wow, vous n'êtes pas commun ! Un américain qui écoute autant de choses différentes si loin de sa propre culture, avec autant de curiosité, vous m'estomaquez surtout avec Brassens ! :) très bonne continuation !
@@ami443I translated the french word "pur" by "pure" in English. This is not what I intended. In french " pur français" means classy, literary. In this context, it has nothing to see with "pure" in English. Maybe we could translate by "sheer".
Not pure nor classy. It's plain French, the real French language before it got corrupted with English American... Plus, as Brassens came from Sète, a harbour on the southern coast, he is having an accent from that area with a very local way of using French language. He is a national treasure.
Georges Brassens is THE unparallelled, unequalled, un ... everything of the French post-war singers! He was the last true French Poet, immensely talented and ever so modest (see how he's sweating, as he was at every public performance, out of shyness), which is what this song is about. The (gutter) Press often "reproached" him to be so private, at a time when everyone exposes (even in the horrible "reality shows") every detail of his/her private life. He pursued a fantastic, yet quiet career and each and everyone of his songs is a gem admirably well written, in admirable French (it's such a pleasure to listen to our beautiful language not massacred as it is today!), with, always, more than a pinch of humour, and he was a fierce critic of our (sad) Society, but with an immense tenderness for women and "true" people and friends. Naturally anti-clerical (like Jacques Brel), he scorched the Establishment and "The Church" but only gently mocked its humblest servants, the cops and priests "of good will". You should listen to his "Gare au Gorille" [Beware of the Gorilla]! And so many more!
Sincerely, seeing someone hearing Brassens for the first time bring me tears. You just experienced a huge blast of intelligence, humanity and "malice". Go on!
He is never so malicious than when he attacks the church. The discrete jokes are the best "Je vis en bonne entente avec le pere Duval... Il me laisse dire merde, je lui laisse dire amen" (En: "He lets me say 'shit', I let him say 'amen' ") But amen is the religious saying for approval, so the priest... approves Brassens' shit 😆😆 Though the choir boy carrying up his balls like a holy sacrament (the host!) 🤣🤣ROFL
I have always loved Brassens since I was little, I even cried when I learned of his death because he was like the grandfather I didn't have, with his good face, his mustache, his pipe, his wisdom, the laughter in his eyes... Later I understood his songs and I loved him even more. He's one of the greatest, I still listen to him, I know his songs by heart. He comes from the south of France, hence the accent. He was an anarchist, anti-clerical, anti-death penalty, anti many things. but he loved his wife and his group of friends, whom he often talks about in his songs. A very wise and very human character. Who was not afraid to say his opinion and who had great poetry in his words.
One of my best friends, a Greek woman, knows all his repertory off by heart. I... only half! I'm autistic, and I used to sing his songs aloud in the classroom when I was 15 🤭
Brassens was an anarchist, a freethinker. There are several songs you should listen to to make you a broad idea of the man he was. "La mauvaise réputation", "chanson pour l'auvergnat", "les copains d'abord" (an ode to friendship). His lyrics is so well written, poetry in music. Thx for the reaction.
All his songs are gems. "Pénélope", "La ballade des cimetières", "les ricochets" (what a song!!!), "La rose, la bouteille et la poignée de mains" (with chiseled verses, completely unexpected rhymes), "la marguerite" (multiple rhymes, a jewel, so simple in appearance but so complex and perfectly balanced). And so on, so on...
I am French, I live in France and I love your videos especially when you watch French songs. I know all these songs and your reactions and comments are really funny from my home. Bravo continue! 👍
Georges Brassens est Français, mais comme beaucoup de Sétois, il a aussi des origines italiennes du côté maternel. Un de nos plus grands auteurs, compositeurs, interprètes et poète.
He made some very beautiful songs listen to "La mauvaise réputation", "L' orage", "La non demande en mariage", "Mourir pour des idées". Thanks for this vidéo, a very good choice.
Brassens, Brel et Ferrat are my favorite old french singers (sorry Brel was belgium but he sing in french). I like the way you appreciate his humor in this song!!!!!
i strongly recommend you "mourir pour des idées", meaning "to die for your ideals". or "supplique pour être enterré sur une plage de sète" (supply to be burried on a beach of sete), "le testament" (the testimony), "la non demande en mariage" (the... i don't know how to translate this one. the wedding non demand ?). "stance a un cambrioleur" (poem for a burglar) is also excellent... this guy is really awesome i'm glad you started to discover him. by far the best french singer of all times.
It's not about accent but about language level. His words are in beautiful classical French. That's his specialty, saying scabrous things in a literary way, it adds to the comic effect ! But he also sings beautiful poetic songs.
Love that Brassens often laugh at his own jokes. Is it possible not to love him? And his language is pure gold. Such "tournures" as "sous prétexte de bruit, sous couleur de réclame, ai-je le droit de ternir l'honneur de cette dame ?", brilliant, magnificent. The perfect balance between classic French and iconoclast/modern ideas (he has been censored many times at the beginning of his career). Read his lyrics in French if you can. Top level poetry.
