I have always been a fan of this song by Dire Straits but think Home Free did an excellent version of this song. Tim's natural breathy bass was awesome along with Chance's smooth baritone & loved it when all the guys were doing 5 part harmonies. Who would believe humming could sound so good. They gave it a very solemn feeling. I love that they don't overproduce their songs. These guys are my favorite a cappella group out there.
Thank you for reacting to this song, as a disabled veteran this song touches my heart. You are so right it is spiritual, and it pays tribute to our fallen soldiers. One of the reasons that I love watching your reaction channel is that you get the meaning of the songs, plus you are funny when you need to be. Your channel will always have my support.
These men are absolutely incredible! Everything they perform is amazing and pure perfection! And 😂 your face Britt when Tim started singing! 😂. Thank you for making me smile every day! ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
This gorgeous cover makes me feel as if I'd attended a church memorial service. Solemn, respectful and beautiful. Home Free always goes straight to the heart. Great reaction !!
You're right, but her mondegreen fits as well with the message of the song, that warfare is not glorious for the soldier on the front lines, but a dangerous and pointless thing that they are thrust into.
Home Free are so good at conveying feelings. I love their version of this classic song. This is a song by a famous British band in the 80's, Dire Straits, and it was written in 1982 about the Faulklands war. It is not an american song, but it is very well transposed here.
I think you need a HomeFree playlist so we can easily see what you've already heard and make informed suggestions. Because, girl, you are a Home Fry! 🏠🆓️
I've enjoyed this song since it came out in the 80's. I understood the words, but really didn't FEEL them. I almost skipped this reaction because Home Free sent this to new meaning for me, and it's actually hard for me to listen to. There are patriots on both sides of every war. May God be with them all.
Love Home Free and this song is a tribute to our Military and their families and our great Country America. GOD BLESS YOU AND EVERYONE🙏🙏🙏😇😇😇❤️❤️❤️🎶🎶🎶🎵🎵🎵🎤🎤🎤🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
BRITT,, MUSIC IS ENJOYED AND APPRECIATED DIFFERENTLY BY EACH PERSON!!!!! I AM 81 YEARS OLD MY ENJOYMENT OF MUSIC IS NOT THE SAME AS IT WAS WHEN I WAS YOUNGER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
What’s striking about “Brothers In Arms” is just how much Knopfler who wrote the song, manages to convey in a minimum of words. With startling efficiency, he inhabits the soul of a wounded soldier who muses on his surroundings and waxes philosophical as his life ebbs out. It seems likely that Knopfler had the Falklands War, which took place in 1982 between the United Kingdom and Argentina, in mind when he wrote the song. But by keeping specifics out of the narrative, he makes the song a timeless treatise on the senselessness of war.
At a recent tribute to a fallen sherrif in a rural mountain community this was played. Incredibly meaningful for someone who served as a calvery officer around the globe and then worked with troubled youth through ewuine therapy. A beautiful tribute.
SOMEONE THAT HAS SERVED IN THE "MILITARY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WILL UNDERSTAND THIS SONG!!!!!!!!!!!!! THE BOND THAT YOU FEEL WITH "YOUR BROTHERS IN ARMS" IS UNLIKE ANY OTHER FEELING!!!!!!!!
This is such an awesome song. Tim's deep in the basement voice, Chance's beautiful baritone, the harmonies and Adam Rupp singing as well. Love your reaction!
Somber, but full of respect, recognizing those that had given all, while their brothers continued on in the effort they were also not deserting their brothers in arms. Even as the brother in arms was fading he was able to relay the sentiment his brothers had not deserted him. Often the brothers surviving feel guilty that they survived and felt it should have been them instead. The weight of these feelings washing over the survivors is intense and reverberate through their minds and souls for life. May we always remember them in honor and dignity for they served on our behalf. Best regards, Thank You! ❤️🔥
If you want a fun bts fact to fend off the tears... During many of the close up shots, Tim's rather large dog was laying on Chance's feet just enjoying the sound and the vibrations of the room.
Great performance as always! But Mark Knopfler's guitar work in the Dire Straits original was special, and that's one thing Home Free can't quite recreate.
