The Sandman is a mythical creature of European folklore who sprinkles sand into the eyes of good people. Hence the “sleep “ in our eyes when we wake up. Enter Sandman therefore is a wish for a nights sleep without fear of the dark , and bad dreams that may come at night.
53 here. love this song. my oldest friend is a drummer. Every time i see him at his drums, he starts playing it for me, cuz he knows how much i love it.
Unpopular opinion, but m'y favorite is Sydney 2004, at BDO festival.That Rob Trujillo base solo at the beginning is what made me want to tre and play bass.
@@roverwaters3875 Evidence that it was so low? There's plenty of evidence it was higher, including official counts, Wikipedia, and you just have to look at it to see how huge it was. It's not as tho 1.6 mill is so hard to believe, it's been beaten a number of times including Jean-Michel Jarre, Rod Stewart and Paul McCartney, both Jarre and Stewart had crowds over 3 million and Jarre's was also in Moscow. Looking at the size of the crowd I don't find 1.6 hard to believe at all. AC/DC, who were also on this bill, got a crowd of 200k at River Plate and that was in a stadium which is tiny compared to the airfield where this one was held.
When i was in my teens i would listen to the Black album as i lay down to go to sleep. Metallica Black Album was one of the best albums of all time, every single song is great!! on that album.
This song came out when I was in high school. Up until that point, I'd only ever listened to top 40 and hip hop. When I heard this for the first time, it was the hardest, visceral thing I had ever heard, and tapped into a part of me I didn't even know existed. Now I've been a metal head for over 35 years.
Funny, I heard them first in the 8th grade. (Master of Puppets) when I heard this the first time I was sort of let down. Funny how different music hits people.
Funny, I was in highschool too at that point. But then I kind of stopped to listen to Metallca... But picked up on them again years later. Seen them live last year with my wife and my 2 kids ... They enjoyed the show.
My eighth grade class voted to use this song as our walking out music for our "graduation" ceremony in 1992. We walked in to Winds of Change by The Scorpions. We ruled.
i feel old at 38 yrs old when i watch reaction videos and realize how much music i grew up hearing that now as an adult, there's other adults with modern civilization who never heard these songs
Not only mothers, and not only in the 80's. Years ago, a little known band named "Creed" was playing the bar circuit. They played a rocking bunch of songs, which everyone was really digging. Then after they finished their set, they asked for requests. Most common was Metallica. After some hesitancy, they started a perfect intro to Enter Sandman. When they were supposed to start singing the lyrics, they all stopped playing their instruments and shouted "devil music!" We all quietly turned back to the bar. That was around 1997-98.
I loved how this song progresses. The acoustic you hear in the beginning, is carried out throughout the entirety of the piece. It's never speed up, just built up on. I'll never forget when I heard this song for the first time back in the 90's. And the video is intense. My fav part is when that semi comes and hits the bed... Bro!
Any baseball fan in general or American League fan anyway would hear this song in their head when the great Mariano Rivera would walk in. Probably the best closer of all time, if not somewhere in the top three. P.S. God I miss baseball! "Lets Go Oakland."
"The Sandman is a traditional character in many children's stories and books. In Scandinavian folklore, he is said to sprinkle sand or dust on or into the eyes of children at night to bring on sleep and dreams.[1] The grit or "sleep" (rheum) in one's eyes upon waking is the supposed result of the Sandman's work the previous night." The story does turn dark also, hence the video, lol.
Yep, my great-aunts were from northern Germany and used to tell me about the sandman as young child. He wasn't really sinister at all...except he came when you were sleeping.
Yeah, the character is also commonly known in The Netherlands and Northern Belgium. Probably because Danish, Swedish, Dutch/Flemish, Norwegian, German and Icelandic are all Germanic languages and cultures. I don't know if the story is well known in other countries?
Mariano Rivera, former Yankees star closer came into every game he pitched to this song: ua-cam.com/video/rUTirIk75vg/v-deo.html This is from his final appearance at Yankee stadium.
Wrestler -- "The Sandman" (Jim Fullington. Best known for the time he took a cast-iron skillet to the head and EVENTUALLY finished the match). UFC -- Brock Lesnar (when not using his wrestling theme). Relief pitcher -- Mariano Rivera. (In fact, his MLB.com video for his last appearance was called "Exit Sandman".)
@@jamelakajamal The Nightmares before a hart attack think is from a riddle. No one know what a death person dream before they die, since they death and can tell the story.
The Sandman would typically shotgun 2-3 beers before hit entered the ring (sometimes pouring them down fans throats) then crushing the cans on his head.
