No other band gets to you like Maiden, after I heard this for the first time, I just sat and thought. Its completely changed my opinion of humanity and war, it's improved my life and without Maiden, I'd still be blind. No other band, old or new, could ever hope to have the same effect that Maiden does on people, we all owe them a lot more than we realise. UP THE IRONS AND PLEASE PLAY THIS AT SHEFFIELD!
I love the gunshots in the last refrain, that makes it so real. I made my history project about this a few years ago, everyone was deeply impressed. I''ve been to Ypres and walked through the trenches. Believe me it's bone chilling. Makes you think how cruel the human race can be.
I love the gunshots in the last refrain, that makes it so real. I made my history project about this a few years ago, everyone was deeply impressed. I''ve been to Ypres and walked through the trenches. Believe me it's bone chilling. Makes you think how cruel the human race can be.
I love the gunshots in the last refrain, that makes it so real. I made my history project about this a few years ago, everyone was deeply impressed. I''ve been to Ypres and walked through the trenches. Believe me it's bone chilling. Makes you think how cruel the human race can be.
Actually many experts believe that gas wasn't used because each army believed that the other was too well prepared to be too hurt by gas (look at the advertising that gas masks got in Britain).
@metalrulesforrever well... that shows how humans are greedy. "We dont have that nice place, but he will not have it too"... (i dont blame Germans, but all humans)
@D011ARS4G011D it was also about how they took it when they didnt need it they gave it back to the germans right when they got it cause it was pretty much a trap for em cause they were sourronded by germans, a waste of alot of canadian and german people
Amazing song, and it does represent the brutality of war like "Hero of War" does by Rise Against. On a side note there are no "rules" in war. Sure, there was a convention outlining what you "can and can't" do in a war but really, if one of those rules are stopping you from winning, you aren't going to follow them. Every "rule" people tried to implement in war has failed. Examples would be the English using Longbow Men against knights or the Colonists using Guerrilla Warfare. Just a side note.
Not entirely true. As another post said, it was more because gas was pretty ineffective once gas masks etc had been introduced.
However, Churchill had authorised the use of mustard gas if the German's ever tried to invade, and also in retaliation should the German's ever use it first. Not only that, the Japanese did extensive testing on chemical weapons.
that is not always true either. if a trench was hit with gas and a man off duty who was talking with buddies or playing cards etc what if someone was sleeping and didnt get woken up. therefore there was lots of time someone didnt have masks on and if word couldnt get around the trench fast enough then he would be dead.
@Azog150 but when chemical gas was once used, it was efective cause nobody had gas mask but canadian soldier used pieces of clothing to cover there afaces but ya after that it was ineffective
all the lives of mankind & this world we live in was sadly founded by the events & deeds of the First World War,(the War to end all Wars) -The Gears of the "Modern Death Machine" have never stopped since then...
1: i hate to say it guys but war sucks all in all but at some times it save more lives than it will end i dont like though unnessecary war 2: UNDER 20K VIEWS WTF!??!?!!??!?!?!!??!?!!?!??!?!?!?!?!?!
I totally agree brother. Yes we know war is not pretty but it is a fact in our human existence. As I write this...there r on average 70-120 wars going on right now as we speak, you just dont hear about them. Without war, the world would be swamped in materialism, self-controlled treehuggers, & Liberalism (if it feels good do it), on a scale we wish not to even think of. I had Uncles die in Vietnam & a cousin die in the 1st Gulf war, Doesnt make me hate my country. Like u said the technological
They make you think that war is necessary, the enemy is evil and god is on your side. So you go and you kill them all. Some of your friends died, but don’t be afraid soldier it wasn’t in vein. Then you come back in your home town and you live your life as normal as you could, with all the nightmares and the remorse that haunt you.
And the decades pass, until one day you learn that your comrades died not for their beloved country, not for freedom, not even for the so called democracy that you really never had. They died for some gallons of petrol, for the interests of a multinational corporation, for the profit of a bank.
i love the beginning cuz not only does it sound cool but it means teh song starts and i love end cuz not only does it sound cool but it means i can replay the song
I have fallen in love with the music of Iron Maiden all over ago. I have been a fan since Killers came out when I was 12. I have had all the last 4 albums on my shelf with a one time listening when I got them. After revisiting the albums in the last 3 months I am again utterly convinced that the fellas are fricking masters of their trade, write songs like no other band and the addition of the 3rd guitarist was a good move. I am discovering new masterpieces which I am treasuring.
@AlistairH517 being a soldier in the WW1 and WW2 means nothing...it wasnt like now that only those who want go to war in afghanistan.....they were forced to fight.........
