Theo Hakola from Passion Fodder produced their first LP in 1987 Où veux-tu qu'je r'garde ?. This 6 tracks album shows what would become a Noir Désir trademark: finely crafted lyrics with powerful rock sound.
Noir Désir's second album, Veuillez rendre l'âme (à qui elle appartient), released in 1990, introduced punk rock elements to their sound. This continued with their next album, Tostaky, which contained the successful song Tostaky.
One of the most popular rock groups in France, their success continued with the release of the dance-influenced 666.667 Club, and the remix album One Trip One Noise. Their last album, 2001's Des visages des figures, was a slower, more ambitious affair. This album also contained a collaboration with a fellow francophone Manu Chao. "Des visages, des figures" was the album of the consecration for the group which won the music award (Victoire de la Musique) of the best rock album of year 2002, as well as the award of best clip for "Le Vent nous portera". Although their last album seemed to be the slowest one, the following gigs were huge rock shows where thousands of fans came to see the group.
In 2003, allegedly on a drug binge, Bertrand Cantat slapped his girlfriend, Marie Trintignant during an argument in a hotel room in Lithuania. As she fell, her head hit the bed, and she consequently bled to death. Marie Trintignant was a popular French actress and was working on a movie. A Lithuanian judge sentenced Cantat to 8 years in prison after a jury convicted him of manslaughter. He was sentenced in Lithuania and served his sentence in a prison near Toulouse in France.
In September 2005, an album, En public, which contains highlights of their last tour. They also released a DVD set, Noir Désir en images, which contains various live performances, footage and videos. Special permission was obtained in order to allow the imprisoned Cantat to participate in the development of those.
Noir Désir members have not ruled out the possibility of re-forming once Cantat is released from jail. Cantat was released early on account of good behaviour on October 16th, 2007, but immediately retreated to his house near Bordeaux. At the time, he would not speak to the press regarding his musical future.
In November 2008, two free tracks were released. The band wished to show, with this release, that productive and cathartic, works from Noir Désir still impregnate the French scene with intellectual and emotional abuse.
Teyssot-Gay has stated that the group is currently in the process of composing and recording a new album which he feels should be finished in 2009. However according to a May 14, 2009 article in Le Parisien the album will not be ready until January 2010.
On November 29, 2010 it was announced that guitarist Serge Teyssot-Gay was leaving the band citing "emotional, human and musical differences" with lead singer Cantat.
On November 30, 2010 band's drummer Denis Barthe announced that Noir Désir is disbanded for good and that is useless to let the band live with "artificial respiration".
Bouquet de nerfs
Noir Désir Lyrics
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Au sommet de la dune
À caresser de loin
Ton chien
T'oublies or not t'oublies
Les ombres d'opaline
Au rendez-vous suivant
Au fond d'une autre limousine
Qui ne vaut pas plus cher
Que ce bouquet de nerfs
À frôler la calanche
Les étendues salines
À perte de vue on s'imagine
En Chine
Trompe la mort et tais-toi
Trois petits tours et puis s'en va
J'opère tes amygdales
Labyrinthiques, que dalle
Ne m'est plus rien égal
Je sais, je n'ai offert
Que des bouquets de nerfs
Rubis de Sade et jade
Déjà, je dis non
Diamants c'est éternel
Des fleurs, des bouts du ciel
Immenses
La liste des parfums, capiteux
Capitalistes c'est bien, mais olfacultatifs
Istanbul, au panier
Finalement j'ai offert
Quelques bouquets de nerfs
Agenda, donnez-moi
De vos dates à damner
Tous les bouddhas du monde
Et la Guadeloupe
S'il arrive qu'un anglais
Vienne me visiter dans la métempsychose
Je saurai le recevoir
Je peux lui en faire voir
De la sérénité
Et même lui laisser un certain goût de fer
Et ce bouquet de nerfs
The lyrics of Noir Désir's "Bouquet de Nerfs" describe a surreal landscape, where the singer is waiting for someone on top of a dune during a full moon day. The imagery is deliberately ambiguous, with the shifting and transitory descriptions of the surroundings reflecting the singer's uncertain state of mind. The dog of the addressee becomes a recurring motif, symbolizing the loyalty and dependence of the addressee.
The limousine that appears later in the lyrics represents a contrast between the wealth and luxury that the singer could have and his own preference for simplicity and authenticity. The phrase "bouquet de nerfs" is used as a metaphor for the singer's emotional state, which is characterized by anxiety and tension. The middle part of the song seems to be a commentary on the futility of material possessions and the transience of human beings.
The last stanza seems to suggest the singer's acceptance of his own mortality and his readiness to face life's challenges with equanimity. The "bouquet de nerfs" becomes a symbol of the singer's emotional vulnerability, but also his strength and resilience.
