Cette chanson est sortie lorsque j'avais 10 ans et je l'ai donc toujours connue. J'ai acheté tous les disques de Brel qui sortaient et je les ai écouté et ré-écoutés des milliers de fois. Je n'ai pas loupé un seul passage a la television mais je n'ai malheureusement pas pu assister a un de ses concerts. Un ami était a l'olympia quand il a chanté Amsterdam pour la première fois et, lui qui etait au troisieme rang en a eu le souffle coupé ! J'ai suivi toutes ses aventures, même quand il disparu plusieurs mois avant sa mort et je me suis précipité pour acheter l'album bleu le jour de sa sortie. Je connais toutes ses chansons et je les écoute encore très souvent. Brel a écrit plusieurs types de chansons, dont certaines, comme celle-ci, étaient spécialement faites pour la scène, pour être mises en scène, pour qu'il leur donne une autre dimension par son interpretation. Là il a été le plus loin et je me souviens des commentaires sur sa façon de décrire le bruit des mangeurs de soupe ! Ca a fait beaucoup parler à l'époque, d'oser mettre ce genre de bruit dans une chanson....
Ce gars était mort depuis une ou deux décennies avant que je le découvre. Et je suis toujours époustouflé par son talent. C'est probablement l'un des plus grand artiste francophone de toute l'histoire.
Vous avez totalement raison , Brel est irremplaçable, ses arrangements musicaux étaient aussi de haute voltige ! Nous avons un certain Olivier Laurent qui chante Brel, quasi comme lui. Il vous visite à Montreal de temps en temps ...
@@lucwarnier Ce n'est pas tout à fait ça à mes yeux. Je ne suis pas un grand fan de musique. Je n'en écoute que lorsque je sors de chez moi pour ne pas entendre les "lamentations" du monde, ou lorsque je travaille la nuit pour ne pas me faire bouffer le cul par un loup (la plus grande meute de France est à 15 km de chez moi)... Ou alors quand j'ai des émotions trop fortes à extirper de ma tête. Lorsque je suis mélancolique, je prends ma guitare et je gratte quelques accords (horribles)... Lorsque je suis énervé, je me déchaîne sur ma batterie en refaisant des rythmiques connues à en faire trembler les murs de ma maison... Et quand je suis triste, je laisse mon cœur saigner sur des mélodies larmoyantes au synthé... J'ai aimé Brel car dans presque chacune de ses chansons j'ai (re)trouvé un moment d'émotion de ma vie.
Honnêtement une des plus belles chansons de Brel en français. Il faut la ressentir. Amsterdam et Ne me quitte pas sont « juste » plus connues. This song is talking about the belgian life (really long time ago). This is the true mAsterpiece from Brel. Thank you for your Words, man. You feel it ;-)
Jacques Brel exceptionnal and unique figure of the French songs! He is a real artistic performer and can be compared to the Shakesperean actors like Richard Harris, Richard Burton or Peter O'Toole (all of Irish origins) who owe their celebrity to USA. For French people, Belgians are our dearest direct cousins...Jacques Brel performed in the famous Don Quichotte, a famous musical show in Broadway and film (with Peter O'Toole) He created and sang "The impossible Dream" (La Quête" in French). Great creation full of philosophical meanings... He has always been gratefull to France and the French audience who launched his artitical career. His best friends were of course french artists. Died of a cancer in the french islands Marquises. A French national symbol as other artists (also of foreign origins). Also listen to "Le plat pays" or "Amsterdam" or "Les Flamandes"...
I seriously don't understand why you used so many times the word French for a Belgian artist. And his career started in Belgium, not in France, and France has nothing to do with his success.
If you liked it you must absolutely react to his most famous piece which is "Ne me quitte pas", a song translated into many languages and interpreted by many international artists. Brel wrote real poetry and was an extraordinary interpreter, a point of reference for many singers of the 60s.
