Reviews (page 9 of 9)
He preferido escuchar la versión original de 7 canciones y 28 minutos a la del 40 aniversario. Me ha sorprendido el sonido y la cantidad de samples que había escuchado de este disco en otras canciones más actuales. Me han gustado "Melody", "Ballade de Melody Nelson" y "Cargo Culte".
Garbage. Just garbage. This was awful. I'll take 8 straight hours of Californication over 1 re-listen of this French crap.
Guta
the instrumentation and production are impressive, but the concept is cringey AF
If Quentin Tarantino and Wes Anderson made a movie together, this would be the soundtrack.
Problematic lyrics and themes aside it was a decent listen I thought.
Wow. What a surprise. Particularly loved the first and last one. Excellent psychedelic. Can't believe wiki told me this was pop
Cool as hell. 7/10
so, i actually liked the music. had a good grove, cool bass and string instruments. the angel harmonies on cargo cult were a plus. i didn't need the beat-poet french william shatner talking over a bunch of songs, and the en melody female noises were a bit over the top. almost 3.
Might be good but I can't understand it. Hate to give it a negative for that.
A concept album that works. Creepy as hell, though if you put his albums in order the next song that comes up is "nazi rock"... his songs fit this perfect mood and this album does the thing an album is supposed to do. it takes me on a journey, and before I knew the lyrics I felt really good about the journey.
this is what people mean when they say French people are pretentious
I don't speak French so I have no clue what was being sung, but I could listen to this all the time
This couldn’t be more stereotypically French if it hit you over the head with a baguette while smoking a Gauloises. I need to revisit this. That was pretty damn fun to listen to. I felt like I could almost understand it at parts too.
Strange French man says melody a lot then sings a song and then says melody a lot again. Pretty good though
Very interesting, parts are jazzy or symphonic, lots of spoken word. Having trouble getting past the language barrier and the cool sexy vibe is ruined for me by the Lolita angle though.
Before I talk about the album itself, let me share about the rabbit hole I fell down. I was about halfway through the first track, Melody, when I thought, “Man, this song *really* sounds like Beck’s song Paper Tiger. Then I remembered that Beck once produced an album for a French Singer named Charlotte Gainsbourg… I look it up, and sure enough, Charlotte is Serge’s daughter. Just an interesting couple of facts (I think this is what happens when an INTP is a big fan of music) . By the way, I looked it up and Beck actually sampled the Serge Gainsbourg track on Paper Tiger, which explains their startling similarity. The article in which I found that information about Beck sampling Serge pointed something out that hit home for me. It said that the two are rare amongst singer-songwriters in that they are as attracted to sound as they are to song. That really spells out why I don’t like most singer-songwriter music, it seems like for many of them the music is merely a vehicle for them to present their lyrics. One could say they are just poets masquerading as musicians. But there is an album of the day to talk about! To borrow a word from the succeeding generation, this album slaps. I didn’t know I needed an album that sounds like George Baker’s Little Green Bag overlaid with whispered, French, spoken-word vocals and orchestral blasts, but here I am. Serge is apparently considered the greatest musician France ever produced, and has influenced many that came after him, so he definitely belongs on the list My personal enjoyment: 4/5 Did it belong on this list: 5/5
great bass + really well orchestrated. almost cinematic with a narrative. reminded me of portishead. this grew on me.
soothing and nice and cool and short and cute
French ASMR hardly music
Really nice French. A bit psychadelic, sometimes too much.
Hahah vad e det här? Nån som viskar en försiktigt i örat på franska, mkt märkligt. Men musik är ändå ok, var helt ok att lyssna på 😅
No
Definite headphone album, love how forward the vocals and bass are. Wish I spoke french. Girl on the cover reminds me of Lor. Melody - Prise Complete is my highlight.
This album occasionally peaked my interest with some good guitar and rhythm but then it would go completely mad and unlistenable.
This album sounded like how I imagine sex is like in France.
got into the guitar riffs on some of the track, also following along with the english translation was an interesting story
Not for me
Nei faen
I didn’t feel this through the first listen but the second time made me feel like I was watching a Wes Anderson movie so... I’m not sure what that means. It’s definitely charming.
This was pretty good. Definitely a different kind of album for the time it was released.
Very sultry music about an underage romance. Very evocative.
The french lyrics and slow melody is reminiscent to beatnik spoken word sessions in a cafe shrouded in cigerette smoke. Overall, a mysterious and alluring mix of rock and jazz.
quite nice even if i cant understand the lyrics much nothing much like it
Sounded good but I don't speak french so it wasn't as impactful to me
I didn't really like this. Sometimes the guitar was nice, but it was odd. And uncomfortable for me.
The desired effect here seems to be a religious experience. Without any French knowledge, I'm at something of a loss in evaluating it on those terms. The mix is something unlike anything else I've heard: Gainsbourg's voice behaves like some kind of rhythm instrument but sits at the very very very front of the mix. There's a sonic arc, and clearly a focused theme. Everything else is subtle. I picked up similarities between this and Charlotte's work, of course. Not sure exactly what was supposed to grab me, but it's at least a technically impressive album with clear intent behind it.
1971. Key Songs: Melody
meh
uy french ooooh kantalogue en melody - WHAT IS HAPPENING HERE, escandalo also, im digging this album cover
wtf, this is absolute crap. like an even less interesting, less musical version of that moby turd. singer just whispers in french with the mic INSIDE his mouth, music is just sporadic jazzy numbers. I'm sure artists think it's cool, but i think it fucken sucks.