Censored and like all greats of the French literature, condemned by the church. My aunt says when she was young in the 60s, her husband (then fiance) would evict the ladies to listen to his songs. The girls could hear them behind shut doors, howling with laughter 😁😁 Then he'd go to the confessional and tell the priest "I'm sorry I couldn't resits father. He's just so good you see"🤣🤣🤣
Tu comprends pourquoi Georges Brassens fait parti des chateurs les plus populaire de France fouille et tu trouveras beaucoup de belle chanson. Hors mis ça cette chanson dénonce la bien pensance et cette manie que l'on a maintenant de tout connaitre sur tout le monde ce qu'ici on appelle la transparence. You understand why Georges Brassens is one of the most popular singers in France and you will find many beautiful songs. Apart from that, this song denounces good thinking and this mania that we now have to know everything about everyone, what here we call transparency.
Georges Brassens is a typical frenchman from post WWII time. He speaks a very good, and precise, french of that time he is also a real streets, fields and woods "poète". Da French one !
Hello from Germany. ❤ This is a beautyful surprise. Here to find George Brassens! Saw a documentation about him in German TV. With translation and some backround informations. Nearly forgot about him. Thank you for your video. Really nice! ❤Oh, and I really have to look up a translation into with German subtitles. Hearing French, reading English and try to think German really killing me 😆 Now I found the song: Le gorille 😃and la cane de jeanne 😁
@@XiaoVeen As I understand it, Brassen is a model for some German songwriters of the '68s, such as Reinhart Mey, Hannes Wader, Franz Josef Degenhardt and so on. There was also the club "Danny's Pan" by Danny Marino in Hamburg, where these musicians got to know him. Marino performed the Brassens songs in German.
@@WichtrudK I just know Reinhard because I'm french and he sang in french. For sure in any country since 60's or 70's there were folk-singer singing with just a guitar. I don't know if Brassens was a model in Germany, but for sure a precursor in France. I would compare him to Reinhard Mey because of the beautiful language, poetic and subtle.
The prononciation of his name is Georges "Brassinse" 👍 He is french from french, and even for french, it's not always very simple to understand because he has à huge variety of words. His masterpiece has been studied by some scholars in France and they conclude that he was the french singer who used the more words. More than 7000, if I remember well. He made more than 400 songs and use a great variety of word : slung, regional, old- fashions, forgotten words, liturgical, scholars... He is for me the greatest french speaking singer. I listen him almost everyday. It remind me my father👍
As a french, born and living in Sète, i knew the man when i was a little girl. He helped me to do my homeworks and i had no idea how famous he was ! His nieces and cousins became my friens later but i don"t know at this time who they are. Different Last name. My favorite song is 'Supplique pour etre enterré sur la plage de Sète, amazing love song for his small city . I wish talking english like you talking french, i so my best
@@gerardmanvussa1071 Je sais, mais j"étais toute petite, si je n'avais les photos de lui, chez moi, et le rappel constant, j'aurais pu oublier... C'était le gentil papy de La Pointe, qui aimait les chats, et prenait l"apéro à la maison, en toute simplicité.... Preuve qu"on peut etre un génie du verbe, etre célèbre et apprécier avant tout les plaisirs simples avec ses " copains d"abord " !!!
Quelle chance. "Pauvres rois pharaons, pauvre Napoléon Pauvres grands disparus gisant au Panthéon Pauvres cendres de conséquence Vous envierez un peu l'éternel estivant Qui fait du pédalo sur la vague en rêvant Qui passe sa mort en vacances"
@@sandre_sandre Et il l"a fait ; Comme vous le savez certainement, il ne repose pas au Cimetière Marin, près de Jean Vilar et de Paul Valéry, surplombant la mer, mais au Cimetière Le Py, près de l"étang de Thau, le cimetière des pauvres, sous une simple dalle.....Comme un dernier pied de nez à ces Trompettes de la Renommée....
Even though he didn't have a great voice he is still a legend of the French music. He mastered the French language like nobody, sometimes very poetic, sometimes more funny or provocative like here. But many schools are named Ecole Georges Brassens. It shows how much his talent is recognized in France
Brassens was one of the best french poète. It's full of pub and clever rithms. My passed neighbour, in her youth, was both one of his wife... And doctor. 😅😂
Georges Brassens est celui qui à le beau langage avec toutes ses phrases qu'on ne ce sert plus aujourd'hui . Avec Brel ce sont de merveilleux artiste .
He was French from France. It’s true that it occupies a very special place in French song. Very beautiful texts, even if we often retain those that shocked. He was sometimes censored if I remember correctly. But he was simple and kind. He is one of the very good artists of that era.