@AlistairH517 ok honestly this song has nothing to do with hitler. its talking about the trench wars of world war 1 not 2 your off by like 20 years give or take some
@SnoodDood lol if u have to defend...this means that u have engaged a country in war.........................so event defend is pointless....although u cant do nothing else in a war but fight for ur country.....
@giannis1821a you make absolutely no sense. by defense, you haven't engaged another country. They've engaged you. The only time I condone war is if a country is aggressive enough and powerful enough to jeopardize the safety of your citizens. Then, you're practically forced to attack, in order to end the war.
@SnoodDood war is pointless to begin with. Who would want to fight another country over a pipeline and a guy who has been dead for almost 9 years? completly pointless. I mean, if the other country bombed a country like japan did to Pearl Harbor then you would have to fight back, but dropping 2 atomic bombs on nagasaki and hiroshima and desimating both the cities and ending lives to save more, i just dont get it.
@jfac1884 with the end of WWII, I don't condone the use of nukes at all. However, you have to consider the big picture. If we had continued with war as usual, would we have ended more lives that way than with the nukes? I highly doubt it. Plus, the creation of nukes has destroyed lives even after Hiroshima and Nagasaki. So, yeah. War is pointless, unless more lives would be destroyed by not fighting back.
@SnoodDood Correction SOME wars are pointless, think of WW2, or the American revolution. I don't like seeing bodybags anymore than the dead's families but if the the war has a good reason i'll stick to it
@Browsey1994 btw when I sdaid ww2 and the revolution i meant they were important WW1 was pointless. it was a case of too many people trying to get on top.
we only got in because of german transgression on our shipping (i.e the lusitania and cargo ships)
@livingjustfordying What America did (unless you're a conspiracy theorist) was self defense. Japan was attacking, so we attacked them. HItler would've attacked after he defeated our allies as well.
@SnoodDood yeh, but i was thinking about all the civilians and Jews being executed. all war is defence, the reason the brittish were at paschendale (whichever spelling) was to stop the germans crossing the channel.... Iraq is about stopping terrorists on all lands. so was cannot be pointless, but some acts may be.
@PvtSelkirk Civilized? they sacked saxon villages and had a whole religion based on war and slaughter. their place in my mind is atop a throne of corpses I've got nothing against anyone but vikings were raiders and pirates, until they got home.
@Browsey1994 Yes civilized.. structure, law and order, traditions, chain of command, etc.. and no they did not have religious beliefs directed war and slaughter. They were violent and malicious when it came to battle, but that's the way it should be.
Charlemagne decapitated 4500 Saxons a day, and were invading viking territories. Raids against the Saxons was just strategy to threaten french/christian defenses - whom were much more barbaric.
@SnoodDood for as much as everyone degrades war, no one realizes how important war is. you say war is pointless? it draws the ends to many horrendous things. look at hitler for instance. before WW2 even started, he was killing several Jewish people. if the british didn't get wod of what was happening in germany, WW2 wouldn't have started and all that we know of the Jewish would be gone in a trail of blood. so next time you degrade war, think of the good AND the bad.
@BuzzsawProductions01 you obviously didn't read the comment. EXCEPT FOR DEFENSE. that includes your own nation AND your allies. If we let them get overtaken, the japs and germans would've eventually taken us over. Remember, we didn't initially attack. the american Civil War is another example. It also put an end to something horrendous, but the winning side attacked b/c they knew the south would try to conquer them. plus, when war is started for bad reasons, the bad far outweighs the good.
@SnoodDood well it appears that you are going to be technical. a nation can't hold up defence forever. eventually, defending the area , a country for that matter, could mean steady depletion of resources. even if you had allies, depending on the enemy, you won't be able to air drop supplies. as for you enemy, they can keep as many troops as the want suppressing the defenders while another large battallion conquers more land and takes more resources. and generally the attackers have allies.
@BuzzsawProductions01 ...which is why you go on the offensive. If you go on the offensive for purposes of defending your own country, you are defending yourself. how difficult could this be to understand?
@Emanusmell so stupid. defense of something as mundane as a stone wouldn't be necessary defense, and nuking the surrounding area would be overkill, especially if no one attacked you first.
@SnoodDood ugh i hate comments like this...clearly you are wrong....i know where u are coming from and the ideals u are trying to represent but war is required sometimes and even when it isnt...its not useless..its good for business and its good for global expansion
@Emanusmell destroying human life for purposes of business and global expansion is the pinnacle of war crime. Well, that and genocide. Every war people are saying wasn't pointless was gotten in by the U.S. ultimately because of defense. I don't understand why this is such a difficult concept.