Fun Fact: Soundgarden's 1989 album Louder Than Love inspired Kirk Hammett to write the main riff of this song. This is fate, you have to do more Soundgarden reactions now.
I just subscribed to your channel yesterday and all I can say is that you give hope. Your reactions to my music from my childhood are amazing. Keep it up my friend.
My first concert ever was Metallica with Faith No More opening up while they were touring with the Black Album, I was 15 and my best friend and I took a bus to see them at Lakewood Amphitheatre in Atlanta and it was one of the greatest nights of my life, I would love to see you react to Harvestor Of Sorrow, my personal favorite Metallica song, if you do happen to do that please react to their live performance in Moscow from 91 or 92 I believe, even if you don't react to it you should definitely check it out, it's one of the greatest live performances ever in my opinion
Saw Faith No More get showered with trash and boo's when they replaced The Cult(for getting boo'd off stage too many times) at Irvine Meadow in SoCal for the And Justice For All tour. James and Kirk came out when the trash showering got really bad and they all did War Pigs to turn the crowd around. FNM had zero radio play at the time and nobody knew who they were. Harvester of Sorrow is a beast of a song too btw. Good choice.
it was 92' ..Faith No More, Guns N' Roses, Metallica triple ticket up in Buffalo, Ny. i took my little brother there for his first concert experience. Metallica was freaking awesome!
It’s interpretation. You can say it’s about nightmares about things real “war” things imagined “dragons fire”. It’s about fear mostly. The prayer is the key.
The band was on the Howard Stern show about 12 years ago and played the song on air. Howard asked them directly what was the meaning of the song and it's origens? They told him that it was about infant crib death but never let it be known too the public because it would turn folks off and I would agree with their reasoning. This was the 1rst time that Metalica admitted what the Enter Sandman was all about. Dont believe me, then look up the show and check it out. I was stunned ...
"James Hetfield's original lyric was about Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (Crib Death), when a baby dies inexplicably in its crib. The line, "Off to never never land" was, "Disrupt the perfect family," and the "sandman" kills the baby. Pretty gruesome stuff, so their producer Bob Rock convinced him to change it to make it more accessible and meaningful. The band had a policy of not commenting on each other's individual contributions, but Rock was an outsider and felt free to speak up. To his surprise, Hetfield took it well and altered the lyric accordingly. Speaking with Uncut in 2007, Hetfield said: "I wanted more of the mental thing where this kid gets manipulated by what adults say. And you know when you wake up with that s--t in your eye? That's supposedly been put in there by the sandman to make you dream. So the guy in the song tells this little kid that and he kinda freaks. He can't sleep after that and it works the opposite way. Instead of a soothing thing, the table's turned."
It's about the foolish fears from childhood we all overcome with age, one of which is (for many children) when the lights go out and we're alone in the dark. I think it's amazing how they captured those very real fears so perfectly.
It was the song that got my attention as well. I definitely loved it as a kid and for awhile named Metallica as my favorite band. I eventually became more of a Megadeth guy, but I still love a lot of Metallica's early stuff.
It's amazing watching the videos with you because I have never seen them. I know all the music by itself so far I been watching your channel but I'm freaking at the videos. WHEW!! whoa!!! It's like I am reacting to newness. YIKES TO That diesel truck scene!
I love watching people react to stuff like this! It can almost make me, who have heard this song probably 500 times by now, hear it like it was the first time all over again! And also, people can say whatever they want about Old Metallica VS New Metallica VS Current Metallica (Enter Sandman being part of New Metallica), but this riff and this beat kicks ass!! It is literally IMPOSSIBLE for me to hear it without my head starting to bob and my foot stomping to the bass drum.
when you mentioned the falling and having a heart attack part, ive actually experienced that. i knew what was happening and could feel the pain and tightness in my chest but couldn't do anything about it. someone came into the living room i was sleeping in and i woke up. i still to this day say they saved my life. it was so creepy
I was 13-14 riding back home from school in the back of my friends older brother shitty Chevy Suburban. He put on the Black Album and finger banged his girlfriend in the front seat while we sat in the back. That totally opened my eyes to Metalllica. And girls.
Toni Powell - I agree. I had heard of them of course, but hadn’t taken the time to listen to them, if you know what I mean. My not-quite-yet- boyfriend (who is now my husband) and I were headed home from Laughlin, Nevada in 1993 when he popped “The Black Album” into his Walkman and gave me some headphones. O.M.G. Instant convert. I’ve been a fan ever since.
