there are so many, but "overkill" would be nice. "rock n' roll", "we are the roadcrew", "bomber", orgasmatron", etc. all classics. thanks for this reaction to the original. i watched the reaction video to sabaton, thanks for that as well. it's heartwarming to know that lemmy's music and lyrics continue to live on through younger generations. 🙂
The age limit was 18, but 16 year olds signed up anyway, "adding two years to our ages". However, the youngest known to have died in this battle was 12 years old. 12.
I caught a couple that weren't - there's at least one still from WW2, and a still from the US Civil War. A couple of the clips looked to be from movies. But the majority was definitely actually footage from the front.
No one was going to accuse Lemmy of being the world's finest singer, but when he sang he could make you feel like you were ten foot tall and bulletproof, he could break your heart to a million pieces, but on the rare occasion, he could also make you feel like you were staring eye to eye with a malevolent god.
Apparently calling for your mother is pretty common thing to do when you're dying. Cognitive function declines when you're bleeding to death and you fall back to a level of a child. People do it also outside war, but I imagine it must have been haunting for their comrades who were in the trench close by hearing the calls and them gradually getting weaker and weaker but could not go to help because they would have just immediately died themselves.
They had an age limit, but war was glorified and recruiters were paid commissions, so they kinda encouraged people to lie about their age to qualify. "Come back tomorrow when you're eighteen." And girls of their age were distributed white feathers to hand out on streets when they saw enlistment-age boys walking there. Many boys were kind of bullied into going. I am pretty sure the girls felt pretty bad when all the boys and men of certain age came back in coffins at once.
That was arguably a small percentage of the mainly because of the death toll particularly in the Britain they needed bodies and they just waved people through.
Thanks to you and your reaction on sabaton and 1916, I had my eyes open for them and the good music and storys they tell in their songs...so thank you sooo much! Really love your reactions on chris kläfford too..
The Peter Jackson documentary is well worth watching . All the footage is expertly colourised and he used lip readers to dub sound onto the silent early 20th ( 1916 -18 ) century comments and conversations.
Don't know why I just found this video today, saw your Sabaton video when you released it.. But I'm gratefull I found this song today. Awesome that you guys went and looked for the original, it's a song that is definately worth it. Love and respect from Malmö ☮
Hi guys 👋 I'm a Swedish prescriber (hope i spelled that right)🤔Just want to say that we have seen many anti war songs through the years,can't be to many of them i think😪 There was a guy in the nineteen sixties who came out with a song called (eve off destruction )and he is still alive 🙂that i think still is perhaps the best of all so called anti war song's 😔 Thanks for a great and fun channel 😁
Under normal circumstances, the recruitment age even back then was 18- Although most navies had apprentices serving on warships who could be as young as 16. However, during the early part of World War I especially, there were a lot of teenagers who lied about their ages and signed up, afraid that if they waited, the war would all be over and they'd miss out on the grand adventure. During that war- and to a lesser extent, during World War II- if a 15 year old came into a recruitment office claiming to be 18, the recruiter wouldn't try too hard to catch him in the lie.
glad you guys reacted to motorheads version. old Lemmy's version was much more emotional for many people in northern England because it was an open secret that in the Somme offensive the thought was as a northern lady said was of corse they sent the northern boys in first because army command deemed them less educated and too "THICK "to know what awaited them
My paternal grandfather survived. I wouldn't be here but for that fact. Family history is sketchy. Despite now living in Yorkshire, my family are Lancastrian. There's a great book about a Sheffield pals battalion. Fictional characters, but based upon actual history. John Harris: Covenant With Death. They were volunteers who went over the top on day one of The Somme.
it so hard to see that but people never learn about the past we all young people don't know what it was so many people kill but the war is going on it does no matter old war our new war it just a game for some
Was a bit dissapointed today when i searched on youtube for: 1916 Motorhead. And most of the results that came up was a cover of the song by a band i'm not that psycked about. Thanks for doing a reaction to the original though
they do have a age limit. But the dubiless officers will not care to look and see, tha't not your age.there was boys who joined the war at age 14 16 who managed to get in to the war?!?
England was lucky, for the Entente the war ended in 1918, but not for Russia. There was the biggest European civil war in history until 1924, people were dying of hunger and plague. Armies destroyed villages and towns while brothers killed each other.