Georges Brassens was friends with Jacques Brel and Lino Ventura among others, these songs are magnificent and very diverse, you have to listen to "Le Cocu", "Les Patriotes", and my favorite "Les Passantes" on a poem by Antoine Pol, if you have to listen to only one and if you are sensitive to poetry, it will more than make your day.
C'est une question intéressante, je pense que non. Chaque langue a ses tournures, donc une bonne traduction ne doit pas être trop littérale, alors en plus avec un texte versifié ça paraît mission impossible... Une autre question est de savoir si les tournures de Shakespeare passent aussi bien dans la langue de Molière 😅
the thing is he uses multiple vocabularies and levels of meaning, so while on paper it's "only words you'd find in a dictionary", in reality there's a lot of subtlety hidden.
Sous son air de ne rien dire, il dénonce beaucoup.. un vrai poète 👌🏻 Une intelligence rare et subtile, une prolongation du siècle des Lumières.. Merci Georges Il n'a jamais voulu avoir d'enfants..pour ne pas qu'ils évoluent dans ce nouveau monde en perdition.
That one of my favorit of this man. You can listenning ' Les passantes' his best for me. 'l'auvergnat ' that song we learn on school. His french for city sete in south france. The ' supplique pour etre entérrer a sete ' is fantastic too .
I expected you to listen to him for such a long time... and now you do with my favourite song ❤❤❤ thanks so much ! He was a poet and he had such a vaste vocabulary and the skill to put words together and give them the power of an uppercut ! I think he is far ahead of Jacques Brel (they were pals). I wish you could listen to « Le Temps Ne Fait Rien à l’Affaire » : quand on est con, on est con ! means : age doesn’t matter, when you’re stupid, you’re stupid. An also « Les Funérailles d’Antan » (Old time functions) ! PS : The final S of Brassens is not silent.
Excellent, tellement bien écrit c'est un grand poète intemporel, il faut vraiment écouter le texte de toutes ses chansons. Il utilise un plus large vocabulaire. J'habite près de Sete ( sud de la France) sa ville natale et là où il repose
Such a poet... my haunt sing his songs for me when I was a little kid and fourty years after I still have emotions any time I heard this guitar...and the lyrics .
Brassens was the first French artist to perform on stage with just his guitar and the bass player. His model was Québec "chansonnier" Félix Leclerc who invented this style in 1934 with his first song "Notre sentier". Brassens was French from Provence.
the S at the end of is name is pronounced. Georges Brassens is a man born in the south of France. Listen this 2 very beautiful song : "Supplique pour être enterré à la plage de Sète" and "les passantes".
Hello Uncle D, 🌴🌞 Hahaha, sacred Brassens, so funny! 😅 If you want to laugh, try: "Brave Margot", "hécatombe", "Quand on est c, on est c", "Gare au gorille" and "Quatre-vingt quinze pour cent". One of his most famous hits is: "Je me suis fait tout petit". I translated this song into English on lyrics translate (same pseudonym). Peace, folks. ☮👈😎
Brassens was a Frenchman and, as far as I know, self-taught when it came to the elevated language. He created songs with such a sophisticated vocabulary that even I as a Swiss German with many years of French lessons can understand easily.
At this very moment, where anybody wants a shot of glory through social networks, TV, movies, this song is a lesson. Not to mention the level of French language which is at a summit and matches a poetry level which can't be ignored. The English translation is quite good, but it cannot translate the music of words, and believe me Brassens was at his best.
Yet another legend! He was a non-violent anarchist who never gave in to political correctness. I love him so much. You'll find that some of is songs are as provocative as Pu$$y from Rammstein, and at the same time he wrote beautiful love songs.
Great video !! You may like "La mauvaise réputation", you'll even find a cover by Sinsemillia (French reggae band). Your French is amazing by the way. He was French, from the south, his lyrics are a mix of old words and expressions, slang and common French. He could make the French language sound and rhyme like nobody else. Very hard to sing his songs even though they seem easy.
´Si je puis m’exprimer ainsi ´ de Fernandel chanson humoristique montre une France après guerre avec un humour irrévérencieux mais tellement bien écrit et interprété Ça pourrait te faire sourire voir plus😉 Grand salut de France
Brassensssssss (pronounce the last S) . I was born and raised in his city of Sète ( "sett" ) on the french mediterranean coast. Never met him, was born 3 days after his death in '81, but was raised with his songs.
The s at the end of his name is sounded. He was immensely popular in France until his death. He remained a very simple and modest man and as he said in this song, he was very discreet about his private life. The closest he came to making confidences are the songs La Jeanne and L’Auvergnat.
If you begin with Georges Brassens, you have it for a while. One of our best authors. And if you put these songs in the context of the years they were written, you can understand that some were banned from the radio. I suggest you : "La mauvaise réputation", "Le Gorille", "Chanson pour l'Auvergnat", "L'orage", "Le temps ne fait rien à l'affaire", "Les copains d'abord", etc...
