release date: Mar. 24, 1971
format: digital
[album rate: 3 / 5]
producer: Jean-Claude Desmarty
label: Philips Records - nationality: France
Concept album by Serge Gainsbourg. The album is by many regarded his best album and one of the very best ever of French pop /rock. It's enlisted in "1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die", and many contemporary artists including Neil Hannon (The Divine Comedy), Jarvis Cocker (Pulp), Barry Adamson (Magazine), Tricky, Portishead, Michael Stipe (R.E.M.), Beck, and Stereolab are heavily influenced by Gainsbourg's narrating compositions. I find it interesting but am not a fan.
[ allmusic.com 4,5 / 5 stars ]
