Robert Wyatt - Alifib

[zingaradel63]

Thanks, you were very sweet, thanks again

Claudia Sogno

[may8nothing]

incredible beautiful. Where does this video come from? is it part of a documentary about wyatt? is it possible to get the whole recording of this concert? thanks for any hints!

[marensinc]

@hoowster i don't think this is supposed to mean anything really. like romantic love. it is full of nonsense and ridiculous words that mean absolutely nothing. but it is beautiful for a time. and yes. i will be a bitter old maid....

[MrLexeman]

MINDBLOWING!

[maxinar]

This is an absolute gem, thank you very much.

[marensinc]

heartbreak and love

[bobgreen623]

Rock Bottom. Great great album. This performance - beautiful. Thanks for everything Robert

[kresisti]

this is my best song ever.So simple and so power

[ricoverato]

best song ever....BEST SONG EVER...

[MrFeloZep]

<3

[SENSEOFHUMOUR101]

Wow. I'm speechless. That's all I can say. Wow.

[hoowster]

Side two starts with a medley of sorts ("Alifib/Alife"), with Wyatt first singing and then reciting in a disjointed manner lyrics apparently dedicated to Alfreda Benge*, who herself replies with her own vocal retort at the end of "Alifib".

Wyatts wife.....

[furcatherine]

I do not know why this makes me cry :( it is perhaps because it is simply beautiful,XXX.

[jeperrynb]

So Finnegan's Wake...James Joyce.

[psirou]

Even more amazing is that his nose was itching during most of the song but he refrained from ceding to the itch and managed to play the song right with glass shattering emotion.

[54HarryB]

I cannot listen to this. It emotions to much.

harry

[SOLFOROSO]

a joy for ever!!! una bellezza indimenticabile e struggente!!!

[theoos1957]

In 1974 I was 17 years old. My brother bought Rock Bottom. I was sold from that moment! Nowadays I'm still breatless when I listen to it

[Bluesblaster]

Always loved the tune, and the whole album as well.

But...... can anyone tell what the song is about? I can't figure out the lyrics.

Please...

[hoowster]

@Bluesblaster Lyrics to Alifib : Not nit not nit no not Nit nit folly bololey Alifi my larder Alifi my larder I can't forsake you or Forsqueak you Alifi my larder Alifi my larder Confiscate or make you Late you you Alifi my larder Alifi my larder Not nit not nit no not Nit nit folly bololy Burlybunch, the water mole Hellyplop and fingerhole Not a wossit bundy, see ? For jangle and bojangle Trip trip Pip pippy pippy pip pip landerim Alifi my larder Alifi my larder

[TheAnchella]

@hoowster

thanks :)

[Bluesblaster]

@hoowster Thanks for the lyrics. However, I can't really figure out what it's all about, but I agree with furcatherine: this makes me cry because it is simply beautiful.

[gbut]

My god. Thank you Robert (and siroen and utube).

[wernice]

he`s GENIUS

[siroen]

@wildherne Thank you... special for you a poem from Frendano Pessoa:

To be great, be whole; exclude

Nothing, exaggerate nothing that is you.

Be whole in everything. Put all you are

Into the smallest thing you do.

The whole moon gleams in every pool,

It rides so high.

[wildherne]

@siroen thanks for the poem, excellent really real.

[ProfezJeff]

@siroen That's "Fernando" by the way, but you nailed a stunning free-form haiku. Great Zen sense that I didn't know he had. I've translated a few of his from the Portuguese like "Poema Na Linha Reta" and it's a straight line to his suffering heart. Too far ahead of his time.

But thanks so much.

[CoolKodiak]

Apomorphine version...

[bobgreen623]

I can't say more than I love Robert Wyatt, his singing, his music, everything. Thanks Robert

[realityis24fps]

he bares himself completely. an innocent lost in the darkest of woods. in listening to him, we feel cradled and consoled amid the bleakest desolation. sublime.

[samuraiinCfede]

devastatingly beautiful

[copiosaMente]

dio santo. puro disperato genio. dare voce alla disperazione più totale, che non potrebbe essere mai detta a parole, attraverso un testo assurdo e surreale dalle sonorità a momenti ridicole. fkin goOd. pure desperate genius. to give voice to a total despare, which could never be said by words, thrugh a text absurd with sounds sometime ridicule, that right cous of this get more desperate again.

[bloodgy1]

Poor little Alifib trying to draw............

[Mithering]

I will never understand how Robert Wyatt has stayed mostly under the radar. His music has such a strange beauty. The first time I heard Rock Bottom I knew I had stumbled onto something very important.

