hi all, hope you enjoy this video! FYI i'll be posting a little less frequently over the summer (here in Australia) while i take a break to recharge for 2022
Enjoy your summer! I suggest you clear your musical palat with something completely different, i.e. Oxygene by Jean Michel Jarre (a Synthesizer Classic).
You are awesome! Watching your videos remind me of when I listened to new stuff around your age. Yes Iron Maiden are awesome and this is a great track. My favorite is still "The Trooper" followed by "Aces High".😉
@@brettpearce3684 No it is Rime of the ancient mariner. The clue to the intro is in the song and the fact that he kills a bird revered by sailors as good omens, the Albatross. Revelations is 'This song is about religion, or about washing your car. Actually its about opening a pair of curtains'
The wedding guests are sad but wiser because the mariner is recounting his tales to guests at a wedding. It says it at the start of the song. So much to take in with one listen! Amazing reaction
It was a common narrative style at the time. 25 years later Mary Shelley did the same thing with Frankenstein, with the whole story told by the survivor of a shipwreck that's only tangentially related to the monster.
"Alexander the Great", "Empire of the Clouds" and "Seventh Son of a Seventh Son" are others excellent beautiful long Iron Maiden songs! You won't be disappointed, Kira
She've already listened to Alexander The Great in her spin the wheel 2 video. I'm not gonna spoil how she exactly felt about the song but I can say she wasn't quite as amazed as this one :)
Bruce is always very theatrical on stage. Iron Maiden, like a lot of other bands from their era, thrived in big, live venues, and the stage show was part of the appeal. I've been to several Iron Maiden concerts now and they're always a ton of fun to watch and go all out on stage design, too.
Finally! My favorite Maiden song of all time. The time changes, the key changes, the guitar, the lyrics. This song has everything a great rock song should have. Great reaction!
Maiden literally made a badass metal song out of a poem that they and probably every British kid was taught in school at that time. It's actually a cool trippy poem.
Being an Iron Maiden fan, it's an absolute honor being able to witness the reaction to the band in his maximum composing skills (or, in this case, Steve Harris since the song was written by him). Bruce really shines in these more operatic songs! I believe the natural followers to this one would be either Alexander the Great and Seventh of a Seventh Son (if possible the whole album, because it is a conceptual album, if it isn't at least the title track), or going forward and listening to something from their last 20 years, like Hell on Earth and The Parchment (both from their latest album), Empire of the Clouds (their biggest song, and SPOILER: piano), The Legacy and Reincarnation of Benjamin Breeg (from A Matter of Life and Death), Paschendale and Out of the Silent Planet
"This list is fire"Hell on Earth and The Parchment (both from their latest album)" These songs are the 10 to 11 minute ones she is looking for. Maiden can still write and play great music. Hell on Earth is already top 10 Maiden for me.
@@me109aa Does Rime have 2-3 minutes intro and outtros? Nope. These songs you mention is about 5 minutes long in reality. Rime is like "BAM!" compared to those mediocre new songs.
This is easily the best track from Powerslave. Hands down. As much fun as Aces High and 2 Minutes to Midnight are, Mariner just blows them out of the water. It's not just a song, it's an experience!
This is one of the epic Maiden songs, like AC/DC they always have a distinctive sound. The galloping bass of Steve Harris, the guitars and Bruce Dickinson's distinctive voice all work together.
...yes, but tell me, when did these trademarks start fading to grey...Senjutsu delivers hooklines lasting 4 seconds max...three galopping parts...and not a single break followed by run...so, when I am sad from this I listen to the Powerslave album...followed by Somewhere... and Seventh...
@@metalconfucius4347 They've slowed down considerably, so their fastest gallops nowadays would probably rank as some of the slowest during their golden era. But the hooks are certainly still there -- some might say the hooklines go on for too long, post-X Factor -- and there's a ton of quality mid-tempo tunes in their reunion era. Very unreasonable to expect a band with an average age of like 66.6 to be playing like young men. Appreciate that they're still around making the music they love (and which is still shockingly solid), or maybe just pretend that they went out on a high note with Seventh Son.
