La Mer - Django Reinhardt

[MrPajamaNinja]

must. find. sheet. music.

[marbleflat]

Bioshock 1 was a bona fide artwork. It melded influences from across 20th century cultural history. It was a remarkable cooperative achievement by its authors and will be remembered.

IMHO.

[godboy114]

I listen to this while doing my homework. At night and the light is pretty low... Very relaxing. Happy Holidays, noobs. XD

[vader9133]

@godboy114 dude, listening to this song IS my homework xD

I read the book so now i have to write a book report on bioshock, and one of the thins we have to do is find a theme song for the novel...... thanks to the game, I dont have too xDD

[uncharted185]

no homo. this image is going on my tumblr.

[Kaioken20]

@uncharted185 I've posted a direct link to the image in the description box.

[Walczyk]

i really need to practice this song

[onceone96]

Bioshock I love you

[Kaioken20]

A rose by any other name would smell as sweet.

But yeah, okay, I'll change the name!

[kionie1]

I want this song playing at my funeral.......yep.

[Charon58]

I am sure that Django and Stephane were playing Le Mer not Beyond the Sea the later being an english remake of the original (and they being French and all)

[johnpetermalcolm]

@Charon58

Django was born in Belgium, but he did die in France.

[Charon58]

@johnpetermalcolm OK French speaking then and would probably be playing the French and original version of the tune...

[Charon58]

@johnpetermalcolm And Grappeli was French and they were "The Hot Club of France" not "The Hot Club of New Jersey"...

[foah201]

Bioshock's the fucking best

[VatoXXIV]

Where can I find a picture like this for my desktop!?

[Kaioken20]

@VatoXXIV Go to BioShockGame . com > click on US or UK flag (I didn't try others) > click on Visit the website > Skip intro > click on Downloads and you should find it under the Wallpaper section.

[Esus4]

For the original: Charles Trenet LaMer

[IFreakSlide]

Bioshock is an epic adventure<3

[CptShredder1]

this music si not Beyond the sea. This music: Django Reinhardt - La Mer

[fullmetaljaco]

@CptShredder1 its the same tune dude, that' s just the translation

[godzilla13965]

my dogs love this version of the song.

[Iconoclast12100]

Not only does Andrew Ryan look like Walt Disney, but his name looks and sounds like Ayn Rand of which this game is based on her philosophy.

[Nightwish933]

I think that the 40/50/60s were the best times ever. Everyone was so happy and peaceful. You couldn't go one day without smiling or listening to a GREAT song. -3 oldies

[FreakyBoy667]

@Nightwish933 well i dont think so.xD

think of cold war ect. ...

[12bobsmith]

@Nightwish933 Thank you for validating what I have thought for years.

[gmtdiato]

W.T.F. has all this religious stuff got to do with the music?

[Kaioken20]

@gmtdiato I'm glad someone else was finding it annoying too.

[TheMaskedGoth]

@Kaioken20 were is the religious stuff????

[Kaioken20]

@TheMaskedGoth It got Raptured.

[wyrda222]

@gmtdiato music is the food of love, and god is love, so there ya go!

[Sherbrick]

@wyrda222 So basically what you're getting at is that god is food. That's neat but I'm a matter-atarian. That is to say, I only eat things that actually exist

[wyrda222]

@Sherbrick lol no love does exist, and it is the food for beautiful music!

[smokeyman1]

great song in great game

[tealrainbowparade]

@zanrath12345 I agree with you about living in the 50's/60's and listening to this music, but I would never live in a city named Rapture ;)

[spadge1946]

Reinhardt shows us quite clearly that nothing is impossible

taff page

[gladikitten]

This is amazing. I love Django's music!

[S7UP1D17Y]

Bioshock is clearly a milestone in the continuing years of video games. One of the best stories told through games in my opinion. Truly epic

[zanrath12345]

Sometimes I wish That I could Have the chance to live back in the 1950-1960's and live in Rapture Playing this music. Aaahh It would be lovely to do so but Rapture is a Dream and Django Reinhardt Is Only a song But I My Friend Can atleast have the DREAM.

