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  • Thought this was about Mary Queen of Scots

  • My sister's going to France. I'm going to play this song for her at the airport.

  • Found my PvP Hunter montage music :D

  • une des meilleur de BG j'irai surment jamais en france mais jaimerais ca voir la terre de mes ancêtres hail from la nouvelle-france

  • Heh, I thought I wouldn't like this, being a fan of the original song, but...it is great cover, I'm more than pleasantly surprised!

  • I heard this song on my ps3 Quadicey an I played It 5 times such a good song never heard of this song thy r Really good

  • I don't know who did this better. Was it Blind Guardian or Mike Oldfield? Both versions are pretty damn good and there'll be no denying that.

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  • I don't care about the ship references, I want this song to be about a medieval english outlaw traveling across the channel in order to escape justice in the chaos of the hundred years war.

  • @HawkWarrior2 And that's why Blind Guardian is a phenomenal band. They embody their identity so well it shows in every track. I know exactly what you mean.

  • I really like this song, and many of the songs made by this band. Too bad recently there hasn't been any recent songs by them (as far as I know). I hope they make some new stuff soon!

  • @TastelessBacon The only just released a new album last year: At the edge of time.

    I will upload the album when i have time :)

  • 13 dislikes are french.

  • FUUUUUUUUUUUUUU so goooood

  • very good !!!

  • Rape this ==> 00:00 Free replay button

  • great cover of an oldfield song ! .... male vocals ... certainly different to the original !

  • such a stunning vocal... I'm always amazed

  • Awesome cover

  • forgot the wild! buy the blind! :)))

  • ARGH Why can't they play stuff like this on the radio?

  • @metalisbetter1o00 because allt the cardrivers hearing it would immediately start crying about this perfect song, they would not see anything anymore because of all their tears and finally the whole mankind would die on the road...but at least it would be a nice death...probably the very nicest way of dieing.

  • @metalisbetter1o00 They do here in Croatia, occasionally of course -.-'

  • This song is one of the Mike Olfield inmortal tunes!!!! Didn't know there was such a cover version!!

  • GODLY ! just GODLY

  • In my opinion this is very better than the original version!! The singer and the arrangement are awesome!!!!

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    New youtube layout sucks

  • Mike Oldfield aprobes this cover :)

  • This song was on Evil Ultimate Metal Covers too ;)

    Great music! Great artist.

  • I'd really cried hearing that. I simply love this song when I was a little girl...

  • Everyday is listen to this song, everyday, every hour.

    It is so Wonderful, really. I think its better than the Original and really. What they touch become gold..

  • Wonderful <'3 :')

  • good job... but the original is better!

  • Nice Cover! Blind Guardian rules!

  • this was the first song i lissent to by blindguardian and i have been hooked ever sins

  • SHAKA Y DRES - "Ton monde" - Reggaeton Français

  • im proud to have gazbg123 has my brother ;) and i like thid band aswell

  • Is there any live version of this song on Youtube?

  • this was the first Blind Guardian song i've ever heard! I was 13 back then....

  • Nice cover indeed. In fact better than the original!

  • Hehe nice Cover. and the only song i like by BLind Guardian^^

  • @19Aderlass42 blind guardian are amazing,check their shit,it's worth it

  • Bored

  • better than the orginal

  • Better then the original!!

  • As i think, much people that doesn't heard the Original one, doesn't knows that it is a lot lower than this one's quality. The Original one, From Maggie Reily and Mike Oldfield IS GOOD. But Blind Guardian Songs Always rule, Better REMASTERED.

  • Love this song, crying when I hear it. T_T

  • @JoRawX Been there bro...

    :")

  • This cover is absolutely amazing.

  • Awesome Masterpiece. Well done guys :-)

  • Must buy... NOW!

  • amazing remastering! they're great!

  • I am surprised to say I like it!!!!

  • i never heard a BG songbefore this and disliked the other ones but i heard this song and was blew away by it if i sing it, i sing it like this its just RAW power i love it!

  • @goonmobile Too bad its a cover. Lulz.

  • @goonmobile >disliked the other ones

    >disliked Blind Guardian

    DOES NOT COMPUTE.

