The song is a love ballad. The video is about a man being unable to move on because the love of his life passed away. In the first half of the video he still holds onto the thought of her and laments his loss rather than celebrating the memories they made. After hearing the band play in the building he realizes that he wasn't remembering her rather than mourning her and that is when he has a rush of memories come and he is so elated that he finally feels like he can move forward. As a final farewell, he burns the photos he has been holding onto for so long. Symbolically showing there is nothing holding him back from this point in his life.
It's about grief.. He lost his wife and his world fell apart.. Homeless and alone, he kept the pictures.. Dropping them one at a time at the end, he was finally letting go.
It warms my heart to see younger ones jamming to the music from my younger years. Keep exploring. You’ll find so many wonderful and talented voices out there.
I think this song was about how his wife died (he has a wedding ring on at one point), and how his mourning led to his life spiraling out of control, and he wound up homeless… The burning pics part at the end maybe symbolizes that, yes, he still loves her, always will, and will never forget her, but he has to let go and move on…
Girls I know what happened..I went through it when a man loses his love of his life. Sometimes thay can't function in the world. I became homeless jobless and wanted to die. This is the story of my life. Burning the pictures is finally letting go .and starting a new life Sometimes men go into a cave of depression and they need to find a way out .they stay alone for a long time. This is a story of my life. And many other men. God bless all who read this
Best power ballad of all time...the video/song is about a guy losing his girl to cancer, and he spirals into depression, loses his job, and home...at the end, he realizes that she wouldn't want him to think of her in sadness...so, he burns the pictures...
Oh girls, welcome to the world of 80s power ballads. Literally every 80s hair metal band has at least one power ballad, and they’re all worth checking out. I’m gonna subscribe just to see your reactions.
Man I miss the 80s! We had great musicians! Skid row was to another level of greatness! His voice combined with the riff of the guitar! Just awesome!🤟😝🤘👍they just don’t make or produce great music like this anymore! You young ladies got a new subscriber out of me! Loved your reaction’s!✌️
The singer is Sebastian Bach and the reason why he sounds incredible is because he’s classically trained his voice has a ginormous range go down the rabbit hole and pick another song out of a hat randomly and you won’t be sorry.
My friends kids, 16 to 19 are all metal heads and discovering older tunes like this. I tell them this is 100 percent why im not mad at being old. I had the absolute privilege of growing up as a 80,s and 90s kid and it was awesome. I wouldnt trade it for a million dollars.
This yearning song is about a guy who can't let go of the memory of the girl he loves. His days are endless and his nights sleepless as he obsesses over her, refusing to move on.
Their two top hits were this one and "18 and Life". I'd recommend that one, it also tells a story, you won't have any problem interpreting that one! Both great songs!
Hey girls, great reaction. Consider this meaning for the song... What if the song is a lament. Have you ever heard of people dying of a "broken 💔 heart" sometimes people find their soul mate and when they lose them it's like a part of them selves has died. A person can feel sadness, anger, hate loneliness and many other feelings about losing their dear partner.
Was about a man losing the love of his life. Was heart broken and couldn't recover. Lost everything. Wants to be with her again. Dropping pics/burning them, he's done. Hoping when they're reunited she would say I Remember You.
Now it's only fitting you react to Steelheart - She's Gone or I'll never let you go and your minds will be blown for real. Similar to Sebastian of Skid Row Miljenko of Steelheart had such a high range it was insane.
Finally my favorite reactors reacting to my favorite genre!! I need to see more Hard Rock power ballads in your channel! 😛. If you like Skid Row you will love Firehouse, Cinderella, Stryper, Poison, Slaughter, The Black Crowes, White Lion, Mötley Crüe and many more!!!
