JohnathanLingo Nice analysis. That said, “Mad Men” itself embraced and projected the evil world of today instead of 1960 so much that, for me, it was all downhill after this episode and I could no longer watch it. Aside from the exquisite and nostalgic costume and set design, it was more like “LA Law” projected onto a troubled but, as I recall, sincerely more innocent and idealistic time, though the 1960s rapidly deteriorated into the present, so perhaps it was accurate at the cutting edge.
I love this scene too...the song is fantastic. And the directing! The way they show the various characters doing whatever they are doing. It’s how a good show develops great characters. It’s like you see each characters soul. I’m not sure that made sense but hard to explain!!!
If you watched this show from the beginning and hadn't been completely transfixed and mesmerized by this point, this heartbreaking montage should have done the trick. If this song, with its visual accompanyment, did not break your heart...you may not have one. This is one gorgeous scene, and one of my favorites
True. I am getting into the show right now, attracted mainly because of how much I like period shows, and even though the quality of the show has been fairly high so far, getting to this moment yesterday really proved something of a tipping point. It feels like they've purposedly spent the first six hours building the set pieces, setting the mood, only to announce in this episode that all of that will be picked apart through the small cracks they've been hinting at so far. Perfect choice of music, too. This is, after all, an ensemble of exiles.
The deeper meanings in this scene give me chills for so long. Don Draper, the king with his kingdom, listening to this of all songs. The jewelry store owner, the mom teaching the daughter how to be a "woman." The disgust in Don's face. The affair in the hotel, how they leave separately... Whoever wrote this sequence is a genius.
@@chrismorris6865 The woman laying out the ties on the counter is the first Jewish client (and first Jewish woman) Don has dealt with, and he's conflicted about her. The choice of song underscores his dilemma, and the plight of women in the 60s, seen especially in the unbalanced final shot of Roger up and Joan down.
Agreed but give the 2008 Sam Mendes film 'Revolutionary Road' a watch. Hits on a lot of the same themes around the American Dream, marriage, disappointment, self and public perception, trying to be true to yourself & lying to yourself. The book is also good.
What I'd like to see is a similar series, I've even written a pilot, set in New York again following middle class young professionals and college aged young adults in the year 1990. Finish the series up in 2002. Follow the 1990s and the general peace and economic security the western world seen throughout that decade following the fall of the USSR, only for the west to get a rude awakening on 9/11. End it in 2002 as the war in Iraq is in full swing and the US/Canada/Europe grow increasingly worried about the century ahead (rightly so as we now know). The decade of innocence. We are almost as far now from the 1990s as we were drom the 1960s in 2006 when this show began production. A few years and its fair game. So much to tell. The first generation to live in an somewhat digitized world, the beginning of a move towards greater LGBT rights, the booming economy, the punk culture, the .com bubble, the post soviet political climate, AIDS ending as an epidemic, the rise of the Internet and its changes, cellphones. It would be a fun comparison to mad men. The parents of Gen Z and young millenials vs the parents of boomers and Gen X in mad men. The changes they lived through and how that then went on to affect the youth and adult lives of their kids in our world today.
This is such a masterful scene with so many loaded details. Don, disdainful at first, getting caught up in the song, thinking about Rachel? Israel? his own life? Rachel still at work and alone, thinking about Don. Betty teaching small Sally how to be pretty, as it’s all a girl needs, but no doubt still thinking about getting old and losing her looks. Roger and Joan, almost solemn, so divided and alone on the pavement. And the bird in the gilded cage.
@@forensicdar Just remember to stick with it. The first season may feel like a very high effort family guy knock off but as the show progresses it'll get much closer to that Mad Men feel, heck, the main inspiration for the show were Mad Men and Breaking Bad so take what you will for that. It really gets it's footing in season 3 tho, everything after that point are my absolute favourite seasons of television.
@@Gesellschaft_kritisieren_lol The episode never gave us an opinion on it you moron. It only used the idea of Israel as a metaphor for how Don feels, the situation he's in. What a dumb comment.
Damn. Just saw the episode for the first time minutes ago and this song made me chill. Found it here and watching it again do makes me think in perspective.
