I agree too. Two other great songs full of poetry are "les vieux", "Les bourgeois" et "le plat pays"... he was the greatest singer and writer my country (Belgium) has produced.
"Le grand Jacques" was not only a singer. He was a great performer. On stage he brought his songs to life. His song "ces gens là" si totally different from the sung version. But for the both, the part with Frida is amazing. ruclips.net/video/O6MGGh8WUco/видео.html
Although I know this song, each time I'm amazed by "Marcel" Azzola, playing the accordion. Non-stop fierced arpeggios from start to finish, tireless! And Brel, in his lyrics, who pretends that he hates "musette" music, but totally enjoys it in this frenzied "Java" played by a master! Priceless. J'ai beau la connaître par cœur, à chaque fois que je l'entends je suis épaté par "Marcel" Azzola à l'accordéon. C'est du non-stop d'arpèges millimétrés du début à la fin, infatigable ! Et Brel qui fait mine de dire qu'il a horreur de tous ces "flon-flon" mais qui s'éclate complètement dans cette java endiablée avec un maître aux boutons!
The accordion player is Marcel Azzolia, one of the best in the history. In this song Brel say the sentence "chauffe Marcel chauffe" to him. It's full improvisation (the accordion et this sentence) and it"s become a expression in french language
An interesting fact about this song is the the "chauffe Marcel" part was never meant to be in it. Brel was screaming at his musicians durring the repetitions as he wanted to keep the intensity high. In the end they liked it so they kept it in the recordig and it became part of the song.
Dereck, if you are curious, David Bowie did a cover of the song “Amsterdam”. He sang it in English. Here it is : David Bowie “Port of Amsterdam” : ruclips.net/video/4uPZIG5BHD4/видео.html For me it’s very telling of how great the song “Amsterdam” is if a rock singer thought of doing a cover of it.
@@redpinkdot4297 Thanks for this discover for me ! I don't know why, that remember me this song : ruclips.net/video/pupVjQBwASo/видео.html dirty old town
Totalement ! Avec, ensuite "Mathilde" et "Au suivant" Absolutely ! And next again "Mathilde" and "Au suivant" - Mathilde : ruclips.net/video/Cjj3YQD1_GE/видео.html - Au suivant : ruclips.net/user/results?search_query=jacques+brel+au+suivant
There's a songwriting documentary about Brel that French rap artists watch to this day, because he lays out his process and composes a whole song with just a piano in about half an hour. Brel always started with the story, the protagonist, and based the melody after the musicality of the lyrics. The best thing is at the end of the sequence he goes "right, that should do it for tonight." You then see him test out the song he wrote the same day onstage, in front of 2,000 people, as if it was nothing. Absolute mad lad.
Seeing you guys talking about Vesoul is fully awsome. I was born in Vesoul, which is a small town in the East of France. So, As Jacques Brel said, I saw Vesoul.
For me, this song is the story of a guy who is being led by the tip of his nose by his very capricious wife, who is fed up, who moans but in 10 years he will still be at the same point -we all know one like that-! ^^
@@Eltophe Maybe because he finds her sister to be a less pain in the ass and he thinks that in another life, it would have been more pleasant had he fallen in love with the sister rather than his wife^^
Hi Dereck ! Jacques Brel is a huge singer, an exceptionnal performer, and yes Dereck a poet. He was a good actor too. He left too early. He was loved and admired in all contries where the French language is cherished ; nobody forgot him, he was great, so great, with unparalleled talent.
