO]

Royan 1980 en charente-maritime / île de olèron années 1980 , Bayonne ... gallaic , Toulouse ... veut retrouver Dominique de la région parisiennes ....

[633ROMANO]

franckromano18@gmail.com

[633ROMANO]

chch amis dans les années punk a paris 1980 C.k Amical a vous !

[MyRastapopouloss]

je crois que le caméraman c'est endormi sur le zoom a 1 minute 40

[ajawofcopan]

not sure what they're saying but it's groovey

[TheXmiserable]

@ajawofcopan Inventer la liberté Fichés, traqués, matraqués Face aux nervis camouflés Solides gardiens de l’appris Payés armés pour nous tuer. Paris maquis quotidien Un jeu truqué où tu perds Terreur meurtre à chaque instant Drôle d’état assassin Fragilité liberté. Révolution résistance Paris maquis quotidien La ville zombie régulée Musés blindés de l’appris La ville résiste terroriste. Assassine l’état dans la poche Je te juge l’état contre moi Fasciste!

[TheXmiserable]

@ajawofcopan”nervis” is kinda hitman

”gardien de l’appris” is a pun on ”gardien de la paix” (cop)

”maquis” refers to the fact that France’s résistants under WW2 were hiding in the bush

[efflam666]

Metal urbain, mon enfance du vrai bon punk

[ThorOdinFreya]

Made punk music before the sex pistols !

[MrMikeyBikey]

Wow! Nuff respect for upping this! Thanks!!

[MordaciousFilms]

What I've noticed is The Pistols are basically taking New York Dolls-style riffs and beats and playing them harder. Listen to Puss In Boots and then Liar. They're great, but highly overrated in my opinion. These guys, however, are quite unique and I like their sound.

[artblack01]

I think even the TV camera man was making fun of them... he kept focusing on the fact that the mic is not plugged in.

[frankieropansy13]

@artblack01 It's a wireless microphone... you can see the little wire on the tip.

[artblack01]

@frankieropansy13 Is that a joke? you do know they didn't have that technology at the time.

[yogiman78]

if métal urbain, ludwig von 88 and béru hadn't used drum machines, they simply wouldn't have been the same. i can see why you call a band that performs "unlive" on tv posers, but what does the drum machine have to do with this? also, when métal urbain started, there was no strict punk "book of rules" yet - you're pissed about your surroundings, know a few chords? start a band. that's what it was (and still is) about!

[canousi]

METAL URBAIN WERE ALREADY POST PUNK / ELECTRO / INDUSTRIAL / EXPERIMENTAL back in IN 76 !!! ONLY DEVO AND SPIZZOIL WERE DOING THIS STUFF BACK THEN ... GREAT PIONEERS OF MODERN ALTERNATIVE ROCK !!!

[bin1oui1]

mdr , j'ai pris 15 tonnes de cuites la dessus et 20 tonnes sur lady coca-cola

[artblack01]

There is something... not punk about this band.... something... fake? His microphone is not plugged in... what else... they are trying too hard to look like the French version of the Sex Pistols.

[andrewbennetts]

@artblack01 nothing fake about this band. They were at the beginning of punk, and quite original with the drum machine.

[artblack01]

@andrewbennetts "quite original with the drum machine." lip syncing and a drum machine... punk? They sound like a bunch of posers to me.

[yogiman78]

calling métal urbain posers only shows how little you know about non-anglophone punk. they were one of france's very first punk bands, way before it became a fad, leaving a huge impression on the punk scene, both national and worldwide (jello biafra once called them one of his all-time fave bands). also, being the first punk band to use a drum machine, they paved the way for bands like ludwig von 88 and bérurier noir! but as french bands who used drum machines, they're probably posers as well

[artblack01]

@yogiman78 If you say so, but you might wanna get more information before judging someone, yes I did look this band up before posting my little comment. Two, I've been into punk, and not just American and English punk but Japanese, Spanish and Mexican, German, and believe it or not Italian punk, as well as other Genres since the late 80's... though I respect Jello as an artist and love his music with the Kennedys', he has no influence on my opinion of punk rock and hardcore music.

