1. 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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  1. kit reblogged this from merlin and added:
    I got this album a few months back. It is uncannily modern sounding....map stylistically -...
  2. stevespillman reblogged this from merlin and added:
    Of course, when MERLIN writes about it you all listen. No, seriously, this album is it. You know? It.
  3. donschaffner reblogged this from merlin and added:
    Made me think of this one. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3o7LYyPgaA
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