Reviews (page 8 of 8)
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