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The music was nice. But everything else about the album made me feel gross. 1 star, say no to pedophelia
Geschmacklose Verharmlosung von pädophlilen Fantasien. Es wird einem schlecht beim zuhören.
Typical French music experience, I guess: Musician whispering ASMR pedo topics while your brain transforming into a baguette. It's nice instrumentally, btw. 1/5 ------------ No liked songs
Just creepy.
Four stars to the music for sure! -3 stars for the subject matter. Every time I went to check the translations I was reminded how gross it is. I might have let it slide if one track had been about a 15 year old girl, it was a different time, and he’s French. But the whole album? Too far.
Not for me, Jeff.
I thought the overt heterosexuality was bad but you're telling me this entire album is about statutory rape too?? Get this shit out of my face I swear to GOD
Had to drive a few hours today and midway through I turned this album on without knowing anything about it. By track two I'd figured out it was a concept album but, not speaking French and not being in a position to look it up, I had no idea what it was about. Turns out I was much better off not knowing. I still would've only rated this a 2 if I'd just listened and never researched it further.
An entire album about pedophilia and the rape of a minor? How did I get so lucky to hear this? I know it was a different time and it is unfair to hold people to today's standard of, you know, not committing statutory rape. Still, this is an entire album dedicated to sleeping with a minor. I can only imagine how this would fly in today's musical world. I'll judge this album on its merits. I am not prone to enjoying artists who speak instead of sing. Serge Gainsbourg does just that. I did not find the album to be that interesting and that doesn't even include the fact I couldn't understand what he was saying because I do not speak French. I'm sure he's super-important to the French but I did not enjoy this one at all. I can't fathom a time when I would put this on.
Was there some cool guitar in the first song? Sure. Were the strings and woodwinds cool throughout? Sure. But ultimately this is all about an old man lusting after a 14 year old and only talk about her in a sexual sleazy way. Its not that he is French and we don't understand...he seriously talks about taking her to a sleazy hotel that you have to sneak into in order to engage in sex that is wrong! Then the song En Melody...just gross, wrong, disgusting. Nope, nope, nope....the fact that people call this his opus and put this album on a pedestal makes it even more disturbing. Excuses like...oh but its beautiful, oh but its unique, oh but he's a genius, oh but but but. NO its WRONG, its inappropriate PERIOD. Let's stop normalizing or making excuses for something that is wrong. He could have written the same exact songs and album and made the women 19. He choose to make her 14, to capitalize on and attempt to normalize pedophile. WRONG PERIOD
I like the music. Too bad. Maybe next time you have a jam session, don't let yer pervy French friend talk about bad touching little kids the whole time.
My god, that was extraordinarily BORING. His right-in-your-ear style of speak singing only greatly pissed me off. It’s annoying in the way that when you’re trying to sleep, you get some asshole coming in close to you thinking they’re the most important person in the world trying to wake you up for their own selfish purposes, but manipulatively disguises it as being a sexy come-on. Only in the final song did the instrumentation get even remotely interesting. I expected way more from this considering that I’ve seen his name being glowed over throughout the years. Thank god it was under 30 minutes. Very very hard pass.
I don’t know how I would feel about this album if it wasn’t romanticizing pedophilia, but it is, so fuck that. And fuck all the critics and artists who didn’t criticize it for that. I can’t believe the amount of accolades this album has received. So disturbing.
Crap
fucking gross dude, 0/5. i hate French people.
Hätte musikalisch Potenzial, bleibt aber langweilig mit seltsamen Sprechgesang. Und es ist zuemlich verstörend, wenn man versteht, um was es geht.
💀💀💀
I hate whisper singing. Nope. Too much lip smacking. Even if I could understand what they were saying, I would hate this album.
I don’t get why this is on the list. Not a fan.
Too much whispering
France has produced many great things. This is not one of them .
Wee
Really hated this. Musically it wasn't my thing in the slightest, but the factors that made this a giant pile of shit were the vocal performance/lyrical content. A concept album about a pedophile and a vocal performance that was quite literally the sonic equivalent to getting molested by an ugly as fuck french freak. There were a couple of interesting moments musically, but not nearly enough to soften my opinion on it. Garbage.
Whisper me to sleep. 😂 who picks these albums?
