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Serge Gainsbourg - CD

Histoire de Melody Nelson Serge Gainsbourg CD
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  • Artist: Serge Gainsbourg
  • Format: CD
  • Year: 1998, 2001, 2004, 2008, 2009
  • UPC: 4988005272447
  • Item Number: MSI527244
  • Release date: 05/15/2011
  • 1. Melody [Extrait de Melody Nelson]
  • 2. Ballade de Melody Nelson
  • 3. Valse de Melody
  • 4. Ah! Melody
  • 5. Hôtel Particulier [Extrait de BOF Melody Nelson]
  • 6. En Melody
  • 7. Cargo Culte
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Histoire de Melody Nelson by Serge Gainsbourg on CD


You don't need to speak a word of French to understand Histoire de Melody Nelson -- one needs only to look at the front cover (with its nearly pornographic portrait of a half-naked nymphet clutching a rag doll) or hear the lechery virtually dripping from Serge Gainsbourg's sleazily seductive voice to realize that this is the record your mother always warned you about, a masterpiece of perversion and corruption. A concept record exploring the story of -- and Gainsbourg's lust for -- the titular teen heroine, Histoire de Melody Nelson is arguably his most coherent and perfectly realized studio album, with the lush arrangements which characterize the majority of his work often mixed here with funky rhythm lines which underscore the musky allure of the music. Perhaps best described as a dirty old bastard's attempt to make his own R&B love-man's record along the lines of a Let's Get It On (itself still two years away from release), it's by turns fascinating and repellent, hilarious and grim, but never dull -- which, in Gainsbourg's world, would be the ultimate (and quite possibly the only) sin. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Music Guide
  • Artist: Serge Gainsbourg
  • Format: CD
  • Year: 1998, 2001, 2004, 2008, 2009
  • UPC: 4988005272447
  • Item Number: MSI527244
  • Release date: 05/15/2011
  • Label: Hip-O Records, Light in the Attic, Mercury, Mercury France, Philips, Polygram, Universal Distribution, Universal Japan
  • Genre: Rock
  • Style: Foreign Language Rock, French, French Pop, French Rock, Western European Traditions
  • Album Time: 27:57
  • Album Type: Lyrics are included with the album

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  • Histoire de Melody Nelson Serge Gainsbourg CD
Histoire de Melody Nelson Serge Gainsbourg CD