He has the most heart felt performance.. obviously it's about his own words made about the scenes he lived with soul and spirit .. If you don't understand his lyrics, you better learn french, because it sounds as every genuine poetry uttered by the one most impacted by its content.🎉❤😮
Je plussoie, et sans artifice, sans danseurs, sans lumières, sans fumée…..juste lui et son incroyable interprétation. Brel perdait plusieurs kilos à chaque concert.
Jacques Brel is one of the best french writers of all times. Felix Leclerc was his inspiration. He also helped Barbara. one of the best feminine voice of all french litteratrture.
The lyrics in French are more important than the tune itself. It is always theatrical while singing. Jacques Brel finished his life in the Marquises à French dependancy near Tahiti.
His song "Amsterdam " was nicely translated in English bye Mort Schuman (Who wrote sonngs for Elvis Presley) and became one of the best from David Bowie. "Ne me quitte pas " was sung by Nina Simone. J.Brel lived in the Maldives islands, piloting his own twin-motor plane to help people for free.
Hello Bro.I'm French and as a French I've to say that your reaction made me very happy.Jacques Brel was a real good singer,dead too young.As you can see in this video,on stage he was an amazing performer,he lived his own songs very intensly.I invite you to found his last record performed a few months before passing away,the title "ORLY" where you can listen to marvellous tracks,above all one of the best song in french (form me) "Les Marquises". In this record J Brel put his last forces and his soul, and the strength of the lyrics combined with a great musical orchestration made an unforgettable result.AMAZING!!!!!! I hope you read me and i send you kindly regards from South France. Soon to listen for a new reaction about french singers ,alot deserving your interest.
Bonjour d'Occitanie (France) Jacques Brel est un artiste qui vie la chanson, il y a une autre artiste qui était comme cela sur scène Edith Piaf. Peu de mouvements de déplacement, mais tout est dit. Cette chanson est la représentation de ceux qui ont tout (ou presque) et ceux qui n'ont rien, les deuxièmes ont le rêve les premiers n'ont aucun espoir, rêves (ils sont mort d'une certaine manière)
Love it! I recommend you watch and react to his song Jacques Brel - Mathilde You will be blown away! I consider it his best performance or let's say the best performance of a song ever on a live stage!
Bonjour J ai grandit en écoutant tous ces artistes poètes chanteurs comédiens et si vous allez faire un tour dans cette époque vous découvrez des trésors de textes et d interprétation..jacques brel décrit les mœurs de la société de l époque
Did you hear about Johnny Halliday, one of our greatest French rockstar? Born in Belgium! His funerals were national and spectacular in Paris. As a hero! I doubt one Belgian came to his funerals...
In this song, Jacques Brel paints a guy who randomly talks to a stranger ("Sir") he has met in a bar, late at night. The stranger is the viewer. He talks about his desperate and failing love with the blonde Frida, who belongs to a very traditional family of Wallony. He first paints his disdain for this family ("ces gens-là", aka "these people"), and caricatures each main character in that family, all the perceived mediocrity of what seems to be a christian working class or middle class environment. Then (perhaps a bit drunk) he shows his passionate dream of leaving with Frida, but soon, he reminds himself that the Frida's family opposes their union. With that, he says farewell to the stranger and goes home.
French song is often more about stories than Anglo-Saxon song. If you don't know Brassens I recommend it to you. He was a friend of Brel and is considered a poet and singer, musically very inspired by jazz.
Hey there, this song is about a simple employee (in love of Frida) which works in some big house owned by nobility people.. "Ces gens là" : "Thoses people" is about this nobility family seen and described by their employee..
Dear Canada, Brel was almost unknown in Belgian when he started to make shows in a small cabaret. Just as Brassens, Ferré and others (born in Monaco) at that time... Other artists and actors born in Belgian or from any country from any continents became well-know since they performed in Paris. Just travel in Europe and ask anyone how many artists from abroad succeeded to flourish theit talents and became famous since they crossed the French frontier! In USA there is New York. In Europe here is Paris...
