Albums…

Theo Hakola

Water Is Wet – Wobbly Ashes Records/Médiapop/Microcultures, 2020

1) Who The Hell
2) So Bad
3) Your Baby Blacks, Baby
4) Never Bought a Bottle of Water
5) In a Sauna You Sweat
5) In a Sauna You Sweat
6) Bury Me Standing
7) Scratching the Scruff
8) Raining Embers
9) 1963
10) Weak In The Knees
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I Fry Mine in Butter! – Wobbly Ashes Records/Médiapop, 2016

1) Bourgeois Blues
2) Blank Generation
3) Coyote
4) Song to the Siren
5) Subterranean Homesick Blues
6) Saint Louis Blues
7) Ruby (Don’t Take Your Love to Town)
8) Sam Stone
9) Danseuse
10) The Old Lovers Song
11) 1913 Massacre
12) I Fall To Pieces
13) White Man in Hammersmith Palais
14) (I Don’t Want to Go To) Chelsea
15) Heroin

Interviews and Reviews in French:

This Land Is Not Your Land – Wobbly Ashes Records/Les Disques du 7ème ciel, 2012

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reviews in French of this album

1. The Only Church
2. Ilmarinen’s Lament
3. Dead Souls Singing
4. This Land is Not Your Land
5. Quicksilver
6. Let Buddy Bolden Blow
7. My Love’s Kisses
8-11. Wobbly Medley
– 50,000 Lumberjacks
– Dump the Bosses off Your Back
– Wesley Everest
– The West is Dead
12. Fox News Is My Muse

Drunk Women and Sexual Water – Wobbly Ashes Records/Anticraft, 2007

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1. From Little Wolf to Hair of the Dog
2. He Said She Said
3. The Bed of His Arms
4. Here Comes The Golem
5. Angel from Montgomery
6. Bed of Rocks
7. Defeat (2000, 2004)
8. J’envie le serpent
9. Ô Tendre jeunesse !
10. Lauren Bacall
11. Blue Roses
12. Hunger Burns
13. Mon nom est Ellen Foster
14. Ballad of a Thin Man

La Chanson du Zorro andalou – Kerig/Wagram, 1999

CD includes  French text of play.  Play text also available in FRENCH or ENGLISH here.
ACTE I
1. La Volonté de l’histoire…
2. Miguel Angel
3. Señores
4. Mère et fille
5. Anti-berceuse
6. Señoritos
ACTE II
13. Justes
14. En Attendant la pluie
15. Zorro bis
16. Quand le sang de l’homme va celui de la femme chasser
17. Est-ce que tu m’aimes?
18. Si Dieu existait
ACTE II
7. En attendant la pluie
8. La Chanson du zorro andalou
9. Est-ce que tu m’aimes?
10. Berceuse
11. Señores bis
12. Zorro
ACTE IV
19. Justes bis
20. Mon corps me trahit
21. Miguel Angel et Zorro
22. La Boussole

Overflow – Grosse Rose/Musidisc/Universal, 1997

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Interviews and Reviews in French:

1. Cherries 
2. Shoot Me 
3. Eau qui saoule
4. We’ve Already Eaten
5. The Miracle Abused
6. The Broken Arms Song
7. La chanson du Zorro andalou
8. Quand le sang de l’homme va celui de la femme chasser
9. Il n’y a pas de jolie fille à droite
10. Anne-Marie Comes Back To Me
11. Lunacy
12. La ballade de Fabrice et Clélia

The Confession – Bondage, 1995

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reviews in French:

L’Indic – “PRECHE MIRACULEUSE” – 1995:

1. Jim Morrison Might Have
2. Hook, Line & Green-Eyed Belle
3. Corinne Corinne
4. Smoke & Honey
5. Quand on est riche
6. Prière profane
7. Résumé 
8. Nowhere 
9. La Boussole 
10. Canto Madrileño 
11. The Confession 
12. La complainte du vilain

Goddamn Songs – Bondage, 1995

This collection, sold as a mini-album, features English versions of three songs previously released in French plus assorted live bits and pieces
– some (#6, #7 and #8) well worth the listen – and a remix of “Chère Maman (je suis mort à Paris)”…
1. La Peste Porcine (fragment)
2. The Pig Song (La Peste porcine)
3. The Artificial Rose (La Rose artificielle)
4. Waiting For Rain (En Attendant la pluie)
5. Luz Blanca (fragment)
6. The Struggle for Love
7. Blood Thicker Than Love
8. And Bleed That River Dry
9. Anarchy/Chère maman (fragment)
10. Chère Maman (cajun disco mix)
11 & 12. Goddamn Song

Hunger of a Thin Man – Bondage, 1993

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Interviews and Reviews in French:

1. Chère maman (je suis mort à Paris)
2. Liberate Me for New Year’s Eve
3. Goddamn Song
4. La Peste porcine
5. If There’s a God
6. En attendant la pluie
7. Tanks Painted Pink
8. La Rose artificielle
9. Berceuse
10. That Kind of Light
11. Wobbly Blood
12. Anarchy in the…

