Mark Knopler of the British band Dire Straits wrote this in response to the Falkland War (1982). The Finnish a capella group Club For Five arranged it for a capella. Tim only added the echoes to the Club For Five arrangement. HF sung this in response to the divisions in our country. A HF masterpiece. We're fools to make war with our brothers (and sisters) in arms.
I highly recommend that you watch the Club for Five version. Although it's the same arrangement, it's quite a different feel because it is mixed male and female voices with instruments. The Dire Straits original is like a totally different song. When I went to listen, I initially thought I'd clicked on the wrong link.
@kmwwrench I agree; each group has a different style, especially a capella versus instrumental. Even the early and late versions by Dire Straits have a bit of a different feel.
@@brendasorenson6186 Shoot. I actually meant to make this a direct comment, not a reply to you. Obviously, you already knew the other versions. Duh. Brain fart.
Mark Knopfler wrote a great song. Club for Five arranged it so well. (Home Free used it with permission) Home Free sang it beautifully. And the video is amazing.
Who new that humming could sound so good? Other than the occasional wind/flag noise, it's entirely 5 part harmony. Yes, the transparency is on purpose - he's a soldier dying on the battlefield and his fellows did not desert him. It's a Dire Straits cover - written after the Falkland War. Glad Teri requested this, and you did an awesome job reacting to it. Thanks.
My eldest brother made me work out with him as a young teen, we listened to the original dire straits album.... was a great workout album, these boys do great.
he is the ghost, living in the mountians, but his home was the lowlands...... he s buried away from home, missing his brothers in arms, during the war, the rebellion.
No need to apologize for the emotion they evoke with their exceptional vocalization that makes you think instruments and insane harmonies are all happening at times you are not expecting or prepared to encounter as they bring the words alive in way you have never heard before. Their arrangements are sensationally good and they own the presentation in a new way that just wow you!!! They simply take a cover and make it new and make it better every time. ❣
You know when you are listening to great singers when they are only hummin and you get goosebumps. Tim sang this differently than his normal bass. He chose to do it breathy because he is a soldier dying on the field of battle speaking to his fellow soldiers. The background harmonies are so beautiful. Everyone who wants to learn how to harmonize should take a class from these guys. Yes, other groups harmonize and they may even sound good but they don't sound like this.
This is an amazing song, hands down…. But it reminds me of the song “Hero’s” by MiKA, if you haven’t heard you need to. But back to this song Chance is killing it!!!!♥️
No matter how many times I listen to this it never fails to evoke the deepest of emotions. Your reaction was lovely. It's nearly impossible to not become emotional listening to the harmonies and the message.
This song, as sung by Home Free, gives me so much of a body response. I shiver, I cry, I have goosebumps on my goosebumps. But I actually feel like I have a low voltage electrical current running through my body! I love your reactions, but especially when the music takes you over with whatever emotion Home Free is trying to evoke! These men are so special! ❤
This is such a powerful song. The singing & harmonies are wonderful. The chorusing between the 2nd and 3rd verses makes me think of wailing at a funeral. Thanks for playing this & your comments. You have the ability to understand lyrics that so many reactors are lacking. BTW - Tim, Austin & friends do fund raising for at-risk veterans.
Dire Straights! Tim sounds great, Chance sounds great. They sang it with so much emotion. Tim's voice is so comforting. It's never harsh. Beautiful TIMber.
Angelic choir backed by a pipe organ. Regarding Chance’s storytelling style- if I remember correctly, you have yet to react to “I Can’t Outrun You”- Chance lead, 5 part harmony, hauntingly beautiful, and Chance directed the video. Chance is singing in his beautiful lower register. It’s one of my very favorite HF songs. I’ve said this in some comments I’ve written, that Chance reminds me so much of Gordon Lightfoot- not just his storytelling ability, but also the smoothness and warmth of his voice.