[artblack01]

@yogiman78 Punk, originally street music was not something that was necessarily meant for mainstream "popular" culture, it is rebel music, anti-establishment, and sometimes art house... Doing it to be big and showing off with lip syncing and drum machines is just so not punk..... Be that as it may, I still enjoy many bands who seem punk but can be considered posers by others but they aren't because they don't claim to be something they are not.

[yogiman78]

@artblack01 i agree with most of what you've been saying here. of course punk's not about being fashionable or following a trend, but if one is very strict about this, there were no punk bands at all after the ramones, heartbreakers and london ss, know what i mean? like it or not, métal urbain pioneered punk in france. btw, i mentioned jello not because he's some kind of punk deity whose taste in music is sacred, but because he's a non-francophone person whose name you probably know.

[artblack01]

@yogiman78 With the existence of the entire hardcore scene and bands like crass and such I am willing to disagree with "there were no punk bands at all after the ramones, heartbreakers and london ss," there was punk before and after the Ramones... but that's a debate for a later time...

[yogiman78]

@artblack01 no point debating something we can both agree on, right?

[artblack01]

@yogiman78 Of course...

[yogiman78]

@artblack01 there's probably no way we can agree on the drum machine bit. it's something one either loves or hates. but calling it "not punk" shows traces of the same kind of closed-mindedness punk set out to destroy.

[artblack01]

@yogiman78 Don't get me wrong about the drum machine, I like plenty of bands that use it, plenty of bands that have been called "electronic punk" or "punk with synthesizers" like Skinny Puppy, or some of the other industrial, electronic, experimental bands out there.... but as far as say Sex Pistols using a drum machine... I would say, not punk, and when you televise yourself in such a fashion, with a drum machine, you are representing a large group of people? I would say Poser everytime.

[xmohicanx]

@artblack01 i guess you'd call suicide, the screamers or big black posers too... punk was something that was not a narrow set of rules, for fucks sake they used to call the Tubes a punk band, as were many other bands that don't quite fit the mold you are setting forth., (ie, Blondie, Television, the Talking Heads, etc) the music took on different forms and it was reflected in the bands' sounds, image, lyrical subject matter, etc.. and thats what truly made it punk.

[xmohicanx]

@artblack01 you dolt. read the posters comments. they are on a tv show and back in the 70's very few bands actually played live on tv.

[artblack01]

@xmohicanx More to the point, yes, very few bands played live on TV, but that's marketing for you. If you are a band whose pretense is "punk" then you would either be playing live or making a video for a prerecorded song... but if you are playing "live" on tv with the pretense that they are playing "live" on TV then if you were punk you would probably tell them to fuck off... if you were some band playing for money under the pretense of "punk" then you ARE a poser. Not saying do it free....

[xmohicanx]

@artblack01 eight so then, the sex pistols, the buzzcocks, sham 69, the damned, the uk subs, the adverts, motorhead, the plasmatics, and more, all posers according to your logic as none of them said no, and all of them played on talk shows and lip-synched. but more to the you were calling them out as though they were playing a show and lip-synching even though the OP's comments pointed out that they were on a TV show. and punk has been commercial since the Pistols. thanx malcolm.

[artblack01]

@xmohicanx ...but come on.... a TV show wants to promote your band, a punk band, and you are .... I think you better get what I am saying, I know of plenty of bands back in the 60s, 70s, 80s and 90s that absolutely refused to lip-synch.... some not even punk, they just had integrity.... doing a video? totally understandable.... it's a fucking video. But most punk bands never really took that seriously either... unless it was for "art"...

[xmohicanx]

@artblack01 right they could have said no. i'm sure rough trade would have loved that. i mean have a lable trying to sell your records and being a small independent lable (at the time) you'd love to have a band you wanna promote put a wrench in the works. isn't it bad enough that the band was obviously fucked over by the tv shows techs? and this idea that the pistols are some kinda holy entity that was infallible and that everyone else should be help up to them.. the pistols were shit.

[erictheviking871]

werent these lads ,rough trades first record release.

[gloubloux]

@erictheviking871 Indeed they were mate.

[cmimi1976]

Merci 

[ScytheChaos]

The band goes out of time with the beat in the chorus, and better than the Pistols, you'd better not mean Sex Pistols.....

[Mptrik]

J'ai vu tous les concerts de M.U mais la je ne vois pas c'est ou ?

