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2[[caption-width-right:350: ''Last chance buddy, your last chance / No re-runs just this performance''.]]
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4''Vive Le Rock'' is the third studio album by Music/AdamAnt, released in 1985.
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7!! Tracklist:
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9[[AC: Side One]]
10
11# "Vive Le Rock" (3:39)
12# "Miss Thing" (3:08)
13# "Razor Keen" (3:49)
14# "Rip Down" (3:23)
15# "Scorpio Rising" (4:04)
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17[[AC: Side Two]]
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19# "Apollo 9" (3:22)
20# "Hell's Eight Acres" (3:51)
21# "Mohair Lockeroom Pin-Up Boys" (3:14)
22# "No Zap" (3:14)
23# "P.O.E." (3:24)
24# "Apollo 9 (Acapella Reprise)" (1:32)
25# "Human Bondage Den" (3:08)
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28!! ''Vive Le Trope'':
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30* ACappella: "Apollo 9" has two versions on this album, one of them in a cappella.
31* AlliterativeName: "Vive Le Rock"
32--> ''Bouncing Betty on you''
33* FaceOnTheCover: Adam's face in close-up.
34* FunWithAcronyms: "P.O.E.".
35* GratuitousFrench: "Vive Le Rock".
36--> ''I try to tell you, but you just don't understand''
37--> ''You've got my entire life in your hands''
38--> ''Vive le rock, vive le rock''
39* IntercourseWithYou: "Doggy Style".
40--> ''Do it doggy-style''
41--> ''Right across the floor''
42--> ''And when you feel exhausted''
43--> ''Then you know it's time for more''
44* OneWomanSong: "Miss Thing".
45* ProductPlacement: "P.O.E."
46--> ''Clamping on a Stetson''
47* RecordProducer: Tony Visconti, Music/AdamAnt.
48* {{Remaster}}: One in 2005, which included eight bonus tracks.
49* {{Rock}}: and Pop Rock.
50* ShoutOut:
51** "Apollo 9" references the space mission of the same name.
52** "Scorpio Rising" is a reference to the film ''Film/ScorpioRising''. It also references ''[[Film/BenHur1959 Ben-Hur]]''
53--> ''Ben Hur daddy argent!''
54** "P.O.E." namedrops UsefulNotes/NikitaKhrushchev. It also has Adam listing the contents of the survival pack from ''Film/DrStrangelove''.
55--> ''Damn your eyes, Mr. Khrushchev''
56--> ''Don't go dropping bombs over here''
57** "Vive Le Rock" name-drops Creator/TomOfFinland:
58--> ''Well, I've been where I was going''
59--> ''And it's not Tom Of Finland''
60*** "Vive Le Rock" also references a famous line from ''Film/WhiteHeat''
61--> ''Look ma, I'm on top of the world!''
62** "Human Bondage Den" references ''Film/DrStrangelove''
63--> ''Can't fight here, this is the war room''
64* TimeMarchesOn: "P.O.E.".
65--> ''Good-by-ee to the 20th century, yipee-ya yipee-ya''.
66* TitleTrack: "Vive Le Rock".
67--> ''I try to tell you, but you just don't understand''
68--> ''You've got my entire life in your hands''
69--> ''Vive le rock, vive le rock''
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