Serge Gainsbourg - Histoire de Melody Nelson
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Album Details: Histoire de Melody Nelson
- Release Date:
- 01/01/1971
- Label:
- Universal Japan
- UPC:
- 4988005272447
User Reviews: Histoire de Melody Nelson
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melody nelson
, July 11, 2000Reviewer: imnothere2 - See all imnothere2's reviewssampled by portishead and other acts,its one of the best french albums of all time.the sound is great,its dark yet beautiful.the beats never age and its melodyous throughout...buy and bye.
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Pro Reviews: Histoire de Melody Nelson
| EXPERT RATING: From AMG Reviews You don't need to speak a word of French to understand Histoire de Melody Nelson -- one need 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 RB 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 |
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