He’s very well-known in the francophone world. Such a clear, incisive speech and pronounciation. Powerful, isn’t it ? Thanks 🙏🏻 for your appreciation. I’m from Lille (a 1.800.000 inhabitants city, border town in top North of France, half in Belgium, a province named The Flanders where Jacques Brel is actually from. You should hear him in both versions of “Don’t leave me”, i.e. “Ne me quitte pas” (French) and in his mother-tongue (Flemish/Dutch) “Laat me niet alleen”. th-cam.com/video/ooxDl31VrKk/w-d-xo.htmlsi=iO4nE4D1wfMrffaW
Those People First of all… First of all, there’s the eldest He’s a complete pea-brain He’s got a big nose And doesn’t even know his name He’s Mr. Drinks-A-Lot Or rather, Mr. Always Drunk He does nothing with his ten fingers But it’s not like he can anyway He, who’s totally sloshed And thinks himself a king Who gets wasted every night With cheap, crappy wine But you’ll find him in the morning In the sleepy town church Stiff as an awning And white as an Easter candle On top of that, he babbles And he’s got a lazy eye I gotta tell ya, sir That with those people They don’t think, sir They don’t think...they pray! And then there’s the other one That lousy carrot-top He’s never even seen a comb And he’s a vile little worm Even though he claims He’d give the shirt off his back He got married to Denise A girl from the city Well, actually from another city And that’s not all - He goes and does his little business With his little hat And his little coat And his little car! He’d like to think he’s a big shot But he really isn’t at all You can’t play at being rich When you haven’t got a dime I gotta tell ya, sir That with those people They don’t live, sir They don’t live...they cheat! And then there are the other ones The mother who says nothing Either that or total nonsense From evening until morning Coming from her “saintly” face And in a little wooden frame She’s got Father’s mustache - He died when he slipped and fell And she watches as her herd Gobbles down cold soup And they make a big SLURP! And they make a big SLURP! And then there’s the little old one Who never stops shaking And they’re waiting for her to die Since she’s got all the dough They don’t even listen To what her poor hands are telling them I gotta tell ya, sir That with those people They don’t chat, sir They don’t chat...they count! And then, and then… And then there’s Frida! Who’s as beautiful as the sun! And she even loves me back! Oh, how I love Frida!! We even say to each other a lot That we’ll have a house With a bunch of windows And almost no walls And we’ll live in it And it’ll do us good to be there But it’s not a certainty It’s still a maybe... Because the others don’t want that- Because the others don’t want that! The others, they keep saying That she’s too pretty for me! And that all I’m good for Is slitting cats’ throats! I’ve NEVER killed a cat!! Well, maybe a long time ago… Or maybe I’ve forgotten… Or maybe they smelled bad. In the end, they don’t want that Sometimes when we see each other Pretending like they don’t say that on purpose With her teary eyes She says she’ll leave them She says she’ll follow me And so, for a moment Only for a moment… I do believe her, sir! For a moment… Only for a moment… Because with those people Sir, you can’t leave You can’t ever leave, sir You can’t ever leave Now it’s getting late, sir I need to go...back home
Il n'est pas facile de traduire Brel en anglais, ainsi que dans une autre langue, et même de le comprendre pour un francophone, car ses textes sont tellement profonds et évocateurs que peu de gens peuvent les saisir à leur juste valeur, mais toi tu as réussi à en faire une qui se rapproche le plus de l'original malgré tout. Bravo Monsieur!
The only other performer of the same era that I know who could compare with Jacques Brel in terms of stage presence and intensity is James Brown. The most crazy thing about Brel is he had awful stage fright before getting on stage : he often vomited just before his concerts, but when getting in front of the audience he became possessed.
It is good idea to discover Brel and other European artists but Brel alone will take some time, more than 80 songs. And there is more than just Brel, there is a whole world, outside the USA.
Sa dernière phrase "Il est tard, Monsieur, il faut que j'rentre chez moi"... laisse supposer que sa famille est comme celle de Frida. Chez Frida, on s'en va pas mais chez lui non plus. Nous ne valons peut-être pas mieux que ceux qu'on critique....
You really should watch a video or listen to a song by Eduth piaf, Jacques sang many of her songs, and you missed the important bit, Jacques is not French, he is a Flemish Belgian, look up his song callerd Marieke, and you will understand his background better!
