Sold Date: April 4, 2014
Start Date: January 15, 2014
Final Price: $19.99 (USD)
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ARTIST: Serge Gainsbourg
TITLE: L'Homme A Tete De Chou
FORMAT: LP (180 Gram)
LABEL: 4 Men With Beards
CATALOG #: 4M-170

RECORD CONDITION: NEW
JACKET CONDITION: NEW

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"L'Homme à Tête de Chou (The Man with the Cabbage Head) is a concept album and shares some of prog's general characteristics, but it's unlike anything emanating from rock's beardy depths. In the spirit of his 1971 masterpiece Histoire de Melody Nelson, Gainsbourg sets this album's brief tale amid a widescreen musical canvas. Whereas Melody Nelson was provocative without being explicit, the gravel-voiced Gallic lecher goes X-rated here -- albeit without sacrificing his poetic élan. Although the title track retains something of Melody Nelson's cool Baroque pop gravitas, Chou doesn't replicate that earlier record's alternately brooding and soaring melodic grandeur. Instead, it draws on an adventurously varied palette, spanning rock, country, disco, jazz, reggae, and funk. In places, the shifting styles match the different images or situations that Gainsbourg presents, sometimes without concern for subtlety. The songs are most satisfying when the relationship between lyrics and music is less literal, more evocative. Elsewhere, subject matter and sound are divorced completely, the cheery funk of "Ma Lou Marilou" contrasting with the narrator's murderous thoughts. L'Homme à Tête de Chou is an underrated Gainsbourg album. Notwithstanding some dubious synth coloring, it's his second-best '70s release, ranking among his finest recordings." - Wilson Neate & allmusic.com

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