Serious, who is this for? I was going to be a little generous, because there are some enjoyable musical elements within the record, but the subject matter is too icky to ignore. “Best” Track: Melody
I only knew Gainsbourg from "je t'aime". I enjoyed the music. But the subject matter? Ick. No.
Nique ta mère Gainsbourg
Not shy of interesting ideas, apparently very influential. Maybe I missed the point but with respect to the great people of France this album is horseshit
pff, sorry, maar ik versta de lovende commentaren niet... vervelend van eerste tot laatste noot
spotify didn’t allow me to play any of the album 💔
well, the whole album is about a perv so yk can’t really say too much about the lyrics, literally no rhythmic aspect to it at all, it’s a VERY french sound which yeah ik their french but it sounds like the shit their into which isn’t a good thing. didn’t have a favourite song and stopped listening after disc one, no i’m not biased coz i hate the french i just hated this
Too weird to me.
j'ai detesté, c'est soit hyper mou, soit énervant
Q ASCOOO, tiene muy buen sonido pero la letra, la PORTADA y todo la historia detras, diossss. no se si estoy tan de acuerdo con separar el arte del artista y este album lo demuestra, tiene increibles sonido, super experimental PERO EL DETRAS ES HORRIBLE NO ENTIENDO COMO ESTA EN SPOTIFY, DA ASCO EL PORQUE LA COMPUSO SOLO CON VER LA PORTADA YA ES HORRIBLE.
If you are going to make albums about having sex with 15 year olds, you need to avoid being sleazy. This gains miserably
boring and creepy music for french pedophiles. HARD pass. favorites: i guess valse de melody if i have to pick one
rigghhhht so we're including albums about pedophilia and rape now are we?
Really don't understand why I needed to hear the same musical theme played for an hour.
Pedo vibes
Garbage…
Dirge, not Serge
I don’t speak French so I looked it up. Fuck this asshole.
The subject matter combined with the guy's voice creeped me out so much that I couldn't even get through the first song.
Its narrative follows an illicit romance which develops between the middle-aged narrator and fourteen-year-old girl Melody Nelson, portrayed on the album and its cover art by Gainsbourg's then-partner Jane Birkin. what the actual fuck is this doing on the list!
shit.
Just looking at the cover/track titles I knew I wouldn’t like this I genuinely can’t do this anymore, 3 1s in a row!
CREEPY ASS ALBUM AND FOR WHAT 🤮
Light funk. He talk- sings the whole thing. If you heard one track that’s enough they are all the same. No need to ever listen again.
Orchestra was boring, dude doesnt even sing, and also *gag*
Personally do not enjoy hearing some crusty 40-something art guy whisper about pedophilia, I feel like I am forced to see relationships like this daily and don't need to absorb it more often than that. Has the air of trying desperately to be supremely cool but I just find it utterly distasteful to listen to, but hey that's just me Fav song: En Melody
One star for the style. Subtracting four for pedophilia.
Since this started off in French, I decided to look up what this album might be about since I wasn't going to understand anything and it definitely ruined the vibe when you find out that: "Its Lolita-esque pseudo-autobiographical narrative follows the illicit romance that develops between the middle-aged Gainsbourg and 15-year old girl Melody Nelson." OOF... Kept listening until you get to En Melody and well...yeesh. Without context, this might've been like a low 3 maybe. But I got no problem throwing this down to 1 status after knowing the creepiness of this album's premise.
Get out of my ear, Frenchie!
Bollocks
Samn, I really enjoyed this album, why did I have to read a little more about it. A concept album of a guy falling in love and documenting that journey, and it's inevitable end as she dies, is fine. But 14? Wtf, why? Without that detail this is a borderline masterpiece, and instead I feel dirty having liked it.
Nope
2.5 for the music. As an instrumental, it wouldn't be bad in the background. 1 for the creepy guy whispering French words I don't understand in my ear. Seriously, don't listen to this with headphones (or at all). -1 for the explanation of the French I got from Wikipedia.
Quite annoying french music
what the actual fuck. if i could give it 0 stars i would. creepy, weird and boring
Lift music. Just nothing more than that. Over rated Muzak.
Apparently this album is about a pedophilic relationship between a middle aged man and a 14 year old girl. I didn't understand a word on the album so I'll have to take Wikipedias word for it and if that is indeed the case I have serious questions as to why this album is included on the list. Anyway, 1 star. Would give 0 stars if I could.
