Saw that show too. I was a senior in high school. Short story ... I went mostly to see Iron Maiden, I had seen Judas Priest and knew what that was going to be. After a few songs a person behind me had asked friends who this band was. None of them knew. I told them Iron Maiden. They all looked at each other and not one had heard of them. I thought this was pretty funny considering I came mainly to see them specifically. As well as the group I was with. Wound up seeing them about 6 times total.
As a white guy whose family is pre-revolutionary war American on both sides the message of this song has always annoyed me. Europeans did as much to each other all over Europe for centuries and worse and nobody cares. I would like to know any other case where after a fighting force won a war it then offered some of the land back to the people they conquered to continue to live as they always had or to take full part of the new country to be born. We sure didn't do that in Europe. I don't know of a single other time that has happened in the history of war.
@@tristramcoffin926 Just because someone did something to someone else doesn't mean you can excuse their actions. Can you tell a Holocaust victim they have no cause because people before Hitler did horrible things. Kind of like boys will be boys. That does not work anymore.
Lucky man I'm sure he appreciates the birthday present. Wish you and those close to you nothing but the best. Stay safe and hope your husband enjoys the concert.
Maiden is an endurance sport. Metal drummers can do this for 2+ hours straight. Don’t sleep on Harris’ bass. He wrote the tune and the lyrics. Their slower songs are great, too, but Maiden were the precursors to thrash and speed metal.
I was lucky enough to see Iron Maiden touring their debut album in 1980! Clive Burrs drumming on Running Free was fantastic and that is the single that got me into them tbh
A lot of people talk about Maiden's great vocals and amazing guitar work, and I can't agree more, but the drums on this song are so good. Shout out to Clive Burr for an epic drum track RIP.
The Bass is another key element that hits so hard too. People use to rave about Metallica in the 80s; yes, they were amazing, but I can’t think of a hard rock/heavy metal outfit that held a candle to Maiden; from their amazing vocals and instrumentation, heady topics etc. AT LEAST not until 1989/90 Queensryche reminded me so much of them in so many ways. & their concept LPs in 89 & 90 hit just as hard then, as both bands SOUND does now However, those stellar Queensryche Orwellian, authoritarian, dystopian concept LPs (which once felt like something that could NEVER EVER happen (in Reagan’s CITY ON A HILL) are literally feeling like reality now. Sadly, so
You know it's great music when you start using the air guitar, air drums and/or mimic the lead singer. I hope this stays up as it is, this is a great reaction to great music! Crossing fingers that there's more audio only reactions! Keep being a good human Jamal, please take care and stay safe!
I seen Iron Maiden on Friday and they're still as energetic live as when they were younger. Nicko the drummer is in his seventies and still going strong. Awesome band.
You are one of few people on this channel that really LISTEN to the music and the lyrics. Keep up your good work,Jamal. We love it ! Greetings from Sweden. 👍👍👍🇸🇪😎💕
Saw them live around 91-92’ Sandstone, Kansas City, KANSAS. One of my best memories. Thunderstorms came through, 75% of the crowd left. Maybe 500 people left. So many rushed rushed to the front. I sat back with my older cousin, burnt one. And had a great experience. Cousin Jeff air drummed the whole song. I was so blown away. Good Times😎
@@timp8843 that must pre-date my time here😃 - but I’ve lived here long enough to know it’s Sandstone…and that intersection on the southeast will always be The Triangle to me too!
Imagine my little 12 year self listening to this while mom is screaming to turn it down, thinking it’s a phase and here we are 40 years later and these songs are classics and legends and I’m singing my lungs out. Lol.
Hells yeah! Iron Maiden slaps, and was one of the best concerts I went to back in the 80's. Being close to the stage and watching Steve Harris play bass is one of the main reasons I wanted to learn bass back in the day.
1st heard Jan '81, saw summer '82 at Long Beach Arena - press seats🎉 1st riser stage left bout 25 ft from the bands. Opened - Girlschool 4pc all gal hard ass❗rockers, buds w/ Motorhead. Next - Iron Maiden. Headliner - Scorpions 'Blackout' tour awesome show. Maiden came back next year headlining 🤘🤕😁
Great, great, great episode ! I LOVED how Jamel strongly felt the whole message of this Iron Maiden's masterpiece, from the shape to the deep, from the lyrics to the beat. Bravo Jamel !
