Comments on: Re: Vos Cerveaux

By: Sarah

Sarah — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 21:46:32 +0000

Ok so people have been asking for re-translations for this french song. I’ve taken a little “creative liberty” since a direct translation doesn’t make sense for anglophones.

Hi Tom, it’s Bob. I’m working real hard in the bottom office
Cool just checking on you, how are you?
For me it goes, except that I’ve become a zombie
I’d be really happy if you’d let us enter
I think I speak for the world
I can say I understand
We legitimately expected your reluctance
But this is urgent, you’re all going to burst, yelling

(Chorus)
We just want to devour your brain
No this isn’t a stupid joke
We won’t cut the eyes out of your head
We just want to devour your brain
We’re jammed here
Perhaps we can do a kind of compromise:
Open your door
Then we can nab you to devour your brain

I don’t want to quibble, Tom, but what are you really doing?
Spend the rest of your life in your office?
You can maybe go on for now, but one day you will run out of food
…and extra ammunition
It’s clear you come to realize the end
This ambition, is truly what you’ve always lacked
But I have some for you
I’ll devour you slowly

(Chorus)

I would very much like to help you, Tom, one way or another
I actually appreciate our collaboration
I’m not a monster, Tom,
Finally, technically I am
Technically

I have another meeting, Tom
We’ll put this away
It’ll be easier to agree and finish this
I will pass this to my new colleagues
Who are in the process of gnawing your door
We’ll deal with this later
I’m happy to see you accept constructive criticism
Despite this, you are overbooked
I know it’s hell at the office
We’ll fix that later
When I open up your head

(And the head! And the head! Alouette! Alouette! Argh!)

(Chorus)

By: meliluc

meliluc — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 21:47:23 +0000

thanks, now I can share this great song with my “not fluent” friends

et l’accent est génial !

By: mac givré

mac givré — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 15:40:28 +0000

Génial, tout simplement

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The GeekSpin » Blog Archive » GeekSpin 1: And So It Begins — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 04:52:14 +0000

[...] The first is “Jack Bauer” by The Great Luke Ski and the second is a very special version of Jonathan Coulton’s “re: Your Brains” [...]

By: The_Dark

The_Dark — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 01:53:27 +0000

That was great! I barely know any French, but it was still awesome.

Someone should write a Spanish version… I’d kill to hear that…

By: Erica

Erica — Sun, 06 Jan 2008 19:35:44 +0000

Merci Uncle Jon, Merci…

By: Chevalier Bayard

Chevalier Bayard — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 00:55:19 +0000

Awesome work !!

Chapeau bas monsieur

By: Angelastic

Angelastic — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 20:11:32 +0000

Maybe it’s just that new song glow or the cute accent (well, I wouldn’t know, I don’t speak French natively either, but it sounds like a cute accent to me), but I think this is even more awesome than the original… I hope it will convince more people here in Geneva to request a concert. Bravo Jeremsoft (Have you ever read ‘Le tombeau de Marot: In Praise of the Music of Language’?) and JoCo.

Now for the Japanese version… I bet the http://www.japlishpodcast.com/ guys will help.

By: electric desire

electric desire — Sat, 08 Dec 2007 02:00:35 +0000

As someone who teaches elementary French, and wonders why oh why don’t my students get that this language is neat, this really made my day. Thank you for making a very long week end on a high note (so to speak).

By: Guinness

Guinness — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 15:34:21 +0000

Well done, jerem

and what a great result ! Excellent pronunciation, probably the best i ever heared for a non french speaking person !

By: JP

JP — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 14:11:10 +0000

Happy birthday dude.

By: jeremsoft

jeremsoft — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 09:52:48 +0000

“song stuck in my head for days IN A LANGUAGE I CAN’T SPEAK!!!”
ahahah…its exactly what think the rest of the world with the hegemony of english music…sweet revenge…:P

By: jack

jack — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 06:40:19 +0000

The only thing worse (better?) than having *yet another* JoCo song stuck in my head for days and days is having a JoCo song stuck in my head for days IN A LANGUAGE I CAN’T SPEAK!!! Wow, this is going to be a rough week.

Happy Birthday, Jonathan.

By: Jonnie Geetahr

Jonnie Geetahr — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 20:52:58 +0000

This is surreally awesome. I wish I had this to use back in my ol’ language lab days in college! Thanks, Jon.

By: Justin

Justin — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 19:31:41 +0000

That's awesome! I love it! And just in case no one's brought this to your attention: "All we want to do is study your brains." -Sluggy Freelance

By: Janet

Janet — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 14:48:26 +0000

Oh no, nowhere close. Consider October 15, 2007 (Still Alive); April 14, 2006 (Code Monkey) or October 14, 2005 (Baby Got Back). Robots, Monkeys, and Anatomy 101 trump French brains, ca veut dire.

By: Leigh

Leigh — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 14:17:40 +0000

Does this post win the prize for most comments ever?

By: Carrie

Carrie — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 04:28:32 +0000

I’ve got a version in American Sign Language… kinda interesting if you ask me, but requires YouTube and I don’t have time for that. Lol. Loved the French!

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Random Stuff on Sunday Night « Lunzie — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 04:12:05 +0000

[...] Random Stuff on Sunday Night December 3, 2007 Filed under: family, life — lunzie @ 4:11 am I’m listening to Jonathan Coulton’s “Re: Vos Cerveaux.” [...]

By: Demetrius

Demetrius — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 15:51:22 +0000

“Jack F Says:
December 1st, 2007 at 11:20 pm

Brains just don’t taste the same in heavy sauce.”

Yes. The discriminating zombie prefers a nice Noisette Butter.

