Serge GAINSBOURG La Ballade De Melody Nelson LP NMint

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  Serge GAINSBOURG La Ballade De Melody Nelson LP NMint











Une quarantaine de LP's Psyche, Prog en vente. Merci de consulter les "autres objets du vendeur" afin de grouper vos achats et économiser sur les frais de port.

Pochette : EX

Vinyl : NMINT

Serge Gainsbourg had no great attachment to genre. By the time he came to rock music, in his early 40s, the French star had traced his oblique, provocative course through chanson (French vocal music), jazz, and light pop. He'd made percussive café jams about suicide and given Eurovision popstrels France Gall and Françoise Hardy songs full of blowjob puns. Later on he'd make a rock'n'roll album about the Nazis and a reggae take on the French national anthem. A pattern emerges: Gainsbourg hops from style to style, but with a terrific instinct for finding the most startling content for any given form.
So it's no surprise his rock work-- the early 1970s albums, of which Histoire de Melody Nelson is the first and finest-- was so original. Melody Nelson is a collaboration with composer and arranger Jean-Claude Vannier, who assembled a bunch of top sessionmen for the album. But Gainsbourg and Vannier had little interest in the conventions that had accreted around early 70s rock. Like a lot of 1971 records, Histoire de Melody Nelson is a concept album: Unlike most, it's only 28 minutes long. The songs are lavishly orchestrated, yet the dominant instrument isn't guitar or organ but rather Herbie Flowers' lascivious, treacly bass, playing a seedy, rambling take on funk.
That bass is the first sound you hear on Melody Nelson, quietly tracking up and down in a windscreen-wiper rhythm: Gainsbourg starts talking in French 30 seconds later, describing a night drive in a Rolls Royce Silver Ghost. The album is routinely described as "cinematic," but the music is more of a mindtrack than a soundtrack-- a tar pit of introspection when Gainsbourg's brooding narrator is alone at the record's beginning and end, then giddy and savage by turns as he conducts his affair with the 15-year-old Melody across the short tracks in the album's middle. One of these-- "Ballade de Melody Nelson"-- is, even at two minutes, one of Gainsbourg's most assured and alluring pop songs.
A lot of Gainsbourg's records are hard sells for Anglophone ears-- the music is there to illuminate and pace the man's riotous, sensual wordplay. But Gainsbourg's alliance with Vannier produced a true collaboration: The arrangements seem to respond almost intuitively to the twists in Gainsbourg's language and narrative, to the point where they're carrying as much storytelling weight as the words. Even if your French stops at "bonjour", the music lets you know that this is a record about a dark, obsessional love. On "L'hôtel Particulier", for instance-- describing the sleazy grandeur of the rented rooms where the narrator and Melody make love-- Gainsbourg's voice shudders with lust and dread, and the music responds, flares of piano and string breaking into the song over an impatient bassline.
The actual story of Histoire de Melody Nelson is pretty negligible in any case-- man meets girl, man seduces girl, girl dies in freak plane crash. Melody herself (played by Jane Birkin, Gainsbourg's then-lover) is a cipher-- a breathed name, a ticklish squeal or two, and red hair. The album is all about its narrator: A natural obsessive just looking for an object; introspective before he meets Melody, more so after her death. First and final tracks "Melody" and "Cargo Culte" are musical siblings, with only the wordless chorales on "Cargo Culte" really distinguishing them.
Together these songs take up more than half the record, and when people claim Melody Nelson as an influence, it's almost certainly with this pair in mind. The soundworld they create is like nothing else in rock-- orchestra, bass, and voice circling one another, blending slow funk, intimate mumbling, and widescreen scope. One precedent is the epic soul Isaac Hayes had been pioneering, but where Hot Buttered Soul is full of warmth and engagement, the bookend tracks of Melody Nelson are a trip through far more hostile territories, the black spaces of a man's interior.
Gainsbourg realized he'd made something special-- he named his publishing company Melody Nelson after his fictional muse-- but, restless as ever, he didn't follow it up: His next album was a sequence of pretty acoustic songs, mostly about shit. Herbie Flowers, whose bass is the undertow pulling the album together, surfaced a year later playing on Lou Reed's "Walk on the Wild Side", whose bassline is the first ripple of Melody Nelson's wider pop culture influence. Since then it's been left to others-- Jarvis Cocker, Beck, Tricky, Air, Broadcast-- to pick up this record's breadcrumb trail. But Gainsbourg's dark focus, and Vannier's responsiveness, aren't easily equalled

MY GRADING SYSTEM / MON SYSTÈME DE GRADATION :

I can not listen to all the records I'm selling, this gradation is only based on visual judgement. I have rather tendency to exagerate this gradation, however, in case of doubt, do not hesitate to ask your questions before bidding.
Je ne peux écouter tous les disques que je vends, cette gradation n'est donc fondée que sur un jugement visuel. J'ai plutôt tendance à volontairement exagérer cette notation, cependant n'hésitez pas à poser vos questions avant d'enchérir en cas de doute.