Steve Harris the Bassist was one of my idles growing up and he was one of the first people to use a gallop style playing and you can hear it in the music such a incredibile muscisian and that goe's for the whole band as well
Agree with you. Although when Power Slave came out that was the only thing I listened to for about 6 months. An even earlier great Maiden song for me would be Murders In The Rue Morgue from the Killers album.
@@stanleydavidlepretre4241 LOL I wore out 3 cassette tapes of power slave. Because I kept rewinding the title track song and rhyme of the ancient mariners’ guitar solo
Woohoo! Great blast from the past! Brings back memories! The secret to drumming with stamina is #1: Know the song absolutely thoroughly. #2: Drum efficiently, without thrashing around like a madman. Of course if a drummers is in good shape he can thrash around like a madman because he did the first part really well! 😉
How I love this track. Whenever my local radio station says, "It's time to Up the Irons", and they're right BTW, it's a block with THIS track included.
This was my brother’s favorite band when it came out. I was not in to them because I wasn’t into metal and the artwork was very creepy to me. Years later though I “got the sense” of this song and developed a more appreciative listening ear. Bruce Dickinson is an amazing singer and the music is so tight I get goosebumps. Thanks for covering this song!
I had a similar experience, took me a while to appreciate it, but it was Bruce’s singing that won me! The greatest rock singer of all time! Can you imagine Metallica if they had a front man like Bruce Dickinson?
Was a fan when the 1981 Killers album came out. For anyone interested there's a song called Murders In The Rue Morgue sung by the previous singer Paul Dianno. This song was inspired by the short story of the same name by Edgar Allan Poe. They both describe the gruesome murders in Rue Morgue, Paris. Incredible song I highly recommend checking out.
Run to the hills, aces high, number of the beast, halloed be thy name, powerskave, it was one of the golden era of iron maiden, i started playing bass guitar to be like Steve Harris,and still they are in the golden era. Awesome.
When I was 16 or so, I saw Iron Maiden live in Ottawa...one of the best concerts I ever saw and this song really transports you to the West and the Great Plains.
This and The Trooper were the first heavy/speed metal songs I really loved. I wasn't a deep fan like so many people, but they had so many great songs it was easy to be a casual fan and absolutely love them. Just a great band to listen to and an even more fun one to learn (as a guitarist, but ESPECIALLY as a bass player).
Jamel You hit the nail right on the head about the instruments telling the story... I always say and it's a paraphrase of a lyric I once heard, that music tells the story that words just can't say.
I remember the Day On the Green Concert back in 1982. Iron Maiden, Scorpions, Loverboy and Foreigner. All day at the Oakland Coluseum and the GA ticket price was $13.75
Love love this, locked myself in a room with my drum kit and came out mastering this drum run. So impressive. Thanks for doing this. Saw them in concert with Rainbow and Judas Priest, my hearing was off for a week lol
This is a tribute to the plight of Native Americans. Per Wikipedia; The song documents the colonization of the Americas, first by Europeans and then by Americans, from the perspective of a Cree Indian and American cavalryman.
This is the second song I ever heard form them, back in 1983. The first was The Trooper. Both appeared on a Canadian-based label (K-Tel Records) known fir their "hits" compilations. Masters Of Metal Volume I closed out with The Trooper, and Volume 2 opened with Run To The Hills. Being it was 1984 it was not long before their latest release Powerslave came along and Aces High had me hooked on Maiden for life (I had already declared Maiden a top fave with just The Trooper, but 3 hits, no misses, cinched it for me to start buying their albums - all in).
I've seen Iron Maiden live, and they played all their hits. Their live sound is almost identical to the studio sound. Including the drums and vocals. Bruce Dickinson, one of the best heavy metal, and overall singers of all time with an operatic voice, and the riffs of Smith and Murray, are original and very melodic. This group was the first to introduce speed metal. Most people don't know, Iron Maiden started in 1976.
