Jacques Brel - Les Vieux (REACTION) with my wife

[@deborahwingard776]

Love Love Love this man!

[@mathiasmenu8368]

Brel est unique. On ne sait pourquoi, cet homme est arrivé à tutoyer l'âme humaine comme personne. On pleure parce que c'est beau de toucher à ce point juste. Le meilleur, pour toujours

[@JeanChristopheDambrine]

Your emotion touches me enormously, thank you for promoting singers like J. Brel, who wrote such admirable songs. The French language gives it even more depth. No need for fireworks, computers, backing singers or a hundred people on stage. Just alone with a microphone and then, the emotion, the life..........Thanks again to you.

[@sillymonkey725]

He was a good singer. He was an exceptional writer. One of the best interprets to ever walk this Earth. It doesn't always have to be about the notes you hit.

[@kidjoe-vm2vv]

un grand poète.

[@LouisThibal-Maziat]

wonderfully said!

[@Jeraumina]

Jacques Brel, de la poésie pure et la langue française s'y prete si bien. Bravo pour votre réaction pleine d'émotivité comme l'est la chanson. Comme presque pour toutes ses chansons, Jacques Brel l'interprete de toute son ame.

[@MerchantOfAlba]

Thank you 😊

[@vincentconstant3768]

Someone once said about him: " He had others ache", like heartache or stomach ache. This song is not a treasure but only one of his many treasures, because he's so exceptional. I think he was one of the main designer of the human soul at creation.

[@Alexandre-Marius-Jacob]

The most universal human experience told by the most observant poet of his time. 🖤💛♥

[@manuelrojas1210]

Me sorprendió y conmovió mucho verlos llorar al escuchar una canción deJacques Brel. Yo también he llorado a fondo, sufrido, reído y pensado mucho gracias al gran Jacques. Poeta soberbio y artista fuera de norma. Bienvenidos al club. Saludos desde México.

[@electronlibre4163]

"...la pendule d'argent qui ronronne au salon..." Incredible song. Everytime I re-listen to it I cry with you. And think of my father who "moved from bed to bed".

[@22fret]

This is an absolutely natural reaction to Brel. He is the only singer who's able to make me cry. And believe me, it's even worse when you speak French...

[@itnow]

I also cry on 'mon vieux' by Daniel Guichard...et 'je suis malade' when sung by Lara Fabian...

[@didierfaudry-oc8fh]

c'est vrai!.

[@meltingman8193]

From a french atheist guy. You are beautiful people, your reaction made me cry though I know the song by heart. I never thought I'd see a viking cry though haha. Keep that light in your heart and, we all know that in the end, music will eventually heal and save the world. Huge hugs from Paris.

[@MerchantOfAlba]

Thank you kindly 💚

[@fatihabenboubou5636]

What a beautiful and emotional reaction ,I know all the songs of the great Jacques Brel by heart and even i cry each time😪. He is the greatest songwriter of all time to me !❤

[@skill8958]

La première fois que j'ai découvert Jacques Brel le temps c'est arrêté, impossible de ne pas pleurer en écoutant toutes ces belles et cruelles réalités.

[@Zyryad]

Je comprends vos larmes sur un passé non vécu. Mais ça me rappelle des moments de vie. Alors oui je suis triste d'avoir perdu mes grands parents, mais je suis encore plus heureux de les avoir connu. Je pense toujours à eux. Je les aime encore.

[@maxharbig1167]

Bello da morire.

[@valaquenta220]

I'm a grown up man, this song makes me cry everytime I listen to it too. It's just way, way too real man. Plus it hits even harder when you speak French.

[@deprussestephane7938]

Bonjour à vous deux. Je suis extrêmement ému et touché par votre réaction. Elle montre toute votre sensibilité et votre émotion. Merci à vous, et merci à Jacques.🙏 Hello to both of you. I am extremely moved and touched by your reaction. It shows all your sensitivity and emotion. Thank you, and thank you to Jacques.🙏

[@ramonlopezdelhoulle3391]

Nobel price song for Jacques Brel my friends

[@Jarojarni]

It's great that there are people who listen to such a genius as Jacques Brel Thank you. All the best

[@nimocash3535]

There are French songs that are pure masterpieces in terms of lyrics. It’s not about vocal performance (the French don’t care about who can sing the loudest or hold the highest note the longest); we are very focused on the artist who will interpret a song with very deep lyrics, and this is where the singer must search deep within to deliver a performance that does justice to the song's words. Among these songs, I would mention: "Mon Vieux" (Daniel Guichard), almost all of Brel's great songs, "Avec le temps," "Je suis malade," "Requiem pour un fou," "Comme ils disent." etc

[@1957PLATO]

A mediocre student turned out to be one of the most brilliant French speaking singer/songwriters and performers ever. A legend.

