Klaus Nomi_The Cold Song (live)

[rbailey1able]

Klaus was so before his time. We lost so many wonderful talent to AIDS. What this man might have done with his career and for us all had he lived. May he rest in peace!

[artistinstinct]

incredible documentary on this incredibly genuine artistic man that took his audience into a place of artistic awe and "reval"................."he came from outter space!"

Young VOCALISTS take note and leave the homgenization factory!

[quaxk]

we are nothing, memento mori

[destijldelarte]

Shocking!

Timeless! I love him

[eddie1kanobi]

@MrUnidyne when i read your comment i cried and i don't cry often

[loveincoporated]

What power art thou, who from below

Hast made me rise unwillingly and slow

From beds of everlasting snow

See’st thou not how stiff and wondrous old

Far unfit to bear the bitter cold,

I can scarcely move or draw my breath

Let me, let me freeze again to death.

[Engelnox1]

Beautiful !!!

[puppi1974]

senzationell :))))

[Knastus257]

Why is the top comment about religion? He is singing in the name of Chuck Norris.

[archimedesnation]

Let me, let me,

Let me, let me,

Freeze again...

Let me, let me,

Freeze again to death!

RIP you tortured soul. I hope it is warm up there.

[Zimx02]

@archimedesnation It's very warm in hell.

[lewiatana]

Absolutely....... ;} ...&....

[lewiatana]

Absolutely........& :

[hibernatus]

Wow, he was so incredible...

RIP

[rehpotsirc]

I just found out about Klaus Nomi, and i wished i did not for i feel a great hole in my heart for knowing the world had someone like this only to lose him way before he was finished with his work. I am so so sad now.....

[MrGranousty]

une immense émotion, trente ans après!

I get "goose bimples"...

RIP Klaus...

[VanzellcKirk]

"[Nomi's] gaunt face and sunken eyes reveal the suffering of a dying man. However, at the moment Nomi sings the word “death”, his eyes widen, suddenly infused with vitality and defiance. Through sheer will, Nomi wrestles with the note, refusing to let it defeat him. At the end of this feat, the slight and dignified upward inflection of Nomi’s head indicates to the viewer that he has won."

[Tupwap]

genial!

[videolecce]

Please! Can anyone tell me the year and the location of this performing? Thank you very much!

[deranderebistdu]

was haette dieser wunderbarer mensch-musikalisch noch erschaffen koennen-schade musste er so frueh sterben.

ruhe in frieden-nomi

[DUSTINISMS1]

love it. It is so frigid and real. way to cool.

[VanzellcKirk]

klausnomicoldgenius.blogspot.c­om/

[rethertine]

Weird crap.

[antiochus66]

@rethertine

go die die die..go freeee eeeeze to deaatthhth you you you dolt dolt dolt.

[karmadhyana]

His performance was brilliant, and yet he was quite sick at this time. Not shortly after this appearance, he left us here to freeze to death.

[bozron]

I you want to see and learn more about Klaus check out the documentary THE NOMI SONG on DVD. He was one of a kind.

[tantu7]

extraordinary!!!!

[GGiblet]

LYRICS:

What power art thou

Who from below

Hast made me rise

Unwillingly and slow

From beds of everlasting snow

[GGiblet]

See'st thou not how stiff

And wondrous old

Far unfit to bear the bitter cold

I can scarcely move

Or draw my breath

I can scarcely move

Or draw my breath

[GGiblet]

Let me, let me,

Let me freeze again

Let me, let me

Freeze again to death

Let me, let me, let me

Freeze again to death...

[miladoveeyes1125]

29 People have been left out in the cold

[VanzellcKirk]

I found this video to be so captivating that I wrote a research paper for college finals about Klaus Nomi's life, music, and his last stage performance.

[memikeme100]

I'm not sure why I have a strange obsession with this Nomi video, but I beleive it may have something with the music and vocals which stammer like a person who is truely freezing / suffering, combinded with the fact that Klaus knew AIDS was a death sentence, it's very poignant.

[ALittleBitFrench]

he died like 2 weeks later.....

[LiquidSoapMusic]

@ALittleBitFrench not two weeks, a few months.

[NoumaiosDeLaCampa]

Merci MONSIEUR! Now, Angels are singing with you in paradise, forever and ever!...

[gonrolgonrol]

Presence, technique, talent

Music

[thorshammer1348]

@ ferdinandsouz ,you must the SNL AGAIN,BEST PERFORMANCE,PLEASE POST AGAIN

[thorshammer1348]

I can never get enough of this performance

[monochromo81]

most wonderful

[LittleFatherTime]

Purcell, Dryden and Nomi. Superb, I weep.

[tigrowdelanight]

je ne suis pas un amateur d'opera mais klaus nomi est tout bonnement exceptionnel

[Elberiver11]

This is amazing!!!!! What a voice, what a performance!!!!

