Mad Men - Episode 6 (Final) Babylon

[MiSsBeAuTiFuL333]

FUN FACT: the man on the right of the one with the guitar is the composer of the series mad men ;)

[MiSsBeAuTiFuL333]

♥ love it

[fancoy]

Saddest final scene ever

[deionc]

@fancoy but why? why is it sad? this is one of the most perplexing scenes for me. I just dont understand it..

[LBPlayerify09]

It is more strange to find meaning in a TV series, the medium of choice for meaningless rubbish for most of its existence ( - and hence a reflection of the meaninglessness of life-) than in any other medium..... quite poignant.

[ddreamfield]

best episode ending ever.

[sebulia1]

I'm just starting to get into this show, and I LOVED this song. It was haunting... stayed with me a long time after watching it.

[nur610]

rachel'ın elbisesi çok güzel. ne zaman bu şarkıyı mırıldansam rachel buradaki duruşuyla gözümde canlanıyor. mad men'deki en beğendiğim kısım bu şarkı

[baux93]

who is this?

[moskitosTR]

Don McLean - Waters of Babylon

[SagaciousSilence]

Hollywood couldn't film something as beautiful as this.

[hedonism13]

@SagaciousSilence

By all classical interpretations, this IS hollywood.

[GreenGretel]

@SagaciousSilence: ...This is Hollywood.

[leigh8959]

Ok, so we know the musician on the right is the show's composer David Carbonara. But who is the guy singing the song? He looks a bit like Pablo Díaz-Reixa from El Guincho. This one is going up on Quora.

[yasalmeyve]

David Carbonara söylüyor bu versiyonunu.

[Whoizcasper]

"How do you sleep at night?"

"in a bed made of money!" Owned what a line

[DeeMolition]

This song is so beautiful!

[blahblahblahuser]

Does anyone know the name of the instruments?

[cortezraes]

@blahblahblahuser the one on the left is a mandolin. not sure on the other.

[dianneckcu]

@blahblahblahuser The small one the singer ins playing that looks a bit likea guitar is called a mandolin. The larger black one is some type of zither.

[billeagle51]

I have watched all the episodes..and to those that have not seen the show, or even do not understand the series.....INCREDIBLE SHOW..FANTASTIC...maybe it is because I grew up during that time, and to tell you the truth it brings back many personnel flashbacks that, I even can not believe..On Dan Draper..his manerisms reminds me of my own father. Just, maybe you have to have grown up during that time frame to understand. But if I can leave anything here on this posting..This show is "ART"

[ThinDreamer30]

@billeagle51 I agree this series is simply "Art." It is what a television show is must to be. However, I was not raised during this time, for I was born in 1984, and I feel I understand it quite well. I cannot deny that my studies in economics, history, and literature, as well as my love of older films, has helped catch the slight references at moments. It is a great show and an ex-girlfriend and two housemates of mine grasp that, even while lacking much knowledge of the period. Amazing show!

[esiotrot17]

@billeagle51 if don draper reminds you of your father, you must have serious issues. No offense intended, but don draper is a serrrriously flawed character and I imagine Sally and Bobby have probably been scarred for life by his and Betty's parenting.

[billeagle51]

@esiotrot17 I read your comment with interest, and to a certain degree, U are right!

If U only knew! I will leave at that!

[esiotrot17]

@billeagle51 haha well, I wish you the best with all that. :)

[Boromir26]

@esiotrot17 I don't see any more flaws in Don;s character than any man living his life in the western consumerist world, be it back then or today! he is a profoundly deep character, because he reflects the insecurities of the capitalist man, and has the strength to pull it together at all odds. I do not say he is a model human, but neither is any of us, he just is clearly entangled in this complex system that dictates our lives, for some it is hard, for others easier but none can escape.

[esiotrot17]

@Boromir26 if we're talking about having "the strength to pull it together" I think it'd be smarter to talk about Pete Campbell.. who has stuck by his wife, worked hard in a largely thankless job (unlike Don's, where he's praised constantly), and tried to be a good person. In Don, I see weakness, not strength. He's interesting, and I find myself caring about him, but I think it's too easy to excuse his shortcomings just because he's handsome

[spanusa]

Does anybody know who sings this? Where can I get this very same interpretation....?

[Chico10001000]

It was Episode 5 (not 6), wasn it ? My favourite scene, great, thanks.

[JohnnyX2006]

@Chico10001000

It was episode 6, named Babylon! Great show! Great moment!

[airelav2]

are Joan's shoes brown that she is wearing @ :49?

[edoizmamy]

hayır arkadasım bu diziye bende hastayım tabi jon'ada sarkının ismi bayblon yorumcusu david carbonara ok

[inquilaab2]

it ain't the jews crying for zion anymore..

[senore01]

It ain't? I guess they are too busy crying for every thing else.