I love this song and it hits home with me more so than with some. My husband and both my boys served in the U.S. Army, and I couldn't be more proud of them and their willingness to fight for our rights and freedoms. It makes this mamas heart very proud. It also gave me the longest year of my life when my oldest spent a year in Afghanistan during the height of the battles there. He lost a very good friend over there and came home a changed person. Definitely more mature, but also sadder and a bit wiser. I find it sad to think what people are willing to do to each other.
I don't know how much layering was done in this, but how in the world do 5 guys sound like a 20-voice choir? these gentlemen never cease to amaze me. no percusion, just pure vocal harmony. Goosebump city!
Thanks for your reaction. I have always been a fan of this song by Dire Straits but think Home Free did an excellent version of this song. Tim's natural breathy bass was awesome along with Chance's smooth baritone & loved it when all the guys were doing 5 part harmonies. Who would believe humming could sound so good. They gave it a very solemn feeling. I love that they don't overproduce their songs. These guys are my favorite a cappella group out there.
Hauntingly beautiful! Love the echoes and yes, I thought Tim and Chance looked ghost-like in the windows. Love those lows by Tim…goodness it’s low. So beautifully sung. One of my favorites by them. Good reaction DJ!🤩
This is by far one of my favorite Home Free covers. My family has a proud military history, and this moves me deeply. Tim and Chances’ silhouette against the light from the window is deliberately ghostly…and also very reminiscent of the POW-MIA remembrance flags we fly to honor and support our military captured and missing. Incredible job by Home Free.
This is one of my favourite HF songs - however I can only listen to it occasionally as it wrecks me every time. (note I love Tims voice - but it's Chance in this one that just gets me) Great reaction!
Tim's part of this song is riveting. It's just impossible not to listen. Chance's part is emotional and beautiful to listen to. The background vocals are exceptional.
I love this version....I don't have any military experience, but do have family members that do.....but I have great respect for them, and the sacrifices they give to protect us. Everytime I hear HF sing this, I get goosebumps, and tears in my eyes, mainly due to the harmonies, but also the video as well.
I saw Dire Straits perform this live on their Brothers in Arms tour in the late 1980s, that memory will stay with me forever. Such an emotive track and Home Free certainly did it justice.
This is, in my opinion, the best cover/recording done by Home Free. It is top notice and really gets you in the feels. This is probably my top favorite of theirs (for now). Loved your reaction! When Tim started singing, your reaction was like so many others who wasn’t expecting it. The harmonies were beautifully haunting. Chance and Tim were perfect for this somber song. The setting was perfect, as well!
This hits all the feels. I love that Chance gets to shine a little. He's done some amazing work with The Fox+The Hound too. If you look on VoicePlay's album of Sing Off stuff, you'll see a duet with Street Corner Symphony. Chance was the bass for the group at that time so that's how he met them and Home Free.
This is such a powerful song! I'm in tears every time I hear it! War is a nasty, brutal business. Sadly, it can't always be avoided. My dad was at Utah Beach during the Normandy invasion. He was a medic. Not a good day. My first cousin did three tours in Vietnam (and survived). I missed going by one year (graduated high school in 1973). This song pays tribute to all the men and women who died because someone with too much power and delusion decided to take what wasn't theirs. I look forward to the day when the world matures to the point that war becomes unnecessary. In the meantime, "sic pace, para bellum" (If you want peace, prepare for war). We still need our warriors and men and women of honor on the walls to make the cost of messing with us too high to pay.
Home Free always pays appropriate respect in their covers--especially to the content! Their talent is amazing--and I LOVE their 5-part harmony❣️🎼🥰🎶❤️ Such a genius touch to show the silhouette of the fellas in front of the window. I know some see it as a "ghost"y reference but it strikes me as a reflection of the POW/MIA flag. We'll never know just how many of those met the same fate as the soldier of this song. 😥
I love your reactions. I look forward to them every time I notice a new one being posted. The lines “There are so many different worlds There are so many different suns We have just one world but we live in different ones” are the most truest words out there for our society around the world.
