The Sandman is a mythical creature of European folklore who sprinkles sand into the eyes of good people. Hence the “sleep “ in our eyes when we wake up. Enter Sandman therefore is a wish for a nights sleep without fear of the dark , and bad dreams that may come at night.
53 here. love this song. my oldest friend is a drummer. Every time i see him at his drums, he starts playing it for me, cuz he knows how much i love it.
Unpopular opinion, but m'y favorite is Sydney 2004, at BDO festival.That Rob Trujillo base solo at the beginning is what made me want to tre and play bass.
This song came out when I was in high school. Up until that point, I'd only ever listened to top 40 and hip hop. When I heard this for the first time, it was the hardest, visceral thing I had ever heard, and tapped into a part of me I didn't even know existed. Now I've been a metal head for over 35 years.
Funny, I heard them first in the 8th grade. (Master of Puppets) when I heard this the first time I was sort of let down. Funny how different music hits people.
Funny, I was in highschool too at that point. But then I kind of stopped to listen to Metallca... But picked up on them again years later. Seen them live last year with my wife and my 2 kids ... They enjoyed the show.
@@RoverWaters Evidence that it was so low? There's plenty of evidence it was higher, including official counts, Wikipedia, and you just have to look at it to see how huge it was. It's not as tho 1.6 mill is so hard to believe, it's been beaten a number of times including Jean-Michel Jarre, Rod Stewart and Paul McCartney, both Jarre and Stewart had crowds over 3 million and Jarre's was also in Moscow. Looking at the size of the crowd I don't find 1.6 hard to believe at all. AC/DC, who were also on this bill, got a crowd of 200k at River Plate and that was in a stadium which is tiny compared to the airfield where this one was held.
When i was in my teens i would listen to the Black album as i lay down to go to sleep. Metallica Black Album was one of the best albums of all time, every single song is great!! on that album.
My eighth grade class voted to use this song as our walking out music for our "graduation" ceremony in 1992. We walked in to Winds of Change by The Scorpions. We ruled.
I loved how this song progresses. The acoustic you hear in the beginning, is carried out throughout the entirety of the piece. It's never speed up, just built up on. I'll never forget when I heard this song for the first time back in the 90's. And the video is intense. My fav part is when that semi comes and hits the bed... Bro!
i feel old at 38 yrs old when i watch reaction videos and realize how much music i grew up hearing that now as an adult, there's other adults with modern civilization who never heard these songs
Mariano Rivera, former Yankees star closer came into every game he pitched to this song: ruclips.net/video/rUTirIk75vg/видео.html This is from his final appearance at Yankee stadium.
Not only mothers, and not only in the 80's. Years ago, a little known band named "Creed" was playing the bar circuit. They played a rocking bunch of songs, which everyone was really digging. Then after they finished their set, they asked for requests. Most common was Metallica. After some hesitancy, they started a perfect intro to Enter Sandman. When they were supposed to start singing the lyrics, they all stopped playing their instruments and shouted "devil music!" We all quietly turned back to the bar. That was around 1997-98.
Any baseball fan in general or American League fan anyway would hear this song in their head when the great Mariano Rivera would walk in. Probably the best closer of all time, if not somewhere in the top three. P.S. God I miss baseball! "Lets Go Oakland."
My first concert ever was Metallica with Faith No More opening up while they were touring with the Black Album, I was 15 and my best friend and I took a bus to see them at Lakewood Amphitheatre in Atlanta and it was one of the greatest nights of my life, I would love to see you react to Harvestor Of Sorrow, my personal favorite Metallica song, if you do happen to do that please react to their live performance in Moscow from 91 or 92 I believe, even if you don't react to it you should definitely check it out, it's one of the greatest live performances ever in my opinion
Saw Faith No More get showered with trash and boo's when they replaced The Cult(for getting boo'd off stage too many times) at Irvine Meadow in SoCal for the And Justice For All tour. James and Kirk came out when the trash showering got really bad and they all did War Pigs to turn the crowd around. FNM had zero radio play at the time and nobody knew who they were. Harvester of Sorrow is a beast of a song too btw. Good choice.
it was 92' ..Faith No More, Guns N' Roses, Metallica triple ticket up in Buffalo, Ny. i took my little brother there for his first concert experience. Metallica was freaking awesome!
It was the song that got my attention as well. I definitely loved it as a kid and for awhile named Metallica as my favorite band. I eventually became more of a Megadeth guy, but I still love a lot of Metallica's early stuff.
It's about the foolish fears from childhood we all overcome with age, one of which is (for many children) when the lights go out and we're alone in the dark. I think it's amazing how they captured those very real fears so perfectly.
"The Sandman is a traditional character in many children's stories and books. In Scandinavian folklore, he is said to sprinkle sand or dust on or into the eyes of children at night to bring on sleep and dreams.[1] The grit or "sleep" (rheum) in one's eyes upon waking is the supposed result of the Sandman's work the previous night." The story does turn dark also, hence the video, lol.
