Blog: Oh, Sweet Nothing

Yesterday, Light in the Attic just reissued Serge Gainsbourg's french-pop classic Histoire De Melody Nelson with lots of extra goodies to boot. The little French interpretation skills I had have long succumbed to daily exposure to the divine languages of 'Merican and Spanglish, but I still dig this album and it definitely deserves the reissue treatment (apparently this is the first time it's been reissued in North America...). The whole Lolita-esque theme of the gets played up quite a bit, but as a person who understands about 1.5% of the album ( Merde! ) I'm more [...]