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histoire de melody nelson
Posted by Formbyman on 19 October 2011 - 2:52pm.
This has long been a favourite record of mine and I notice a new "deluxe edition" is being released next month. Will any of The Massive be making a purchase?
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Love it
But I don't need it again. What could be added to it that it doesn't already have?
I played it this morning...
... and was thinking the same, the cardboard cover (CD) is still in excellent condition, the sound is perfect, the songs are great - what is there to improve? I'll still get it though.
Maybe
there is more artwork....
The term I believe
is "coltish".
The other is...
...hubba.
And the next one
Is also hubba.
Nurse! Nurse!
The oxygen, quickly! Bring the adrenaline too, I think I might b
Exactly.
I'm just re-reading Sylvie Simmons excellent book on Gainsbourg and there's quite a bit on Melody Nelson in the book. There's little intimation that innumerable arrangements were attempted ("Two years to plan and 8 hours to write") or that it was a particularly painful recording.
The DVD will probably be the Jean-Christophe Averty TV special which is very good, but if you want that get "Serge Gainsbourg - D'Autres Nouvelles Des Etoiles" on DVD which is 4 hours of stuff and is about £20 from Amazon.
That is...
...a great book, the Sylvie S one on Gainsbourg.
I was also puzzled at what could be on the new version when I saw the announcement earlier.
While I'm here, if any of you see me wavering or trying to buy it, STOP ME IMMEDIATELY. I do not need it.
That's incredible Jo...
...as I was just saying to myself this morning, 'That JoLean - she REALLY needs a super-deluxe version of 'Histoire De Melodie Nelson'. If ONLY someone would release such a thing..."
And as if by magic...!
Actually, I've never heard it - only the David Holmes record that samples it (which I liked). Do I need a copy of the real thing?
I must get round to buying the album
I've been put off for so many years by the air of 'thick framed spectacles in Hoxton' that seems to surround Gainsbourg, or more specifically, this particular album.
It's odd because normally I'm able to take any music on it's own merits. I must see past this irrational prejudice...
It's a great record
quite sparse, yet very funky. Big influence on Air (if that's a deal-breaker for you).
I sympathise, Stimps.
It is a great record, but Jesus, there isn't half a nasty whiff of hipster appropriation around Serge. You can almost feel the side partings.
Keep it dusty, yeah?
Yep
I'll be buying that one, fantastic record
Had a look at the Super Deluxe Edition
Bonus disc of previously unreleased outtakes
Original Studio Vinyl and additional album of outtakes
Bonus DVD of 5.1 mixes and 40 min doc.
Hardback book of rare photos and memorabilia
I'm okay with everything EXCEPT the vinyl. Why do these ltd editions insist on vinyl being part of the package? The average cost of vinyl is now £15 (?) per album - that's already added £30 to the total price for something I don't need.
I know the 2 disc CD+DVD is available, but if I want the book, why do I have to get the Vinyl?
Forgive me, but I'd like to give all of the vinyl fetishists a bit of a slap for giving the labels the opportunity to start skinning us again, just when we had them on the run.
Being a vinyl fetishist
I look at it the opposite way round - why spoil a lovely package by including a pair of CDs I'll probably never play? It turns it from something I might buy into something I won't consider buying.
So neither of us buys it
and the industry wonders why it's dying on it's arse.
If you're ever in Paris, Fraser...
...there's an incredible record store: new + second hand CDs, exquisitely arranged into genre shelving - jazz, old-time jazz, vocal jazz, fusion, second hand jazz, and so on through the various rock, pop, folk, world etc genres...
But also an incredible section of brand new heavyweight vinyl, all genres. Fabulous artefacts. It's enough to make one aspire to be a vinyl buff, if only one had the cash or a dedicated space to use as a 'vinyl room'! I've only bought a handful of heavyweight vinyl repressings in recent times - two Anne Briggs albums come to mind, limited edition, beautiful things to own, not cheap. Never played them, but just had to have them...
Anyway, the shop is part of a small chain, I think ('Gibert-something' or 'Gilbert-something') - the one I spent a happy couple of hours in was directly opposite the Hotel De Suez, whatever street that may be...
If ANYONE among the Massive is in Paris, I'd recommend it.
It's
Gibert Joseph, just a few yards off the Boulevard St-Michel. My favourite record shop in the world.
Aha!
...yes, that's the one. I was most impressed that they had - by way of a comprehensiveness test - EVERYTHING currently available by Quintessence.
I managed not to buy anything in my 2-3 hour browse (prudence rather than lack of possibilities) but if I lived next door to it I'd be a lot poorer than I am, I'm sure.
Yes
This. I was there a few months ago. I ended up buying nothing, as the alternative was to bankrupt myself.
I think...
...I felt exactly the same way!