Finally, Home Free's "Brother in Arms" 👍 You'll find more outstanding harmonies performed by HF in: - Auld Lang Syne - Helplessly Hoping - How Great Thou Art :)
I’m not sure if someone else in the comments has pointed this out yet, but this is a cover version of a song written in 1982 by a British rock band called Dire Straits. Both versions are amazing in their own way, IMHO.
I hadn’t thought of this until now but the line “now the sun gone to hell” is perhaps these young men in war watching as the sun goes down when real fear comes since you don’t know what’s there in the dark but fear is surely of hell.
This is a cover of an arrangement by a Finnish group, Club for Five, of the original by Dire Straits. They were gracious enough to allow Home Free to use it, but Home Free made some minor changes. The song is about the war in the Falkland Islands and was released in 1985.
They were playing at Mandela's 70th birthday celebration. It hits a little harder knowing that they were playing that song for that man. That live version is one of the best. You can't help but see the emotion on Mark Knopfler's face and voice; and guitar, of course. "One humanity, one justice"
This song pays tribute to fallen soldiers everywhere, brothers, regardless of race, creed or flag. "We're fools to make war on our brothers in arms." The lyrics set the scene of a soldier dying on the field. This is a vocal masterpiece, but in this case I think the full meaning of the song transcends the excellence of the performance. Home Free gives it full honor.
Indeed. My mom can't handle songs like these without crying. They remind her of losing her brother Bobby in Korea when she was a kid. Bobby isn't buried in Arlington but it still gets to her.
Hauntingly beautiful. One of my favorites of theirs. You got a couple of lyrics wrong, “baptism of fire” and “we’re fools to make war on our brothers in arms”. It was originally written by Dire Straits about the Falklands War with Britain/Argentina. Love Tim and Chance’s solos and yes, they looked ghost like in the windows. Stunning! Good one Britt!😍😃
Mark Knopfler of Dire Straits wrote this as a tribute to a soldier dying on the battlefield of the Falkland Islands war between the UK and Argentina. It later became a tribute to soldiers everywhere. This is more immediate than just serving one's country. In combat, everyone has a sector. You know the guy on your left will deal with his sector and the same for the guy on your right, so you can deal with yours. Each life depends on his "brother in arms" having his back and doing his job. There is no closer bond between men than this once you've been through it. Even a marriage might not be able to compete with it (and should not try). Brothers in arms have been through hell and back, those that survived. They have saved each others lives over and over again. War is a nasty, brutal affair. The survivors will never be the same person they were before. They will have trouble reintegrating into "the world". We owe them a debt that can never be repaid. BTW, Britt, that last line was "we're fools to make war on our brothers in arms". That's one of the saddest parts of war. Often the army you're fighting are people just like you with the same dreams and aspirations. It's just that their government has decided that war was necessary. Sometimes it is, but it should be the last resort in almost all cases because those who will die in it are some of our best.
It is a great song, the only issue I have with it, is the line he wrote about not making war on our brothers in arms. Excuse me, but the guys you are facing, are not your brothers in arms, they're called, the enemy. Jocko, who was a SEAL commander, picked up on that too, he was like wait one, wait one, those guys we're facing are not my brothers in arms, my guys are.
@@buddystewart2020 I'm not sure if that was poetic license for the sake of the rhyme (or not). You're absolutely right. I think what the writer (Mark Knopfler) was saying is that war is foolish. I don't necessarily agree; it depends. Vietnam was fought foolishly, WWII was absolutely necessary. Sadly, often, the enemy is another guy just like you who had no choice in the matter and has the same aspirations as we do. Not always, such as between Israel and Hama, for example, but in WWII that was the case. It was the leaders who were evil, not the foot soldiers.
Exigency of service being what it is, not every fallen warrior gets sent home for burial. The fallen warrior of the song came from the Lowlands and probably saw himself always there, growing old, and dying an old man with a dozen grandkids and being buried "at home". Then his nation.went to war with.a nation in the mountains and sounded the call to arms. Answering that call, these are his last few words knowing that the mist-covered mountains have ended being his final resting place.