This song grabs us inside and touches our hearts and souls! Home Free did a beautiful job covering this song for sure. It's amazing how they can do everything from silly, funny and sweet to seriously mind blowingly good lol So much talent in Home Free, I can't imagine any other person replacing any of them as they are perfect IMO as they are! Great reaction!
I've been listening to this song (Dire Straits and Home Free) for 40 years and it has NEVER failed to bring tears to my eyes and it often leaves me sobbing outright.
This is at the top of my list for favorite HomeFree song - they have sang this with such reverence and emotion- this is a very captivating piece of art in my opinion
You need to look out for Tim’s hands - the lower they go, the lower his voice goes. It gives you a few milliseconds to prepare to have your bones shook…
This one is definitely a deep one. Bro I’m from the states and I really enjoy your honest reactions. You allow the song to fill you and that’s special. Good job
I would like to recommend you listen to Sabaton’s version of The Somme 1916. If you haven’t listened to them there songs are about military history and well worth yours and our time.
I highly recommend that you watch the Club for Five version. Although it's the same arrangement, it's quite different from the HF one. It is mixed male and female voices with instruments. The Dire Straits original is like a totally different song. In fact, when I went to listen to it I initially thought I'd clicked on the wrong link.
as fai as I am concerned this is their masterpiece. This was written by Mark Knopler, the lead singer for the 1980's band "Dire Straits". He wrote this to commemorate the war dead in the 1982 Falklands Wae between the UK and Argentina. It lasted less than 6 weeks and 907 were killed, including 3 civilians that lived on the Falkland Islands (they have been British possessions since the 18th century) 94% of the 2,840 islanders are of British descent and in the last vote on independence 98% voted to remain British in 2006.
I think that Mark was sickened (as were many British people) at the triumphalism of the Thatcher government over so much unnecessary bloodshed, so he wanted to create a lament for the dead that would be truthful. My brother was in the army at the time, thank God he didn't go to the Malvinas, but what he passed on from friends who had been there was horrifying. Most of the Argentinian dead were 17-year-old conscripts.
@@patriciamcl54 I see what you did with the FALKLANDS name. Obe thing good the war did was hasten the demise of the Military Junta's regime....thy had killed thousands of Argentinians who just disappeared.......still today most of them we don't know their fate. Thank God for Mrs Thatcher's patriotism. Thee Falklands have been in British possession for over 250 years (since before there WAS an Argentina)
Ethereal. Haunting. Gut wrenching. Soul stirring. Angelic. The only thing missing was the seraphic choir backing them up. Excuse me while I track down my soul and stuff it back into my body...
Great reaction to a well-done cover. Your words were fitting. I noticed your power ranger decor. Dimash Qudaibergen does their theme song. It is an "up" lifting, energizing rendition. I think you'll like it!
Dang. made me cry again! So beautiful, and, as you say, great message. Anti-war but pro-soldier is my preferred stance: I always give money to the Royal British Legion around Remembrance Day because they do the work that our government should be doing to look after soldiers, vets, and their families; but I won't wear the poppy because of how the government uses it politically. It's a compromise position - I'd like to visibly show my support for the people involved, but until war is seen as a true last resort it's more important not to appear supportive of jingoism. And since we have sent soldiers to fight abroad every single year since the First World War, I don't have much hope of that changing any time soon. We're fools indeed.
Nice job DJ. This is one of my favourites with such a perfect message and imagery. I think this was a kind of a war protest song from the point of view of a dying soldier surrounded by his compatriots. Sans the American flag, it could be any soldier, anywhere.