[FlyingJunk]

@Mithering Surely you didn't expect him to be popular? He's not exactly U2, is he?

[Mithering]

@FlyingJunk "Popular," certainly not. Did any of his songs make it to radio play even in the 70s and 80s? Just the fact that most of his stuff has only this year been re-released on vinyl tells me something. (Thanks, Domino!)

[laulutube]

@FlyingJunk What are ya doing comparing this with 4 so so musicians from Dublin? Are ya daft?

[FlyingJunk]

@laulutube Thank you for your thoughtful question. But I must take exception to your calling U2 so-so musicians. They are the single worst thing that ever happened to rock music (and ever will). It's impossible to imagine a band less talented than U2. But they have millions of fans, because most people have shit for brains. Cheers!

[FlyingJunk]

Rock Bottom is the pinnacle of rock music. Will always be. Thanks for posting!

[notdirty]

so good

[borealineable]

Comment vicre aujourd'hui sans youtube qui nous permet, en quelques clics de découvrir des chefs d'oeuvre et de véritables artistes qu'on aurait jamais connu sans ça! merci

How to live today without youtube who allows us to find such wondeful and great artists we would'nt know otherwise!! thanks youtube

[sergio39046]

intense emotion!!!

[ThorirEy]

I uploaded Poor Little Alfie by Robert Wyatt if anyone is interested :-)

[blitzspeer]

Sorry to everyone who likes this but it sounds like suicide music to put it nicely;pretty awful music here.

[mitzjob]

Robert in a wheelchair, singing one of the most emotional songs ever written ...If you don't have a tear or 2 running down a cheek...U are made of stone...

[intherein]

maybe my favourite love song

[MehefinHeulog]

sublime

still

[humber159]

This takes Robert Wyatt appreciation to a different level.....absolutely brilliant.

[thepaganwain]

wow, really beautiful,

[IoSonoDio1]

<3 <3

[thewordofgord]

siroen, you certainly manage to come up with the goods every time! very impressive!

thanks,

wordofgord

[ShanBeaste]

<3 Robert! Such a soft, intelligent soul.

[tatactic]

In the big picture :

Bmin (B-7)C#7A#dim/C# , A#dim/A#DMAJ7/B (DMaj13)

Any suggestions?

[tatactic]

Amazing voice, amazing lyrics...

[psirou]

@tatactic Is this for piano?

I'd love a simpler (sorry I'm a bit limited) set if chords or guitar.

[tatactic]

@ psirou I tried this voicing on piano but I think it should work on every polyphonic instrument. You may need to adjust the substitutions to make it sound like you want but I think, If you keep the basses... I'm not musician anymore so my opinion is perhaps not the best. Sincerely.

[psirou]

@tatactic thanks, but that was a good start for one. I'll try to dabble with it, though I doubt I can do better than you... :-)

[psirou]

@tatactic for guitar, I mean

[ivrunini]

Super! It reminds so much of my mood when 16...

[freebova]

Omg 3.15 i'm crying!

thx Robert.

[mobyboy]

thats so sad his whole case !

I can hardly see it , though crazy about the music

[cCalamitaSs]

emozionante!!!

[etilcareh]

SU-BLI-ME !!!

[orson964]

welche Österreichische Band hat Akifib gecovert

[whsonic]

Extended Versions.

[ELNITO2009]

sublime, thx for posting such a wonder ! :)

[Marktheoldgit]

An absolute genius! This man is a real hero of mine !

[vtripaldi]

beautifully brilliant from a true artist

[quint555]

this is what they call dadaism

[Rottenhatable]

Oh, god. This is wonderful.

Robert, I can not forsquek you.

[Mager72]

Wonderful!

Every time still send shivers.

[tafyeingodelureau]

FAvorite of my favorite !! For ever

[whiskeynale69]

this song including the whole rock bottom album sends chills down my spine...some extremely intense stuff.

[nigel87alb]

it is amzing how you can understand what he's saying even if you dont know a single word in english....

[yuvshavit]

most of it isn't english anyway...

[Beadbud5000]

What a wonderful talent!@

[0200113963D]

This ain't no music, I mean it's more like a canal through which any kind of medium could have reached us all, the way it actually does in this form. It's pure soul

[andraz89]

he can make the most unconscious music ever...

unbelievable...one of my favorite artist...

[freddybadluck]

Il y a plus de 20 ans, ce disque de Wyatt je l'ai adoré! Alors j'ai commandé le double vinyl avec "ruth is stranger than richard" en 2ème album, mais quand il est arrivé chez le disquaire, j'avais un tangerine dream à la place du "Ruth..". je l'ai renvoyé évidemment et de nouveau pareil, un tangerine dream à la place! Il m'a fallu des années pour avoir "Ruth, etc..."Trop bon ce Alifi!

