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  • great song, great scene, great movie

  • Brilliant version of Neil Young's song by Annie Lennox

    que la jeune fille qui t' aime et toi a toujours aimé

    ne pas t' envoyer une carte de la Saint-Valentin

    mon petit cœur est brisé à nouveau x

  • superbly blessed vocalist and performer. thanks lord.

  • YES, YES, YES: I found it.

  • one of the best covers ever

  • beautiful voice for a beautiful women,love this song and Annie

  • Está preciosa, lindo el mensaje. Pero en la peli se pone enun momento sensual y de todos modos queda perfecta

  • This cover always makes me think of American Beauty.... Love that film!

  • Perfection!

  • @F1superfanantic Surely in music, of all things, analysing this in the "most objective way possible" is the worst way to go about doing things? Maybe you should take up a career in the hard sciences instead.

  • @F1superfanantic It is almost a fugue- Neil probably loved it!

  • neil set the bar too high.

  • "Annie Lennox is awsome"

  • It is hard to discribe the gut wrenching pain this song brings to me. It's deep pain that's irresistable. It is the essence of it's forty year popularity and a contributing factor to the success of this incredible movie. It's about the fleeting nature of life, and the darkness of sad tragedy. Why does life and love have to hurt so much??? Reach out to someone who is sad, and lonely. You may save their life and your own.

  • @geezerdombroadcast You cannot save anyone. If we humans have any meaning at all it is to show the pointlessness of existance. All that we can be, even if we could become such a being, is meaningless. Except in the eyes of our own meaningless existance. We are the joke of the uninverse. Laugh if you can. But the wise cry for the stupidity of our being

  • The translation is off. The lyric is "river of sight", not "see the river"

  • american beauty baby

    

  • simply love her and her music. love eurythmics.

  • Jakoś mało Komentarzy w stylu. O ja Pie... Albo Kur... Spoko.... MOŻE BYĆ PIOSNKA ;)

  • Plays in the backround while Kevin Spacey talks with Mena Suvari and tells her you couldnt be boring if you tried, perfect for that scene, brilliant movie

  • legal.... pena que as vezes a voz dela reverbera. mas o so é muito bala!!!!!

  • This is good , but I think it was their second choice to wanting Massive Attack- Teardrop, but was declined by Massive Attack (who apparently regretted it).

  • @energeez teardrop on american beauty? almost doesn't seem to fit. i guess if used in the proper scene it would work. but yea i would regret it too

  • thank you so much.you are great.so I looked for this song.thank you :)

  • Lisa stansfield

  • never heard this b4, it's awesome!! as is Neil's, check out Manfred Mann's version, he is he Master of re-makes!

  • neil ha a guy i cant stand to love

    i know it's me tho grin

    heard a snippet of this track just now on dennis miller's radio show

    just checking in dug miller since 'gus saw a woodchuck' on letterman

    but his war jones is offputting so now just check in occasionally

    man im so thankful i did cuz annie lennox takes this thing to whole 'nother place the synth melody line is a melancholy kiss

    t/y for the share ... & peace

  • If only this wasn't a remake, she probably would have won an Oscar for this before Into the West.

  • Dieses Lied ist wunderschön!!!

  • Im a dude, i will admit this movie touched me, and it still does everytime i watch it, in a way no other movie have, it's so real... definitly deserve the awards it's gotten, and in my opinion it should viewed as a legendary film, because of the comfort it can give to a depressed human, loads of creds go to Thomas Newman obviously.

  • Annie Lennox's voice is heaven!

  • Just saw the film again recently and was reminded that I had the soundtrack! What a great song!

  • Sooo what if she covered this, do you here this lovely voice? I can see Neil young just smiling at how beautiful it is, it just goes to show you she appreciates older music, nothing wrong with that, she is a gem as they were:)

  • Neil Young > Annie Lennox

  • i love annie, but it's almost like she phoned this one in

  • simply love-ly.........

  • American Beauty's one of my favorite movies and i'm a big admirer of Annie Lennox.....but i as good as this version is, i still prefer Neil Young's original.

  • @PAULFC93 hard to top neil's singing imo. I think he's sorta like dylan in the sense that you love his voice or hate it, but i've never seen a cover of his songs that were better than the original. this is ok though, definitely wasn't unpleased listenin' to it

  • Neil Young's version is not a version. It's the original. He wrote the thing, and recorded it when he was with Crosby, Stills, and Nash. And if you really want the best "version" of it. There's a live recording of just him in '71 from Massey Hall. Though I must agree this version is lovely, and Annie Lennox is totally amazing.

  • Neil Young's version is not a version. It's the original. He wrote the thing, and recorded it when he was with Crosby, Stills, and Nash. And if you really want the best "version" of it. There's a live recording of just him in '71 from Massey Hall.

  • @chefe9 It's on his solo album.

  • The music was in the movie, but it was not in either of the two movie soundtracks that came out.

    And the RIAA wonders why people pirate everything.

  • Don't let the dislikes bring you down...

  • i dont get it, this isnt american beauty......is it?????

  • @doublebassmaster It's the song that Angela puts on the stereo after the fight with Jane, when she & Lester kiss. Not long before the end.

  • Annie is awesome

  • I loved Neil's version but Annie makes it pretty and hypnotic.....great song

  • A Wonderful Universal Song. It made me understand how important an interpreter is.

    Superb arrangement. During the movie it touched me deeply.