INTERVIEW IN FRENCH

  • “Some Words from a Hungry Mouth”
  • Theo Hakola discusses his Passion Fodder and Orchestre Rouge albums (in French) in “NOISE” – juillet 2008 
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Passion Fodder

1985 – 1991 And Bleed That River Dry– 160 minute compilation, Barclay (France), 1998

Volume I
1. She Can Be Vandalized
2.Andalusian Zorro Song
3. Holy Days
4. Burn the flag
5. Lucybel Lee
6. Ballad of a Boy or a Girl
7. And Bleed That River Dry
8. Little Wolf
9. My Body Betrays Me She Said
10. A Man is a Man
11. Los Cuatro Generales
12. Love Burns
13. Hunger Burns
14. Spokane
15. The Struggle for Love
Volume II
1. Blood Thicker Than Love
2. Kill Me Hannah
(appalachian mix)
3. The Girl That I Marry
4. Heart Hunters
5. In the Echo
6. Luz Blanca (spoons mix)
7. In the Moodswing
8. As You Dig Your Hole
9. Tomorrow Is a Long Time
10. Skin Poetry
11. Dirt (French mix)
12. God Couldn’t Fight His Way
Out of a Wet Brown Bag
13. Mardi gras
14. Red Legs
15. Big Fat Obstacle
16. Where Do You Want Me to Look?
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What Fresh Hell Is This? – Barclay (France), 1991

1. Lucybel Lee
2. Ballad of a Boy or a Girl
3. The Last American Dream
4. Oh Lord
5. And Bleed that River Dry
6. Into The Beloved
7. She Can Be Vandalized
8. Andalusian Zorro Song
9. Holy Days
10. Burn the Flag
11. Lucybel Lee (edit)

Woke Up This Morning – Barclay (France), Beggars Banquet (UK), RCA (USA)…1989

1. Little Wolf
2. My Body Betrays Me She Said
3. Happy New Year
4. A Letter from ’38
5. A Man is a Man
6. Love Burns
7. Los Cuatro Generales
8. Between Ten and Noon
9. Ventoline Blues
10. I’d Sell My Soul to God

Love, Waltzes and Anarchy – Barclay (France), Beggars Banquest (UK)… 1988

1. Polished Off
2. Pascal’s Waltz
3. Kill Me Hannah
4. Hunger Burns
5. Orwell Cooks
6. Spokane
7. The Struggle for Love
8. Travail, Famille, Patrie
9. Pray Anarchist
10. The Girl That I Marry
11. Blood Thicker Than Love

Fat Tuesday – Barclay (France) 1986, Beggars Banquet (UK), Island (USA)… 1987

1. Luz Blanca
2. St. Helens
3. Heart Hunters
4. In The Echo
5. Not Waltz Away
6. In The Moodswing
7. Mardi Gras
8. Tomorrow Is a Long Time
9. Skin Poetry
10. Paname Song
11. Hard Work
12. As You Dig Your Hole
13. Dirt
14. God Couldn’t Fight His Way Out of Wet Brown Bag
15. Violations

Hard Words From a Soft Mouth – Barclay (France), Upright (U.K.)… 1985

1. In the Smooth
2. Before Hit List
3. Hit List
4. Red Orange Blue (fin)
5. Big Fat Obstacle
6. Red Legs
7. Coal
8. Pigeons
9. Peter O’ Toole

4 Songs – Celluloid (France) 1984

1. Freedom is Slavery
2. Oh Rosa
3. Love is Knives
4. Oh Baby
E.P. 45, released on vinyl only

T. HAKOLA / D. GOULAG

Orchestre Rouge

2007 – ORCHESTRE ROUGE
RCA (Sony-BMG) released, in France, Orchestre Rouge’s Yellow Laughter (1982) and More Passion Fodder (1983) on CD as double album

Des Restes – New Rose, 1984

1. Hole in His Thigh
2. Catholic Eyes
3. Soon Come Violence
4. Speakerine
5. Friction
6. Consul
7. Where Family Happens
8. Seconds Grate
9. Shadowplay
10. Kazzetlers Zeks
Rather poorly recorded live performances plus unreleased studio versions of two songs from Yellow Laughter – Released on vinyl only

More Passion Fodder – RCA, 1983

1. Seconds Grate
2. Where Family Happens
(slow death kicking)
3. Chief Joseph
4. The Perfect Drunk
5. Think of All the Starving
Children in India
6. Catholic Eyes
7. Red Orange Blue
(part two)
8. Saleté
9. A Scent Versus a War
Produced by Adam Kidron
Re-released in France by RCA as a double album CD with Yellow Laughter in June 2007

Yellow Laughter – RCA, 1982

1. Soon Come Violence
2. Je cherche une drogue
(qui ne fait pas mal)
3. Soft Kiss
4. Red Orange Blue
5. Hole In His Thigh
6. The Consul
7. Speakerine
8. Slugs
9. Crows
Produced by Martin Hannett
Re-released in France by RCA as a double album CD with More Passion Fodder in June 2007