Serge Gainsbourg's soundtracks to Michel Colombier's 1968 Ce Sacre Grand-Pere, and Pierre Koralnik's scandalous Cannabis, are among the most startling pieces of music in his oeuvre. Cannabis was based around a tawdry thriller and was set by Pierre Koralnik in the free, lone-generation of the late 1960s, and starred none other than Gainsbourg and wife Jane Birkin. The film, a kind of revenge tale featured lots of gratuitous (real) sex and was a commercial flop. But its score is one of the most sophisticated pieces of music Gainsbourg ever conceived. The score is a wondrously baroque and anthemic rock score with elements of Middle Eastern folk songs, and a pop cabaret joviality (courtesy of Jean-Claude Vannier's loopy song "I Want To Be Crazy," sung by Birkin with a drugged-out string section). It was orchestrated for a complete army of electric guitars, harpsichord, strings, and the loudest bassline ever threaded through a French movie. It's truly amazing.

Track Listing
1 Cannabis
2 Première Blessure
3 Le Deuxième Homme
4 Jane Dans la Nuit
5 Danger
6 Chanvre Indien
7 Avant de Mourir
8 Arabique
9 Cannis [instrumental]
10 I Want to Feel Crazy
11 Dernière Blessure
12 Piège
13 Cannabis-Bis [Final]