Oh my gosh DJ, you got so emotional in this one. You are really feeling this one and it is so beautiful to see you getting into this music. This song is stunning, thank you Teri for putting this in front DJ and thank you DJ for reminding us why we love to watch you react to Home Free. You looked like you needed a hug at the end of that one... love to you and yours 💗
I always liked the Dire Straits version, but I only got really interested in this song through Home Free. (Although I have to be honest I think Dire Straits guitar playing is phenomenal) Yes, this version of Home Free will send shivers through your entire body! This is so emotional. Beautifully sung by Tim and Chance, but the background and harmony of Adam, Rob and Austin is also so beautiful. It looks like a choir or actually a kind of church organ sounds. And the whole setting of the video is just amazing. Simple but with so many details that makes it so profound
I would love for you to do travelin Soldier Dixie Chick cover by the Home Free but do the live version were there all onstage just the five of them.. it is absolutely breathtaking 🏡🆓🏡🍟
The original is by Dire Straits, as I'm sure others have said. I, personally, prefer HF's version. Somehow....just the pure beauty of nothing but the human voice gives the song more gravitas than the instruments did when sun by DS. Don't get me wrong, it's a beautiful song. I just...prefer this version to the original.
I confess I'm quite surprised you didn't know the Dire Straits' original song. This is one of those songs that have me in tears EVERY. SINGLE. TIME. Regardless if it's performed by Dire Straits, Home Free, Mark Knopfler alone or whatever. It's just one of the most beautiful, and profound, songs EVER. You should really watch the original video by Dire Straits, and pay attention to the words AND the music at the same time. Now, this is an incredibly good version, understand me. An amazing rendition. But still, I feel it's missing Mark's guitar, which in this particular song is so different from what we're used to hear from him. And the voice too, but can't say the voices here aren't absolutely great: they ARE, and then some... 🙂 See you next time.
Mark Knopler of the British band Dire Straits wrote this in response to the Falkland War (1982). The Finnish a capella group Club For Five arranged it for a capella. Tim only added the echoes to the Club For Five arrangement. HF sung this in response to the divisions in our country. A HF masterpiece. We're fools to make war with our brothers (and sisters) in arms.
Their “Travelin’ Soldier” will wreck you.
👏 👏 ❤❤
I highly recommend that you watch the Club for Five version. Although it's the same arrangement, it's quite a different feel because it is mixed male and female voices with instruments. The Dire Straits original is like a totally different song. When I went to listen, I initially thought I'd clicked on the wrong link.
@kmwwrench I agree; each group has a different style, especially a capella versus instrumental. Even the early and late versions by Dire Straits have a bit of a different feel.
@@brendasorenson6186 Shoot. I actually meant to make this a direct comment, not a reply to you. Obviously, you already knew the other versions. Duh. Brain fart.
A hauntingly beautiful song, written from the perspective of a soldier dying on the battlefield in a foreign land.
Mark Knopfler wrote a great song.
Club for Five arranged it so well. (Home Free used it with permission)
Home Free sang it beautifully.
And the video is amazing.
It's well worth the time to check out Club For Five's rendition as well.
@@daventunes3822 Seconded! I just watched it and it's amazing.
And now you know why we Home Fries call this one a masterpiece
Who new that humming could sound so good? Other than the occasional wind/flag noise, it's entirely 5 part harmony. Yes, the transparency is on purpose - he's a soldier dying on the battlefield and his fellows did not desert him. It's a Dire Straits cover - written after the Falkland War. Glad Teri requested this, and you did an awesome job reacting to it. Thanks.
Dire straights wrote this for the falk. War. Their version is mostly acoustic. It’s great
My eldest brother made me work out with him as a young teen, we listened to the original dire straits album.... was a great workout album, these boys do great.
One of the best acapella groups to ever exist.
This is a true HF masterpiece. The talent that these men have is unmatched!! Adore this one
he is the ghost, living in the mountians, but his home was the lowlands...... he s buried away from home, missing his brothers in arms, during the war, the rebellion.
No need to apologize for the emotion they evoke with their exceptional vocalization that makes you think instruments and insane harmonies are all happening at times you are not expecting or prepared to encounter as they bring the words alive in way you have never heard before. Their arrangements are sensationally good and they own the presentation in a new way that just wow you!!! They simply take a cover and make it new and make it better every time. ❣
Hauntingly beautiful; no other group can touch my soul quite like Home Free. They are simply the best in every way. Love them to pieces ❤️
The conflict is the war in the Falklands (England/Argentina). Did you hear Tim becoming a cathedral-sized organ? Amazing work.
