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Strange and darkness.
People lack all feelings
Over the city tonight.
Hanging by behind the trees of,
Blood red mornings.
Watching all this waiting for you
Dread in my head.
Where the wind sings by the river
Laughing, broken.
Hair swept out into the water,
Ripples of black.
Run, you better run,
You better run for your life.
Oh it rips through the sky.
Oh life figures on.
Jo, I know you will see.
Don't wait for a minute.
Shiver while you breathing
All the while you breath land
(Oh you see winter)
Shiver while you breathing
All the while I breath land
Feel the grey at dawn meaning,
Sunset, spoken.
Where the wind sits by the river,
Ripples of black.
Days, you gotta run
You gotta run for your life
Oh your light feel you breath
Don't run with me.
Oh they'll leave you breath.
Don't wait for a minute.
Hope Goldtheft pay a solid royalities to the heir of Jacque Brel ... ALL this song is based on "Chez ces gens là" composed by Jacque BREL in 1965 !!!
Sampling is in fact a tribute, not theft. Mr. Brel (would be) is honoured.
goldfrapp is played almost daily anymore. time to change it up.
Agree - it should be at least twice a day.
Monsieur Jacques Brel 1966 : "ces gens là"
"...the song ”Jo“ is very much inspired by a Brel song, directly. We actually wrote to their estate to let them know." - Alison Goldfrapp
YouTube says "The uploader has not made this video available in your country." (I am in the U.S.)
Try this: >https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Anyone know the connection between Peter Gabriel's "I Grieve" and this track? Jo is often preceded by I Grieve. On RP, there's usually a reason, but it eludes me.
It's especially poignant for me because I lost my wife to cancer a few years ago, and I Grieve generally rips my heart out. My wife's name was Jo, so.....
Could be the spectral signature (?)
(may your wife rest in blissful peace)
It's especially poignant for me because I lost my wife to cancer a few years ago, and I Grieve generally rips my heart out. My wife's name was Jo, so.....
Released halfway through 2000, OVO boasts a stellar cast, including Cocteau Twin Elizabeth Fraser, Neneh Cherry, Alison Goldfrapp and Paul Buchanan from The Blue Nile. Some of the tracks from OVO have become fixtures of the Gabriel canon, among them Downside Up and The Nest That Sailed Away, both of which would be reprised ten years later on the orchestral album New Blood.
Source: https://petergabriel.com/relea...
Looks like Alison Goldfrapp has collaborated with Gabriel directly and therein lies the connection.
It's especially poignant for me because I lost my wife to cancer a few years ago, and I Grieve generally rips my heart out. My wife's name was Jo, so.....
Its been just over two decades since I lost my Kate to a brain tumor, and I too cannot listen to "I Grieve" without turning into a puddly sobbing mess (among other songs, all of which carry emotional connections to Kate).
Know that someone out here understands your feelings.
Very reminiscent, isn't it?
very good , you have an excellent ear
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It's especially poignant for me because I lost my wife to cancer a few years ago, and I Grieve generally rips my heart out. My wife's name was Jo, so.....