@@maryseelie8887 pour moi une vraie légende c'est AZNAVOUR (auteur, compositeur, interprète) .Dans la même catégorie je mettrai gainsbourg et balavoine sinon tous les genres Dassin, sardou, lenormand ou même goldman sont à un niveau inférieur
Brel était un homme de scène. il y a une version ou il brille de tout son talent d’interprète: th-cam.com/video/O6MGGh8WUco/w-d-xo.html C'est un de ses derniers spectacles. Merci pour ton regard, et tes commentaires.
Thanks you have shared another Brel's song than "Amsterdam" or "Ne me quitte pas" : those who do it just show they don't mind about Brel but make views. It's not enough to be speechless : Brel made tens of great songs of that level. But be carefull, his lyrics are often provocative for politically correct prude ears...
Jacques Brel, comme certains des artistes de cette epoque, chantaient avec leurs tripes. Il ne mentait avec ces spectateurs. Bien sur pas d'autotune a l'epoque. STP fait d'autre reaction de brel.
Cette chanson est sortie lorsque j'avais 10 ans et je l'ai donc toujours connue. J'ai acheté tous les disques de Brel qui sortaient et je les ai écouté et ré-écoutés des milliers de fois. Je n'ai pas loupé un seul passage a la television mais je n'ai malheureusement pas pu assister a un de ses concerts. Un ami était a l'olympia quand il a chanté Amsterdam pour la première fois et, lui qui etait au troisieme rang en a eu le souffle coupé ! J'ai suivi toutes ses aventures, même quand il disparu plusieurs mois avant sa mort et je me suis précipité pour acheter l'album bleu le jour de sa sortie. Je connais toutes ses chansons et je les écoute encore très souvent. Brel a écrit plusieurs types de chansons, dont certaines, comme celle-ci, étaient spécialement faites pour la scène, pour être mises en scène, pour qu'il leur donne une autre dimension par son interpretation. Là il a été le plus loin et je me souviens des commentaires sur sa façon de décrire le bruit des mangeurs de soupe ! Ca a fait beaucoup parler à l'époque, d'oser mettre ce genre de bruit dans une chanson....
Jacques Brel est un poète un chanteur, un acteur, ... c'est toujours un bonheur de l'écouter souffrir
You should definitely watch his "Amsterdam" and "Ne me quitte pas" performances.
Tout Brel est à recommander.
Jacques Brel is the greatest ! Glad that you, from English Canada, discovered that. It's never too late. I am from Quebec!
Lots of love and respect from Ontario to lovely Quebec!❤️❤️❤️🍁🍁👑👑🥇🥇
Ce gars était mort depuis une ou deux décennies avant que je le découvre. Et je suis toujours époustouflé par son talent. C'est probablement l'un des plus grand artiste francophone de toute l'histoire.
Vous avez totalement raison , Brel est irremplaçable, ses arrangements musicaux étaient aussi de haute voltige ! Nous avons un certain Olivier Laurent qui chante Brel, quasi comme lui. Il vous visite à Montreal de temps en temps ...
@@lucwarnier Ce n'est pas tout à fait ça à mes yeux. Je ne suis pas un grand fan de musique. Je n'en écoute que lorsque je sors de chez moi pour ne pas entendre les "lamentations" du monde, ou lorsque je travaille la nuit pour ne pas me faire bouffer le cul par un loup (la plus grande meute de France est à 15 km de chez moi)... Ou alors quand j'ai des émotions trop fortes à extirper de ma tête. Lorsque je suis mélancolique, je prends ma guitare et je gratte quelques accords (horribles)... Lorsque je suis énervé, je me déchaîne sur ma batterie en refaisant des rythmiques connues à en faire trembler les murs de ma maison... Et quand je suis triste, je laisse mon cœur saigner sur des mélodies larmoyantes au synthé...
J'ai aimé Brel car dans presque chacune de ses chansons j'ai (re)trouvé un moment d'émotion de ma vie.
Il n’est pas “probablement”, il est !
retirez "francophone" !-)
@@lucwarnier il avait surtout un arrangeur de grande qualité !