[Rossco602]

bioshock and the music of Django Reinhardt; two of the greatest pieces of art combiend

[merlining]

Anyone know if the violinist is Stephane Grappelli?

[sandiegoryu]

@merlining Yes, it is.

[otskitrash]

Constant chills and goosebumps. Just too lovely. Makes me want to put on an old brown plaid suit sit on a comfortable dusty chair and just listen. Float away into dreams

[Iconoclast12100]

BioShock is a philosophical work of art.

[TheCGAZboy]

@Iconoclast12100 a mixture of fright,thrill,and awesomeness

[davedavedaveannoy1]

@Iconoclast12100 Don't forget social, economic, and political, it is a masterpiece. I patiently await the movie and other possible franchises that will extend from it.

[uWANTaREVOLUTION]

@davedavedaveannoy1 MOVIE!?!?!?!

[davedavedaveannoy1]

@uWANTaREVOLUTION Indeed, they just began production, its due to come out a little after Bioshock Infinite.

[rednecknerd979]

No gods or kings only man.

[x3metallicrose41x]

a couple years ago when bioshock came out i heard this song. at that time i was 9. my family went on a cruise that year and i was constantly singing this song. this old couple heard me singing this song and they asked me where i had heard that song becasue i was young. i told them bioshock and they just looked at me like "wtf did he just say????"

[tuebsday]

like this song reminds me of bioshock every time i hear it [and i do know that is in bioshock so don't think i didn't notice] :]

[TojoPanther]

Listen to the sustain of dJango's guitar between about 2:00 and 2:15. sweet. This is good scotch and comfy couch music - mmm.

[swimfreak6667]

creepy.....

[SonOfjackass94]

today is the 51st anniversery of the new years attack in rapture 1959

[RougePsykerEizak]

@blakegriplingph Nah. 12 IDIOTS don't like this song.

[braders790]

12 people got killed by big daddies for disliking this song

[SailAwayMax]

This song is soo beautiful.. Makes me wonder whats Beyond the Sea 

[khwannapar]

people could know what people doing,just thinking,

for me the love makes me live.

[jonbecker03]

@blakegriplingph it's quite understandable. grapelli's emotional (even maudlin) soloing and the whole "european" ambiance of the piece would seem to go counter to contemporary sensibilities. (the hot club's music was once criticized for being "too modern." now, perhaps, it mght be "not modern enough.") these days django is a acquired taste, though im glad that i acquired it.

[cmuro08]

Happy Birthday Barbara I will love for ever. Just promise to dance with me every time we he hear tis sing

[zandyman96]

This is one of my favorite song of all time.

[CalvinJGreen]

Django Reinhardt and Stephan Grappelli are a timeless duo.

[cbgnt12]

I can play this on the piano with my own epic intro. Back on subject, I'm suprised it wasn't used in BS2. ( In Bioshock, it was playing in the lighthouse if you listened closley).

[Jirkaflt]

Nokia - connecting sisters

[juanjomaster87]

"DEAR RAPTURE CITIZENS, ANDREW RYAN IS ALIVE AGAIN"

RAPTURE MAGAZINE NEWS

[alxparas11]

@godboy114 and you call yourself a godboy, more like a cow ard boy!

[MrJimlc]

very nice song!

[Ownedyouhard]

When I first played the game I stood there and listend to that for about a half hour. So nice.

[TheMONEEMAKER]

@Ownedyouhard ya its the best elevato/sunsetr music ever

[wesm65]

great to see Django reaching a larger audience because of a video game.

[luciusmalfoy1]

game was so good, but so sad : (

[tracker113]

@godboy114 Aye, with Drills!!! and wrenches for the normal humans!

