I am quite certain that M. Wilson will never read this...but for all of you who come after this...I heard this song in 1964 by the Louis Bailly Singers, then I learned it was M. Brel who wrote it. 1974 was the year it received acclaim thanks to Terry Jacks in America. Such a song of joy and sadness shall not pass this way again in my lifetime, so all you young ones who find it, please appreciate the effort here. I thank you all...
No offence but this is waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay better than Terry Jacks version Terry is an asshole because he never wanted to promote his version and that is why Terry is a one hit wonder
probably bootlegged, I hear it was recorded for the Add Some Music sessions in 1969, but was cut out from the the lineup for Sunflower in 1970. It sure is Carl on lead, so Brian was probably not that involved.
This is a very strange version of this song. Why would ANYBODY do an upbeat version? It is so weird. It is like the Beach Boys are almost doing a hymn of triumph that this guy is dying. Why are they doing it in this upbeat style? I know this IS their style, but it's not the appropriate style for THIS song -- about a man who is dying, and who is introspecting about it very seriously and even sadly. I like Terry Jacks' version much better. I'm glad the Beach Boys didn't release this version.
This is a very strange version of this song. Why would ANYBODY do an upbeat version? It is so weird. It is like the Beach Boys are almost doing a hymn of triumph that this guy is dying. Why are they doing it in this upbeat style? I know this IS their style, but it's not the appropriate style for THIS song -- about a man who is dying, and who is introspecting about it very seriously and even sadly. I like Terry Jacks' version much better. I'm glad the Beach Boys didn't release this version.
@imkrissy As you have probably gathered by reading the other comments, this is a cover of a 1961 song by Jacques Brel. Brel's original WAS a happy and upbeat song, and in his chorus he said that he wanted people to sing and dance and laugh while he was being put 6 feet under. Also the verse about his wife cheating on him is there and is much harsher and more sarcastic than in all the covers. Terry Jacks made a "sweet" version in order to appeal to radio programmint at the time.
@imkrissy My trusted friend means the quote from George Bernard Shaw -- Animals are my friends and I don't eat my friends. The song is upbeat because in time travel, Earth belongs to the animals again. Humans are gone because they ate animals and treated them cruelly in circuses, rodeos and zoos. Joaquin Phoenix and Julian Lennon explain this in their movies Earthlings and Whaledreamers. That's why the song says We, not me. Michelle means hermit crabs who live in shells. Little Surfer Girl.
Terry Jacks was the man behind the booth with Brian. Terry left cause Brian was wacked out. He then made his version. Surprisingly Capitol has yet to release this
Just saying... Terry jacks one was the best, this one was really good... Kurt Cobain sounded unhappy and drunk. So honestly, I'm not surprised but disappointed Nirvana's cover got more views :/
@Dys1970@Dys1970 the beach boys version is actually older than the terry jacks version, the original is by jacques brel and you are right, originals are usually better
@wetlipse3 The Beach Boys version was older than Terry Jacks, but was never released. After the origianal by Jacques Brel was released, the Terry Jacks was released. I don't believe the Beach Boys was ever released by Capitol Records.
@imkrissy yes sir, but Dvs1970 was refering to the beach boys version as a cover of terry jacks, even if it was never released (i dont think it was released either) is not a cover of him
@jeffster111made Dude shut the fuck up. This is the 2nd video i've seen u bitching on about how u think Kurt Cobains version sucked, We get it u have horrible fucking taste and before u say his version sucked Just Know that its not a Real cover it was just a practice song . they weren't going to go all studio and shit and put it on an album or play it live, They Played it to warm up a bit Before they actually jammed. so Just shut the fuck up for everyones sake and stop wasting our fucking Time,
@RHCPandNIRVANA FUCK OFF YOU DOUCHE BAG!YOU SUCK JUST AS MUCH AS THIS SONG!!WHY DONT YOU DO THE THE WORLD A FAVOR AS YOUR BOY KURT DID AND KILL YOURSELF!!HE KNEW HIS MUSIC SUCKED SO HE TRIED TO COPY SOMEONE ELSES AND STILL SUCKED!!
Interesting version... with the cheating wife part. God I hate aging, I watch the pix and am totally dumbfounded to remember which member of the band drowned.
What an irony that Brel died few years after the released of the song he wrote. ANd he died at the peak of his career as if also like in the song, everybody's happy living their own lives not knowing that some is dying.. This song is very sad showing that you know, we may die but the world is big and it is going to turn and everybody will go on with their lives without you. Makes you feel kind of small in this big world and unimportant. Arghh..
This is a song from 61.MCcuen/Brel composion.The Beach Boys recorded this song in 1970,and Terry Jacks version came out in 74.Thats it.Regards to all Beach Boys fans.
Nirvana's was much better, i think they protrated the song in a better way. This makes the song song so happy and cheerful, but there singing about the past and how much fun they had.
@dirtytrainers nah mate completely uncalled for. Not big and not clever. You completely ruined the point you were making. Really nice or something similar was perfectly appropriate...You know that St Kurt is watching and heres you every time you swear
These pictures are a real surprise - never seen before. Who is the guy on the right at 1:05. Forgot. They definitely look like California dudes. Unmistakeable.
I personally like the Nirvana cover a lot better. Only because it is played so poorly. In fact that was the point when they played it. It's a depraved, melancholy, lack luster broken machine of a cover. People are fighting over two completely different aesthetics that are equally subjective and to me equally as good. Anything that is a sound, can be music when applied or listened to "correctly". It's called stepping into someone else's shoes. Or adaptive perspective.
@CircuitSurreal Jeez...did you spend alot of time in uni learning them big words?
Fair play if thats what you need to do to feel good about yourself but dont you think youd enjoy life more if you got out a bit more and enjoyed music for what it is rather than needing to put so much thought and effort into enjoying it?