Just joined the channel; found you first on your other channel. Saw your guitars on the wall & once hearing you had a music channel, had to come over here as well. YES! Love all the comments I been reading & your commentary after playing the song was was great! TOP 10 MAIDEN TRACKS (in no particular Order): 1. Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner 2. Flight of Icarus 3. Die with your boots on 4. The Evil that men do 5. Die with your boots on 6. Where Eagles Dare 7. Wasted Years 8. Hallowed be thy name 9. Aces High 10. The Trooper What I LOVED about this band as a youth back in the 80s, was the ‘HEADY TOPICS’; stuff that I either didn’t pay enough attn to, OR, we didn’t even go over in English Lit, History etc..but it got me more into History and learning, bc I wld then have to research the meaning behind the songs, such as “Flight of Icarus”. OR….check this out…these guys even WENT OVER A fascinating STORY in the OLD TESTAMENT book of Daniel “Writing on the wall” FINALLY, I’d put MAIDEN in my TOP 3 ROCK BANDS of the 1980s With the other 2 bands being 1. DEF LEPPARD (especially their early 80s stuff 💯🔥 Pyromania; High and Dry AND 2. Queensryche A BAND that wld remind me of MAIDEN in so many ways from the first I heard em at 17 yrs old in 1989 with OPERATION MINDCRIME…what a kick ass, perf concept LP..followed in 1990 with the Stellar follow up EMPIRE
Hiya Jamel, Its a while since I've watched your channel, I haven't found any of your other reactions interesting really, but maybe to someone else they might have enjoyed them, I'm glad you've reacted to Iron Maiden, run to the hills is a great song, this is Choppy in Whitehaven, Cumberland, England
Jamal this band is absolutely 👍 amazing live…😊😊😊 They also tell great stories in there songs as you can tell …They have so many amazing songs…The whole seventh son of the seventh son cd 💿 is amazing…I’m also a big fan of the song Caught some where in time…The video is the way to watch it.😊😊😊
This album is kinda like a crossroads, Iron Maiden with Paul as the vocalist was my dad's Boomer Generation Iron Maiden, they had more of a hardcore punk vibe to them. this was Bruce's first album singing with IM and Clive Burr's last as their drummer, it's where they became Generation X's Iron Maiden. I like Clive, he's an amazing drummer but Nicko McBrain is my guy and Piece Of Mind is my favourite IM album, he had me with that quick but perfect opening on Where Eagles Dare. I had just gotten my first drum kit when Piece Of Mind released in 1984 and I played along to the cassette until my fingers bled and legs cramped, his style is so much fun to play, even though I need two bass pedals where Nicko and Clive who only used their right foot on bass. Dave Lombardo and Alex Van Halen were the ones who made me want to play drums in the first place because the double bass sounded so awesome, that and I sucked at guitar. My Kit was Tama because Dave played Tama drums and my cymbals were Paiste 2002 Series because Alex used those, Clive and Nicko used Tama and Paiste, "Great minds think alike".
The "boomer version?" There was only 1 year between the last DiAnno album (81), and the first with Dickinson, (82). News flash, everyone that got into iron maiden back then are boomers.
@@neillenet291 You're obviously Gen Z. News flash, I'm Gen X, but I got into Iron Maiden along with my dad, Boomer, in 1980. The first two albums were geared at 16+ and 20 somethings, Boomers, Gen X was all over Number of the Beast because of all the controversy in the news, religious groups lost their sh!t and every kid had to have that album, it wasn't like that with Iron Maiden and Killers, those were Boomer albums, Gen X didn't rush out to buy them but we did listen to them with older kids, siblings or parents, the oldest Gen Xers were 10, 11 years old, we did rush out to buy NotB and Piece Of Mind basically taking Iron Maiden as ours but allowed the Boomers to borrow our cassette or album.
@ll7868 nope, not obvious at all. I'm a boomer as well. And that's how I know of what I speak with regard to I ron Maiden. I saw them with paul dianoo and clive burr and many times with bruce dickinson. There is very little difference between musical taste of boomers and gen x in the early 80's. Gen x started in 1965. I was born in 61.
2d song off Breakthrough, Iconic album that, more or less, Cemented their music into my brain!-lol...Along w/the title track, Hallowed Be Thy Name & Flight of Icarus....Maiden etched their name, and sound, in My Rock & Roll HOF....Up The Irons!
