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Histoire de Melody Nelson (Reissue)

Conceived by the late, great French songwriter as a tribute to his young actress girlfriend Jane Birkin, this 1971 concept disc plays like a European art film that's simultaneously ridiculous and soul-crushingly romantic. It tells the story of a middle-aged man who hits a girl on a bicycle with his...

2009 RS: 4of 5 Stars

Couleur Cafe

1997

Du Jazz Dans Le Ravin

1997

Comic Strip

1997

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Biography

The great French pop provocateur Serge Gainsbourg's thirty-year-plus career -- or at least the early part of it -- has been boiled down to three themed compilations for American listeners. Comic Strip is the essential introduction to his deliriously inventive late-'60s hits: lush, witty, campy, and throbbing with the kind of irresistible erotic charisma that only truly ugly people can pull off....

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