We had this amazing laser show in middle school like 25 years ago that they played music to and this was one of the songs they used. The lasers made all different types of images and stuff. It was so random that the school would even do this back then too. I'll never forget how amazing that was. It was kind of the first concert I ever went to lol. And the strobe lights and lasers went nuts when the "BOOM" part happened. It also showed the kid running with the mack truck chasing him in the lasers. I can't even explain how sick it was for the 90's in school for that matter.
@@jamelakajamal Triple H entrance was Motorhead's The Game and The King of kings. Could you react to some Motorhead ( Ace of spades, The Game. Too name a few. I think your reactions are the best. Just Subscribed.
@@HeatSlinger it registers on the Richter scale at the Mountain Lake weather station in Pembroke where dirty dancing was filmed. Brent Watts showed the scale on the wdbj7 news one night.
I awoke from a coma a couple years before this song was released... I've always considered it sort of like a "theme song" for me ever since that time. (My ears are ringing at this moment because it is impossible for me to not crank it all the way up when I hear it! --not too mention the tears on my cheek!) :-D
Well now I've been following your channel for a little while now I decided to go back revisit your reactions to songs and certain bands. The only wrestler I know that used this was Sandman. Watching the actual video for this was the right idea. It's crazy.
In 1996 a girl in NJ gave birth (stillborn) at prom. She went back in and requested "Unforgiven" be played for her and her boyfriend. I can't hear this song without picking apart the lyrics with that in mind. "Never see, never be, so I dub thee unforgiven..."
I worked as an usher at The Palace of Auburn Hill in my late teens early 20’s...best job ever! So many concerts and Piston games. Good times back in the early 90’s 😎
It's about Common nightmares: falling, being chased, snakes, monsters under the bed " things that will bite". Scary white dude is The Sandman taking you to sleep.
Troy Owens - Yes, you’re right. I guess I associate him with it because the ECW was on some WWE events (as well as WWF back in the day and others like XPW and WCW).
A few years back, when I was 49, I was picking up a few things at the grocery store and I was humming this. It was 7 am and I was standing at the checkout when a grocer clerk, who was loading a fridge, looked up at me slowly. He knew what I was humming and it was the best reaction someone ever gave me. He looked surprised that this middle aged man was rocking out in his head. I get a kick out of that to this day.
There was a wrestler named "The Sandman" in the former ECW who came out to this song. After ECW folded and was acquired by WWE in 2000, WWE brought back many of its former talents for an invasion storyline that was run during the second half of 2001, in which The Sandman was a participant.
The song is about The Sandman legend. The guy who came at night and sprinkled sand in your eyes to make you fall asleep (the reason you may have grit in the corner of your eyes when you wake up). Over the years, it took on darker tones with the Sandman doing evil things while you slept or causing nightmares.
@@HardRockMaster7577 I agree. What someone sees in their head when first listening to music like that is what I would like to see the reaction to. Just let the beat take you on a journey. Let the rhythm be your eyes and drift into your own interpretation.
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A wrestler was actually called the Sandman, he was a ECW Original and Frequently used Enter Sandman as his theme song until ECW and WCW was bought out by WWE the last time he used it was at a PPV called ECW/WWE One Night Stand.
Headbanging to metal is not a decision but an impulse.
@Parker Kenney How true it is, I grew up to metal and even at 4 years old, not even knowing what the songs are about, I just gotta bang my head a bit
Often it is the demons making the head bang and bop like that.
Right on
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I love how people start headbanging subconsciously when They start listening to metal even without realizing it
The Sandman is a mythical creature of European folklore who sprinkles sand into the eyes of good people. Hence the “sleep “ in our eyes when we wake up. Enter Sandman therefore is a wish for a nights sleep without fear of the dark , and bad dreams that may come at night.
"Is he talking about nightmares?"
Nailed it
That's precisely what this song's about
It was originally about crib death but then changed
@@carsondwade off to never never land was “Disrupt the perfect family “
Metallica's black album was the first CD I ever bought when I was a kid.
Such an awesome album!
The first album I ever bought with my money was AC/DC's golden album For Those About To Rock. I'm old.
I'm a 55 year old woman and I Still rock the s*** out of this song. It's amazing! I'm so glad you did a reaction for this.
I hope I'm as cool as you at 55
53 here. love this song. my oldest friend is a drummer. Every time i see him at his drums, he starts playing it for me, cuz he knows how much i love it.
I'm 57; seen em 6 times since 80s~ last time was last year in Atlanta~ Lots of "old ppl" were there. Love Metallica!!!!
Damn im 53 here. I need to meet you girls.
@@tonioshea9870 do you mean the current man in office?
A must if for Metallica is "For Whom The Bell Tolls"
The studio version and then the LIVE VERSION from Seattle!!!