Good video brother of a excellent song of the Beast who wrote a excellent song about european invasion in América!!! Our Cultures Authentics and Nativa American they will always continue!!! Greetings from Mexihco-Tenochtitlan Nochipah (Forever)!!! 🙂👍🙂✌️🙂👌🙂☝️🙂🤘🙂🤟
As a White guy who was a teenager when this came out, I can't comment on my reaction to it without some context. A few years before it came out, I was bored in 5th period in the 8th grade. "Bueller... Bueller" bored. So I picked up the only thing I had - my history text book and turned to the one chapter that had never been taught. What was this "Civil War" about anyway? Reading the first few chapters, I was like "What the F.., we had slaves?" When I first listened to Run To The Hills, it taught me everything I needed to know about our treatment of Native Americans. Unlike the Los Angeles school district which taught me nothing about it. Fast forward 40 years to George Floyd and Trumps superspreader rally in Tulsa, when I realized: I graduated from the LAUSD without them ever mentioning the Civil War, nor slavery. Not one lesson. No homework, no reading assignments, nothing at all. Yet they taught everything about the Holocaust. Saw the terrifying films, even had a survivor visit our class. But our own history? Nothing at all.
Over 40 years later and this song is still hits like a locomotive, Maiden are one of the best.
Wasted Years for me (the song😂) is a classic
Iron maiden, a band that has great music and much of it is based on literature and history
Yeah! 🤘I know some folks who homeschool their kids and use Maiden lyrics and album art to supplement their history and literature lessons.
My mate is blaze bayleys drummer, amazing live
@@wingleburt3146Clive Burr
@@NawalQtaitat-kk8pq no you tit. His drummer now
Such an amazing tune! Glad you featured it.
I saw Iron Maiden back in 1982, they opened for Judas Priest. What a show. $9.50 a ticket. I still have the stub.
I was 10 and just getting into them in 82...Piece of mind album is amazing as well.
I have mine from ‘82 also. $10.00
Saw that show too. I was a senior in high school. Short story ... I went mostly to see Iron Maiden, I had seen Judas Priest and knew what that was going to be. After a few songs a person behind me had asked friends who this band was. None of them knew. I told them Iron Maiden. They all looked at each other and not one had heard of them. I thought this was pretty funny considering I came mainly to see them specifically. As well as the group I was with. Wound up seeing them about 6 times total.
As a Native American person this song always hit hard. I saw Maiden live in 1986 at Irvine Meadows. One of the best shows I have ever seen.
The natives in this song came from Mongolia and took the land from those here before them.
@@todallard8791 you are ignorant
My first concert was Iron Maiden in 87 in Sacramento.
As a white guy whose family is pre-revolutionary war American on both sides the message of this song has always annoyed me. Europeans did as much to each other all over Europe for centuries and worse and nobody cares. I would like to know any other case where after a fighting force won a war it then offered some of the land back to the people they conquered to continue to live as they always had or to take full part of the new country to be born. We sure didn't do that in Europe. I don't know of a single other time that has happened in the history of war.
@@tristramcoffin926 Just because someone did something to someone else doesn't mean you can excuse their actions. Can you tell a Holocaust victim they have no cause because people before Hitler did horrible things. Kind of like boys will be boys. That does not work anymore.
I'm sending my hubby to their concert for his birthday in September. He's never seen them live before. I'm super excited for him. 🙂
Lucky man I'm sure he appreciates the birthday present. Wish you and those close to you nothing but the best. Stay safe and hope your husband enjoys the concert.
You should go!
I had no idea they were still touring. I know a drummer passed away, and I know they're like 70 maybe?
This was the song that introduced me to Iron Maiden. The video was a staple on MTV during the 80s
We got MTV in our house in 83...It was always on. Best mems. Cali summers in the 80s
Clive Burr, RIP, is the drummer for this song.
Iron Maiden is the most perfect metal band.
Maiden is an endurance sport. Metal drummers can do this for 2+ hours straight. Don’t sleep on Harris’ bass. He wrote the tune and the lyrics. Their slower songs are great, too, but Maiden were the precursors to thrash and speed metal.
One of the most athletic songs ever recorded. It’s like a dead sprint while shooting bullseyes from the hip. Power speed and accuracy
One of my most favorite Madien songs! So glad you enjoyed it! 💚💚
Mine too
The best song they have done ABSOLUTELY
Clive was a great drummer. RIP. He absolutely ripped this song to shreds. Nikko does a great job on it now. Love this song. Up The Irons baybee !!!
I was lucky enough to see Iron Maiden touring their debut album in 1980! Clive Burrs drumming on Running Free was fantastic and that is the single that got me into them tbh
The first verse is told in the native american and the second verse is from the persepctive of the white man.
One of favorite iron maiden songs
42 years later and still cranking this amazing album!