[ColaCocaFan]

To the people who dislike this song, "would you kindly go get stepped on by a Big Daddy"

[llbuono]

i have this on a cassette sumwhere

[busessuck1]

@llbuono hehe, my dad had an extensive collection full of jazz and old pop videos on this mini vhs device that quickly went out of fashion and now they're rotting in some warehouse

...here's hoping youtube's a little more permanent

[llbuono]

@godboy114 its 11 now >=/ *grabs pitchfork and torch*

[TheMONEEMAKER]

best elevator music every



[brouterhoodofsteel]

the good of day's of "x box" ha ha

[TheChillyAcademicIV]

This song is awesome but boy does it give me the creeps D:

[TheBobnalyd]

What can you say. Just out of the box !

[Samsasrenjet]

How eerie this was before taking the leap of faith in the bathysphere.

[arthriticMamm0]

I love love love this rendition..so softly goes the beat of my heart...& the1;39 is good...0:01..to..4:18 is excellent..thank you Kaioken20

[HEYTUBEMAN101]

I less than three this music <3 :)

[zandyman96]

I love this song.

[DjAznInVAZN]

I remember growing up and hearing this song. It always eased me to sleep.

[RioGiovanni]

so soothing

[Aelkamal]

is this track on the Mafia game ?

[blakegriplingph]

@Aelkamal - I don't think so. Minor Swing, maybe, but probably not this one.

[Mavvy58]

A few days ago, I heard this music in a restaurant in a hotel I was staying at. I was like, "Oh my God! Am I in Rapture!?" :P

[TheCapnamerica]

This was the song my husband I walked down the isle to.

[HXCRenegade]

Looking at the related videos, He even strangely looks like Andrew Ryan.

[c3powil]

@HXCRenegade I thought he looked like sander cohen.

[soulleskill]

@HXCRenegade Andrew Ryan Practice this melody in his office

[QuamCelerrime]

@HXCRenegade you just blew my fucking mind

[sparks158]

I gotta say, guys. I wasn't as impressed with Bioshock as everyone else was.

[sparks158]

@sparks158 I mean, I thought the ideas and themes behind it were truly brilliant, I just didnt think they were executed well.

[RioGiovanni]

@sparks158 sounds like my experience with fallout 3

[2ndairborn]

did any one els who played bioshock 2 feel like a farther figure to the little sisters i did i keept hesatating putting them back lol

[Spambot15]

Morality. Science. Psychology. Spiritualism. Faith. Art. totalitarianism. anarchy. absolutism. ambiguity. and one bad-ass fucking score? welcome to the world of bioshock.

[arbiterally101]

@Spambot15 Truly a very sophisticated game when you think about how much philosophy and themes that are present.

Of course an epic score really was the cherry on top for that game.

[rikusoreos]

Most unique game I ever played

[tjerked]

this shows that even big scary diver suit people like children

[wizardgreybeard]

Stephane Grappelli on violin if i remember rightly. Oh the memories of my dad come flooding back listening to Django!! Timeless and sublime!!

[TheUDonald]

Hmm, makes me think of a sinking ship...?

[folkkksss]

i really love this song!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[oryandymackie95]

Man, I love BioShock. I also think Django Reinhart's music should have been put in Fallout 3.

[folkkksss]

@oryandymackie95 hey.. thats exactly what a was thinking last night!!! lol... i love this song!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[oryandymackie95]

So much Django Reinhardt - so little space.

[wopdjawd]

Did Django write this or is this a cover?

[Wildy1357]

@wopdjawd As far as I'm aware it's a cover. The song was written by Charles Trenet in 1943 but he only recorded it in '46. From what I understand Django recorded this version in '49.

[deadtofall666]

@wopdjawd this is a cover the original is french and is called "la mer" french for "the sea" i belive and it was written by a fellow name Charles Trénet

[Medyshel]

Great Django! And great game too!

[AManDefined]

great song....great game...nothing more to say

[gfirefrosting]

Reminds me of "A Life Less Ordinary"

[Poodleinacan]

haha, like that music.

[theslaking2]

is this a soundtrack forom bioshock? were can i get bioshock??????????????????

[MOCoutinho]

@theslaking2

I believ you can still get it at Amazon.

[theslaking2]

@MOCoutinho ok thank you

[forrestcadamsch]

Wow.

