The Guitars of Melody Nelson: Exploring Serge Gainsbourg's 1971 Masterpiece

00:00 Hi
00:54 About the album
01:55 Recording history
02:51 Who played on the record?
06:30 The Melody bassline
09:19 Melody guitar parts
11:54 Ballade de Melody Nelson acoustic part
14:47 Valse de Melody
15:50 Ah! Melody
17:38 L'Hotel Particulier
20:22 En Melody
22:02 Cargo Culte
23:58 Bye

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[kurthenriss-anderssen]

The guitar teacher with the best taste in music

[ledthereberock]

It's quite unusual to have both french and Gainsbourg stuff on a guitar chanel! Thanks a lot to shine a light on this great album 👍

[roseanglaise]

Have loved this album since being given the CD of it in 1991. I was living in France for the year and had to go out and buy a portable CD player so I could listen to it. Spent a whole evening discovering Serge Gainsbourg and then woke up to the news that he had died. I thought it was somehow my fault! Three decades later I’m still noticing its influence … This video has inspired my husband to play some of Melody Nelson and it’s making me so happy because we named our daughter Melody and it is without a doubt the most important album in my life ever. Thank you for this appreciation ❤

[boomerdell]

And Adrian somehow levels up yet again by exploring a Serge Gainsbourg album. So freaking amazing.

[rd-nt]

Whoa - can't believe you've chosen this amazing record!

[JeanMarieMessa]

That was fantastic, I love the “album overview” format. This record is a really important one for lots of French music lovers :-) Merci beaucoup !

[DidierLecocq-hi]

Thanks for this amazing choice following J.Birkin's death. Not so easy to approch Gainsbourg's music, great and thanks for the transcription.

[dreamscuba]

I love the opening bass work...now I want to listen to this album. Thanks for the video.

[greenvelvet]

I've been waiting years, if not decades, for someone to do a video on this album.
This album has been an inspiration for countless artists who have ripped it off over the decades from Air to Beck.
I've been chasing this Bass tone all my life.
Every track on this album is KILLER.
Thank you for doing such a generous in-depth video on such an 'under talked about' album and finally setting the record straight on who played on it

[bluecap]

Merci beaucoup pour cette vidéo sur ce super album de Serge Gainsbourg .👍

[MrTarral]

Serge Gainsbourg was and still my favorite French musician and author
Merci pour cet hommage

[JusDisBoy]

Thanks for this.

I now realise where Beck got his 'inspiration ' for the track Paper Tiger off Sea Change.

Both have exceptionally cool guitar, though.

[danielktdoranie]

One of my favourite albums! I named one of my daughters after it.

I always thought the bass used had to be a semi acoustic as the recording had a bell ringing quality

[Barryer]

Wow—I did not see this coming. For Jane!

[josephkwiatkowski]

Would love to hear you go through "Five Leaves Left" by Nick Drake !!

[nybe]

One of my top 10 favs in my album in my collection. Unbelievable guitar and string arrangements that were so far ahead of their time... Thanks for covering it.

[uqvnnqe]

thanks, that's great ! Glad to see non-french people interested in Gainsbourg (the best french writer-composer ever for me). You could do the same with "L' homme à tête de chou", another Gainsbourg's great concept album with stunning guitar parts !

[Strateggo]

So hum, first I found this dude searching for a Seek & Destroy (Iggy) lesson, and now he’s lecturing on Melody Nelson? Ok, one more subscriber!

[bagsbunny]

Alan Parker did a lot of U.K telly themes, including “Angels” and “Sir Prancealot” and “Captain Pugwash”. Spotify has some of his library music albums, well worth a listen.

[markkempster]

What an epic installment!. Probably my favourite album and one that ive always found rather mystical in terms of how it was all played. You absolutely nailed it!. Thank you for this.