You know when you are listening to great singers when they are only hummin and you get goosebumps. Tim sang this differently than his normal bass. He chose to do it breathy because he is a soldier dying on the field of battle speaking to his fellow soldiers. The background harmonies are so beautiful. Everyone who wants to learn how to harmonize should take a class from these guys. Yes, other groups harmonize and they may even sound good but they don't sound like this.
Wish I could "like" this more than once! Thank you.
This is an amazing song, hands down…. But it reminds me of the song “Hero’s” by MiKA, if you haven’t heard you need to.
But back to this song Chance is killing it!!!!♥️
No matter how many times I listen to this it never fails to evoke the deepest of emotions. Your reaction was lovely. It's nearly impossible to not become emotional listening to the harmonies and the message.
Visual overload, audio overload, emotional overload. Epic honor to all defenders of their countries.
I'm going to need more than minute to work through the emotions they evoked with this one.
Hauntingly beautiful.
I love the way Home Free sing this song. Tim's low bass voice fits this song. Chance did a great job on this song to. The harmonies are great.
This song, as sung by Home Free, gives me so much of a body response. I shiver, I cry, I have goosebumps on my goosebumps. But I actually feel like I have a low voltage electrical current running through my body! I love your reactions, but especially when the music takes you over with whatever emotion Home Free is trying to evoke! These men are so special! ❤
This is such a powerful song. The singing & harmonies are wonderful. The chorusing between the 2nd and 3rd verses makes me think of wailing at a funeral. Thanks for playing this & your comments. You have the ability to understand lyrics that so many reactors are lacking. BTW - Tim, Austin & friends do fund raising for at-risk veterans.
I don't know if you've ever seen the video of Edwin Starr's1970 song "War" - expands on what you said about wars. A really powerful song.
Tim and Austin have just raised 45,000 dollars for veterans
This totally sounds like an entire choir! This is a masterpiece of talent!
Dire Straights! Tim sounds great, Chance sounds great. They sang it with so much emotion. Tim's voice is so comforting. It's never harsh. Beautiful TIMber.
Angelic choir backed by a pipe organ. Regarding Chance’s storytelling style- if I remember correctly, you have yet to react to “I Can’t Outrun You”- Chance lead, 5 part harmony, hauntingly beautiful, and Chance directed the video. Chance is singing in his beautiful lower register. It’s one of my very favorite HF songs. I’ve said this in some comments I’ve written, that Chance reminds me so much of Gordon Lightfoot- not just his storytelling ability, but also the smoothness and warmth of his voice.
You are 19 short for emotional damage 😢
The visuals are difficult to watch but love this song so much.
I love this song and it hits home with me more so than with some. My husband and both my boys served in the U.S. Army, and I couldn't be more proud of them and their willingness to fight for our rights and freedoms. It makes this mamas heart very proud. It also gave me the longest year of my life when my oldest spent a year in Afghanistan during the height of the battles there. He lost a very good friend over there and came home a changed person. Definitely more mature, but also sadder and a bit wiser. I find it sad to think what people are willing to do to each other.
'Emotionally draining' is exactly what I was going to say. Great reaction❤
I don't know how much layering was done in this, but how in the world do 5 guys sound like a 20-voice choir?
these gentlemen never cease to amaze me. no percusion, just pure vocal harmony. Goosebump city!
Thanks for your reaction. I have always been a fan of this song by Dire Straits but think Home Free did an excellent version of this song. Tim's natural breathy bass was awesome along with Chance's smooth baritone & loved it when all the guys were doing 5 part harmonies. Who would believe humming could sound so good. They gave it a very solemn feeling. I love that they don't overproduce their songs. These guys are my favorite a cappella group out there.
Voices from the grave.
Exactly
As the poster from my generation said" War is not healthy for Children and Other Living Things.