So beautiful work all the time he did ...with Jacques Brel we never boring! This guy knew how write and drive a song and push this beautiful mechanism to its last limit. Even if most of us aren't from that generation, we still feel lifted by this type of song, progressive rock hasn't invented anything finally. :) Thank you very much Dereck you've know how adapt yourself to the mood of the song and treat the emotion by putting aside the preconceptions. And yet it isn't always easy to do. This one again, sure I'll watch it several times. :))
Le grand Jacques! c'était le chanteur préféré de mon papa, Jacques lui aussi...toujours beaucoup d'émotion lorsque j'entends ses chansons. Merci Dereck😍💖💕
Yes Dereck, must react to « La Valse a Millte Temps « , Amsterdam, Mathilde, Madeleine. Ces gens-le, Les vieux amants…..must listen…like you said…it is poetry
In the chorus he says that he hates « flonflon » « valse musette » and « accordion », key elements of popular French (Parisian) music at the time. But the music is based exactly on this basic elements, as if to emphasize the irony of the lyrics (his wife always gets it in the end even when he is most reluctant ). ( The accordionist Marcel Azzola, was the greatest)
Marcel is the guy who plays accordion. Without him the song wouldn't be the same at all. He passed away recently (2 years ago). The rhythm of the song make it dance as a waltz which is ironic because Brel sings he hates waltz (and accordion). Waltz was a very famous dance at that time (we were in the 50s and rockabilly wasn't quit widespread in France yet) Another Bel song about waltz is "La valse à mille temps" which starts with a slow pace, and gradually increase into a very very fast tempo as the song progresses. By the end, the speed is so high that nearly all dancers got dizzy and give up with a little feeling of being kind of "drunk". This gave lots of fun to dancers in "proms" of the times. Mor recently the singer Zazie (you already reacted to her) did the song entitled "Speed" which is also based on the increasing tempo along the song. This is more modern, and you might like reacting to this one too one day. Brel do not have proper music-video (the "scopitone" only appeared 10 years later). Most only his last music-hall show at Olympia in 1966 was recorded and can be found. He never sang in public after this. Also noticed that Brel never got back to scene to play extra songs after the end of his show in spite of the public claiming "encore". Ma pauvre -Lucette- CatW.... C'est une valse, et c'est entrainant au moins ;) (calme)
Another spectacular song by Jacques Brel is J'arrive. Not a fast song, it's about death, and Brel is accompanied by a full symphonic orchestra. The crescendo before each chorus will give you the goosebumps.
What a pleasure to see this Derek, thank you very much! I beg you to react to Brel's "Le port d'Amsterdam", it's just mind-blowing. Long live your channel :)
For this type of music, the name is in the lyrics. La "Valse Musette". Musette is a French world for popular parties across the country between the two world's wars. Chromatic Accordion is the main, and sometimes the only instrument performing during this dancing nights, and that's how the accordian found his very rich, fast, rythmic and melodic way of playing. When world war II ended, the Musette became the sound of liberty and happiness.
Jacque Brel is one of the rare singer has sung very quickly with a perfect diction. The accordionist of this song is Marcel Azzola a virtuoso. Jacque Brel est l'un des rares chanteur a pouvoir chanté très rapidement avec une diction parfaite . L'accordéoniste de cette chanson est Marcel Azzola un virtuose .
Dereck, your feelings (and comments), as listening the Jacques BREL's song Vesoul, shows evidence of your great sensibility for music and for singer interpretations!
Vierzon = a middle-size industrial town in centre of France Vesoul = a middle-size industrial town in eastern France Honfleur = a little and charming port in Normandy Hamburg = a big port city in northern Germany Anvers = a big port city in Belgium Dutronc = the french singer Jacques Dutronc The Mount Valérien = a hill with a military fortress, a few kilometers west from Paris The Cantal = a french county in the Massif Central (a volcanic mountain range in centre of France) Byzance = ancient greek city and ancient capital of the Eastern Roman Empire, that later became Constantinople and today Istanbul, Turkey. Pigalle = a red-light and cabaret district in Paris Saint-Lazare = an expensive district in Paris with a big train station and an red-light district too "Flowers of Evil" = a Charles Baudelaire's novel but in the song "I saw the Flowers of Evil by pure random" could be an allusion to the prostitutes in the neighborhood.
"Chauffe Marcel ! Chauffe !" It translate into "Heat Marcel ! Heat !" He meant to encourage his accordéonist (Marcel Azzola) To go faster and louder. One of Brel best.
Jacques Dutronc is an amazing singer as well. Wierd hommage from Jacques Brel. I think they both appreciated each others. Jacques Dutronc's son, Thomas made a cover of that song
@@TheZapan99 "Paris s'éveille ", "Crac boum hue", "puisque vous partez en voyage" (duet with Françoise Hardy), some people find him superficial, he's much deeper than he appears to be at first.
@@Fabbi76 it's "Les Play Boys", not ""Crac boum hue". And "Puisque vous partez en voyage" is a cover of Mireille (Françoise Hardy sang in "Le petit conservatoire de Mireiile" before being famous) and Jean Sablon.
Please check another song of Brel "la chanson des vieux amants" (with English subtitles) and then you will understand one of the best love song ever written..