A lot of people talk about Maiden's great vocals and amazing guitar work, and I can't agree more, but the drums on this song are so good. Shout out to Clive Burr for an epic drum track RIP.
I often wonder what piece of mind, somewhere in time, Powerslave Would’ve sound like with Clive on the drums
The Bass is another key element that hits so hard too. People use to rave about Metallica in the 80s; yes, they were amazing, but I can’t think of a hard rock/heavy metal outfit that held a candle to Maiden; from their amazing vocals and instrumentation, heady topics etc. AT LEAST not until 1989/90
Queensryche reminded me so much of them in so many ways. & their concept LPs in 89 & 90 hit just as hard then, as both bands SOUND does now
However, those stellar Queensryche Orwellian, authoritarian, dystopian concept LPs (which once felt like something that could NEVER EVER happen (in Reagan’s CITY ON A HILL) are literally feeling like reality now. Sadly, so
@@TINInBILLY too true.
You know it's great music when you start using the air guitar, air drums and/or mimic the lead singer.
I hope this stays up as it is, this is a great reaction to great music!
Crossing fingers that there's more audio only reactions!
Keep being a good human Jamal, please take care and stay safe!
Iron Maiden rocked my life when they first came out. If I ever have a choice of music on a dessert island it would be Iron Maiden. 🎸
I seen Iron Maiden on Friday and they're still as energetic live as when they were younger. Nicko the drummer is in his seventies and still going strong. Awesome band.
You are one of few people on this channel that really LISTEN to the music and the lyrics.
Keep up your good work,Jamal.
We love it !
Greetings from Sweden.
👍👍👍🇸🇪😎💕
Saw them live around 91-92’ Sandstone, Kansas City, KANSAS. One of my best memories. Thunderstorms came through, 75% of the crowd left. Maybe 500 people left. So many rushed rushed to the front. I sat back with my older cousin, burnt one. And had a great experience. Cousin Jeff air drummed the whole song. I was so blown away. Good Times😎
Sandstone? 😉 I’ve lived in the KC area, and can always tell the natives by what name they use for this venue. 😆
@@MattKrogmeier Sandstone will always be Sandstone. How about The Phil Zone?
@@timp8843 that must pre-date my time here😃 - but I’ve lived here long enough to know it’s Sandstone…and that intersection on the southeast will always be The Triangle to me too!
I loved Sandstone. Used to travel from Lawrence, KS to see shows there. Saw the Megadeth/Pantera show there in ‘93, among others. Great times!
Imagine my little 12 year self listening to this while mom is screaming to turn it down, thinking it’s a phase and here we are 40 years later and these songs are classics and legends and I’m singing my lungs out.
Lol.
Iron Maiden. The metal band that made history cool.
Up the irons! \m/ \m/. Remember, I don’t always listen to Iron Maiden, but when I do, so do my neighbors!
Hells yeah! Iron Maiden slaps, and was one of the best concerts I went to back in the 80's. Being close to the stage and watching Steve Harris play bass is one of the main reasons I wanted to learn bass back in the day.
Up the Irons listening to Murders In The Rue Morgue right now from the Killers album. Stay safe wish you and those close to you nothing but the best.
That dude has got an awesome voice. Haven't heard this song in years. Great video as always!
1st heard Jan '81, saw summer '82 at Long Beach Arena - press seats🎉 1st riser stage left bout 25 ft from the bands. Opened - Girlschool 4pc all gal hard ass❗rockers, buds w/ Motorhead. Next - Iron Maiden. Headliner - Scorpions 'Blackout' tour awesome show. Maiden came back next year headlining 🤘🤕😁
Great, great, great episode ! I LOVED how Jamel strongly felt the whole message of this Iron Maiden's masterpiece, from the shape to the deep, from the lyrics to the beat. Bravo Jamel !
UP THE IRONS! 🤘🤘
⚽️ ⚽️ ⚽️ 🥅
Steve Harris the Bassist was one of my idles growing up and he was one of the first people to use a gallop style playing and you can hear it in the music such a incredibile muscisian and that goe's for the whole band as well
Great song. I’ve always loved it.
Great post….🇺🇸
Bruce Dickinson is amazing. So glad you checked out this song with us.
Their best album by far
It’s awesome watching you discover the classics
Love your channel
Agree with you. Although when Power Slave came out that was the only thing I listened to for about 6 months. An even earlier great Maiden song for me would be Murders In The Rue Morgue from the Killers album.