Actually, it's about Rachel telling Don how Utopia also means "impossible" and Don realizing, even though it looks like he's been enjoying his own Babylon, his life isn't as perfect as it appears to be and has hidden flaws inside; too good to be true, like Zion. Just because it's too deep for you to understand, it doesn't mean it's meaningless.
One of the best episode which ends with this simple but so powerful song...just tears me up inside. "By the waters, the waters, of Babylon. We lay down and wept, and wept, for thee Zion. We remember thee, remember thee, remember thee Zion."
It is weird. Whenever I watch this video, I feel the same thing and I can feel and remember the feeling that I felt after watch this scene for the very first time.
One of my favorite scenes also; what completes it is that the traffic noise is played through the credits -- it really draws out the discomfort inherent in Joan and Roger standing on the curb, waiting for their respective rides. They won't acknowledge each other but they can't ignore each other either. Pure genius.
God, I'd forgotten how good the 1st season was until I recently rewatched it. It was probably better than The Sopranos that year, and that had its best season in years in 2007.
This episode got me absolutely hooked on this show. Just finished watching it. Before this episode I was enjoying but I wasn’t fully invested, now I’m committed to seeing out every episode
Psalm 137:1 There we sat down by the rivers of Babylon; also, we wept when we remembered Zion. 2 We hung our lyres on the willows in its midst. 3 For there our captors demanded a song from us; and our plunderers demanded gladness, saying, Sing us one of the songs of Zion. 4 How shall we sing Jehovah's song in a foreign land? 5 If I forget you, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget. 6 If I do not remember you, let my tongue cling to the roof of my mouth; if I do not prefer Jerusalem above my chief joy. 7 Remember, O Jehovah, the sons of Edom in the day of Jerusalem; who said, Make it bare! Make it bare, even to the foundation of it! 8 O daughter of Babylon, O destroyed one! Blessed is he who will repay to you your reward which you rewarded to us. 9 Blessed is he who seizes and dashes your little ones against the stones.
I feel so connected to this song and feel like crying when I hear it. Maybe we are all uprooted from our homes and can connect to the emotion of this song ❤️
Don is "weeping" ,perhaps, for his own Zion - his childhood in another place with another name. Zion is home - no matter how unromantic. Roger appears completely vacant. Not lost, not he is unselfconsciously at home in NYC . Surely the new Babylon and Roger the new Babylonian.
One little thing; the song is called Waters of Babylon. I tried to find Rivers of Babylon on Spotify and I ended up with a couple of dozen different reggae songs 😅
I would probably never have been mesmerized by this chant had I not been introduced to it at camp 54 years ago to commemorate Tisha B'Av, the day that laments the destruction of the First and Second Temples and the Babylonian exile. Now, as my lifetime winds down to an end, it expresses every imaginable type of hurt that seems beyond resolution.
I had immediate recollection of this scene upon hearing the Don McLean version this morning. Truly one of the best moments from the series, and a fantastic song.
Rachel is wearing a blouse with poppies on them, poppies are a symbol of soldiers who died in combat. It’s still popular in Great-Britain to wear a poppy on remembrance day.
Everybody says that season one is by far the least accomplished of all six seasons so far, but I think it's pretty underrated. Season one is about on par with seasons two and six. The pilot, "Red in the Face," "Nixon vs. Kennedy," "The Wheel..." so many good episodes in S1.
"The Wheel"-- an amazing episode: Don gives a pitch for "the Carousel" straight from the heart. Peggy and her "basket of kisses"-- Peggy's growth in this season from prim and naive to ambitious and talented, and struck down at the end in an event that totally shocked me when I first saw it. Her despairing denial.
do they say that? i thought it was an amazingly assured debut season. everytime i rewatch a season of mad men on dvd i like it more. thats the sign of art over entertainment. repeat viewings enhance rather than diminish appreciation.
