Love on the Beat is the fifteenth studio album by French singer and songwriter Serge Gainsbourg. On this album, Gainsbourg used American musicians to achieve a funk-heavy rock sound. The album was controversial due to its very sexual lyrical content, with homosexuality and prostitution as the subject matters on many of the tracks. Perhaps the most controversial was "Lemon Incest", which was set to Frédéric Chopin's Étude No. 3 and sung as a duet with his then-13-year-old daughter Charlotte Gainsbourg.
Critical reception
The French edition of Rolling Stone magazine named this album the 63rd greatest French rock album (out of 100).
Track listing
Personnel
Credits adapted from liner notes.
Musicians
Serge Gainsbourg – vocals, synthesizer, arrangement
Billy Rush – bass guitar, guitar, production, drum programming
Larry Fast – synthesizer, synthesizer programming
Stan Harrison – saxophone
George Simms – backing vocals
Steve Simms – backing vocals
Charlotte Gainsbourg – vocals (on "Lemon Incest")