    Thank You, Annie Lennox. Thank You, Neil Young.

    Thank You for post.

  • that was definitely one a of the most beautiful scenes in cinematic history

  • good but doesnt quite match original though

  • I am HUGE Neil Young fan; in fact, he & Joe Walsh helped me get thru the rollercoaster days of high school from 73-76'. When I heard Annie's vrsion wtchng, "American Beauty", in tht poignant scene w/ Spacey, the girl, & the torrent of rain coming down, it sent chills thru me. Shld've been nmnted 4 Oscar-Best Song in Film - tht year. Pains me 2 say but she makes lyrics sound more profound & production of song exceeds that of original.

  • @3244gorilla: The academy only nominates original songs or songs that are written specifically for a film. This song, as you know, is a cover and this cover was released 5 years before 'American Beauty' came out. Therefore, it was not eligible to be nominated for an oscar.

  • Did she say, "Cold wind ripping down the VALLEY at dawn"?!

    WTF?

    I HATE it when people cover songs and then fuck up the lyrics -- which they COULD HAVE LOOKED UP before recording the cover.

  • @peacefuljeffrey Really? It's a great cover, who gives a shit if isn't entirely accurate? Find something more important to worry about...like just about anything else in this world.

  • @peacefuljeffrey WTH is wrong with those lyrics? I like them, come up to Montana and maybe you'll get those words, no actually I take that back don;t come!

  • @peacefuljeffrey

    You don't sound THAT peaceful Jeffrey. Bob Dylan varies his lyrics nearly every time he performs...what a fuck nut, can't even do his own songs right....

  • @Mersault1988 LOL

  • I experienced my own 'American Beauty' while this was playing. She was not underaged mind you.

  • just finished watching american beauty and i need to have sex while playing this song :o

  • "Its only castles burning"...i love how she sings that...

  • And thank you to Neil Young, too, for writing such a great song.

  • What a beautiful voice this woman has. Annie Lennox is a real gift to music.

  • want a sip?

  • This woman could sing the phone book and sound good.

  • @Gladman HAHAHAHAHAHAHA

  • They put that 'Wall Of Sound' thing on this recording. She does an excellent job on this cover!

  • Is this song about 9/11?

  • @glimmer2158 use your head it was released before 9/11 ...

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  • Takes nothing away from the brilliance of Neil, it's just a reinterpretation. Her live versions have a lot more vocal punch than the studio release did, and you have to admit that she has a great voice. Personally I think the Lennox version has a more finished quality and the key changes are a better fit.

  • this song was perfect for the scene!

  • oh, and american beauty one of greatest movies

  • of course neil's is superior, but it's no reason it can't be reinterpreted when due credit is given. don't let it bring you down guys

  • American Beauty is one of the greatest movies, so is Neil Young. This cover isn't bad, but idk how anyone could ruin such a well written song.

  • so nice

  • wow those synths sound terrible

  • 0 people were brought down.

  • this film was epic but kevin spacey made it that little bit better :D

  • LOve this song...no one can do it better than Annie

  • @DBARRY1008 except Neil

  • Will they make a sequel starring a brunette in white roses? :) would be so funny!

  • Spec-tacular!

  • when i first heard this song, i wanted to cry. i love it!

  • Beautiful beautiful voice very atmospheric, wonderful version of Neil Young song

  • one of my favorite movies of all time and this song is so deep

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  • This fucking scene was perfect.

  • @bigbonedandfey best scene i've have ever seen!

  • @Nistje00 definitely!!

  • @mermaidd0lly gutted lol

  • Fan...tastic!

  • because i think your sexy

  • I Love American Beauty. I wanna make love to a 19 year old girl. in A good way.

  • "I want you. You are the most beautiful thing I have ever seen."

  • "A heavenly delicious melody..." Perfect description. Love this song.

  • ooohhhh me gusta!!!

  • Absoultly love this song introduced to it in 7-8th grade and have been listening to it ever since (young)

  • this song is so pretty

  • A heavenly delicious melody with a succulent satisfying tone sure to mellow your mind while melting your soul to the harmonic rhythm beating the true tune of life. Enjoy when you need to retreat from the psychotic melody that paints the moments that have crept into our reality since 9/11 then be sure to play it again.

  • @bbtel Are you a poet or songwriter? Because if you're not, you should be.

  • @christoJihad2

    Mellow journies mend jolted minds and help unwind despair. I take that trip and journey here when I am desperate for repair.... hope you do too b b tel

  • @bbtel oh man oh man oh man those words of yours capture it

    i thank you really while trying not to envy your gift w/ words

    a true artist's interpretation of another's creation and then your words

    frame both like a picture perfect

    bravo ... and

    thank you

  • excelente song. excelente movie

  • Aparte de que es un peliculón tiene algunas canciones muy buenas. Un ejemplo de ellas, ésta. Gracias por subtitularla =)

  • this fit so perfectly in the movie...

  • Young is still the best

  • ♥ iiit.

  • absloutely love this song.........

  • cadavez k escucho a esta cancion ,siempre yo lloro

  • el piano con Michael Nyman es buena, te la recomiendo si no la has visto

  • es una de mis favorita

  • american beauty. beautiful film. beautiful song.

  • @waIIflower muy buena me gusta mucho esta cancion

  • @donjonagil y la película?

  • @waIIflower affirmative

  • @waIIflower

    about life ...... sad life ...

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