[CommaCreations]

Matthew Weiner, the show's creator, exec producer and head writer was born to a Jewish American family...I'm sure he knows what he's doing regarding the musical direction of his show...

[ilvtofku]

Hate to say this , but it's kindof anti-jew to use this as afterfuck music.

[beepandbop]

after fuck??

[SmartStart24]

wait this was afterfuck music!?

that's somewhat bizarre.....

[FauveAngelique]

no they went to an artsy fartsy club

[atmarcusat]

the guy playing the guitar on the right is the shows composer David Cabonara, just for interests sake

[upstart1776]

Look at th ef-ing commie-lib-pre-hippies in the beginning....f-ing sickening..flash forward to the mid/late 60's with drugs,love-ins,bullshit music and art, ugh...I'll take a skinny tie over tye-dye any time.

[tier0008]

Your thoughts on this subject are fascinating!

[welhungjohnson]

I hate long haired hippo douches too. Such useless wastes of sperm. I'll also take a black skinny tie, white pressed shirt, black suit, pomade and part my hair on the side.

[johnknapik]

I always say the same thing... The 60's were cool until hippies ruined it. Most people in my generation think the late 60's were cool. Blech!

[alystrastardust]

yeah screw the hippies with their love and their peace!

More hate and war I say!

lol

[Boromir26]

@johnknapik the hippies were the greatest weapon the soviets ever deployed, it won the the cold war by virtually desintegrating traditional american society and replacing it with an egalitarian idealistic orientation equally as flawed as it;s predecessor but not as culturally potent which is clearly visible in the utterly senseless existence american lead nowadays. sad. I can provide you with more info if you do not believe my words.

[taliesen1953]

The media has cast the sixties, especially late sixties, as hippies/drugs, etc...when in fact my memory was that they were a small minority..most of us being rather straight laced.... it's like most young people today think that everyone dressed like John Travolta in SNF back in the late seventies......pictures, music, documentaries, etc., all portray the extreme not the norm....

[mnyfrsh]

Brilliant montage.

[numberonesurvivor75]

Mad Men is a wonderful show but isn't that a Don McLean song that came out much later than 1960?

[6motion6]

This song is written by David Carbonara, who also wrote the Mad Men theme song.

[numberonesurvivor75]

Really? I've found a lot of references crediting Don McLean.

[6motion6]

I have the Mad Men "Music from the Series" Vol. 1 CD. It lists David Carbonara as the arranger (unsure if he's the writer) and performer of "Babylon."Carbonara also wrote and performs the" Mad Men Suite". I I made a mistake about the theme song," A Beautiful Mine." That is not written or performed by Carbonara. Now I'm curious to hear Don McLean's version. Check out the CD I mentioned-it's a good one.

[Cybele1986]

It's from Psalm 137:1 so MacLean and Carbonara can both only take credit for arranging it

[6motion6]

I'm not knowledgeable about the Bible,so thanks for letting me know the source.

Wish I knew if there would be another season coming up.

[Beefan3]

is this the episode with the great line by Don..when the beatnik says.."you perpetuate lies..how do you sleep at night"..and Don Says "On a Bed Made of Money"..brilliant!

[De5perados]

@Beefan3 implying that was the good quote instead of "people want to be told what to do so badly ... that theyll listen to anyone"

[engeljakob]

i think mad men is somewhat even better than the sopranos coz the characters are very deeper.

[balezealot]

"way deeper" as in a little more tv-ish and contrived - both excellent shows, but sopranos is more realistic and more subtle.

[jamesjohnking]

I'm not sure we're in a position to judge. I don't know about you but I have never known anyone in organized crime.

[berkerR]

don mclean-babylon :)

[biancabrezze1]

Hey Whats The Name of That Song

[dawn468]

i couldnt find this song as a MP3. can someone -please- send me it ?

[Bigdebo72]

Best show since the Sopranos.

[USCHoodman]

You must have missed The Wire my friend

[zfzrz]

Mad Men and The Wire, the two most brilliant shows on television. Better then anything that been on in years.

[FKelly]

Mad Men is good, but it cant touch The Wire.

[daveibukun]

Yep, youare right, its got nothing on "The wire".

[StarKrazzo]

I kind of agree, but that's like comparing a really great band to The Beatles or something.

Mad Men isn't just good, it's amazing, it's excellent. It's better than 98% of other television. Sure, it might not be AS good as The Wire....but what is?

[jlassh]

season one will never be topped, still good, but true

[psuuda]

don mclean-babylon... this song

[zfzrz]

This scene and the carousel scene are my favorites as well. I'm going to add, the scene at the end of the first season when Betty stood in the backyard shooting at the neighbors pigeons as a third favorite.

I love this show. And I want to listen to this song over and over.