[LTmattYT]

this is fucking beautiful

[davedavedaveannoy1]

Rapture. No gods or kings, only man, how great it would be. A beauiful utopia under the ocean. Signifigant advances in science, art, industry and architecture. What a dream huh? The glorious statues and banners and this song playing as you stroll in through the enterance elevator. "creativity, unity, beauty, understanding, intelligence, strength, wonder" the words that describe the wonderful city under the sea.

[paoksis345]

me too this foto is good

[tonystarkar8]

isnt this playing on the first level when you enter the lighthouse to go to the blasmephere

that picture is also in the ps3 box dunno about the xbox

[LuckyLuci13]

such an interesting song, whenever I hear it I always think of that first scene when your walking down the steps of the lighthouse to the bathysphere

[panbread89]

oh man, i have been looking for this song, I kept wondering if the great Django would ever get to do this song, so I have been looking for it, thank you man for posting this song. The picture and the music go together perfectly.

[ragingtears007]

i love that picture so much ^-^

it reminds me of Micheal Angelo's painting on the Sistine ceiling

:D SO Pretty

[Kaioken20]

@ragingtears007 That's pretty much why I chose it :) Glad you liked it.

[Berserk100]

@Kaioken20 i wonder if, it was meant to be that. that scene is a important scene and art expression was part of rapture

[munyasz92]

bioshock picture :)

[BurntHamster2]

@ragingtears007 You do know what the hand on the left is attached to, don't you?

[ragingtears007]

@BurntHamster2 of course i know silly!! lol you think i didnt play the game?? i love big daddies even though they beat the crap outta ya lol

[ColonelSmoke]

@ragingtears007 Nice reference there, mate ! Now that you said it, the connection with Adam (gifted by God on the painting) is even more obvious !

[M364M4Ncro]

yea and its SOO cute when u see the little hand :)

[hadamroc]

@ragingtears007 You realize that Michelangelo is just his first name right?

[ragingtears007]

@hadamroc sorry im not that intelligent ^^; i just assumed it was his full name lol but thats a reallllllly old comment from months ago.

[haji770]

@ragingtears007 execpt its not man and god its little girl and big daddy xD

[colorado4815162342]

@ragingtears007 mmrm. This is probably the painting that Andrew Ryan was thinking of when he Said the he did not believe in "an imaginary man in the sky".... I do not know how you should like this painting. If you were an atheist, I would think you would despise it as it is irrational. If you were a Christian I would think you would despise it because of its violation of the second commandment.

[ragingtears007]

@colorado4815162342 Ehhh I don't care much for religion. Too many rules not enough proof, y'know? I like it because of how precious it is. The one thing you hate throughout the entire game is none other than a babysitter for this demonic child, but here it makes it seem so sweet, especially with the music. It gives you the feeling of security and that's what I like best, even if it is symbolic of an imaginary man in the sky. I'm just a kid though so this probably really isn't too logical haha.

[colorado4815162342]

@ragingtears007 Christianity is not "religious" in the modern sense of the word. Christianity has the evidence of scripture and the physical universe; as opposed to mystical traditions that seek the immolation of its adherents.

[robs104]

@colorado4815162342 How is scripture evidence? It's a book written by regular people, it's not written by god or even jesus. Where is your proof that the universe was created by some being? If you had rock solid proof there would be no non-believers. Christianity is just a hodgepodge of other religions cobbled together. Christianity may not seek immolation, but it has sought stoning and other nice things like that. And don't give me the faith BS, that's just a cop-out.

[colorado4815162342]

@robs104, You assert the idea that the Bible was written by ordinary people. You assert the premise that Christianity is a hodgepodge of religions. You assume that there is nothing more than this world. If you assume that there is nothing other than this world, and if you are reasoning logically, you must conclude that all religion is false, and that the world is meaningless. This creates a new problem: having a world in the first place, if no creator existed to create it.