@crwbano You have seriously misinterpreted what I was saying. And There is no need for me to explain myself, because it's youtube. I just think it's sad that the words I used, are considered "big" to you. You are one hell of a troll. Good luck, and thanks for playing.
@crwbano Please explain further, as to how I am a slacker. I would love to hear it, as you already have me laughing pretty damn hard. Also maybe you should look up the word depraved, 'cause it seems as though you haven't yet. Keep in mind there is more than one definition. I am really only curious as to why you felt the need to be an asshole, because nothing I said was threatening. being an asshole like being angry are products of fear. Vietnam... LOL!
¨HOW CAN U EVEN COMPARE THAT CRAP TO THE REAL DEAL...MAN I THINK U THINK THE SUN SHINES OUT OF HIS HOLE...WELL NEWS FLASH....IT DONT..HE WAS JUST A GUY WITH HUGE OPINIONS AND HAD THE CHANCE TO TELL HIS SAD STORYS TROUGH HIS MUSIC...SIMPLE AS..MAYBE IF HE WAS SO GREAT THEN HE COULD HAVE LIVED OUT HIS LIFE LIKE THE REST OF US MUST DO...GOOD OR BAD..THATS LIFE..AT LEAST I WONT BE TAKING A EASY EXIT...
@fincentin You should try getting extremely addicted to heroin and then maybe you could speak. Also suicide is not taking the easy way out. We are our own gods only we decide whether we should live or die. You make yourself sound a little envious that you haven't done the same.
@CircuitSurreal Jeezus fella you should try listening to yourself!!! What is it about being addicted to heroin that makes someone so special? Talking as someone who has been there and occasionally slips back I can tell you that you are talking shit bruv...it doesnt make you special and while a habit aint no picnic it aint that difficult to get out of it if you want to...millions of junkies are getting hooked/quitting/dying all the time...a habit doesnt make them special
@CircuitSurreal Oh and by the way as someone who has been through it and is still battling other demons/mental health issues etc while bringing up a child, I say that "St Kurt" was a selfish egotistical prick who took the easy way out abandoning a baby daughter bringing up a kid is tough. granted he was a great lyricist who managed to express his pain in a way that spoke for many of us but lets not make out that suicide and drug addiction made him somehow special...
@CircuitSurreal ...celebrate the music but leave all the bullshit that goes with the cult of "St Kurt" behind and live your own life instead of letting dead heroes get your kicks for you...do you think Mr Cobain would have wasted his time doing that? Get out and get a life bro...lifes to short...enjoy it
many thanks, Mr Helloforyou, for all the informations; I'm Belgian actually, and not aware of all the details regarding the english or american versions of the song !
I just listened to Nirvana's version of this song and while I was doing so my 12 year old came in and said " I don't know who that is but they can't sing or play" Nirvana did some terrific stuff but this isn't one of them. Nirvana defenders, please note the "terrific stuff" part! :)
this is originally a french song ("Le Moribond") written and sung by the belgian singer Jacques Brel in the early sixties. Terry Jacks was the first to cover it in english in 1974; this version is very similar (with the vibrato guitar) and the Nirvana cover came MUCH later.
"Seasons in the Sun" was a worldwide hit song for Terry Jacks in 1974. It was first released in the United States and Canada early in the year, and rose to number one in America by March 2. An earlier recording appeared on The Kingston Trio's 1963 album, Time to Think. The song had also been done by English band The Fortunes in 1968, and by Pearls Before Swine in 1970/71.
Terry Jacks, who had participated in the Beach Boys recording, and who had in fact introduced the song to the group, rewrote part of the lyrics to "lighten them up." Jacks' revisions tended to add a bit of ambiguity as to the nature of the storyteller's demise, allowing listeners the option to choose whether the death is from suicide over a failed life - quite possibly to escape drug addiction - or someone accepting death from natural causes, or cancer.
@charliehenryrufus Are you implying that the Beach Boys, who were formed thirty years before Nirvana, ripped Nirvana off? Even if the Nirvana version was released first, this wouldn't be a ripoff - both the BB's and Nirvana covered the Terry Jacks version, which was itself a cover of the Jaques Brel version.
@charliehenryrufus What? I was just stating facts. Everything I said is absolutely true. I seriously doubt that pointing out that Nirvana was formed after the Beach Boys and that Seasons in the Sun was originally written by Jaques Brel is an "insult" to Kurt.
@DoGeeseSeeGod24 You sacreligious bastard how dare you insult the memory of St. Kurt. Jackques Brel was an infidel who recorded this song with the sole purpose of insulting our blessed St and Martyr Kurt H Cobain and not only that but he also stole the lyrics from him and sneakily translated them into French...The freedom hating, cheese munching Frog bastard
@crwbano thank you for agreing with my initial premeyes. unless your being sarcastic in which case just stfu and stop insulting kurt. your not cool - words cannot express how much of a wanker we all think you are. shut up. bitch.
@charliehenryrufus Why dont you go on to a Kurt Cobain tribute page where you can mingle with your own miserable kind...what the fuck are people banging on about and getting upset about St Kurt on a beach boys page for...and using a word like Wanker Id assume you're from the British Isles so why do you lower youreslf to using the word bitch in such a United Statesian manner...typical MTV geneation with no imagination
@crwbano how about you improve you'r gramar first. dont need's a apostrophe. so doe's beach boys and id .you also spelled generation wrong. how about you look at this page and realise that is defaced with your stupid comments. not so smart now huh?