That's why iron Maiden is a legendary band. They just can. They can create an awesome song and sing/play it on a such a high level so the listener feels him/herself mesmerized and immersed in the story.
I think you would love Bruce's older age vocals. I hope your patrons request a post reunion iron maiden song like Hell on Earth, The Talisman, Paschendale etc.
Absolutely LOVE your reactions, you're so animated, understand music, and all around fun to watch. Now to Maiden. How can you not appreciate what amounts to a history lesson, and a literature lesson in poetry, done with Bruce's unique voice and delivery with unmistakable Maidenesque riffs?
Alright young lady. You've earn another subscriber. Im an old guy and remember when this blessing to all mortals was released. One of my favorite tracks from one of my all time favorite bands (and that list is SHORT). Your joy and amazement mirrored how i fealt the first time I heard it. The moment you breathlessly said, "whats gonna happen?" made me so happy. New music rarely has anything approaching complexity or masterfull story telling. So here i am and please keep spreading your awesome positive energy.
Kira, if you liked Mariner, you're going to enjoy a lot the most recent recordings of Iron Maiden! LOTS of long songs, and many with very captivating stories that really capture the imagination. And Bruce is singing in a different manner these days, maybe the more recent songs will be your cup of tea. I would suggest The Legacy, Where the Wild Wind Blows and Dance of Death for a start. And If you like piano, Empire of the Clouds may be a good place to go next ;D Nice video as always, you rock \m/
Favorite aspect of this song is the ending. Maiden is master of big time endings, especially live. This song ends with the lyric about the story going on and on, then the song abruptly ends. Epic. Rich tAMB
This is the first concert I ever went to, and this is the album and tour in "85. What I really remember about this song, is that it lasted over 20 minutes cause they middle break down was like 10 minutes itself...so fucking epic!!!
I was about to recommend the same one! Actually, I think Kira would enjoy basically any of the epic song from the Reunion era... Dream of Mirrors, Paschendale, Dance of Death, The Reincarnation of Benjamin Breeg, The Legacy, Starblind, Isle of Avalon, When the Wild Wind Blows, The Book of Souls, The Red and The Black, Empire of the Clouds, Death of the Celts, The Parchment, Hell on Earth... any of those (and probably most others of the era) would do nicely. :)
Kira, this is, without doubt, the best reaction video by anyone to any song. Your grasp of all that the band set out to convey to the listener is spot on. I love your deep appreciation for the hard work that was clearly put into this song. Fantastic video, you are the best!
Bruce and the guys have always remembered their audience, by and large, is the common working man, hence, the importance of delivering the goods, when Maiden show up in your town!👍😎🔥 Thanks for the mega-vid, your appreciation for fine Metal and your time & effort!!🔥🤘🤘
First of all, welcome to the world of metal! I absolutely enjoy your reactions to Iron Maiden, I've watched them all! You make it so fun to watch them! I absolutely love the way you really get into them and appreciate their musicianship. Makes me want to be there with you enjoying them together. Thanks for sharing your videos with us fellow metalheads! I guess you're part of us now that I see how much you enjoy watching them! Stay true and forever enjoy our music! 🤘
This planted itself as my favorite Iron Maiden song when it came out and it remains there still to this day. I was a huge fan of the poem that inspired this so when I heard this for the first time I was blown away by how fantastic a job they did capturing its mood and story.
I was looking at your reactions and it happened the same when i listened that song, years ago. One of my best friends gave me a copy of Powerslave, and i got shocked with the band, plus, the time they played that song on concert in my country.....i was amazing!! Cheers
id suggest "Infinite Dreams" for you, the whole band pops off on that one. and a little gem (often overlooked) named "The Prophecy" has some very unique changes and less repetition.
Great reaction to my favorite Maiden song. I saw them perform this song during their "caught somewhere in time tour" in Stockholm 1986. It was an amazing show where they used huge back drops during the show and Bruce fought Eddie on stage, it was a very theatrical show.