[TheMitzjob]

One of the true geniuses of the art-rock scene...When he passes this faded vail...Michael Jackson should kiss his ripe balls...

[andraz89]

true

[vtripaldi]

next to peter hammill's "fools mate "

possibly one of the greatest songs ever written

amazing

[Indiemultimedia]

silence!

[okijuhygtfedsa]

grande wyatt...riesci a toccare le corde dell'anima come pochi altri a questo mondo...

[juliangek]

Robert Wyatt, your voice is the best I've ever heard...

Thank you!

[liuzhou]

Beautiful. Thank you.

[deathster77]

Commovente.

[elintrafalario]

...magic¡¡ thank's for posting.

[leraclaudio]

No words to express the emotions. I was fifteen when I listen to Rock Bottom for the first time. I still consider this record one of the best expression of humans

[Putytand]

Wonderful explaination for that very situation.

[nick40nick40]

@leraclaudio no reply

just to thank you for this phrase

[leraclaudio]

@nick40nick40 Thank you! I am 51 years old and during my life I always looked for beatuy. I was lucky, becayuse I found so much beauty in art, music, nature and in the heart of people. Rock bottom was the beginning of this travel. Before R.B. there was nothing of important; after, there were John Coltrane, Steve Reich, Charles Mingus, Dulce Pontes...

Sorry for my poor English.

[podgson]

Pure magic. From one of my all time favorite albums!!!

[Putytand]

THIS IS THE MOST BEAUTIFUL CLIP THAT I HAVE EVER WATCHED ON YOUTUBE, DEAR siroen I WANT TO THANK YOU SO MUCH THIS VIDEO IS A PIECE OF HOLY PLEASURE!

[IceFloeHyoga]

AMÉN!

[theo9952]

definately one of my musical heroes, both, for his musicianship and his amazing, relentless courage.

[Amandinedinedine]

This is just amazing.

[lynus111]

I was born in stoke Madeville hospital at the actual time he was in there after his accident writing part of this album

[mitzjob]

One of the great songwriters ever.

[WrBinITA]

Grandissimo...

[liketheleaf]

MERCI

[andreahwyatt]

Difficult to watch without crying. His singing moves me in a way that no other singer has ever done.

[akyel]

Whats the deal with the balloons?

Either way an unique performance by an unique artist.

[Lokakuunmaa]

This really moves me, excellent

[Eudaimoon]

Intense, harrowing ...

[peetyweety]

so touching, so profound

thanks for posting

in robert we trust

[Pighood]

He had his accident on my tenth birthday.....no shit.

[gaypray]

i just rediscovered this album after nearly 20 years of loosing this music

wyatt is such a blessing

rock bottom is so intense, not much prog rock is as touching as this

[marensinc]

This is one of my favorite Robert Wyatt clips on YouTube. Thank you so much for taking the time to post it. He is so lovely.

[modiglianifan]

The whole album Rock Bottom is fantastic! When it came out I did hear only this record for nearly one Year. And when I hear it now I'm really impressed after all the years!

[alvarovitali87]

la mia canzone preferita!! e bravo robertino!

[VolenSvami]

And you know, what in Russia this composition became an audiotrack to a film on which judges have left from viewing on one of the European film festivals?

[spuffchops70]

He's a one off. Sublime clip, thanks for sharing!

[joeyrider]

thanks for this gem....

[Alexcamado]

Grande wyatt... è un genio...

Great wyatt... he's a genius...

[glnofate]

great

[merymogliano26]

Geniale!

[markridder]

how sad and beautiful... bob I <3 U

[icon057]

wow, thank you for this video...

[aprusso]

Oh madonna

[alambada]

Questa canzone é u capolavoro !!! Struggente

[artmaniac53]

Fine human voice!I'm deeply touched after hearing this song!Thats the way of right singing!

One of my all times favorites!

Thanks for posting this siroen!

[lemonostiftis]

you're so right mate, it's brilliant

[PANOSTAFF]

Thanks!!!!!!!!

[pantomimejazz]

FANTASTIC !!

[zezter]

estremamente bella, extremely beautiful

[carlotta8]

merci ... merci...

[IceFloeHyoga]

Thank you again...

[GuustMimile]

Un grand merci pour cette version superbe.

[IceFloeHyoga]

THANK YOU VERY MUCH!!!

[svennejanson]

Yeeha! Thanks.

[berthy75]

beautiful !

thanks a lot siroen...