You girls look soo young it's amazing after all these years people have same reaction as I did as 20 year old hearing song for the 1st time love & hugs to you both
Skid Row's self titled debut (which this song is on) was a huge commercial hit when it came out. It gave 3 huge radio hits: "Youth Gone Wild" (a heavy rock song), "I Remember You" (ballad) and "18 and Life" (another sad but 'heavier' ballad). Their 2nd album "Slave to the Grind" goes a heavier direction and the title track is my favorite. When Sebastian Bach (singer) talked about those two albums later on, he said "The debut was for the record company. Slave to the Grind was for us".
Sebastian Bach equals 🟰 VIBRATO! Sebastian Bach’s voice is awesome! A great singer! My daughter said: Daddy why is his lower lip quivering? I said honey that’s called: Vibrato and all the great singers have it! I live in Santa Monica California (LA County) Skid Row is a heartbreaking 💔 place and what makes it worse is a mile down the road are mansions! If you listen to Poison do a song called Give Me Something To Believe In Brett Michaels points out this very fact! I’m encouraged by seeing some celebrities feeding the homeless there! I remember working Thanksgiving and Christmas there shoulder to shoulder with some of the cast of Days of Our Lives! I worked beside Deidre Hall (Dr. Marlena Evans) and her twin sister Andrea Hall (Hattie Adams, Samantha Evans). God Bless the people who make their mark helping people on Skid Row!
When you get older like 30 plus or so, you will get more intense feelings about this song ! This is way deeper ! Have lost my best buddy in 2008 December in an arson. For both of us this was one of the most fav rock ballad. He lost everything in his life prior to that incident as his wife (whom he loved like anything) betrayed him and left for UK along with his young son, to have higher studies and nver got back. All the descriptions of love in the song happened with him. I can't help crying each time I see this music video ! What a trenchant lyrics and the solos ! So painful man !
The original Skid Row was an Irish blues-rock band of the late 1960s and early 1970s, based in Dublin and fronted by bass guitarist Brendan "Brush" Shiels, It was the first band in which future Thin Lizzy members Phil Lynott and Gary Moore played professionally; When (Skid Row) got signed to Atlantic, Gary Moore heard about it and said we could have the name for $35,000 U.S. dollars. "We have to pay Gary Moore 35 grand to use the name," and so we, as a band, did buy the name from Gary Moore. We were all glad to do it because it is a great name for a band.
I was never into Skid Row, more into Heavy Metal like Iron Maiden, Metallica, Slayer etc.. BUT I have to admit Sebastian Bach’s vocals are incredible!! He does use his vocals like an instrument, I do like “Piece of Me”…
Sebastian Bach and crew. 80s hair band with a power ballad. I think you ladies will love it. I usually respond before watching....time to watch and see.
Two years ago this song came on the car radio as I was leaving the animal shelter, having surrendered my sick cat to be euthanized. I had just stopped crying like a fool, then started all over again hearing this..."I remember you". And so this song is now his song, my since departed Cashew (his name).
Hey girls, ya gotta check out their first two albums. Such great songs. Sebastian was blessed with a wonderful Rock star voice. They wrote some great music skid row.
Sebastian Bach, despite his grating personality (Which caused the implosion of the band) had one of the greatest voices in Metal. Also, this is their best song and is rated as one of the top ten metal love songs of alltime. If you’re talking about a perfect example of a power ballad, this would be it.
Sebastian Bach was created in a laboratory to be the perfect hard rock singer. (Actually, he told his dad he wanted to be a singer so his dad paid for vocal training when he was young)
I was a teenager in the 80s. And my father HATED all my metal and rock music. BUt then he heard Sebastian Bach sing. He became a fan of (some) Skid Row songs but a fan of Sebastian, I winded up taking my parents to see Sebastian play the lead in Dr Jeckyl and Mr Hyde on Broadway.
You guys are just great at this kind of analysis. And yeah you can take it a couple ways. I remember my first break up…kinda loved and hated her for a long time after. Sometimes at the same time. It’s….complex.
