Name: Histoire de Melody Nelson by Serge Gainsbourg
Brand: Serge Gainsbourg
SKU: 060254783476
Price: 9.9 USD
Availability: OnlineOnly
Rating: 5 (112 reviews)

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Volume 1

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Melody

07:30

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Ballade de Melody Nelson

02:00

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Valse de Melody

01:31

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Ah Melody

01:46

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L'hôtel particulier

04:05

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En Melody

03:25

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Cargo culte

07:36

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Melody

09:25

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Ballade de Melody Nelson

02:07

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Valse de Melody

01:39

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Ah Melody

01:54

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Melody lit Babar

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Melody lit Babar

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L'hôtel particulier

05:10

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En Melody

03:39

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Cargo culte

07:44

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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

Histoire de Melody Nelson

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Volume 1

Volume 2

Volume 1

1. Melody

2. Ballade de Melody Nelson

3. Valse de Melody

4. Ah Melody

5. L'hôtel particulier

6. En Melody

7. Cargo culte

Volume 2

1. Melody

2. Ballade de Melody Nelson

3. Valse de Melody

4. Ah Melody

5. Melody lit Babar

6. Melody lit Babar

7. L'hôtel particulier

8. En Melody

9. Cargo culte

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