This bass singer, Tim Foust, Was the one singing with Austin on My Maria which you recently reviewed. He has an amazing 5 octave range which you heard some of it in that review. One of the great set of vocal chords on this planet. If you get a chance please react to their amazing mash up cover of Thinkin Out Loud/ Lets Get It On. Austin and Tim take the leads with Tim crushing Lets Get it On. Love your reactions!
My brother and I used to work out to Dire straits brothers in arms mid eighties album.... was a great workout album, these men do it soooooo much better.
If you have not done so already, I highly recommend listening to the original version by Dire Straits. Then you can fully apprecaite how well the background voices are doing mimicking the instruments of teh original song
Britt... enjoying your journey through a multitude or genres of music...just make sure your children don't get stuck in just one lane... Music will acclimate them to all different cultures they will experience thru out there lives... they'll be able to find pleasure in all of them.. P.s..your such a beautiful yourself... GenX Texan..
These mist covered mountains (not colored) Baptism of fire (not higher) We're fools to make war (not forced) "The ooo's of this feels like a Christmas song..." What one should be noticing in this hymn is that the boys are emulating a church pipe organ, the ooo's are the flute registers and Tim is playing the pedals. That is what emphasizes the solemnity.
Tim's low, breathy voice is reminiscent of the way Mark Knopfler started the original song, IMO. Home Free is covering a cover done by a Finnish group named Club for Five, with some small deviations.
That is a tough song to wrap any one meaning around. Just take it for a lament to not make that war on our brothers in arms. And if you are in a war, and you die, your brothers in arms will remember and Home Free themselves will sing your praises - and we can thank the dead and Home Free for the expression of all of our gratitude and remembrance to our noble and honorable brothers that took up the arms so that we did not have to.
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This in my opinion is an example of Home Free’s most brilliant and gorgeous combining of their voices - I truly love this
Chance said "Baptisms of fire" and at the end Tim said "we're fools to make war on our brother in arms".
Their most hauntingly beautiful song. I cry every time. Thanks for the Home Free reactions.
We're 'fools' to make war on our brothers in arms!!
I have always been a fan of this song by Dire Straits but think Home Free did an excellent version of this song. Tim's natural breathy bass was awesome along with Chance's smooth baritone & loved it when all the guys were doing 5 part harmonies. Who would believe humming could sound so good. They gave it a very solemn feeling. I love that they don't overproduce their songs. These guys are my favorite a cappella group out there.
Agreed. They pretty much made it their own for sure!!
Thank you for reacting to this song, as a disabled veteran this song touches my heart. You are so right it is spiritual, and it pays tribute to our fallen soldiers. One of the reasons that I love watching your reaction channel is that you get the meaning of the songs, plus you are funny when you need to be. Your channel will always have my support.
Home Free version of this song is beautiful. The lyrics to this song also fits for all the people on this earth.
"Haunting" is the correct adjective. Peace, Love!!
The last two chords of this beautiful song sound like a pipe organ to me. Loved the reaction! Thank you.
"...baptisms of fire..."
These men are absolutely incredible! Everything they perform is amazing and pure perfection! And 😂 your face Britt when Tim started singing! 😂. Thank you for making me smile every day! ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
This gorgeous cover makes me feel as if I'd attended a church memorial service. Solemn, respectful and beautiful. Home Free always goes straight to the heart. Great reaction !!
Great reaction to a beautifully done song by Home Free. So powerful. Keep up the great reviews.
Wow. God bless USA from Canada. That guy singing bass is incredible.
This was written as the point of view of a mortally wounded soldier. It was written after the Falklands war by Mark Knopler of. DIRE Straits..
The lyric is not “we’re forced to make war”. It’s “we’re fools to make war” There’s a big difference.
You're right, but her mondegreen fits as well with the message of the song, that warfare is not glorious for the soldier on the front lines, but a dangerous and pointless thing that they are thrust into.
I’m glad that I wasn’t the only one who heard that.
I always heard "forced" and I believe it even better.
Beautiful men with beautiful hearts making beautiful music ... #HOME FREE !
Home Free's 5 part harmony A cappella masterpiece.
Home Free are so good at conveying feelings. I love their version of this classic song. This is a song by a famous British band in the 80's, Dire Straits, and it was written in 1982 about the Faulklands war. It is not an american song, but it is very well transposed here.