🤘🏻For Whom The Bell Tolls🤘🏻 Cover by Jassy J, Avery, Sandra Szabo & WhiteSlash ua-cam.com/video/d59stRLJKds/v-deo.html
Unpopular opinion, but m'y favorite is Sydney 2004, at BDO festival.That Rob Trujillo base solo at the beginning is what made me want to tre and play bass.
@@RogerLaLoutre nice!!!!!!! I like this version a lot
Renee HeKnowsMyName meh, I’m over watching performances from that show. I’d prefer more current
There's a live version in Moscow, probably the biggest crowd you'll ever see (said to be over 1.5 million people), brilliant.
they just stopped counting at 1.6m so there was most likely many more
Free Metallica concert to celebrate the dissolution of the USSR. Metal and freedom.
folk story... Metallica show had well under 500k audience
@@roverwaters3875 Evidence that it was so low? There's plenty of evidence it was higher, including official counts, Wikipedia, and you just have to look at it to see how huge it was. It's not as tho 1.6 mill is so hard to believe, it's been beaten a number of times including Jean-Michel Jarre, Rod Stewart and Paul McCartney, both Jarre and Stewart had crowds over 3 million and Jarre's was also in Moscow. Looking at the size of the crowd I don't find 1.6 hard to believe at all. AC/DC, who were also on this bill, got a crowd of 200k at River Plate and that was in a stadium which is tiny compared to the airfield where this one was held.
@@ianbrooke6342 "official counts" lol😆there are no official counts, stupid
River Plate stadium holds 66k audience...
kid you are clueless....
When i was in my teens i would listen to the Black album as i lay down to go to sleep. Metallica Black Album was one of the best albums of all time, every single song is great!! on that album.
You went to bed listing to this same bro
This song came out when I was in high school. Up until that point, I'd only ever listened to top 40 and hip hop. When I heard this for the first time, it was the hardest, visceral thing I had ever heard, and tapped into a part of me I didn't even know existed. Now I've been a metal head for over 35 years.
Funny, I heard them first in the 8th grade. (Master of Puppets) when I heard this the first time I was sort of let down. Funny how different music hits people.
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Enter Sandman was released in 91. Just saying..
Funny, I was in highschool too at that point. But then I kind of stopped to listen to Metallca... But picked up on them again years later. Seen them live last year with my wife and my 2 kids ... They enjoyed the show.
@@petervanwinden3953 yup. I graduated in 93.
My eighth grade class voted to use this song as our walking out music for our "graduation" ceremony in 1992. We walked in to Winds of Change by The Scorpions. We ruled.
Your class was metal as fuck
@@xavvi Nothing says metal like "eighth grade."
Oh fuck yeah
Class of 80
Another Brick in the Wall.
I managed to convince just shy of enough people to get Twisted Sister's We're Not Gonna Take it as our walk out song for high school graduation.
Silent Lucidity by Queensryche...I want to see him react to this❤
I used this a couple of times when my son wouldn't wake up for school. My Bluetooth speaker at his head on full volume., mission accomplished 😉😎.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
😂😂 Cruel 😝😝
There used to be a wrestler aptly named “The Sandman” who came out to this song.
ECW. The arena was shaking. I forget the guys name. A million times better than the WWE crap today. (Update). Wrestler: The Sandman.
There was a wrestler who went by the name Sandman. He used this song.
It was, bad ass
Ecw baaaaybe
I've never though about having metal play in the back ground when I tell people im gay.
There’s a version of this song where they play it along with a symphony and it’s mind blowing. It’s called Enter Sandman S&M.
Excellent that was 👍👍
With the San Francisco symphony orchestra. It’s an amazing album
"Wherever I May Roam" is even better...
It was written about a recurring nightmare one of them had as a kid.
It was originally about crib death but they changed it
Thank u. I saw that.
Wrestler- "the Sandman" would come out to the "enter sandman" song. Good choice watching the video first ❤
He was with the ECW and would come out carrying a kendo stick. The Sandman had some epic bouts with Tommy Dreamer.
Sandman also used to smoke a cigarette and drink a beer before matches in ECW.
I hate motorheads cover of it, that sandman used in the last years of ecw
Sandman never used this in wwe
@@BigMikeLewis- in the ECW
i feel old at 38 yrs old when i watch reaction videos and realize how much music i grew up hearing that now as an adult, there's other adults with modern civilization who never heard these songs
OMG...'dat's Devil music!!