Thank you so much for that reaction, Dereck. That man was such a genius. But, if you really want to appreciate him fully, you have to see his live performances. Every time that he was on stage, he was giving everything as if it was his last performance before death. It's just so powerful and magic. And the live song that I would like to recommend to you is "La chanson de Jacky. I really love that song and I'm pretty that you will love it too.
Brel interprets a character who is very submissive and obeys to his wife (you wanted to go there, we went there ...) and then he says "no ! I am fed up, i won't go further ! He often interprets characters that are not heroes at all but rather pityful ( ne me quitte pas, Madelaine, Fernand, les bonbons, le cheval, les bourgeois, Jeff, ces gens là, ...) It's interesting how this tall, powerful and very charismatic singer sings despair, sadness and anger as a character that almost deserves it
Please if you make another react to a Jacques Brel's song, try to get a live performance for the video. You will see how he's performing, he's some kind in a trance.
You can feel the cycle in both the lyrics and the music, which I love - and yeah this is musette (the genre the character says he hates, ironically) which is most of what you could hear in popular balls, but like, turned up to eleven, it's pretty amazing musically.
Les Bourgeois, Ces gens-là, Au suivant, Mathilde, Bruxelles, l'Ivrogne, Le moribond, Le plat pays, Marieke, Les bonbons, Les vieux, Rosa, Les Flamandes, Les singes, Jef, J'arrive, On n'oublie rien, L'éclusier, Les fenêtres, Fils de..., Le diable, Les bigotes, Comment tuer l'amant de sa femme, Le caporal casse-pompon, Grand Jacques, etc. There are soooo many great songs to love :)
hi from France. It is from this song that the expression chauffe marcel!!"Marcel Heater !!" was coined. jacques brel asked marcel azzola to play harder
Concerning Jacques Brel, I would advise to listen to "la quête". To me, it's one with a lot of intensity in the interpretation. I also think you can have a look on Charles Aznavour songs (la bohème, for me formidable, emmenez-moi and the humanitary song pour toi Arménie). You are on the way to discover Georges Brassens...
Again Dereck, if you are curious, the great late Luther Vandross did a very good live version of “La Quête”. Here it is: Luther Vandross “The Impossible Dream” : ruclips.net/video/fjCIWpfVdsk/видео.html Jacques Brel is an icon and other artists did recognize it.
Dereck , c'est Le Géant de la chanson comme PIAF ''Amsterdam'' la valse a mille temp.'' '' quand on a que l'amour'' 'Les Vieux'' tellement belle....... '' ces gens là '' ...unique Et tant d'autres . .
accordion is bananas! Love whe he says "Chauffe! Chauffe (heat up!) Marcel! (when he is speaking to the musician Marcel Azzola! The Greatest Argentine accordionist in the World! Brel was not a singer and composer he was a GIANT!
The translation doesn't sound very good. He says "you wanted to see Paris, we saw Paris. You stopped liking Paris, we left Paris..". He always does what she wants and she's never happy. He never gets what he wants, you can feel he gets more and more annoyed, as he doesn't enjoy any of the things they do to please her, so he says" I'm telling you, I won't go any further! "
Marcel Azzola the accordéoniste was the best of his generation. He had a successful career of his own. Jacques who was a perfectionist laid siege to Marcel for weeks, until he agreed to become his recording and concert official accordéon player
Marcel Azzola, born July 10, 1927 in Paris and dead on January 21, 2019 in Poissy, is a French accordionist. Accompanying the greatest success in the 1950s, it is the illustrious recipient of the apostrophe launched by Jacques Brel in the Song Vesoul "Marcel heating, heating! "Where one hears his chorus at the accordion. Jacques Brel, born April 8, 1929 in Schaerbeek and dead on October 9, 1978 in Bobigny, is a songwriter, poet, actor and director Belgian. Jacques Brel is considered an icon and one of the largest performers of the French song, thanks to titles such that not leave me, Amsterdam, when one has only love, the waltz by a thousand time These people, Vesoul, the bourgeois, Madeleine or Mathilde. The artist, at the top of his popularity, abandons the round of singing in 1967. Although he still records some records and rises to the stage the man of Mancha, he devotes himself to the cinema, for which he turns As an actor a dozen films, two of whom he writes and realizes, Franz and the Far West.