@SnoodDood its difficult because its a lie and hard to believe....defense and freedom and democracy are all guises to get the public in support of the war..its been done throughout history for thousands of years
@Emanusmell it is true that a lot of the stuff we said was for defense (like Iraq) was bull, but I'm saying that if it's actually genuine defense, war can be condoned. But most other reasons for war (with a few exceptions) don't justify the mass destruction of human life.
@SnoodDood So.........you're saying that our war in Europe during WWII was pointless? Germany never attacked us. Maybe Germany sank one of our ships but we were shipping supplies to England which made our ships a legal target. You're logic is flawed!
@MrTooscared apparently you don't understand the deeper point of that war. Personally, I'm a bit of a conspiracy theorist, but if you're not then Japan attacked us, so we declared war on the Axis powers. You don't understand the premise of declaring war. when countries are currently allied in conquest, then you can't just declare war on one. It's a "you-mess-with-one-of-us-you-mess-with-all-of-us" concept. And if you'd read my former comments, you'd have already answered your question.
@SnoodDood Wow....war is completely worthless? Pray tell you're not lving in North America. America/Canada was founded by war. War is pointless???You really need to review history and reevaluate. I dare not mention the removal of Hilter in Europe.....that blows your point of view out of the water.
@MrTooscared The Hitler thing was addressed by me 3 different times in the comments, and I don't feel like defending that point against another one of you blood pigs. And I'm not saying the creating of America was a good thing. I know it was founded upon imperialism, slavery, and general slaughter. Exactly why I don't wear patriotic shirts and stuff. The main point in the comment is "with the exception of self-defense" which runs deeper than someone-attacked-us-so-we-attack-them-back.
@SnoodDood in my opinion, you are wrong. and I will tell you why. If there was no war, there would be no real need for technological development. Take for example E-mail. That was created by the military to securely send information to others without any real threat that it would be intercepted. The computer in fact was a technological development funded by the military to store information, (not your little PC, the big old one) why? because of war. not saying it's right, but its not pointless.
dude just because all the technological developement in the past centuries was abused for military purposes, it doesn't mean that there would be no developement with no war, it might have not be so fast, but who says it wouldn't be better that way?
WW2 started because Hitler managed to easily get his regime in place promising the rights germany had lost in the Versailles treaties. Which was followed by the rest of th
Boner at 4:53 :P
Tormsie 1 month ago
@Tormsie THE HELL???!?!!!????!
dredlord47 1 week ago
two top comments is the same ? WTF ! and there is already 4 dislikes .. any way its the right number for my pistol's bullets :D !
MrMrgta4000 2 months ago 3
@MrMrgta4000 Well, you get the first 4, I've got the next 9, so we should be good up until 13.
burninmunkeys 1 month ago
fuckin brilliant love the guitar solo
johnfozy 2 months ago
4 people don't know the story of paschendale
MIKEYEKIMIKEY 3 months ago 6
One m0:00re time!
TheKapitan98 3 months ago
SOS
777PoJa 4 months ago
how could anyone notlike this song UP THE IRONS
1Bethena 7 months ago
3:15 FUCK YEAH! :D
jackraydark 7 months ago
You know what is the problem with Iron Maiden? This would be their best song if only their others songs weren`t also the best.
Xavras7 7 months ago 3
@Xavras7
If any other band released this, they'd be like 'their best song!' but yep, coz it's Maiden...amazing
JDTMusicEveryday 2 months ago
@Xavras7 yeah i honestly cant pick a favorite from iron maiden cause theyre all so good.
jillianrox098 2 months ago
@jillianrox098 well i can if by song you mean everysingle one theyve ever made
derpineerIII 4 weeks ago
2 dislikes? people, the thumb down doesn't stand for "download"...
HereIsZoee 7 months ago 15
1:06 no its guitar bass and drums!xD
giwrgosalani 7 months ago 2
IRON MAIDEN IS THE BEST RELIGION, THE BEST BAND AND THE BEST SONGWRITER!!!!!!
TheLinkbro 7 months ago
UP THE IRONS FROM SERBIA!
BuchukProduction 7 months ago
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who would dislike this?! its an honour to the many who died at paschendale, urgh idiot haters!
StephW1995 8 months ago
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StephW1995 8 months ago
Such an honorable song
Up the irons!!
ironmaiden2561 8 months ago
fuck that dislike button off so no one can't miss the LIKE-button
and UP THE IRONS
DehJarlorNoob 8 months ago
I live 20 minutes away from paschendale lol
DefourOwnsYa 9 months ago
I didn't perform air guitar or air drums while listening to this song. Just air mic. :D
nickolasGate7 9 months ago
it's unbelievable how this guy wrote these lyrics.I cry every time i listen this song!!!!!It's amazing!!!!!!!!!!!
pamaxon 9 months ago
@pamaxon u cry?
sharplyfast1 7 months ago
this is iron maiden
v275250 9 months ago
it's songs like these that remind me to thank my friend for telling me about this amazing band!
