Iron Maiden - Paschendale: A Fox Reaction

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[@sipke9485]

The footage used is from the 1979 film "All Quiet on the Western Front". Created to tribute the soldiers of all nations who fought and died in World War 1.

[@pavelsafarik5274]

And that film is adaptation of book "All Quiet on the Western Front" by Erich Maria Remarque who was a german veteran from WWI. Great book!

[@bones1971]

War has no winners only losers And many young guys forced go battlefield Thanx too songs like this they wont be forgotten

[@metalmark1214]

I've been listen to Iron Maiden since 1982. Many of their songs are subjects of war, or books or other historical events. The video that was used here was from the 1979 TV movie All Quiet on the Western Front. "Paschendale" is the eighth track on the album Dance of Death released in 2003. Adrian Smith came up with the haunting intro, which inspired a studio composing session, which eventually grew into the song. The battle itself was part of a larger and long lasting campaign, centered on a fight to control the no man's land of Passchendaele Ridge just east of Ypres in West Flanders, Belgium. The terrain of wet and barren muddy silt made waging war especially horrible, as captured in the lyrics: "Many soldiers, eighteen years, drown in mud, no more tears. Surely a war no one can win, killing time about to begin." The battle is historically controversial and often cited as an example of how bad political and military decisions are paid for, not by the blood of those who make them, but by a staggering yet pointless human cost to the armies on both sides. The mud and bad weather put both armies in an ill-supplied stalemate, leaving thousands of soldiers to rot in gruesome conditions that inspired lyrics like "The bodies are ours and our foes, the sea of death it overflows. In no man's land God only knows, into jaws of death we go," and "Blood is falling like the rain, its crimson cloak unveils again. The sound of guns can't hide their shame, and so we die at Paschendale." Despite Ypres's misfortune at being a valuable strategic location during WWI, it is an ancient town with a rich history. During the middle ages it was a very prosperous Flemish city, and is even mentioned in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. The town was largely rebuilt after the war, funded by German reparation payments. It has made great strides since then, and is now a very modernized and beautiful European city. But the devastation of war is not easily forgotten, and the landscape surrounding Ypres contains a vast number of cemeteries and memorial sites to commemorate the soldiers who died there Some other Iron Maiden songs with Historical or theatrical significance Where Eagles Dare (based on an Alistair Maclean novel, (1967), and film (1968) about a WWII rescue of an American general from a Nazi stronghold in the Bavarian Alps The Trooper (based on the Charge of the Light Brigade at the Battle of Balaclava 1854,which took place during the Crimean War) Aces High (about aircraft dog fighting between the British and German fighter pilots of WWII) 2 Minutes to Midnight - About the Doomsday clock for the End of the World Rime of the Ancient Mariner - (From the poem of the same name by Samuel Taylor Coleridge (story about about an ocean voyage) Alexander the Great (About the story of Alexander the Great The Longest Day (about the WWII Normandy Invasion)

[@michaelgoetze2103]

A bit odd that those scenes were chosen. Paschendale was between German and British forces yet, judging by the helmets, those were German and French troops.

[@noahloiselle412]

Definitely brings tears to one's eyes (while wartime history in general does so, my great great grandfather was a sapper in the Canadian Expeditionary Forces, and fought in such campaigns as the Somme offensive and Paschendale, so I think it hits closer to home, imagining the absolute hell on earth that he had to live through). I know it would have haunted him for the rest of his days, and yet he was able to make a good life for himself from what my great grandmother has told me. His experiences (and those of other members in my family who fought in WW1 and WW2) will not be forgoten, that is for sure.

[@d3bianninja284]

Foxke teaching us some domestic history through one of my alltime favourite bands 🦊🤘. The lyrics of this song describe very well what happened and the reality of what war was back then.

[@nickschiavulli693]

Up The Irons 🤘

[@Arashmickey]

In the final scene he heard birdsong and stood up from the safety of the trench to make a drawing.

[@MarianoSalinas]

Ah epic song,and a amazing reation

[@JariJuslin]

One brutal thing in WW1 was that especially British units were often formed of men from the same area. The upside was them knowing each other already. The downside was that it was not just their comrades dying, it was often people they had known from childhood. And often almost the whole unit died the same day, doing another charge against heavy machine guns. So on home front a town might lose all their young men at once. It was a tragedy on whole another level.

[@88batterista]

Really interesting video.

[@SAITO2]

what's even worse is that even to this day, we still find shells that didn't go off in out fair west-flanders.

[@EvyTheFox]

Yes i know! I live in Zeebrugge actually, at the beach they find some now and then too

[@freyasslain2203]

You can trace the origins of World War One as far back from the Time of Kaiser Wilhelm 's birth . Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany was the first born son Fredrich and the Princess Royale Victoria ( Vicky ) . The birth was traumatic . So much that Kaiser Wilhelm was born disabled . Something he blamed his mother for . Since his mother was a Princess Royale of England , Wilhelm grew up hating England ...

[@davidwatts6401]

Interesting fact. This was New Zealand worst military disaster. In a few hours 1k dead 2k injured. Huge loss for such a young country back then with a small population. 😔

[@felixgoodhew7723]

Also check out The unkillable soldier by sabaton

[@rogeriopenna9014]

React to Iron Maiden's Alexander The Great.

[@metalmark1214]

Almost any Sabaton song is of historical value. Sabaton even has their own KZbin history channel (kzbin.info)

[@robsoncampos2766]

War is part of human being evolution, soldiers fight one each other not why they hate themselves but because they love who they have left behind.

[@fredrikjacobsson5483]

Please react to: Sabaton ”Race to the Sea” more WWI in Belgium.

[@EvyTheFox]

I posted Bismarck earlier this week! Race to the sea is def on the to do list

[@MrVarsac99]

@@EvyTheFox also their song "The Price of a Mile" is about Paschendale if you want to revisit the subject later. Love the channel and your reviews, much love sister

[@thearmoredgeorgian2736]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/rZaaY61_bM6CoM0 put on your best headphones, and play this at max volume. Then imagine yourself as a soldier enduring this endlessly for hours, to days on end.

[@JariJuslin]

If you want to see other good songs around the same subject, I can recommend Motörhead: 1916 and Sabaton: Price of a Mile. Of course, there's still no glory to be won.

[@petercollingwood522]

In English. "The Menin Gate."

[@EvyTheFox]

Thank you!

[@scar445]

you forgot one thing of the trenches. The smell. Piss, shit, puke, guts, blood, gunpowder, fire and metal. That is the smell of war.

[@denisrabotin1279]

Please Sabaton the price of a mile

[@davidransom4703]

talk way too much thru reaction not even a second goes by i cant get into the music

[@EvyTheFox]

if you want to get into the music alone, i advise you to just listen to the song without watching someone react to it. if you want someones vision on the song and background story, keep watching reaction videos