  • love this cover!!!! simply great

  • There comes a time every night, Mike Oldfield just seems to fit perfect. And then, while the sun is struggling to climp the horizon... Blind Guardian comes to join Mike, just like the first sunlight joins the dark. And what happens is the start of a wonderful new day, all colourful and bright.

  • Blind Guardian rule!!!

    They turn to gold everything they touch. A good tune becomes a masterpiece in their hands...

  • @BrianGriffin83 That brought a tear to my eye ;)

  • @gazbg123 well he is not lying :))

  • @BrianGriffin83

    ... and they got a masterpiece to start with ...

    ;o)

  • @kulturni

    ...and now it's epic (:

  • @BrianGriffin83 Hey, I thing that this tune was master piece even before they touch it, but ye, it sounds good too :)

  • One of best covers ever. Simply beatiful!

  • Best version/cover of this song ever made.....

  • The original 'To France' by Mike Oldfield is such a powerful and magic song...and yet this cover is on a par. Different style, but keeps up everything else. Titanic! :)

  • simply great

  • @Gandarme1991 In order to think this version is poor, you would have to think Blind Guardian's music is poor. For those of us who like BG, this version puts an epic twist on an already great song. Covers rarely make the original better, but I think this one does it.

  • Epic cover!

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  • Well I don't like much the original Blind Guardian songs but their covers are great!

  • o putain cette chansons la elle me rend triste p-e parce que j'aimerais sa voir la france un jour:( damn quebec

  • Exelent! love blind guardian love this song.... and the bard's song 2.....

  • wait, is ita cover? from who?

  • @xavier272 , It´s a cover from Mike Oldfield. The name of the original song is the same.

  • my 2nd favourite music of them!

  • :-!

  • great cover.

  • buenisimo

  • wonderful!!! tomorrow i'm going to france XD

  • I really enjoyed Forgotten Tales... it's SO much better than the standard Greatest Hits compilation!!! Blind Guardian rocks!

  • Pure genius.

  • bella canzone , i blind guardian sono immortali , immortale è la loro musica

    Thank you !

  • I knew BG have a taste in good music :)

  • pooooo ti porotiko pou einai!!!mporo na to akouo gia tin ipoloipi zoi mou!!!! to original einai moufa!!!teleio fantastiko!!!

  • @tnt2652 to original einai ORIGINAL FILE

  • nai alla kamia sxesi m afto ;) afto einai pl anotero

  • where can i download it ?

  • This band Is cool but there cds cant be found anywere in my town!!!

  • Genial.

  • Wowowowow

  • fantastiko kommati....eyge

  • Ma den einai???

  • Fantastic I love Mike Oldfield and this cover is fantastic

  • Woah and I was looking for a techno cover, lucky find, this is awesome!

  • long live bards...

  • i prefere the original, but this cover kick ass too!!!

  • LOVE IT!!!!!!!!

  • But original is the best!!!!

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  • Good cover

  • @DavidGilmourX "A pearly white Frankish woman couldn't sell in the bazaar for a penny!"

  • @DavidGilmourX They don't make it sound like a Cover. They make it sound like the Music was their... I know it's a cover, but is SO GOOD. I think EVEN BETTER than the original one.

  • Listen to the down-tuned toms on the second brige (preferebly not in you-tube quality). Love it!

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  • if anyone looks up the Mary Queen I think you get a new emotion for this since I always thought this song was about a long lost love, that never came back but wow

  • This is one of my personal favorite BG songs, even if it's not their on.

    The production is insane, specially the guitars and vocals.

  • I prefer the Blind Guardian version... of course the Mike Oldfield one is great too! Love both of them so dont get me wrong. But I believe this is one of this rare situations where the new version slightly surpasses the original. The Blind Guardian Version is more powerfull and the song gets a greater "impact" through this.

    But its just my opinion.

  • if there wasnt blind guardian you wouldnt know that song's original version :) so stfu kneel and hail Blind Guardian for this masterpiece!

  • shats true mate.shats true :D

  • amen

  • I agree.

