Histoire De Melody Nelson

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Issued : 27 Feb 2001

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Item Details

Genre :	World	Catalogue Number :	548429
Format :	CD	Label :	Universal
Issued :	27 Feb 2001	Item sourced from :	France
Number of Discs :	1

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Other Versions

FRA Edition ¥2,309 FRA Import Released: 16 Sep 1996
US Edition ¥4,001 Reissue Limited Edition LP (US Import) Released: 24 Mar 2009
US Edition ¥2,212 Reissue CD (US Import) Released: 25 Mar 2009
Import(Japanese Edition) ¥2,730 Reissue CD (Import(Japanese Edition)) Released: 04 Apr 2009
FRA Edition ¥11,389 Reissue Limited Edition CD (FRA Import) Released: 15 Nov 2011
US Edition ¥3,980 US Import Released: 18 Oct 2011
EUR Edition ¥4,048 Reissue CD (EUR Import) Released: 29 Nov 2011
US Edition ¥5,135 US Import Released: 15 Nov 2011

HMV Review

You don't need to speak a word of French to understand Histoire de Melody Nelson -- one needs only to look at the front cover (with its nearly pornographic portrait of a half-naked nymphet clutching a rag doll) or hear the lechery virtually dripping from Serge Gainsbourg's sleazily seductive voice to realize that this is the record your mother always warned you about, a masterpiece of perversion and corruption. A concept record exploring the story of -- and Gainsbourg's lust for -- the titular teen heroine, Histoire de Melody Nelson is arguably his most coherent and perfectly realized studio album, with the lush arrangements which characterize the majority of his work often mixed here with funky rhythm lines which underscore the musky allure of the music. Perhaps best described as a dirty old bastard's attempt to make his own R&B love-man's record along the lines of a Let's Get It On (itself still two years away from release), it's by turns fascinating and repellent, hilarious and grim, but never dull -- which, in Gainsbourg's world, would be the ultimate (and quite possibly the only) sin. ~ Jason Ankeny, Rovi

Credits

Brian Odgers(Bass), Dougie Wright(Drums), Jane Birkin(Vocals), JeanClaude Vannier(Keyboards), Roger Coulam(Keyboards), Serge Gainsbourg(Guitar), Serge Gainsbourg(Piano), Serge Gainsbourg(Vocals), Vic Flick(Guitar), Jean-Luc Ponty(Violin (Electric)), Andy Votel(Producer), Jean Claude Charvier(Engineer), JeanClaude Vannier(Arranger), Andy Beta(Liner Notes), Andy Votel(Liner Notes), Chris Ferraro(Executive Producer), Dave Cooley(Remastering), Jean Guerin(Mastering), Josh Wright(Executive Producer), Kiki Ajidarma(Design), Tony Frank(Photography), JeanClaude Vannier(Direction), JeanClaude Vannier(Orchestra Director), Kate Peterson(Assistant), Andy Votel(Archival Materials), Andy Votel(Photo Courtesy), Jean-Yves Billet(Re-Editing), Sebastien Merlet(Archival Materials), Sebastien Merlet(Photo Courtesy), Will Tyler(Archival Materials), Will Tyler(Photo Courtesy)