[@michamelki6982]

Brel is my favorite singer, as a french i understand the lyrics and I really appreciate the fact that even people who don't understand are still touched. Because, God, I think the world miss so much him

[@stephnocean1095]

When Jacques wrote and performed this song, he was only... 34 years old ;)

[@ostfron1942]

Bravo, vous avez tout à fait ressenti la chanson .

[@miguefaure]

Llorar con Brel es señal de vida auténtica. Gracias. Un abrazo desde Chile.

[@ggoflove7253]

J'avais écouté cette chanson il y a bien longtemps et pensé à mes grands-parents et à mes parents, et puis j'ai préféré l'oublier. Et maintenant non seulement je repense à eux, mais aussi à moi, la pendule d'argent continue d'osciller... et je pleure.

[@franciscouderq1100]

Brel was an extremely talented observant of his era and it’s people and he out in words and musical notes what he saw ….then delivered it to you as raw as it gets.

[@musashimiyamoto586]

Hey, you two. Now I feel almost guilty for making you sad and cry. But I am also ever so touched by how Brel's delivery made you understand the way he saw things. Yes, he is brutally honest in his work and maybe we do well to follow his example, but what reconciles me with that bitter truth is how he delivers his words, with such empathy, such insight, such emotion, almost telling you, yes, it is hard, but it will all be ok in the end. His almost loving description of old people gets me every time and makes me a little less afraid of what is surely to come. You asked how he could know when he himself died young. Jacques Brel had an insight and interest in all things to do with life. And he had a unique way painting those pictures for us. They could be sad, funny, joyful, ridiculous, derisive, anything you like. And like in this song at the end he took care always to include himself in his storytelling. I would recommend to follow his musical legacy, cause as Andre said, nobody does today what he did back then. He is and always will be one of the greatest musical poets.

[@MerchantOfAlba]

Thank you so much for this beautiful song 💚

[@mildandbitter]

As you say a very hard song to react to. I am 71 a still look forward to life but I know in the end it comes down to this for all of us.

[@olivierchristianelieestour7897]

Who know after...

[@StormWolf01]

Godspeed my man. Bless you.

[@sebastienlola]

it emphazises the absolute necessity of fulfilling one's life to the fullest,there is something positive in all that

[@brewstergallery]

Ned from Spain here to say you guys are so lovely and this was a particularly honest and deep reaction. What you say is true for a lot of people as they reach the end of their lives but some can have such vitality even when it's more difficult to do the simplest things. I hope I can continue to enjoy life up to the last moment. Jacques Brel was such an incredible poetic force giving attention to things that are really important and need to be said. A rare artist. Thank you and a long happy life to you both.

[@MerchantOfAlba]

Thank you so much. Best wishes from Romania 💚😊

[@houzepatrick5418]

J'ai bientôt 71 ans et cette merveilleuse chanson me fait réfléchir

[@jasonsmith4114]

I'm Belgian just like Jacques Brel, he's a national icon as you can imagine. One of my absolute favorite song from him, although it's too difficult to pick one. "Fernand" is probably the most beautiful text he's written. I don't know if there's a subtitled video out there I highly recommend it.

[@maxmaxime8380]

This song came out when I was 8 years old and so I have always known it. I bought all of Brel's records that came out and I listened to them over and over thousands of times. This song is very special because it is constructed very strangely. It is written in 13-foot verses, with a double caesura, which gives it its choppy and regular rhythm, like the ticking of a clock. Les vieux ne parlent plus/ ou alors seulement/ parfois du bout des yeux Même riches ils sont pauvres/ ils n’ont plus d’illusions/ et n’ont qu’un cœur pour deux Chez eux, ça sent le thym/ le propre, la lavande/ et le verbe d’antan Que l’on vive à Paris/ on vit tous en province quand on vit trop longtemps This subtlety of writing associated with Brel's music and staging gives a very sensitive and emotional picture that is difficult to resist....

[@Franck-ju5zu]

I haven t lessoned to that song for at least ,40 years(I was always thinking of my grandparents and here we are getting there slowly!..with few tears.brel did some funny fab songs tooles bonbons,la chanson de Jackie...it will cheer you up.and my favourite brel song les vieux amants

[@MerchantOfAlba]

Much love to you 💚

[@fredericvieu6704]

Hello, Jacques brel est vraiment un chanteur et artiste exceptionnel et unique . Écouter les bourgeois et aussi c'est gens la , 2 chansons exceptionnelle

[@proy14]

Ne me quiite pas, Le Moribond, La Quête, d=Dans le port d'Amsterdam.... La liste est presque infinie.

