5.
Serge Gainsbourg -
Histoire de Melody Nelson
The coolest album
ever. The description is enough to back up that claim: a concept album whose plot involves Gainsbourg accidentally colliding his Rolls Royce into a beautiful young girl's bicycle, and the romance that follows. The vocals are in French, but you don't need to understand French to understand what makes this so good. This album features the perfect marriage of lush orchestral arrangements and rock and roll, brilliantly complementing the mood already created by Gainsbourg's at times spoken-word vocals. Creating an epic out of such a topic would seem impossible, but this album does just that. A true masterpiece.