Brassens was always surprised by his enormous success, because he considered himself a simple craftsman, who laboriously assembles words and chords as a carpenter might make a pretty table, nothing more. He began to make songs to entertain his friends, nothing more. But there was more 😏
Brassens was one of our Epic singers :) (with Jacque Brel, but that last one was belgian so that not counts). His words always been brattish and provocative. His mind always been free and anarchist. PS : Someaday, you should try "Inceste de Citron" from Serge Gainsbourg
Chanson croustillante au premier abord qui cache pourtant un message très sérieux... la peine de mort. Pratique à laquelle ils était farouchement opposé.
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I love him ! Listen to "L'Hecatombe" de Georges Brassens :)
Mr Brassens is a poet even in this song. It's a big middle finger to response to his record company, which wanted to encourage him to show himself more for the needs of the publicity cause. Brassens expresses his reluctance to display his private life in public. When it was released, the song was censored So many songs during his carrere, "Les copains d'abord", "La chanson de l'auvergnat", "le temps ne fait rien a l'affaire", "Je me suis fait tout petit", "les amoureux des bancs publics", "une jolie fleur dans une peau de vache", " le gorille", "les sabots d'Hélène", "Auprès de mon arbre", "La canne de Jeanne", "Les croquants", "Le pornographe"........
And you can love him for a looooong time because he's made soooooooo many songs. A life time of fun ehead with George. Friend of Jack and as brilliant has he was, George was not a misogynistik ass hole like Jack, and no, he's not Belge, he's from south of France, but he has no accent at all, you're just not use to the way he writes and the foisonnant richness of his vocabulary, it comes with time, keep listening to his songs, you will become really good in french, better than most french people i'd say.🤣
I'm making this comment just to give some context for English speakers who are passing by. the trumpets of fame was the name of a press article on the famous personalities of the time, the journalist Duval had written an article denouncing that Georges Brassens did not have a very interesting private life, this song is the response of Brassens to this article to make fun of the people magazines that's why he uses quite daring terms it's to prove the stupidity of this kind of thing
you must pronounce the s at the end of his name. He is one of the legend here in France like Brel and Ferré. He got a little accent from the south-west of France.
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Ne jetez pas le pierre à la femme adultère, je suis derrière. Sacré Georges 😅
wow, vous n'êtes pas commun ! Un américain qui écoute autant de choses différentes si loin de sa propre culture, avec autant de curiosité, vous m'estomaquez surtout avec Brassens ! :)
très bonne continuation !
Indeed and if i am not mistaking it is not in the USA that you would have such writers and songs type.
C'est un bonheur de vous voir apprécier Brassens ! ❤❤❤❤ FRIENDSHIP FROM FRANCE !
Un artiste inoubliable qui est resté dans le cœur de tous les français ❤❤❤
He is a monument of France. He is French from Sete, on the mediterranean sea. His language is pure french.
What is impure french ?
@@ami443I translated the french word "pur" by "pure" in English. This is not what I intended. In french " pur français" means classy, literary. In this context, it has nothing to see with "pure" in English. Maybe we could translate by "sheer".
Not pure nor classy. It's plain French, the real French language before it got corrupted with English American...
Plus, as Brassens came from Sète, a harbour on the southern coast, he is having an accent from that area with a very local way of using French language. He is a national treasure.
He’s using metaphores and very rich vocabulary.
"Le temps ne fait rien à l'affaire... quand on est con... on est con..." il a eu de sacrées punchlines
Georges Brassens and Jacques Brel are beasts !! Poets and good singers !!
Léo ferré! il ne reste à mon avis plus que HFT de vivant parmi les grands
Georges Brassens is THE unparallelled, unequalled, un ... everything of the French post-war singers!
He was the last true French Poet, immensely talented and ever so modest (see how he's sweating, as he was at every public performance, out of shyness), which is what this song is about. The (gutter) Press often "reproached" him to be so private, at a time when everyone exposes (even in the horrible "reality shows") every detail of his/her private life.
He pursued a fantastic, yet quiet career and each and everyone of his songs is a gem admirably well written, in admirable French (it's such a pleasure to listen to our beautiful language not massacred as it is today!), with, always, more than a pinch of humour, and he was a fierce critic of our (sad) Society, but with an immense tenderness for women and "true" people and friends.
Naturally anti-clerical (like Jacques Brel), he scorched the Establishment and "The Church" but only gently mocked its humblest servants, the cops and priests "of good will".
You should listen to his "Gare au Gorille" [Beware of the Gorilla]! And so many more!
Gare au Gorillllllllllilllleux !
Sorry was a reflex...
Sincerely, seeing someone hearing Brassens for the first time bring me tears. You just experienced a huge blast of intelligence, humanity and "malice". Go on!
He is never so malicious than when he attacks the church. The discrete jokes are the best
"Je vis en bonne entente avec le pere Duval... Il me laisse dire merde, je lui laisse dire amen"
(En: "He lets me say 'shit', I let him say 'amen' ")
But amen is the religious saying for approval, so the priest... approves Brassens' shit 😆😆
Though the choir boy carrying up his balls like a holy sacrament (the host!) 🤣🤣ROFL
On fait partie de la même famille du coup ❤️ grand respect à vous !!