This song inspired me to go and read (and, later, learn by heart) the original poem. It takes about half an hour to recite, give or take a bit. The section in which the sailors' bodies rise up is much more dramatic in the poem, because Coleridge takes more time to set the scene. . . . But, soon, I heard a roaring wind. It did not come anear, But with its sound, it shook the sails that were so thin and sere. [sere = shrivelled or withered] The upper air burst into life, and a hundred fire-flags sheen : To and fro they were hurried about; And to and fro, and in and out The wan stars danced between. The coming wind did roar more loud, and the sails did sigh like sedge. The rain poured down from one black cloud; the moon was at its edge. The thick, black cloud was cleft, and still the moon was at its side; Like waters shot from some high crag, The lightning fell with never a jag : A river steep and wide. The loud wind never reached the ship, yet now the ship moved on. Beneath the lightning and the moon, the dead men gave a groan! They groaned, they stirred, they all uprose; nor spake, nor moved their eyes. It had been strange, even in a dream, to have seen those dead men rise!
Been a Maiden fan since the third album dropped. I love Bruce, his voice, his commitment to his art, his part in bringing literature to Metal and his overall attitude. But the first 2 albums HD a special place for me, really a different band. Paul is a deeply troubled and flawed person, but from tragedy is often born the most moving art. Bruce, not being a tragic fuck up, drew his inspiration from more classical if non-traditional sources. Old poems about ships full of people dropping dead at the will of some supernatural agents and such. I'd strongly recommend Hallowed Be Thy Name off Number of the Beast. It's an epic and omen of things to come..in the form of longer and deeper cuts. Epic anthems like Hallowed and Mariner would become the center piece of the best Maiden albums, accompanied by more traditional shorter songs to round out the album. Rich the Ancient Metal Beast.
Feel happy each time I see this react!!! Thanks for this fresh, young, emocional reaction. YOUNG PEOPLE!! YOU GOT THE POWER!! Best regards from Spain, just on a line through center of the Earth. The antipodes.
I HOPE you do 'Caught Somewhere In Time' soon. Heck, the whole 'Somewhere In Time' (1986) and 'Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son' (1988) albums are Iron Maiden's peak.
@@serroche He's absolutely correct though. Powerslave is the best thing they ever did. The live double album, predictably, was the beginning of the end. Somewhere in Time... the *cough* "experimental" guitar synth/modern amplification record is at best a mixed bag. A couple of high points, but some of it is cringingly bad. Same goes for 7th Son & Fear of the Dark. They were well & truly phoning it in by that point. Then Bruce quit & really it was all over. Pretty much nothing new to say. They've done a couple of decent tracks since, but essentially album after album after album of boring predictable formulaic run-of-the-mill Maiden to keep their pension funds topped up. Long slow death. Shame really & quite sad to see. They should really have called time on it when Bruce went. Great band though. When they were good they were brilliant (Killers/Number of the Beast/Powerslave).
5:52 i remember hearing this for the first time. This right here is Maiden at their peak. It's so brutal and it encompasses the mood of the song so well. Adrain and Dave don't get the credit they deserve.
Given how long the poem this song is based on, Steve Harris created an absolute masterpiece and what I love about it is that is actually uses parts of the poem as the lyrics - such as the spoken word parts when the atmospheric break happens and Bruce singing "Day after day, day after day We stuck nor breath nor motion As idle as a painted ship upon a painted ocean Water, water everywhere and All the boards did shrink Water, water everywhere nor any drop to drink" .
"So wait, now they're turning into Zombies?!?" 🧟♂️🧟♀️🧟?!? Very entertaining reaction, headbanging girl! Maiden always gives cool history lessons. Man, I wonder what I looked like first hearing this lp? I seen this tour way back then, at the Cow Palace, San Francisco. They brought their mascot Eddie out from the tunnel behind stage on the back of a golf cart, then he gingerly walked up the rear stairs to the stage, then went absolutely WILD!!!!! Great times, thru the fog and ice!!! 🤘🏼Iron Maiden Rules🤘🏼
This is one of my favorite Maiden songs. Top 5 easily. Others that are awesome are Alexander the Great, which is basically a History lesson, Sign of the Cross, When the Wild Win Blows (which makes me cry), and the Clansman, which is basically Braveheart.