[arziankorpen]

Also the scene at the end of season's two first episode, when Don is reading meditations on an emergency

[anticlimatic21]

I tried adding the pigeons scene a while ago and they took it down. I think they allow this clip and the carousel clip only as promos, but hey, try anyway.

[midwestmacrame]

It's moments like this in the show -- moments of profound thoughtfulness and feeling in quiet moments -- juxtaposed against context of manipulation and deceit and lust in other scenes that give me chills of awe. This show is so incredibly well-written and the characters are so incredibly complicated and fascinating. I love this series. Absolutely.

[silverquick32]

@midwestmacrame I was thinking exactly the same thing.

[ATsarIsBorn]

I don't know whose setting of this song this is -- we sang it at a pagan gathering in a group devoted to folk song and I've always loved it. The psalm is a lovely verse but as the song demonstrates, it's nonsense -- the Jews had no trouble at all singing the Lord's song in a strange land, and as hits from Giuseppe Verdi to Bob Marley demonstrate, no one else has had a problem doing so either.

[Rasha5377]

The Jews were in Babylon because God was punishing them for their consistent couse of disobedience going back all the way to Mount Sinai and the golden calf. They're not lamenting being in a foreign land, but rather their state as an exiled people suffering the disfavor of their god. They feel unworthy to sing to him away from "Zion" because it was their own sinfulness that cost them their homeland in the first place.

[ATsarIsBorn]

The Jews were in Babylon because Josiah, the king who imposed monotheism on the land, was a political idiot and got himself killed, and his sons defied Babylon, which erased the city. In any case, clearly the Jews had NO TROUBLE AT ALL singing the old songs in a strange land and never have had. They have always done better in exile than in Canaan.

[glyeakley]

To get the full impact of the scene please note that this song is based on the 137th Psalm, a lament about exile. The episode featured Rachel discussing the meaning of Israel as homeland to a displaced people, and the Psalm itself contains this pertinent question: "How could we sing the Lord's song in a foreign land?"

[DanaVMBVSDDM]

As a Jew... I have to say you couldn't be more right. Just this song makes me tear up a little bit.

[ATsarIsBorn]

But they can, and they easily do, and always have. So it's a question that answers itself with a rousing affirmative.

[spittlebits]

This song pierced my heart when I heard it on the show. The contrast between the shallow sexuality of the poet who lifted her shirt in response to a heckler and this song stunned me as it did the lead character, Don Draper.

[gabid23]

Actually, the precise version of this song is available on iTunes as Mad Men Volume 1, (The music from the television series), however you must purchase the whole albulm in order to get the song...it's silly, but the song is the exact recording in this segment.

[tekalynn]

Spellbinding. It makes me want to cry.

[saveen3]

what song is this?

[thesense89]

This part long with the part in the episode where Don is selling the ad campaigne to Kodak for the Carousel are my favorite parts.

[littleblackpistol]

Yesss, me too - the Carousel pitch - which links back into the whole 'nostalgia' theme set up in Babylon - was just brilliant.

I'm also pretty fond of the Betty and the shotgun sequence at the end of 'Shoot'.

[littleblackpistol]

It was the final, beautiful and gloomy montage of the episode 'Babylon' that shot my love for this series into the stratosphere.

[biancabrezze1]

whould you like to be my friend

[SigmundZEK]

my favourite mad men part

[italoblu]

omg joan and the birdcage! so good!

[thewirrow]

can i find this on mp3 anywhere?

[directorrobertharris]

I loved this scene and this music

[Avarice99]

Same here. It's one of my favourite moments in the first season. I would love an mp3 of this version of the song.

[Converseismyshoe]

They have it on itunes. Babylon by Don Mclean.

[MazelTov99]

beautiful

[rakiinthejar]

Şarkının ismi the waters of babylon yorumcusu Don Mclean

[rakiinthejar]

Şarkının ismi the waters of babylon yorumcusu Don Mclean.

[KnyYldz]

artık sezon finaline geldik arkadaşlar çok çabuk geçti şu bölüm bile daha dün gibi gerçi her ne kadar 2 ay uzun bi süre olmasa da :)

[taylanaygun]

saol axinous tam kıvamı. ..

[sewdat11]

ya selam arkadaşlar bende yalnız ben izlıyorum diye uzuluyorumdum .Muhtşem bir dizi.Cok basarılı.umarım uzunca bir sure dewam eder .Kuşadsında sevgiler

[10kere1kere]

Tesekkurler..

[10kere1kere]

could u write the sound name please ?

rica etsem parçanın tam ismini yazar mısın?

[axinous]

Yazarim tabi :)

Babylon sarkinin adi. bir cok kisi yorumladi ama Gregorian 'in yorumu bu tarza cok daha yakin.

[yasalmeyve]

@axinous

David Carbonara söylüyor bu versiyonunu.

[cocobo17]

super sarkı super dizii ne diim...