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The Eternal Ugliness Of Serge

January 27, 2020 – 8:04 pm

I’ve succeeded at everything except my life. I know my limits. That’s why I’m beyond. I like the night, I have clearer ideas in the dark. I prefer ugliness to beauty, because ugliness endures. I am incapable of mediocrity. Ugliness is superior to beauty because it lasts longer. Serge Gainsbourg And let’s not forget the […]

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Serge Gainsbourg and Whitney Houston 1986

January 23, 2013 – 6:20 am

Serge Gainsbourg was the coolest French musician of the last century. His hip stature reverberates to the present. THE BALLAD OF MELODY NELSON is a 27-minute long gem of a concept LP. His conquests of love were legion. His loves were few. Jane Birkin was his muse for 13 years. After their break-up the drink […]

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La Decadanse / Serge Gainsbourg

July 14, 2010 – 8:31 pm

Did anyone ever do it better in our times?

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Histoire de Melodie Nelson

July 8, 2007 – 11:09 am

Music sucks in Pattaya. Old farangs sing to HOTEL CALIFORNIA and bar girls dance to boy band love ballads, while Thai bands play dinosaur rock for drunken tourists. Nothing wrong with a bad reprise of SMOKE ON THE WATER, except I oncelived in nightclubs and bars in which music meant more than a tune you can sing while […]

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