@@stanleydavidlepretre4241
LOL
I wore out 3 cassette tapes of power slave. Because I kept rewinding the title track song and rhyme of the ancient mariners’ guitar solo
Woohoo! Great blast from the past! Brings back memories!
The secret to drumming with stamina is
#1: Know the song absolutely thoroughly.
#2: Drum efficiently, without thrashing around like a madman.
Of course if a drummers is in good shape he can thrash around like a madman because he did the first part really well! 😉
How I love this track. Whenever my local radio station says, "It's time to Up the Irons", and they're right BTW, it's a block with THIS track included.
I admit I was more of a casual Iron Maiden song but this song is just incredible IMO their best.
This was my brother’s favorite band when it came out. I was not in to them because I wasn’t into metal and the artwork was very creepy to me. Years later though I “got the sense” of this song and developed a more appreciative listening ear. Bruce Dickinson is an amazing singer and the music is so tight I get goosebumps. Thanks for covering this song!
My brother and I shared a room as teens and he had this poster on the wall. I wasn't a fan either.
I had a similar experience, took me a while to appreciate it, but it was Bruce’s singing that won me! The greatest rock singer of all time! Can you imagine Metallica if they had a front man like Bruce Dickinson?
Was a fan when the 1981 Killers album came out. For anyone interested there's a song called Murders In The Rue Morgue sung by the previous singer Paul Dianno. This song was inspired by the short story of the same name by Edgar Allan Poe. They both describe the gruesome murders in Rue Morgue, Paris. Incredible song I highly recommend checking out.
Run to the hills, aces high, number of the beast, halloed be thy name, powerskave, it was one of the golden era of iron maiden, i started playing bass guitar to be like Steve Harris,and still they are in the golden era. Awesome.
Best Metal Band. Best IM line up. Best album
The amazing Clive Burr. Rest in Power Clive!
Up the Irons!
Ahhh, the memories right there of listening to them at school. Friggin awesome!!.. Far and away the best album artwork on all their albums as well.
When I was 16 or so, I saw Iron Maiden live in Ottawa...one of the best concerts I ever saw and this song really transports you to the West and the Great Plains.
Great band, great album... Thanks!
This and The Trooper were the first heavy/speed metal songs I really loved. I wasn't a deep fan like so many people, but they had so many great songs it was easy to be a casual fan and absolutely love them. Just a great band to listen to and an even more fun one to learn (as a guitarist, but ESPECIALLY as a bass player).
Iron Maiden are a great band to learn history
And to enjoy and feel Real music, melodies, harmonies, vocals, and song structures
Jamel You hit the nail right on the head about the instruments telling the story... I always say and it's a paraphrase of a lyric I once heard, that music tells the story that words just can't say.
I remember the Day On the Green Concert back in 1982. Iron Maiden, Scorpions, Loverboy and Foreigner. All day at the Oakland Coluseum and the GA ticket price was $13.75
Clive’s Drumming was ferocious.
One of the best rock songs to ever truly capture the insanity and brutality of warfare.
saw them in concert recently, it was epic 😂
Love love this, locked myself in a room with my drum kit and came out mastering this drum run. So impressive. Thanks for doing this. Saw them in concert with Rainbow and Judas Priest, my hearing was off for a week lol
This is a tribute to the plight of Native Americans. Per Wikipedia; The song documents the colonization of the Americas, first by Europeans and then by Americans, from the perspective of a Cree Indian and American cavalryman.
this is one of my favorite rock and roll pieces ever
Saw them in concert 6 times,never went home disappointed
Steve Harris is known for his galloping bass lines, so good
one of my favorite Bassist of all time
Yes! Galloping! Exact word I used.
This is the second song I ever heard form them, back in 1983. The first was The Trooper. Both appeared on a Canadian-based label (K-Tel Records) known fir their "hits" compilations. Masters Of Metal Volume I closed out with The Trooper, and Volume 2 opened with Run To The Hills. Being it was 1984 it was not long before their latest release Powerslave came along and Aces High had me hooked on Maiden for life (I had already declared Maiden a top fave with just The Trooper, but 3 hits, no misses, cinched it for me to start buying their albums - all in).
Easily my favorite Maiden song …it never gets old
I don't air drum often but when I do...its to this song
UP THE IRONS!!!!!