[@ericmauget3492]

Les belles émotions.

[@9Piranhas]

thanks for your reactions, i(-'m from brussels like him and you can believe that, everyrime when i listen this song, like some others that he singed, i can feel and drink every word that he say, certainly with this song, cere he told so good the truth of the life about our elders, he didn"t had this chance to hear the zilver clock because he past away too early, and this song is the one that we listen in te church when someone will past away, we can only cry more when we have to say for the lasst time goodbye, so you can imagine the feelings that everyone will have, it"s a beautifull last goodbye,not only the song and the words but he ytanslate perfecly the emotions and so we will try to never let our elders alone, and today i don"t have any elders anymore since my father past away in 2023, so today i know that the elder in my family, i'ts me and my fraternity, so sometimes i can ear this siver clock that telling me, you're the next one, i will waiting for you, i'm not so old and was for the first time great father this month, i know one think, the time never will stop and i abused evertrime drom each second, because one second later, i know that this one will never come back again, he sent a message for everone, so ease never forget your elders, because without them, you can only be there to listen this universal song and begins to ear the silver clock that will waiting you, thanks for your reactions, you were speakless and no words were needed to see and feeled tour reactions, only to watching you said more than words, again and again, thanks to share your reactions

[@9Piranhas]

thanks for the like, i'm sorry with all the mistakes in my comment, i have a handicap, i tryied to correct it, when i saw all the mistakes that i wrote, i can only congrats you because i didn't understand some parts of my sentences, now you can better understand what i mean i my previously message, only the left side of all my body works and i'm righthanded, my english is not perfect too because it's only my third language that i can speak, french is the second one and dutch the first one, take care of you and neve forget our elders without them we will simply never will take place on earth, i really liked to see your reactions, it was so strongh emotionaly, contain your tears with this song is really difficult to do, for me too 😪

[@Tong804]

Le plus grand de la chanson francophone ! Adoré par David bowie !

[@LinuxForLife]

He portrait people so truly!

[@FreeloopsZanzibar]

I'm french, I'm crying with you my friend, you are marvelous, you are human, thank you for that;)

[@ManthiabaSiby]

La première fois j’ai pleurée à chaude l’armes aussi

[@Duci66]

Very DEEP ...such a Genie de la Chanson

[@martine2u]

It’s a very beautiful song. I think it reconciles us with the passing of time because it expresses what’s to come. By facing reality with such tenderness, empathy and love, it helps us cope. Hugs to you guys. I can see it really touched you.

[@Marie-DominiquePOUGET]

C'est ça Jacques Brel, l'émotion !!🇨🇵🇨🇵

[@maxharbig1167]

Brel was what we call in italian a "cantastorie" because all his songs are little life stories that are sung and incapsulated sans sucre, Un chansonier indimenticable.

[@pimgrim1]

chaque mot amène une métaphore, chaque phrase est façonnée comme une oeuvre d'art et je ne parle même pas de la qualité de son interprétation et de la composition de ses musiques.

[@endapian]

How Brel is a fantastic poet with Brassens and Ferrat, they are both of three my favorite old french singers.... Thank you so much, dear you tube friend, to have react to this so beautiful song!!!!!❤❤

[@helenedapremezhelenedaprem1198]

Jacque brel est belge il est né à Bruxelles

[@endapian]

@helenedapremezhelenedaprem1198 oui, bien sûr..... j aurais du dire francophone......

[@romainbonnet6067]

Votre réaction était belle !!

[@ponfed]

And.. the last line is : "That waits.. for.. *us*" In the end it not about them. Les vieux. That silver clock waits for us. All of us. Great reaction. Do more Brel, if you can!

[@gillessotty8156]

Le maître absolu.....merci l'équipe

[@gillessotty8156]

Tellement de larmes coulent de mes yeux. Merci l'équipe pour ce partage de beauté Je vous propose 'La Solitude '' l'aigle noir ' de la merveilleuse Barbara ( auteur compositeur) ''Avec le temps ''de Ferré

[@taupegrillon5975]

Jaques Brel is a genius 💌

[@escepticus]

Listen to "AMSTERDAM", one of the greatest songs ever written! It encapsulates life (and obviously listen "Ne me quitte pas" his most well known song). One of the best songwriters ever...

[@groopsang1997]

We love u in France 🇫🇷 comon 😊

[@hasilein5505]

Cette chanson, écrite il y a 61 ans, me fait toujours pleurer. Jacques Brel n'interprète pas ses chansons, il les vit. Il y a malheureusement très peu de vidéos de lui...

