Melody

Serge Gainsbourg - Histoire De Melody Nelson (1971) {Mercury Records - Vinyl Replica Reissue 2011 Set, CD 5of12}
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Pop / French pop / French rock / Chanson

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.

This is the record your mother always warned you about, a masterpiece of perversion and corruption.

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