McSmijens1 9 months ago 2
2 idiots disliked
koikuix 9 months ago
TUNISINI DI MERDA MORIRETE TUTTI!!!!!!
DAMAGNINO 10 months ago
@DAMAGNINO
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micronova7 8 months ago
No other band gets to you like Maiden, after I heard this for the first time, I just sat and thought. Its completely changed my opinion of humanity and war, it's improved my life and without Maiden, I'd still be blind. No other band, old or new, could ever hope to have the same effect that Maiden does on people, we all owe them a lot more than we realise. UP THE IRONS AND PLEASE PLAY THIS AT SHEFFIELD!
Airlord3670 10 months ago 4
whoever disliked this should be sent to paschendale
idontnowat2namedisXD 10 months ago
And over we gooooooo....... Eagle :P
thegykdu 10 months ago
up the irons!
Guitarandwave4ever 10 months ago
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I love the gunshots in the last refrain, that makes it so real. I made my history project about this a few years ago, everyone was deeply impressed. I''ve been to Ypres and walked through the trenches. Believe me it's bone chilling. Makes you think how cruel the human race can be.
Dezedaantje 10 months ago
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I love the gunshots in the last refrain, that makes it so real. I made my history project about this a few years ago, everyone was deeply impressed. I''ve been to Ypres and walked through the trenches. Believe me it's bone chilling. Makes you think how cruel the human race can be.
Dezedaantje 10 months ago
I love the gunshots in the last refrain, that makes it so real. I made my history project about this a few years ago, everyone was deeply impressed. I''ve been to Ypres and walked through the trenches. Believe me it's bone chilling. Makes you think how cruel the human race can be.
Dezedaantje 10 months ago
I love how iron maiden makes songs about historical events.
hellbreaker6666 11 months ago
guitar.... guitar.... solo!!!.... guitar.... LOL
metecio 11 months ago
2 People should hang on barbed wire
1CtZ1 11 months ago
Everybody who heard this song shouldn't ever forget Paschendale!
tvenl 1 year ago
2 people should die in Hell !!!!!!
Ranalph 1 year ago
Actually many experts believe that gas wasn't used because each army believed that the other was too well prepared to be too hurt by gas (look at the advertising that gas masks got in Britain).
Airlord3670 1 year ago
What is the meaning of Paschendale?
ogy91nish 1 year ago
@ogy91nish Paschendale is village in Belgium (its famous by one of the major WW1 battles)
stonoteniskisampion 1 year ago
@stonoteniskisampion i saw a picture of it before the battle very peaceful
after it nothing but debris and craters left after the battle
metalrulesforrever 1 year ago
@metalrulesforrever well... that shows how humans are greedy. "We dont have that nice place, but he will not have it too"... (i dont blame Germans, but all humans)
stonoteniskisampion 1 year ago
@ogy91nish paschendale was one of the most famous battle of WW1 its how about how the canadians took paschendale ridge when no won else could.
D011ARS4G011D 1 year ago
@D011ARS4G011D it was also about how they took it when they didnt need it they gave it back to the germans right when they got it cause it was pretty much a trap for em cause they were sourronded by germans, a waste of alot of canadian and german people
jidsaw4038 1 year ago
@ogy91nish paschendale was the third battle of ypres back in world war one, lasted from 31 july to 6 of november 1917,
metalcoma666 11 months ago
This song has reincarnation references i didnt notice til just now.
mrsloppy050 1 year ago
Amazing song, and it does represent the brutality of war like "Hero of War" does by Rise Against. On a side note there are no "rules" in war. Sure, there was a convention outlining what you "can and can't" do in a war but really, if one of those rules are stopping you from winning, you aren't going to follow them. Every "rule" people tried to implement in war has failed. Examples would be the English using Longbow Men against knights or the Colonists using Guerrilla Warfare. Just a side note.
Wolvar5 1 year ago
@Wolvar5
That is not true in ww1 they used gas but because of the the horrers of gas they decided never to use it in ww2 on the battle feild that is.
even though hittler gas the consentration camps.
gally612 1 year ago
@gally612
Not entirely true. As another post said, it was more because gas was pretty ineffective once gas masks etc had been introduced.
However, Churchill had authorised the use of mustard gas if the German's ever tried to invade, and also in retaliation should the German's ever use it first. Not only that, the Japanese did extensive testing on chemical weapons.