He's one of the greatest voices ever i saw them twice back in the day they actually toured a lot with the band on your shirt Guns N' Roses i saw Skid Row open for GN'R check out Slave To The Grind or 18 and Life, Youth Gone Wild my friend got killed in a car accident in 1990 they played this song at his funeral your guy's reaction to his voice is exactly the right reaction to have when you hear his voice🤘
I loved your reaction girls!! For me, Sebastian Bach was one of the best heavy metal singers of the 80's. "Sadpy", a new word has come 👌👌👌👍👍👍!!! Greetings from Mexico, ladies 🤟🤟🤟!!!
Skid Row were a great Hard Rock Band like Guns N Roses and Motley Crue. 18 and Life, Wasted Time and Quicksand Jesus are my favs. The lead singer was in Gilmore Girls TV show. Wasted Time is one of the best vocal performances ever. The lyrics are so emotional too.
i grew up in the 80's as a teenager and that was the best time with the best bands and songs.
1980 was my last year of being a teenager, but 60s - 80s music was awesome!
And then Kurt Nobrain (FTR this is how I referred to him before he blew them out) came along and ruined it all
I remember my teen years and Skid Row 🔥🤘🔥it still sounds good and I'm 52 now
The song is a love ballad. The video is about a man being unable to move on because the love of his life passed away. In the first half of the video he still holds onto the thought of her and laments his loss rather than celebrating the memories they made. After hearing the band play in the building he realizes that he wasn't remembering her rather than mourning her and that is when he has a rush of memories come and he is so elated that he finally feels like he can move forward. As a final farewell, he burns the photos he has been holding onto for so long. Symbolically showing there is nothing holding him back from this point in his life.
It's about grief.. He lost his wife and his world fell apart.. Homeless and alone, he kept the pictures.. Dropping them one at a time at the end, he was finally letting go.
Glad to see the younger Generation find different types of music ...i rember when it first came out
They'll NEVER get this in the Now,.EVER~
It warms my heart to see younger ones jamming to the music from my younger years. Keep exploring. You’ll find so many wonderful and talented voices out there.
Next music from Skid Row = Wasted time!!
Please, react, Nooow!! 👍
This entire Skid Row album is unbelievably good! 18 and life is their best song ever.
i like the live version of monkey business :)
yesss 18 and life would be a great one to react to !
you are so right monkey business and 18 and life is my 2 favorite songs from skid row
So happy to see this "I Remember You" getting more traction on RUclips. Every generation should get to enjoy this song.
Welcome to the songs we grew up with and partied to! Glad to see a new generation enjoying these classics...
I think this song was about how his wife died (he has a wedding ring on at one point), and how his mourning led to his life spiraling out of control, and he wound up homeless…
The burning pics part at the end maybe symbolizes that, yes, he still loves her, always will, and will never forget her, but he has to let go and move on…
not just the vocal..the guitar solo is one of the best!
One of the most underrated bands from the 80s!
Girls I know what happened..I went through it when a man loses his love of his life. Sometimes thay can't function in the world. I became homeless jobless and wanted to die. This is the story of my life. Burning the pictures is finally letting go .and starting a new life Sometimes men go into a cave of depression and they need to find a way out .they stay alone for a long time. This is a story of my life. And many other men. God bless all who read this
I remember when this video came out back in 89 and mtv had it on heavy rotation I was 18 ,it still brings backs memories .I’m now 51
I didn't know it. So sad😢 Thanks for letting me know.
I love the look on their faces in the end. That's what Bach does to folks ❤❤❤
It really is unfair how he is blessed with such a divine voice and the looks to match
Best power ballad of all time...the video/song is about a guy losing his girl to cancer, and he spirals into depression, loses his job, and home...at the end, he realizes that she wouldn't want him to think of her in sadness...so, he burns the pictures...
Oh girls, welcome to the world of 80s power ballads. Literally every 80s hair metal band has at least one power ballad, and they’re all worth checking out. I’m gonna subscribe just to see your reactions.
