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Director: Isaiah Seret
Executive Producer: Rupert Reynolds-MacLean
Producer: Sonya Sier
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Views : 3,534,502
Genre: Music
Date of upload: Nov 15, 2017 ^^
Rating : 4.805 (1,744/34,101 LTDR)
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Top Comments of this video!! :3
The song is based on Richard Llewelyn's 1939 novel How Green Was My Valley?, about a small mining community in 19th-century Wales.
The video is an epic short film, inspired both by the song's source material and Tarkovsky's The Sacrifice. A family must pit their desire to have a child against the knowledge that this would destroy their community. The hypnotic, hymnal quality of the song binds the video throughout, hinting at redemption while destruction takes place.
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It was like watching a good movie in 6 minutes. Their music videos never fail to amaze me.
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sometimes i feel like im just too dumb for these music videos
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I from Ukraine, i was holding up with no crying all this time, untill i heard this song.. havemt read tge book yet, but tge words "how green was my valley" tearing me apart.. I wish everyone peace and blue sky and so everyones valley stays green...
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I'm not sure I understood everything but I kinda want to cry
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That's my nephew in the video! So proud of him:)
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oh my fucking god. the quality in this production is so beautiful and I love the overall aesthetic in the visuals and how it connects with the uniqueness of Alt J’s music.
absolutely phenomenal
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alt j shows me emotions I never knew before
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I lost my younger brother today... he was special and I will miss him. This song will always be played in his remembrance.
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their lyrics, their music videos are so complex, so multi-layered that I don’t know any other band doing such a great job as them
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How green, how green was my valley?
To be told of such hills
To be held in such spots
To behold such warmth
Call to arms these harmonies!
And in happy agony we sing
How green, how green was my valley?
How green, how green was my valley?
Oh, your deeps and your shades
Where the wild roses pray
Such heat from pride
Glorious, the voice of man!
Like the nightingales, we sing
How green, how green was my valley?
How green, how green was my valley?
Clear softness in our hymn
Soft, like coming rain
Soft, like Bronwen
Victoria! Victoria!
Voices our queen might envy
How green, how green was my valley?
How green, how green was my valley?
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Your valley was quite green.
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BEST DAY OF MY LIFE PLEADER GOT A VIDEO
Now i wait for Adeline
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You guys should produce full movies, because your ideias are amazing
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This feels like something that would play over the end credits of someone’s life
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This is seriously underrated. How is this better production than most blockbuster movies?
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IT'S OK. CRYING IS ALLOWED
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The only part I don't understand is the whole thing.
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I don't usually comment on Youtube videos, but this visual work of art is just simply superb. While the setting is inspired by the novel How Green Was My Valley, the narrative is inspired by Tarkovsky's The Sacrifice, where a man offers God everything he has in order to avoid a worldwide apocalipsis. In the song's case, the little boy is taken to be the one thing that can stop this mass destruction (as far as I can understand). Nevertheless, the video/song philosophical depth also comes from the fact that "The valley" is presented as a lost paradise, a place where the boy (the survivor, probably because he was the only innocent person of his community) can return in order to search the true meaning of his life. Religion, art, aesthetics, music wrapped up in six and a half minutes. I'll just add that I was fucking moved to tears by this.
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@rhiannonlewis5480
6 years ago
the moment i heard this song i started tearing up. my dad always used to tell me how much he loved this book called how green was my valley, and sadly he passed away in november just before my 16th birthday. i was listening to alt j's album last month and this song came on. i'd never heard it before and as soon as i heard 'how green was my valley' being sung i automatically started crying. the odds that a song by one of my favourite bands was about my dads favourite book which isn't even that popular is insane.
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