@@Mathijs1308 Looking for Freedom was also very popular but I think more emotional linked to the fall of the wall are "Winds of Change" by the Scorpions (1990) and "Freiheit" (Freedom) by MariusMüller-Westernhagen (1987). Looking for Freedom (1989) was just by accident published at the same time, it gave same spirit to the whole situation and Hasselhoff had this cool speaking car in Knight Rider. I would say if you ask Germans which of the three songs they would choose for playing on a remembrance party to the fall of the wall, "Looking for Freedom" would be in 3rd place.
General Patton was right. We should have settled this right at the end of WWII, while the armies were already there. What a crime of humanity East Berlin was. It's truly shameful that the world let it happen, and let it continue for so long.
This song was the Eastern Europe anthem in that time. After 1989, the entire region was in a constant change. For the good or for not that good. People were living, sensing and embracing freedom like something they have never seen before. This song embodies thru lyrics and music what we all felt back then. Also, feeling like this song needs to be heard today because of our current conflict. This is such a beautiful melody and sentiment. I pray the new children of tomorrow may still have dreams to share.
I know this comment is so late, but it wasn’t just an anthem in Germany all over the world and in the US. Besides research, watching the official video for the song is a must must must do whether it’s for a reaction or just for yourself! It explains with the emotion and the words and the feeling of the time was really about. With the Berlin wall falling on our televisions something we never thought we would ever see and I’m sure those in Germany never imagined. I have a piece of the wall myself! Please please watch the official video it is one of those moments that you’ve spoke about before. Now I have watched about 25 of your videos in the last 24 hours! Just found you and you are lovely and your passion for music moves me because I feel exactly the same. I have so many things to suggest and not sure where I can get a comment in that you’ll see. I might try to go over to twitch. But after the last day you know I have another new subscriber! You are enough!🫶🏻💕☀️✌️
Scorpions is a great band, actually something special for me. My father listened to them and he introduced me to this kind of bands. He has been dead for 6 years and just like with Queen or Tears For Fears when I listen to Scorpions I can feel him close to me
Such a great song! The origins are misconstrued in some ways, though. So many people believe it was specifically written for the fall of the Berlin Wall. The truth is, this song was conceived after the Scorpions played a festival in Moscow prior to the events of the wall falling. It marked one of the first times major rock bands played in the Soviet Union. Up to that point rock music was frowned upon there. So the fact they were in Moscow, in a massive stadium playing rock music, was monumental. And during that festival, a moment inspired the beginning roots of the song that we later knew: "I follow the Moskva down to Gorky Park" a reference to a moment they had sightseeing down the Moskva River while they were in Moscow, "An August Summer night" referring to the festival that took place in Moscow in August, "soliders passing by" was in reference to Red Army soliders, "Listening to the wind of change" in reference to how they felt to be playing in a country that long had been against that kind of music. The song was originally about THAT moment that they shared during that festival. Then before release of the song, the Berlin Wall fell and the song gained even more meaning. So yes, the song came to be the anthem for Germany during the fall of the Berlin Wall and an International anthem for the end of the Cold War, but at it's roots, it was a song about Moscow and how they were apart of a festival where they (all the bands) felt like "changes" were coming... "The future is in the air, I can feel it everywhere, I'm blowing with the wind of change". On point for what was to come. The official video released after all these events and the band wanted to include imagery of the Wall coming down because the song took on deeper meaning at home. So, Wind of Change is the perfect example of how a song can become about more than what it was originally intended to be. A beacon of hope in a time where some of the most impactful changes in history happened. And let's face it, the song is beautiful. Great reaction :)
It's sad that the youth of today doesn't knowabout the changes of the late '80s early '90s! It must be on those of us who experienced it to show them. To tell them, and to teach them.Teach them that freedoms are not for free.
@@alanbarr9327 There is no such thing as a free dom. It takes sacrifices even if its without "violence". Those sacrifices are rarely even talked about. ask a east german, they will swallow you hole.
As a retired Marine who served from 79-99, the Cold War was the core of my service. We spent years training for war with the Soviet Union. I spent a couple years on ship in the Mediterranean, Red Sea, Indian Ocean, the Black Sea and the Atlantic with our ships shadowed by Soviet ships and planes. That time period was tense with war drums . . . . . insurgencies in Central America funded by the Soviets and funneled through Cuba. This song came out around when the Berlin Wall came down. So much going on in the world at the time. This song with many others were the anthem of the time. We all felt like war was over forever. Semper fidelis.