A masterpiece of harmony
Absolutely right!
This is a Masterpiece
The best ever dire straits song killed by an amazing group
Amazing! Thank for the reaction! CHEERS!!
You hear it bro.... you hear it.
Hauntingly beautiful! Love the echoes and yes, I thought Tim and Chance looked ghost-like in the windows. Love those lows by Tim…goodness it’s low. So beautifully sung. One of my favorites by them. Good reaction DJ!🤩
Only +1 was not enough protection for this one!
Like the +1 cloak of the panda...thanks for the hard work!
Such a beautiful yet heart wrenching performance of a song with powerful lyrics, sung to perfection. Home Free just continues to amaze!
This, imo, is their finest masterpiece of 5 part A cappella harmony. Helplessly Hoping was their gold standard, but this was their platinum.
This is by far one of my favorite Home Free covers. My family has a proud military history, and this moves me deeply. Tim and Chances’ silhouette against the light from the window is deliberately ghostly…and also very reminiscent of the POW-MIA remembrance flags we fly to honor and support our military captured and missing. Incredible job by Home Free.
The chords they sing in the background of this one always remind me of a pipe organ. It it hauntingly beautiful!
I wish I saw you react to this 3 months ago.
From what I understand, this song is about a soldier dying on the battlefield
If you want another one with five-part harmonies and no beatboxing, check out their cover of Crosby, Stills, and Nash’s “Helplessly Hoping”!
He's already done Helplessly Hoping.
@@starcarm, thanks. I couldn’t remember. I probably saw it and made the same comment there recommending this one!
This was your most sincere, honest, and 'real' reaction. Best you have done. Hands-down. Great job.
This is one of my favourite HF songs - however I can only listen to it occasionally as it wrecks me every time. (note I love Tims voice - but it's Chance in this one that just gets me) Great reaction!
Tim's part of this song is riveting. It's just impossible not to listen. Chance's part is emotional and beautiful to listen to. The background vocals are exceptional.
I love this version....I don't have any military experience, but do have family members that do.....but I have great respect for them, and the sacrifices they give to protect us. Everytime I hear HF sing this, I get goosebumps, and tears in my eyes, mainly due to the harmonies, but also the video as well.
I love this song and now I have two versions I love Celtic Thunder and Home Free
A beautiful song to brave souls. ❤🐇
Thank you for your reaction. This song always brings me to tears.
I saw Dire Straits perform this live on their Brothers in Arms tour in the late 1980s, that memory will stay with me forever.
Such an emotive track and Home Free certainly did it justice.
This is, in my opinion, the best cover/recording done by Home Free. It is top notice and really gets you in the feels. This is probably my top favorite of theirs (for now). Loved your reaction! When Tim started singing, your reaction was like so many others who wasn’t expecting it. The harmonies were beautifully haunting. Chance and Tim were perfect for this somber song. The setting was perfect, as well!
This hits all the feels. I love that Chance gets to shine a little. He's done some amazing work with The Fox+The Hound too. If you look on VoicePlay's album of Sing Off stuff, you'll see a duet with Street Corner Symphony. Chance was the bass for the group at that time so that's how he met them and Home Free.
I love this song Thanks for reacting to it. I have two nephews who served in Iraq. Thank God they made it home safely.
Thank you for your beautiful reaction to a very profound message, profoundly delivered. Home Free really gets it.
This is such a powerful song! I'm in tears every time I hear it! War is a nasty, brutal business. Sadly, it can't always be avoided. My dad was at Utah Beach during the Normandy invasion. He was a medic. Not a good day. My first cousin did three tours in Vietnam (and survived). I missed going by one year (graduated high school in 1973). This song pays tribute to all the men and women who died because someone with too much power and delusion decided to take what wasn't theirs. I look forward to the day when the world matures to the point that war becomes unnecessary. In the meantime, "sic pace, para bellum" (If you want peace, prepare for war). We still need our warriors and men and women of honor on the walls to make the cost of messing with us too high to pay.
