Sinnerismes

SINNERISMES

After Ernest Rock replaced Ricky Johnson on lead guitar, Les Sinners was signed to Jupiter Records, the Canadian subsidiary of London Records (which was the American label for the early Rolling Stones records). Their second album (which was produced by Pierre Noles) had practically the same name as the first – Sinnerismes ("Sinnerisms"), but with a second "n" this time – and saw the band essentially abandoning the English language for most of the rest of their career (though several of the song titles were still in English). Album highlights include a French-language version of the Beatles hit "Penny Lane", "Les Disc-Jockeys", and several weird psychedelic tracks like "L.S.D. Ha! Ha!".

Jupiter Records released a third album by Les Sinners that was purportedly a compilation album, called Chantent 24 Succes. Actually the 24 songs are composed of both of the Jupiter releases, Sinnerismes and Vox Populi, that were squeezed somehow onto a single vinyl disc. "Two-fer" albums were commonplace in the CD era, but this album came out in 1969.

Two compilation CD's of music by Les Sinners that came out in 2001 borrowed previous album covers and used the name of this related band, La Révolution Française as the names of the CD's. La Révolution Française, Vol. 1 uses the cover of Sinnerismes; while La Révolution Française, Vol. 2 uses the cover of C. Cool by La Révolution Française (though with the photograph shown much more clearly). Additionally, a 2010 compilation CD came out on Merité Records that has the same name as Les Sinners' first album, Sinerisme. As if the trail of albums left behind by Les Sinners wasn't already confusing enough!

(April 2013)