définitivement mon moment favori de tous les épisodes de Madmen . Atmosphere incroyable, et ça n'a rien à voir avec Zion ou l'Ïle aux enfants ou quoi que ce soit, c'est la sincérité de ces chanteurs juxtaposée à la décadence de l'Amérique des sixties qui produit cette émotion. Merci pour le post
Hey there -- This is an absolutely gorgeous montage. Brilliant use of the old tune. For those who are asking, the music is actually a round by 18th C Boston composer William Billings -- who may have written it to lament the British occupation of Boston during the American Revolutionary War. Poor old Billings doesn't get enough credit for his lovely tune. This scene was amazing. Thanks for posting! -- mta
Season One of Mad Men is by far my favorite. This song and the images that accompany it are so powerful and moving coming at the end of this sad episode. The loss it expresses--Don neglecting his family,, Joannie rejecting Sterling--not to mention the entire world of Judaism and the anti-semitism that Don can scarcely understand in himself or his lover--even as he seeks out Jewish women. And then of course how the world in the sixties are changing irrevocably. "We lay down and wept, and wept for thee, Zion."
my favorite scene in the entire series. Really resonated with me for where I was in life when I first watched this episode. I've never had a scene on television match up like that for me before or since.
Tevrat Mezmurlar 137 Melodi D. McLean Babil ırmakları kıyısında oturup Siyon'u andıkça ağladık; Kavaklara Lirlerimizi astık. Çünkü orada bizi tutsak edenler bizden ezgiler, Bize zulmedenler bizden şenlik istiyor, "Siyon ezgilerinden birini okuyun bize!" diyorlardı. Nasıl okuyabiliriz RAB'bin ezgisini el toprağında? Ey Yeruşalayim (Kudus), seni unutursam, Sağ elim kurusun.Seni anmaz, Yeruşalayim'i en büyük sevincimden üstün tutmazsam, Dilim damağıma yapışsın!
This particular scene gives out a very creative screenplay and fresh writing technique of the show creators. And many scenes like this keep on coming showing what makes mad men the show that started with a simple point explored very creatively
This scene is my absolute favorite favorite favorite out of the (literally) ENTIRE SERIES. It epitomizes nearly the entire story at that Very Moment and at what might be the deepest emotional/artistic truth-level possible - right then and there - early in the series. I'll stop there because I don't want to be negative - (though you can't change what you don't acknowledge). Nonetheless, I like madmen... - a Lot, but... I think they missed the boat in some ways. Lastly... Hamm was casting perfection - absolutely. But All the other actors were as well - for sure.
This is one of my favorite episodes of mad men, and psalm 137 is my favorite bible passage, but I never connected the two until I re-watched the episode. Such lament for some ideal that could not be had in reality.
I think this is the most perfectly choreographed closing sequence of a Mad Men episode -- the alienation of individuals on many levels and tying into Don's affair with the Jewish department store heiress.
And the last scene where Joan and Ro9ger stand apart waiting for their cabs "like a Hopper painting". The camera angles downward to the left depicting the lesser position in life that Joan has in comparison to Roger...the "opressed" and the "oppresser"...Babylon!
For Don his “Zion” is a permanent place of happiness and belonging which seems to escape him… currently he is seeking happiness with Rachel, to feel a place of belonging for just a moment, but as always it’s short lived Like the Jewish population has been in exile, Don also feels he’s been in exile his whole life, without a place to call home.. he doesn’t feel like he belongs even among his own family.. he lives a lie everyday, and even though there are people who seem to admire and love him he doesn’t feel like they truly know him because of the facade he lives. So when they look at Don they are really looking at stranger and not at the real him. This makes him feel disconnected with everyone around him, and is the main source of his loneliness
Taken from Psalms 137, the lyrics, which are about longing for Zion, are appropriate for this episode. While Don's encounter with the overly pragmatic Israeli tourism executives, or his conversation right before this scene, did little to threaten the notions guiding his capitalistic and hedonistic lifestyle, his discussion with Ms. Menken about Zion, which can be understood as a discourse on a possible meaning in life, appears to have moved him. Roger, on the other hand, is happy in Babylon.
Love this song! Babylon....Lyrics from Psalm 137 Music arranged by Don McLean and Lee Hays (of The Weavers) based on a canon by Philip Hayes (18th century composer ) Performed by David Carbonara
EDIT from Bonnie K I don't know who performs this song in Mad Men... probably not David Carbonara who is the music composer for Mad Men but maybe not this song....Don't know...PLEASE...who is performing?? They are amazing!