Azog150 1 year ago
@Azog150
that is not always true either. if a trench was hit with gas and a man off duty who was talking with buddies or playing cards etc what if someone was sleeping and didnt get woken up. therefore there was lots of time someone didnt have masks on and if word couldnt get around the trench fast enough then he would be dead.
gally612 1 year ago
@Azog150 but when chemical gas was once used, it was efective cause nobody had gas mask but canadian soldier used pieces of clothing to cover there afaces but ya after that it was ineffective
paintballlwars28 1 year ago
@Azog150 but the only power to ever use it in combat was the italians but there asses were kicked and they change sides to the allies
metalrulesforrever 1 year ago
0 dislikes just teh way Maiden should be
bowman7171 1 year ago
all the lives of mankind & this world we live in was sadly founded by the events & deeds of the First World War,(the War to end all Wars) -The Gears of the "Modern Death Machine" have never stopped since then...
woundedfreedom 1 year ago
damn straight no dislikes! Whoever hates Maiden doesn't deserve to be on the internet:)
TheHitdude11 1 year ago
1: i hate to say it guys but war sucks all in all but at some times it save more lives than it will end i dont like though unnessecary war 2: UNDER 20K VIEWS WTF!??!?!!??!?!?!!??!?!!?!??!?!?!?!?!?!
bowman7171 1 year ago
it's not just guitar you dumbass
IronMaidenSDABNJ 1 year ago
it's kind of sad.....without war, half of the things we now enjoy we would not half
including that thing, yeah that one thing your enjoying some BA MAIDEN ON!!!!
Pooky896 1 year ago
Amazing song, 10/10!
inthinkableJ 1 year ago
I totally agree brother. Yes we know war is not pretty but it is a fact in our human existence. As I write this...there r on average 70-120 wars going on right now as we speak, you just dont hear about them. Without war, the world would be swamped in materialism, self-controlled treehuggers, & Liberalism (if it feels good do it), on a scale we wish not to even think of. I had Uncles die in Vietnam & a cousin die in the 1st Gulf war, Doesnt make me hate my country. Like u said the technological
HardWhite33 1 year ago
YES!!! no dislikes!!!!!
cherrypoppa92 1 year ago 12
@cherrypoppa92 2 ppl gay enough to screw that up.
scheitkunde 8 months ago
the lyrics are sad/depressing
superidiot24 1 year ago
nice song, but its PASSCHENDAELE not paschendale... btw ;) love it, and thnx for it cuze it helped me with my project :)
CaVeHaMa 1 year ago
Wow. 0 evil Germans found this video.
TheAirForceNinja 1 year ago
When it's says "rush of blood and over we go" I used to think it said "Russian blood and over we go".
sk8rockguy 1 year ago
0 Dislikes, how it should be with every single maiden, ACDC, Led Zep and many other great bands songs!!!
INTESTINS 1 year ago 33
@INTESTINS unfortuanly theres 2 dislikes now, im assuming of course they were accidents!
metalcoma666 11 months ago
Most epic song if i ever did hear one! And about Canadians!!!
INTESTINS 1 year ago
@INTESTINS Canadians? Its about the battle in the trenches during The Great War
Kaiserman2388 1 year ago
@Kaiserman2388 Yes, a battle fought and won by Canadians.
INTESTINS 1 year ago
@INTESTINS didnt know they fought in Paschendaele. now i do =)
Kaiserman2388 1 year ago
@Kaiserman2388 Yes, a very costly one, but we won it.
INTESTINS 1 year ago
They make you think that war is necessary, the enemy is evil and god is on your side. So you go and you kill them all. Some of your friends died, but don’t be afraid soldier it wasn’t in vein. Then you come back in your home town and you live your life as normal as you could, with all the nightmares and the remorse that haunt you.
Hinao3lka1 1 year ago
And the decades pass, until one day you learn that your comrades died not for their beloved country, not for freedom, not even for the so called democracy that you really never had. They died for some gallons of petrol, for the interests of a multinational corporation, for the profit of a bank.
yeah it was worth fighting for……
Hinao3lka1 1 year ago
i live in Paschendale :P
Heavy metal village!
Emmaaaa55 1 year ago
all of you mother fuckers arguing about war on her take that shit elsewhere, and to the REAL people on this video! UP THE IRONS!!!!!!
TheCollin14 1 year ago
i love the beginning cuz not only does it sound cool but it means teh song starts and i love end cuz not only does it sound cool but it means i can replay the song
bowman7171 1 year ago 2
@bowman7171 No shit Sherlock
POWzer90 1 year ago
-....-\m/
LRDGrecon1 1 year ago
UP THE IRONS~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!
sayo991 1 year ago
u spelt passchendaele wrong...
xxfeelmybladex 1 year ago
@xxfeelmybladex umm no....
