Savatage - Sarajevo + This Is The Time (1990)

[@blowing5000]

This is a Tension builder -one of the greatest Songs ever played and composed !!

[@scottspeigel1390]

Absolutely! A masterpiece

[@jeremyderdall7058]

It definitely makes it onto the list

[@antares8341]

Fuck yeah

[@Ariakas81]

This album is Savatage masterpiece... so perfect

[@gabrielfernandocazarezguer2073]

Edge of thorns was awsome too

[@gabrielfernandocazarezguer2073]

Handful of rain too

[@frankfrank1168]

Forgot how good this album is!!! So underrated!!!

[@romeos7829]

Zak Stevens the golden voice🔥🎈

[@alexgregorio7846]

this album is a masterpiece! Simply spectacular

[@vedm2231]

Bosko and Admira a very sad story

[@Pigeaterdlx]

One of Savatage's greatest works! Thanks for uploading!

[@garymiller6517]

The beginning of TSO only thing is they were always underrated frickin awesome

[@azternok7864]

What about: OVERTURE - SARAJEVO - THIS IS THE TIME all together!? PLEASE!!!!

[@antares8341]

Masterpiece!

[@stephenadamsmusicalinterpr4203]

Most underrated band OAT.

[@peterpandemonium3336]

Yes. OAT is so underated that I don't know who they are...

[@peppermann]

Superb song. Very moving lyrics, quite poetic. Great song to follow too !

[@davidgardiner4620]

Awesome

[@oncehuman9901]

so many memories... i feel there is a point of no return.. now i get it when i saw this expression in the face of the older back in the 1990 talking about their music, their times... and now this is the Time for me, talking to a younger and seeing the same expression in my face.. i hope..

[@TLorraine]

♥ Zak...absolutely amazing song ♥

[@wolfgangoverrath-dittmar5751]

What a Song...BRILLIANT 👍😍😎

[@josemanueldiaznegrete846]

Grandisimo album que me trae muchos recuerdos

[@tafrionaotomobanho]

A MELHOR MÚSICA DE TODOS OS TEMPOS DO SAVATAGE!

[@blackeddy65]

Highlight for me in the early 90's!!

[@jeffreymeares8685]

Deep and in your soul

[@Phaelen2003]

damn fine album.

[@renekorodriguez6814]

Esto si es música!!@

[@ingridlorena3696]

Masterpiece

[@celioazevedoofficial]

Classic!

[@MrMikopi]

That ending!

[@poldisblackchamber8040]

So ein geiles Lied. Vor allem wenn man den Hintergrund bedenkt

[@anthonypetzold8847]

Brilliant song! Love the build.

[@HIGUERASable]

Impresionante 👏👏

[@federicolazzati5638]

Not 1990, but 1995

[@Kiril.Georgiev]

The song is called "This Is the Time (1990)", the album is from 1995 indeed "Dead winter dead". Ref en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Winter_Dead#Track_listing

[@veraluciapintorios5740]

Sensacional!!!

[@ΑρηςΜακρης-π4τ]

where did you learn all these from wikipedia or what , interesting things do you know if they re gonna have any concert 2016 and in the future?

[@Ivaneugeniomachado]

Se ronie james estivesse aqui, shows mundo afora pra angariar recursoos mundo afora , pra ucrania , gaza. Cadê o pessoal do metal, a solidariedade morreu com o pai do metal.dio forever metal never die.

[@exoustiathebeginning8088]

X-RIGHTEOUSROCK-X

[@mzavros]

So... is this a concept album?

[@denovuandave8418]

+mzavros Yes.

[@JdDiehl]

anyone know why 1990 is in the title?

[@nicholasbrown4109]

The song is set at that time in history. Its at the collapse of the soviet union but before the serbian civil war and it is reflecting a perspective from that time in that region. This is from a concept album that is telling a story.

[@antares8341]

Why is this so about Sarajevo? , city in Bosnia and Hercegovina.

[@CrveniBaron]

because it it was the most brutal siege in modern history...

[@antares8341]

​@@CrveniBaron ok znam ja sm iz Slovenije brate.

[@nerminsalkic6360]

@@antares8341 otkud da ovi znaju za sarajevo

[@antares8341]

@@nerminsalkic6360 u Star treku The next generation, jedan svemurski brod imenovan je Usc Sarajevo.