The underlying music is great. The subject matter in the lyrics is not. 1 star.
Wtf Robert Dimnery....a gross French album about pedophilia?? Why?? Before I even understood what this album's theme was (a man falls in love with a 14 year old girl named Melody, and proceeds to seduce her), it gave me an uneasy feeling. The music is fine, but Serge whispers in your ear, and it's just gross. I feel like he is trying to bang me. Fuck off Serge. This prick should be on an FBI watch list... Favorite songs: Ballade de Melody Nelson Least favorite songs: En Melody 1/5
Absolute French art school nonsense
Wiki: "The narrator falls instantly in love with Melody, who is revealed to be only fourteen years old ("Ballade de Melody Nelson"), but who nevertheless makes the narrator happier than he could have ever imagined ("Valse de Melody"). He plans to take her virginity, knowing she has never been in love before ("Ah ! Melody"), and they travel to a secret hotel where they have sex ("L’Hôtel particulier")." WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK?!?!
not it
Even separating the album from the subject matter, this is still horribly creepy. Serge’s perv whispering, and Jane Birkin’s nubile gasping really made this the most uncomfortable listen so far. The music on the album is far and away the best thing about it, and even it’s not that great. It’s pseudo jazz tinkerings, and menancing guitar chords hovering on the sidelines. Serge whispering and performing fellatio on the mic ruins what could be vaguely listenable. I found the whole thing nightmarish, and nearly gave up with it. Thankfully the album is short and my unease was over with a half hour. I fail to see why this should be on the list, and I definitely won’t be listening again.
Creepy as expected
... just make sure you hide your lil' sister from him...
Had I not read about this album before beginning to listen to it, I would not have known he made an album with us girlfriend about the time he had an affair with a 14 year old. I still wouldn’t have liked it, but might have made it through more than 30 seconds of the first three songs without my skin crawling. Not only shouldn’t this album be celebrated, no one should ever listen to it.
There is absolutely no way I'm listening to this after reading the wikipedia page what on earth 1/5
Unfortunately I actually kind of like this but I also felt a bit queasy while listening to it. Can't, in good conscience, give this ode to pedophilia more than 1 star.
No thank you. Not only is it about a pedophile, but it sounds like he has the mic in his mouth, giving it a feeling of ASMR. I hate ASMR.
This made me le miserable.
прикол какой-то )) томный недоджаз про лолитку
Bleh
Decent instrumental track interrupted by bad French ASMR?
Not my taste
Just no. I'm all about french music....but no...
Yeah? Well we invented the missionary position... You're welcome.
This album is about what now
Albums like this that nix another great album from being on the list are really maddening to me.
I didn't enjoy this at all. Don't get it. The music is melodic enough, but his speaking/singing is not appealing.
Nope, I won't do that! No Reviews.
3/5 out of context 1/5 based on context Halfway through this album I was extremely confused as to why this album was rated so low. Music is solid, got a vibe to it, was enjoying it but not something I'd necessarily go back to. But looking up the context, yeah. Lyrics about grooming an underage girl. Fun. There's separating the art and the artist, and then there's the artist just straight up writing these lyrics. Maybe I'm missing context due to the language barrier, but my short time looking up the album doesn't seem to paint the plot of the album in negative light or some sort of cautionary tale, it's just straight up cool with it. I guess the album was vaguely based on his relationship with Jane Birken (who was thankfully 22 at the time of meeting him, but still side eyeing that relationship with him being close to 20 years her senior), but still. Hard to not feel uncomfortable listening to this album. I guess it influenced Portishead, so at least it did some good in having a part in making one of my all time favorite albums, Dummy?
Well, like Huey Lewis sang back in the 80s…sometimes bad is bad. First of all, I generally don’t like records that rely on the spoken word in lieu of singing…but when this guy did sing, it was worse. I might’ve enjoyed this somewhat if it was an instrumental record. But when you add the subject matter that basically glorifies statutory rape, this album becomes a one at best, and that’s being generous. There are two good things about this record: 1.) Since it’s in French, I couldn’t understand the lyrics and 2.) At 28 minutes, it was mercifully short. If I would’ve died yesterday, I think that somehow I would not have been poorer for not having heard this album. I must ask, what’s it doing on the list?