@charliehenryrufus Who the fuck made Kurt a saint and said we cant insult him. You sound like one of those religious fanatics who kill people for saying bad things about Muhammad
Terry Jack's "Seasons in the Sun" used to a favorite of mine when I was a child in the early 70s. But as I got to be an adult the whinny notes in the song began to grate on me. I really LOVE this version, it's gritter while keeping the overall tone of the somg. Like the fact that the BB are sticking more to the poet's original words. Best version of this song.
terry jacks had to so call/ clean this song up/ for am radio. how times change!, the fortunes should be the ones with the gold record, not the poppy family
@unholychunk neither, actually. The original song was Le Moribond by french singer Jacques Brel, which was later translated into english by a poet. I think the Beach Boys covered it first, then Terry Jacks covered it (and changed some of the lyrics)
Much as I love Nirvana c'mon be objective here their version is shite...I'm sure if someone unearths a recording of St Kurt taking a shit there will be people on here swearing blind its musical genius...
I agree the original is definately the best...like the man below has already mentioned Le Moribund by Monsieur Jacques Brel. Go seek out the original people
@crwbano The original is most definitely best, but I actually like the Nirvana version because of how it sounds-- not because it was Nirvana, or Kurt singing or anything like that.
I think the pitchy tune, the rough scratchy voice adds a new emotional element. As much as I agree that the Terry Jacks, the original (Jacques Brel), and this version is most definitely more polished and still has emotion, I dunno, there's something about the Nirvana version that resonates with me.
there are some songs that can have that effect on me, god only knows by the beach boys (especially the 67 hawaii rehearsal version), in my life by the beatles, yesterday also by then, john prines day is done has a great feel (thanks to my name is earl i know that one), Paul McCartneys Here Today (written for John in 81), Lennons Beautiful Boy is also beautiful, Lennons Mother, also Julia from the beatles white album, written for his mommy.
so many great songs which have the hearty feeling.
@charliehenryrufus I'm gonna insult him some more. The guy was a selfish prick taking his life when he had a baby daughter to take care of. Yeah the guy wrote some great songs while ripping off the Pixies and Sonic Youth but the cult of St Kurt is ridiculous and the people who justify his actions "well you try having a heroin addiction" and lecture about how depressed he was, how much pain he was in...fuck off!!! Get real and get a life...
@crwbano well - i think you're a pathetic excuse for a man. insulting a dead man is a new low, making claims about him when he is unable to defend himself is equally pathetic. kurt was not only a musical genius but an idol for a disillusioned generation. he did not ripoff the pixies or sonic youth - every band has inspiration. don't try to make light of his heroin addiction you sad, sublunary twit. please don't patronise me or him. grow up.
@charliehenryrufus Christ will you listen to yourself...speaking ill of the dead? So none of us can criticise the cult of St Kurt now cos he topped himself? Get real fella...so Kurt never spoke ill of the dead then? Never criticised anyone who didnt deserve it? Oh sorry I forgot he'd been beatified and was beyond criticism...Im going to patronise you here because you so obviously need patronizing...you speak as if you were part of the generation that was around when Nirvana...
@crwbano actually i was part of the generation that witnessed nirvana. i was born in early 1993. so thier. dum troll. you try to patronize me but you spell patronise rong
@charliehenryrufus Oh right so you'd have been a year old when St.Kurt blew his brains all over Iggy Pops The Idiot-thats fuckin criminal that by the way-you must have been deeply affected by his death...more likely your parents were though...or were they a bit older and Guns'n'Roses fans? Jesus how can you take it so personally when someone criticises someone in your parents record collection...thats like me getting upset if someone calls Mick Jagger or Jim Morrison a wanker...get a life pal
@charliehenryrufus ...were actually together as a band and releasing music...if you were then you will be around my age and if thats so then the fact that you still have such a strong obsession and are still taking criticism of St Kurt so personally is very worrying...you need to grow up...start a family and then think how selfish it is to take your own life when you have your offspring depending on you for support...if as you sound you are a teenager then I apologise its a sensitive phase...
@charliehenryrufus ...you are going through that you should eventually grow out of as you mature...as for heroin addiction I can tel by the way you write that you have absolutely no idea of what you speak and hope that you never will but your belief that heroin addiction is a subject that is so sacred I have no right to make light of is quite frankly ridiculous and yes I speak as someone who having relevant personal experience knows exactly of what I speak...I just dont think it is anything...
@charliehenryrufus ...that makes me a hero or in someway special, and if I took life so seriously that I couldnt make light of experience like that I would probably get right back on the brown stuff...dont let your hearoes get your kicks for you...you have a life....get out there take hold of it and enjoy it and stop wallowing in Kurts misery.
The original song is called Le moribond from Jacques Brel. Doesn't matter if it's covered, that's only a bands interpretation. It stays a beautiful song.
I am quite certain that M. Wilson will never read this...but for all of you who come after this...I heard this song in 1964 by the Louis Bailly Singers, then I learned it was M. Brel who wrote it. 1974 was the year it received acclaim thanks to Terry Jacks in America. Such a song of joy and sadness shall not pass this way again in my lifetime, so all you young ones who find it, please appreciate the effort here. I thank you all...
Elfridabeetle 5 days ago
Wow I did'nt know they recorded this song!
TomorowIsALongTime 1 month ago
No offence but this is waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay better than Terry Jacks version Terry is an asshole because he never wanted to promote his version and that is why Terry is a one hit wonder
coolsweetgroovy 1 month ago
This is a classic. Personally i like the version that was sung in one episode of the Millenium TV-series.
Jyrki1964 1 month ago
this is not bad cover, but Only Terry Jacks version is good.
P.s.: Kurt and his version sucks
Vencermos 1 month ago
The Beach Boys supposedly never released their version of "Seasons In The Sun". How did you get this?