  • PD: For the people who likes the band and have enough money try to buy the original discs, the bards deserve your support

  • i am a true Blind Guardian fan, i have almost all their original albums, including their life albums (except for A twist in the myth that is a little hard to find here in my country), but i have to admit that the original version of the song if better than blind´s version.

    The Blind Guadian is more epic i have to admit, pero the original has a mystic feeling that makes it the best.

  • best cover...but mike oldfields version is better!

  • WHY HAVE I NEVER HEARD THIS BEFORE. My life has been incomplete.

    I must now buy every album this band ever made.

  • Awesome. Get 'A Night At The Opera'.

  • just a heads up,most of their stuff isnt like this,most of there stuff is speed/power metal.The song this album is from is like a best of album but instead of just copy and pasting the songs from their old albums they are all redone in different styles along with several old songs like this and Mr Snowman

  • I hate to look obsessed with correcting everybody while I know I'm far from perfection myself, but the song you are referring to is "Mr. Sandman"

  • lol i have no idea why i said snowman as i know it sandman as it the sandman that puts you to sleep,guess i was just a little to wasted when that comment was made.Man i feel silly :)

  • Shit happens when you surf the web being wasted. I've seen it too...

  • Welcome to the epic-ness.

    Get 'Tales from the Twilight World' and start your homework

  • @TwinUzis good decision *thumps up*

    blind guardian are gods ^^

  • @TwinUzis It's a cover, but you should still buy all their albums.

  • @TwinUzis you must be kidding.how cannot heard about Blind Guardian =)

  • @geyiks lol indeed :) unless you are new to the metal world :) (althought Blind Guardian are speed / epic / power metal)

  • @bloodyz16x24 not me he is TwinUzis dude (:

  • @geyiks oups sorry :P

  • @bloodyz16x24 lol don't mention it (:

  • @TwinUzis this is a cover by Blind Guardian, the original To France ys by Mike Oldfield. c'mon listen it, you'll enjoy. Different style, more delicated but not as powerful as Hansi's voice, 4 sho :)

  • @TwinUzis

    i felt the same way when i heard "Mirror Mirror" for the first time 4 years ago

    i bought all their albums, something i have never done again with any band

    actually, my cd collection consists of 17 cds, 11 of which are by blind guardian =D

  • @TwinUzis true!~!

  • @TwinUzis Then save money for nine albums :-D To say the truth, it's not that much for 24 years of career, is it?

  • Pure Perfection!

  • Coolest album cover ever!

  • True  power Mike Oldfield Metaaal ! !!

  • the cover of mike olfield by blind guardian

  • awsome=DD

  • good cover. i think mike would like it :)

  • its so beautiful....

  • HOLY S^%$#! THIS IS SO COOL!!!!!!!!!!

  • the best cover, i like the voice

  • Is this ORiGiNaL To FRaNCE? Or is it To FRaNCE By MiKE OLdFieLD OriGiNaL...

  • dis is cover of mike olfield's one

  • mike is the original,as far as im aware every song from forgotten tales are covers

  • nah... not all. - actually far from!: Mister Sandman/cover Surfin' Usa/cover Bright Eyes Lord Of The Rings The Wizard/cover Spread Your Wings/cover  Mordred's Song Black Chamber The Bard's Song Barbara Ann/cover A Past And Future Secret To France Theatre Of Pain
  • I love The Bards' Song, heard the Van Canto cover?

    Not as good as the original, but still awesome

  • Mary, Queen of Chance, will they find you? =D

  • I love this song.

  • hehe.. Guardians power :).. I really love their covers :)

  • i love it

    the melody, guitars, vocals... all amazing

  • loving this middle age tone..

    tell me other interprets or songs pls!

  • Awesome song, debatedly better cover.

  • Bellissima canzone: quasi meglio dell'originale!

  • I can lose myself in these Guitars.

  • I agree

  • rau.. I love this!

  • My favourite song. BG are amazing and this version is absolutely BRILLIANT. Still trying to figure out the backvocals and the drums. A masterpiece.

  • nice one

  • This is the first metal song I ever listened to. Fuck, its still awesome!