Said everyone's mother when this song went mainstream back in the day...hahahahahahaha
This song came out at the end of the Satanic Panic that was prevalent in the 80s
Not only mothers, and not only in the 80's. Years ago, a little known band named "Creed" was playing the bar circuit. They played a rocking bunch of songs, which everyone was really digging. Then after they finished their set, they asked for requests. Most common was Metallica. After some hesitancy, they started a perfect intro to Enter Sandman. When they were supposed to start singing the lyrics, they all stopped playing their instruments and shouted "devil music!"
We all quietly turned back to the bar.
That was around 1997-98.
@@Leon-wz1js hahah....it is hard to lose the reputation/label of 'devil music' due to the otherworldly nature of the sound. Hilarious.
@@elmoomle4565 Well, you'd think rockers would think twice.
Leon , it’s because Creed is a Christian group, great band, under rated in my opinion
I loved how this song progresses. The acoustic you hear in the beginning, is carried out throughout the entirety of the piece. It's never speed up, just built up on. I'll never forget when I heard this song for the first time back in the 90's. And the video is intense. My fav part is when that semi comes and hits the bed... Bro!
CLASSIC!
Metallica - S&M. They played with an orchestra. Talk about adding depth to their music 💥
I remember that. Gave me goose bumps. I think it was one of their best performances.
I absolutely LOVE their performance of "Hero of the Day" from that album!
No Leaf Clover
@@AClark-jx9zp ...Yea I heard that and loved it just Amazing!
No one reacts to this and it pisses me off. Shows how well done the music is and it's so different.
The Black album has one of the best mixes/production I've ever heard!
Any Yankees fan would know that this played every time Mariano Rivera came out to close a game before he retired.
Any baseball fan in general or American League fan anyway would hear this song in their head when the great Mariano Rivera would walk in. Probably the best closer of all time, if not somewhere in the top three. P.S. God I miss baseball! "Lets Go Oakland."
I used to pretend I was Mariano coming out to this before my bschool interviews. "Game time ginder, time to shut this shit down!"
"The Sandman is a traditional character in many children's stories and books. In Scandinavian folklore, he is said to sprinkle sand or dust on or into the eyes of children at night to bring on sleep and dreams.[1] The grit or "sleep" (rheum) in one's eyes upon waking is the supposed result of the Sandman's work the previous night." The story does turn dark also, hence the video, lol.
Yep, my great-aunts were from northern Germany and used to tell me about the sandman as young child. He wasn't really sinister at all...except he came when you were sleeping.
Lars must tell em about it
Yeah, the character is also commonly known in The Netherlands and Northern Belgium. Probably because Danish, Swedish, Dutch/Flemish, Norwegian, German and Icelandic are all Germanic languages and cultures. I don't know if the story is well known in other countries?
We have this character in USA too he is called Bill Cosby.
In the Netherlands he's called Klaas Vaak. Very popular amongst children
the song is about nightmares btw
James Hetfield said "That's about the nightmares of some kid"
Hetfield originally wrote the song about crib death, but their management said "Uhhh, tone it back just a smidge."
@Jerrol Hale i misspoke. i guess it was Bob Rock who suggested he dial it back.
@Jerrol Hale I thought that the lyrics were more about a man perpetuating domestic abuse....
You want goosebumps. Watch Metallica “Enter Sandman” live in Moscow
Yup!!!!
Mariano Rivera, former Yankees star closer came into every game he pitched to this song:
ua-cam.com/video/rUTirIk75vg/v-deo.html
This is from his final appearance at Yankee stadium.
who cares?
Mo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
@@franksmith7419 I DO
@@franksmith7419 Greatest reliever EVER in baseball ... And I'm NOT a Yankees fan ....
METALLICA - NOTHING ELSE MATTERS
Yes, please react to Nothing Else Matters!
NEM is Metallica’s Stairway to Heaven
Please do this one. It's my husband and I song.
ECW ECW ECW The Sandman
No it SUCKS!
Wrestler -- "The Sandman" (Jim Fullington. Best known for the time he took a cast-iron skillet to the head and EVENTUALLY finished the match).
UFC -- Brock Lesnar (when not using his wrestling theme).
Relief pitcher -- Mariano Rivera. (In fact, his MLB.com video for his last appearance was called "Exit Sandman".)
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@@jamelakajamal The Nightmares before a hart attack think is from a riddle.
No one know what a death person dream before they die, since they death and can tell the story.
You left out the ever present kendo stick and cigarette.
Mariano Rivera! The real Sandman... “Apaga y Vamonos” turn off and get the hell out of here!
The Sandman would typically shotgun 2-3 beers before hit entered the ring (sometimes pouring them down fans throats) then crushing the cans on his head.
"One" "One" "One" it's one of their best videos.