In high school, my english class reviewed "Rime of the Ancient Mariner," and our books had "Cliffs Notes" in the margin. Those notes read ALMOST one-to-one with the lyrics of this song! Btw, the song was new at that time, so I don't think there was any copying...
For future reference, the middle-eastern guitar sound, midway through the song and in parts of the soloing, is created through playing the phrygian scale, as opposed to ionian, aeolian, or mixolydian which are popular in other parts of the world. Most Mediterranean-styled music is played in the phrygian mode.
hi all, hope you enjoy this video! FYI i'll be posting a little less frequently over the summer (here in Australia) while i take a break to recharge for 2022
Everyone deserves a little break.
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Enjoy your summer! I suggest you clear your musical palat with something completely different, i.e. Oxygene by Jean Michel Jarre (a Synthesizer Classic).
Have a nice summer. As for you loving music with different atmospheres, you really need Opeth in your life.
You are awesome! Watching your videos remind me of when I listened to new stuff around your age. Yes Iron Maiden are awesome and this is a great track. My favorite is still "The Trooper" followed by "Aces High".😉
Please do RATM.
As Bruce has said during live versions “The moral of this story is not what to do when a bird shits on you”
Never whipe it of were it good luck
Yeah but that's revelations 👍🏻
@@brettpearce3684 No it is Rime of the ancient mariner. The clue to the intro is in the song and the fact that he kills a bird revered by sailors as good omens, the Albatross. Revelations is 'This song is about religion, or about washing your car. Actually its about opening a pair of curtains'
"Why is Bruce so good on this?"
Because he always is. ;)
Always will be. 🤘
Seventh Son of a Seventh Son and Alexander the Great are two great long Maiden songs.. i mean great.
Face in the sand is an epic song
Also Fear Of The Dark, Phantom Of The Opera, Afraid To Shoot Strangers and Sign Of The Cross for great epic songs.
We could be friends right now, seventh son and alexander best long long track
Look for yourself another kingdom...
🤭
Empire of the clouds is greatest IM long song in my opinion
The wedding guests are sad but wiser because the mariner is recounting his tales to guests at a wedding. It says it at the start of the song.
So much to take in with one listen!
Amazing reaction
It was a common narrative style at the time. 25 years later Mary Shelley did the same thing with Frankenstein, with the whole story told by the survivor of a shipwreck that's only tangentially related to the monster.
This is not just music, this is art.
"Why is this song so incredible?" That is the magic of Maiden. For the record the song To Tame the Land is based on Dune.
It is 13 minutes long. And it doesn't have 3 minutes intro, and a 3 minutes outro.
Pure 13 minutes prog with lots of changes and motifs.
Empire of the Clouds is an epic, deserves a treatment like this!
Their worst
Loved your reaction to this song. If you get into more live Maiden you will only grow to love Bruce more and more
It's the holy hand grenade of Antioch
"Alexander the Great", "Empire of the Clouds" and "Seventh Son of a Seventh Son" are others excellent beautiful long Iron Maiden songs!
You won't be disappointed, Kira
She've already listened to Alexander The Great in her spin the wheel 2 video. I'm not gonna spoil how she exactly felt about the song but I can say she wasn't quite as amazed as this one :)
Losfer Words is pretty epic
Bruce is always very theatrical on stage. Iron Maiden, like a lot of other bands from their era, thrived in big, live venues, and the stage show was part of the appeal. I've been to several Iron Maiden concerts now and they're always a ton of fun to watch and go all out on stage design, too.
Finally! My favorite Maiden song of all time. The time changes, the key changes, the guitar, the lyrics. This song has everything a great rock song should have. Great reaction!