By the waters, the waters of Babylon We lay down and wept, and wept, for thee Zion We remember thee, remember thee, remember thee Zion By the waters, the waters of Babylon We lay down and wept, and wept, for thee Zion We remember thee, remember thee, remember thee Zion By the waters, the waters of Babylon We lay down and wept, and wept, for thee Zion We remember thee, remember thee, remember thee Zion
Correction: the song is nothing more than the words of Psalm 137, verse 1 set to a melody written by Philip Hayes in 18th century England. Don McLean merely wrote this cover of the same tune.
it's what i am. all i can think of is that it's saying the change that everyone goes through, is the same for everyone, therefore ''the same''. anyway, it's been nice. i'll just keep viewing it as an amazing show :)
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Mad Men will be considered one of the greatest tv series of the first half of the 21st Century in decades to come. It's sublime. Perfect.
I agree!
this scene is a masterpiece. i watch it every once in a while. thanks mad men.
Yep I completely agree and I can't even work out exactly why. But about 4 bars in Don is caught by it.Some sort of sadness in the sound of it
JohnathanLingo Nice analysis. That said, “Mad Men” itself embraced and projected the evil world of today instead of 1960 so much that, for me, it was all downhill after this episode and I could no longer watch it. Aside from the exquisite and nostalgic costume and set design, it was more like “LA Law” projected onto a troubled but, as I recall, sincerely more innocent and idealistic time, though the 1960s rapidly deteriorated into the present, so perhaps it was accurate at the cutting edge.
I love this scene too...the song is fantastic. And the directing! The way they show the various characters doing whatever they are doing. It’s how a good show develops great characters. It’s like you see each characters soul. I’m not sure that made sense but hard to explain!!!
Ditto. Masterful scene and one that convinced me to follow the series.
@@JohnathanLingo - you sir, I like. Are you a filmmaker sir?? We Must Meet.
"Eutopos, the good place, and utopos, the place that cannot be..."
"and every paradise is a paradise lost"
I love how she said that.."Eutopos"..The place that can not be! Love it
If you watched this show from the beginning and hadn't been completely transfixed and mesmerized by this point, this heartbreaking montage should have done the trick. If this song, with its visual accompanyment, did not break your heart...you may not have one. This is one gorgeous scene, and one of my favorites
True. I am getting into the show right now, attracted mainly because of how much I like period shows, and even though the quality of the show has been fairly high so far, getting to this moment yesterday really proved something of a tipping point. It feels like they've purposedly spent the first six hours building the set pieces, setting the mood, only to announce in this episode that all of that will be picked apart through the small cracks they've been hinting at so far.
Perfect choice of music, too. This is, after all, an ensemble of exiles.
Shortbread!! Yes - Couldn't agree MORE with your comment.
Utterly correct.
@@thegrimner - and Once again (after SB71's comment)... Yes. So true. Very true.
Man! what a comment !!!
What's so heartbreaking? They are just singing a song, there's nothing emotional about this !
The deeper meanings in this scene give me chills for so long. Don Draper, the king with his kingdom, listening to this of all songs. The jewelry store owner, the mom teaching the daughter how to be a "woman." The disgust in Don's face. The affair in the hotel, how they leave separately...
Whoever wrote this sequence is a genius.
Why the disgust?
Don’t forget that he was with his mistress
Honestly I can't say I really get it but it's well done.
@@chrismorris6865 The woman laying out the ties on the counter is the first Jewish client (and first Jewish woman) Don has dealt with, and he's conflicted about her. The choice of song underscores his dilemma, and the plight of women in the 60s, seen especially in the unbalanced final shot of Roger up and Joan down.
By far the most powerful of scenes in any tv series
Agreed
They STILL have not made another drama like Mad Men since it's gone off the air.
But wait? There will be a remake!
Agreed but give the 2008 Sam Mendes film 'Revolutionary Road' a watch. Hits on a lot of the same themes around the American Dream, marriage, disappointment, self and public perception, trying to be true to yourself & lying to yourself. The book is also good.