Un poète avec beaucoup d’humour et de dérision sur ce monde Monsieur Brassensssss (Georges Brassinsss 😊)
I have always loved Brassens since I was little, I even cried when I learned of his death because he was like the grandfather I didn't have, with his good face, his mustache, his pipe, his wisdom, the laughter in his eyes... Later I understood his songs and I loved him even more. He's one of the greatest, I still listen to him, I know his songs by heart. He comes from the south of France, hence the accent. He was an anarchist, anti-clerical, anti-death penalty, anti many things. but he loved his wife and his group of friends, whom he often talks about in his songs. A very wise and very human character. Who was not afraid to say his opinion and who had great poetry in his words.
And precisely his big hit "Gare au gorille" is a song against the death penalty 😏
One of my best friends, a Greek woman, knows all his repertory off by heart. I... only half!
I'm autistic, and I used to sing his songs aloud in the classroom when I was 15 🤭
@@XiaoVeen and against rape. and against public mockery. and...
Brassens was an anarchist, a freethinker. There are several songs you should listen to to make you a broad idea of the man he was. "La mauvaise réputation", "chanson pour l'auvergnat", "les copains d'abord" (an ode to friendship). His lyrics is so well written, poetry in music. Thx for the reaction.
Yes, a gentle anarchist, as the greatest artists often are, and especially in song Léo Ferré.
gare au gorille :)
La complainte des filles de joie.
La non demande en mariage est une magnifique chanson d'amour
All his songs are gems. "Pénélope", "La ballade des cimetières", "les ricochets" (what a song!!!), "La rose, la bouteille et la poignée de mains" (with chiseled verses, completely unexpected rhymes), "la marguerite" (multiple rhymes, a jewel, so simple in appearance but so complex and perfectly balanced). And so on, so on...
I am French, I live in France and I love your videos especially when you watch French songs. I know all these songs and your reactions and comments are really funny from my home. Bravo continue! 👍
Georges Brassens est Français, mais comme beaucoup de Sétois, il a aussi des origines italiennes du côté maternel.
Un de nos plus grands auteurs, compositeurs, interprètes et poète.
He made some very beautiful songs listen to "La mauvaise réputation", "L' orage", "La non demande en mariage", "Mourir pour des idées". Thanks for this vidéo, a very good choice.
george brassens "le pornographe du phonographe", a genius, the best part of french spirit, la gauloiserie toute en subtilité🤩
Ohh for sure !!?
Brassens, Brel et Ferrat are my favorite old french singers (sorry Brel was belgium but he sing in french). I like the way you appreciate his humor in this song!!!!!
@@endapian moi aussi, Brel, Brassens, Ferrat , le top gold
i strongly recommend you "mourir pour des idées", meaning "to die for your ideals". or "supplique pour être enterré sur une plage de sète" (supply to be burried on a beach of sete), "le testament" (the testimony), "la non demande en mariage" (the... i don't know how to translate this one. the wedding non demand ?). "stance a un cambrioleur" (poem for a burglar) is also excellent... this guy is really awesome i'm glad you started to discover him. by far the best french singer of all times.
It's not about accent but about language level. His words are in beautiful classical French. That's his specialty, saying scabrous things in a literary way, it adds to the comic effect ! But he also sings beautiful poetic songs.
"les passantes", lyrics from Antoine Pol.
Dans le genre, j'adore "Le fantôme", et notamment "La fessée", d'une malice incroyable.
le grand Brassens ! content qu'il te plaise (:
un grand homme avec des paroles top ah mr Brassens tu nous manque... j adore tes videos et ton francais super taff monsieur D ^^
Love that Brassens often laugh at his own jokes. Is it possible not to love him? And his language is pure gold. Such "tournures" as "sous prétexte de bruit, sous couleur de réclame, ai-je le droit de ternir l'honneur de cette dame ?", brilliant, magnificent. The perfect balance between classic French and iconoclast/modern ideas (he has been censored many times at the beginning of his career). Read his lyrics in French if you can. Top level poetry.
Censored and like all greats of the French literature, condemned by the church. My aunt says when she was young in the 60s, her husband (then fiance) would evict the ladies to listen to his songs. The girls could hear them behind shut doors, howling with laughter 😁😁
Then he'd go to the confessional and tell the priest "I'm sorry I couldn't resits father. He's just so good you see"🤣🤣🤣
Tu comprends pourquoi Georges Brassens fait parti des chateurs les plus populaire de France fouille et tu trouveras beaucoup de belle chanson. Hors mis ça cette chanson dénonce la bien pensance et cette manie que l'on a maintenant de tout connaitre sur tout le monde ce qu'ici on appelle la transparence. You understand why Georges Brassens is one of the most popular singers in France and you will find many beautiful songs. Apart from that, this song denounces good thinking and this mania that we now have to know everything about everyone, what here we call transparency.