Useless fact : Vesoul is a quite nice little Franche-Comté city. It is also the location of PSA (nowadays Stellantis) worldwide central spare parts factory and warehouse. Dereck should also check out Jacques Dutronc, I'm sure he'll appreciate "Les Cactus", "La fille du Père Noël" or "Les Play Boys". Brel's pianist was Gérard Jouannest, Juliette Gréco's husband. edit : I love how Dereck conflates "Vierzon" with "Verizon", seems like there are some French city names that resemble ISPs names (Orange, Engins...).
Hello! Good video! I m French and I love your react on the best frensh song. 👍 You know "Pierre bachelet". It s very good singer of 80 years. Her big song: Elle est d ailleurs. Les corons. Marionnettiste. And more... Peace.
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If you like how quick Jacques Brel can be with his delivery, you should listen to “La Valse à Mille Temps”. He is unbelievable in it!
Yes, I agree
The most recent version you can find. Jacques Brel song it faster and faster as time went by. Rather a concert version.
I agree too. Two other great songs full of poetry are "les vieux", "Les bourgeois" et "le plat pays"... he was the greatest singer and writer my country (Belgium) has produced.
Other quick songs I like are "Les fenetres" and "Les remparts de Varsovie"
Yep 👍
When he says "chauffe Marcel, chauffe !" (it means " Heat up Marcel ! Heat up !") He is talking to his accordionist Marcel Azzola
Wow!! Love it 🔥
sympa de l'apprendre !
Chauffe Marcel, means, come on, play Marcel (play the accordion, put all your heart into it)
"Le grand Jacques" was not only a singer. He was a great performer.
On stage he brought his songs to life. His song "ces gens là" si totally different from the sung version. But for the both, the part with Frida is amazing.
ruclips.net/video/O6MGGh8WUco/видео.html
J'adore cette version des archives de l'INA ! Dans l'idéal, il faudrait en trouver une sous-titrée pour Dereck...
I would love to check his live stuff
Although I know this song, each time I'm amazed by "Marcel" Azzola, playing the accordion. Non-stop fierced arpeggios from start to finish, tireless! And Brel, in his lyrics, who pretends that he hates "musette" music, but totally enjoys it in this frenzied "Java" played by a master! Priceless.
J'ai beau la connaître par cœur, à chaque fois que je l'entends je suis épaté par "Marcel" Azzola à l'accordéon. C'est du non-stop d'arpèges millimétrés du début à la fin, infatigable ! Et Brel qui fait mine de dire qu'il a horreur de tous ces "flon-flon" mais qui s'éclate complètement dans cette java endiablée avec un maître aux boutons!
The accordion player is Marcel Azzolia, one of the best in the history. In this song Brel say the sentence "chauffe Marcel chauffe" to him. It's full improvisation (the accordion et this sentence) and it"s become a expression in french language
An interesting fact about this song is the the "chauffe Marcel" part was never meant to be in it. Brel was screaming at his musicians durring the repetitions as he wanted to keep the intensity high. In the end they liked it so they kept it in the recordig and it became part of the song.
And "Marcel" is Marcel Azzola, Brel's accordionist. "Chauffe Marcel" has also become a colloquial French expression but it is nowadays obsolete.
@@chucku00 Well, not so obsolet even if people don't know we're it comes from.
"une valse a mille temps" another song with speed lyrics by Jacques Brel
Brel est un phénomène ! Next :
- Le port d'Amsterdam
- La valse à mille temps
Dereck, if you are curious, David Bowie did a cover of the song “Amsterdam”. He sang it in English. Here it is :
David Bowie “Port of Amsterdam” : ruclips.net/video/4uPZIG5BHD4/видео.html
For me it’s very telling of how great the song “Amsterdam” is if a rock singer thought of doing a cover of it.
@@redpinkdot4297 Thanks for this discover for me !
I don't know why, that remember me this song : ruclips.net/video/pupVjQBwASo/видео.html
dirty old town
Totalement ! Avec, ensuite "Mathilde" et "Au suivant"
Absolutely ! And next again "Mathilde" and "Au suivant"
- Mathilde : ruclips.net/video/Cjj3YQD1_GE/видео.html
- Au suivant : ruclips.net/user/results?search_query=jacques+brel+au+suivant
Un phénomène ? Un GÉNIE est le mot est faible...
@@martinbinoche5424 alors un génie phénoménal 😉
Thank you Derek, Jacques Brel is a great singer. He is my favourit
Le répertoire de Brel est absolument magnifique à écouter..Brel est unique dans sa passion, dans l'émotion qu'il met dans son interprétation.