Rustedhook 1 year ago
@Rustedhook i spelt it right cuz ive been to passchendale before
xxfeelmybladex 1 year ago
@xxfeelmybladex and you spelt you worng so don't complain
Glotch1 1 year ago
@Glotch1 actually i think the discovery channel knows more than u...
xxfeelmybladex 1 year ago
I have fallen in love with the music of Iron Maiden all over ago. I have been a fan since Killers came out when I was 12. I have had all the last 4 albums on my shelf with a one time listening when I got them. After revisiting the albums in the last 3 months I am again utterly convinced that the fellas are fricking masters of their trade, write songs like no other band and the addition of the 3rd guitarist was a good move. I am discovering new masterpieces which I am treasuring.
exheads 1 year ago
iron maiden it the greatest band ever, of all time. the end. period.
billybobjoethe1st 1 year ago
EAGLE!
alexbelwwe 1 year ago
Masterpiece!
Though "german propaganda maschine"?, everyone used propaganda in that war...
hjorturerlend 1 year ago
i definetely agree with snooddood
xxfeelmybladex 1 year ago
The ending always makes my eyes water.
SweViktory 1 year ago 3
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xxfeelmybladex 1 year ago
Lawl Eagle 4:28
thekevo235 1 year ago
Even after listening to it for so long it still makes me have goosebumps within the first minute.
thekevo235 1 year ago
10 000 watches now we have to celebrate this :D
Maiden4840 1 year ago
EPIC
sceneandproud 1 year ago
i realy like the part at 3:42
Ahathian 1 year ago
a real masterpiece...
MrVirgilius 1 year ago 8
one of my favorite songs
AndreiThePwnage 1 year ago 2
i started to cry when the solo started...
dejanrex992 1 year ago 3
good cheese too - in paschendale -
BornOutOfAGuitar 1 year ago
UP THE IRONS!!!!!!!
bigjohn3188 1 year ago
dis song = hitlers pwnage
AlistairH517 1 year ago
But this song is about a battle that took place in World War One.
MarioBro24 1 year ago
yeah but hitler was in the war as a soldier and got shot.
AlistairH517 1 year ago
@AlistairH517 being a soldier in the WW1 and WW2 means nothing...it wasnt like now that only those who want go to war in afghanistan.....they were forced to fight.........
giannis1821a 1 year ago
@AlistairH517 ok honestly this song has nothing to do with hitler. its talking about the trench wars of world war 1 not 2 your off by like 20 years give or take some
adriandrifter13 1 year ago
Thanks Aaron1200195! I knew I wasn't going crazy. (Although all my friends think I am.) :)
maiden1197 1 year ago
love this song and The longest day
they own *-*
navarro181 1 year ago 7
war is completely pointless, with the exception of defense.
SnoodDood 2 years ago 37
@SnoodDood lol if u have to defend...this means that u have engaged a country in war.........................so event defend is pointless....although u cant do nothing else in a war but fight for ur country.....
giannis1821a 1 year ago
@giannis1821a you make absolutely no sense. by defense, you haven't engaged another country. They've engaged you. The only time I condone war is if a country is aggressive enough and powerful enough to jeopardize the safety of your citizens. Then, you're practically forced to attack, in order to end the war.
SnoodDood 1 year ago
@SnoodDood war is pointless to begin with. Who would want to fight another country over a pipeline and a guy who has been dead for almost 9 years? completly pointless. I mean, if the other country bombed a country like japan did to Pearl Harbor then you would have to fight back, but dropping 2 atomic bombs on nagasaki and hiroshima and desimating both the cities and ending lives to save more, i just dont get it.
jfac1884 1 year ago
@jfac1884 with the end of WWII, I don't condone the use of nukes at all. However, you have to consider the big picture. If we had continued with war as usual, would we have ended more lives that way than with the nukes? I highly doubt it. Plus, the creation of nukes has destroyed lives even after Hiroshima and Nagasaki. So, yeah. War is pointless, unless more lives would be destroyed by not fighting back.
SnoodDood 1 year ago
@SnoodDood
If there wasn't war there wouldn't be songs like Paschendale, Trooper, The day that never comes etc. so it isnt completely pointless
It inspires people
StrahOfTheSundjer 1 year ago
@SnoodDood Correction SOME wars are pointless, think of WW2, or the American revolution. I don't like seeing bodybags anymore than the dead's families but if the the war has a good reason i'll stick to it
Browsey1994 1 year ago
@Browsey1994 you're right.
