Motorhead - 1916 Reaction | First Time Reacting To Their Song About War... War Never Changes

We heard the Sabaton version. We still weren't ready for this.
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[@ReactToTheWorld]

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[@timmyrushton9203]

there are so many, but "overkill" would be nice. "rock n' roll", "we are the roadcrew", "bomber", orgasmatron", etc. all classics. thanks for this reaction to the original. i watched the reaction video to sabaton, thanks for that as well. it's heartwarming to know that lemmy's music and lyrics continue to live on through younger generations. 🙂

[@timmyrushton9203]

also, you were right on when you said this is "different". i don't think they have any other songs that compare to this.

[@scottcarter6623]

@@timmyrushton9203 Jus cause you got the power, I ain't a nice guy, God was never on your side

[@scottcarter6623]

@@timmyrushton9203 Rock n roll is a favorite, Please don't touch is a great option, Bogeyman a deep cut

[@johnturnbull870]

Orgasmatron is my all time favourite by Mötorhead.

[@peterwilhelmsson4168]

The age limit was 18, but 16 year olds signed up anyway, "adding two years to our ages". However, the youngest known to have died in this battle was 12 years old. 12.

[@thatonebritishidiot3037]

they didn't care, the government were desperate for more bodies to throw at the enemy

[@timsherrell6307]

Yes that was actually the real footage from WW1

[@podpolia]

I caught a couple that weren't - there's at least one still from WW2, and a still from the US Civil War. A couple of the clips looked to be from movies. But the majority was definitely actually footage from the front.

[@hatch7482]

Y’all missed Lemmy’s lyrics when he said, “And we all volunteered, and we wrote down our names, and we added two years to our ages.”

[@msaoichan]

No one was going to accuse Lemmy of being the world's finest singer, but when he sang he could make you feel like you were ten foot tall and bulletproof, he could break your heart to a million pieces, but on the rare occasion, he could also make you feel like you were staring eye to eye with a malevolent god.

[@JariJuslin]

Apparently calling for your mother is pretty common thing to do when you're dying. Cognitive function declines when you're bleeding to death and you fall back to a level of a child. People do it also outside war, but I imagine it must have been haunting for their comrades who were in the trench close by hearing the calls and them gradually getting weaker and weaker but could not go to help because they would have just immediately died themselves.

[@Gorasosh]

war is always about kids crying for their mothers while dying

[@JariJuslin]

They had an age limit, but war was glorified and recruiters were paid commissions, so they kinda encouraged people to lie about their age to qualify. "Come back tomorrow when you're eighteen." And girls of their age were distributed white feathers to hand out on streets when they saw enlistment-age boys walking there. Many boys were kind of bullied into going. I am pretty sure the girls felt pretty bad when all the boys and men of certain age came back in coffins at once.

[@samuel10125]

That was arguably a small percentage of the mainly because of the death toll particularly in the Britain they needed bodies and they just waved people through.

[@wesleymartin1554]

The youngest British soldier to fight on the Somme was 12 years old his name was Sidney Lewis

[@Bruce-nw2hm]

I've listened to this song for years ever ANZAC day. RIP Lemmy

[@user-mb1lg4fd4v]

Thanks to you and your reaction on sabaton and 1916, I had my eyes open for them and the good music and storys they tell in their songs...so thank you sooo much! Really love your reactions on chris kläfford too..

[@TakezoMusashi]

Don't know why I just found this video today, saw your Sabaton video when you released it.. But I'm gratefull I found this song today. Awesome that you guys went and looked for the original, it's a song that is definately worth it. Love and respect from Malmö ☮

[@ReactToTheWorld]

Better late than never, right?

[@36814]

The Peter Jackson documentary is well worth watching . All the footage is expertly colourised and he used lip readers to dub sound onto the silent early 20th ( 1916 -18 ) century comments and conversations.

[@AstroXeno]

Under normal circumstances, the recruitment age even back then was 18- Although most navies had apprentices serving on warships who could be as young as 16. However, during the early part of World War I especially, there were a lot of teenagers who lied about their ages and signed up, afraid that if they waited, the war would all be over and they'd miss out on the grand adventure. During that war- and to a lesser extent, during World War II- if a 15 year old came into a recruitment office claiming to be 18, the recruiter wouldn't try too hard to catch him in the lie.