Try Halt and Catch Fire
Bojack Horseman
What I'd like to see is a similar series, I've even written a pilot, set in New York again following middle class young professionals and college aged young adults in the year 1990. Finish the series up in 2002. Follow the 1990s and the general peace and economic security the western world seen throughout that decade following the fall of the USSR, only for the west to get a rude awakening on 9/11. End it in 2002 as the war in Iraq is in full swing and the US/Canada/Europe grow increasingly worried about the century ahead (rightly so as we now know). The decade of innocence.
We are almost as far now from the 1990s as we were drom the 1960s in 2006 when this show began production. A few years and its fair game.
So much to tell. The first generation to live in an somewhat digitized world, the beginning of a move towards greater LGBT rights, the booming economy, the punk culture, the .com bubble, the post soviet political climate, AIDS ending as an epidemic, the rise of the Internet and its changes, cellphones.
It would be a fun comparison to mad men. The parents of Gen Z and young millenials vs the parents of boomers and Gen X in mad men.
The changes they lived through and how that then went on to affect the youth and adult lives of their kids in our world today.
no, this is one of the most powerful scenes in all shows in the world.
Gökhan Kapıcı 🤦♂️
I love that lasst shot. This isn't good television, this is good filmmaking.
hard to tell the difference these days!!!
The guy to the right of the singer/mandolin player is the music writer and genius score composer of Mad Men. David Carbonara.
Justin S. Carie wow.
Cool, did not know that
Wow. Didn't know. Love Carbonara tho. Song of India that he improvised is amazinggg
The man is a genius, Mad Men has an awesome track list
Indeed beautiful. A Don McLean song.
This is such a masterful scene with so many loaded details. Don, disdainful at first, getting caught up in the song, thinking about Rachel? Israel? his own life? Rachel still at work and alone, thinking about Don. Betty teaching small Sally how to be pretty, as it’s all a girl needs, but no doubt still thinking about getting old and losing her looks. Roger and Joan, almost solemn, so divided and alone on the pavement. And the bird in the gilded cage.
...the bird in the gilded cage.
I. Like that detail.
Will anything ever be as good as this show was? I fear not
Try Bojack Horseman, it will fit your bill
@@shlokwaghela9560 hey, you AND my daughter have now both recommended that. I'm going to tune in tonight. Thx!!
@@forensicdar Just remember to stick with it. The first season may feel like a very high effort family guy knock off but as the show progresses it'll get much closer to that Mad Men feel, heck, the main inspiration for the show were Mad Men and Breaking Bad so take what you will for that. It really gets it's footing in season 3 tho, everything after that point are my absolute favourite seasons of television.
I'll always remember this serie with this song. And this scene.
Sublime. Best two minutes of TV in the last 20 years.
Best song I've ever heard from any television series.. excellent! won my heart..❤️
It’s not from the show, it’s Don McLean!
A wise youtuber once commented:
“ Why is the ending of every episode of this series so fucking great ?”
This episode (Season 1, Episode 6) was phenomenal. This wrap gave me chills.
ZenFox the whole Episode was Zionist Propaganda! 😂😂😂
@@Gesellschaft_kritisieren_lol The episode never gave us an opinion on it you moron. It only used the idea of Israel as a metaphor for how Don feels, the situation he's in. What a dumb comment.
11 yıldır hiç bıkmadan dinliyorum ne güzel bir şeysin sen...
ben de 4 senedir arada bir gelir dinlerim. yeri cok ayri
Bir bu, bir de Shahdaroba şarkısı. İkisi de en az Mad Men dizisi kadar güzel
I can never get tired of watching this scene... it has everything , what a song, what a show. The best ever
Damn. Just saw the episode for the first time minutes ago and this song made me chill.
Found it here and watching it again do makes me think in perspective.
Actually, it's about Rachel telling Don how Utopia also means "impossible" and Don realizing, even though it looks like he's been enjoying his own Babylon, his life isn't as perfect as it appears to be and has hidden flaws inside; too good to be true, like Zion. Just because it's too deep for you to understand, it doesn't mean it's meaningless.
Batuhan Sündal And Roger and Joan are a Babylon as well.
