Serge Gainsbourg

Conceived by the late, great French songwriter as a tribute to his young actress girlfriend
Jane Birkin, this 1971 concept disc plays like a European art film that's simultaneously
ridiculous and soul-crushingly romantic. It tells the story of a middle-aged man who hits a
girl on a bicycle with his Rolls, deflowers her and then mourns her memory when she dies
in a plane crash soon thereafter. You've heard its broodingly funky symphonic-r... More >