Le grand Jacques !
Brel était et sera pour l'éternité un très grand artiste. Des textes magnifiques cruels de réalité sur la nature humaine.
He is a genius. I'am 62, and he give ever the sqme goose bomb as I was young.
Jacques Brel is simply THE BEST french talking artist. He's the special one in think.
La version proposée est un play black, ça donne déjà une bonne idée de la performance de Brel, mais c’est encore plus impressionnant en concert.
Honnêtement une des plus belles chansons de Brel en français. Il faut la ressentir. Amsterdam et Ne me quitte pas sont « juste » plus connues. This song is talking about the belgian life (really long time ago).
This is the true mAsterpiece from Brel. Thank you for your Words, man. You feel it ;-)
Incroyable humanité dans le texte, interprétation ...
Jacques Brel forever !
Brel...Un grand. Quelles chansons. Il les vit.
Jacques Brel exceptionnal and unique figure of the French songs! He is a real artistic performer and can be compared to the Shakesperean actors like Richard Harris, Richard Burton or Peter O'Toole (all of Irish origins) who owe their celebrity to USA. For French people, Belgians are our dearest direct cousins...Jacques Brel performed in the famous Don Quichotte, a famous musical show in Broadway and film (with Peter O'Toole) He created and sang "The impossible Dream" (La Quête" in French). Great creation full of philosophical meanings... He has always been gratefull to France and the French audience who launched his artitical career. His best friends were of course french artists. Died of a cancer in the french islands Marquises. A French national symbol as other artists (also of foreign origins). Also listen to "Le plat pays" or "Amsterdam" or "Les Flamandes"...
I seriously don't understand why you used so many times the word French for a Belgian artist. And his career started in Belgium, not in France, and France has nothing to do with his success.
@@florentchif4551 Richard Burton was Welsh.......
Its so great to watch your reaction to this out-of-this-wolrd artist.
Thank you for the kind words!🙏🙏🍁🍁😍😍
So many brilliant songs. We grew up with Jacques Brel in the Netherlands/Belgium. (You've trillions songs to go :)
Cheers from over the pond my friend
If you liked it you must absolutely react to his most famous piece which is "Ne me quitte pas", a song translated into many languages and interpreted by many international artists.
Brel wrote real poetry and was an extraordinary interpreter, a point of reference for many singers of the 60s.
It is one of his love songs. And none ends well.
j'adore jacque brel is the best ♥
It makes me very happy to see an english person appreciates Jacques Brel and understands how deep he is
Le magnifique Jacques Brel !
He has the most heart felt performance.. obviously it's about his own words made about the scenes he lived with soul and spirit ..
If you don't understand his lyrics, you better learn french, because it sounds as every genuine poetry uttered by the one most impacted by its content.🎉❤😮
Brel is the greatest performer ever.
Je plussoie, et sans artifice, sans danseurs, sans lumières, sans fumée…..juste lui et son incroyable interprétation. Brel perdait plusieurs kilos à chaque concert.
Et encore…..cette version est en playback. Écoutez une version en concert, ça scotche!
Jacques Brel is one of the best french writers of all times. Felix Leclerc was his inspiration. He also helped Barbara. one of the best feminine voice of all french litteratrture.
Jacques Brel is a jackpot definitly a punchline 😂💪🏼
The lyrics in French are more important than the tune itself. It is always theatrical while singing. Jacques Brel finished his life in the Marquises à French dependancy near Tahiti.
Jacques Brel ❤❤👍👍👍
I love this song from brel love the performance also
Ma chanson préférer ( Ces gens la ) je la ces par cœur.
Jay, your taste of art is incredible, unimaginable, behind expectation ❤️❤️❤️
Pour moi la chanson et surtout l'interpretation de brel que je prefere, magistral
Thanks for reacting to Brel
Toujours la chair de poule en écoutant cette chanson
Go into all his repertoire you will laugh and cry but mainly you will kneel in front of him
His song "Amsterdam " was nicely translated in English bye Mort Schuman (Who wrote sonngs for Elvis Presley) and became one of the best from David Bowie. "Ne me quitte pas " was sung by Nina Simone. J.Brel lived in the Maldives islands, piloting his own twin-motor plane to help people for free.
