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Histoire de Melody Nelson | 
 enlarge | Artist: Serge Gainsbourg
Label: Mercury Import
Category: Music
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Avg. Customer Rating:  25 reviews
Sales Rank: 19098
Format: Import, Original Recording Remastered
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 548429
UPC: 738476045125
EAN: 0731454842921
ASIN: B000051YEG
Release Date: February 22, 2001
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| Tracks:
| • | Melody | | • | Ballade de Melody Nelson | | • | Valse de Melody | | • | Ah! Melody - Serge Gainsbourg, Vannier, Jean Claud | | • | L' Hotel Particulier | | • | En Melody | | • | Cargo Culte |
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Album Description
1998 reissue on Mercury of his 1971 album for the label thathas a strong Velvet Underground feel to it throughout. A 20bit digital remaster, it features the original cover art &all seven of the original tracks. Digipak. 1998 Mercuryrelease.
Album Details
Originally released in 1971, this selection features tracks with Jane Birkin.
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concept album December 21, 2008
This work represents one of Serge's musical styles and is a necessary part of any Gainsbourg collection.
10 Most Dangerous Albums of All Time (Entry Five) November 11, 2008
Serge Gainsbourg never restrained his sexuality; his sensuality bordered on incestuous and taboo. Not surprising for a man that, on national television, told Whitney Houston he wanted to "f--k her."
What is surprising, however, is that he created an album sparking with sensuality that is both subdued and tittilating.
Serge Gainsbourg's Histoire de Melody Nelson
Inspired by his encounter with then barely-legal Jane Birkin (who would go on to become his wife), the Frenchman set to create a pseudo-autobiographical album detailing this romance. What Gainsbourg created was a concept album drawing from 18th century classical suites, early funk, and spoken-word lounge, a seemingly mountainous endeavor of varying musical stylings beautifully mended to create a sensational album.
The lyrics, sung in French, added another layer to the recordings.
The words sung, and often times spoken, on Histoire de Melody Nelson enhanced the mood with their shimmering poetic qualities. The words of Gainsbourg rival anything penned by the sensualists Anais Nin or D.H. Lawrence. It is poetry as narrative, deeply profound and always sensual.
In its entirety, the album is a landscape of unbridled lust and its inevitable consummation, perfectly evoked in song and word. It is aural pleasure bordering on dangerous debauchery, which, be it in song or real life, only Gainsbourg knew how to restrain so well by doing nothing of the sort
Gravel sans velvet February 2, 2007
I love this guy... a story teller, a poet, a singer. Get Melody Nelson. And check out his talented daughter's (Charlotte Gainsbourg) work in film (Science of Sleep; Jane Eyre) and on disc (5:55).
Get in Your Car and Drive November 2, 2006
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Melody Nelson didn't do it for me right away. I kept at it though and now I can't get away. This album has a way of creeping into your existence and taking it over. I live in New York City so i don't have a car but for all of you that do, buy this album, get into it, and drive. Melody Nelson was made for late night drives. If you like this right away, good for you, if you don't then keep listening.
UPDATE:
Since I wrote the above I have been entrapped by this album. I cannot get away from it. This is one of the greatest albums ever. You haven't heard music fully until you've experienced this. I don't know anything like it and I don't think I ever will. Wow. The eerie slow play between the bass, drums, and guitar. The meandering talking of Serge as he leads you through this strange 28 minutes of love and lust. The strings and chorus. Oh the strings and chorus! Ahahahaha! Sweet infinity! I can see this being the album that takes over me life and leaves me for ruin. If you don't have this album, I'm sorry. If you have this album, I'm sorry.
Why did it take so long for me to hear about this? What's wrong with the world?
Elaborate Eurotrash - best when not translated so as not to offend the bluenoses October 11, 2006
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
The recent Ballad of Congressman Mark Foley initiated these comments.
Serge, jaded and driving his Silver Ghost Rolls Royce, with its "Venus of Money of 1910 posed on the radiator," swerves off the road to find a "white skirt tied onto black pants" calling herself "Melody Nelson" with natural red curls. Evidently Serge wants an English trophy to go along with his fancy English machine! Her age? "Quatorze automnes - Et quinze etes - Un petit animal."
Best not translated. Anyway, this stuff wouldn't pass muster in the USA today.
I give "Melody Nelson" five stars for the beauty of its orchestral arrangements. Serge really knew how to get the groove out of his session musicians!! Check out "Requiem por un con" for further grooviness. Unfortunately this record is only 32 minutes long.
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