Yep, my great-aunts were from northern Germany and used to tell me about the sandman as young child. He wasn't really sinister at all...except he came when you were sleeping.
Yeah, the character is also commonly known in The Netherlands and Northern Belgium. Probably because Danish, Swedish, Dutch/Flemish, Norwegian, German and Icelandic are all Germanic languages and cultures. I don't know if the story is well known in other countries?
It’s interpretation. You can say it’s about nightmares about things real “war” things imagined “dragons fire”. It’s about fear mostly. The prayer is the key.
I awoke from a coma a couple years before this song was released... I've always considered it sort of like a "theme song" for me ever since that time. (My ears are ringing at this moment because it is impossible for me to not crank it all the way up when I hear it! --not too mention the tears on my cheek!) :-D
Wrestler -- "The Sandman" (Jim Fullington. Best known for the time he took a cast-iron skillet to the head and EVENTUALLY finished the match). UFC -- Brock Lesnar (when not using his wrestling theme). Relief pitcher -- Mariano Rivera. (In fact, his MLB.com video for his last appearance was called "Exit Sandman".)
@@jamelakajamal The Nightmares before a hart attack think is from a riddle. No one know what a death person dream before they die, since they death and can tell the story.
The Sandman would typically shotgun 2-3 beers before hit entered the ring (sometimes pouring them down fans throats) then crushing the cans on his head.
I love watching people react to stuff like this! It can almost make me, who have heard this song probably 500 times by now, hear it like it was the first time all over again! And also, people can say whatever they want about Old Metallica VS New Metallica VS Current Metallica (Enter Sandman being part of New Metallica), but this riff and this beat kicks ass!! It is literally IMPOSSIBLE for me to hear it without my head starting to bob and my foot stomping to the bass drum.
Fun Fact: Soundgarden's 1989 album Louder Than Love inspired Kirk Hammett to write the main riff of this song. This is fate, you have to do more Soundgarden reactions now.
The song is about The Sandman legend. The guy who came at night and sprinkled sand in your eyes to make you fall asleep (the reason you may have grit in the corner of your eyes when you wake up). Over the years, it took on darker tones with the Sandman doing evil things while you slept or causing nightmares.
The band was on the Howard Stern show about 12 years ago and played the song on air. Howard asked them directly what was the meaning of the song and it's origens? They told him that it was about infant crib death but never let it be known too the public because it would turn folks off and I would agree with their reasoning. This was the 1rst time that Metalica admitted what the Enter Sandman was all about. Dont believe me, then look up the show and check it out. I was stunned ...
"James Hetfield's original lyric was about Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (Crib Death), when a baby dies inexplicably in its crib. The line, "Off to never never land" was, "Disrupt the perfect family," and the "sandman" kills the baby. Pretty gruesome stuff, so their producer Bob Rock convinced him to change it to make it more accessible and meaningful. The band had a policy of not commenting on each other's individual contributions, but Rock was an outsider and felt free to speak up. To his surprise, Hetfield took it well and altered the lyric accordingly. Speaking with Uncut in 2007, Hetfield said: "I wanted more of the mental thing where this kid gets manipulated by what adults say. And you know when you wake up with that s--t in your eye? That's supposedly been put in there by the sandman to make you dream. So the guy in the song tells this little kid that and he kinda freaks. He can't sleep after that and it works the opposite way. Instead of a soothing thing, the table's turned."
I was 13-14 riding back home from school in the back of my friends older brother shitty Chevy Suburban. He put on the Black Album and finger banged his girlfriend in the front seat while we sat in the back. That totally opened my eyes to Metalllica. And girls.
Toni Powell - I agree. I had heard of them of course, but hadn’t taken the time to listen to them, if you know what I mean. My not-quite-yet- boyfriend (who is now my husband) and I were headed home from Laughlin, Nevada in 1993 when he popped “The Black Album” into his Walkman and gave me some headphones. O.M.G. Instant convert. I’ve been a fan ever since.
We had this amazing laser show in middle school like 25 years ago that they played music to and this was one of the songs they used. The lasers made all different types of images and stuff. It was so random that the school would even do this back then too. I'll never forget how amazing that was. It was kind of the first concert I ever went to lol. And the strobe lights and lasers went nuts when the "BOOM" part happened. It also showed the kid running with the mack truck chasing him in the lasers. I can't even explain how sick it was for the 90's in school for that matter.
when you mentioned the falling and having a heart attack part, ive actually experienced that. i knew what was happening and could feel the pain and tightness in my chest but couldn't do anything about it. someone came into the living room i was sleeping in and i woke up. i still to this day say they saved my life. it was so creepy
@@jamelakajamal Triple H entrance was Motorhead's The Game and The King of kings. Could you react to some Motorhead ( Ace of spades, The Game. Too name a few. I think your reactions are the best. Just Subscribed.