Bruce is a perfect front man and showman. The whole Band on stage is pure Theatre ..
Maiden literally made a badass metal song out of a poem that they and probably every British kid was taught in school at that time.
It's actually a cool trippy poem.
Thanks for the uncut reaction! priceless!
Being an Iron Maiden fan, it's an absolute honor being able to witness the reaction to the band in his maximum composing skills (or, in this case, Steve Harris since the song was written by him). Bruce really shines in these more operatic songs!
I believe the natural followers to this one would be either Alexander the Great and Seventh of a Seventh Son (if possible the whole album, because it is a conceptual album, if it isn't at least the title track), or going forward and listening to something from their last 20 years, like Hell on Earth and The Parchment (both from their latest album), Empire of the Clouds (their biggest song, and SPOILER: piano), The Legacy and Reincarnation of Benjamin Breeg (from A Matter of Life and Death), Paschendale and Out of the Silent Planet
"This list is fire"Hell on Earth and The Parchment (both from their latest album)" These songs are the 10 to 11 minute ones she is looking for. Maiden can still write and play great music. Hell on Earth is already top 10 Maiden for me.
@@me109aa Does Rime have 2-3 minutes intro and outtros? Nope. These songs you mention is about 5 minutes long in reality.
Rime is like "BAM!" compared to those mediocre new songs.
This is easily the best track from Powerslave. Hands down. As much fun as Aces High and 2 Minutes to Midnight are, Mariner just blows them out of the water. It's not just a song, it's an experience!
Nah, The Duellists is the best song in the album. I love Mariner but it kinda drags at times. That's the one thing holding it back
This is one of the epic Maiden songs, like AC/DC they always have a distinctive sound. The galloping bass of Steve Harris, the guitars and Bruce Dickinson's distinctive voice all work together.
...yes, but tell me, when did these trademarks start fading to grey...Senjutsu delivers hooklines lasting 4 seconds max...three galopping parts...and not a single break followed by run...so, when I am sad from this I listen to the Powerslave album...followed by Somewhere... and Seventh...
@@metalconfucius4347 They've slowed down considerably, so their fastest gallops nowadays would probably rank as some of the slowest during their golden era. But the hooks are certainly still there -- some might say the hooklines go on for too long, post-X Factor -- and there's a ton of quality mid-tempo tunes in their reunion era. Very unreasonable to expect a band with an average age of like 66.6 to be playing like young men. Appreciate that they're still around making the music they love (and which is still shockingly solid), or maybe just pretend that they went out on a high note with Seventh Son.
@@toamcdohl personally I think they went out on a high note with Where The Wild Wind Blows
You made a strong comeback with this video. Maiden is good with long epics but this is probably their best. Great reaction/analysis as well.
thank you!!!! lots of fun analysing this one
That's why iron Maiden is a legendary band. They just can. They can create an awesome song and sing/play it on a such a high level so the listener feels him/herself mesmerized and immersed in the story.
Love this band and all of their songs
I think you would like some of the other long songs from Maiden
Dance of Death
When the Wild Wind Blows
Empire of Clouds
I think you would love Bruce's older age vocals. I hope your patrons request a post reunion iron maiden song like Hell on Earth, The Talisman, Paschendale etc.
One of the greatest songs ever written, IMO.
Absolutely LOVE your reactions, you're so animated, understand music, and all around fun to watch. Now to Maiden. How can you not appreciate what amounts to a history lesson, and a literature lesson in poetry, done with Bruce's unique voice and delivery with unmistakable Maidenesque riffs?
Bruce Dickinson was just here in Buffalo, he's doing a spoken word tour, not crazy expensive just wrong time of year for expenses or would have gone
This is why Maiden are gods
Check out "Sign of the Cross" also. Preferably live. Rock in Rio 2006 for example..
2001!
It's the bass. Sounds like a galloping horse. Hard and fast, the speed of youth. Brings me back.
Your reactions are so organic, I love it.
Now is time "To Tame a Land"!!!
The best maiden song reaction and analysis on the net bay far. Thank you!