SnoodDood 1 year ago
@Browsey1994 btw when I sdaid ww2 and the revolution i meant they were important WW1 was pointless. it was a case of too many people trying to get on top.
we only got in because of german transgression on our shipping (i.e the lusitania and cargo ships)
Browsey1994 1 year ago
@SnoodDood so you would have let hitler complete his plans?
livingjustfordying 1 year ago
@livingjustfordying What America did (unless you're a conspiracy theorist) was self defense. Japan was attacking, so we attacked them. HItler would've attacked after he defeated our allies as well.
SnoodDood 1 year ago
@SnoodDood yeh, but i was thinking about all the civilians and Jews being executed. all war is defence, the reason the brittish were at paschendale (whichever spelling) was to stop the germans crossing the channel.... Iraq is about stopping terrorists on all lands. so was cannot be pointless, but some acts may be.
livingjustfordying 1 year ago
@SnoodDood Well, Vikings were some the most civilized people around.. with a perfect life style.. and they waged war and conquest all the time.
PvtSelkirk 1 year ago
@PvtSelkirk Civilized? they sacked saxon villages and had a whole religion based on war and slaughter. their place in my mind is atop a throne of corpses I've got nothing against anyone but vikings were raiders and pirates, until they got home.
Browsey1994 1 year ago
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PvtSelkirk 1 year ago
@Browsey1994 Yes civilized.. structure, law and order, traditions, chain of command, etc.. and no they did not have religious beliefs directed war and slaughter. They were violent and malicious when it came to battle, but that's the way it should be.
Charlemagne decapitated 4500 Saxons a day, and were invading viking territories. Raids against the Saxons was just strategy to threaten french/christian defenses - whom were much more barbaric.
PvtSelkirk 1 year ago
@SnoodDood for as much as everyone degrades war, no one realizes how important war is. you say war is pointless? it draws the ends to many horrendous things. look at hitler for instance. before WW2 even started, he was killing several Jewish people. if the british didn't get wod of what was happening in germany, WW2 wouldn't have started and all that we know of the Jewish would be gone in a trail of blood. so next time you degrade war, think of the good AND the bad.
BuzzsawProductions01 1 year ago
@BuzzsawProductions01 you obviously didn't read the comment. EXCEPT FOR DEFENSE. that includes your own nation AND your allies. If we let them get overtaken, the japs and germans would've eventually taken us over. Remember, we didn't initially attack. the american Civil War is another example. It also put an end to something horrendous, but the winning side attacked b/c they knew the south would try to conquer them. plus, when war is started for bad reasons, the bad far outweighs the good.
SnoodDood 1 year ago
@SnoodDood well it appears that you are going to be technical. a nation can't hold up defence forever. eventually, defending the area , a country for that matter, could mean steady depletion of resources. even if you had allies, depending on the enemy, you won't be able to air drop supplies. as for you enemy, they can keep as many troops as the want suppressing the defenders while another large battallion conquers more land and takes more resources. and generally the attackers have allies.
BuzzsawProductions01 1 year ago
@BuzzsawProductions01 ...which is why you go on the offensive. If you go on the offensive for purposes of defending your own country, you are defending yourself. how difficult could this be to understand?
SnoodDood 1 year ago
@SnoodDood what if i decide to defend this pretty stone i found in your country by nuking the surrounding area?
justified?
it was in defense
Emanusmell 1 year ago
@Emanusmell so stupid. defense of something as mundane as a stone wouldn't be necessary defense, and nuking the surrounding area would be overkill, especially if no one attacked you first.
SnoodDood 1 year ago
@SnoodDood ugh i hate comments like this...clearly you are wrong....i know where u are coming from and the ideals u are trying to represent but war is required sometimes and even when it isnt...its not useless..its good for business and its good for global expansion
Emanusmell 1 year ago
@Emanusmell destroying human life for purposes of business and global expansion is the pinnacle of war crime. Well, that and genocide. Every war people are saying wasn't pointless was gotten in by the U.S. ultimately because of defense. I don't understand why this is such a difficult concept.
SnoodDood 1 year ago
@SnoodDood its difficult because its a lie and hard to believe....defense and freedom and democracy are all guises to get the public in support of the war..its been done throughout history for thousands of years
read history..learn things
its cool
Emanusmell 1 year ago
@Emanusmell it is true that a lot of the stuff we said was for defense (like Iraq) was bull, but I'm saying that if it's actually genuine defense, war can be condoned. But most other reasons for war (with a few exceptions) don't justify the mass destruction of human life.