He is the one and only, worth digging into his many songs. And if you want to discover him, you have a long way to go and discover.
Love your reaction...Brel IS the best!!!!! There s no more Brel today....😢
Look "Les vieux" et "Quand on a que l'amour" ❤❤❤
Hello Bro.I'm French and as a French I've to say that your reaction made me very happy.Jacques Brel was a real good singer,dead too young.As you can see in this video,on stage he was an amazing performer,he lived his own songs very intensly.I invite you to found his last record performed a few months before passing away,the title "ORLY" where you can listen to marvellous tracks,above all one of the best song in french (form me) "Les Marquises". In this record J Brel put his last forces and his soul, and the strength of the lyrics combined with a great musical orchestration made an unforgettable result.AMAZING!!!!!! I hope you read me and i send you kindly regards from South France. Soon to listen for a new reaction about french singers ,alot deserving your interest.
Bonjour d'Occitanie (France)
Jacques Brel est un artiste qui vie la chanson, il y a une autre artiste qui était comme cela sur scène Edith Piaf. Peu de mouvements de déplacement, mais tout est dit.
Cette chanson est la représentation de ceux qui ont tout (ou presque) et ceux qui n'ont rien, les deuxièmes ont le rêve les premiers n'ont aucun espoir, rêves (ils sont mort d'une certaine manière)
Thank you Jay! You're a free spirit mind (pardon my english)
Absolutely my pleasure sir!👊
Love it! I recommend you watch and react to his song Jacques Brel - Mathilde You will be blown away! I consider it his best performance or let's say the best performance of a song ever on a live stage!
It is one of his many love songs. And most of them don't end well.
Amazing …. ❤❤
Look "la fadette" "Amsterdam" "ne me quitte pas" 👍👍👍
Magnifique
Brel le magnifique 🙏👍❤️
The boss Jacques Brel !!!
love your reaction :)
Bonjour de la France..oui nos cousins les belges ont de grands artistes ..ds le même genre on n avait Leo ferre...
Bonjour J ai grandit en écoutant tous ces artistes poètes chanteurs comédiens et si vous allez faire un tour dans cette époque vous découvrez des trésors de textes et d interprétation..jacques brel décrit les mœurs de la société de l époque
i think the point was sung from someone that's not living in poverty, dissing poor people, but he's in love with a girl from that same poor family.
The song , LES VIEUX
Did you hear about Johnny Halliday, one of our greatest French rockstar? Born in Belgium! His funerals were national and spectacular in Paris. As a hero! I doubt one Belgian came to his funerals...
It is like a realistic painting. The Vermeer of singing ?
when we're happy we can be excellent, but when we're unhappy sometimes we become divine.....
In this song, Jacques Brel paints a guy who randomly talks to a stranger ("Sir") he has met in a bar, late at night. The stranger is the viewer. He talks about his desperate and failing love with the blonde Frida, who belongs to a very traditional family of Wallony.
He first paints his disdain for this family ("ces gens-là", aka "these people"), and caricatures each main character in that family, all the perceived mediocrity of what seems to be a christian working class or middle class environment. Then (perhaps a bit drunk) he shows his passionate dream of leaving with Frida, but soon, he reminds himself that the Frida's family opposes their union. With that, he says farewell to the stranger and goes home.
5: 34 emotion
French song is often more about stories than Anglo-Saxon song. If you don't know Brassens I recommend it to you. He was a friend of Brel and is considered a poet and singer, musically very inspired by jazz.
Hey there, this song is about a simple employee (in love of Frida) which works in some big house owned by nobility people..
"Ces gens là" : "Thoses people" is about this nobility family seen and described by their employee..
Brel performed in Montreal in 1967. I am astonished a Canadian did not know him.