Georges Brassens is a typical frenchman from post WWII time. He speaks a very good, and precise, french of that time he is also a real streets, fields and woods "poète". Da French one !
You are absolutly right: this kind of guy missing today.
Hello from Germany. ❤ This is a beautyful surprise. Here to find George Brassens! Saw a documentation about him in German TV. With translation and some backround informations. Nearly forgot about him. Thank you for your video. Really nice! ❤Oh, and I really have to look up a translation into with German subtitles. Hearing French, reading English and try to think German really killing me 😆
Now I found the song: Le gorille 😃and la cane de jeanne 😁
Maybe can we say that the German Brassens is Reinhard Mey...
@@XiaoVeen As I understand it, Brassen is a model for some German songwriters of the '68s, such as Reinhart Mey, Hannes Wader, Franz Josef Degenhardt and so on. There was also the club "Danny's Pan" by Danny Marino in Hamburg, where these musicians got to know him. Marino performed the Brassens songs in German.
@@WichtrudK I just know Reinhard because I'm french and he sang in french. For sure in any country since 60's or 70's there were folk-singer singing with just a guitar. I don't know if Brassens was a model in Germany, but for sure a precursor in France. I would compare him to Reinhard Mey because of the beautiful language, poetic and subtle.
In France, Brassens is a monument. He is dead now and he was from a little french city in the south name Sète
The prononciation of his name is Georges "Brassinse" 👍
He is french from french, and even for french, it's not always very simple to understand because he has à huge variety of words. His masterpiece has been studied by some scholars in France and they conclude that he was the french singer who used the more words. More than 7000, if I remember well. He made more than 400 songs and use a great variety of word : slung, regional, old- fashions, forgotten words, liturgical, scholars...
He is for me the greatest french speaking singer. I listen him almost everyday. It remind me my father👍
In (hein) , an, ,on (U non ) sont des diphtongues ,des sons prononcés entre deux tonalités (difficile à reproduire pour des non francophones)
Merci pour nous faire partager votre découverte de notre cher Georges.
Brassens is a legend. An undying legend!
A pure poet !
Quand j'étais enfant, chez mes parents, il y avait tout ses albums. Je connais tout par coeur, quel bonheur !
As a french, born and living in Sète, i knew the man when i was a little girl. He helped me to do my homeworks and i had no idea how famous he was !
His nieces and cousins became my friens later but i don"t know at this time who they are. Different Last name.
My favorite song is 'Supplique pour etre enterré sur la plage de Sète, amazing love song for his small city .
I wish talking english like you talking french, i so my best
Double chance : habitant Sète (j'adore cette ville), et avoir connu Brassens
@@gerardmanvussa1071 Je sais, mais j"étais toute petite, si je n'avais les photos de lui, chez moi, et le rappel constant, j'aurais pu oublier...
C'était le gentil papy de La Pointe, qui aimait les chats, et prenait l"apéro à la maison, en toute simplicité....
Preuve qu"on peut etre un génie du verbe, etre célèbre et apprécier avant tout les plaisirs simples avec ses " copains d"abord " !!!
Quelle chance.
"Pauvres rois pharaons, pauvre Napoléon
Pauvres grands disparus gisant au Panthéon
Pauvres cendres de conséquence
Vous envierez un peu l'éternel estivant
Qui fait du pédalo sur la vague en rêvant
Qui passe sa mort en vacances"
@@sandre_sandre Et il l"a fait ; Comme vous le savez certainement, il ne repose pas au Cimetière Marin, près de Jean Vilar et de Paul Valéry, surplombant la mer, mais au Cimetière Le Py, près de l"étang de Thau, le cimetière des pauvres, sous une simple dalle.....Comme un dernier pied de nez à ces Trompettes de la Renommée....
@@marjofrance83 salut voisin !!!
Even though he didn't have a great voice he is still a legend of the French music. He mastered the French language like nobody, sometimes very poetic, sometimes more funny or provocative like here. But many schools are named Ecole Georges Brassens. It shows how much his talent is recognized in France
Have heard "Gare au gorille" ?
Don't wait anymore 😊
Brassens was one of the best french poète. It's full of pub and clever rithms.
My passed neighbour, in her youth, was both one of his wife... And doctor. 😅😂
Georges was a genius
There will never be a guy like him because a genius always finds his own way
Absolute poetry.
Georges Brassens, le génie des mots.
Georges Brassens est celui qui à le beau langage avec toutes ses phrases qu'on ne ce sert plus aujourd'hui . Avec Brel ce sont de merveilleux artiste .
He was French from France. It’s true that it occupies a very special place in French song. Very beautiful texts, even if we often retain those that shocked. He was sometimes censored if I remember correctly. But he was simple and kind. He is one of the very good artists of that era.