I think you need a HomeFree playlist so we can easily see what you've already heard and make informed suggestions. Because, girl, you are a Home Fry!
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I've enjoyed this song since it came out in the 80's. I understood the words, but really didn't FEEL them. I almost skipped this reaction because Home Free sent this to new meaning for me, and it's actually hard for me to listen to. There are patriots on both sides of every war. May God be with them all.
Actual final verse is "we're fools to make war on our brothers in arms" . Love your reactions.
Excellent choice. I love this version. Thanks for sharing.
Love Home Free and this song is a tribute to our Military and their families and our great Country America. GOD BLESS YOU AND EVERYONE🙏🙏🙏😇😇😇❤️❤️❤️🎶🎶🎶🎵🎵🎵🎤🎤🎤🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
BRITT,, MUSIC IS ENJOYED AND APPRECIATED DIFFERENTLY BY EACH PERSON!!!!! I AM 81 YEARS OLD MY ENJOYMENT OF MUSIC IS NOT THE SAME AS IT WAS WHEN I WAS YOUNGER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
One of my favorites from Home Free.
The minor chords are .... Chillingly amazing
Awesome reaction, THANK YOU
Absolutely luv that these guys can do it all! This gives me goose bump every single time I listen to it! Well done! 🤙
This needs to be on everyone's Memorial Day playlist. Beautiful, and incredibly haunting.
Glad you like Homefree. You should hear them do Amazing Grace, it will make you cry. Stay well and be happy.
If u get the chance, another masterpiece is their version of “how great thou art”
What’s striking about “Brothers In Arms” is just how much Knopfler who wrote the song, manages to convey in a minimum of words. With startling efficiency, he inhabits the soul of a wounded soldier who muses on his surroundings and waxes philosophical as his life ebbs out. It seems likely that Knopfler had the Falklands War, which took place in 1982 between the United Kingdom and Argentina, in mind when he wrote the song. But by keeping specifics out of the narrative, he makes the song a timeless treatise on the senselessness of war.
I grew up with the original and this is a great cover. It keeps the emotion.
I have heard this song by others but I still love Home Free’s version.
Thank you for your reaction to this haunting and beautiful song.
This is a masterpiece. It gets to me every time. Love your reaction.
At a recent tribute to a fallen sherrif in a rural mountain community this was played. Incredibly meaningful for someone who served as a calvery officer around the globe and then worked with troubled youth through ewuine therapy. A beautiful tribute.
SOMEONE THAT HAS SERVED IN THE "MILITARY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WILL UNDERSTAND THIS SONG!!!!!!!!!!!!! THE BOND THAT YOU FEEL WITH "YOUR BROTHERS IN ARMS" IS UNLIKE ANY OTHER FEELING!!!!!!!!
This is such an awesome song. Tim's deep in the basement voice, Chance's beautiful baritone, the harmonies and Adam Rupp singing as well. Love your reaction!
I always saw this song as sacrifice, dedication to a cause, and freedom
Somber, but full of respect, recognizing those that had given all, while their brothers continued on in the effort they were also not deserting their brothers in arms.
Even as the brother in arms was fading he was able to relay the sentiment his brothers had not deserted him.
Often the brothers surviving feel guilty that they survived and felt it should have been them instead. The weight of these feelings washing over the survivors is intense and reverberate through their minds and souls for life.
May we always remember them in honor and dignity for they served on our behalf.
Best regards,
Thank You! ❤️🔥
Britt, I consider this Home Free's "masterpiece"...it's 5 part harmony to perfection. Adam did no beatboxing at all
If you want a fun bts fact to fend off the tears...
During many of the close up shots, Tim's rather large dog was laying on Chance's feet just enjoying the sound and the vibrations of the room.
They're using Club For Five's arrangement for this, you should listen to their version, at least on your own time.
Great performance as always! But Mark Knopfler's guitar work in the Dire Straits original was special, and that's one thing Home Free can't quite recreate.
I've heard this song several times. Haunting is a perfect word. Oh, and from a retired music teacher, I hated music theory too. 😂
My HF fav! Thank you Britt.
home free o' holy night. you are going to melt as we all have. wait to see you react!!!