[robs104]

@colorado4815162342 I do not assume that there is nothing other than this world. In all likelihood there are, in the vastness of even the known universe (we know very little), probably other planets with intelligent life on them, possibly hundreds of other planets with such life. I have come to the conclusion that all religions (I know of) are false and ultimately I agree that our world is meaningless. We are less than a speck of dust, and while I enjoy existing, it doesn't really matter.

[colorado4815162342]

Thank you, @robs104, I used the term "world" to represent the universe, I will avoid this in the future. Bearing this correction in mind, consider why you disparaged my beliefs about life, the universe, and everything, if you are comfortable with your belief that the universe is meaningless. Why bear the cost of divulging a completely useless and trite assertion about the universe onto the Internet for no benefit?

[robs104]

@colorado4815162342 The only reason I commented in the first place is the, and I'm sorry, absolute ridiculousness of your "Christianity is not 'religious'" post. I was a practicing catholic for 14 years and even then I would have back hand slapped you for that post. :)

[dyingromeo]

@robs104 if this is all there is, and if this one life is all we get, then it makes every little thing matter all the more. Conversely, if we were all immortal, THEN nothing would matter.

[RodFitzpatrick]

@colorado4815162342

Hey mate :)

Are you a SDA Sabbath keeper ?

[colorado4815162342]

@RodFitzpatrick No, are you?

[kayXtam]

I close my eyes and see RAPTURE

i want to kill those child abusing splicers again!

[JimmyDeLocke]

Hey you gamesters -- check out the Reinhardt tune, "Belleville" -- you'll recognize it if you've ever played  'Mafia"

[MrNorthPaw]

bon bon

[gruulam]

Hey fatcat what do you think you are?? a king of rapture??? parasite...

[bluesjaye]

Hi Folks, If you like this song, rent the movie 'Funny Bones.' There's something very 'French' about it. You'll like it if you like this music. Jay

[inktvip93]

Never thought the music Django Reinhardt was in the game.

Cool =D

[madeliinneee]

if a guy played this song for me I'd fall in love.. hahaha

[cluelesschild77]

really takes you back makes you want to be there and be able to watch the performance first hand.

[Silrodir]

la merr 4ever

[Darigeax]

Yep, and if you don't like it well it seems you have found yourself at the corner of fuck and off. So fuck off.

[rlneesam]

A comment typical of the pre-pubescent morons who habitually infect the planet with their excremental utterings. Lacking even elementary morés and a fundamental grasp of the English language they seek to offend but then that's all they are capable of.

[yakkovsmirnov]

great song

[morello64]

beyond the sea is only the english version of this song, because those americans don't know that ther are many other languages on this world. they also believ to be the invetor of the pizza :-)

django for ever

[Po0pmail]

@morello64 ; thumbs up at your comment

[seriousbusiness47]

@morello64 Yeah, I hate Americans almost as much as I hate who think all people of a particular nationality are stupid based on absolutely no evidence whatsoever.

[seriousbusiness47]

@seriousbusiness47 Ah, there should be a "those" between "hate" and "who."

[gipcambero]

"La Mer", not "beyond the Sea"

[ReticentArc]

it is based on La Mer by Charles Trenet, but this is Django Reinhardt.

[gipcambero]

I didn't say it was Charles Trenet, it is just that when Beyond the sea was made, Django Reinhardt was already dead

[Jarle256]

@gipcambero La mer is made in 1943 Django died 1953 and btw you can hear is Django

[gipcambero]

That 's what I was saying, it is based on La Mer and Not the cover "Beyond the Sea"

[Jarle256]

sorry i misunderstand

[odraconiandevil79]

Sweet.

[Vaxter500]

1- Google images, Django Reinhardt

2- Google images, Andrew Ryan

3-??????

4- PROFIT!

(I just O_O when i saw it)

[su79nioj]

Google images 'Django Gypsy Legend'

[wyteboi28]

@Vaxter500 i think Sander Cohen looks more like Django

[Bennanteno]

@wyteboi28 Reminds me more of Alexander Gil

[teo2712]

damn i think the same...

[jackstein104]

i love this song, its cheerful and relaxing but at the same time its kind of fucking creepy lol