Год/Year: 1971
Стиль/Style: chanson
Страна/Country: France
Формат/Format: mp3
Качество/Quality: 128 kbps
Размер/Size: 26,5 MB
Tracklist
1. "Melody" – 7:32
2. "Ballade de Melody Nelson" – 2:00
3. "Valse de Melody" – 1:31
4. "Ah! Melody" – 1:47
5. "L'Hotel Particulier" – 4:05
6. "En Melody" – 3:25
7. "Cargo Culte" – 7:37
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 260-horsepower Rolls Royce 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.
At just under twenty-eight minutes, the short running time and the stylistic consistency and similarity throughout the album gives it qualities more in line with an EP or an extended musical piece with a number of movements. Histoire de Melody Nelson‘s mix of freewheeling guitar, funk style bass guitar, near spoken word vocal delivery, and lush, deep orchestrated string and choral arrangements by Jean-Claude Vannier[1] have proven to be highly influential amongst later francophone and anglophone musical performers including the French band Air, David Holmes, Pulp's Jarvis Cocker, Portishead and Beck, whose 2002 track "Paper Tiger" from Sea Change is extremely close to the distinctive Histoire de Melody Nelson sound.
#21 — Pitchforkmedia: Top 100 Albums of the 1970s
#102 — Rate Your Music: Top 200 Albums Ever
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