TheChevycummins 1 month ago
@TheChevycummins
probably bootlegged, I hear it was recorded for the Add Some Music sessions in 1969, but was cut out from the the lineup for Sunflower in 1970. It sure is Carl on lead, so Brian was probably not that involved.
alexandertarangerkin 1 month ago
This was actually recorded in 1970, before Terry's version.
jvcthome 1 month ago
Kurt sucks
Vencermos 1 month ago
@Vencermos you suck
ashi33babi33 1 month ago
westlife sings it better
RoseGarden1994 2 months ago
Terry Jacks version is better
1952Telecaster 2 months ago
No question this is a superior vocal, but the production and arrangement on the Terry Jacks hit version is better.
charlyW34 2 months ago
this is probably my favorite version of this song.
MrJonesstones 2 months ago
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This is a very strange version of this song. Why would ANYBODY do an upbeat version? It is so weird. It is like the Beach Boys are almost doing a hymn of triumph that this guy is dying. Why are they doing it in this upbeat style? I know this IS their style, but it's not the appropriate style for THIS song -- about a man who is dying, and who is introspecting about it very seriously and even sadly. I like Terry Jacks' version much better. I'm glad the Beach Boys didn't release this version.
imkrissy 4 months ago
This is a very strange version of this song. Why would ANYBODY do an upbeat version? It is so weird. It is like the Beach Boys are almost doing a hymn of triumph that this guy is dying. Why are they doing it in this upbeat style? I know this IS their style, but it's not the appropriate style for THIS song -- about a man who is dying, and who is introspecting about it very seriously and even sadly. I like Terry Jacks' version much better. I'm glad the Beach Boys didn't release this version.
imkrissy 4 months ago
@imkrissy As you have probably gathered by reading the other comments, this is a cover of a 1961 song by Jacques Brel. Brel's original WAS a happy and upbeat song, and in his chorus he said that he wanted people to sing and dance and laugh while he was being put 6 feet under. Also the verse about his wife cheating on him is there and is much harsher and more sarcastic than in all the covers. Terry Jacks made a "sweet" version in order to appeal to radio programmint at the time.
Ugo1970 3 months ago
@Ugo1970
I think a have video material back in 60's french riviera when people went free and some english and french bands/singers made name of themselves.
Jyrki1964 2 months ago
@imkrissy it's really not much faster than the famous version.
pianobillf 3 months ago
@imkrissy My trusted friend means the quote from George Bernard Shaw -- Animals are my friends and I don't eat my friends. The song is upbeat because in time travel, Earth belongs to the animals again. Humans are gone because they ate animals and treated them cruelly in circuses, rodeos and zoos. Joaquin Phoenix and Julian Lennon explain this in their movies Earthlings and Whaledreamers. That's why the song says We, not me. Michelle means hermit crabs who live in shells. Little Surfer Girl.
redfordforpresident 3 months ago
o kurt fez uma versão muito melhor que esta
TheLucascobain 4 months ago
wow, i didn't know that the beach boys did this cover, thanks for uploading =)
willydihar 4 months ago
Terry Jacks was the man behind the booth with Brian. Terry left cause Brian was wacked out. He then made his version. Surprisingly Capitol has yet to release this
capitolemiproducer 4 months ago
blister rust version is alot better
HCGit 4 months ago
great band... bad cover...
tommieparch 4 months ago
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We had joy
we had fun
sticking fingers in our bum
But the pain was to strong
cause our fingers were too long
DarkWolf77 5 months ago
Just saying... Terry jacks one was the best, this one was really good... Kurt Cobain sounded unhappy and drunk. So honestly, I'm not surprised but disappointed Nirvana's cover got more views :/
Millyana30 5 months ago
I've listened to about every cover of this tune...and nope....Terry Jacks version is the best.... originals usually are
Dys1970 5 months ago
@Dys1970 @Dys1970 the beach boys version is actually older than the terry jacks version, the original is by jacques brel and you are right, originals are usually better
wetlipse3 5 months ago 2
@wetlipse3 The Beach Boys version was older than Terry Jacks, but was never released. After the origianal by Jacques Brel was released, the Terry Jacks was released. I don't believe the Beach Boys was ever released by Capitol Records.
imkrissy 4 months ago
@imkrissy yes sir, but Dvs1970 was refering to the beach boys version as a cover of terry jacks, even if it was never released (i dont think it was released either) is not a cover of him
wetlipse3 4 months ago
@imkrissy - I ran into a version of the original Jacques Brel cover by the Kingston trio. it follows the original
Piquet3wc 3 months ago
@Dys1970 terry jacks was not the original artist.
johnrunion 5 months ago
my braces hurt
iplaywow1123 6 months ago
Yes I know from 1961. However you can't call it a translation. The original
lyrics are about a man who's gonna die and his wife has constantly been
unfaithfull with many lovers all around. Such lyrics were unimaginable for
American society and it was changed into a pretty song with unharmful
lyrics.
atletico45 6 months ago
This really isn't a cover. The song was offered to the Beach Boys before Terry
Jacks version. They refused to record it then because they didn't think it
would be a hit. That's the real story
atletico45 6 months ago
@atletico45 except that it's a cover of a jacques brel song that was translated into english.
romannosejob 6 months ago
This was good, Kurt's cover was better! JS
masterofstuff75 6 months ago
@masterofstuff75 FUCK NO!!KURTS SUCKED BIG TIME!!
jeffster111made 5 months ago
@jeffster111made no need to ALL CAPS RAGE, its just your taste in music, and i prefer Kurt's cover. I don't really give a damn what you think
masterofstuff75 5 months ago
@jeffster111made Dude shut the fuck up. This is the 2nd video i've seen u bitching on about how u think Kurt Cobains version sucked, We get it u have horrible fucking taste and before u say his version sucked Just Know that its not a Real cover it was just a practice song . they weren't going to go all studio and shit and put it on an album or play it live, They Played it to warm up a bit Before they actually jammed. so Just shut the fuck up for everyones sake and stop wasting our fucking Time,
RHCPandNIRVANA 5 months ago
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@RHCPandNIRVANA and you stop wasting MY time, faggot...get a life!
colorwheel777 5 months ago
@RHCPandNIRVANA FUCK OFF YOU DOUCHE BAG!YOU SUCK JUST AS MUCH AS THIS SONG!!WHY DONT YOU DO THE THE WORLD A FAVOR AS YOUR BOY KURT DID AND KILL YOURSELF!!HE KNEW HIS MUSIC SUCKED SO HE TRIED TO COPY SOMEONE ELSES AND STILL SUCKED!!
jeffster111made 4 months ago
@jeffster111made yea kurts version was way better this version is soooo cheesy. kurts the man and makes everything better =)
Blink41ColdRomance 4 months ago
@jeffster111made Jesus, dude. You know that not only is this a cover, but it's actually a very old Belgian song.