🙏👍😱💖
There's a songwriting documentary about Brel that French rap artists watch to this day, because he lays out his process and composes a whole song with just a piano in about half an hour.
Brel always started with the story, the protagonist, and based the melody after the musicality of the lyrics. The best thing is at the end of the sequence he goes "right, that should do it for tonight." You then see him test out the song he wrote the same day onstage, in front of 2,000 people, as if it was nothing. Absolute mad lad.
Le nom du documentaire ? Merci :)
Le port d’Amsterdam !!!! By Jacques Brel ! Of course !!!!! One of best performance 👌🏽
Seeing you guys talking about Vesoul is fully awsome. I was born in Vesoul, which is a small town in the East of France. So, As Jacques Brel said, I saw Vesoul.
For me, this song is the story of a guy who is being led by the tip of his nose by his very capricious wife, who is fed up, who moans but in 10 years he will still be at the same point -we all know one like that-! ^^
Good point 👍🏼
I think it was his view on his wife
And he always want to meet his wife sister ^^'
@@Eltophe Maybe because he finds her sister to be a less pain in the ass and he thinks that in another life, it would have been more pleasant had he fallen in love with the sister rather than his wife^^
Brel the best singer in French language
One of the most famous and great french language singer (and author) 😍🤩💐😍🤩💐😍🤩💐
I love Brel so much. He is so charismatic, poetic, smart with his interpretation. I'm a fan of his songs, you should react to more
Nothing best than live performances. Brel interprets the songs with all his body and articulations.
Yup, in live you have the body langage too!
Aussi
'' les vieux''
'' ces gens là'
Etc...
an icon of the verb sung with passion, a monument all by itself
De mon avis, l'un des plus grands interprètes de tous les temps ! !
le plus grand, il n'y a même pas à se poser la question!.
Hi Dereck ! Jacques Brel is a huge singer, an exceptionnal performer, and yes Dereck a poet. He was a good actor too. He left too early. He was loved and admired in all contries where the French language is cherished ; nobody forgot him, he was great, so great, with unparalleled talent.
So beautiful work all the time he did ...with Jacques Brel we never boring! This guy knew how write and drive a song and push this beautiful mechanism to its last limit. Even if most of us aren't from that generation, we still feel lifted by this type of song, progressive rock hasn't invented anything finally. :)
Thank you very much Dereck you've know how adapt yourself to the mood of the song and treat the emotion by putting aside the preconceptions. And yet it isn't always easy to do.
This one again, sure I'll watch it several times. :))
The best singer ever, thank you for choosing him
Le grand Jacques! c'était le chanteur préféré de mon papa, Jacques lui aussi...toujours beaucoup d'émotion lorsque j'entends ses chansons. Merci Dereck😍💖💕
Yes Dereck, must react to « La Valse a Millte Temps « , Amsterdam, Mathilde, Madeleine. Ces gens-le, Les vieux amants…..must listen…like you said…it is poetry
In the chorus he says that he hates « flonflon » « valse musette » and « accordion », key elements of popular French (Parisian) music at the time. But the music is based exactly on this basic elements, as if to emphasize the irony of the lyrics (his wife always gets it in the end even when he is most reluctant ). ( The accordionist Marcel Azzola, was the greatest)
Jacques brel 💜💜💜💜like. Un homme, un artiste formidable 💓
Thank you! :) I'm 36 and Brel has been my favourite singer since I was 12. :D
Le grand monsieur de la chanson française, Jacques Brel. Merci.👌
Dereck, Jacques Brel was one of the best composer and singer of french speaking music. A great, great artist!!!! But he was belgium...👏👏👏😭😭😭🤧👌🌹
quel interprète et aussi acteur un sacré artiste..bravo
Musette Accordion is most of the time very cheesy in France and Belgium but the great Jacques took it to anothere level !
Toujours agréable d'écouter Jacques Brel !!!
And don’t forget « charles aznavour » with so many songs to react to : formi-formidable, she, emmenez-moi, je me voyais déjà et so much more
Yes great idea aznavour so excellent
stop with these old-fashioned singers for grandpa and grandma or senior citizens! Not for him, not his tastes. Respect his channel concept!
"Chauffe, Marcel, chauffe !" Marcel Azzola improvising at the accordion... 👏👏👏
Marcel is the guy who plays accordion. Without him the song wouldn't be the same at all. He passed away recently (2 years ago).