Overall, "Bouquet de Nerfs" is a song that invites multiple interpretations, with its opaque and elliptical imagery and its enigmatic lyrics that suggest deep and complex emotions.
Line by Line Meaning
Journée de la pleine lune
It's nighttime and the moon is full.
Au sommet de la dune
At the top of a sand dune.
À caresser de loin
Petting your dog from a distance.
Ton chien
Your dog.
T'oublies or not t'oublies
Are you forgetting or not forgetting?
Les ombres d'opaline
The opalescent shadows.
Au rendez-vous suivant
At the next meeting point.
J'attends
I'm waiting.
Au fond d'une autre limousine
In the back of another limousine.
Qui ne vaut pas plus cher
Which is not worth that much.
Que ce bouquet de nerfs
Just like this bouquet of nerves.
À frôler la calanche
Brushing up against the cliffs.
Les étendues salines
The salt flats.
À perte de vue on s'imagine
As far as the eye can see, one can imagine.
En Chine
In China.
Trompe la mort et tais-toi
Tricking death and being quiet.
Trois petits tours et puis s'en va
Three little turns and then they're gone.
J'opère tes amygdales
I'm operating on your tonsils.
Labyrinthiques, que dalle
Labyrinthine, no problem.
Ne m'est plus rien égal
Nothing else is equal to me.
Je sais, je n'ai offert
I know, I haven't given.
Que des bouquets de nerfs
Only these bouquets of nerves.
Rubis de Sade et jade
Rubies of Sade and jade.
Déjà, je dis non
Already, I say no.
Diamants c'est éternel
Diamonds are forever.
Des fleurs, des bouts du ciel
Flowers, pieces of the sky.
Immenses
Immense.
La liste des parfums, capiteux
The list of heady perfumes.
Capitalistes c'est bien, mais olfacultatifs
Capitalism is good, but olfactory is better.
Istanbul, au panier
Istanbul, in the basket.
Finalement j'ai offert
In the end, I gave.
Quelques bouquets de nerfs
A few bouquets of nerves.
Agenda, donnez-moi
Agenda, give me.
De vos dates à damner
Your dates to damn.
Tous les bouddhas du monde
All the Buddhas in the world.
Et la Guadeloupe
And Guadeloupe.
S'il arrive qu'un anglais
If an Englishman comes.
Vienne me visiter dans la métempsychose
And visits me in metempsychosis.
Je saurai le recevoir
I will know how to receive him.
Je peux lui en faire voir
I can show him.
De la sérénité
Some serenity.
Et même lui laisser un certain goût de fer
And even leave him with a certain taste of iron.
Et ce bouquet de nerfs
And this bouquet of nerves.
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group
Written by: Bertrand Lucien Cantat, Denis Guy Marc Barthe, Gay Serge Marius Pierre Teyssot, Jean-Paul Roy
Lyrics Licensed & Provided by LyricFind
@olgagaravito5540
T es incroyable...ça fait lgtps que je t écoutais plu,mais voilà ,tu me me parles tjrs,tjrs les émotions a fleur de peau,me retrouves en toi. Merci pour ts ses trésors ,que tu nous à légués.gros calin pensées pour tjrs. 😘 Bisous
@lechinois6357
Absolument sublime. Inimitable.
@mitsoucouture
inlassablement Noir Desir. We miss you !
@headbanger7632
des frissons à chaques ecoutes..
@fulpake
visionnaire,super artiste vivement le revoir!!!!!!!!!!
@thewho16ify
le plus grand groupe de rock français !
@peteerpup8069
+Pascal Petit Hey bien, malgré les circonstances, rien de plus à ajouter à cela..
@peteerpup8069
(sourire) c'est dire donc....
@riisalth
mais bon tres peux se mouille pour defendre l'artiste ... L'homme est un Homme avec ces qualités et ces défauts, L'HOMME (au sens universelle tout sexe confondu religion etc j vais pas listés :p) est un prédateur, un sanginaire,un tueur, un guerrier, parfois Loup ... d'autres fois agneau mais l'homme reste un homme n'oubliez pas la vie est précieuse il en a pris une puis a perdu un autre être chere (pas suicide pour avoir connu ça c'est DUR ...) N'ISOLONS PAS CELUI QUI NOUS A FAITS REVER TANT DE FOIS et écoutez les paroles de noir désir un peu parce que je pense qu'en 2018 Une chanson comme l'europe ou l'enfant roi ou encore l'homme pressé sont tjr d'actualité voir même encore plus dans son époque maintenant
@NGC-os7zh
@@riisalth Merci 💖