This felt like french asmr with some music behind it. I didn’t like this
Wtf. This sucked. Another major dud
What a triumph. An album that made me feel so gross I had to stop listening. Marvel at the experience of being in some French pervert’s tonsils. Be upset as you remember your French numbers and hear quinze and yep, this is just straight up an album about being a pedo. I like to imagine the brain trust that came up with this list sitting around asking what to put on the list. “We can’t put another shitty 90s British album on here” and some guy in the back goes, “Zut alors! How could we forget the French pedophile album!” And the room claps because this counts as one of the 1% of international albums.
Yeah, no, I can't be bothered with that (and I listen to albums made by shitheads a lot).
This is nasty.
If you want a French guy whispering shit in your ear, you'll like this album. I hate that so this is one of the worst things I've ever listened to.
Here was my train of thoughts and how they played out through this listen: French is not a beautiful language at all, this sounds like Pepé Le Pew with instruments, am I missing something here, the cover art is totally weird, do I need to understand the lyrics to like this because I don't to either. That prompted me to dig further and I'm 100% sorry I did: This album is about an older man crashing his Rolls Royce into a 14 year old girl on her bike who he then promptly seduces and takes advantage of. Right after that she dies in a plane crash. I can't think of anything that could ever redeem this and I regret even giving it one more play on Spotify. Apparently this is also pseudo-autobiographical so just so cringey. Rating only the music, I guess a 0.5 for the funk-style electric guitar over orchestra backing. Avoid all further reading into how this influenced Beck on Paper Tiger and inspired Portishead.
French creeper seducing a child...WTF? I was going to look up the lyrics translation but pulled back after reading the subject matter. I get that music knows no bounds but when artists start dabbling in pedophilia and don't immediately condemn it, red flag. Gainesbourg looks like he would find himself in this very situation and it bothers me that he has beautiful women all over him on his album covers. This Chief Didier rat drools all over Melody and if he wasn't a famous "artiste" he would be a probably be an aqualung hanging around middle schools eyeing little girls with bad intent. Drop the lyrical content (particularly the cringeworthy kid giggles? on "En Melody") and you have some good background...can I get the instrumental version? I can't believe I have found something from the list that is steering me to Beyoncé but for the string and drum play...0.75 etoiles de merde.
Boring!
0/10. Nuh uh😔. Haven’t use this in a while and first album made me wanna die☝🏼😬🕊️.
Sounds as if it was created by a Belgian child abuser.
I'm sorry what?
its so quiet that i mostly cant hear shit. 1/5
For most albums and new music genres I’m introduced to, I can usually find something I liked. This was not the case. In fact, it was so bad I noticed that there was a new editing feature on this website and almost a year later am now changing my rating from a 2 to a 1. Nothing in this album made me enjoy it nor at the very least appreciate it.
C'est merde. Incredibly French, and trying embarrassingly hard to be cool and sexy. Maybe groundbreaking and interesting in it's time?
Nopers. Mostly spoken word and the music isn't really even intriguing.
Ok!
Histoire De Melody Nelson isn't good, he mumbles into the mic in an attempt to be seductive but a) he's often unintelliglble even if you speak some French and b) don't look up the theme or content of this record if you don't want to be creeped out. A few tidy basslines and some nice guitar work doesn't mask an album that is mostly a bunch of stuff you'd heard a snippet of in a fragrance ad and that only finds a saving grace in how short it is. Struggling to find reasons not to give it 1/5.
This shit is ass
Didn't enjoy this one much, very strange time
The track that is just riffs with someone laughing over the top is annoying as fuck. Why on earth would you do that
I can’t ignore the creepy old man vibes.
Why?
Didn't listen cause child rape
I like the mic of genre and all the different elements that where mixed. He didn't stick himself to one genre and was riding through it all... But Since this woman on the cover should represent a 14 year old girl that's involved sexually in the storytelling of this album i really don't like it in any fashion. Its art and just a story in this case, but its sooo weird to think about it. Sex Noises and sexually intended moaning on music are always negative points in my books.
The music was actually somewhat interesting (especially the first 2 songs), but the lyrical content is beyond fucked. So French.
I couldn't stand this for the most part. The intermittent ramblings in French distracted me from any instrumentation I may have liked otherwise
what even is this
Am I allowed to say that I liked this album ... ? Pepe Le Pew / Jeffrey Epstein meets Beck and Stereolab...? One so vile and evil that should be relegated to the outskirts of music, while the others bring creativity, beauty and unique artistry that should be celebrated. I could claim ignorance ... I mean, this is all in French and besides, this was way back in the 1970s ... and, and things were different back then right? I mean it's so, so good but all so terribly wrong ...