The rhythm of the song make it dance as a waltz which is ironic because Brel sings he hates waltz (and accordion). Waltz was a very famous dance at that time (we were in the 50s and rockabilly wasn't quit widespread in France yet)
Another Bel song about waltz is "La valse à mille temps" which starts with a slow pace, and gradually increase into a very very fast tempo as the song progresses. By the end, the speed is so high that nearly all dancers got dizzy and give up with a little feeling of being kind of "drunk". This gave lots of fun to dancers in "proms" of the times.
Mor recently the singer Zazie (you already reacted to her) did the song entitled "Speed" which is also based on the increasing tempo along the song. This is more modern, and you might like reacting to this one too one day.
Brel do not have proper music-video (the "scopitone" only appeared 10 years later). Most only his last music-hall show at Olympia in 1966 was recorded and can be found. He never sang in public after this. Also noticed that Brel never got back to scene to play extra songs after the end of his show in spite of the public claiming "encore".
Ma pauvre -Lucette- CatW.... C'est une valse, et c'est entrainant au moins ;) (calme)
Another spectacular song by Jacques Brel is J'arrive. Not a fast song, it's about death, and Brel is accompanied by a full symphonic orchestra. The crescendo before each chorus will give you the goosebumps.
Ahhhhh. Brel... Les Marquises me fait toujours pleurer...
What a pleasure to see this Derek, thank you very much! I beg you to react to Brel's "Le port d'Amsterdam", it's just mind-blowing.
Long live your channel :)
Imagine seeing him singing it live... He's awesome in every way and so emotional even in the funny teasing bits he delivers
Gg Dereck, glad u liked it! Try "la valse à 1000 temps", ils really Quick, lyrics and music. Keep going on bro, gg again
For this type of music, the name is in the lyrics. La "Valse Musette". Musette is a French world for popular parties across the country between the two world's wars. Chromatic Accordion is the main, and sometimes the only instrument performing during this dancing nights, and that's how the accordian found his very rich, fast, rythmic and melodic way of playing. When world war II ended, the Musette became the sound of liberty and happiness.
Jacque Brel is one of the rare singer has sung very quickly with a perfect diction. The accordionist of this song is Marcel Azzola a virtuoso.
Jacque Brel est l'un des rares chanteur a pouvoir chanté très rapidement avec une diction parfaite . L'accordéoniste de cette chanson est Marcel Azzola un virtuose .
Je suis d accord avec vous, c est un exploit
Chauffe Marcel, chauffe !
@@LSa-rk7zb 😀😀😀 cultissime. !!! J adore brel ’depuis’que je suis petite
@@topolou2791 heureusement que les parents nous ont fait écouter les grands de la chanson française
@@LSa-rk7zb oui.. brel est inégalé à ce jour.
Dereck, your feelings (and comments), as listening the Jacques BREL's song Vesoul, shows evidence of your great sensibility for music and for singer interpretations!
Look Jacques Brel live it's amazing ! - From France ;)
Yes ! Yes! Yes !
So much more to discover from him. Live perf Dereck, go for it 😉
"Chauffe, Marcel, chauffe !" Is one of the most famous phrases in France because of this song.
Juste magnifique !❤
Lovely to see a new generation loving Brel. Great song and accordeon playing.
Vierzon = a middle-size industrial town in centre of France
Vesoul = a middle-size industrial town in eastern France
Honfleur = a little and charming port in Normandy
Hamburg = a big port city in northern Germany
Anvers = a big port city in Belgium
Dutronc = the french singer Jacques Dutronc
The Mount Valérien = a hill with a military fortress, a few kilometers west from Paris
The Cantal = a french county in the Massif Central (a volcanic mountain range in centre of France)
Byzance = ancient greek city and ancient capital of the Eastern Roman Empire, that later became Constantinople and today Istanbul, Turkey.
Pigalle = a red-light and cabaret district in Paris
Saint-Lazare = an expensive district in Paris with a big train station and an red-light district too
"Flowers of Evil" = a Charles Baudelaire's novel but in the song "I saw the Flowers of Evil by pure random" could be an allusion to the prostitutes in the neighborhood.
"Chauffe Marcel ! Chauffe !" It translate into "Heat Marcel ! Heat !" He meant to encourage his accordéonist (Marcel Azzola) To go faster and louder. One of Brel best.