Home Free always pays appropriate respect in their covers--especially to the content! Their talent is amazing--and I LOVE their 5-part harmony❣️🎼🥰🎶❤️
Such a genius touch to show the silhouette of the fellas in front of the window. I know some see it as a "ghost"y reference but it strikes me as a reflection of the POW/MIA flag. We'll never know just how many of those met the same fate as the soldier of this song. 😥
The video is just as stunning as the music is.
I love your reactions. I look forward to them every time I notice a new one being posted.
The lines “There are so many different worlds There are so many different suns We have just one world but we live in different ones” are the most truest words out there for our society around the world.
You sumarized this song perfectly. It really doesn't get any better.
This song grabs us inside and touches our hearts and souls! Home Free did a beautiful job covering this song for sure. It's amazing how they can do everything from silly, funny and sweet to seriously mind blowingly good lol So much talent in Home Free, I can't imagine any other person replacing any of them as they are perfect IMO as they are! Great reaction!
you need to check out tim foust singing Edge of Glory country fried tim
🔥🔥HOMEFREE🔥🔥
I cried the first 7 times I watched this video 😓
I've been listening to this song (Dire Straits and Home Free) for 40 years and it has NEVER failed to bring tears to my eyes and it often leaves me sobbing outright.
This is at the top of my list for favorite HomeFree song - they have sang this with such reverence and emotion- this is a very captivating piece of art in my opinion
Sometimes you just have to sit and listen and let it wash over you....
Glad you liked it!! One of my favs!! Great reaction!! ❤
The lows on the section of the battle is both Tim and Chance doing bass so it's sounding that much more aggressive
Your best reaction ever!
You need to look out for Tim’s hands - the lower they go, the lower his voice goes. It gives you a few milliseconds to prepare to have your bones shook…
Beautiful ❤️ song. Great reaction 💖🤠💯🔥❤️
It's not often that a song makes me cry but this one did it
This one is definitely a deep one. Bro I’m from the states and I really enjoy your honest reactions. You allow the song to fill you and that’s special. Good job
One of my faves. It always makes me super emotional. Always. Glad you liked it.
I would like to recommend you listen to Sabaton’s version of The Somme 1916. If you haven’t listened to them there songs are about military history and well worth yours and our time.
I highly recommend that you watch the Club for Five version. Although it's the same arrangement, it's quite different from the HF one. It is mixed male and female voices with instruments. The Dire Straits original is like a totally different song. In fact, when I went to listen to it I initially thought I'd clicked on the wrong link.
as fai as I am concerned this is their masterpiece. This was written by Mark Knopler, the lead singer for the 1980's band "Dire Straits". He wrote this to commemorate the war dead in the 1982 Falklands Wae between the UK and Argentina. It lasted less than 6 weeks and 907 were killed, including 3 civilians that lived on the Falkland Islands (they have been British possessions since the 18th century) 94% of the 2,840 islanders are of British descent and in the last vote on independence 98% voted to remain British in 2006.
I think that Mark was sickened (as were many British people) at the triumphalism of the Thatcher government over so much unnecessary bloodshed, so he wanted to create a lament for the dead that would be truthful. My brother was in the army at the time, thank God he didn't go to the Malvinas, but what he passed on from friends who had been there was horrifying. Most of the Argentinian dead were 17-year-old conscripts.
@@patriciamcl54 I see what you did with the FALKLANDS name. Obe thing good the war did was hasten the demise of the Military Junta's regime....thy had killed thousands of Argentinians who just disappeared.......still today most of them we don't know their fate. Thank God for Mrs Thatcher's patriotism. Thee Falklands have been in British possession for over 250 years (since before there WAS an Argentina)
So excited to see your reaction on this... I absolutely adore your reactions you are too dang cute.. Love my Boys Love Home Free 🏡🆓🏡🍟
Ethereal. Haunting. Gut wrenching. Soul stirring. Angelic. The only thing missing was the seraphic choir backing them up.