Richard Burton reads the full poem here on RUclips.
It's a great listen.
You are such a Joy 🥰
Astonishing song, astonishing reaction...Thank you 💕
Her hating Bruce's voice to loving it is the best character development.
I'm soo happy seeing the youth enyoing heavy metal
"Seventh son of a seventh son" from 1988 and "Hell on earth" from 2021 are some other amazing songs that i absolutely love
I absolutely loved your reaction!
"UP THE IRONS!"
The song is now 38 years old. I have lived 2,5 times longer *with* this song than without it, and I still can't stop it when it's playing.
You got to see this done live... takes perfection to another level...
One of my favorite Maiden songs. Its a journey in itself.
Powerslave is a must when listening to Maiden!
Best interpretation with no interruption, love this young lady performing.
Alright young lady. You've earn another subscriber. Im an old guy and remember when this blessing to all mortals was released. One of my favorite tracks from one of my all time favorite bands (and that list is SHORT). Your joy and amazement mirrored how i fealt the first time I heard it. The moment you breathlessly said, "whats gonna happen?" made me so happy. New music rarely has anything approaching complexity or masterfull story telling. So here i am and please keep spreading your awesome positive energy.
Kira, if you liked Mariner, you're going to enjoy a lot the most recent recordings of Iron Maiden! LOTS of long songs, and many with very captivating stories that really capture the imagination. And Bruce is singing in a different manner these days, maybe the more recent songs will be your cup of tea. I would suggest The Legacy, Where the Wild Wind Blows and Dance of Death for a start. And If you like piano, Empire of the Clouds may be a good place to go next ;D Nice video as always, you rock \m/
Favorite aspect of this song is the ending. Maiden is master of big time endings, especially live.
This song ends with the lyric about the story going on and on, then the song abruptly ends. Epic.
Rich tAMB
This is the first concert I ever went to, and this is the album and tour in "85. What I really remember about this song, is that it lasted over 20 minutes cause they middle break down was like 10 minutes itself...so fucking epic!!!
One song I recommend is "The Nomad", from 2000's "Brave New World" album, I'm sure you're gonna like it !
I was about to recommend the same one! Actually, I think Kira would enjoy basically any of the epic song from the Reunion era... Dream of Mirrors, Paschendale, Dance of Death, The Reincarnation of Benjamin Breeg, The Legacy, Starblind, Isle of Avalon, When the Wild Wind Blows, The Book of Souls, The Red and The Black, Empire of the Clouds, Death of the Celts, The Parchment, Hell on Earth... any of those (and probably most others of the era) would do nicely. :)
Kira, this is, without doubt, the best reaction video by anyone to any song. Your grasp of all that the band set out to convey to the listener is spot on. I love your deep appreciation for the hard work that was clearly put into this song. Fantastic video, you are the best!
Thank you for reacting to a true metal masterpiece.!!!!
Bruce and the guys have always remembered their audience, by and large, is the common working man, hence, the importance of delivering the goods, when Maiden show up in your town!👍😎🔥
Thanks for the mega-vid, your appreciation for fine Metal and your time & effort!!🔥🤘🤘
So now you know! The best metal band ever is starting to hit ya!!
First of all, welcome to the world of metal! I absolutely enjoy your reactions to Iron Maiden, I've watched them all! You make it so fun to watch them! I absolutely love the way you really get into them and appreciate their musicianship. Makes me want to be there with you enjoying them together. Thanks for sharing your videos with us fellow metalheads! I guess you're part of us now that I see how much you enjoy watching them! Stay true and forever enjoy our music! 🤘
This planted itself as my favorite Iron Maiden song when it came out and it remains there still to this day. I was a huge fan of the poem that inspired this so when I heard this for the first time I was blown away by how fantastic a job they did capturing its mood and story.