[tonester09]

@Elberiver11 Looks like he could do with getting under a sunbed for an hour or two.

[MOGHARRofValhalla]

@tonester09 that's probably the aids

[janbalk1962]

Fantastique

[bumbumthebum]

ach klaus, das du wie ich in dem kleinen immenstadt in bayern gelebt . it reminds me in the performance of freddie mercury in "i am going slighltly mad"...

[TheLydiaR]

A great artist. 

[thorshammer1348]

A TRUE ARTIST,BRILLIANT, RIP KLAUS ,,

[guerrero1994]

BRAVO KLAUS

YOU STILL # 1..d((♥_♥))b

[synthy29]

 Magnifique,sublime.

[MyFonceca]

SUPERRRRRRR!!!!!!

[Vivzid]

This is so dark and beautiful at the same time. I wish i could have been his friend

[MrUnidyne]

It truly hurts to watch this. His performance is of incredible beauty and majesty, yet he was horribly ill and dying from AIDS and still giving his full measure in this performance. Just two months later, he would leave this mortal coil. Truly, if there is a Heaven, he is teaching the angels how to sing.

[raszputyin]

@MrUnidyne Very well written. He was a genious.

[Lidia57]

@MrUnidyne Absolutely!

[franbino]

@ObamaWasBornlnKenya

Obvious troll is obvious. I win. You loose. Now go and think about your life.

[64804jonjon]

@MrUnidyne Well said sir

[createallow3126]

What a champ! His lower register is very handsome and warm sounding.

[faistonpossible]

Magnifique Klaus Nomi, éblouissant jusqu'à la fin... Version live "outstanding". Je suis soufflé après avoir visionné ce clip. Beau souvenir d'un personnage inclassable des années 80. MERCI.

[Emorkia]

He died of AIDS 2 months later. :'(

[BazofiaDuplicada]

¡Magnifico!

[eliasduparc]

It's very tough to see this... Very tough... But what a beauty ! 

[SumSayYez]

its kind of hard to enjoy the performance, when at the same time you feel bad knowing the serious physical pains he would be going through you can obviously tell hes giving his all

[Feeder38]

когда я смотрел это видео в мою комнату зашел батя и сказал что нормальные пацаны такое не катируют теперь вот ходит и смеется

[Setigr]

wondrous old,

far unfit to bear the bitter cold

[queenandi]

OMG!!! Memories. Back in those days I had his album. GREAT!!!!!!!

[mizyama]

機械で声まで作ってしまう今、この映像は、衝撃的です。早くに亡­くなられて、本当に残念です。もっと、もっと聴きたいアーティス­ト。大好きです。

[personagirl82]

@mizyama はい、マシンの声がラジオを支配する。しかし、音楽を愛する人た­ちは私たちの心の本当の音楽は生き続けるだろう。

[docko84]

sketchy

[Feeder38]

he was genius. r.i.p from russia klaus.

[isaacwn]

A brilliant performance of a dying man.

[1g0g]

бред какой-то

[Middlesexful]

david bowie used his 24 accounts to dislike this video :) great, klaus, great. i love it

[tomopdecomputer]

If that was standing next to me I would run away

[ixlnxs]

@tomopdecomputer I think that was the role he played. Opera is both singing and acting you know

[bckm54]

@tomopdecomputer you running away would improve the standing of any place you left.

[SunSerenity]

This is my first meeting with Klaus Nomi and I'm already in love. This song has such intensity, so much emotion and is so tearful and icy... You know he's singing right from his heart and soul... It's not everyday you can see and hear something like this. Incredibely beautiful and haunting, once-in-a-lifetime performance. Best Cold song ever!

[myloveispuke]

@SunSerenity that fool died of aids right after this yo.

[SunSerenity]

@myloveispuke Yes, I knew that.

[noramachado]

@SunSerenity

check Edson Cordeiro's version. It has less Purcelian "trebble" and more soul

[SunSerenity]

@noramachado Thanks, I checked it and was very impressed and like both the versions. Only with Klaus I can almost feel the ice stabs... Anyway, both are unique and beautiful in their own way.

[videovixen71]

@SunSerenity Unbelievably said!!!

[SunSerenity]

@videovixen71 Oh, thanks:)

[J0shRR]

@SunSerenity This was performed as he was dying from AIDS. It's actually pretty sad :(

[SunSerenity]

@J0shRR I knew that, but thanks. And I agree, it makes the performance unbelievably intenense and sad.

[mrfish1961]

@SunSerenity oh , u´re allready in love with him - yep , right words and his dead came to early . . .

[Gorubahn]

All of us are dying. Klaus was just more aware than the rest of us. What a voice, man.

[videovixen71]

@Gorubahn Yess.... he truly was from another world...!!! Here to show us the way....