GilbertSmith 4 months ago
@jeffster111made I agree with you Sir. Finally someone speaks the truth!!!
MrGeorgios2020 4 months ago
@masterofstuff75 Agreed!
XcarryonlittlebuddaX 3 months ago
@XcarryonlittlebuddaX Thank you! There are reasonable in this world!
masterofstuff75 3 months ago
@masterofstuff75 Nirvana's rendition of this song was a liberal disaster, plain and simple.
MrBEB123 2 months ago
@MrBEB123 I wouldn't call it a liberal disaster. Its a warm up that they decided to record because they dont give a damn.
masterofstuff75 2 months ago
@MrBEB123
I agree. I like Nirvana, but their version was a disaster.
Jyrki1964 2 months ago
@Jyrki1964 thats what i like about their version, i think that it adds something to the song
ashi33babi33 1 month ago
@masterofstuff75 B.S.
horaldo11 1 month ago
Love this version and I really like the pictures you used =)
kinskifreak2011 6 months ago
The cheating wife part is in the original, please check "le morribond" (sp) by Brel try finding the one with english subtitles, its a VERY dark song.
skaro1963 6 months ago
Interesting version... with the cheating wife part. God I hate aging, I watch the pix and am totally dumbfounded to remember which member of the band drowned.
bravo723 6 months ago
The original version of this song was written by Jacques Brel, a famous belgian singer.
LaxatifJoe 6 months ago 21
@LaxatifJoe Belgium, oh I love my country :D
BoexDexKoe 1 month ago
Terry Jack wrote the arrangement he recorded, not the song itself. Kinda like Paul Anka and I did it my way.
catnyte 6 months ago
and Terry Jacks claimed to have written it. Sad.
lundehund44 6 months ago
i like better terry jaks origenal of corse
iammatteonino 7 months ago
@iammatteonino Not so... see as jansj1958 said below
bent8rover 6 months ago
@iammatteonino Terry Jacks was in on the Beach Boys version. he then did his years later
bravo723 6 months ago
we had fun we had cum we did soup kitchen with the bums. goodbye kaka its hard to shit
MrTwinbarrel 7 months ago
@MrTwinbarrel shut up mongrol
flippyflyer 7 months ago
great cover
shanehenning26 7 months ago
The Fortunes covered it in '68.
beefoneeto 7 months ago
The Kingston Trio did it first in '63.
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Svitlo37 7 months ago
i like the beach boys,
but the cover are also sooo fucking great!
look the red hot chilli peppers - i get around (my favorite)
and nirvana - seasons in the sun
GREAT!
RHCPMetallicatube 7 months ago
What an irony that Brel died few years after the released of the song he wrote. ANd he died at the peak of his career as if also like in the song, everybody's happy living their own lives not knowing that some is dying.. This song is very sad showing that you know, we may die but the world is big and it is going to turn and everybody will go on with their lives without you. Makes you feel kind of small in this big world and unimportant. Arghh..
3sha214 7 months ago
This is a song from 61.MCcuen/Brel composion.The Beach Boys recorded this song in 1970,and Terry Jacks version came out in 74.Thats it.Regards to all Beach Boys fans.
jansj1958 7 months ago
Who sang this first, terry jacks or beach boys... sorry if thats a really dumb question im only 21!
hellomynameismercy 7 months ago
Nirvana 's version is better becose it is actually funny when you listen to it drunk and this version is jus too serious but hey its the oryginal
F1brother 7 months ago
Nirvana's was much better, i think they protrated the song in a better way. This makes the song song so happy and cheerful, but there singing about the past and how much fun they had.
SKITTLESQUADFTW 8 months ago
shamefully,i hadnt heard this. is this the original? its great
MrCol1969 8 months ago
I think it was Magica de Spell who drove poor Brian into madness :)
lotusmountain2 8 months ago
Snark and sarcasm. The mark of the ITG.
ageofsagittarius 8 months ago
c'est magnifique Jacques Brel!!!
batulefou 8 months ago
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Maurice30437 8 months ago
One of my all time favoirts
wendelmassey 8 months ago
@wendelmassey You dont get out much do you
crwbano 8 months ago
it's an amazing song so I love all three versions, but if I had to choose one I'd choose nirvanas to be honest
Slacker46 8 months ago
@Slacker46 Thats cos you've got know taste and are too lazy to learn any other language but English...United Statesian are you?
crwbano 8 months ago
@crwbano and you cant even spell you fuckwit its no not know...Taffy are you? Only a Welsh boyo would spell so attrociously. Wanker
crwbano 8 months ago
@crwbano greek
Slacker46 8 months ago
@Slacker46 Thats cos you're a deluded, brainwashed MTV generation stooge completely lacking in any taste whatsoever
crwbano 8 months ago
these dudes were great, really!
jaakriaj 8 months ago
@jaakriaj nah Dennis was the only one with any talent
crwbano 8 months ago
fucking amazing - sometimes profanity is allowed
dirtytrainers 8 months ago
@dirtytrainers nah mate completely uncalled for. Not big and not clever. You completely ruined the point you were making. Really nice or something similar was perfectly appropriate...You know that St Kurt is watching and heres you every time you swear
crwbano 8 months ago
These pictures are a real surprise - never seen before. Who is the guy on the right at 1:05. Forgot. They definitely look like California dudes. Unmistakeable.
johnvh123 9 months ago
I personally like the Nirvana cover a lot better. Only because it is played so poorly. In fact that was the point when they played it. It's a depraved, melancholy, lack luster broken machine of a cover. People are fighting over two completely different aesthetics that are equally subjective and to me equally as good. Anything that is a sound, can be music when applied or listened to "correctly". It's called stepping into someone else's shoes. Or adaptive perspective.