If I didn’t read the backstory, I’d be oblivious to the words of the sultry French spoken word. But since I know that it’s a concept album about taking advantage of a teenager, it’s all creepy.
one of my exes was obsessed with gainsbourg and that was only one of his many red flags. I get ptsd whenever i hear gainsbourg's voice. Fuck that guy. it's a 0 stars btw
Listened Before? N French. Concept Album. Must hear before I die? Lol. Added to Library? N Songs added to playlist: Ballade... whatever.
Ew, ew ew ew nope. First album on the list I couldn’t get through, even without the…. context… I don’t want two French people whispering in my ears rock plays in the background. Ew. Maybe it belongs on the list. I dunno, ask the French. It doesn’t belong on my list, that’s for sure.
Nonce.
God the plot of this is so fucking French. Since its a spoken word piece more than an album, its hard to rate. I personally enjoy French language but the story being about some asshole hitting a 14 year old with his car, taking her to bed, and her dying in a plane accident is just.......weird and gross. its one saving grace is that it's fiction?
This made me feel unsettling. I didn't like it.
Nonce rock. I'm happy to separate art from artist but when the art itself is a celebration of noncery, it's not for me Clive
What the fuck
Pretty boring. I have an open mind for European music but this wasn't in my q zone.
Instrumentally it's alright. I don't appreciate the spoken word and I'm uncomfortable dispite not understanding French.
No. And please, don’t do that again.
weird and dull
Crappatony
Not my vibe
No thanks on the Lolita-esque, proto-ASMR concept album. First I thought I didn’t like it only because it was in French and I didn’t understand it. Then I read what it was about and I was sure I didn’t like it. 1⭐️
This is weird, boring and pretentious. Not for me
C'est merde
it has a cool album art
1. melody - 1.5 2. nelzon - 1.5 3. valze - 1 4. melody 2 - 1 5. l'hotel - 1.5 6. melody 3 - 1 7. cargo - 1.5
Liian taiteellista omaan makuun.
Hated it
No likey.
He gets one star. And only because the backing music can be good. His voice is fucking gross. It is so gad damn wet sounding. Get the mic out of your mouth and swallow some spit before singing.
Wow, I don’t speak French, but this album sure sounds horny! *reads other reviews* oh… Wow En Melody might be the best song on this album! *gets to 1:30 mark* OH… The music on this is genuinely great. It creates an atmosphere of great storytelling. Unfortunately, I have a bit of misophonia, and the Gainsbourg’s cotton mouth made this an insufferable listen.
Weird Nelson. Can’t sing, can’t play. Stick to crime, Baby Face!
I was digging the music quite a bit and flipped over to find out what the words were about. This went from a 4 or 5 to a 1 instantly.
Wow I hated this so much
Wow, it's crazy because I was going to give this song a 2 simply because I don't speak French. I thought, as a big fan of experimental music/the use of sound, maybe it could pull up to a 3. Turns out it's just a pedophilic anthem about a man hitting a 14 year old with his car, taking her virginity, and then sending her on a plane that crashes (she dies). Aw, my first one star! 1 Album I Wish I Hadn't Heard Before I Died.
Grim.
pedo music wtf?
Got halfway through before looking up a translation. Hard to vote an album very high when it's about banging a 14 year. Oh then she dies. The french are wild for this one
will say i peeked at your guys rankings and stopped after the first song…
Le pédophile raciste
Made it through the first song
Looks creepy. Sounds creepy. Is creepy.
Incredibly uncomfortable listen. Not bad musically per se, but not to my taste, before we even get to the narrative that defines this concept album.
What
This is another one where I wonder if I had the book, would it explain to me why this album is here? But more importantly, would that make it make sense? Would I find it believable? Feels like no.
Yeah I’m what? Underwater French music?
STANDOUTS: n/a OVERALL: 1/5; whyyyyy is this here?
The French chatter gets on my nerves. Serge's whispered chanting and Jane's breathy melodies make me more aggressive than the hip hop I don't appreciate. 1/5
The biggest standout to me on this is the string arrangements. With the backing music I would have liked to hear more melody rather than the talk/whisper stuff. Not a big fan of the background story of this album.