There are some songs that you just have to turn the hell up and this is one of them.
Fun Fact: Soundgarden's 1989 album Louder Than Love inspired Kirk Hammett to write the main riff of this song.
This is fate, you have to do more Soundgarden reactions now.
YES YES YES so much this!!!
That's what he said...he actually ripped the riff off..look it up.cheers
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The Sandman from ECW used this for his entrance song.
I can still see the beer can smashing against his head and the Kendo stick....
PANTERA... IM BROKEN.
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My first concert ever was Metallica with Faith No More opening up while they were touring with the Black Album, I was 15 and my best friend and I took a bus to see them at Lakewood Amphitheatre in Atlanta and it was one of the greatest nights of my life, I would love to see you react to Harvestor Of Sorrow, my personal favorite Metallica song, if you do happen to do that please react to their live performance in Moscow from 91 or 92 I believe, even if you don't react to it you should definitely check it out, it's one of the greatest live performances ever in my opinion
Yes, the Moscow performance is straight fiyah.
Saw Faith No More get showered with trash and boo's when they replaced The Cult(for getting boo'd off stage too many times) at Irvine Meadow in SoCal for the And Justice For All tour. James and Kirk came out when the trash showering got really bad and they all did War Pigs to turn the crowd around. FNM had zero radio play at the time and nobody knew who they were. Harvester of Sorrow is a beast of a song too btw. Good choice.
it was 92' ..Faith No More, Guns N' Roses, Metallica triple ticket up in Buffalo, Ny. i took my little brother there for his first concert experience. Metallica was freaking awesome!
I’m 52 and the chill bumps came out this memory lane!!! I’m rockin’ out to my old school classic best music, memories from the Navy to this.
Dude, you have been my quarantine music therapy!! Thank you!
It’s interpretation. You can say it’s about nightmares about things real “war” things imagined “dragons fire”. It’s about fear mostly.
The prayer is the key.
The band was on the Howard Stern show about 12 years ago and played the song on air. Howard asked them directly what was the meaning of the song and it's origens? They told him that it was about infant crib death but never let it be known too the public because it would turn folks off and I would agree with their reasoning. This was the 1rst time that Metalica admitted what the Enter Sandman was all about. Dont believe me, then look up the show and check it out. I was stunned ...
"James Hetfield's original lyric was about Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (Crib Death), when a baby dies inexplicably in its crib. The line, "Off to never never land" was, "Disrupt the perfect family," and the "sandman" kills the baby.
Pretty gruesome stuff, so their producer Bob Rock convinced him to change it to make it more accessible and meaningful. The band had a policy of not commenting on each other's individual contributions, but Rock was an outsider and felt free to speak up. To his surprise, Hetfield took it well and altered the lyric accordingly.
Speaking with Uncut in 2007, Hetfield said: "I wanted more of the mental thing where this kid gets manipulated by what adults say. And you know when you wake up with that s--t in your eye? That's supposedly been put in there by the sandman to make you dream. So the guy in the song tells this little kid that and he kinda freaks. He can't sleep after that and it works the opposite way. Instead of a soothing thing, the table's turned."
@@RyanAcidhedzMurphy Thanks for that... Makes sense. Dark stuff.
And this is why I saw them live three times in the 90's. Still know every word to pretty much every song.
It's about the foolish fears from childhood we all overcome with age, one of which is (for many children) when the lights go out and we're alone in the dark. I think it's amazing how they captured those very real fears so perfectly.
This was the first song I ever heard from Metallica when I first started hearing their music, then I was hooked. lol
It was the song that got my attention as well. I definitely loved it as a kid and for awhile named Metallica as my favorite band. I eventually became more of a Megadeth guy, but I still love a lot of Metallica's early stuff.
Master of Puppets got me hooked.
A TRUE “Rock Classic” if ever there was one 🔥🎸🎸🎸🔥 I’ve seen Metallica in concert 6 times & THIS was the song I’d look forward to the most 🤙😜👍
It's amazing watching the videos with you because I have never seen them. I know all the music by itself so far I been watching your channel but I'm freaking at the videos. WHEW!! whoa!!! It's like I am reacting to newness. YIKES TO That diesel truck scene!
New subscriber here and congrats on 190k subs mate love your vids keep doing what you do!!!
You haven't truly lived until you see Metallica play this song live....
The Sandman!!! ECW,ECW,ECW!!!
yeah, his entrance is epic
I love watching people react to stuff like this! It can almost make me, who have heard this song probably 500 times by now, hear it like it was the first time all over again!
