Jacques Brel Le Moribond Live English Subtitles
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@KTo288 True!
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@loverainthunder I think you're 100 per cent right!
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@mazikaze Anglophones are wont to sneer at French popular music. I wonder what Francophones think of US in the light of atrocities such as those perpetrated by Terry Jacks and his epigones?
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@kavorka75 I couldn't agree more. Terry Jacks's version was pure kitsch (even if it was slickly produced and had a better string arrangement than it deserved). As for Nirvana's version - I know they did it off-the-cuff, swapping instruments, but, even conceding that, it's still dreadful. (I expect the mass execration of Kurt Cobain obsessives now. Forgive me if I can't see anything in your hero (beyond tremendous drive and ambition, and some kind of charisma unrelated to actual talent).)
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FANTASTIQUE! Mister BREL! (leave in peace)
Fab.
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What a God!
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this is soo funny, even the music :)
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Brel liked to sing this kind of sarcastic texts :)
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Great song from Brel thx...! ;)
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@mujerado Except that Jacks couldn't remember all of McKuen's lyrics, so he made some up himself to fill in. McKuen's version (also recorded by the Kingston Trio) was much closer to the original than Jacks's was.
Really supreme text and story compared to the Seasons in the sun!
mazikaze 8 months ago 13
I had no idea this was originally by Jacques Brel. My Lord how they butchered this song.
kavorka75 6 months ago 12