Man I miss the 80s! We had great musicians! Skid row was to another level of greatness! His voice combined with the riff of the guitar! Just awesome!🤟😝🤘👍they just don’t make or produce great music like this anymore! You young ladies got a new subscriber out of me! Loved your reaction’s!✌️
Thank You. I toured with these Guys. I miss the 90s
Kids...welcome to our time. Enjoy.
Please react to "18 and life". When I left home at 18 and moved 500 miles away, my mama said that she always thought of me when she heard it! 😪
Exactly what I was about to say.
Sebastian is the form God takes when it visits Canada
You know that someone has a great voice when they have also performed on Broadway, like Sebastian Bach has.
The singer is Sebastian Bach and the reason why he sounds incredible is because he’s classically trained his voice has a ginormous range go down the rabbit hole and pick another song out of a hat randomly and you won’t be sorry.
Totally agree
First two Skid Row albums are fantastic... Sebastians vocals, just soooo good... they were great live back in this era...
Sebastian’s voice was so powerful.
My friends kids, 16 to 19 are all metal heads and discovering older tunes like this. I tell them this is 100 percent why im not mad at being old. I had the absolute privilege of growing up as a 80,s and 90s kid and it was awesome. I wouldnt trade it for a million dollars.
yess finally someone pointed out the bass !!! 6:30
Welcome to one of the greatest songs of the late 80’s.
Their live performance of "Monkey Business" on Saturday Night Live was epic
It's easy to forget that this was recorded on tape with actual musicians and vocals. No digital editing, no auto tune.
This yearning song is about a guy who can't let go of the memory of the girl he loves. His days are endless and his nights sleepless as he obsesses over her, refusing to move on.
But I also think she ditched him at his lowest
@@aronp7097 women can do that which is pretty typical
Their two top hits were this one and "18 and Life". I'd recommend that one, it also tells a story, you won't have any problem interpreting that one! Both great songs!
Hey girls, great reaction. Consider this meaning for the song... What if the song is a lament. Have you ever heard of people dying of a "broken 💔 heart" sometimes people find their soul mate and when they lose them it's like a part of them selves has died. A person can feel sadness, anger, hate loneliness and many other feelings about losing their dear partner.
Was about a man losing the love of his life.
Was heart broken and couldn't recover. Lost everything.
Wants to be with her again.
Dropping pics/burning them, he's done.
Hoping when they're reunited she would say I Remember You.
Great song. Great reaction. One of the best voices of the 80s and 90s. He can probably still hit some of those notes today
Wasted Time by Skid Row is a vocal masterpiece! 😎🔥🤘🎸
Interested fact : Sebastian was 19 years old when he belted those high notes. One of the greatest singers in Metal history.
So True! He is in my top 3 singer!
Sabastian Bach has one of the greatest vocals ever rock on
Now it's only fitting you react to Steelheart - She's Gone or I'll never let you go and your minds will be blown for real. Similar to Sebastian of Skid Row Miljenko of Steelheart had such a high range it was insane.
i think the aggressiveness in his voice, like when he's literally screaming, is the pain of loss.
Finally my favorite reactors reacting to my favorite genre!! I need to see more Hard Rock power ballads in your channel! 😛. If you like Skid Row you will love Firehouse, Cinderella, Stryper, Poison, Slaughter, The Black Crowes, White Lion, Mötley Crüe and many more!!!
You girls look soo young it's amazing after all these years people have same reaction as I did as 20 year old hearing song for the 1st time love & hugs to you both
80s was the best!!!
Nobody can blow pipes quite like Sebastian Bach. Glad I got to see them live in their Prime back in 90.
Skid Row's self titled debut (which this song is on) was a huge commercial hit when it came out. It gave 3 huge radio hits: "Youth Gone Wild" (a heavy rock song), "I Remember You" (ballad) and "18 and Life" (another sad but 'heavier' ballad). Their 2nd album "Slave to the Grind" goes a heavier direction and the title track is my favorite. When Sebastian Bach (singer) talked about those two albums later on, he said "The debut was for the record company. Slave to the Grind was for us".