There was a wrestler named "The Sandman" in the former ECW who came out to this song. After ECW folded and was acquired by WWE in 2000, WWE brought back many of its former talents for an invasion storyline that was run during the second half of 2001, in which The Sandman was a participant.
@@HardRockMaster7577 I agree. What someone sees in their head when first listening to music like that is what I would like to see the reaction to. Just let the beat take you on a journey. Let the rhythm be your eyes and drift into your own interpretation.
Not a big metal fan, but this song rocks. Had a buddy working security at a show in Cincinnati, recognized my nephew, pulled him over the barricade. He ended up on the bus, brought some "party favors" Every year they came back Lars would have someone call his house and tell him tickets will be at will call. He was their #1 fan. Sadly he passed in '98 at 34 yrs old
It's amazing watching the videos with you because I have never seen them. I know all the music by itself so far I been watching your channel but I'm freaking at the videos. WHEW!! whoa!!! It's like I am reacting to newness. YIKES TO That diesel truck scene!
In 1996 a girl in NJ gave birth (stillborn) at prom. She went back in and requested "Unforgiven" be played for her and her boyfriend. I can't hear this song without picking apart the lyrics with that in mind. "Never see, never be, so I dub thee unforgiven..."
@@HeatSlinger it registers on the Richter scale at the Mountain Lake weather station in Pembroke where dirty dancing was filmed. Brent Watts showed the scale on the wdbj7 news one night.
One can not help but head bang when this song is playing.... I am getting old now (57) so my head doesn't bang as it once did but I still do a vigorous head bobbing when listening to songs like this LOL
I used to live near Blacksburg, VA and now I live in Boston. Just earlier today I saw a license plate that said "Hokies". Such a strange name for a team but it's surely original.
Troy Owens - Yes, you’re right. I guess I associate him with it because the ECW was on some WWE events (as well as WWF back in the day and others like XPW and WCW).
Well now I've been following your channel for a little while now I decided to go back revisit your reactions to songs and certain bands. The only wrestler I know that used this was Sandman. Watching the actual video for this was the right idea. It's crazy.
I just subscribed to your channel yesterday and all I can say is that you give hope. Your reactions to my music from my childhood are amazing. Keep it up my friend.
A few years back, when I was 49, I was picking up a few things at the grocery store and I was humming this. It was 7 am and I was standing at the checkout when a grocer clerk, who was loading a fridge, looked up at me slowly. He knew what I was humming and it was the best reaction someone ever gave me. He looked surprised that this middle aged man was rocking out in his head. I get a kick out of that to this day.
Baseball Hall of Fame Pitcher Greatest of all time "Marion Riviera " when the MY Yankees start playing this song they knew they were gonna win cause the Sandman was about to pitch. Greatest honor a song or picture could every recieve. Rock on in the Free World.
Metallica was always a little too metal for me, but my best friend was 10 years younger than I was. We adored this song! When it first came out we were on a road trip home and it came on probably four times during a 3-hour ride. We would crank it up and headbang like teenagers! My friend passed away from cancer after fighting like a warrior a few years later. This song will ALWAYS remind me of her and our good times. I love you and miss you, Teresa! Until we meet again...xoxo
I worked as an usher at The Palace of Auburn Hill in my late teens early 20’s...best job ever! So many concerts and Piston games. Good times back in the early 90’s 😎
SOME MORE ESSENTIAL METALLICA TO REACT TO: - For Whom The Bell Tolls - Sad But True - Spit Out The Bone - Frantic - I Disappear - Welcome Home (Sanitarium) - Fuel
Headbanging to metal is not a decision but an impulse.
@Parker Kenney How true it is, I grew up to metal and even at 4 years old, not even knowing what the songs are about, I just gotta bang my head a bit
Often it is the demons making the head bang and bop like that.
Right on
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I love how people start headbanging subconsciously when They start listening to metal even without realizing it
The Sandman is a mythical creature of European folklore who sprinkles sand into the eyes of good people. Hence the “sleep “ in our eyes when we wake up. Enter Sandman therefore is a wish for a nights sleep without fear of the dark , and bad dreams that may come at night.
I'm a 55 year old woman and I Still rock the s*** out of this song. It's amazing! I'm so glad you did a reaction for this.
I hope I'm as cool as you at 55
53 here. love this song. my oldest friend is a drummer. Every time i see him at his drums, he starts playing it for me, cuz he knows how much i love it.
I'm 57; seen em 6 times since 80s~ last time was last year in Atlanta~ Lots of "old ppl" were there. Love Metallica!!!!
Damn im 53 here. I need to meet you girls.
@@tonioshea9870 do you mean the current man in office?
"Is he talking about nightmares?"
Nailed it
That's precisely what this song's about
It was originally about crib death but then changed
@@6float off to never never land was “Disrupt the perfect family “
A must if for Metallica is "For Whom The Bell Tolls"
The studio version and then the LIVE VERSION from Seattle!!!
