Monday, October 26, 2009

I got this album a few months back.  It is uncannily modern sounding.  Gainsbourg is a trip and all over the map stylistically - for example Aux Armes et Cætera is totally my favorite French/Reggae-Dub Album. Highly recommended. The two volume Love and the Beat and L’alcool are nice jumping off points for the uninitiated.

merlin:

Ballade de Melody Nelson

Way better but not embeddable: Serge Gainsbourg & Jane Birkin - “L’histoire de Melody Nelson”

This record is so good, and the production is so amazing, and the entire thing is just soooo creepy.

wikip:

Histoire de Melody Nelson is a 1971 concept album by controversial French songwriter Serge Gainsbourg. The Lolita-esque pseudo-autobiographical plot involves the middle-aged Gainsbourg unintentionally colliding his Rolls Royce Silver Ghost into teenage nymphet Melody Nelson’s bicycle, and the subsequent seduction and romance that ensues. Histoire de Melody Nelson is considered by many critics and fans to be Gainsbourg’s most influential and accomplished album.

Ah, the French. They really do have their own thing going on.

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