In this little known disc, Serge Gainsbourg deals with Nazi Germany . The singer was forced to wear the yellow star in 1942 .
Musically, the artist draws on the genres Rockabilly and Rhythm and Blues . In terms of text, the majority of titles evoke Nazism. Thus Nazi Rock evokes the Night of the Long Knives , Tata Teutonic , Zig-zig with you , Is this is so good and SS in Uruguay , depict so grotesque characters Nazis, while I hear voices off trafficking ' Hitler himself. Finally two amazing titles dedicated to Eva Braun : Eva , and an interpretation of Smoke Gets in Your Eyes which is mentioned in Eva .
He plays there as usual with the words and their sounds, including about the death camps:
Are foolish killers? Is this how Assassins team up? It would have been necessary more than in Prussia These processes are known!
Gainsbourg later revealed that he had written for this album a song called The silence of the pope , but he refused to publish it, being wary of any hostile reactions from Catholic circles similar to those that accompanied the release of I love you ... me neither .
Although the album was released several years after May 1968 , in a world where a certain provocation was widely accepted ( Hara Kiri , Charlie Hebdo , Jean Yanne ...) as well as the derision on the time of the Occupation ( The Grand Vadrouille ), Gainsbourg seems to have been the first to treat on the same mode this much more sensitive theme, without creating particular media waves or against, nor for the album.
Rock Around the Bunker has sold more than 100,000 copies in France