🤘🏻For Whom The Bell Tolls🤘🏻 Cover by Jassy J, Avery, Sandra Szabo & WhiteSlash ruclips.net/video/d59stRLJKds/видео.html
Unpopular opinion, but m'y favorite is Sydney 2004, at BDO festival.That Rob Trujillo base solo at the beginning is what made me want to tre and play bass.
@@RogerLaLoutre nice!!!!!!! I like this version a lot
Renee HeKnowsMyName meh, I’m over watching performances from that show. I’d prefer more current
Metallica's black album was the first CD I ever bought when I was a kid.
Such an awesome album!
The first album I ever bought with my money was AC/DC's golden album For Those About To Rock. I'm old.
This song came out when I was in high school. Up until that point, I'd only ever listened to top 40 and hip hop. When I heard this for the first time, it was the hardest, visceral thing I had ever heard, and tapped into a part of me I didn't even know existed. Now I've been a metal head for over 35 years.
Funny, I heard them first in the 8th grade. (Master of Puppets) when I heard this the first time I was sort of let down. Funny how different music hits people.
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Enter Sandman was released in 91. Just saying..
Funny, I was in highschool too at that point. But then I kind of stopped to listen to Metallca... But picked up on them again years later. Seen them live last year with my wife and my 2 kids ... They enjoyed the show.
@@petervanwinden3953 yup. I graduated in 93.
There's a live version in Moscow, probably the biggest crowd you'll ever see (said to be over 1.5 million people), brilliant.
they just stopped counting at 1.6m so there was most likely many more
Free Metallica concert to celebrate the dissolution of the USSR. Metal and freedom.
folk story... Metallica show had well under 500k audience
@@RoverWaters Evidence that it was so low? There's plenty of evidence it was higher, including official counts, Wikipedia, and you just have to look at it to see how huge it was. It's not as tho 1.6 mill is so hard to believe, it's been beaten a number of times including Jean-Michel Jarre, Rod Stewart and Paul McCartney, both Jarre and Stewart had crowds over 3 million and Jarre's was also in Moscow. Looking at the size of the crowd I don't find 1.6 hard to believe at all. AC/DC, who were also on this bill, got a crowd of 200k at River Plate and that was in a stadium which is tiny compared to the airfield where this one was held.
@@ianbrooke6342 "official counts" lol😆there are no official counts, stupid
River Plate stadium holds 66k audience...
kid you are clueless....
There used to be a wrestler aptly named “The Sandman” who came out to this song.
ECW. The arena was shaking. I forget the guys name. A million times better than the WWE crap today. (Update). Wrestler: The Sandman.
There was a wrestler who went by the name Sandman. He used this song.
It was, bad ass
Ecw baaaaybe
I've never though about having metal play in the back ground when I tell people im gay.
When i was in my teens i would listen to the Black album as i lay down to go to sleep. Metallica Black Album was one of the best albums of all time, every single song is great!! on that album.
You went to bed listing to this same bro
My eighth grade class voted to use this song as our walking out music for our "graduation" ceremony in 1992. We walked in to Winds of Change by The Scorpions. We ruled.
Your class was metal as fuck
@@xavvi Nothing says metal like "eighth grade."
Oh fuck yeah
Class of 80
Another Brick in the Wall.
I managed to convince just shy of enough people to get Twisted Sister's We're Not Gonna Take it as our walk out song for high school graduation.
I loved how this song progresses. The acoustic you hear in the beginning, is carried out throughout the entirety of the piece. It's never speed up, just built up on. I'll never forget when I heard this song for the first time back in the 90's. And the video is intense. My fav part is when that semi comes and hits the bed... Bro!
I used this a couple of times when my son wouldn't wake up for school. My Bluetooth speaker at his head on full volume., mission accomplished 😉😎.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
😂😂 Cruel 😝😝
Silent Lucidity by Queensryche...I want to see him react to this❤
i feel old at 38 yrs old when i watch reaction videos and realize how much music i grew up hearing that now as an adult, there's other adults with modern civilization who never heard these songs
It was written about a recurring nightmare one of them had as a kid.
It was originally about crib death but they changed it
Thank u. I saw that.
There’s a version of this song where they play it along with a symphony and it’s mind blowing. It’s called Enter Sandman S&M.
Excellent that was 👍👍
With the San Francisco symphony orchestra. It’s an amazing album
Mariano Rivera, former Yankees star closer came into every game he pitched to this song:
ruclips.net/video/rUTirIk75vg/видео.html
This is from his final appearance at Yankee stadium.
who cares?
Mo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
@@franksmith7419 I DO
@@franksmith7419 Greatest reliever EVER in baseball ... And I'm NOT a Yankees fan ....