I don't hear any "lisping" in these vocals.
It's especially poignant for me because I lost my wife to cancer a few years ago, and I Grieve generally rips my heart out. My wife's name was Jo, so.....
Cancer sucks. All of us have been sucked into it's currents. I'm sorry for the loss of your wife Jo.
Ces gens là :
D’abord, d’abord, y a l’aîné
Lui qui est comme un melon
Lui qui a un gros nez
Lui qui sait plus son nom
Monsieur tellement qu´y boit
Tellement qu´il a bu
It's especially poignant for me because I lost my wife to cancer a few years ago, and I Grieve generally rips my heart out. My wife's name was Jo, so.....
!!!!!!!
“They're the same things that inspired Felt Mountain and Seventh Tree, really. Françoise Hardy, Jacques Brel – the song ”Jo“ is very much inspired by a Brel song, directly. We actually wrote to their estate to let them know. ”
see interview here : Interview - Goldfrapp explore the shadows
!!!!!!!
“They're the same things that inspired Felt Mountain and Seventh Tree, really. Françoise Hardy, Jacques Brel – the song ”Jo“ is very much inspired by a Brel song, directly. We actually wrote to their estate to let them know. ”
see interview here https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/features/interview-goldfrapp-explore-the-shadows-8800750.html
!!!!!!!
Totally agreed!!!
I am sure that it was an "homage-type-thing", not a "plagiarism-type-thing". I love this song, just hope they got clearance, because Brel's estate's lawyers might not appreciate it as much as we do!
In this case it's not a sample, it's a rerecording. This Sound on Sound article mentions the performers. It's also a fascinating read if you're interested in the technicals behind their recording and production processes.
As every time this song comes up on RP, I expect Jacques Brel to start singing, I was about to post a video link to the song the intro is borrowed from, but I see many have already pointed it out.
It's a near copy & paste musical quote... but I see it as an homage AND they trasnform it into a true Goldfrapp song, integrate it in the Goldfrapp sound/ambient... which is just what I expect of someone who takes a musical fragment from someone else.
More than a Goldfrapp fan, I am a 'Felt mountain' album fan and there's nothing by Goldfrapp afterwards that has knocked me off my feet like this one did. I still will occasionally dig a new song. This one is truly haunting and beautiful; it just sounds like things they have already done.
Just in case nobody stated it: the song by Jacques Brel from which the initial piano&double bass theme was taken is "Ces gens-là", which rouhgly translates to 'With those people' or 'With this kind of people'.
It depicts a quite cruel and depressing picture of a family doomed by lack of communication, of love, where hate and loneliness is everywhere - with the narrator (obviously a member of said family) offering a brief glance of hope talking about his love for a luminous, beautiful woman who loves him back, their plans being to have a home "with windows everywhere, almost no walls, pointing out that if it's not for sure to happen, at least it might one day... only to conclude by saying he now has to go "home".
It's dark, like the very majority of Brel's stuff, even when the music is joyful...
Damn I love this song and it fits so perfectly to this incredible TV production.
*makingcrazyeyes*
I am sure that it was an "homage-type-thing", not a "plagiarism-type-thing". I love this song, just hope they got clearance, because Brel's estate's lawyers might not appreciate it as much as we do!
It's called sampling and folks have been doing it since the 70s at least. I'm shocked at the number of people here speaking as though it's a new concept to them.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NfwW76JzVQI
If you don't understand French, you can't be "touched" by this song.
Thank you for sharing this. It's always nice to be introduced to the 'muses' of artists.
in your toolbox? that's drastic.
It's not like she was trying to deceive anyone.
I am sure that it was an "homage-type-thing", not a "plagiarism-type-thing". I love this song, just hope they got clearance, because Brel's estate's lawyers might not appreciate it as much as we do!
It's not like she was trying to deceive anyone.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NfwW76JzVQI
If you don't understand French, you can't be "touched" by this song.
I knew that I had already heard the piano theme!
dui.
can't figure if its raining or snowing; it ain't sunny thats for sure
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NfwW76JzVQI
If you don't understand French, you can't be "touched" by this song.

I can't understand what she's singing. Took me a while before I realized it was in English.
Wouldn't want anything that evokes a sense of mystery or discovery... don't want any layered meanings or ambiguities... prefer lyrics that are obvious and presented for consumption at face value only.
I can't understand what she's singing. Took me a while before I realized it was in English.
That is wicked, OF....and you are the one who said my initials stand for Rude Drivel Only....
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Héhé, y'a que les français et les belges walons pour se rendre compte de ça ! :)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NfwW76JzVQI
If you don't understand french, you can't be "touched" by this song.
Héhé, y'a que les français et les belges walons pour se rendre compte de ça ! :)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NfwW76JzVQI
If you don't understand french, you can't be "touched" by this song.

Ruins a song I'd have liked a lot otherwise
They have since earned my respect
Good stuff
Am I first?
This one is a gem

crap
Third-The dreaded bronze
< gets the gold on Goldfrapp!

They have since earned my respect
Good stuff
Am I first?
crap
Third-The dreaded bronze
They have since earned my respect
Good stuff
Am I first?



Jacques Brel "Ces gens là" : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9fa9aWFbLM
And the beautiful adaptation of another Brel admirer
Abd Al Malik - Les autres