I don't give a flipping fuck about the music. It could be a French sequel to Dark Side Of The Moon who all I care, and I'm still rewarding it one stars. When I was listening to "En Melody," I did a double take because it had snippets of a young girl screaming in pain. I did a quick search and apparently this 'concept album' is about a middle aged man "falling in love" with a 14-year-old, Melody, and raping her. My adolescent ass is astonished an album glorifying pedophile made the 1001 Albums list. Serge Gainsbourg himself is probably a closeted pedophile expressing his sexual fantasies with his work. After doing research, I found that Gainsbourg is also a neo-Nazi? I genuinely don’t comprehend how the French people condemn his work. I’d give the album zero stars if I could.
Mostly spoken word over generic music. Dubious, disgusting content.
I don't get it. I suppose it being in French has something to do with it, but it just comes off as sleazy.
Why isn't 0 stars an option here?
I’m glad this ugly Frenchman is dead and can’t inflict his music on the world anymore
An album about a French pervert who hits a 14 year old girl with his car and then falls in love with her. Typical. Is it influential? Sure. But I prefer my trip hoppy loungey music without statutory rape and death even if it is French. Fuck this guy. Listen to Stereolab
Hmm this is a provocative co--looking at what this album is about--OH NO Didn't know I'd need to bust out Muzzy to interpret this. "Je suis la jeune fille" YEAH APPARENTLY I took French in school because I thought Gambit was cool at the time. He's not. I took a 200-level course in college for a gen ed. Went to class one day after a GWAR show and I still had some of their fluids in my ear. Classmate thought my ear was bleeding until I said I saw GWAR. He understood then. Interesting instrumentations. I can see where it's influenced so many. Horrible subject matter. Wish this was GWAR.
So... a concept album about kid-diddling, performed by a(n alleged) kid-diddler? Fucking great! Trying really hard to find a positive in this pile of shit. Once in a while the beats and guitar work align into something interesting, but it's not often and Beck ripped off all of them. The ever-present whisper talking vocals (produced so high in the mix sometimes it's hard to even hear the music over it) are AWFUL. Seriously, go watch The Simpsons episode "Life On the Fast Lane". You will never again be able to unhear Marge's bowling instructor Jacques on every track. Fuck this album in its entirety! Gotta go listen to something akin to an audio shower now.
I don’t understand French so could t get into it.
Mix of soft dinner music and orchestral arrangements about a pedophile. I would give this a zero if it were possible.
Spoken word is definitely not my taste. Some songs by the artist are OK, but I didn't enjoy a single song on this particular album.
How is a album about statutory rape on here?
nah
this is not ‘must-listen’. gtfoh
The music is wonderful, the concept of a spoken word story narrative is fascinating. I don't speak French so I looked the "plot" up. This story is literally rape. The narrator is wealthy, hits a young girl under 15, seduces her, and then she dies. It's a sad and unpleasant story. I don't care if it's older and times have changed. This content should not be celebrated. Disgusting.
an album about banging a 14 year old is hard to take even if I don't understand french
Le Shit
French bloke talking at me and a French woman giggling
Sounded like a cologne commercial
I'm sorry. I can't. Don't hate me.
This is a parody, you cannot convince me otherwise. This is not serious, bffr.
Meh. It was fine but I don’t understand French and it’s not like the melodies or musicianship were so spectacular that they made up for it.
Never listened to this before, never will again.
this was about underage romance?
Maybe I just didn't get it, but I honestly thought this album was terrible. Nothing else to say really
Shite
Strange that a record like this is still on the list. I am very much anti-woke and strongly believe that history cannot be rewritten to satisfy modern thinking and behaviour. But I do not include paedophilia in this so I find this record extremely distasteful. My french is not good enough to understand the lyrics but the album cover tells you all you need to know about the record and record reviews leave you in no doubt. There is nothing musically of any great significance so why is this on the list? Is it a tick box exercise to ensure France has a proportionate number of entries on the list? The greatest joy I got from this recording was when I read the Wiki entry describing the plot. I laughed out loud when I read Melody was on her way back to Sunderland when she met her demise. Sunderland??!!. Not believing everything I read in Wiki I checked the lyrics and sure enough Sunderland is there. Sunderland is a great city with great people but not exactly a city one would think of in the UK for the romantic heroine in this story to come from. Might be a subliminal message in that but can’t help wondering if Mr Gainsbourg ever visited Sunderland when researching this story if you see what I mean? Back to the album - wish there was a 0 rating as 1 gives it too much credibility.