M (MINT) : Scellé, jamais joué, neuf dans son emballage d'origine.
Sealed, never opened or played, new in original package.

NM (NEAR MINT) : Copie quasi parfaite, joué très rarement. Au pire, une ou deux traces de surface insignifiantes. C'est le qualificatif le plus haut donné pour un disque non scellé.
Near perfect copy, played only a few times. At worst it may have one or two insignificant flaws. This is the highest grade I give for a non-sealed (used) record.

EX (EXCELLENT) : Copie très propre, quelques marques de surfaces (cheveux) insignifiantes. La pochette a des défauts très mineurs.
Clean copy, slight surface marks/hairlines, cover has minor defaults.

VG++ (VERY GOOD++) : Des marques de surface plus nombreuses, quelques défauts mineurs ou traces d'usage de la pochette.Non qualifié d'EX à cause de défauts un peu plus nombreux.
More surface marks, minor flaws, or cover wear, minor edge wear (cover). Nothing serious but is not graded EX because of few minor defaults

VG+ (VERY GOOD +) : A été joué souvent, traces d'usage et multiples micros rayures générant un bruit de fond au départ ou entre deux titres, mais le disque ne saute pas à la lecture. La pochette présente des traces d'usage ou de stockage importantes (coins ou tranche usés, noms, date, dédicace, etc...).
Played a lot, will show signs of handling, has numerous slight surface marks (hairlines) but no jumps or sticks. Cover wear (light ring wear, heavier corner or edge wear on cover)

VG (VERY GOOD) : Disque très usé, a été joué de nombreuses fois, des rayures importantes provoquant un bruit de fond permanent mais ne saute pas à la lecture. Encore écoutable (notamment à fort volume pour du gros son). La pochette est bien abîmée, déchirure, coins et tranche usés, importantes traces de stylo ou marqueur,
Used record, played a lot, has marks, few scratches, some crackling while playing and but no jumps or sticks. Still quite listenable. Cover may have heavy corner, edge wear or split seams

G (GOOD) : A été joué jusqu'à la corde (mais encore jouable sur certains titres), rayures multiples, craquements, sauts pendant la lecture. La pochette est très abîmée. Cette gradation ne concerne que les disques d'exception pouvant intéresser un collectionneur souhaitant récupérer le vinyl ou la pochette afin de compléter un exemplaire déjà présent dans sa discothèque...
Played a lot and more (but still playable), lot of scratches, crackles a lot while playing, may have jump or sticks and cover is damaged...so not so good ! This record must be very rare to be proposed in this state !!!

Remise en main propre impossible, tous les disques sont expédiés en colissimo

FRAIS D'EXPÉDITION / SHIPPING RATES

Je tiens à préciser que les frais d'expédition sont ceux que la poste pratiquent et sont calculés en fonction du poids de l'objet. Aucun surcoût (emballage, temps passé) ne vous sera facturé.
Please note that shipping charges are those that French post office practice and are calculated according to the weight of the LP ('s). No extra fees (packaging, time).

LES DISQUES NE POURRONT ÊTRE EXPÉDIÉS, POUR LA FRANCE, QU'EN COLISSIMO ( ÉVENTUELLEMENT RECOMMANDÉ ET ASSURÉ SUR PRÉCONISATION DE L'ACHETEUR, SURCOûT COMMUNIQUÉ APRÈS LA VENTE ) ET EN COURRIER PRIORITAIRE, ENREGISTRÉ OU NON, POUR L'ÉTRANGER.
Remise en main propre impossible, tous les disques sont expédiés en colissimo

Pour la France en colissimo :1 LP : 5,55 € - 2 à 3 LP : 6,80 € - 4 à 8 LP : 7,75 € - 1LP Double : 6,80 €
1 à 8 EP : 5,55 €

Pour l’Europe (Union Européenne et Suisse) en courrier international
1 à 2 LP : 7,50 € - 3 à 4 LP :10 € - 5 à 6 LP : 11,50 € - 7 à 8 LP : 12,40 €
1 à 2 EP : 3,50 € - 3 à 6 EP : 5,80 € - 7 à 8 EP : 7,50 €
A partir de 9 LP pour l’Europe envoi uniquement en colis économique international

Pour le reste du monde ( USA / ASIA / AUSTRALIA / AFRICA and outside European community ) en courrier prioritaire international
1 à 2 LP : 9,80 € - 3 à 4 LP : 12 € - 5 à 6 LP : 15,00 € - 7 à 8 LP : 16,65 €
1 à 2 EP : 5,00 € - 3 à 6 EP : 6,80 € - 7 à 8 EP : 9,80 €
A partir de 9 LP envoi uniquement en colis économique international.

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