CircuitSurreal 9 months ago
@CircuitSurreal Jeez...did you spend alot of time in uni learning them big words?
Fair play if thats what you need to do to feel good about yourself but dont you think youd enjoy life more if you got out a bit more and enjoyed music for what it is rather than needing to put so much thought and effort into enjoying it?
crwbano 8 months ago
@crwbano You have seriously misinterpreted what I was saying. And There is no need for me to explain myself, because it's youtube. I just think it's sad that the words I used, are considered "big" to you. You are one hell of a troll. Good luck, and thanks for playing.
CircuitSurreal 8 months ago
@CircuitSurreal whats depraved about it? Degenerate maybe but then so has all pop music been for the last 50 years but depraved no
crwbano 8 months ago
@CircuitSurreal whats depraved about it? Degenerate maybe but then so has all pop music been for the last 50 years but depraved no
Lacklustre definately...only a deluded Nirvana fan could make lacklustre into an attribute...fuckin' slacker...Vietnam was over a generation too soon
crwbano 8 months ago
@crwbano Please explain further, as to how I am a slacker. I would love to hear it, as you already have me laughing pretty damn hard. Also maybe you should look up the word depraved, 'cause it seems as though you haven't yet. Keep in mind there is more than one definition. I am really only curious as to why you felt the need to be an asshole, because nothing I said was threatening. being an asshole like being angry are products of fear. Vietnam... LOL!
CircuitSurreal 8 months ago
what about terry jacks
smeetgirl 9 months ago
@smeetgirl What about Terry Jacks?
crwbano 8 months ago
¨HOW CAN U EVEN COMPARE THAT CRAP TO THE REAL DEAL...MAN I THINK U THINK THE SUN SHINES OUT OF HIS HOLE...WELL NEWS FLASH....IT DONT..HE WAS JUST A GUY WITH HUGE OPINIONS AND HAD THE CHANCE TO TELL HIS SAD STORYS TROUGH HIS MUSIC...SIMPLE AS..MAYBE IF HE WAS SO GREAT THEN HE COULD HAVE LIVED OUT HIS LIFE LIKE THE REST OF US MUST DO...GOOD OR BAD..THATS LIFE..AT LEAST I WONT BE TAKING A EASY EXIT...
fincentin 9 months ago
@fincentin You should try getting extremely addicted to heroin and then maybe you could speak. Also suicide is not taking the easy way out. We are our own gods only we decide whether we should live or die. You make yourself sound a little envious that you haven't done the same.
CircuitSurreal 9 months ago
@CircuitSurreal Jeezus fella you should try listening to yourself!!! What is it about being addicted to heroin that makes someone so special? Talking as someone who has been there and occasionally slips back I can tell you that you are talking shit bruv...it doesnt make you special and while a habit aint no picnic it aint that difficult to get out of it if you want to...millions of junkies are getting hooked/quitting/dying all the time...a habit doesnt make them special
crwbano 8 months ago
@CircuitSurreal Oh and by the way as someone who has been through it and is still battling other demons/mental health issues etc while bringing up a child, I say that "St Kurt" was a selfish egotistical prick who took the easy way out abandoning a baby daughter bringing up a kid is tough. granted he was a great lyricist who managed to express his pain in a way that spoke for many of us but lets not make out that suicide and drug addiction made him somehow special...
crwbano 8 months ago
@CircuitSurreal ...celebrate the music but leave all the bullshit that goes with the cult of "St Kurt" behind and live your own life instead of letting dead heroes get your kicks for you...do you think Mr Cobain would have wasted his time doing that? Get out and get a life bro...lifes to short...enjoy it
crwbano 8 months ago
many thanks, Mr Helloforyou, for all the informations; I'm Belgian actually, and not aware of all the details regarding the english or american versions of the song !
3oldsag 9 months ago
I like the westlife version better.
Dlilu888 9 months ago
@Dlilu888 as do i
smoothdude1993 9 months ago
I just listened to Nirvana's version of this song and while I was doing so my 12 year old came in and said " I don't know who that is but they can't sing or play" Nirvana did some terrific stuff but this isn't one of them. Nirvana defenders, please note the "terrific stuff" part! :)
MrHelloforyou 9 months ago
@MrHelloforyou their covers weren't meant to be serious.
pigfarts992 9 months ago
This is Carl doing the lead vocal, right?
Karateworm 9 months ago
this is originally a french song ("Le Moribond") written and sung by the belgian singer Jacques Brel in the early sixties. Terry Jacks was the first to cover it in english in 1974; this version is very similar (with the vibrato guitar) and the Nirvana cover came MUCH later.
3oldsag 10 months ago
@3oldsag
"Seasons in the Sun" was a worldwide hit song for Terry Jacks in 1974. It was first released in the United States and Canada early in the year, and rose to number one in America by March 2. An earlier recording appeared on The Kingston Trio's 1963 album, Time to Think. The song had also been done by English band The Fortunes in 1968, and by Pearls Before Swine in 1970/71.
cont.
MrHelloforyou 9 months ago
@3oldsag cont.