Most Canadians today were not even born in 1967! ;)
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Dear Canada, Brel was almost unknown in Belgian when he started to make shows in a small cabaret. Just as Brassens, Ferré and others (born in Monaco) at that time... Other artists and actors born in Belgian or from any country from any continents became well-know since they performed in Paris. Just travel in Europe and ask anyone how many artists from abroad succeeded to flourish theit talents and became famous since they crossed the French frontier! In USA there is New York. In Europe here is Paris...
Les vieux . ❤❤
Now you understand how brel is a genius. Try to listen "fernand" an unknown song : incredible
Jamais égaler il ne sera une légende
almost as beautyfull as Amstersam from Jacques Brel
Try the incredible "Les vieux" -- how could he have known all of these things when he died at age 49?
Il nous transporte directement dans un livre de Victor Hugo 😰
lara fabian et jhonny halliday song,,, requiem pour un fou ....epic perfomence
Fernand
Orly
Les vieux
La chanson des vieux amants
La quête
Quand on a que l'amour
Ne me quitte pas
Amsterdam ......................................
أما هذا الفيديو كنت البارح أذكرك كيف كنت تحبني في البداية ورأيت كيف كنت تنظر الي 😮😊
If you want to cry, listen his song "les vieux".......
He’s very well-known in the francophone world. Such a clear, incisive speech and pronounciation.
Powerful, isn’t it ?
Thanks 🙏🏻 for your appreciation.
I’m from Lille (a 1.800.000 inhabitants city, border town in top North of France, half in Belgium, a province named The Flanders where Jacques Brel is actually from.
You should hear him in both versions of “Don’t leave me”, i.e. “Ne me quitte pas” (French) and in his mother-tongue (Flemish/Dutch) “Laat me niet alleen”.
th-cam.com/video/ooxDl31VrKk/w-d-xo.htmlsi=iO4nE4D1wfMrffaW
🙏🥰👍✌️👏👏👏👏👏
Those People
First of all…
First of all, there’s the eldest
He’s a complete pea-brain
He’s got a big nose
And doesn’t even know his name
He’s Mr. Drinks-A-Lot
Or rather, Mr. Always Drunk
He does nothing with his ten fingers
But it’s not like he can anyway
He, who’s totally sloshed
And thinks himself a king
Who gets wasted every night
With cheap, crappy wine
But you’ll find him in the morning
In the sleepy town church
Stiff as an awning
And white as an Easter candle
On top of that, he babbles
And he’s got a lazy eye
I gotta tell ya, sir
That with those people
They don’t think, sir
They don’t think...they pray!
And then there’s the other one
That lousy carrot-top
He’s never even seen a comb
And he’s a vile little worm
Even though he claims
He’d give the shirt off his back
He got married to Denise
A girl from the city
Well, actually from another city
And that’s not all -
He goes and does his little business
With his little hat
And his little coat
And his little car!
He’d like to think he’s a big shot
But he really isn’t at all
You can’t play at being rich
When you haven’t got a dime
I gotta tell ya, sir
That with those people
They don’t live, sir
They don’t live...they cheat!
And then there are the other ones
The mother who says nothing
Either that or total nonsense
From evening until morning
Coming from her “saintly” face
And in a little wooden frame
She’s got Father’s mustache -
He died when he slipped and fell
And she watches as her herd
Gobbles down cold soup
And they make a big SLURP!
And they make a big SLURP!
And then there’s the little old one
Who never stops shaking
And they’re waiting for her to die
Since she’s got all the dough
They don’t even listen
To what her poor hands are telling them
I gotta tell ya, sir
That with those people
They don’t chat, sir
They don’t chat...they count!
And then, and then…
And then there’s Frida!
Who’s as beautiful as the sun!
And she even loves me back!
Oh, how I love Frida!!
We even say to each other a lot
That we’ll have a house
With a bunch of windows
And almost no walls
And we’ll live in it
And it’ll do us good to be there
But it’s not a certainty
It’s still a maybe...
Because the others don’t want that-
Because the others don’t want that!
The others, they keep saying
That she’s too pretty for me!
And that all I’m good for
Is slitting cats’ throats!
I’ve NEVER killed a cat!!
Well, maybe a long time ago…
Or maybe I’ve forgotten…
Or maybe they smelled bad.