Metallica - S&M. They played with an orchestra. Talk about adding depth to their music 💥
I remember that. Gave me goose bumps. I think it was one of their best performances.
I absolutely LOVE their performance of "Hero of the Day" from that album!
No Leaf Clover
@@AClark-jx9zp ...Yea I heard that and loved it just Amazing!
No one reacts to this and it pisses me off. Shows how well done the music is and it's so different.
OMG...'dat's Devil music!!
Said everyone's mother when this song went mainstream back in the day...hahahahahahaha
This song came out at the end of the Satanic Panic that was prevalent in the 80s
Not only mothers, and not only in the 80's. Years ago, a little known band named "Creed" was playing the bar circuit. They played a rocking bunch of songs, which everyone was really digging. Then after they finished their set, they asked for requests. Most common was Metallica. After some hesitancy, they started a perfect intro to Enter Sandman. When they were supposed to start singing the lyrics, they all stopped playing their instruments and shouted "devil music!"
We all quietly turned back to the bar.
That was around 1997-98.
@@Leon-wz1js hahah....it is hard to lose the reputation/label of 'devil music' due to the otherworldly nature of the sound. Hilarious.
@@elmoomle4565 Well, you'd think rockers would think twice.
Leon , it’s because Creed is a Christian group, great band, under rated in my opinion
the song is about nightmares btw
James Hetfield said "That's about the nightmares of some kid"
Hetfield originally wrote the song about crib death, but their management said "Uhhh, tone it back just a smidge."
@Jerrol Hale i misspoke. i guess it was Bob Rock who suggested he dial it back.
@Jerrol Hale I thought that the lyrics were more about a man perpetuating domestic abuse....
"Wherever I May Roam" is even better...
You want goosebumps. Watch Metallica “Enter Sandman” live in Moscow
Yup!!!!
I’m 52 and the chill bumps came out this memory lane!!! I’m rockin’ out to my old school classic best music, memories from the Navy to this.
A TRUE “Rock Classic” if ever there was one 🔥🎸🎸🎸🔥 I’ve seen Metallica in concert 6 times & THIS was the song I’d look forward to the most 🤙😜👍
Any Yankees fan would know that this played every time Mariano Rivera came out to close a game before he retired.
Any baseball fan in general or American League fan anyway would hear this song in their head when the great Mariano Rivera would walk in. Probably the best closer of all time, if not somewhere in the top three. P.S. God I miss baseball! "Lets Go Oakland."
I used to pretend I was Mariano coming out to this before my bschool interviews. "Game time ginder, time to shut this shit down!"
My first concert ever was Metallica with Faith No More opening up while they were touring with the Black Album, I was 15 and my best friend and I took a bus to see them at Lakewood Amphitheatre in Atlanta and it was one of the greatest nights of my life, I would love to see you react to Harvestor Of Sorrow, my personal favorite Metallica song, if you do happen to do that please react to their live performance in Moscow from 91 or 92 I believe, even if you don't react to it you should definitely check it out, it's one of the greatest live performances ever in my opinion
Yes, the Moscow performance is straight fiyah.
Saw Faith No More get showered with trash and boo's when they replaced The Cult(for getting boo'd off stage too many times) at Irvine Meadow in SoCal for the And Justice For All tour. James and Kirk came out when the trash showering got really bad and they all did War Pigs to turn the crowd around. FNM had zero radio play at the time and nobody knew who they were. Harvester of Sorrow is a beast of a song too btw. Good choice.
it was 92' ..Faith No More, Guns N' Roses, Metallica triple ticket up in Buffalo, Ny. i took my little brother there for his first concert experience. Metallica was freaking awesome!
The Black album has one of the best mixes/production I've ever heard!
This was the first song I ever heard from Metallica when I first started hearing their music, then I was hooked. lol
It was the song that got my attention as well. I definitely loved it as a kid and for awhile named Metallica as my favorite band. I eventually became more of a Megadeth guy, but I still love a lot of Metallica's early stuff.
Master of Puppets got me hooked.
There are some songs that you just have to turn the hell up and this is one of them.
METALLICA - NOTHING ELSE MATTERS
Yes, please react to Nothing Else Matters!
NEM is Metallica’s Stairway to Heaven
Please do this one. It's my husband and I song.
ECW ECW ECW The Sandman
No it SUCKS!
And this is why I saw them live three times in the 90's. Still know every word to pretty much every song.
CLASSIC!
It's about the foolish fears from childhood we all overcome with age, one of which is (for many children) when the lights go out and we're alone in the dark. I think it's amazing how they captured those very real fears so perfectly.
"The Sandman is a traditional character in many children's stories and books. In Scandinavian folklore, he is said to sprinkle sand or dust on or into the eyes of children at night to bring on sleep and dreams.[1] The grit or "sleep" (rheum) in one's eyes upon waking is the supposed result of the Sandman's work the previous night." The story does turn dark also, hence the video, lol.