By: Gle3nn

Gle3nn — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 04:32:53 +0000

Happy Birthday!

Happy JoCo Day!

By: Jack F

Jack F — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 04:20:52 +0000

Brains just don’t taste the same in heavy sauce.

By: BucketHatBobby

BucketHatBobby — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 04:05:01 +0000

Can’t wait for the Ukrainian version of “Shop Vac”

By: Thomas

Thomas — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 02:51:24 +0000

Um … Bon Anniversaire! Oui? Oui.

By: Demetrius

Demetrius — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 02:16:34 +0000

Happy Birthday, JC! – And, many returns of the day… Which you happen to share with my oldest brother – who is also a Jon! (well, John, anyway…)

By: Katie o_O

Katie o_O — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 01:31:15 +0000

HAPPY BIRTHDAY Mr. Jonathan coulton! I just recently heard about your music and it’s awesome, and you are a very talented musician and are amazing at your live shows I hope you have a great birthday!

By: Len

Len — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 15:02:07 +0000

Hey Happy Birthday!

I can’t believe I am a month older than you. I thought you were older than me.

By: Venom

Venom — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 14:57:24 +0000

I have listen to your song on Wil Wheaton and it’s great!

By the way, I’m from Belgium, and I speak French as a native language also.

By: randal

randal — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 14:54:07 +0000

Now if we can only get Celine Dion to do a cover version…

By: Justin

Justin — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 14:18:11 +0000

Happy birthday, JoCo…

Come have some cake. It’s so delicious and moist.

(^ you do know, of course, that you’ll never live that line down.)

By: Mike

Mike — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 10:44:17 +0000

Re: Vos Cerveaux is amazing! It really is!

By: Liza LS

Liza LS — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 08:21:01 +0000

Viva you, indeed, JoCo! And a happy birthday, too!

^_^

By: Ben

Ben — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 05:48:51 +0000

Bonne anniversaire, JoCo!

By: WTL

WTL — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 05:15:14 +0000

This is pricelessly awesome!

By: Kaethe

Kaethe — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 02:29:47 +0000

And I have copies of the Beatles in German. I wish they had recorded more, but they had so many problems with the pronounciation they only did the two. It’s a pitty, they sound better in German, too.

By: Kaethe

Kaethe — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 02:28:32 +0000

That makes me so happy : )

By: Len

Len — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 01:26:29 +0000

That was awesome. I forsee myself drawing some french zombies in the near future.

By: brady

brady — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 00:47:20 +0000

Excellent as always!

By: Jim

Jim — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 23:52:35 +0000

Translate this back to English and we get…

“It just wants you to puff the brain”

… wait.. what?

http://www.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.jonathancoulton.com%2Fsongdetails%2FRe%2520Vos%2520Cerveaux&langpair=fr%7Cen&hl=en&ie=UTF8

By: Florian

Florian — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 22:41:58 +0000

Ehm, I meant German about the Beatles songs I referred to, I know this is French

By: Florian

Florian — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 22:41:22 +0000

Awesome song, the idea reminds of what the Beatles did with “Komm, gib mir deine Hand” and “Sie liebt dich”. I don’t speak German that well, but if the translation is good, it can have a very catchy quality (sometimes even more so). Very cool.

By: Roman V

Roman V — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 21:43:13 +0000

http://icanhascheezburger.com/2007/11/27/zombie-kiteh-want-brainz/

Oh and happy early birthday, Jonathan.

By: Stephane D.

Stephane D. — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 20:35:43 +0000

Hahahahah… “Et la tete! Et la tete!”… Hahahaha.

I needed a few listens to recalibrate my brain to understand the accent. (It’s closer to the European-french pronunciation to the Canadian-French pronunciation. Some expressions are also not used in Canadian-French which is another reason for my brain-recalibration to occur. It’s akin to North-American English vs U.K. English. )

By: Q-gyver

Q-gyver — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 20:24:46 +0000

Now we’ve successfully won over Canada!
I say “ON TO MEXICO!!!”

Also, even if you don’t speak French at all, it’s still really cool.

By: Yngve

Yngve — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 20:12:22 +0000

I don’t speak a word of French, and it is still so, so awesome.

By: Paul

Paul — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 20:10:29 +0000

It’s like Inspector Clouseau came back from the grave, as a zombie! Mon Dieu.

By: LoonieBin

LoonieBin — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 19:46:08 +0000

Oh man…I took French Immersion from kindergarten to grade nine (bastards canceled high school French, except the mickey-mouse second language classes) and your pronunciation and accent are better. Though it didn’t quite rhyme, that’s unbelievably well translated, except a couple parts could’ve been done better…For the benefit of those who don’t speak French, I’ll write down these lyrics in English. Maybe under user content somewhere…

By: Chris Radcliff

Chris Radcliff — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 19:31:44 +0000

Great! Now people can sing along at the Paris concert. Zombies Sans Frontieres!

By: andrine

andrine — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 18:53:18 +0000

Tish! I love it when you speak French! Mwah! -Gomez

By: patrick

patrick — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 17:53:07 +0000

This will go down in history as the best song translation since 99 Luftballons! God, I’m old…

By: rhiannon

rhiannon — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 17:48:09 +0000

How about a song in welsh? I’m from wales… its a beautiful language!
Rhiannon

http://www.myspace.com/ukrhi

By: Will Hindmarch

Will Hindmarch — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 17:35:04 +0000

You and Edith Piaf. That makes two. Oh, and Nouvelle Vague, I guess, but is she for real?

What is that very nice MP3 player you’re using in this post?

Can we get you to do a song in Icelandic or Croatian, now?