And also, people can say whatever they want about Old Metallica VS New Metallica VS Current Metallica (Enter Sandman being part of New Metallica), but this riff and this beat kicks ass!! It is literally IMPOSSIBLE for me to hear it without my head starting to bob and my foot stomping to the bass drum.
Too cool for school. I've seen them 4 times when they've come to 🇦🇺, brilliant show!💖💖
when you mentioned the falling and having a heart attack part, ive actually experienced that. i knew what was happening and could feel the pain and tightness in my chest but couldn't do anything about it. someone came into the living room i was sleeping in and i woke up. i still to this day say they saved my life. it was so creepy
This album STILL sells well 30+ years later. Talk about longevity.
Correct... 5-6k units per week still. 👊
Because you can hear the bass.
The stage effects when they do this live are amazing.
Ohh the carnal passion this song stirs up in me!!! that bass drum just thumps my heart out Yeoww!!
When NY Yankee relief closer Mariano Rivera entered the game the stadium played Enter Sandman
You never ever forget the day, time, and place that you first hear Metallica...their music is life changing and mind altering
I was 13-14 riding back home from school in the back of my friends older brother shitty Chevy Suburban. He put on the Black Album and finger banged his girlfriend in the front seat while we sat in the back. That totally opened my eyes to Metalllica. And girls.
Toni Powell - I agree. I had heard of them of course, but hadn’t taken the time to listen to them, if you know what I mean. My not-quite-yet- boyfriend (who is now my husband) and I were headed home from Laughlin, Nevada in 1993 when he popped “The Black Album” into his Walkman and gave me some headphones. O.M.G. Instant convert. I’ve been a fan ever since.
Blast from the past, thanks. I remember strobe lights in the sixties in dance clubs,fun times.
We had this amazing laser show in middle school like 25 years ago that they played music to and this was one of the songs they used. The lasers made all different types of images and stuff. It was so random that the school would even do this back then too. I'll never forget how amazing that was. It was kind of the first concert I ever went to lol. And the strobe lights and lasers went nuts when the "BOOM" part happened. It also showed the kid running with the mack truck chasing him in the lasers. I can't even explain how sick it was for the 90's in school for that matter.
Jamel, you probably heard it while working Kings games. It used to be on there playlist during tv timeouts.
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I have also heard it during Lakers games probably every time I have gone.
@@jamelakajamal Triple H entrance was Motorhead's The Game and The King of kings. Could you react to some Motorhead ( Ace of spades, The Game. Too name a few. I think your reactions are the best. Just Subscribed.
When listening to Metallica its mandatory to turn the volume full blast
Always, especially when I'm driving to and from work, and when I'm out doing Über Eats deliveries 🤘🏼🎸🎶
Love this band to seen them in person to loved it im 55 to💞💞💞💞
The sound quality you provide is excellent! Not every channel knows how to or has the equipment for that.
Virginia Tech football plays this as intro for their team at every home game
and the students and fans in the stadium get so loud it registers on the Richter Scale!
@@HeatSlinger it registers on the Richter scale at the Mountain Lake weather station in Pembroke where dirty dancing was filmed. Brent Watts showed the scale on the wdbj7 news one night.
Yes he's talking about a child's nightmares.
The nightmare resides only in the mind of the child.
No,these are common nightmares. Running from something and falling from the sky.
I awoke from a coma a couple years before this song was released... I've always considered it sort of like a "theme song" for me ever since that time. (My ears are ringing at this moment because it is impossible for me to not crank it all the way up when I hear it! --not too mention the tears on my cheek!) :-D
This is One Of My All Time Favorite Songs Ever Since The First Time I Heard It
Yep, this songs about bad dreams , nightmares. That's who the Sandman is He hides under your bed
Now you should do "For Whom The Bell Tolls"
Another popular wrestler entered to this bitchen song. 😉
Thanks for your reaction. 👊😎
I didn't know how much I needed this channel
you nailed it at the start yes its about child hood nightmares we have all had .....
METALLICA - THE DAY THAT NEVER COMES
Sure great choice to discover the band! A stupid ripp-off One and fade to black
Should check out metallicas SM concert version of this, One and For whom the bell tolls
I'm a long time resident of Michigan but when this was first released I lived in Denver Colorado. It totally reminds me of that stage in my life.
Live in Mexico City was most awesome! You are one of the good guy's Jamel!!!
You gotta do some Dire Straits! Sultans of Swing, Money for Nothing and Brothers in Arms are a couple of good shouts!
+ Industrial Disease
+ Walk of Life
Definitly need to listen to those Dire Strait Song....
Legend
Sultans of Swing is a must....Money for Nothing was the first ever video with computer generated effects. I think it was 82 when it came out.
