SERGE GAINSBOURG - Histoire de Melody Nelson LP

Highly recommended.

Greatness is greatness, no matter the language, or the politics, or the overall jive - it is what it is and can't be denied.

For all of its artiness, there is still a core to the music that is experimental and timeless. Jean Claude Vanier outdid himself on the dissonant arrangements.

All of the choirs sing sounds of disgusting lust, strings swell and reveal nothing but animal urges... the whole record presents everything that is dirty and forbidden, but draws you in as if Christ was offering the apple himself.