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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 /TiVo
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Serge Gainsbourg, Composer, Author, MainArtist - Jean-Claude Vannier, Recording Arranger, AssociatedPerformer - Jean-Claude Desmarty, Producer
℗ 1971 Mercury Music Group
Serge Gainsbourg, Author, MainArtist - Jean-Claude Vannier, Composer, Recording Arranger, Music Director & Conductor, AssociatedPerformer - Jane Birkin, MainArtist - Jean-Claude Desmarty, Producer
℗ 1971 Barclay
Serge Gainsbourg, Composer, Author, MainArtist - Jean-Claude Vannier, Recording Arranger, AssociatedPerformer - Jean-Claude Desmarty, Producer
℗ 1971 Mercury Music Group
Serge Gainsbourg, Composer, MainArtist - Jean-Claude Vannier, Author, Recording Arranger, AssociatedPerformer - Jean-Claude Desmarty, Producer
℗ 1971 Mercury Music Group
Serge Gainsbourg, Composer, Author, MainArtist - Jean-Claude Vannier, Recording Arranger, Music Director & Conductor, AssociatedPerformer - Jean-Claude Desmarty, Producer
℗ 1971 Mercury Music Group
Serge Gainsbourg, Composer, Author, MainArtist - Jean-Claude Vannier, Author, Recording Arranger, Music Director & Conductor, AssociatedPerformer - Jean-Claude Desmarty, Producer
℗ 1971 Mercury Music Group
Serge Gainsbourg, Composer, Author, MainArtist - Jean-Claude Vannier, Recording Arranger, Music Director & Conductor, AssociatedPerformer - Jean-Claude Desmarty, Producer
℗ 1971 Mercury Music Group
Serge Gainsbourg, Composer, Author, MainArtist - Jean-Claude Vannier, Recording Arranger, AssociatedPerformer - Jean-Claude Desmarty, Producer
℗ 2011 Mercury Music Group
Serge Gainsbourg, Author, MainArtist - Jean-Claude Vannier, Composer, Recording Arranger, Music Director & Conductor, AssociatedPerformer - Jane Birkin, MainArtist - Jean-Claude Desmarty, Producer
℗ 2011 Barclay
Serge Gainsbourg, Composer, Author, MainArtist - Jean-Claude Vannier, Recording Arranger, AssociatedPerformer - Jean-Claude Desmarty, Producer
℗ 2011 Mercury Music Group
Serge Gainsbourg, Composer, MainArtist - Jean-Claude Vannier, Author, Recording Arranger, AssociatedPerformer - Jean-Claude Desmarty, Producer
℗ 2011 Mercury Music Group
Serge Gainsbourg, Author, MainArtist - Jean-Claude Vannier, Composer, Recording Arranger, AssociatedPerformer - Jean-Claude Desmarty, Producer
℗ 2011 Mercury Music Group
Serge Gainsbourg, Author, MainArtist - Jean-Claude Vannier, Composer, Recording Arranger, AssociatedPerformer - Jean-Claude Desmarty, Producer
℗ 2011 Mercury Music Group
Serge Gainsbourg, Composer, Author, MainArtist - Jean-Claude Vannier, Recording Arranger, Music Director & Conductor, AssociatedPerformer - Jean-Claude Desmarty, Producer
℗ 2011 Mercury Music Group
Serge Gainsbourg, Composer, Author, MainArtist - Jean-Claude Vannier, Author, Recording Arranger, Music Director & Conductor, AssociatedPerformer - Jean-Claude Desmarty, Producer
℗ 2011 Mercury Music Group
Serge Gainsbourg, Composer, Author, MainArtist - Jean-Claude Vannier, Recording Arranger, Music Director & Conductor, AssociatedPerformer - Jean-Claude Desmarty, Producer
℗ 2011 Mercury Music Group
Albumbeschreibung
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 /TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 16 track(s)
- Total length: 01:01:45
- 1 Digital booklet
- Main artists: Serge Gainsbourg
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: Universal Music Division Mercury Records
- Genre: Wereldmuziek Europa Franse chansons
© 2013 Mercury Music Group ℗ 1971 Mercury Music Group
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