Gainsbourg Serge

Gainsbourg Serge: Histoire De Melody Nelson [CD]

Franske stilikonen och samtidigt enfant terrible. Hans sånger var många, skandalerna runt hans person kanske fler, och här samlas 42 av de mest kända sångerna han lämnade efter sig. På en snygg dubbel som inkluderar en bookletposter (precis som alla andra Metro Select) ges vi chansen att (åter)upptäcka Frankrikes finaste.

Gainsbourg Serge: Simply Gainsbourg [3 CD]

Gainsbourg Serge: 40 classic chansons Francaises [2 CD]

No matter how provocative, edgy and anti-hero the guy was, every French person of every age loved and still loves Serge. He isn't like anyone else. For many French people, Gainsbourg belongs to their national heritage such as wine, the Tour de France, gastronomy and the Eiffel Tower. His influence in pop music is therefore enormous. Numerous national and international artists of today are indebted to him, including Beck, Air, Nouvelle Vague, Sonic Youth, Vive La Fête and Goldfrapp. He was both a top composer and a top lyricist with a real gift for wordplay. It's the late fifties/early sixties that the world became acquainted with Gainsbourg's brilliant songs like "La Poinçonneur Des Lilas", "L'Eau A La Bouche" and "Black Trombone".<br/><br/>HIGH QUALITY

Gainsbourg charmed us and repelled us, sometimes even charmed us and repelled us, which made him a familiar enigma, a dazzling mystery. Simultaneously both Jekyll and Hyde, shy and provocative, modest yet exhibitionist, Gainsbourg and Gainsbarre, Yin and Yang, masculine and feminine, God and the devil, he undoubtedly represents the two extremes of desire and natural urges. Gainsbourg is almost unique in French music. Only he and Léo Ferré developed their own texts and their arrangements to such an extent. Serge Gainsbourg wrote and composed not as an author or a musician would, but like a painter. He used words, notes and instruments as he would have done colours and paintbrushes. Light or dark, gentle, cynical, wild with excitement, pastel, bright, warm or cold, peaceful or violent, his poetic images are impressed upon us as if he had painted them.

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