I was looking at your reactions and it happened the same when i listened that song, years ago. One of my best friends gave me a copy of Powerslave, and i got shocked with the band, plus, the time they played that song on concert in my country.....i was amazing!! Cheers
One of my Maiden's favourite, love your reaction too
id suggest "Infinite Dreams" for you, the whole band pops off on that one. and a little gem (often overlooked) named "The Prophecy" has some very unique changes and less repetition.
Their most underrated song ever is The Duellists imo. Almost no one talks about it but it's easily top 3
I'd still absolutely love to see you check out Paschendale by Maiden, such a good song.
Best reaction I've seen ever!!!!
UP THE IRONS!!!
Congratulations!!!!
I am 54, been listening to Iron Maiden since I was an teenager. I love to see you enjoying my favorite band. Your expression is Awesome!!!!
Seeing them play this on the 666 tour was awesome, probably the best concert I was ever at
Love your reactions, such infectious joy :)
Haha, this is like seeing my own reaction when I first heard Iron Maiden 24 years ago! Love it!
Love your vids, enjoy your summer, its the middle of winter where i am 😢😂.
yep i will!!! and i hope you enjoy the cold haha
Randomly found this, thank you for single handedly reigniting my love for iron maiden
you're in my top 37 reactors on youtube
Great reaction to my favorite Maiden song.
I saw them perform this song during their "caught somewhere in time tour" in Stockholm 1986.
It was an amazing show where they used huge back drops during the show and Bruce fought Eddie on stage, it was a very theatrical show.
This song inspired me to go and read (and, later, learn by heart) the original poem. It takes about half an hour to recite, give or take a bit.
The section in which the sailors' bodies rise up is much more dramatic in the poem, because Coleridge takes more time to set the scene.
. . . But, soon, I heard a roaring wind. It did not come anear,
But with its sound, it shook the sails that were so thin and sere. [sere = shrivelled or withered]
The upper air burst into life, and a hundred fire-flags sheen :
To and fro they were hurried about;
And to and fro, and in and out
The wan stars danced between.
The coming wind did roar more loud, and the sails did sigh like sedge.
The rain poured down from one black cloud; the moon was at its edge.
The thick, black cloud was cleft, and still the moon was at its side;
Like waters shot from some high crag,
The lightning fell with never a jag :
A river steep and wide.
The loud wind never reached the ship, yet now the ship moved on.
Beneath the lightning and the moon, the dead men gave a groan!
They groaned, they stirred, they all uprose; nor spake, nor moved their eyes.
It had been strange, even in a dream, to have seen those dead men rise!
2 years later, thank you for a great reation!
This song helped me get through the poem way back in my senior year in high school.
You make me wish I could hear this song for the first time again.
You had me bouncing around with this reaction!! Great reaction video!!
Been a Maiden fan since the third album dropped. I love Bruce, his voice, his commitment to his art, his part in bringing literature to Metal and his overall attitude. But the first 2 albums HD a special place for me, really a different band. Paul is a deeply troubled and flawed person, but from tragedy is often born the most moving art.
Bruce, not being a tragic fuck up, drew his inspiration from more classical if non-traditional sources. Old poems about ships full of people dropping dead at the will of some supernatural agents and such.
I'd strongly recommend Hallowed Be Thy Name off Number of the Beast. It's an epic and omen of things to come..in the form of longer and deeper cuts. Epic anthems like Hallowed and Mariner would become the center piece of the best Maiden albums, accompanied by more traditional shorter songs to round out the album.
Rich the Ancient Metal Beast.
Feel happy each time I see this react!!! Thanks for this fresh, young, emocional reaction.
YOUNG PEOPLE!! YOU GOT THE POWER!!
Best regards from Spain, just on a line through center of the Earth. The antipodes.
Same vibes with "To tame a land" "Alexander the Great" and "Seventh son of a seventh son"
Great Reaction
YES! Favourite song by my favourite band!
What a way to start the day!!! Great reaction to a great song!
You need to listen this alive, this is the best sound of world.
My favourite Iron Maiden song!
Masterpiece. Period
I HOPE you do 'Caught Somewhere In Time' soon. Heck, the whole 'Somewhere In Time' (1986) and 'Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son' (1988) albums are Iron Maiden's peak.