I've seen Iron Maiden live, and they played all their hits. Their live sound is almost identical to the studio sound. Including the drums and vocals. Bruce Dickinson, one of the best heavy metal, and overall singers of all time with an operatic voice, and the riffs of Smith and Murray, are original and very melodic. This group was the first to introduce speed metal. Most people don't know, Iron Maiden started in 1976.
I only got into Iron Maiden 13 days ago. Listened to this at least 378 times since.
I remember getting that cassette at the music store in northwest mall. It was a treasure. Now I have it on iTunes 😁still rocking. Rock on brother.
Wow....bringing back some wonderful musical memories!!
Such a great band! More metal! lol much love and respect. It always makes me think of horses galloping.
Nothing like some Iron Maiden to get the old blood pumping! BANGER! Peace and Love!
Great song❤
One of the catchiest metal songs ever imo.
My favorite album from Iron Maiden. Thanks for the reaction. Impossible to pause to comment. lol.
Just joined the channel; found you first on your other channel. Saw your guitars on the wall & once hearing you had a music channel, had to come over here as well.
YES! Love all the comments I been reading & your commentary after playing the song was was great!
TOP 10 MAIDEN TRACKS (in no particular Order):
1. Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner
2. Flight of Icarus
3. Die with your boots on
4. The Evil that men do
5. Die with your boots on
6. Where Eagles Dare
7. Wasted Years
8. Hallowed be thy name
9. Aces High
10. The Trooper
What I LOVED about this band as a youth back in the 80s, was the ‘HEADY TOPICS’; stuff that I either didn’t pay enough attn to, OR, we didn’t even go over in English Lit, History etc..but it got me more into History and learning, bc I wld then have to research the meaning behind the songs, such as “Flight of Icarus”.
OR….check this out…these guys even WENT OVER A fascinating STORY in the OLD TESTAMENT book of Daniel “Writing on the wall”
FINALLY, I’d put MAIDEN in my
TOP 3 ROCK BANDS of the 1980s
With the other 2 bands being
1. DEF LEPPARD (especially their early 80s stuff 💯🔥 Pyromania; High and Dry
AND
2. Queensryche
A BAND that wld remind me of MAIDEN in so many ways from the first I heard em at 17 yrs old in 1989 with OPERATION MINDCRIME…what a kick ass, perf concept LP..followed in 1990 with the Stellar follow up EMPIRE
I HOPE to get some FEEDBACK on THE ABOVE ⬆️ PLEASE 🙏🏻
You always get a history lesson with these guys
Happy to see this pop through the feed - THANK YOU! \m/ 🖒🖒
This is by far my favorite Maiden song
My favorite iron maiden song
I’d love to see his reaction to Iron Maiden’s song The Trooper.
The rock and roll hall of fame does not deserve Iron Maiden. Iron Maiden deserve their own building.
If you like the history lesson in this song, you'll love the band Sabaton. Specifically their song Night Witches.
A friend of mine introduced me to their music, and yes, I love that it's about history, which I'm a history buff.
Hiya Jamel, Its a while since I've watched your channel, I haven't found any of your other reactions interesting really, but maybe to someone else they might have enjoyed them, I'm glad you've reacted to Iron Maiden, run to the hills is a great song, this is Choppy in Whitehaven, Cumberland, England
The greatest metal band ever!
Love this song and its a warning to us all that one day our freedom could be in jeopardy!
BEST ALBUM ART WORK of all time!
Clive and Steve ....what a galloping beat...so freaken perfect
Fantastic review of the only Iron Maiden song that I like; great job, fantastic show.
Oh yes Iron Maiden Run to the Hills is one of the fucking greatest rock anthems ever made! Peace brother🔥
Jamal this band is absolutely 👍 amazing live…😊😊😊 They also tell great stories in there songs as you can tell …They have so many amazing songs…The whole seventh son of the seventh son cd 💿 is amazing…I’m also a big fan of the song Caught some where in time…The video is the way to watch it.😊😊😊
This album is kinda like a crossroads, Iron Maiden with Paul as the vocalist was my dad's Boomer Generation Iron Maiden, they had more of a hardcore punk vibe to them. this was Bruce's first album singing with IM and Clive Burr's last as their drummer, it's where they became Generation X's Iron Maiden.