SnoodDood 1 year ago
@SnoodDood except that saying you are "defending" can be an easy lie; the best war is no war; the best form of government is no government
metallica04100 1 year ago
@metallica04100 that's exactly my philosophy. Except, humanity is too volatile for no war, and too irresponsible, greedy, and evil for no government.
SnoodDood 1 year ago
@SnoodDood So.........you're saying that our war in Europe during WWII was pointless? Germany never attacked us. Maybe Germany sank one of our ships but we were shipping supplies to England which made our ships a legal target. You're logic is flawed!
MrTooscared 1 year ago
@MrTooscared apparently you don't understand the deeper point of that war. Personally, I'm a bit of a conspiracy theorist, but if you're not then Japan attacked us, so we declared war on the Axis powers. You don't understand the premise of declaring war. when countries are currently allied in conquest, then you can't just declare war on one. It's a "you-mess-with-one-of-us-you-mess-with-all-of-us" concept. And if you'd read my former comments, you'd have already answered your question.
SnoodDood 1 year ago
@SnoodDood Wow....war is completely worthless? Pray tell you're not lving in North America. America/Canada was founded by war. War is pointless???You really need to review history and reevaluate. I dare not mention the removal of Hilter in Europe.....that blows your point of view out of the water.
MrTooscared 1 year ago
@MrTooscared The Hitler thing was addressed by me 3 different times in the comments, and I don't feel like defending that point against another one of you blood pigs. And I'm not saying the creating of America was a good thing. I know it was founded upon imperialism, slavery, and general slaughter. Exactly why I don't wear patriotic shirts and stuff. The main point in the comment is "with the exception of self-defense" which runs deeper than someone-attacked-us-so-we-attack-them-back.
SnoodDood 1 year ago
@SnoodDood in my opinion, you are wrong. and I will tell you why. If there was no war, there would be no real need for technological development. Take for example E-mail. That was created by the military to securely send information to others without any real threat that it would be intercepted. The computer in fact was a technological development funded by the military to store information, (not your little PC, the big old one) why? because of war. not saying it's right, but its not pointless.
DustCloak 1 year ago
@DustCloak
dude just because all the technological developement in the past centuries was abused for military purposes, it doesn't mean that there would be no developement with no war, it might have not be so fast, but who says it wouldn't be better that way?
MrBehk 1 year ago
the best song by iron maiden!!!!
magmaman92 2 years ago 40
@magmaman92 eh my money is on Fear of the Dark
neuralbankai65 1 year ago
dont want to sound nerdy here but when it says eagle it was actuly a Kestral because thats were alot of them were at the time
Aaron1200195 2 years ago
is Paschendale a real city ? o
KARPS185 2 years ago 2
yes its in Belgium
arsenalfan031 2 years ago 2
it is a little village near Ypres in Belgium. scene of the third big battle for Ypres in the first world war.
bender0502 2 years ago
thanks
KARPS185 1 year ago
my favorite part is 1:16-1:36
KARPS185 2 years ago
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Zedthyr 2 years ago
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Zedthyr 2 years ago
"I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in." -George McGovern
Zedthyr 2 years ago 3
favourite part 3:16-4:40
masterninjag1 2 years ago
favorite part at 3:44
choonk122 2 years ago
UP THE IRON FROM QUEBEC !
FlyfferYann 2 years ago
UP THE IRONS FROM WÖRTH
holgor70 2 years ago
best iron maiden song ive heard. up the irons from the west side!
masterninjag1 2 years ago
Does the "eagle" have anything to do with this song, or did they just do it cus it sounds awesome :P?
Dr00dDawg 2 years ago
awsome fucking song i the own the album
2shea07 2 years ago 3
man gotta love the solo \m/
wero7896 2 years ago
i know the song by heart, i ve been practicing how to do the eagle sound on guitar
2shea07 2 years ago
Stupid isn't the word to be used. Senseless. Unnessesary. All for 'evolution'.
YIFF666 2 years ago
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masterninjag1 2 years ago
my dad made me read this and it's disturbing still it was a stupid war.
1melanieg200 2 years ago
no war is ever stupid.
MARTINIxInSaNeKILLER 2 years ago 2
All the wars are stupid. Ordinary people gets killed coz the greedy leaders.
FullMetalMullet 2 years ago
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masterninjag1 2 years ago
All wars are stupid. With the possible exception of WW2, which wouldnt have been caused without WW1.
Zedthyr 2 years ago 4
Because of the assasination of Arch-duke Franz Ferdinand WW 1 and obviously WW2 Started..
patoooo1 2 years ago
WW2 started because Hitler managed to easily get his regime in place promising the rights germany had lost in the Versailles treaties. Which was followed by the rest of th