Finally, Home Free's "Brother in Arms" 👍
You'll find more outstanding harmonies performed by HF in:
- Auld Lang Syne
- Helplessly Hoping
- How Great Thou Art
:)
9:49 We're FOOLS to make war on our brothers in arms....Another great reaction. 👍
I am a combat veteran. I don't think you know the good you have just done. Thank you for this and God bless you
Thank you for your service,
#HOMEFREE......hauntingly beautiful!
I’m not sure if someone else in the comments has pointed this out yet, but this is a cover version of a song written in 1982 by a British rock band called Dire Straits. Both versions are amazing in their own way, IMHO.
I hadn’t thought of this until now but the line “now the sun gone to hell” is perhaps these young men in war watching as the sun goes down when real fear comes since you don’t know what’s there in the dark but fear is surely of hell.
This is a Masterpiece. Beautiful tribute to fallen Soldiers 😢
This is a cover of an arrangement by a Finnish group, Club for Five, of the original by Dire Straits. They were gracious enough to allow Home Free to use it, but Home Free made some minor changes. The song is about the war in the Falkland Islands and was released in 1985.
No better performance of this song than Dire Straits Nelson Mandela concert at Wembley Stadium 1988.
They were playing at Mandela's 70th birthday celebration. It hits a little harder knowing that they were playing that song for that man.
That live version is one of the best. You can't help but see the emotion on Mark Knopfler's face and voice; and guitar, of course.
"One humanity, one justice"
Yep you took the words right out of my mouth nelson mandela is a spectacle
This song pays tribute to fallen soldiers everywhere, brothers, regardless of race, creed or flag. "We're fools to make war on our brothers in arms." The lyrics set the scene of a soldier dying on the field. This is a vocal masterpiece, but in this case I think the full meaning of the song transcends the excellence of the performance. Home Free gives it full honor.
I appreaciate your reaction. This is so powerful. You FEEL the emotion.
Beautiful song!! Britt please try Arlington by Trace Adkins. Equally beautiful. 😊
Indeed. My mom can't handle songs like these without crying. They remind her of losing her brother Bobby in Korea when she was a kid. Bobby isn't buried in Arlington but it still gets to her.
Especially emotional considering we just lost 3 brave soldiers in Iraq.😢
Powerful and moving! #HomeFree never disappoints.
In my opinion this is HF masterpiece
Great reaction. I enjoy when I see others enjoy Home Free as much as I do.
Bass,baritone,lead/2nd tenor,1st tenor
Britt, your reactions are absolutely stellar.
Tim and Chance are the departed soldiers singing to the soldiers who survived.
Hauntingly beautiful. One of my favorites of theirs. You got a couple of lyrics wrong, “baptism of fire” and “we’re fools to make war on our brothers in arms”. It was originally written by Dire Straits about the Falklands War with Britain/Argentina. Love Tim and Chance’s solos and yes, they looked ghost like in the windows. Stunning! Good one Britt!😍😃
Mark Knopfler of Dire Straits wrote this as a tribute to a soldier dying on the battlefield of the Falkland Islands war between the UK and Argentina. It later became a tribute to soldiers everywhere. This is more immediate than just serving one's country. In combat, everyone has a sector. You know the guy on your left will deal with his sector and the same for the guy on your right, so you can deal with yours. Each life depends on his "brother in arms" having his back and doing his job. There is no closer bond between men than this once you've been through it. Even a marriage might not be able to compete with it (and should not try). Brothers in arms have been through hell and back, those that survived. They have saved each others lives over and over again. War is a nasty, brutal affair. The survivors will never be the same person they were before. They will have trouble reintegrating into "the world". We owe them a debt that can never be repaid.
BTW, Britt, that last line was "we're fools to make war on our brothers in arms". That's one of the saddest parts of war. Often the army you're fighting are people just like you with the same dreams and aspirations. It's just that their government has decided that war was necessary. Sometimes it is, but it should be the last resort in almost all cases because those who will die in it are some of our best.
It is a great song, the only issue I have with it, is the line he wrote about not making war on our brothers in arms. Excuse me, but the guys you are facing, are not your brothers in arms, they're called, the enemy. Jocko, who was a SEAL commander, picked up on that too, he was like wait one, wait one, those guys we're facing are not my brothers in arms, my guys are.