[MiaoPurrington]

@Gorubahn Klaus Nomi was the perfect man.

[Retrographer]

Absolutely astonishing!. Even if you compare to my contemporary favourite Andreas Scholl. Klaus Nomi had a razor clear voice and an outstanding and very rare talent. He chose his own way outside the established classical world, which just maybe is the core of his legacy. He could have been the greatest countertenor in our time, but he chose just to let us know that he where in fact that, and went on with so many other projects which he found important. This calls for our deep respect....

[natassjadoom]

Brilliant! Genius. Avantgarde. And as for AnnaLavandula's comment about him not being recognized by everyone, i don't think everything great shoud be, especially something absolutely beyond. Also it wouldn't be fair to him to achieve popularity posthumously. Those who are supposed to hear and appreciate him, will.

Best regards from Croatia!

May Klaus rest in his everlasting snow:)

[planetrockford]

That took courage.

[51516]

Good grief, that's beyond awe and awesome and all that aught to be in between!

[JorgeDan75]

So emotional!! Pure soul exposed

[centexboiz]

True genius. The man was an artiste on many fronts and a visionary. It would be fascinating to see what he would have created, had his death not been so untimely.

[denis774]

Un personnage plus grand que nature.  Je l'ai écouté la première fois en 1977 et je le revisite de temps à autre. Faut se remettre à l'époque des années 70 pour comprendre tout l'effet qu'il a eu dans le milieu musical. Un inclassable.

Powefull est le mot juste.

Denis

[crazyboutthatmercury]

POWERFUL!



[Pyrrha108]

Extraordinary ! Intense and beautiful.

[MrJivePirate]

He was amazing.

[captainbimble]

Such a complex man.Yet in his percieved on stage madness he could sing like this!

What a voice.

[bakunin555]

When was this performance, and where?

[alonemusic]

@bakunin555 At München (Germany) in 1980

[lenejaV]

This is the first song I heard of Nomi, so I've been quite disappointed not finding his other work so impressive... As I understand, he's true love was opera, so he should just mix arias with his disturbing stage persona and that would certainly bring him masses of fans over time- but who knows what he would do if he only had time! That's exactly what runs through my mind when I watch him performing- our time is so limited....

[UraniainarU]

unglaublich gut und gänsehautfeeling!

[chrisgigi67]

Il y a des personnes qui ne manquent pas à leur contemporains, Klaus NOMI est de ceux qui manqueront assurément...à jamais.

[22himmel1]

meine verehrung

[1dolphingrl]

Amazing vocalist...saw a special on TV about him on several stations..gone too soon. He was truly a very talented man.

[planetevenus]

Cet homme avait une voix Fabuleuse. Il possédait une étendue vocale assez impressionnante. Il voulait mélanger les genres le classique et le moderne. Il avait réussi en quelque sorte. Il était un peu chez lui sur scène mais c'était différent dans les coulisses. Il s'était inventé un personnage pour être autre chose que lui-même. Il disait que sa tête faisait peur aux gens et il ne comprenait pas pourquoi (fataliste). MAGNIFIQUE LIVE. Il doit chanter pour les anges maintenant. BEAU MERCI MERCI.

[JupiterOil]

at the time, aids was not understood, he was one of the earliest people of note to die from it. he had a rare voice, musically speaking he was a modal countertenor, which is something that almost never happens. i think his death was sad, but not a tragedy, he left those of us who appreciate him with a body of work we should all just enjoy for what it is.

[kakibeat]

.......beautiful. It can be expressed only as perfect beauty.

[gsusitto]

why, why a person like Klaus had to die? this life isn´t fair. When he sang this, he maybe was so ill, his breath was difficult, but he was on the stage like a complet artist.

[vandewap0]

It is tremendous difficult to hold the original tempo which is a bit more fast than what Klaus Nomi does. Then, imagine the slower tempo held in his performance, it's even more hard... and you got to be good for doing that - incredible !!

[Katoushe]

I'm totally froooooozen ... Love that incredible song/voice/man/... Everything !

[nikighyslaine]

Klaus Nomi is the man of multiculture, bravo

[communicator9]

Outstanding, to cringe

[oweioweh]

Outstanding, one of the best performers of this song!

[1THEcoolestLOSER1]

Death has manifested through this dying mans voice to grant him the gift of an outstanding and incredible performance before taking his final breaths

[suscoll]

Astonishing power in this performance and an extraordinary stage presence. Out of this world and quite unique, it seamlessly melds the music of the 17th century and the avant garde of the 1980s. I am totally mesmerised.

[EUSL84]

And now imagine if he had sang the song "death" that would be very very touching.

[pompomgirl2]

fxxx Google, displaying ads for used car dealers on the back of an artist famous for his performance while being aware of dying.

Hey controllers, are you going to delete this comment ?

