Serge Gainsbourg
1971
Tracks
1. Melody
2. Ballade De Melody Nelson
3. Valse De Melody
4. Ah Melody
5. L'Hotel Particulier
6. En Melody
7. Cargo Culte
I have listened to some weird albums in my time but this has got to be one of the strangest. The whole experience was odd because I was trying to decipher Ulysses while trying to translate the French. Result? Brain explosion.
Anyway, I don't think we have had French music since Jacques Brel so I was excited to hear something different. This is a concept album. From what I could gather, some guy is in love with a young girl named Melody and it doesn't work out. Interspersed between the album was some girl saying "Melody!" over and over again and something really obnoxious laughter.
This album was unusual for a number of reasons. For one thing, it is a little under a half hour long. For another, the singer tries to do this really sexy voice thing throughout which is not wholly successful.
The whole album is in rapid French which if you can't understand, there is really no point in listening to it since it is more of a story than music.
RATING: 2/5
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