Terry Jacks, who had participated in the Beach Boys recording, and who had in fact introduced the song to the group, rewrote part of the lyrics to "lighten them up." Jacks' revisions tended to add a bit of ambiguity as to the nature of the storyteller's demise, allowing listeners the option to choose whether the death is from suicide over a failed life - quite possibly to escape drug addiction - or someone accepting death from natural causes, or cancer.
MrHelloforyou 9 months ago
these heartless 'artists' ripped this off nirvana.
charliehenryrufus 10 months ago
@charliehenryrufus who did Nirvana rip it off?
LCplCombat 9 months ago
@LCplCombat these idiots
charliehenryrufus 9 months ago
@charliehenryrufus Are you implying that the Beach Boys, who were formed thirty years before Nirvana, ripped Nirvana off? Even if the Nirvana version was released first, this wouldn't be a ripoff - both the BB's and Nirvana covered the Terry Jacks version, which was itself a cover of the Jaques Brel version.
DoGeeseSeeGod24 9 months ago
@DoGeeseSeeGod24 your an asshole. stop insulting kurt
charliehenryrufus 9 months ago
@charliehenryrufus What? I was just stating facts. Everything I said is absolutely true. I seriously doubt that pointing out that Nirvana was formed after the Beach Boys and that Seasons in the Sun was originally written by Jaques Brel is an "insult" to Kurt.
DoGeeseSeeGod24 9 months ago
@DoGeeseSeeGod24 You sacreligious bastard how dare you insult the memory of St. Kurt. Jackques Brel was an infidel who recorded this song with the sole purpose of insulting our blessed St and Martyr Kurt H Cobain and not only that but he also stole the lyrics from him and sneakily translated them into French...The freedom hating, cheese munching Frog bastard
crwbano 8 months ago
@crwbano thank you for agreing with my initial premeyes. unless your being sarcastic in which case just stfu and stop insulting kurt. your not cool - words cannot express how much of a wanker we all think you are. shut up. bitch.
charliehenryrufus 8 months ago
@charliehenryrufus Not quite sure what a "premeye" is, but yes he was being sarcastic.
DoGeeseSeeGod24 8 months ago
@DoGeeseSeeGod24 i think you mistook premeyes for premise
charliehenryrufus 8 months ago
@charliehenryrufus Why dont you go on to a Kurt Cobain tribute page where you can mingle with your own miserable kind...what the fuck are people banging on about and getting upset about St Kurt on a beach boys page for...and using a word like Wanker Id assume you're from the British Isles so why do you lower youreslf to using the word bitch in such a United Statesian manner...typical MTV geneation with no imagination
crwbano 8 months ago
@crwbano how about you improve you'r gramar first. dont need's a apostrophe. so doe's beach boys and id .you also spelled generation wrong. how about you look at this page and realise that is defaced with your stupid comments. not so smart now huh?
charliehenryrufus 8 months ago
@charliehenryrufus Who the fuck made Kurt a saint and said we cant insult him. You sound like one of those religious fanatics who kill people for saying bad things about Muhammad
crwbano 8 months ago
The Terry Jacks one seems the most depressing... The good kind of depressing. If there is any.
FREDSDEADBABE 10 months ago
@FREDSDEADBABE i agree
back2backband1 10 months ago
@FREDSDEADBABE There isnt any
crwbano 8 months ago
classic beach boys "organ sound" love it
hot318 10 months ago
Both of the bands made this song really sad....
redDashify 10 months ago
:) I like all the versions (:
iluvchickies 10 months ago
Terry Jack's "Seasons in the Sun" used to a favorite of mine when I was a child in the early 70s. But as I got to be an adult the whinny notes in the song began to grate on me. I really LOVE this version, it's gritter while keeping the overall tone of the somg. Like the fact that the BB are sticking more to the poet's original words. Best version of this song.
Dreamscape2010 10 months ago
Not a high point in the Beach boy song catalogue
Studmasterify 10 months ago
ps:
L'originale est de jacques brel..
supergirlOn 10 months ago
terry jacks had to so call/ clean this song up/ for am radio. how times change!, the fortunes should be the ones with the gold record, not the poppy family
tommieparch 10 months ago
@tommieparch
what d'you mean?
OropherThranduil 10 months ago
I had not heard this version before. I like it. Thanks for posting.
ukersam 10 months ago
Francois - wife? Isn't Francois a boy?
theOlLineRebel 11 months ago
@theOlLineRebel Yes, "Francois" is a boy's name, LOL. I think Carl meant to say "Francoise", which is a girl's name.
eddiefromconnecticut 11 months ago
Nice pictures. Is that woman Brian's wife?
13sunny 11 months ago
the Beach Boys had an oppertunity to do this as a single first - but passed....
hellomcflyy 11 months ago
so was this or the terry jacks one the original?
unholychunk 11 months ago
@unholychunk neither, actually. The original song was Le Moribond by french singer Jacques Brel, which was later translated into english by a poet. I think the Beach Boys covered it first, then Terry Jacks covered it (and changed some of the lyrics)
iSomnambulism 11 months ago
@iSomnambulism: Jacques Brel was a Belgian singer (singing both in French and in Dutch), not a French one ;-).
daanMFwouters 10 months ago
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@iSomnambulism: Jacques Brel was actually a Belgian singer (singing both in French and Dutch), not a French one ;-).
daanMFwouters 10 months ago
kurt only made a version because it was his favourite song, he didnt care about it was good or bad
PivotMakeranimations 11 months ago
Terry Jacks is the only version I have enjoyed..and th emore people I hear performing it the more I agree with myself....
frdfingers 11 months ago 3
Much as I love Nirvana c'mon be objective here their version is shite...I'm sure if someone unearths a recording of St Kurt taking a shit there will be people on here swearing blind its musical genius...
I agree the original is definately the best...like the man below has already mentioned Le Moribund by Monsieur Jacques Brel. Go seek out the original people
crwbano 11 months ago 7
@crwbano The original is most definitely best, but I actually like the Nirvana version because of how it sounds-- not because it was Nirvana, or Kurt singing or anything like that.