Aferin la batu güzel yorum
@@canvarl2717 bay kemal de beğendi aferin
I never said it (?) was meaningless. I don’t understand this: are you referring to my comment or someone else’s? Thank you!😃
@@sallywhite7678 I don't see a comment from you; my reply appears as the original post to me.
One of the best episode which ends with this simple but so powerful song...just tears me up inside.
"By the waters, the waters, of Babylon.
We lay down and wept, and wept, for thee Zion.
We remember thee, remember thee, remember thee Zion."
It is weird. Whenever I watch this video, I feel the same thing and I can feel and remember the feeling that I felt after watch this scene for the very first time.
Such a powerful and well done scene.
It's just so utterly perfect
One of my favorite scenes also; what completes it is that the traffic noise is played through the credits -- it really draws out the discomfort inherent in Joan and Roger standing on the curb, waiting for their respective rides. They won't acknowledge each other but they can't ignore each other either. Pure genius.
Beautiful song for one of the best tv series ever made.
God, I'd forgotten how good the 1st season was until I recently rewatched it. It was probably better than The Sopranos that year, and that had its best season in years in 2007.
i listen to this song while unwillingly getting ready for work in slow motion.
This episode got me absolutely hooked on this show. Just finished watching it. Before this episode I was enjoying but I wasn’t fully invested, now I’m committed to seeing out every episode
in love with every second of this scene.
Psalm 137:1 There we sat down by the rivers of Babylon; also, we wept when we remembered Zion.
2 We hung our lyres on the willows in its midst. 3 For there our captors demanded a song from us; and our plunderers demanded gladness, saying, Sing us one of the songs of Zion. 4 How shall we sing Jehovah's song in a foreign land? 5 If I forget you, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget. 6 If I do not remember you, let my tongue cling to the roof of my mouth; if I do not prefer Jerusalem above my chief joy. 7 Remember, O Jehovah, the sons of Edom in the day of Jerusalem; who said, Make it bare! Make it bare, even to the foundation of it! 8 O daughter of Babylon, O destroyed one! Blessed is he who will repay to you your reward which you rewarded to us. 9 Blessed is he who seizes and dashes your little ones against the stones.
I feel so connected to this song and feel like crying when I hear it. Maybe we are all uprooted from our homes and can connect to the emotion of this song ❤️
This song is the waters of babylon. Rivers of Babylon is different.
+grattongal Same theme, though, the Babylonian exile of the Jews.
Don is "weeping" ,perhaps, for his own Zion - his childhood in another place with another name. Zion is home - no matter how unromantic.
Roger appears completely vacant. Not lost, not he is unselfconsciously at home in NYC . Surely the new Babylon and Roger the new Babylonian.
I'm not an expert on television and film, but is Mad Men one of the best shows ever? I think it is just fantastic
It really is. Only show I would rate slightly above it is the Sopranos.
And breaking bad
One little thing; the song is called Waters of Babylon. I tried to find Rivers of Babylon on Spotify and I ended up with a couple of dozen different reggae songs 😅
Don McLean does this song...it’s on RUclips.
@@gailwebb9619 I know. He's also on Spotify.
Don McLean's Babylon brought me here.
I feel the need to rewatch Mad Men now!
Still loving this show.
Binge watching while we all have to stay home.
I would probably never have been mesmerized by this chant had I not been introduced to it at camp 54 years ago to commemorate Tisha B'Av, the day that laments the destruction of the First and Second Temples and the Babylonian exile. Now, as my lifetime winds down to an end, it expresses every imaginable type of hurt that seems beyond resolution.
Linda Wilson Jesus, that’s beautiful
It really hits different for Jewish people ❤
Without this song, reggae wouldn't exist.
I played this for a whole day on loop
I just played it like 10 times consecutively
i cried a lot at this :(
What a truly stunning and moving piece of singing
I had immediate recollection of this scene upon hearing the Don McLean version this morning. Truly one of the best moments from the series, and a fantastic song.
Rachel is wearing a blouse with poppies on them, poppies are a symbol of soldiers who died in combat. It’s still popular in Great-Britain to wear a poppy on remembrance day.