Georges Brassens was friends with Jacques Brel and Lino Ventura among others, these songs are magnificent and very diverse, you have to listen to "Le Cocu", "Les Patriotes", and my favorite "Les Passantes" on a poem by Antoine Pol, if you have to listen to only one and if you are sensitive to poetry, it will more than make your day.
Génialissime Georges Brassens, je me demande si ses tournures de phrases passent aussi bien dans la langue de Shakespeare
C'est une question intéressante, je pense que non. Chaque langue a ses tournures, donc une bonne traduction ne doit pas être trop littérale, alors en plus avec un texte versifié ça paraît mission impossible...
Une autre question est de savoir si les tournures de Shakespeare passent aussi bien dans la langue de Molière 😅
@@XiaoVeen C'était plutôt une question rhétorique, déjà qu'en français certaines de ses chansons demandent pas mal d'attention
@@13beretvert C'est vrai, surtout qu'il emprunte beaucoup à la langue classique, dont on n'a plus l'habitude.
the thing is he uses multiple vocabularies and levels of meaning, so while on paper it's "only words you'd find in a dictionary", in reality there's a lot of subtlety hidden.
Brassens come from Sète in France, meditaréan beach. Bravo for your curiosity, George is a shining jewel
Brassens is THE french singer. Hi from France by the way.
Sous son air de ne rien dire, il dénonce beaucoup.. un vrai poète 👌🏻
Une intelligence rare et subtile, une prolongation du siècle des Lumières..
Merci Georges
Il n'a jamais voulu avoir d'enfants..pour ne pas qu'ils évoluent dans ce nouveau monde en perdition.
This is so actual !
That one of my favorit of this man. You can listenning ' Les passantes' his best for me. 'l'auvergnat ' that song we learn on school. His french for city sete in south france. The ' supplique pour etre entérrer a sete ' is fantastic too .
Georges Brassens vocabulary is very refined (? i don't know if we say that). He is more a poet than a singer
👍👍👍👍👍il est français , du sud 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍🇨🇭
Un vrai poète qui sait dire les choses de la vie.
I expected you to listen to him for such a long time... and now you do with my favourite song ❤❤❤ thanks so much !
He was a poet and he had such a vaste vocabulary and the skill to put words together and give them the power of an uppercut !
I think he is far ahead of Jacques Brel (they were pals).
I wish you could listen to « Le Temps Ne Fait Rien à l’Affaire » :
quand on est con, on est con !
means : age doesn’t matter, when you’re stupid, you’re stupid.
An also « Les Funérailles d’Antan » (Old time functions) !
PS : The final S of Brassens is not silent.
Brassens Brel Léo Ferré les 3 fantastiques !
Excellent, tellement bien écrit c'est un grand poète intemporel, il faut vraiment écouter le texte de toutes ses chansons. Il utilise un plus large vocabulaire. J'habite près de Sete ( sud de la France) sa ville natale et là où il repose
Such a poet... my haunt sing his songs for me when I was a little kid and fourty years after I still have emotions any time I heard this guitar...and the lyrics .
You mean your aunt not haunt👻.
@@LizzieJaneBennet yes sorry I'm french and my english is not perfect...
Brassens was the first French artist to perform on stage with just his guitar and the bass player. His model was Québec "chansonnier" Félix Leclerc who invented this style in 1934 with his first song "Notre sentier".
Brassens was French from Provence.
George Brassens (one should pronounce the trailing 's' ) is a French national treasure.
Bonjour l’ami,
Plus encore que pour Jacques Brel , les sous-titres sont nécessaires..
Pour moi le GOAT de la chanson Française !
Thank you friend 😜
Le grand Brassens !!!
GOAT
well this song is still a good topic....Brassens a huge poet .....please listen to "gare au gorille" or "les copains d'abord"....thank you so much
I quote a commentary I read in the Guardian, from a Brit living in France: "Brassens is a one-man cultural victory"
I love Brassens so much. I don't if you know this one but I love 95%, Hécatombe and my favourite is Les Oiseaux de Passage.
I'm happy to see you listening this song , bravo internet :)
Brassens je l'attendais, incontournable
Le merveilleux Georges Brassens ! il était censuré sur la Radio
Magnifique !
the S at the end of is name is pronounced. Georges Brassens is a man born in the south of France. Listen this 2 very beautiful song : "Supplique pour être enterré à la plage de Sète" and "les passantes".
Hello Uncle D, 🌴🌞
Hahaha, sacred Brassens, so funny! 😅
If you want to laugh, try: "Brave Margot", "hécatombe", "Quand on est c, on est c", "Gare au gorille" and "Quatre-vingt quinze pour cent".
One of his most famous hits is: "Je me suis fait tout petit". I translated this song into English on lyrics translate (same pseudonym).
Peace, folks. ☮👈😎
Brassens was a Frenchman and, as far as I know, self-taught when it came to the elevated language. He created songs with such a sophisticated vocabulary that even I as a Swiss German with many years of French lessons can understand easily.
