50 reasons to love the great Jacques

What about Jacques Brel except that it is among the largest, one of the greatest? Listen to his songs, the antithesis of pre-formatted tubes today is to dive into the world of a true poet, a man who lived his texts with his guts and his heart, which was on scene as rarely gave himself ... For me, it's simple, Brel is one of the few artists who moves me to tears ... "Do not leave me", "Jef", "When n "only love", I can not hear these masterpieces without the wet eyelids and throat that ties ... even to the thousandth listening, emotion remains intact, as violent as the first Once, as pure, as incandescent ...

Sometimes funny ("Vesoul"), sometimes melancholic ("the flat country"), sometimes implacable ("Those people"), sometimes militant ("At the next"), our dear Jacques, in fact, knew all sing .. . Love, sorrow, grief, hope, old age, friendship, time passing, nostalgia, Latin declensions or port of Amsterdam ... Everything, I tell you! .. . And in each of his songs he could put this little je ne sais quoi extra that makes all the difference and that was perhaps the soul, just ...

Brel is more than a singer, more than a voice, it is a friend, someone who speaks your life and helps you, if not to understand, at least to support what is already ... lot! ... the menu of this compilation, 50 tracks ... most essential, of course ... but Ausi less known songs or rediscover ... 50 reasons to love the great Jacques, anyway !