[@lpburdek]

In the Bosnian capital of Sarajevo, there is a town square surrounded by buildings that were constructed during the Middle Ages. The square has a beautiful stone fountain at its center and at one corner there is a thousand year old church with a gargoyle carved into its belfry. This gargoyle, for the last thousand years, has spent all his time trying to comprehend the human emotions of laughter and sorrow, but even after a millennium of contemplation, these most curious of human attributes remain a total mystery to him. Our story begins in the year of 1990; the Berlin Wall has just fallen, communism has collapsed and for the first time since the Roman Empire, Yugoslavia finds itself a free nation. Serdjan Aleskovic cannot believe his good fortune to be alive and young at such a moment. The future and the happiness of all seem assured in what must surely be "the best of times" ("Sarajevo", "This Is the Time"). However, even as Serdjan celebrates with his fellow countrymen, there are little men with little minds who are already busy sowing the seeds of hate between neighbors. Young and impressionable Serdjan joins some of his friends in a Serbian Militia Unit and eventually finds himself in the hills outside of Sarajevo firing mortar shells nightly in the city ("I Am"). Meanwhile, in Sarajevo itself, Katrina Brasic, a young Muslim girl, finds herself buying weapons from a group of arms merchants and then joining her comrades firing in the hills around the city ("Starlight", "Doesn't Matter Anyway"). The years pass by and it is now late November 1994. An old man who had left Yugoslavia many decades before, has now returned to the city of his birth, only to find it in ruins. As the season's first snowfall begins, he stands in the town square, looks toward the heavens and explains that when the Yugoslavians prayed for change, this is not what they intended ("This Isn't What We Meant"). As the old man finishes his prayer, the sun begins to set and the first shells of the evening's artillery barrage are starting to arc overhead. But instead of heading for the shelters with the rest of the civilians, he climbs atop the rubble that used to be the fountain and taking out his cello, starts to play Mozart as the shells explode around him. From this night forward he would repeat this ritual every evening. And every evening Serdjan and Katrina each find themselves listening to the thoughts of Mozart and Beethoven as they drift between the explosions across no man's land ("Mozart and Madness", "Memory"). Though the winter does its best to cover the landscape with a blanket of temporary innocence, the war only escalates in violence and brutality ("Dead Winter Dead"). One day in late December, Serdjan on a patrol in Sarajevo, comes across a schoolyard where a recent exploding shell has left the ground littered with the bodies of young children. It is one thing to drop shells into a mortar and quite another to see where they land. Long after Serdjan returns to his own lines, he cannot get the faces of the children out of his mind. Realizing that what he has been participating in is not the glorious nation building that their leaders had described, but rather a path to mutual oblivion, he decides right then and there that he can no longer be a part of this, that you cannot build a future on the bodies of others. At the first opportunity, he resolves that he will desert ("One Child"). Sitting in his bunker on December 24, he listens to the sounds of Christmas carols from the old cello player mingling with the sounds of war. Katrina, on the other side of the battlefield, is also listening. It had just stopped snowing and the clouds had given way to reveal a beautiful star-filled sky when suddenly the cellos player's music abruptly ceases. Fearing the worst, Serdjan and Katrina both do something quite foolish and from their respectives sides, start to make their ways across no man's land toward the town square. Arriving at exactly the same moment, they see one another. Instinctively realizing that they are both there for the same reason, they do not start to fight, but instead, together walk slowly to the fountain. There they find the old man lying dead in the snow, his face covered with blood, his cello lying smashed and broken at his side ("Christmas Eve (Sarajevo 12/24)"). Then without warning, a single drop of liquid falls from the cloudless sky, wiping some of the blood off the old man's cheek. Serdjan looks up, but he can see nothing except the stone gargoyle high up on the church belfry. Overcome by what he has seen this night, he decides that he must leave this war immediately. Turning to the Muslim girl he asks her to come with him, but now all she sees is his Serbian uniform. Pouring out his feelings, he explains that he is not what she thinks that he is. Eventually winning her to his side, they leave the night together ("Not What You See").[3]

[@dimitrissavalegion9096]

ΕΠΟΣ ΡΕΕΕΕΕΕΕΕΕΕΕΕΕΕΕΕΕΕΕ

[@SympanProductions]

Ναι γαμω τη τρέλα μου !

[@pervotheclown2199]

Jon Oliva was still the vocalist in 1990. Savatage had not even released " Streets " yet . In 1990 , Criss Oliva was still the guitarists of Savatage ...............and its quite obvious that Criss Oliva isn't playing on this Dead Winter Dead album . This album is more like a 1995 or 1996 release .

[@badbirdkc]

The song title is "This is the Time (1990)"

[@pervotheclown2199]

@@badbirdkc My bad ...............I never had " Dead Winter Dead " because Criss Oliva isn't on it . I didn't know they stupidly put a ( 1990) in the song title .

[@vasilismotsis7750]

@@pervotheclown2199 Listen to the Album. It's GREAT

[@SKYYdiver1969]

@@pervotheclown2199 Well, it's not "stupidly" put there. The song/story takes place in 1990. Listen to the entire record, read the story. It's a rock opera/concept album masterpiece. You'll get it. Rock on!

[@valiilie5182]

IS 1994

[@williamneumann6483]

This album wasn't released till 1995. The 1990 date is wrong.

[@badbirdkc]

That's the name of the song: "This is the Time (1990)" - that's when the story starts.

[@Snipergoat1]

Listen to the lyrics and consider what was happening in Sarajevo in 1990.

[@buddyberkman]

1995.

[@nicholasbrown4109]

maybe listen to the lyrics and figure out why its 1990

[@BigMuff75]

Oh, the Korg M1 piano preset... :D