I like Clive, he's an amazing drummer but Nicko McBrain is my guy and Piece Of Mind is my favourite IM album, he had me with that quick but perfect opening on Where Eagles Dare. I had just gotten my first drum kit when Piece Of Mind released in 1984 and I played along to the cassette until my fingers bled and legs cramped, his style is so much fun to play, even though I need two bass pedals where Nicko and Clive who only used their right foot on bass.
Dave Lombardo and Alex Van Halen were the ones who made me want to play drums in the first place because the double bass sounded so awesome, that and I sucked at guitar. My Kit was Tama because Dave played Tama drums and my cymbals were Paiste 2002 Series because Alex used those, Clive and Nicko used Tama and Paiste, "Great minds think alike".
Actually Clive only used Tama drums on this album and tour, he used Ludwig drums on the previous albums. Ludwig is good, Alex Van Halen used them.
Yeah, _Piece of Mind_ is my favorite Maiden album, too, followed by _Killers_ .
The "boomer version?" There was only 1 year between the last DiAnno album (81), and the first with Dickinson, (82). News flash, everyone that got into iron maiden back then are boomers.
@@neillenet291 You're obviously Gen Z. News flash, I'm Gen X, but I got into Iron Maiden along with my dad, Boomer, in 1980. The first two albums were geared at 16+ and 20 somethings, Boomers, Gen X was all over Number of the Beast because of all the controversy in the news, religious groups lost their sh!t and every kid had to have that album, it wasn't like that with Iron Maiden and Killers, those were Boomer albums, Gen X didn't rush out to buy them but we did listen to them with older kids, siblings or parents, the oldest Gen Xers were 10, 11 years old, we did rush out to buy NotB and Piece Of Mind basically taking Iron Maiden as ours but allowed the Boomers to borrow our cassette or album.
@ll7868 nope, not obvious at all. I'm a boomer as well. And that's how I know of what I speak with regard to I ron Maiden. I saw them with paul dianoo and clive burr and many times with bruce dickinson. There is very little difference between musical taste of boomers and gen x in the early 80's. Gen x started in 1965. I was born in 61.
Drummers always had great upper bodies… you always knew 🥰
Oh yeah this is a classic 👍👍👍
Run to the hills.......
I know you have trouble with the music reactions sir but they are still my absolute favorites. I try to watch all reactions but the music rules!!!
Bruce has one of the best metal voices!
im sure i wasn't the first person to suggest watching the orig music video at some point, even if just for your own viewing....many props,much love
You my FRIEND are an Amazing Person! Peace and Love
2d song off Breakthrough, Iconic album that, more or less, Cemented their music into my brain!-lol...Along w/the title track, Hallowed Be Thy Name & Flight of Icarus....Maiden etched their name, and sound, in My Rock & Roll HOF....Up The Irons!
Good video brother of a excellent song of the Beast who wrote a excellent song about european invasion in América!!!
Our Cultures Authentics and Nativa American they will always continue!!!
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As a White guy who was a teenager when this came out, I can't comment on my reaction to it without some context. A few years before it came out, I was bored in 5th period in the 8th grade. "Bueller... Bueller" bored. So I picked up the only thing I had - my history text book and turned to the one chapter that had never been taught. What was this "Civil War" about anyway? Reading the first few chapters, I was like "What the F.., we had slaves?"
When I first listened to Run To The Hills, it taught me everything I needed to know about our treatment of Native Americans. Unlike the Los Angeles school district which taught me nothing about it.
Fast forward 40 years to George Floyd and Trumps superspreader rally in Tulsa, when I realized: I graduated from the LAUSD without them ever mentioning the Civil War, nor slavery. Not one lesson. No homework, no reading assignments, nothing at all. Yet they taught everything about the Holocaust. Saw the terrifying films, even had a survivor visit our class. But our own history? Nothing at all.
Badass song from a badass band!
I love Iron Maiden!😍
Great live music great concert I saw them live great music Dickerson had great voice he has best. Voice in music
A metal classic
Finally! Thank you for reacting to album version.
You've gotta do some Paul Di'Anno era Iron Maiden. I recommend Purgatory, Strange World, Killers, Phantom of the Opera, and Running Free for starters.
The Ides Of March/Wrathchild is a must hear from Killers, along with Murders In The Rue morgue, and Innocent Exile.
Such a great song! One of my favorites! 😅
Caught Somewhere In Time by them 🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘
Definitely my favorite Iron Maiden song!!!