I think the pitchy tune, the rough scratchy voice adds a new emotional element. As much as I agree that the Terry Jacks, the original (Jacques Brel), and this version is most definitely more polished and still has emotion, I dunno, there's something about the Nirvana version that resonates with me.
iSomnambulism 11 months ago 26
@iSomnambulism
And well, it's Kurts singing ImO, it sounds kinda sas, depressed, hurt, i love that.
OropherThranduil 10 months ago
@OropherThranduil The only song i've yet found that can bring me to tears is nirvana's version, for pretty much the same reason
discohunter12 10 months ago
there are some songs that can have that effect on me, god only knows by the beach boys (especially the 67 hawaii rehearsal version), in my life by the beatles, yesterday also by then, john prines day is done has a great feel (thanks to my name is earl i know that one), Paul McCartneys Here Today (written for John in 81), Lennons Beautiful Boy is also beautiful, Lennons Mother, also Julia from the beatles white album, written for his mommy.
so many great songs which have the hearty feeling.
OropherThranduil 10 months ago
@OropherThranduil you sadistic bastard. piss off
charliehenryrufus 9 months ago
@charliehenryrufus
you fucking little asshole.
it's pretty normal that people like the way singers put all their feelings into songs.
but if you don't like that listen to modern music where voices are pitched to the right tone with xomputers.
OropherThranduil 9 months ago
@OropherThranduil fucky you for insulting kurts memory. you should be ashamed of yourself prick
charliehenryrufus 9 months ago
@iSomnambulism I AGREE 100 per cent
vayz 9 months ago
@crwbano piss off. you ignorant prick - insulting a dead person sarcastically - "st kurt". pathetic. get lost
charliehenryrufus 9 months ago
@charliehenryrufus I'm gonna insult him some more. The guy was a selfish prick taking his life when he had a baby daughter to take care of. Yeah the guy wrote some great songs while ripping off the Pixies and Sonic Youth but the cult of St Kurt is ridiculous and the people who justify his actions "well you try having a heroin addiction" and lecture about how depressed he was, how much pain he was in...fuck off!!! Get real and get a life...
crwbano 8 months ago
@crwbano well - i think you're a pathetic excuse for a man. insulting a dead man is a new low, making claims about him when he is unable to defend himself is equally pathetic. kurt was not only a musical genius but an idol for a disillusioned generation. he did not ripoff the pixies or sonic youth - every band has inspiration. don't try to make light of his heroin addiction you sad, sublunary twit. please don't patronise me or him. grow up.
charliehenryrufus 8 months ago
@charliehenryrufus Christ will you listen to yourself...speaking ill of the dead? So none of us can criticise the cult of St Kurt now cos he topped himself? Get real fella...so Kurt never spoke ill of the dead then? Never criticised anyone who didnt deserve it? Oh sorry I forgot he'd been beatified and was beyond criticism...Im going to patronise you here because you so obviously need patronizing...you speak as if you were part of the generation that was around when Nirvana...
crwbano 8 months ago
@crwbano actually i was part of the generation that witnessed nirvana. i was born in early 1993. so thier. dum troll. you try to patronize me but you spell patronise rong
charliehenryrufus 8 months ago
@charliehenryrufus Oh right so you'd have been a year old when St.Kurt blew his brains all over Iggy Pops The Idiot-thats fuckin criminal that by the way-you must have been deeply affected by his death...more likely your parents were though...or were they a bit older and Guns'n'Roses fans? Jesus how can you take it so personally when someone criticises someone in your parents record collection...thats like me getting upset if someone calls Mick Jagger or Jim Morrison a wanker...get a life pal
crwbano 8 months ago
@charliehenryrufus So thier :P
Dumb people in Glass houses shouldnt throw stones Charlie boy
crwbano 8 months ago
@crwbano im not in a glass house you dum shit. im in my room. so *their*
charliehenryrufus 8 months ago
@crwbano im quite bewildered that as stupid a troll as yourself could get such a reaction. well done :)
charliehenryrufus 8 months ago
@charliehenryrufus ...were actually together as a band and releasing music...if you were then you will be around my age and if thats so then the fact that you still have such a strong obsession and are still taking criticism of St Kurt so personally is very worrying...you need to grow up...start a family and then think how selfish it is to take your own life when you have your offspring depending on you for support...if as you sound you are a teenager then I apologise its a sensitive phase...
crwbano 8 months ago
@crwbano i have actually been addicted to heroin before in my youth - but have since kicked the habit. dont ever make light of an addiction.
charliehenryrufus 8 months ago
@charliehenryrufus ...you are going through that you should eventually grow out of as you mature...as for heroin addiction I can tel by the way you write that you have absolutely no idea of what you speak and hope that you never will but your belief that heroin addiction is a subject that is so sacred I have no right to make light of is quite frankly ridiculous and yes I speak as someone who having relevant personal experience knows exactly of what I speak...I just dont think it is anything...
crwbano 8 months ago
@charliehenryrufus ...that makes me a hero or in someway special, and if I took life so seriously that I couldnt make light of experience like that I would probably get right back on the brown stuff...dont let your hearoes get your kicks for you...you have a life....get out there take hold of it and enjoy it and stop wallowing in Kurts misery.
crwbano 8 months ago
AMEN :)
fincentin 9 months ago
The original song is called Le moribond from Jacques Brel. Doesn't matter if it's covered, that's only a bands interpretation. It stays a beautiful song.
couderhans 11 months ago 2
nicht übel.
fredausgera 1 year ago
The original was a French song .
jeffkodiac 1 year ago
@jeffkodiac no it wasnt
TheAlexander56 1 year ago
@TheAlexander56
Wrong the original version was in French .
jeffkodiac 1 year ago