Jacques Dutronc is an amazing singer as well. Wierd hommage from Jacques Brel. I think they both appreciated each others. Jacques Dutronc's son, Thomas made a cover of that song
By the way. Thomas Dutronc's mother is no other than Françoise Hardy.
L'opportuniste by Jacques Dutronc is worth it for the clip alone, that features background dancers grooving in 60s dresses.
@@TheZapan99 "Paris s'éveille ", "Crac boum hue", "puisque vous partez en voyage" (duet with Françoise Hardy), some people find him superficial, he's much deeper than he appears to be at first.
@@Fabbi76 it's "Les Play Boys", not ""Crac boum hue". And "Puisque vous partez en voyage" is a cover of Mireille (Françoise Hardy sang in "Le petit conservatoire de Mireiile" before being famous) and Jean Sablon.
Please check another song of Brel "la chanson des vieux amants" (with English subtitles) and then you will understand one of the best love song ever written..
Thank you so much for that reaction, Dereck. That man was such a genius. But, if you really want to appreciate him fully, you have to see his live performances. Every time that he was on stage, he was giving everything as if it was his last performance before death. It's just so powerful and magic. And the live song that I would like to recommend to you is "La chanson de Jacky. I really love that song and I'm pretty that you will love it too.
Jacques Brel was a great poet and performer. For those who speak french and understand the subtlety of the language, Jacques poetry has no equal.
"Les corons" Pierre Bachelet
“This guy is so interesting?!”
This guy is a LEGEND…
Brel interprets a character who is very submissive and obeys to his wife (you wanted to go there, we went there ...) and then he says "no ! I am fed up, i won't go further !
He often interprets characters that are not heroes at all but rather pityful ( ne me quitte pas, Madelaine, Fernand, les bonbons, le cheval, les bourgeois, Jeff, ces gens là, ...)
It's interesting how this tall, powerful and very charismatic singer sings despair, sadness and anger as a character that almost deserves it
The joke « I wanted to see your sister, but we saw your mother, like always 😂 »
In the same kind of mood : " La valse à mille temps "
Avec le grand Marcel Azzola à l'accordéon !!!
This is my favourite Jacques Brel song, and probably also just my favourite french song 😄
Well done for getting it
It’s fucking fantastic
Brel, Stromaye, Lara Fabian....all born in Belgium....
Please if you make another react to a Jacques Brel's song, try to get a live performance for the video. You will see how he's performing, he's some kind in a trance.
You can feel the cycle in both the lyrics and the music, which I love - and yeah this is musette (the genre the character says he hates, ironically) which is most of what you could hear in popular balls, but like, turned up to eleven, it's pretty amazing musically.
le très très très grand Jacques Brel !!! Merci Dereck !!! 💖💖💖
Les Bourgeois, Ces gens-là, Au suivant, Mathilde, Bruxelles, l'Ivrogne, Le moribond, Le plat pays, Marieke, Les bonbons, Les vieux, Rosa, Les Flamandes, Les singes, Jef, J'arrive, On n'oublie rien, L'éclusier, Les fenêtres, Fils de..., Le diable, Les bigotes, Comment tuer l'amant de sa femme, Le caporal casse-pompon, Grand Jacques, etc.
There are soooo many great songs to love :)
You should see him live. This song. You will like even more, now that you get the story (good idee having it with lyrics translated)
If you love the intensity of this marvelous singer, you must watch « Ne me quitte pas », a total masterpiece of lyrics and interpretation ;)
hi from France. It is from this song that the expression chauffe marcel!!"Marcel Heater !!" was coined. jacques brel asked marcel azzola to play harder
"Chaufe marcel"/"Power up Marcel"
Is either a meme back in the day or has become a meme since in French culture.
Yes, welcome in french 50/60 poetry
Georges Brassens "la mauvaise réputation "
Oh oui, du Brassens. Quelle bonne idée. Dereck, you should react to songs from Georges Brassens. I think you will love it.
j'adore cette chanson ✔🎶👍
Concerning Jacques Brel, I would advise to listen to "la quête". To me, it's one with a lot of intensity in the interpretation.
I also think you can have a look on Charles Aznavour songs (la bohème, for me formidable, emmenez-moi and the humanitary song pour toi Arménie).
You are on the way to discover Georges Brassens...
Try La Quête from him. It's a song from a musical he played about Don Quichote.
