the best of a genius

25 years after his death, Jacques Brel remains an icon of French song, a poet living his songs, telling slices of life with a rare verb and a caustic acid as fun as veinéneuse. if one finds happiness with five songs apart from his latest album, this compilation can discover and rediscover 35 pearls. I'm still surprised that the former is filled to the brim, there is room on the second, which would have led to at least two existensielles songs: "How To Kill His Wife's Lover?" and "Les Remparts From Warsaw".
Brel was eternal, this we proved once more.