[@golgotisme]

Brel is a poet, he makes you visualize and pictures the lyrics... All of his songs are passionnate.. You should react to "Ces gens là" : story of "thoses people" described by a valet in a nobility house...

[@boumboumblog]

Now you see where Lara Fabian learned how to touch your soul .

[@emamelonnie]

Bonjour à vous de France vous êtes tous les deux tellement touchant Brel est un chanteur merveilleux j'adore Amsterdam cette chanson il l'a interprété avec beaucoup d'émotions je vous souhaite une bonne journée prenez soin de vous

[@davidtisserant2229]

A song full of thruth, and we know...the silver clock waiting for us.

[@kaheu_desete093]

Amazing reaction ♥️ plz we need more Jacques Brel with subtitle hé Never missed !

[@madodomi5850]

Here are two less known songs of Brel with subtitles : kzbin.info/www/bejne/mpbRaXlqmNyNaqssi=cCj4Ub3leYjxNnl2 kzbin.info/www/bejne/mnfWl4iQmcZmoJIsi=hThLQ66q9dbwQleD

[@cellevangiel5973]

That's Brel, brace yourself as you never know what you will get. Very strong poems, all his songs, which he all wrote.

[@conseilavise4855]

Damn, that's a hard one, thank you for your reaction ❤

[@LetsChillPage]

Hello from South France, Andrei & Dominika, 🌴🌞 If you want to see his best acting performance in a song, try "Ces gens-là" (Those people). There's a video in live concert with the English subtitles. He interprets in this song all the members of a weird provincial family. You'll be amazed. Try also: "Mathilde" (a French girl first name - a man who forgets all his promises and oaths as soon as the woman who left him returns to the village), "Vésoul" (The name of a French town - a man who protests his wife's decisions in vain, but lets himself be led by her), "La chanson de Jacky" (The Jacky's song - a man who, despite all his successes, would sacrifice them without a shadow of hesitation to regain his youth), "Jef" (the diminutive of Joseph in French - a man who desperately tries to lift his old friend who has become a drunkard, obese, and who gives in to depression), "Le moribond" (The dying man - a man about to die settles his scores with his loved ones before asking them to laugh and have fun on the day of his funeral), "Quand on a que l'amour" (When we just have love - Love can overcome all obstacles) "Amsterdam" (Famous Netherlands town - the wanderings of a man in the agitated night of Amsterdam, cuckolded by the woman he loves), etc. So many incredible songs and sick interpretations in his repertoire. We miss him in France. And there are so many gems in the French repertoire you must explore. Peace, folks. ☮👈😎

[@michaelavery6390]

He sang a song called Amsterdam. I haven't heard that version but, I've heard a cover by David Bowie which I thought was brilliant !

[@MerchantOfAlba]

Lovely, thanks 👍

[@cellevangiel5973]

That's Jacques Brel a singer and the poet, that first of all. He wrote over 100 poems, all songs ? I don't know. But he is a one of. He can touch you with one line. He dares to go deep in his sentiments. His or ours ? That's how he touches us.

[@marc-yv7cu]

I am so moved (to tears) to witness this/your deep emotion that causes this unheard song, despite the ocean that separates the French language and the Anglo-Saxon world. This text is so universal that it will affect anyone, anywhere. We find the same power in: "Ne me quitte pas" (dont leave me) or "Quand maman reviendra" (When mom comes back) other jewels of J.Brel. Great thank you, your blades have made mine flow, here near Paris... You can so listen "Mon vieux" (My old dad) de Daniel Guichard, other deeply and incredible french song ...

[@baronnuuke7821]

Im french, and i had a russian friend, one day he asked me to teach him a poetic sentence in french that he could tell to a girl, but a beautiful sentence. At this point i had read Hugo, Dumas, Camus and others but the only thing that came to my mind was Jacques Brel

[@sebastienlola]

hello , i learned this song in elementary school, a very long time ago, today i better understand the scope of this song , even if i have always found it beautiful

[@personne8090]

Merci ❤️

[@niklojavelle]

Merci pour votre sincérité et votre sensibility... You have to try "Mon vieux"by Daniel Guichard, Ina 1974... Respect.

[@merullesr]

During the whole song, we listen the silver clock waiting us.

[@1957PLATO]

Great art will leave you speechless.

[@jacquesdemolay2699]

I never listen to this song without a handkerchief in my hand

[@pourtoujours3154]

HIs songs are visual poetry. I listen hundreds of times and never get tired of them. One of my favorites is "Le Plat Pays". Also, "Amsterdam". The visuals are so moving! I hope maybe you will do one of those too?