Oh dear.
Disgusting. Should be 0 stars.
What a nonce.
Et si délicieuse enfant Aimable petite conne Je n'sais pas ce que je te ferai 🤢 poor Jane Birkin at 24 playing a breathy FOURTEEN year old, against Serge in his 40s. I don’t get the sense it’s meant to be an unsympathetic unreliable narrator considering he released a song called lemon incest with his 13 year old daughter, with a video of them barely dressed in bed together, then said the song wasn’t about incest. Creepy creepy creepy.
No. Thanks. First song is just talking in a seducing voice. Then it doesn't get much better when he sings.
not for me - a couple songs were groovy and I considered maybe using them for yoga…wouldn’t really make sense tho.
Ahhhh… THE FRENCH… in ASMR. Felt like they were trying to sell extremely expensive French perfume to me. Oh boy, I just read the wiki 🙄 🚩…I looked even more into his wiki and it so much worst than I thought. “ Incest Lemon”. That laugh scared the shit out of me. 6/10 was going to be my rating but I don’t support groomers/pedophiles. (Shouldn’t include albums wikis if the rating is solely based on their music) 1/10
Var ska man börja? Pedo-temat? Pratsången? Det gubbkåta omslaget? Nej, jag orkar inte.Jag vill inte tänka en sekund mer på detta utan gå vidare i mitt liv.
Music, 5. This is fun, engaging, and super different. Love the guitars and drums big time. I love the dudes voice, and the woman singer is alright too when she pops in. Buuuuuuuuut then I read about what the album was about. There is no way I can give this more than one star. I know times have changed but common! Fucking gross. So here we have a 5 star album getting a one because of some Epstein wannabe pedo shit.
I have lots of thoughts… First song felt like gossip girl vibes w the talking over the instrumentals being p sparse, rest of the album kinda felt like a movie soundtrack. Idk how I’d rate if I read the Wikipedia after I listened bc I really liked the instrumentals, but the French man talking is very not sexy to me… and him repeatedly saying melody is so gross and also not musically entertaining either !! also the sex noises in en melody were very disturbing! Apparently the album cover is a photo of his partner who is pregnant and 18 yrs younger than him.. and they got together while she was 22 and married to someone else which is interesting ig. And she’s the one featured in some of the songs. I like the instrumentals but read way too much Wikipedia ab this to not think it’s super fucked up and perverted and be icked out by the voices. Not gonna rate out of 10 bc idk what I would even put
This is weird. It doesn’t sound that bad, but the thought of this old ass man trying to get with a middle schooler is pretty disgusting and kinda ruined the experience for me, even if it wasn’t a true story. 1/10
Disgusting and boring
suc le blu... No thanks. #IgnorantAmericanHere
Didn't like at all
A pedophile mumbling over elevator music. Yeah, absolutely not.
Disgusting
I'm a read along with the lyrics type person, especially after reading the wiki, so I found the english translations and it gave me the ick. "That Melody Nelson, An adorable little girl, And such a delicious child" yuck.
Of course it’s a French guy
I felt like the EQ was all off. I was constantly adjusting the volume. But I don't know why I bothered. No melodies 1.4
just did not enjoy it
nasty ass French man whispering in my ear for an hour. 1/5. 1 point for music
This guy needs to get the mic out of his mouth. Also looked up what the album was about, as it is in French, and the dude is just a pedophile.
Nah
Couldn’t get through the whole album.
There were no redeeming qualities for this album
Music was pretty funky. Lyrics were all gibberish to me being in French. Not a fan of the spoken word style. Story is pretty gross.
I liked this a lot then read the Wikipedia page about it and I just cannot condone a sympathetically cast story about a middle aged man trying to take the virginity of a fourteen-year-old child.
1. Yeah, no thanks, not going to listen to a pedophilia-themed album.
Mumbling against a musical background. Not good.
Did not appeal to me at all. I would not buy it.
