The Vinyl Countdown # 1322
Serge Gainsbourg, Histoire de Melody Nelson (1971)
Those gorgeous, sumptuous strings and that beguiling version of oh-so-white funk music; the Lolita-esque storyline - Serge Gainsbourg bumbles and mumbles and wafts through these half-spoken/half-sung, buoyantly slung story-songs. And all in under half an hour, or, if you’re on Serge time that’s just four…
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