Sebastian Bach equals 🟰 VIBRATO!
Sebastian Bach’s voice is awesome! A great singer!
My daughter said: Daddy why is his lower lip quivering? I said honey that’s called: Vibrato and all the great singers have it!
I live in Santa Monica California (LA County) Skid Row is a heartbreaking 💔 place and what makes it worse is a mile down the road are mansions! If you listen to Poison do a song called Give Me Something To Believe In Brett Michaels points out this very fact! I’m encouraged by seeing some celebrities feeding the homeless there! I remember working Thanksgiving and Christmas there shoulder to shoulder with some of the cast of Days of Our Lives! I worked beside Deidre Hall (Dr. Marlena Evans) and her twin sister Andrea Hall (Hattie Adams, Samantha Evans). God Bless the people who make their mark helping people on Skid Row!
As others have posted, to hear Sebastian's truly impressive vocal range, check out Skid Row's "Wasted Time."
Yes, Sebastian Bach studied opera.
Seb has big lungs I bet. It's unbelievable his vocal range and how he holds a note.
Love this song. Brings a tear to my eye.
Gorgeous vocals from this gorgeous man with the gorgeous hair !!........he was loved by MANY girls back in the day and for good reason !!
When you get older like 30 plus or so, you will get more intense feelings about this song ! This is way deeper ! Have lost my best buddy in 2008 December in an arson. For both of us this was one of the most fav rock ballad. He lost everything in his life prior to that incident as his wife (whom he loved like anything) betrayed him and left for UK along with his young son, to have higher studies and nver got back. All the descriptions of love in the song happened with him. I can't help crying each time I see this music video ! What a trenchant lyrics and the solos ! So painful man !
his voice is like another instrument
I love that song, greetings from Peru 🇵🇪
Sebastian Bach is one of the most underrated front men of all time
I knew you'd both be blown away by Sebastian Bach's vocals. And Mia, I was proud you came up with sappy 😁, sounds like something I would've said hehe.
The original Skid Row was an Irish blues-rock band of the late 1960s and early 1970s, based in Dublin and fronted by bass guitarist Brendan "Brush" Shiels, It was the first band in which future Thin Lizzy members Phil Lynott and Gary Moore played professionally;
When (Skid Row) got signed to Atlantic, Gary Moore heard about it and said we could have the name for $35,000 U.S. dollars. "We have to pay Gary Moore 35 grand to use the name," and so we, as a band, did buy the name from Gary Moore. We were all glad to do it because it is a great name for a band.
I never knew that. Thank you
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just check Skid Row's "Unco Up Showband Blues" and you will see the young Gary Moor in his beginnings in the early 70s.
It's a classic and I never keep it dry when I listen to it 😢. God I love my wife and children
If you’re looking to do more Skid Row- do 18 and Life next.
Yes PLEASE
I was never into Skid Row, more into Heavy Metal like Iron Maiden, Metallica, Slayer etc.. BUT I have to admit Sebastian Bach’s vocals are incredible!! He does use his vocals like an instrument, I do like “Piece of Me”…
18 and life. Please Juliet.
Sebastian Bach and crew. 80s hair band with a power ballad. I think you ladies will love it. I usually respond before watching....time to watch and see.
I nailed it, lol. He also took a gig in Gilmore Girls as a musician. Next song is 18 and life by them.
Sebastian Bach sang on Broadway in the Phantom of the Opera! He has an awesome voice.
Dude still has a pretty good voice to this day. He actually performs on Broadway these days.
Beautiful song
This is one of the best Rock Ballads !
Beautiful voice. He also did a lot of Broadway musical work.
Two years ago this song came on the car radio as I was leaving the animal shelter, having surrendered my sick cat to be euthanized. I had just stopped crying like a fool, then started all over again hearing this..."I remember you". And so this song is now his song, my since departed Cashew (his name).