Everybody says that season one is by far the least accomplished of all six seasons so far, but I think it's pretty underrated. Season one is about on par with seasons two and six.
The pilot, "Red in the Face," "Nixon vs. Kennedy," "The Wheel..." so many good episodes in S1.
"The Wheel"-- an amazing episode: Don gives a pitch for "the Carousel" straight from the heart. Peggy and her "basket of kisses"-- Peggy's growth in this season from prim and naive to ambitious and talented, and struck down at the end in an event that totally shocked me when I first saw it. Her despairing denial.
do they say that? i thought it was an amazingly assured debut season. everytime i rewatch a season of mad men on dvd i like it more. thats the sign of art over entertainment. repeat viewings enhance rather than diminish appreciation.
I know this is late, but also episode 4 I think, New Amsterdam, was very good. Loved the ending with Pete looking out over the city.
définitivement mon moment favori de tous les épisodes de Madmen . Atmosphere incroyable, et ça n'a rien à voir avec Zion ou l'Ïle aux enfants ou quoi que ce soit, c'est la sincérité de ces chanteurs juxtaposée à la décadence de l'Amérique des sixties qui produit cette émotion. Merci pour le post
Hey there -- This is an absolutely gorgeous montage. Brilliant use of the old tune. For those who are asking, the music is actually a round by 18th C Boston composer William Billings -- who may have written it to lament the British occupation of Boston during the American Revolutionary War.
Poor old Billings doesn't get enough credit for his lovely tune.
This scene was amazing. Thanks for posting!
-- mta
Thanks so much
This is an insanely good scene
Season One of Mad Men is by far my favorite. This song and the images that accompany it are so powerful and moving coming at the end of this sad episode. The loss it expresses--Don neglecting his family,, Joannie rejecting Sterling--not to mention the entire world of Judaism and the anti-semitism that Don can scarcely understand in himself or his lover--even as he seeks out Jewish women. And then of course how the world in the sixties are changing irrevocably. "We lay down and wept, and wept for thee, Zion."
Still the best season, and the best moment of the series in my opinion
this song is strange and emotional its one of the songs that you can feel and the emotion with or without it's lyrics
I love this show and this song!
Remember this song
...long time...and ... excellent.. scene... waves of memory .... eternity streams...
my favorite scene in the entire series. Really resonated with me for where I was in life when I first watched this episode. I've never had a scene on television match up like that for me before or since.
Excellent 👌
The most beautiful moment of the show, by far.
amazing, fantastic, crazy good!
Tevrat Mezmurlar 137 Melodi D. McLean
Babil ırmakları kıyısında oturup Siyon'u andıkça ağladık;
Kavaklara Lirlerimizi astık.
Çünkü orada bizi tutsak edenler bizden ezgiler, Bize zulmedenler bizden şenlik istiyor, "Siyon ezgilerinden birini okuyun bize!" diyorlardı.
Nasıl okuyabiliriz RAB'bin ezgisini el toprağında?
Ey Yeruşalayim (Kudus), seni unutursam, Sağ elim kurusun.Seni anmaz, Yeruşalayim'i en büyük sevincimden üstün tutmazsam, Dilim damağıma yapışsın!
I just started watching the first season and was absolutely floored by this episode. I think your comment is right on target.
This particular scene gives out a very creative screenplay and fresh writing technique of the show creators. And many scenes like this keep on coming showing what makes mad men the show that started with a simple point explored very creatively
this an excellent show and this just brings it to full circle
This scene is my absolute favorite favorite favorite out of the (literally) ENTIRE SERIES. It epitomizes nearly the entire story at that Very Moment and at what might be the deepest emotional/artistic truth-level possible - right then and there - early in the series. I'll stop there because I don't want to be negative - (though you can't change what you don't acknowledge).
Nonetheless, I like madmen... - a Lot, but... I think they missed the boat in some ways.
Lastly... Hamm was casting perfection - absolutely. But All the other actors were as well - for sure.
This is one of my favorite episodes of mad men, and psalm 137 is my favorite bible passage, but I never connected the two until I re-watched the episode. Such lament for some ideal that could not be had in reality.