Yep, my great-aunts were from northern Germany and used to tell me about the sandman as young child. He wasn't really sinister at all...except he came when you were sleeping.
Lars must tell em about it
Yeah, the character is also commonly known in The Netherlands and Northern Belgium. Probably because Danish, Swedish, Dutch/Flemish, Norwegian, German and Icelandic are all Germanic languages and cultures. I don't know if the story is well known in other countries?
We have this character in USA too he is called Bill Cosby.
In the Netherlands he's called Klaas Vaak. Very popular amongst children
The Sandman from ECW used this for his entrance song.
I can still see the beer can smashing against his head and the Kendo stick....
THE ONE AND ONLY
METALLICA
"One" "One" "One" it's one of their best videos.
It’s interpretation. You can say it’s about nightmares about things real “war” things imagined “dragons fire”. It’s about fear mostly.
The prayer is the key.
I awoke from a coma a couple years before this song was released... I've always considered it sort of like a "theme song" for me ever since that time. (My ears are ringing at this moment because it is impossible for me to not crank it all the way up when I hear it! --not too mention the tears on my cheek!) :-D
Wrestler -- "The Sandman" (Jim Fullington. Best known for the time he took a cast-iron skillet to the head and EVENTUALLY finished the match).
UFC -- Brock Lesnar (when not using his wrestling theme).
Relief pitcher -- Mariano Rivera. (In fact, his MLB.com video for his last appearance was called "Exit Sandman".)
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@@jamelakajamal The Nightmares before a hart attack think is from a riddle.
No one know what a death person dream before they die, since they death and can tell the story.
You left out the ever present kendo stick and cigarette.
Mariano Rivera! The real Sandman... “Apaga y Vamonos” turn off and get the hell out of here!
The Sandman would typically shotgun 2-3 beers before hit entered the ring (sometimes pouring them down fans throats) then crushing the cans on his head.
I love watching people react to stuff like this! It can almost make me, who have heard this song probably 500 times by now, hear it like it was the first time all over again!
And also, people can say whatever they want about Old Metallica VS New Metallica VS Current Metallica (Enter Sandman being part of New Metallica), but this riff and this beat kicks ass!! It is literally IMPOSSIBLE for me to hear it without my head starting to bob and my foot stomping to the bass drum.
PANTERA... IM BROKEN.
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When listening to Metallica its mandatory to turn the volume full blast
Always, especially when I'm driving to and from work, and when I'm out doing Über Eats deliveries 🤘🏼🎸🎶
Fun Fact: Soundgarden's 1989 album Louder Than Love inspired Kirk Hammett to write the main riff of this song.
This is fate, you have to do more Soundgarden reactions now.
YES YES YES so much this!!!
That's what he said...he actually ripped the riff off..look it up.cheers
The song is about The Sandman legend. The guy who came at night and sprinkled sand in your eyes to make you fall asleep (the reason you may have grit in the corner of your eyes when you wake up). Over the years, it took on darker tones with the Sandman doing evil things while you slept or causing nightmares.
The band was on the Howard Stern show about 12 years ago and played the song on air. Howard asked them directly what was the meaning of the song and it's origens? They told him that it was about infant crib death but never let it be known too the public because it would turn folks off and I would agree with their reasoning. This was the 1rst time that Metalica admitted what the Enter Sandman was all about. Dont believe me, then look up the show and check it out. I was stunned ...
"James Hetfield's original lyric was about Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (Crib Death), when a baby dies inexplicably in its crib. The line, "Off to never never land" was, "Disrupt the perfect family," and the "sandman" kills the baby.
Pretty gruesome stuff, so their producer Bob Rock convinced him to change it to make it more accessible and meaningful. The band had a policy of not commenting on each other's individual contributions, but Rock was an outsider and felt free to speak up. To his surprise, Hetfield took it well and altered the lyric accordingly.
Speaking with Uncut in 2007, Hetfield said: "I wanted more of the mental thing where this kid gets manipulated by what adults say. And you know when you wake up with that s--t in your eye? That's supposedly been put in there by the sandman to make you dream. So the guy in the song tells this little kid that and he kinda freaks. He can't sleep after that and it works the opposite way. Instead of a soothing thing, the table's turned."
@@RyanAcidhedzMurphy Thanks for that... Makes sense. Dark stuff.
Too cool for school. I've seen them 4 times when they've come to 🇦🇺, brilliant show!💖💖
This album STILL sells well 30+ years later. Talk about longevity.
Correct... 5-6k units per week still. 👊
Because you can hear the bass.
I'm a long time resident of Michigan but when this was first released I lived in Denver Colorado. It totally reminds me of that stage in my life.
You never ever forget the day, time, and place that you first hear Metallica...their music is life changing and mind altering
I was 13-14 riding back home from school in the back of my friends older brother shitty Chevy Suburban. He put on the Black Album and finger banged his girlfriend in the front seat while we sat in the back. That totally opened my eyes to Metalllica. And girls.