[@rolandgustafsson5655]

Hi guys 👋 I'm a Swedish prescriber (hope i spelled that right)🤔Just want to say that we have seen many anti war songs through the years,can't be to many of them i think😪 There was a guy in the nineteen sixties who came out with a song called (eve off destruction )and he is still alive 🙂that i think still is perhaps the best of all so called anti war song's 😔 Thanks for a great and fun channel 😁

[@thatonebritishidiot3037]

eve of destruction is great, another one I quite like personally is the grave by Don Mclean

[@mcfcguvnors]

well done n yes that footage was real , dropped you a like

[@NorthernSawDust]

And know you know where the Tomb of the Unknown Soldiers came from.

[@1320crusier]

Its based on a similar thing the British created in 1919 iirc.

[@jeffclark2869]

Yes, that was actual footage from the war.

[@ryon._-1994]

glad you guys reacted to motorheads version. old Lemmy's version was much more emotional for many people in northern England because it was an open secret that in the Somme offensive the thought was as a northern lady said was of corse they sent the northern boys in first because army command deemed them less educated and too "THICK "to know what awaited them

[@loafersheffield]

My paternal grandfather survived. I wouldn't be here but for that fact. Family history is sketchy. Despite now living in Yorkshire, my family are Lancastrian. There's a great book about a Sheffield pals battalion. Fictional characters, but based upon actual history. John Harris: Covenant With Death. They were volunteers who went over the top on day one of The Somme.

[@scottcarter6623]

"Jus cause you got the Power" " Going to Brazil" " Please don't Touch" " Rock n Roll" " God was never on your side"

[@philwragg9756]

the youngest British soldier was private condon I believe 13 years old!!!

[@philwragg9756]

yes private condon

[@sergiogrimaldo3480]

I think theres a movie about this song or based on this song

[@michaelavery6390]

If I remember correctly the Documentary by Peter Jackson had been turned into colour and slowed down ?

[@danielclaeys4976]

it so hard to see that but people never learn about the past we all young people don't know what it was so many people kill but the war is going on it does no matter old war our new war it just a game for some

[@duncansolloway2497]

KILLED BY DEATH would be appropriate for the next song by MOTORHEAD-BOMBER maybe ?

[@stephenhitchen8753]

This is the only track(I've ever heard )that makes me want to weep, lemmys lyrics are so poignant.

[@mikeoxlong8272]

Try listening to the acoustic version of I ain't no nice guy after all.

[@sovner]

Was a bit dissapointed today when i searched on youtube for: 1916 Motorhead. And most of the results that came up was a cover of the song by a band i'm not that psycked about. Thanks for doing a reaction to the original though

[@thatonebritishidiot3037]

sabaton are a great band, with a respect for history

[@sovner]

@@thatonebritishidiot3037 what can i say people have different taste in music

[@ariewassink4956]

Orgazmatron, Ace of Spades, Hellraiser, and God Was Never on Your Side are a few good ones.

[@ericbruce5075]

Want a real Motörhead song? Overkill Live is a great video on KZbin that encompasses what the band is known for. It’s vastly different than this :)

[@rodlepine233]

that would be the hoard of rats that came to feast on the dead eating the flesh to leave rotting skeletons behind

[@jungliatpil9124]

Motorhead by Motorhead, do that track.

[@JohnAtkinson-wl2bw]

I really like your reaction videos. You are Both Very Respectful and One of you is Very Beautiful but I not say which one haha

[@aaronwoodward3766]

they do have a age limit. But the dubiless officers will not care to look and see, tha't not your age.there was boys who joined the war at age 14 16 who managed to get in to the war?!?

[@robertmartel7948]

motorhead - ace of spades, iron fist, orgasmatron, serial killer, deaf forever, hellraiser, whorehouse blues

[@user-hm4od3wu1z]

Honestly I think Motorhead did it better

[@Ace-Of-Spades---]

Lemmy conveys the feelings much better, although - or perhaps because - he was not the greatest singer.

[@ratrakksstar4420]

England was lucky, for the Entente the war ended in 1918, but not for Russia. There was the biggest European civil war in history until 1924, people were dying of hunger and plague. Armies destroyed villages and towns while brothers killed each other.

[@weeddegree]

Lucky? alright

[@1320crusier]

@@weeddegree The change to communism killed millions inside Russia/USSR.

[@samuel10125]

Russia technically isn't European its Eurasian

[@BigzampanoXXL]

sometimes it is similar in Ukraine...100 years later....

[@christiank4768]

REMEMBER YOU ONLY HAVE THE RIGHT TO DO WHAT YOU DO , BECAUSE OF THE BLOODSHED MEN MEN PAST PRESENT AND FUTURE..

[@ReactToTheWorld]

True dat. Respect.

[@Metal19063]

this fucking crime...1 w and last cames to....no one learns from history

[@paulhadfield7909]

the songis better without vidoe

[@mr.ed5700]

the lyrics say ''added 2 years too are ages.16.