I love it when watching a television show or movie and something comes out towards the end that just moves you. This was great. Great job Madmen!
I think this is the most perfectly choreographed closing sequence of a Mad Men episode -- the alienation of individuals on many levels and tying into Don's affair with the Jewish department store heiress.
Such a beautiful song. Mad Men is truly a brilliant show. Wonderful writing, directing and acting.
Thank you for posting.
my favorite scene in the whole series
And the last scene where Joan and Ro9ger stand apart waiting for their cabs "like a Hopper painting". The camera angles downward to the left depicting the lesser position in life that Joan has in comparison to Roger...the "opressed" and the "oppresser"...Babylon!
I agree, this is "excellent".
For Don his “Zion” is a permanent place of happiness and belonging which seems to escape him… currently he is seeking happiness with Rachel, to feel a place of belonging for just a moment, but as always it’s short lived
Like the Jewish population has been in exile, Don also feels he’s been in exile his whole life, without a place to call home.. he doesn’t feel like he belongs even among his own family.. he lives a lie everyday, and even though there are people who seem to admire and love him he doesn’t feel like they truly know him because of the facade he lives. So when they look at Don they are really looking at stranger and not at the real him. This makes him feel disconnected with everyone around him, and is the main source of his loneliness
The way I see it, there's plenty of room in the world for many different forms of expression.
@OpieDJC What an accurate and sensitive appreciation of the series. That's the beauty of Mad Men.
i like his look in 1:04 :)
Extraordinary.
Such a beautiful song and such a great series
Taken from Psalms 137, the lyrics, which are about longing for Zion, are appropriate for this episode. While Don's encounter with the overly pragmatic Israeli tourism executives, or his conversation right before this scene, did little to threaten the notions guiding his capitalistic and hedonistic lifestyle, his discussion with Ms. Menken about Zion, which can be understood as a discourse on a possible meaning in life, appears to have moved him. Roger, on the other hand, is happy in Babylon.
Excelente canción de Don McLean y excelente serie!!! Este capítulo para mi es muy poderoso.
Really beautiful song.
Excelente canción y el video no tiene igual. Simplemente la música, la letra y el video te llevan de la mano de la situación que están viviendo.
Love this song! Babylon....Lyrics from Psalm 137
Music arranged by Don McLean and Lee Hays (of The Weavers) based on a canon by Philip Hayes (18th century composer )
Performed by David Carbonara
EDIT from Bonnie K
I don't know who performs this song in Mad Men... probably not David Carbonara who is the music composer for Mad Men but maybe not this song....Don't know...PLEASE...who is performing?? They are amazing!
I found the song wonderful and serene
I love this song, thanks for posting.
This shows incredible
beautiful simply beautiful
multi-layered in theme... wow, such big words.
yıllar sonra hatırlatır mısınız gelip dinlemek istiyorum
Beautiful interpretation
Is this also a hymn by the creator, for a lost US?
I knew the words were referencing to Psalm 137, but I didn't know the music was from an English round until now. Thanks for the info!
I bet Americans are proud of you.
Whoa. You just blew my mind. Seriously.
By the waters, the waters of Babylon
We lay down and wept, and wept, for thee Zion
We remember thee, remember thee, remember thee Zion
By the waters, the waters of Babylon
We lay down and wept, and wept, for thee Zion
We remember thee, remember thee, remember thee Zion
By the waters, the waters of Babylon
We lay down and wept, and wept, for thee Zion
We remember thee, remember thee, remember thee Zion
The song name is Babylon, by Don McLean.
thank you so much
Correction: the song is nothing more than the words of Psalm 137, verse 1 set to a melody written by Philip Hayes in 18th century England. Don McLean merely wrote this cover of the same tune.
*This is a cover of McLean's arrangement.
it's what i am.
all i can think of is that it's saying the change that everyone goes through, is the same for everyone, therefore ''the same''.
anyway, it's been nice. i'll just keep viewing it as an amazing show :)
This is, by far, the best ever scene of Mad Men ! perfect, nothing less than this...
beautful.............
So touching
El mejor final de la primera temporada y quizá el mejor que se haya hecho hasta ahora en una serie.