Was ist das für ne Pädoscheiße
I couldn’t bring myself to even listen to an album about the grooming of a 15 yr old CHILD by a middle aged rich man whose sole intention was to seduce and fuck. So gross. This album shouldn’t be on a list except a sexual predators list. It’s 2023, women are fed the fuck up and we are not accepting nostalgia as a means to degrade and demoralize us. Read the room.
Who recorded this Pepe LePew? Bloody awful!
Pretentious twaddle.
Tout simplement immonde.
pervers dégueulasse qui bave dans le micro
I come away confused: this is such a strange album. I saw that it was French and came from on of the most famous French artists of the time but I just don't get it. A fully spoken word album is a little more bearable in French but at the end of the day still didn't enjoy it. Felt like a raspy old French radio host butting in over the lacklustre music to deliver some boring commentary to the listener.
Tired trope the old man loves young girl thing... not for me
WTF is this.
I need a cigarette.
Not for me at all.
ew hate it
"Melody Nelson"... En kuuntelisi vapaaehtoisesti.
ASMR plus guitar
Did not like this one at all.
Zzzzzzzzxz
What the actual fuck was this Not cool man, just a french could concieve such a disgrace
Franchutada
What the crapshit is this?
No more foreign albums please!
This is a concept album and it's story revolves around a girl names Melody Nelson. And it's super important for the artist that you don't forget that for a second. Not the story, just the name. It's in the title of the album, it's in the title of most songs, it's in every other lyric line. Purely musically this wasn't so bad. But it was just so annoying. And pretentious. My desire for it was at the max level. At least it's short.
I just don't get it.
Disturbing concept for an album. But if you manage to ignore that (helps i dont speak french) then the music is, well its hard to describe, really there is one main piece that gets repeated. This peice is probably one of the most engaging I've ever heard. The simple bass line grooves almost as if on another planet whilst the string arrangements contrast with almost a narrative quality. Weirdly I know this as it was heavily sampled by David Holmes which I kinda prefer. The rest of the tunes are mulch shite which is weird contrstasted with the resplendent main theme. All in all a conflicted album but on balance its hard to score an album highly that's about a peado.
Unsettling French whispering over blues music don't like
A parte de para hacerte el interesante, ¿en qué momento vas a escuchar a un FRANCÉS "cantando" flojito con musiquita de fondo? yo digo no.
Too french
On paper, this sounds like a terrible album: French beat poetry about a fling between a middle-aged man and a 15-year-old girl. In reality, it's actually worse than that. Serge goes to great pains to explain just how rich he is. He spends a whole song talking about his Rolls Royce, and another one describing going on about the interior décor of his luxurious hotel. But he's sad, and here's a pretty girl he just happened to notice. Won't she be a nice trophy? "Don't tell me if you're not a virgin," he says in so many words, because that would ruin the experience. I mean, what the fuck. I guess I should mention that the backing music is nice, but I already feel dirty for giving this guy half a cent by listening to his album on Spotify. If I ever want to relive the vibe, I'll just go find Beck's stuff and listen with a clean conscience. Best track: Cargo culte (for the backing choir)
ajme ne mogu ja ovo hahah jedna pisma cila vječnost
Nimalo muzikalno. Možda bi mi se svidilo da znan francuski il da san imala vrimena guglat prijevod. Priživila pola albuma
Utter wank, this holds the "award" of being one of so far 2 albums I couldn't finish. His voice, the "music" and the whole premise behind the album was awful, if I could give zero I would, nothing enjoyable about this at all
Absolute fucking dogshit
Not for me
Just awful
The orchestral instrumentation is awesome on this album. The concept of the album is not. I wouldn’t care to listen to this again.
well the concept is pretty off putting, so chose not to listen that much
I am not listening to a spoken-word album in "Fr*nch" about a 15 year old girl by a full grown ass man.
i hated this. just a french dude whispering
I didn’t really like it but then again I wasn’t paying attention at all.
It was in French. What’s the point of that. 0.1/10
I dont speak french so didnt understand the words. Music was decent.
guy doesn’t even sing
I am losing the will to live! Some decent albums, PLEASE! This one is all in French & is trash
No no no
Comment tu t’appelles? Melody Nelson
Garbage. Just garbage. This was awful. I'll take 8 straight hours of Californication over 1 re-listen of this French crap.
this is what people mean when they say French people are pretentious
French ASMR hardly music
Not for me
Nei faen
1971. Key Songs: Melody
meh