[razzia89]

great french punk band!

cheers!!

[bougaloup7]

Moi je préfère stupéflip !

[TheCafeennui]

Hmm, I wonder if he's lip synching?

[xmohicanx]

@TheCafeennui did you read OP's comments?

[guigne01]

Salut à tous. J'ai du mal à distinguer la moitié des paroles dans c'te chanson. (Il faut que j'admette que le français n'est pas ma langue maternelle; malheureusement, le fait qu'on chante m'empêche quelquefois de comprendre...) Mes recherches des paroles sur Internet n'ont rien découvert. Est-ce qu'il y a quelqu'un qui connaît les paroles à cette chanson, et qui peut les afficher ici? Je serais très reconnaissante de votre coup de main; merci en avance!

[valisheepstigmas]

@guigne01 tu peut les trouver dans leur site officiel metal.urbain.free.fr

Moi aussi j'ai eux le même probléme :)

[guigne01]

@valisheepstigmas Ah! Merci bien pour ce lien! Maintenant je peux déchiffrer d'autres paroles de cet excellent groupe -- génial!!

[633ROMANO]

punk franc année 1980

[guigne01]

@633ROMANO ben, années 1970 plutôt, hein?

[wheelworker1]

besides the brits some of my favorite music comes from france,,,,I love metal urbain

[bonelessbigspinBBS]

i need to learn french

fuckin awesome music

listen to NOFX & the Fad

[watoowatootheband]

@bonelessbigspinBBS : he criticises the fascist state. More or less. MU lyrics were very political but it was "écriture automatique " (automatic writing? a process invented by the surrealists), so they're no easy to understand.

[xmohicanx]

@watoowatootheband been looking for the l yrics to this song but can't find them anyone got them?

[mediattackrecords]

PUNK! long live punk!!!

[COTDEATH]

Another band from the same time that shits all over the pistols. Nice one.

[beanoskint]

@COTDEATH maybe, but the thing is, they wouldn't exist without the pistols......

[artblack01]

@beanoskint yet the Sex Pistols didn't lip sync.

[xmohicanx]

@beanoskint and the pistols wouldn't have existed without the ramones.

[ScytheChaos]

@COTDEATH

Do you mean that they're really shit?

[tapanipaul]

@COTDEATH

metal urbain rules but don't shit on the Pistols... it just makes you look like a naive little prick... i doubt they made any bones about their appreciation for Rotten and the gang....

[SidFletcher73]

Visionaries. Still overpowering.

[sthx666]

unique !!!

[stikkirecords]

fuckin awesome!!

[jubilee64]

Fcukin awesome! Great then great now thanks for posting!

[coloradooo99]

J'aime le punk!!!!

Je suis francophone!!!!!

d'acc chui pa français ms meme comme canadien on devrait absolument troooop aimer cette chanson!!!!

haha. j'adore, bonjour a tous de Montréal, Canada! :-))))

[gabman62]

@coloradooo99 les canadiens, vous êtes des français d'abord, même si vous avez émigré il y a quelque temps. Salut à toi de Paris !

[ruellan2003]

salut ! J'adore ca ! Bravo ! Peter Ruellan Music

[frednos]

Métal U les premiers !!, y a pas a dire, ils étaient vraiment en avance

[eric123456789012345]

very good analysis of the video, which I never saw before.

Not that bad actually

[neonwind]

Brilliant!

[xarathustra01]

Fantastic!

I used to have this, but sadly lost in the mists of time.

Rough Trade's first single # RT 001

[inigualable14]

Thanks for posting this Video, please give us more ! ! !

[JWF5186]

zoom's a bit annoying but awesome footage none the less

[punk1977lev]

fantastic got this so many years ago still play it , thanx for this clip

[diskochimp]

Wow, this is a fantastic clip! Where did you find it & do you have any more? x

[markSTINKS]

Punk never took off in France to the same extent as the UK .. but the Urbain were total trailblazers ... brilliant rock n roll with techno drumbeats ... way ahead of their time ...

[MrThunderbreizh]

merci, ca fait plaisir de les revoirs ces tarés!!!bravo!!

[ELNITO2009]

fabuleux document... thx a million for posting this !!!

[micklugworm]

Cheers, never seen this before.  Great band.

[dreamcrusher5]

superb!