[joebpw209]

He shouldn't go to NY, where he caught the disease without a chance of knowing it

[sanctainquisitio]

This is was one of the few times in history that you could sense the greatness of tragedy going on in that exact moment, and not only later when he passed away.

[zaporogue]

purcell was a genius also ... ! pur genius ! what an amazing music !

[Stoertebekerxxx]

i saw him in german TV at first with "Total Eclips" from the first time i loved his voice and his strange look. Life is not fair. Maybe Good loved him also so much, so he take him to heaven so early. i love you Klaus.

[rafzamjim]

Wunderhübsch einfühlung!!!

[bernyqueen]

nobody in the rock world can surpass this not even freddie mercury and i am a hugh fan of him

[KingsPowerSteel]

been watching this now at least 10 times in a row.

[samueldenantes]

un des plus grand artistes! une grande perte pour le monde musicale! quel voix! depuis tout petit j'adore!

[fabiowolf69]

Amazing Klaus!



[gutacampos]

tudo de bom!

[samueldenantes]

quel voix a chaque fois j'en ai des frisson! quel grand artiste il a été! et quel perte pour la musique!

[samueldenantes]

quel voix a chaque fois j'en ai des frisson! quel grand artiste il a été! et quel perte pour la musique!

[ahor65]

what is this from?

is there a dvd of this or something?

[limerick321]

klaus nomi was dying of aids when he gave this performance.It gives an added abeit unwanted poignancy to his performance.

[EUSL84]

@limerick321 wow and i was wondering why he sounded slightly slower in this performance... may he rest in peace.

[cleofida1]

@limerick321 One does not die from aids, one dies BECAUSE of aids.

[juggalojack13]

@limerick321 It certainly. A very powerful, but very depressing one at that.

[boblee666]

@limerick321 i was wondering why he sounded so feminine guess aid explains all. broke back.

[2010nanetta]

This is the best version of the cold song I ever heard! Great!!!

[jobe147]

does anyone know when exactly and where this performance was given? pleeeaasse :)

[Barbapippo]

a really impressive performance of this wonderful aria

[anemone9]

For those who don't know, this is his farewell performance. He was very well aware that he was dying from AIDS, but the audience had no idea that anything was wrong.

A performance with that kind of back story is what you'd expect to exist only in a musical about show business. But here, it happened in real life.

[MrTomMasterVideos]

R.I.P. n so bro

[waldonbuddy]

How well known was Klaus is Gernany?

[SteliosT777]

@waldonbuddy Almost unknow.

[waldonbuddy]

You know after such a powerful performance I almost expect the heavens open up, and Klaus just ascend into the sky.

What a moving song, sang by an incredible musician.

[mucfan]

@waldonbuddy sitting in front of you tube listening - too you to experienced it live - I am german - and knowing we are awiful as history tells us - but we have (had) great artists

[missmarypickford]

I love you Klaus

[appollomsassy]

LOVE KLAUS! 

[skyboyq]

Lyrics to Cold Song : What Power art thou, Who from below, Hast made me rise, Unwillingly and slow, From beds of everlasting snow! See'st thou not how stiff, And wondrous old, Far unfit to bear the bitter cold. I can scarcely move, Or draw my breath, I can scarcely move, Or draw my breath. Let me, let me, Let me, let me, Freeze again... Let me, let me, Freeze again to death!

[whiterabbitpress]

What Power art thou, who from below

Hast made me rise unwillingly and slow

From beds of everlasting snow?

See'st thou not how stiff and wondrous old

Far unfit to bear the bitter cold,

I can scarcely move or draw my breath?

Let me, let me, let me freeze again to death

[douloureusement]

@whiterabbitpress hübsch!!

[57pascalou]

His voice is fabulous !!! This song is a masterpiece !!!

[Chibilein]

What happens at 3:39 when he stops to sing? Mistake? Angry at Orchestra? Intended?

[mistermig]

@Chibilein : It's the song, he didn't make any error or inference.

[cartadiva]

@Chibilein nothing happens at 3:39.

[Chibilein]

@cartadiva Well at 3:40 to be precize. Maybe he takes a deep breath, whatever.

[VashTheWaterbender]

@Chibilein I think it was intentional, because he does it in the studio recorded version too.

[sanctainquisitio]

@Chibilein the aria is composed that way.

[lackyeric]

"wer diesen Gesang live erlebt hat, musste unvermeidlich weinen"

[didirocksagain]

@lackyeric das musst ich auch so

[artistinstinct]

The commentary of an artist through their art is an effective signature of the process in which they make and why.

This piece of entertainment should serve as notice to those who wish to become the greatest they believe themselves to be.

May an audience be present when you shall make and create a feeling as powerful as this.

[NE889955]

18 dislikes?? are you people mad????

[fredo1169]

Excellent .......