Hey girls, ya gotta check out their first two albums. Such great songs. Sebastian was blessed with a wonderful Rock star voice. They wrote some great music skid row.
Skid Row was formed in my home town ,Toms River NJ in 1986
YEE GIRLS.. I had forgotten about this song.. I like what you both said about it....great job as always GIRLS!!. Hi Jack 😘😘 LOL
Their album Slave to the Grind is still one of my favorite overall "hair metal" albums. In a Darkened Room, Wasted Years, Monkey Business etc.
Sebastian Bach, despite his grating personality (Which caused the implosion of the band) had one of the greatest voices in Metal. Also, this is their best song and is rated as one of the top ten metal love songs of alltime. If you’re talking about a perfect example of a power ballad, this would be it.
Without Bach Skid Row was and is nothing. He was the band period. The greatest vocalist in hard rock bar none
I can relate to the song... I still have great love for a woman I fell in love w/ when I was 21... I'm 44 and still remember her...😷
When u lose everything including ur one true love
Ur heart well its hard to explain
Sebastian Bach was created in a laboratory to be the perfect hard rock singer.
(Actually, he told his dad he wanted to be a singer so his dad paid for vocal training when he was young)
His voice is so soothing it could put you to sleep
I was a teenager in the 80s. And my father HATED all my metal and rock music. BUt then he heard Sebastian Bach sing. He became a fan of (some) Skid Row songs but a fan of Sebastian, I winded up taking my parents to see Sebastian play the lead in Dr Jeckyl and Mr Hyde on Broadway.
Sébastien has one of the best male voices out there...you 2 had the same responce i had first time i heard this song back in the day 🤘💕
Sappy is a great Nirvana song! haha! Fun reaction!
Skid Row and Guns were SO my jam in 7th grade! I used to write 18 and Life lyrics on my notebook lol
Dope 🎼🎼
Best hair band vocal ever
As old as he is he still does it. He was on Broadway for years.
Please post more "Rock Ballads" from the 80's
... so FUCKUNG cool.!!
I love watching your reaction to the video! Juliet's eyes say it all!
Love that song, thank u for sharing!
You guys are just great at this kind of analysis. And yeah you can take it a couple ways. I remember my first break up…kinda loved and hated her for a long time after. Sometimes at the same time. It’s….complex.
He's one of the greatest voices ever i saw them twice back in the day they actually toured a lot with the band on your shirt Guns N' Roses i saw Skid Row open for GN'R check out Slave To The Grind or 18 and Life, Youth Gone Wild my friend got killed in a car accident in 1990 they played this song at his funeral your guy's reaction to his voice is exactly the right reaction to have when you hear his voice🤘
Slave To The Grind is my favorite Skid Row song.
I loved your reaction girls!! For me, Sebastian Bach was one of the best heavy metal singers of the 80's. "Sadpy", a new word has come 👌👌👌👍👍👍!!! Greetings from Mexico, ladies 🤟🤟🤟!!!
Love it when kids discover and appreciate the stuff I grew up to. You guys rock.
You two young ladies bring back a lot of good memories playing these big hair bands from the 80s
BTW, Sebastian Bach ( lead singer) and Axl Rose from Guns and Roses are best friends. " Quicksand Jesus " or "Eighteen And Life "next please.
Skid Row were a great Hard Rock Band like Guns N Roses and Motley Crue. 18 and Life, Wasted Time and Quicksand Jesus are my favs. The lead singer was in Gilmore Girls TV show. Wasted Time is one of the best vocal performances ever. The lyrics are so emotional too.
Seen Sebastian at the Ford Amphitheater in Tampa Fl ...Wow .what a singer
Great song and reaction Ladies !
Beautiful vocals, beautiful instruments, beautiful song
SkidRow was formed in my home town ,Toms River NJ
This song is a thing of beauty, and young guys in their absolute prime performing it.