VINYL FORMAT. Serge Gainsbourg is no stranger to sexual proclivities, and with his 1971 Histoire De Melody Nelson he shared an erotic tale as seductive today as the day it was released. With help from actress, amour, and inspiration Jane Birkin, arranger/conductor and co-conspirator Jean-Claude Vannier (L'Enfant Assassins Des Mouches), not to mention a tight hand picked crew of top shelf UK session musicians, Histoire De Melody Nelson is often cited as Gainsbourg's master work, an essential album for the d...   [ read more ]

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VINYL FORMAT. Insound Staff Pick - 2009! Originally released in 1976 this is Gainbourg's second "concept" record, after the stone classic Histoire De Melody Nelson, and probably second only in quality to that record in his deep, storied catalog. Translating to "The Man with the Cabbage Head," L' Homme A Tete De Chou is a brutal story of lust and obsession in which, over the course of the album, the narrator falls in love with a black shampoo girl (Marilou), beats her to death with a fire extinguisher and e...   [ read more ]

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VINYL FORMAT. Featuring a couple of duets, some Bardot-sung, Gainsbourg-pennednumbers, and a number of Serge-only tunes, this is not, technically, acompletely collaborative record. It is, however, one of Gainsbourg's finest releases featuring a wide range of styles from moody, funkyFrench-pop ("Bonnie And Clyde"), to barroom piano jazz ("Bubble Gum"),to Afro-Caribbean rhythms ("Pauvre Lola" and "Baudelaire"), to the swinging '60s pop he was most known for at the time ("Docteur Jeckyllet Monsieur Hyd...   [ read more ]

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