@@buddystewart2020 I'm not sure if that was poetic license for the sake of the rhyme (or not). You're absolutely right. I think what the writer (Mark Knopfler) was saying is that war is foolish. I don't necessarily agree; it depends. Vietnam was fought foolishly, WWII was absolutely necessary. Sadly, often, the enemy is another guy just like you who had no choice in the matter and has the same aspirations as we do. Not always, such as between Israel and Hama, for example, but in WWII that was the case. It was the leaders who were evil, not the foot soldiers.
@@richarddaugherty8583... That was probably his intent, he just said it poorly.
Exigency of service being what it is, not every fallen warrior gets sent home for burial.
The fallen warrior of the song came from the Lowlands and probably saw himself always there, growing old, and dying an old man with a dozen grandkids and being buried "at home". Then his nation.went to war with.a nation in the mountains and sounded the call to arms.
Answering that call, these are his last few words knowing that the mist-covered mountains have ended being his final resting place.
A masterpiece
I realize that you're not a music "teacher" but you have that "something". I love your reaction.
This bass singer, Tim Foust, Was the one singing with Austin on My Maria which you recently reviewed. He has an amazing 5 octave range which you heard some of it in that review. One of the great set of vocal chords on this planet. If you get a chance please react to their amazing mash up cover of Thinkin Out Loud/ Lets Get It On. Austin and Tim take the leads with Tim crushing Lets Get it On. Love your reactions!
Dire Straits recorded this in the 80’s. It’s a classic…💔
My brother and I used to work out to Dire straits brothers in arms mid eighties album.... was a great workout album, these men do it soooooo much better.
If you have not done so already, I highly recommend listening to the original version by Dire Straits. Then you can fully apprecaite how well the background voices are doing mimicking the instruments of teh original song
Hauntingly beautiful yet sends a powerful message. They remind me of a pipe organ at the climax. Good reaction.
I really hope you go back in your own time and listen to these songs without stopping to get the full effect of each one!
Man of constant sorrow is a must hear from them trust me on this one!
Britt... enjoying your journey through a multitude or genres of music...just make sure your children don't get stuck in just one lane... Music will acclimate them to all different cultures they will experience thru out there lives... they'll be able to find pleasure in all of them..
P.s..your such a beautiful yourself...
GenX Texan..
Tim heard Club for Five (Swedish mixed acapella group) and got their arrangement for Home Free's use.
Crushing performance, sincere reaction.
Somber would be the word you’re looking for. It’s gorgeous.
Hauntingly beautiful. ♥️🎶🦋
So very moving. Gave me chills.
I was thinking the haunting harmony background sounds more like a crossing over
These mist covered mountains (not colored)
Baptism of fire (not higher)
We're fools to make war (not forced)
"The ooo's of this feels like a Christmas song..." What one should be noticing in this hymn is that the boys are emulating a church pipe organ, the ooo's are the flute registers and Tim is playing the pedals. That is what emphasizes the solemnity.
Tim's low, breathy voice is reminiscent of the way Mark Knopfler started the original song, IMO. Home Free is covering a cover done by a Finnish group named Club for Five, with some small deviations.
Check out Home Free’s Snow Globe. Shows off Tim’s higher range of his voice.
I'm always crying by "baptisms of fire."
I seem to remember you reacting to Dire Straits performing this. Both are great.
That is a tough song to wrap any one meaning around.
Just take it for a lament to not make that war on our brothers in arms.
And if you are in a war, and you die, your brothers in arms will remember and Home Free themselves will sing your praises - and we can thank the dead and Home Free for the expression of all of our gratitude and remembrance to our noble and honorable brothers that took up the arms so that we did not have to.
I think you would really like How Great Thou Art the way they do it.I's some of the best vocal harmonies I've ever heard.
Love #HomeFree
Great job, Britt!
Dire straights brothers in arms nelson mandela concert has to be heard in anyones lifetime
A very interesting take on this one, Miss Britt.
Producer/recording engineer Darren Rust is often referred to as the 6th member of HF. He is also a member of an amazing group called The Blenders.
He said "baptisms of fire", luv
This is written about the Falkland war that the British raged against the Argentinian invasion of the island and eventual liberation of said island.