Osez Joséphine "(Dare Joséphine)" is the eighth studio album by French rocker Alain Bashung, issued in 1991 on Barclay Records. Rolling Stone magazine considered it the greatest French album of all time.
Reception.
Commercial performance.
The singles "Osez Joséphine", "Volutes" and "Madame rêve" ("Madame dreams") were successful, as was the album which peaked at 14th on the French charts. With this album, Bashung broke into the mainstream. The album sold 300,000 copies rather quickly for a French album at the time.
Critical reception.
In 2010, the French edition of "Rolling Stone" magazine gave this album the top spot of their list of the greatest French rock albums (out of 100). The album is included in the book "La discothèque parfaite de l'odyssée du rock" by Gilles Verlant, who calls "Madame rêve", "Osez Joséphine" and "Volutes" "new classics from his repertoire" and the guitar riff by Sonny Landreth on "Osez Joséphine" "historical".
Legacy.
In 2016, Australian psychedelic rock artist Nicholas Allbrook conceived his video for his single "A Fool There Was" (from his album "Pure Gardiya") as a tribute to the video for the title track of "Osez Joséphine".
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