I’d also add in the gallery/once upon a time in the west, southbound again, setting me up, down to the waterline, and heavy fuel.
But Only listen to thoose in mono
Should do TheTragically Hip - "Fiddlers Green" "Blow at High Dough" "Nautical Disaster" great band
He definitely should, I never see reactors featuring The Tragically Hip and it's a shame cause they're one the greatest Canadian bands ever.
Well now I've been following your channel for a little while now I decided to go back revisit your reactions to songs and certain bands. The only wrestler I know that used this was Sandman. Watching the actual video for this was the right idea. It's crazy.
Jamel!! You make it all New for me. I love it!
There was a guy a wrestler named Sandman in ECW and was I think on both WWE and WCW
And yes it's about a dream
You should check out the song “The Unforgiven” by Metallica, which has an official music video. That would be awesome. Very trippy video.
And its two sequels and their combined story.
In 1996 a girl in NJ gave birth (stillborn) at prom. She went back in and requested "Unforgiven" be played for her and her boyfriend. I can't hear this song without picking apart the lyrics with that in mind. "Never see, never be, so I dub thee unforgiven..."
He needs to do all 3
That song always reminded me of the Clint Eastwood movie of the same name
This song is about childhood fears and nightmares. I went to high school with Lars and he told me the meaning.
I worked as an usher at The Palace of Auburn Hill in my late teens early 20’s...best job ever! So many concerts and Piston games. Good times back in the early 90’s 😎
It's about Common nightmares: falling, being chased, snakes, monsters under the bed " things that will bite". Scary white dude is The Sandman taking you to sleep.
WWE’s “Sandman” used Metallica’s Enter Sandman as his entrance music.
Just to note he's an ECW hardcore legend.
Only when he was in ecw before the child molester supporter McMahon too over it and fucked it up
Also, don't be shy about working at a wrestling event.
Sandman was ECW
Troy Owens - Yes, you’re right. I guess I associate him with it because the ECW was on some WWE events (as well as WWF back in the day and others like XPW and WCW).
Great time. Excellent video too.
A classic, classic metal song.
Saw them at a monsters of rock concert. That was the first time I heard them. Along with the Scorpions and Van Hager. And a couple others.
A few years back, when I was 49, I was picking up a few things at the grocery store and I was humming this. It was 7 am and I was standing at the checkout when a grocer clerk, who was loading a fridge, looked up at me slowly. He knew what I was humming and it was the best reaction someone ever gave me. He looked surprised that this middle aged man was rocking out in his head. I get a kick out of that to this day.
For a much lighter version, check out Jimmie Fallon sings “Enter Sandman” with Metallica playing with school instruments 😝
I saw that it's good.
There was a wrestler named "The Sandman" in the former ECW who came out to this song. After ECW folded and was acquired by WWE in 2000, WWE brought back many of its former talents for an invasion storyline that was run during the second half of 2001, in which The Sandman was a participant.
There is nothing better than hearing this as the Hokies enter the stadium. Absolutely electrifying!!!
"The riff that keeps the pool heated"
I always took this to be a song about nightmares
The song is about The Sandman legend. The guy who came at night and sprinkled sand in your eyes to make you fall asleep (the reason you may have grit in the corner of your eyes when you wake up). Over the years, it took on darker tones with the Sandman doing evil things while you slept or causing nightmares.
That prayer in the middle of the song was actually the bedtime prayer I said for years growing up and when that album came out it made me laugh ♥️😆
You should rock out to Marilyn Manson "beautiful people."
No.
My eldest daughter’s lullaby!
Yes!!!!
Just the music... Please don't make your channel all about visual things. Let the "music" paint the picture... and react ... to that ! ! !
@@HardRockMaster7577 I agree. What someone sees in their head when first listening to music like that is what I would like to see the reaction to. Just let the beat take you on a journey. Let the rhythm be your eyes and drift into your own interpretation.
First of all, thank you for everything. We love watch your vids here in the house. Yes finally here! We wait patiently for Metallica to come back to the channel. You like my comment years ago but you never done it, please consider watch the new stuff too! They still got it :) NEW METALLICA APPRECIATION:
The Day that Never Comes (2008)
Halo on Fire (2016)
Atlas, Rise! (2016)
Spit Out the Bone (2016) - This last one is a must do. Thank you!
Oh, it's funny to watch the evolution of their hair through the years, too!
A wrestler was actually called the Sandman, he was a ECW Original and Frequently used Enter Sandman as his theme song until ECW and WCW was bought out by WWE the last time he used it was at a PPV called ECW/WWE One Night Stand.