[@jpmb-hz3jo]

plenty songs of Jacques Brel you should listen. The best

[@stevedotwood]

A great Belgian - Stef from Belgium. "Ne Me Quite pas" is still my top favorite by him

[@Titivivi13]

Un vrai poète, mais on en a d autres en France.merci pour vos vidéos

[@Emmanuel-re9kj]

Belgium 🇧🇪🇧🇪🇧🇪🇧🇪🇧🇪 ♥️♥️♥️♥️🎶🎵🎼🎶🎵🎼🎶

[@BBBrunoKABYLIE]

Cette chanson, comme toute de celle de Brel, sont soit de la tristesse, ou de la dérision, et oui, on a pleuré beaucoup, qui n'a pas perdu un être cher

[@raeann63]

i highly recommend "ne me quitte pas". heartbreakingly gorgeous.

[@MerchantOfAlba]

So good! We both know it! 💚

[@GeorgesTison-h9i]

il chantait la vie comme elle est comme le poete qu'il était

[@mdeux3778]

For me (I'm bregian french speaking) , it's the "old popular belgian spririt", the mix of drama and joy. Maybe you can hear "ces gens là" or "Amsterdam"... As ou says, at the end he says : "qui NOUS attends". He knows thats our end, maybe yes maybe no. By the way, most of us dont take time to push our elders to speek about the life they life. They have so many thinks to say to us. Personally I ask my father to write the book of his live and we talk sometimes about that... ...

[@Diecastclassicist]

I love Brel.

[@marcelocdarocha2060]

Brel me faz chorar num Rio de Janeiro ensolarado , minha mãe me ensinou a aprecia-lo, hoje eu canto a cabeceira da cama dela.

[@iancitizen6489]

Thanks, icon!

[@estranhokonsta]

It's been decades since i heard that song. It is interesting how the meaning of the song to me is still the same and so different at the same time.

[@jean-luc6675]

Ecouter Brel c'est écouter de la poésie en musique, voir Brel c'est voir un acteur sur scène. En France les enfants apprennent du Brel comme ils apprennent du Rimbaud ou du Verlaine. Brel fait vivre ses chansons. Ne me quitte pas, les vieux et tant d'autres...vous ne les écoutez pas vous les vivez

[@NanouPeb-vy3ug]

❤❤❤❤

[@hidroxttv4238]

I cried😢such a sad song but so true!

[@scudone3985]

I cried exactly at the same time 😥

[@z0n0ph0ne]

Wonderful reaction to a master of French song.

[@marcvandenbroecke331]

Not really French because Brel is Belgian and spoke flemish (belgian dutch) as well

[@laurentchaffin4467]

BREL et le monstre de la chanson française il était belge. des chanteurs comme (brel , aznavour , brassens , reggiani léo ferrer) .

[@laurentsalomonoriginals3438]

Getting old was Brel's biggest fear. "Mourir, la belle affaire, mais vieillir !"

[@lisannebaumholz5028]

I remember going to see the revue "Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris" in the 1960s in Montreal. It was very popular as was Jacques Brel. His music influenced many chansonniers in Quebec, like Felix Leclerc, Jean-Pierre Ferland and Gilles Vigneault. Here is a link to the original Off-Broadway recording (it's a playlist...22 Brel songs, 4 singers): kzbin.info/aero/PLs9_glrNHomX4Jd2hcBOHiguN30W7snRv&si=0W-QgoEkqEYsxpeI

[@MerchantOfAlba]

Thank you 😊

[@bowtangey6830]

Hey, Jacques, I'm old (old - ish -- 73), and I think you do not speak for me in this song. Maybe in a decade? I'll see. Nice performance, though, and powerful lyrics. And as usual, Andrei and Dominika, love your reactions.

[@MrPerkedel]

Brel is always magnificent

[@keithcarper8809]

A hard fact we all must face. It's the price we pay for living. "Waiter, ...Check, please."👴 ☮💜🎶

[@michel2075]

Je vous vois très ému. C'est un grand monsieur qui nous a quitté et que je regrette beaucoup. Mais ses chansons restent et c'est bien.

[@annesablon2532]

Hello from Belgium 🇧🇪🤗

[@marcvandenbroecke331]

As the song dates from the '60ties, he sings about the old people he saw in the '50ties or before, not about the older people we know nowadays...

[@Dorloteelasouris]

Je trouve cette chanson toujours d’actualité même si les « vieux » de maintenant n’ont peut être plus de pendule d’argent.

[@desestrevincent3550]

Orly il faut l écouter !