Again Dereck, if you are curious, the great late Luther Vandross did a very good live version of “La Quête”. Here it is:
Luther Vandross “The Impossible Dream” :
ruclips.net/video/fjCIWpfVdsk/видео.html
Jacques Brel is an icon and other artists did recognize it.
"Chauffe Marcel" is mythical! 🔥
Dereck , c'est Le Géant de la chanson comme PIAF
''Amsterdam''
la valse a mille temp.''
'' quand on a que l'amour''
'Les Vieux'' tellement belle.......
'' ces gens là '' ...unique
Et tant d'autres . .
accordion is bananas! Love whe he says "Chauffe! Chauffe (heat up!) Marcel! (when he is speaking to the musician Marcel Azzola! The Greatest Argentine accordionist in the World! Brel was not a singer and composer he was a GIANT!
I was born in Vesoul ❤ 🇫🇷
My college was Jacques Brel college
The accordionist is Marcel Azzola, he's known for being one of the best of his time and one of the best period in that french genre.
Well, I think that you should look at him in live the next time. He was an incredible performer. His music "Quand on n'a que l'amour" is super.
The translation doesn't sound very good. He says "you wanted to see Paris, we saw Paris. You stopped liking Paris, we left Paris..". He always does what she wants and she's never happy. He never gets what he wants, you can feel he gets more and more annoyed, as he doesn't enjoy any of the things they do to please her, so he says" I'm telling you, I won't go any further! "
Also he doesn't like musette walz and the accordion but all the music is about that :D
Brel : Orly ; Jaurès ; Les remparts de Varsovie ; Amsterdam ; Ces gens là ; Bruxelles ; et caetera
Marcel Azzola the accordéoniste was the best of his generation. He had a successful career of his own. Jacques who was a perfectionist laid siege to Marcel for weeks, until he agreed to become his recording and concert official accordéon player
un chef d'oeuvre
I love how the accordion goes crazy when he says "I hate accordion "
Marcel Azzola, born July 10, 1927 in Paris and dead on January 21, 2019 in Poissy, is a French accordionist. Accompanying the greatest success in the 1950s, it is the illustrious recipient of the apostrophe launched by Jacques Brel in the Song Vesoul "Marcel heating, heating! "Where one hears his chorus at the accordion.
Jacques Brel, born April 8, 1929 in Schaerbeek and dead on October 9, 1978 in Bobigny, is a songwriter, poet, actor and director Belgian. Jacques Brel is considered an icon and one of the largest performers of the French song, thanks to titles such that not leave me, Amsterdam, when one has only love, the waltz by a thousand time These people, Vesoul, the bourgeois, Madeleine or Mathilde. The artist, at the top of his popularity, abandons the round of singing in 1967. Although he still records some records and rises to the stage the man of Mancha, he devotes himself to the cinema, for which he turns As an actor a dozen films, two of whom he writes and realizes, Franz and the Far West.
Il faut qu'il écoute "Mathilde" de Brel, une de ses meilleurs on se qui me concerne. "Au suivant" également. Ou encore "L'ivrogne".
Et La Valse à Mille Temps.
He is far from being my favorite singer, but I admit that he has an insane talent (gift) to embody his songs. I discover him more and more, with aging
Brel is so an amazing singer, for me his perfect song, talking of love, "quand on a que l'amour". Try it, it's beautiful!
His best song.
La valse à mille temps, ne me quitte pas, Amsterdam and vesoul are my favorites.
"Le port d'Amsterdam".. Of course
Thanks, Dereck! xx
Sous titres indisponible dommage le grand Jacques Merci Dereck 👍🙏👏😱💖
he recorded this back when you needed to do it in opne take . imagine not messing up at that fast ending
if you think this is poetry, you should listen when he sings "ne me quite pas"
Useless fact : Vesoul is a quite nice little Franche-Comté city. It is also the location of PSA (nowadays Stellantis) worldwide central spare parts factory and warehouse.
Dereck should also check out Jacques Dutronc, I'm sure he'll appreciate "Les Cactus", "La fille du Père Noël" or "Les Play Boys".
Brel's pianist was Gérard Jouannest, Juliette Gréco's husband.
edit : I love how Dereck conflates "Vierzon" with "Verizon", seems like there are some French city names that resemble ISPs names (Orange, Engins...).
Hello! Good video! I m French and I love your react on the best frensh song. 👍 You know "Pierre bachelet". It s very good singer of 80 years. Her big song:
Elle est d ailleurs.
Les corons.
Marionnettiste.
And more... Peace.