C'mon....Powerslave is their masterpiece.
@@danielkinn782 well that's just your opinion
You misspelled “Piece of Mind”.
@@serroche He's absolutely correct though. Powerslave is the best thing they ever did. The live double album, predictably, was the beginning of the end.
Somewhere in Time... the *cough* "experimental" guitar synth/modern amplification record is at best a mixed bag. A couple of high points, but some of it is cringingly bad. Same goes for 7th Son & Fear of the Dark. They were well & truly phoning it in by that point. Then Bruce quit & really it was all over. Pretty much nothing new to say. They've done a couple of decent tracks since, but essentially album after album after album of boring predictable formulaic run-of-the-mill Maiden to keep their pension funds topped up. Long slow death. Shame really & quite sad to see. They should really have called time on it when Bruce went.
Great band though. When they were good they were brilliant (Killers/Number of the Beast/Powerslave).
@@finbarrsaunders Correct. I remember buying the Somewhere LP when it came out... 🤮
5:52 i remember hearing this for the first time. This right here is Maiden at their peak. It's so brutal and it encompasses the mood of the song so well. Adrain and Dave don't get the credit they deserve.
Thanks for the killer breakdown and all the work you put into your videos, I enjoy them!
The joy of watching a young lady rock to my favorite band is priceless. Stay cool . ;)
Beautiful reaction girl...
Up the Irons! 🤘
Just WONDERFUL to see you dance of happiness to this song ,wish Maiden could see how fun you have,,:)
I cried watching you listen for the first time, remembering when I first heard this in the 80s.
Liked before watching it
aw THANKS
Literally my reaction and feeling when i hear any Iron Maiden's Song
Given how long the poem this song is based on, Steve Harris created an absolute masterpiece and what I love about it is that is actually uses parts of the poem as the lyrics - such as the spoken word parts when the atmospheric break happens and Bruce singing
"Day after day, day after day
We stuck nor breath nor motion
As idle as a painted ship upon a painted ocean
Water, water everywhere and
All the boards did shrink
Water, water everywhere nor any drop to drink" .
"So wait, now they're turning into Zombies?!?"
🧟♂️🧟♀️🧟?!? Very entertaining reaction, headbanging girl!
Maiden always gives cool history lessons.
Man, I wonder what I looked like first hearing this lp? I seen this tour way back then, at the Cow Palace, San Francisco.
They brought their mascot Eddie out from the tunnel behind stage on the back of a golf cart, then he gingerly walked up the rear stairs to the stage, then went absolutely WILD!!!!!
Great times, thru the fog and ice!!!
🤘🏼Iron Maiden Rules🤘🏼
This is one of my favorite Maiden songs. Top 5 easily. Others that are awesome are Alexander the Great, which is basically a History lesson, Sign of the Cross, When the Wild Win Blows (which makes me cry), and the Clansman, which is basically Braveheart.
i double dare you to try n sit still through any of this ....they are so amazing and always will be
Iron Maiden is the greatest storytelling with some Heavy Metal ;)
I love your content!!! Such pure reactions
In high school, my english class reviewed "Rime of the Ancient Mariner," and our books had "Cliffs Notes" in the margin. Those notes read ALMOST one-to-one with the lyrics of this song! Btw, the song was new at that time, so I don't think there was any copying...
I´m 49, bought the album Powerslave back in 1984 when I was 12 and I still react like you everytime I listen to this master piece.
Great video! I loved Iron Maiden when I discovered them. I like how they still hold up even today. The album is pretty good too!
40 years ago, the first time I heard this song I thought I was going to explode from so many sensations
For future reference, the middle-eastern guitar sound, midway through the song and in parts of the soloing, is created through playing the phrygian scale, as opposed to ionian, aeolian, or mixolydian which are popular in other parts of the world. Most Mediterranean-styled music is played in the phrygian mode.
You manage to be so gooffy yet so on point it troubles me 😂
Love your reaction. Cheers from France