title: Figure imposée
text: # Figure imposée
  
  Figure imposée (Compulsory routine) is the fifth album by French rocker Alain Bashung, issued in 1983 on Philips Records.
  
  ## Production
  
  The album was issued one year after Play blessures (Play harms) which was a commercial and, at first, critical failure, as well as his first and last collaboration with Serge Gainsbourg. Bashung enlisted young songwriter Pascal Jacquemin who wrote most of the lyrics (except "Imbécile" ("Dumb") written by Boris Bergman).
  
  ## Commercial performance
  
  Figure imposée was a commercial failure as well.
  
  ## Track listing
  
  The 1993 CD reissue had both "Lou ravi" and "Nuits Halloween" dropped, replaced by "Spiele Mich an die Wand" (Boris Bergman - Alain Bashung) and "White Spirit" (Jean Fauque - Alain Bashung), the mix of "Élégance" was replaced by its single mix, and the mix of "Imbécile" was replaced by a long version.
  
  ## Singles
  
  * 1983: Élégance / Horoscope
  * 1983: What's in a Bird / Hi !
  