SERGE GAINSBOURG MELODY NELSON 1971 CULT LP EX+ listen
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31
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41
£ 31
Sold For
Dec 18, 2006
Sold Date
Dec 11, 2006
Start Date
£ 5
Start price
6
Number Of Bids
France
Country Of Seller
eBay
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Description
Dear potential bidder, if you use Safari as a navigator you won't be able to see my entire descriptions properly (abnormally oversized gigantic fonts under the pictures...). Before you bid, and this is very important, you NEED to read, understand and accept my terms. So please use Firefox, internet Explorer or any other navigator than Safari in order to read me until the last words of my descriptions. Thanks for your effort.
SERGE GAINSBOURG - Histoire de Melody Nelson LP.
NO RESERVE! CULT ALBUM IN BEAUTIFUL CONDITION...
LABEL: PHILIPS 6325 071.
MANUFACTURED IN: France.
YEAR: 1971.
VISUAL GRADING OF PLAYING SURFACE: EX+, extremely light and few fainly visible surface scuffs, superb gloss.
SOUND CHECK: 9/10, extremely light and rare surface noise, superb sound restitution.
COVER GRADE: EX+, light corner wear.
NOTE: my grading system is NM / EX / VG / G. Unless a record is sealed I won't grade it M. I grade very strictly, expect perfection at NM.
DESCRIPTION:
Very desirable and demanded cult album from the cult french composer. No introduction needed... Every music lover should know it. The heavy orchestration and classy arrangements directed by the also cult Jean-Claude Vannier, using a lot of strings, a loud and deep compressed bass plus fuzz guitar a gogo, providing a dark and funky mood of a rare beauty, are bringing this concept album to the rank of masterpiece... Certainly Gainsbourg's most coherent work. My personal favourite beeing "En Melody", the faster and funkiest cut, almost instrumental exception made of Jane Birkin's psychotic laughs and moanings, I can't deny the perfect beauty of the rest of the LP, "Melody", "Ballade de Melody Nelson", "L'hotel particulier" are just mindblowing... There's not much left to be said except that you can feel free to request the 8'10 minutes long self-explanatory soundfile I recorded from vinyl. AUDIO FILES AND FURTHER INFOS AVAILABLE:
I recorded quite long and representative sounsclips of all the records listed. If there's anything you would like to hear, you just have to send me your email adress throught an eBay message, I'll send you a link that will permit an easy download of the folder that contains the requested file.
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I made several downloadable folders including soundclips, big sized pictures of the records and covers, including full tracklisting and sometimes even liner notes. I joigned them together by musical affinity. Please don't hesitate to ask for these folders, I took a lot of my time to make them available for you... So don't be shy... I count on you and your curiosity, the records I'm auctionning are rare, musically interesting and deserve your attention, wether it is for your own knowledge or to confirm your intention to bid.
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IMPORTANT NOTE ABOUT THE AUDIO FILES: I recorded 80 % of them with a cardbridge that unfortunately died. Despite it was a good one (Stanton Groovemaster II), the sound quality of these audio files suffered from its bad condition. In a few words, don't judge the sound quality but the musical content of these audio files, even if most of the time they give quite a good idea of the way the record plays, they sometimes sound quite bad while the record plays perfectly with my new cardbridge. In order to know exactly how a record plays, please refer to my sound checks for a reliable information.
CURRENCIES:
I listed the records both in UK pounds and in US dollars. This shouldn't stop anyone to place a bid, I mean you're welcome to combine purchases whatever the currency is! The end of the story is some euros on my bank account...SOME VERY IMPORTANT THINGS TO READ, UNDERSTAND AND ACCEPT:
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I'm also a record collector. That means I'm exigent about grading when I buy records, I also hate bad surprises (I've already been very unfortunate with overgraders on eBay)... So, be confident, my record grading is extremely strict, bid accordingly to the condition staten, I spent so much time in order to provide the best and fairest information possible. I think seriousness is feelable in my descriptions. If this is not enough, feel free to check my feedback as a seller, I don't sell records often but when it happens it's always a well done job.
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Records will be securely packed in new and strong cardbroad record mailers. If you purchase both LPs and 45s from me, I'll do my best in order to reduce your shipping costs and will make them ship together in the same parcel as long as I can garanty their security, only depending on the quantities of each...
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Attention, the fact I'm selling a few records on eBay doesn't mean I'm spending my days doing nothing... I'm actually very hard working plus beeing a young father (and that means a lot!) and will gladly answer your questions but don't expect me to go to the post office twice a day. I'll only be able to pack records and post them one morning or evening by week. And I want my future winning bidders to know that I'll be brilliant in my service but once a week only... In other words, if you pay fast, I'll send sooner considering that my delay of sending will be of one week maximum. Every winner will be notified when the record(s) is sent.
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Zero feedback bidders must contact me before bidding, otherwise bids will be cancelled. I need to know approximately who I'm dealing with, I've heard about too much shady business that can be done by a certain type of zero feedback buyers and I don't want one of them to ruin all my good work... Zero feedback buyers, you are welcome if you introduce yourselves and shortly explain your buying motivation first.
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I just hope I'll sell these records to nice persons, good eBayers and carefull collectors around the world. I'm an enthousiastic music lover, definitely peacefully minded but if you behave without respect and a good sense of responsability, the appropriate feedback will be given, with no hesitation.
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The payment has to be made in a reasonable delay as long as you finished with bidding on my auctions: the sooner, the better. Thank you for bidding but do it only if you're able to pay. IMPORTANT: don't send your payment instantly, please wait for the notification I'll send you.
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If you intend to use Paypal and you're not someone I know or have never won any of my past auctions, be aware that over GBP 25 or $ 50 total ordering, I will only send records by registered post because it's the only way I can protect myself against Paypal's chargebacks abuses. I know only a minority of shady eBayers are committing such abuses, I'm sorry I have to make you pay for registration but you must understand that's the only way I can proove I have sent your parcel. I'm selling records from my own collection because I have no other choice and I can't afford to let any shady eBayer act badly, ruin all my good work and push me deeper in the financial hole I'm already in... So, unless we know each other or already had at least one positive transaction in the past, you have to pay for registration. Thank you for your comprehension.
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People paying by Paypal who are... ordering under GBP 25 or $ 50 total, french residents (as I can always proove I sent the parcel) , people I know, eBayers I already sold records to, will be in position to ask for an unregistered shipment.
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Worldwide people paying by another way than Paypal will also be in position to ask for an unregistered shipment.
SHIPPING COSTS:
SHIPPING LPs:
SHIPPING 45s:
PAYMENT: Paypal, postal & international money order in euros, ca$h in euros (registered mail only), bank transfer (European Union residents), cheque bancaire (french residents only).
Thank you for having a responsible and peaceful behaviour if you win, and to every bidder,
Good luck!
... OOOPS! I'LL BE OUT OF TOWN FROM DECEMBER 23 UNTIL THE 31... I'LL DO THE NECESSARY TO SEND THE RECORDS BEFORE 2007, DEPENDING ON YOUR CAPACITY TO SEND YOUR PAYMENT FAST. EVERY RECORD THAT WILL NOT BE SENT BEFORE MY DEPARTURE WILL BE SENT ON JANUARY 2...
... AND DON'T FORGET TO ASK FOR THE SOUNDFILES, MUSIC ALWAYS SPEAKS BETTER OF ITSELF!
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