# The most beautiful Jacques Brel songs

Brel's most listened-to songs and those most voted by SensCritique readers, from Le Plat Pays to Ne me quitte pas.

- 17 votes · 12 items
- Dec 30, 2023 · gilles_bruxelles
- https://even.best/en/l/642/the-most-beautiful-jacques-brel-songs

## Top 12

1. **Le Plat Pays** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — 1962. A declaration of love to Flanders.
2. **La Valse à mille temps** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — 1959. A waltz that speeds up to the point of dizziness.
3. **Vesoul** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — 1968. A mad dash between cities, with a frenzied accordion.
4. **Amsterdam** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — 1964. The sailors of the port; only ever sung live, never recorded in the studio.
5. **Ne me quitte pas** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — 1959. The lover's plea covered in dozens of languages.
6. **La Chanson des vieux amants** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — 1967. Twenty years of love and quarrels; his most-streamed song today.
7. **Le Moribond** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — 1961. A dying man says goodbye in song; adapted in English as Seasons in the Sun.
8. **Les Vieux** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — 1963. Old age and the passing of time.
9. **Les Bourgeois** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — 1962. Three students who mock the bourgeoisie before becoming bourgeois themselves.
10. **Ces gens-là** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 1966. A fierce portrait of a petty-bourgeois family.
11. **Mathilde** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 1963. The return of a destructive love.
12. **Quand on n'a que l'amour** (-1 · ▲0 ▼1) — 1956. His first hit.

How is this ranking ordered? By people's votes: each ▲ adds a point and each ▼ takes one away. Anyone can vote and add what is missing.