Serge Gainsbourg •ั Cargo Culte - HD

Genre : Progressive rock Album : Histoire de Melody Nelson (1971) Histoire de Melody Nelson is a 1971 concept album by French songwriter Serge Gainsbourg. The Lolita-esque pseudo-autobiographical plot involves the middle-aged Gainsbourg unintentionally colliding his Rolls Royce Silver Ghost 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. It is also regarded as one of the greatest albums of all time. The French edition of Rolling Stone magazine named this album the 4th greatest French rock album (out of 100) Concept 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