Toni Powell - I agree. I had heard of them of course, but hadn’t taken the time to listen to them, if you know what I mean. My not-quite-yet- boyfriend (who is now my husband) and I were headed home from Laughlin, Nevada in 1993 when he popped “The Black Album” into his Walkman and gave me some headphones. O.M.G. Instant convert. I’ve been a fan ever since.
We had this amazing laser show in middle school like 25 years ago that they played music to and this was one of the songs they used. The lasers made all different types of images and stuff. It was so random that the school would even do this back then too. I'll never forget how amazing that was. It was kind of the first concert I ever went to lol. And the strobe lights and lasers went nuts when the "BOOM" part happened. It also showed the kid running with the mack truck chasing him in the lasers. I can't even explain how sick it was for the 90's in school for that matter.
You haven't truly lived until you see Metallica play this song live....
when you mentioned the falling and having a heart attack part, ive actually experienced that. i knew what was happening and could feel the pain and tightness in my chest but couldn't do anything about it. someone came into the living room i was sleeping in and i woke up. i still to this day say they saved my life. it was so creepy
Jamel, you probably heard it while working Kings games. It used to be on there playlist during tv timeouts.
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I have also heard it during Lakers games probably every time I have gone.
@@jamelakajamal Triple H entrance was Motorhead's The Game and The King of kings. Could you react to some Motorhead ( Ace of spades, The Game. Too name a few. I think your reactions are the best. Just Subscribed.
Blast from the past, thanks. I remember strobe lights in the sixties in dance clubs,fun times.
Should do TheTragically Hip - "Fiddlers Green" "Blow at High Dough" "Nautical Disaster" great band
He definitely should, I never see reactors featuring The Tragically Hip and it's a shame cause they're one the greatest Canadian bands ever.
This song is about childhood fears and nightmares. I went to high school with Lars and he told me the meaning.
Yes he's talking about a child's nightmares.
The nightmare resides only in the mind of the child.
No,these are common nightmares. Running from something and falling from the sky.
There was a wrestler named "The Sandman" in the former ECW who came out to this song. After ECW folded and was acquired by WWE in 2000, WWE brought back many of its former talents for an invasion storyline that was run during the second half of 2001, in which The Sandman was a participant.
You should rock out to Marilyn Manson "beautiful people."
No.
My eldest daughter’s lullaby!
Yes!!!!
Just the music... Please don't make your channel all about visual things. Let the "music" paint the picture... and react ... to that ! ! !
@@HardRockMaster7577 I agree. What someone sees in their head when first listening to music like that is what I would like to see the reaction to. Just let the beat take you on a journey. Let the rhythm be your eyes and drift into your own interpretation.
Ohh the carnal passion this song stirs up in me!!! that bass drum just thumps my heart out Yeoww!!
METALLICA - THE DAY THAT NEVER COMES
Sure great choice to discover the band! A stupid ripp-off One and fade to black
There is nothing better than hearing this as the Hokies enter the stadium. Absolutely electrifying!!!
When NY Yankee relief closer Mariano Rivera entered the game the stadium played Enter Sandman
Not a big metal fan, but this song rocks. Had a buddy working security at a show in Cincinnati, recognized my nephew, pulled him over the barricade. He ended up on the bus, brought some "party favors" Every year they came back Lars would have someone call his house and tell him tickets will be at will call. He was their #1 fan. Sadly he passed in '98 at 34 yrs old
Yep, this songs about bad dreams , nightmares. That's who the Sandman is He hides under your bed
That guitar riff right before the "Hush little baby...." part always reminds me of the Spiderman: TAS theme song.
You gotta do some Dire Straits! Sultans of Swing, Money for Nothing and Brothers in Arms are a couple of good shouts!
+ Industrial Disease
+ Walk of Life
Definitly need to listen to those Dire Strait Song....
Legend
Sultans of Swing is a must....Money for Nothing was the first ever video with computer generated effects. I think it was 82 when it came out.
I’d also add in the gallery/once upon a time in the west, southbound again, setting me up, down to the waterline, and heavy fuel.
But Only listen to thoose in mono
Dude, you have been my quarantine music therapy!! Thank you!
The Sandman!!! ECW,ECW,ECW!!!
yeah, his entrance is epic
It's amazing watching the videos with you because I have never seen them. I know all the music by itself so far I been watching your channel but I'm freaking at the videos. WHEW!! whoa!!! It's like I am reacting to newness. YIKES TO That diesel truck scene!
You should check out the song “The Unforgiven” by Metallica, which has an official music video. That would be awesome. Very trippy video.
And its two sequels and their combined story.
In 1996 a girl in NJ gave birth (stillborn) at prom. She went back in and requested "Unforgiven" be played for her and her boyfriend. I can't hear this song without picking apart the lyrics with that in mind. "Never see, never be, so I dub thee unforgiven..."