In the end, they don’t want that
Sometimes when we see each other
Pretending like they don’t say that on purpose
With her teary eyes
She says she’ll leave them
She says she’ll follow me
And so, for a moment
Only for a moment…
I do believe her, sir!
For a moment…
Only for a moment…
Because with those people
Sir, you can’t leave
You can’t ever leave, sir
You can’t ever leave
Now it’s getting late, sir
I need to go...back home
Il n'est pas facile de traduire Brel en anglais, ainsi que dans une autre langue, et même de le comprendre pour un francophone, car ses textes sont tellement profonds et évocateurs que peu de gens peuvent les saisir à leur juste valeur, mais toi tu as réussi à en faire une qui se rapproche le plus de l'original malgré tout. Bravo Monsieur!
le premier des rapeur francais
On ne s'en va pas Mr. On ne s'en va pas. 😢
Listen Lara Fabian, " je t' aime " in live
Jacques Brel = Génie... Point final. Non : cette chanson est avec "la chanson de Jacky" celle que j'adore le plus.
The only other performer of the same era that I know who could compare with Jacques Brel in terms of stage presence and intensity is James Brown.
The most crazy thing about Brel is he had awful stage fright before getting on stage : he often vomited just before his concerts, but when getting in front of the audience he became possessed.
It s all about Frida :))
welcom in french culture . recommendation .. lara fafian... charles Aznavour....celine dion,,, from quebec 🍁 🍁 canada
It is good idea to discover Brel and other European artists but Brel alone will take some time, more than 80 songs. And there is more than just Brel, there is a whole world, outside the USA.
Please try "Les Vieux" by Jacques Brel, you won't regret it !
C'est un monument Brel
Sa dernière phrase "Il est tard, Monsieur, il faut que j'rentre chez moi"... laisse supposer que sa famille est comme celle de Frida. Chez Frida, on s'en va pas mais chez lui non plus. Nous ne valons peut-être pas mieux que ceux qu'on critique....
You really should watch a video or listen to a song by Eduth piaf, Jacques sang many of her songs, and you missed the important bit, Jacques is not French, he is a Flemish Belgian, look up his song callerd Marieke, and you will understand his background better!
You should listen to Joe Dassin, he was a real legend
Sérieux, joe Dassin c'était d'la variét' à 2 balles
Tu devrais plutôt lui conseiller lara Fabian.
Bonjour de la France..Joe Dassin une légende?? Du talent oui mais c pas comparable ..ds le style Leo Ferre...
@@maryseelie8887 pour moi une vraie légende c'est AZNAVOUR (auteur, compositeur, interprète) .Dans la même catégorie je mettrai gainsbourg et balavoine sinon tous les genres Dassin, sardou, lenormand ou même goldman sont à un niveau inférieur
'Les vieux ' de Jacques Brel
Brel était un homme de scène. il y a une version ou il brille de tout son talent d’interprète:
th-cam.com/video/O6MGGh8WUco/w-d-xo.html
C'est un de ses derniers spectacles.
Merci pour ton regard, et tes commentaires.
Listen to Ne me quitte pas.
This is one of his many love songs. And they all end wrong. Brel.
Thanks you have shared another Brel's song than "Amsterdam" or "Ne me quitte pas" : those who do it just show they don't mind about Brel but make views. It's not enough to be speechless : Brel made tens of great songs of that level. But be carefull, his lyrics are often provocative for politically correct prude ears...
Please react to Leo Ferre "Avec le temps"
Jacques Brel, Léo ferré, Jean Ferrat, Michel Sardou, et bien d autres chanteurs français d une autre époque, les IRREMPLAÇABLES !!!!
Non pas Sardou SVP
Jacques Brel, comme certains des artistes de cette epoque, chantaient avec leurs tripes. Il ne mentait avec ces spectateurs. Bien sur pas d'autotune a l'epoque.
STP fait d'autre reaction de brel.
React to PIERRE BACHELET / Elle est d'ailleurs MERCI
You should watch the same song from a different concert it’s more powerful