At this very moment, where anybody wants a shot of glory through social networks, TV, movies, this song is a lesson. Not to mention the level of French language which is at a summit and matches a poetry level which can't be ignored. The English translation is quite good, but it cannot translate the music of words, and believe me Brassens was at his best.
Yet another legend! He was a non-violent anarchist who never gave in to political correctness. I love him so much. You'll find that some of is songs are as provocative as Pu$$y from Rammstein, and at the same time he wrote beautiful love songs.
Great video !! You may like "La mauvaise réputation", you'll even find a cover by Sinsemillia (French reggae band).
Your French is amazing by the way.
He was French, from the south, his lyrics are a mix of old words and expressions, slang and common French. He could make the French language sound and rhyme like nobody else. Very hard to sing his songs even though they seem easy.
´Si je puis m’exprimer ainsi ´ de Fernandel chanson humoristique montre une France après guerre avec un humour irrévérencieux mais tellement bien écrit et interprété
Ça pourrait te faire sourire voir plus😉
Grand salut de France
You should do "la non demande en mariage", i believe there is a version with eng subtitles, which is a beautifully written and powerful song
Seriously you had to try "allo Olga" by Pierre Peret, fun fact he is married to an american women in the song, 100% funny
Brassensssssss (pronounce the last S) . I was born and raised in his city of Sète ( "sett" ) on the french mediterranean coast. Never met him, was born 3 days after his death in '81, but was raised with his songs.
Lyrics qualities are amazing !
Bravo Bravo 👏👍👏❤❤❤
The s at the end of his name is sounded. He was immensely popular in France until his death. He remained a very simple and modest man and as he said in this song, he was very discreet about his private life. The closest he came to making confidences are the songs La Jeanne and L’Auvergnat.
I'm french. This singer (poet) is my hero. But his name is Brassens (not Brassen) like "sense"
Thank you Mister D
If you begin with Georges Brassens, you have it for a while. One of our best authors. And if you put these songs in the context of the years they were written, you can understand that some were banned from the radio. I suggest you : "La mauvaise réputation", "Le Gorille", "Chanson pour l'Auvergnat", "L'orage", "Le temps ne fait rien à l'affaire", "Les copains d'abord", etc...
Brassens was always surprised by his enormous success, because he considered himself a simple craftsman, who laboriously assembles words and chords as a carpenter might make a pretty table, nothing more. He began to make songs to entertain his friends, nothing more. But there was more 😏
Brassens was one of our Epic singers :) (with Jacque Brel, but that last one was belgian so that not counts).
His words always been brattish and provocative. His mind always been free and anarchist.
PS : Someaday, you should try "Inceste de Citron" from Serge Gainsbourg
Brassens shoots these powerful words like a Minigun 🤣
La chanson le gorille , excellent. De Georges brassens
Chanson croustillante au premier abord qui cache pourtant un message très sérieux... la peine de mort. Pratique à laquelle ils était farouchement opposé.
I love him ! Listen to "L'Hecatombe" de Georges Brassens :)
Mr Brassens is a poet even in this song. It's a big middle finger to response to his record company, which wanted to encourage him to show himself more for the needs of the publicity cause. Brassens expresses his reluctance to display his private life in public. When it was released, the song was censored
So many songs during his carrere, "Les copains d'abord", "La chanson de l'auvergnat", "le temps ne fait rien a l'affaire", "Je me suis fait tout petit", "les amoureux des bancs publics", "une jolie fleur dans une peau de vache", " le gorille", "les sabots d'Hélène", "Auprès de mon arbre", "La canne de Jeanne", "Les croquants", "Le pornographe"........
g.e.n.i.e 😁 encore ! encore !
People didn't really have way thicker skin, he got censored many times. But artists like him had a spine.
And you can love him for a looooong time because he's made soooooooo many songs. A life time of fun ehead with George. Friend of Jack and as brilliant has he was, George was not a misogynistik ass hole like Jack, and no, he's not Belge, he's from south of France, but he has no accent at all, you're just not use to the way he writes and the foisonnant richness of his vocabulary, it comes with time, keep listening to his songs, you will become really good in french, better than most french people i'd say.🤣
I'm making this comment just to give some context for English speakers who are passing by. the trumpets of fame was the name of a press article on the famous personalities of the time, the journalist Duval had written an article denouncing that Georges Brassens did not have a very interesting private life, this song is the response of Brassens to this article to make fun of the people magazines that's why he uses quite daring terms it's to prove the stupidity of this kind of thing
The final S of Brassens is sonorous Bra-sin-s. But he is a great great man and his texts are chiseled and poetic.
Genius
you must pronounce the s at the end of his name. He is one of the legend here in France like Brel and Ferré. He got a little accent from the south-west of France.
He also reacts to BELANOVA-TUS OJOS or SOLO DOS from the album CANCIONES PARA LA LUNA the video.