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{{Infobox album
| name = Vu de l'extérieur
| type = studio
| artist = [[Serge Gainsbourg]]
| cover = Serge vu de l'exterieur.jpg
| alt =
| released = {{Start date|1973|11|16}}
| recorded = March–May 1973
| studio = Phonogram Studios, [[London]], [[United Kingdom]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://sergegainsbourg.artistes.universalmusic.fr/1024/contenu/6/f2.html |title=Site d'Universal Music consacré à Serge Gainsbourg Biographie de 1972 à 1978. Retrieved on 2010-07-02 |publisher=Sergegainsbourg.artistes.universalmusic.fr |access-date=2011-09-02}}</ref>
| genre = [[Rock music|Rock]], [[Pop music|pop]]
| length = {{Duration|m=28|s=29}}
| label = [[Philips Records|Philips]]
| producer = Peter Olliff
| prev_title = [[Histoire de Melody Nelson]]
| prev_year = 1971
| next_title = [[Rock Around the Bunker]]
| next_year = 1975
}}
'''''Vu de l'extérieur''''' is a studio album by French musician [[Serge Gainsbourg]], released in 1973.
==Overview==
1971's ''[[Histoire de Melody Nelson]]'', a first-person concept album depicting the meeting and eventual seduction of doomed English teenager Melody Nelson, was Gainsbourg's first major success in the LP market and helped form his reputation as a controversial figure. Not one to shy away from controversy, Gainsbourg had formed the nucleus of what would become ''Vu de l'extérieur'' when he suffered a heart attack at the age of 45. By the time he was back to health, he resumed composing the songs for the new album, among them one of his biggest hits, "Je suis venu te dire que je m'en vais".
While not quite a concept album, especially when compared to other Gainsbourg albums such as ''Histoire de Melody Nelson'', ''[[Rock Around the Bunker]]'' and ''L'Homme à tête de chou'', certain thematic elements–such as [[scatology]] and childishness–do run through the album.<ref>{{AllMusic|class=album|id=vu-de-lexterieur-r288309/review|first=Dave|last=Thompson|access-date=2011-09-02}}</ref>
The album sold approximately 20,000 copies upon release in France.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://sergegainsbourg.artistes.universalmusic.fr/800/periodes/contenu/6/vue/f1bis.html |title=''Site officiel de Serge Gainsbourg - Universal Music'' |publisher=Sergegainsbourg.artistes.universalmusic.fr |access-date=2011-09-02 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050109024638/http://sergegainsbourg.artistes.universalmusic.fr/800/periodes/contenu/6/vue/f1bis.html |archive-date=2005-01-09 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
==Track listing==
{{Track listing
| all_writing = [[Serge Gainsbourg]]
| title1 = Je suis venu te dire que je m'en vais
| length1 = 3:23
| title2 = Vu de l'extérieur
| length2 = 3:40
| title3 = Panpan cucul
| length3 = 2:41
| title4 = Par hasard et pas rasé
| length4 = 2:28
| title5 = Des vents des pets des poums
| length5 = 2:55
| title6 = Titicaca
| length6 = 2:57
| title7 = Pamela Popo
| length7 = 2:24
| title8 = La poupée qui fait
| length8 = 3:01
| title9 = L'Hippopodame
| length9 = 1:45
| title10 = Sensuelle et sans suite
| length10 = 3:01
}}
==Personnel==
Credits adapted from liner notes.
* [[Serge Gainsbourg]] – arrangement
* [[Alan Parker (musician)|Alan Parker]] – acoustic guitar
* [[Judd Proctor]] – acoustic guitar
* Brian Odgers – bass guitar
* [[Dave Richmond|David Richmond]] – bass guitar
* Dougie Wright – drums
* [[Alan Parker (musician)|Alan Parker]] – lead guitar
* [[Alan Hawkshaw]] – keyboards, electric piano, organ
* [[Chris Karan]] – percussion
==References==
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==External links==
* {{AllMusic|class=album|id=r288309|label=''Vu de l'extérieur''}}
* {{Discogs master|10112|Vu de l'extérieur}}
* {{MusicBrainz release group|mbid=61f0f834-b554-3035-9c7c-30f0398ccdd7|name=Vu de l'extérieur}}
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[[Category:1973 albums]]
[[Category:Serge Gainsbourg albums]]
[[Category:Philips Records albums]]
[[Category:1970s concept albums]]