Excuse me while I track down my soul and stuff it back into my body...
Great reaction to a well-done cover. Your words were fitting. I noticed your power ranger decor. Dimash Qudaibergen does their theme song. It is an "up" lifting, energizing rendition. I think you'll like it!
The harmonies are fantastic. Listen to the last two chords, they sound like a pipe organ to me! Enjoyed the reaction.
Dang. made me cry again! So beautiful, and, as you say, great message. Anti-war but pro-soldier is my preferred stance: I always give money to the Royal British Legion around Remembrance Day because they do the work that our government should be doing to look after soldiers, vets, and their families; but I won't wear the poppy because of how the government uses it politically. It's a compromise position - I'd like to visibly show my support for the people involved, but until war is seen as a true last resort it's more important not to appear supportive of jingoism. And since we have sent soldiers to fight abroad every single year since the First World War, I don't have much hope of that changing any time soon. We're fools indeed.
This is such a beautifully sad song, Home Free does it yet again! Love your reaction!
Nice job DJ. This is one of my favourites with such a perfect message and imagery. I think this was a kind of a war protest song from the point of view of a dying soldier surrounded by his compatriots. Sans the American flag, it could be any soldier, anywhere.
Oh my gosh DJ, you got so emotional in this one. You are really feeling this one and it is so beautiful to see you getting into this music.
This song is stunning, thank you Teri for putting this in front DJ and thank you DJ for reminding us why we love to watch you react to Home Free.
You looked like you needed a hug at the end of that one... love to you and yours 💗
Thanks Rula!! ❤
One of my top favs!
powerful
❤❤
You might want a tissue, or not, it is an emotion stirring song.
I always liked the Dire Straits version, but I only got really interested in this song through Home Free. (Although I have to be honest I think Dire Straits guitar playing is phenomenal)
Yes, this version of Home Free will send shivers through your entire body! This is so emotional. Beautifully sung by Tim and Chance, but the background and harmony of Adam, Rob and Austin is also so beautiful. It looks like a choir or actually a kind of church organ sounds. And the whole setting of the video is just amazing. Simple but with so many details that makes it so profound
Of course the guitar in Dire Straits’ original was outstanding. The great Mark Knopfler who wrote the song was lead guitar.
@@florencegrant-mc7bb that's right. Mark Knopfler, one of the best guitarists ever.
I would love for you to do travelin Soldier Dixie Chick cover by the Home Free but do the live version were there all onstage just the five of them.. it is absolutely breathtaking 🏡🆓🏡🍟
The chicks version is also a cover of the original 1996 Bruce Robinson song.
@@barrywood7322 thank you for the info I did not know that... I'll definitely have to check that out
@11:10 - nice 12th Doctor paraphrase.
The moment Tim drops to the basement on 7.18, if you look closely you can see Tim’s adamsappel drop 10 cm
Listen to the original by Dire Straits. The guitar really portrays the emotion you're feeling.
This will be awesome.
Those who start wars, send others to fight it. I think you would like Sabaton's cover of the Motorhead song 1916.
The original is by Dire Straits, as I'm sure others have said. I, personally, prefer HF's version. Somehow....just the pure beauty of nothing but the human voice gives the song more gravitas than the instruments did when sun by DS. Don't get me wrong, it's a beautiful song. I just...prefer this version to the original.
I confess I'm quite surprised you didn't know the Dire Straits' original song. This is one of those songs that have me in tears EVERY. SINGLE. TIME. Regardless if it's performed by Dire Straits, Home Free, Mark Knopfler alone or whatever. It's just one of the most beautiful, and profound, songs EVER. You should really watch the original video by Dire Straits, and pay attention to the words AND the music at the same time. Now, this is an incredibly good version, understand me. An amazing rendition. But still, I feel it's missing Mark's guitar, which in this particular song is so different from what we're used to hear from him. And the voice too, but can't say the voices here aren't absolutely great: they ARE, and then some... 🙂
See you next time.