After leaving Tai Phong,
Jean-Jacques Goldman
's solo career gradually took off between 1981 and the release of
Non Homologue
, the best-selling French recording of 1986. He followed it with
Entre Gris Clair et Gris Fonce
in 1987, which sold even better. Part of this has to do with the ubiquitous presence of
Goldman
on French radio and
MTV
, but the rest is the sound on the recording, which balances rock dynamics with very stylized '80s production: glossy keyboards, heavily treated guitars, drum machines and programs, etc. And then there are the hooks, as evidenced in the first single "La Bas." ~ Thom Jurek