He needs to do all 3
That song always reminded me of the Clint Eastwood movie of the same name
Mariano Rivera, the former New York Yankees closing pitcher, used to come out to this. He was known as "The Sandman"!!! Miss him!!
Virginia Tech football plays this as intro for their team at every home game
and the students and fans in the stadium get so loud it registers on the Richter Scale!
@@HeatSlinger it registers on the Richter scale at the Mountain Lake weather station in Pembroke where dirty dancing was filmed. Brent Watts showed the scale on the wdbj7 news one night.
One can not help but head bang when this song is playing.... I am getting old now (57) so my head doesn't bang as it once did but I still do a vigorous head bobbing when listening to songs like this LOL
Virginia Tech Football comes out to this song as well.
Go big blue! UK!
so does South Dakota State football
@@TomBRaider2323 go big South Dakota State (*insert mascot here*)
There is NO GREATER ENTRANCE in all of sports!!!!
I used to live near Blacksburg, VA and now I live in Boston. Just earlier today I saw a license plate that said "Hokies". Such a strange name for a team but it's surely original.
This song was the first metal song at the Grammys. I was very proud.
WWE’s “Sandman” used Metallica’s Enter Sandman as his entrance music.
Just to note he's an ECW hardcore legend.
Only when he was in ecw before the child molester supporter McMahon too over it and fucked it up
Also, don't be shy about working at a wrestling event.
Sandman was ECW
Troy Owens - Yes, you’re right. I guess I associate him with it because the ECW was on some WWE events (as well as WWF back in the day and others like XPW and WCW).
Well now I've been following your channel for a little while now I decided to go back revisit your reactions to songs and certain bands. The only wrestler I know that used this was Sandman. Watching the actual video for this was the right idea. It's crazy.
Now you should do "For Whom The Bell Tolls"
Another popular wrestler entered to this bitchen song. 😉
Thanks for your reaction. 👊😎
Great time. Excellent video too.
A classic, classic metal song.
For a much lighter version, check out Jimmie Fallon sings “Enter Sandman” with Metallica playing with school instruments 😝
I saw that it's good.
Love this band to seen them in person to loved it im 55 to💞💞💞💞
I got a good metallica song for ya The Four Horseman
One of my faves. I wish they had more money and time when they made kill 'em all. Those songs deserve to blast.
Motorbreath by far favorite song by them
I just subscribed to your channel yesterday
and all I can say is that you give hope. Your reactions to my music from my childhood are amazing. Keep it up my friend.
A few years back, when I was 49, I was picking up a few things at the grocery store and I was humming this. It was 7 am and I was standing at the checkout when a grocer clerk, who was loading a fridge, looked up at me slowly. He knew what I was humming and it was the best reaction someone ever gave me. He looked surprised that this middle aged man was rocking out in his head. I get a kick out of that to this day.
Most iconic riff in metal history
Should check out metallicas SM concert version of this, One and For whom the bell tolls
Baseball Hall of Fame Pitcher Greatest of all time "Marion Riviera " when the MY Yankees start playing this song they knew they were gonna win cause the Sandman was about to pitch. Greatest honor a song or picture could every recieve. Rock on in the Free World.
you nailed it at the start yes its about child hood nightmares we have all had .....
Some good ol Metallica. Do the unforgiven trilogy. Absolutely great. My favorite is 3 even though it seems like im in the minority.
Don't know that I've heard the 3rd one. I'm sure I have but ill have to look it up to know which song that is.
Metallica was always a little too metal for me, but my best friend was 10 years younger than I was. We adored this song! When it first came out we were on a road trip home and it came on probably four times during a 3-hour ride. We would crank it up and headbang like teenagers! My friend passed away from cancer after fighting like a warrior a few years later. This song will ALWAYS remind me of her and our good times. I love you and miss you, Teresa! Until we meet again...xoxo
There was a guy a wrestler named Sandman in ECW and was I think on both WWE and WCW
And yes it's about a dream
Live in Mexico City was most awesome! You are one of the good guy's Jamel!!!
I always took this to be a song about nightmares
that song turned me into a metallica fan years ago. the memory remains,nothing else matters, fade to black.until it sleeps
"The riff that keeps the pool heated"
I worked as an usher at The Palace of Auburn Hill in my late teens early 20’s...best job ever! So many concerts and Piston games. Good times back in the early 90’s 😎
SOME MORE ESSENTIAL METALLICA TO REACT TO:
- For Whom The Bell Tolls
- Sad But True
- Spit Out The Bone
- Frantic
- I Disappear
- Welcome Home (Sanitarium)
- Fuel
Romeo Oscar Bravo How dare you?
- Four horsemen
- The thing that should not be
- Creeping death
- Shortest straw
- Battery
The tuned their instruments down for Sad but True. Great song!
Romeo Oscar Bravo BATTERY!!!