I was young when the wall of Berlin came down. It wasn't until the last ten years or so that I understood the impact of that moment meant. Excellent song. ❤
This song takes me back to my younger years traveling 6 hours this song comes on and I look out the window and just remember all the good times I had ❤🌹
I was in Germany stationed at Bad Kissingen when the wall came down. It was amazing to see those who crossed over and stopped and looked with awe how things were on the free side of Germany.💕
Absolutely timeless and transcends time. We should really put these ballads from Scorpions in a time capsule and send them out to space, for the joy of having all the stars, planets and entire Universe listen to it too. Another great ballad from Scorpions is a Japanese folk song called Kojo No Tsuki. They played this to a live audience in Tokyo and features on theircl album called Tokyo Tapes. An absolute gem of a song. Thank-you 🎸🌻⭐️
going back to the 60'S was a 100 times better than the 80's...but its true...the 80's held a spark of the 60's in them...but the 60's had the most creative transforming music of the last 500 years! almost all of the groups in the 60's had songs like this...uplifting and joyful and most of them had real MEANING and worth...
As an old grey haired fool who's been listening to rock music for over 60 years, I've found that you hear the song when you were meant to hear the song. I love watching young folks hear my music for the first time. It brings back memories of when I first heard the song. Many a time I've shed a tear as I see some young person express love for a song that was very important to my youth. Congrats on your new digs, make sure you get your favorite plant friends in place once you've settled. Thanks for the reaction and be safe!
I was in the USAF stationed in Holand and was an F15 jet engine mechanic when the wall fell in Berlin and this song came out it always brings me back to that time.
It’s been said before already but yes, this song is THE anthem for the fall of the Berlin Wall, timeless and soooo beautiful. Unfortunately you did a very short version of a TV appearance from this song, the full version is so much more beautiful and you missed really almost the essence of the song and a very beautiful guitar solo. Definitely have to do this one again in the right version Aileen!
I've visited their concert tonight - they are as good as ever. Absolutely blessed to be able to say they are from my hometown and are rocking it for so many years now
One of my earliest event memories was seeing the berlin wall come down on tv, i didnt understand it as a child but as a adult im grateful i got to see such a moment in humanity. This song always makes me remember that moment. ❤️
I've always had such a crush the singer,Klaus Mein. He's just so awesome. :} OH! Half the song is missing! .."The wind of change blows straight Into the face of time, like a storm wind that will ring The freedom bell for peace of mind Let your balalaika sing what my guitar wants to say" And the beautiful guitar solo and the outro.
so glad to see you go on a Scorpions journey. I would definitely recommend "No One Like You". Such a banger. Also for the best guitar riffs you'll ever hear and a VERY underrated song of theirs "Catch Your Train". Happy to see you back 😊👍
And remember, all of these classics were sung without autotune, with live instruments, and if you didn't sing in tune the audience ripped you apart for it! Also, SPARKLERS!!!! Nobody holding their cell phones up. You brought you Zippo or Bic and you lit it up in respect for the song! Fantastic pick! Keep em coming!
Unfortunately this was not a live audio performance. It was either lipsynched or the audio has been replaced. It sounds identical to the studio version and the volume of his voice doesn't change whenever he pulls the microphone away.
We had a new piano music laboratory when I was in high school and this song was one that the teacher made us learn. Even though I listen mostly to heavy metal and classic, some of Scorpions songs will always be in phone no matter what. I hope you design you new home to your liking Aileen, brilliant video, have a superb day.🙂
On eof the songs my mom said they listened a lot when I was a baby with me. I've had a very, very close connection and soothing reaction to this song. I'm glad my dad saved my mom from sports to rock music. Good job dad, rip.
Yes, this song became an anthem of November 9th, 1989 when the wall in Berlin came down. However, the original song is not about that. Gorky Park is not in Berlin. They just put scenes of Berlin into the music video. It's a great song though. One of the Scorpions' classics.
Good song. Haha, they actually have a song titled, 'In Trance' from the album of the same name. Lonesome Crow is an awesome song. Drifting Sun (vocals by Ulrich Roth), Fly to the Rainbow, Polar Nights (vocals by Roth), We'll Burn the Sky, The Sails of Charon, When the Smoke is Going Down & Woman are great songs too. Oh yeah, Winds of Change by Jefferson Starship is a really good song too, & Quit Wasting Time from the same album. Actually, the entire album is great.
Scorpions did a very good job capturing the mood of the time in this song. The iron curtain and the Berlin Wall broke down, more and more countries in Eastern Europe became democracies, east and west came closer together after decades of nuclear threat, it was a time of a general spirit of optimism. And this song was the soundtrack for it.
I still remember as a kid, watching the berlin wall fall, feeling the hope that kinda spread world wide. Glad my generation was the last to be taught duck and cover under our desks incase of a nuclear war.
Parts of me wish I could grow up in either the 60s or 80s for this kind music back then. It definitely feels like you’re in a trance with his voice, like you said. Also, you always have the absolute cutest expressions ❤😭
This is one of the songs I remember from my childhood. it was everywhere. In the car, in the radio. The background track with the Berlin wall going down, and the iron wall breaking. Hearing it just takes me back to being a kid back then. Because I actually remember it from it. And its not really many things you remember from the early years.
Voce, Aileen, está assistindo vídeos mais curtos, pois a música não acaba nesse momento. Ainda tinha solos de guitarra e outras partes vocalizadas. Abraço do Leo. Brasil.
This song is amazing..so emotional..I was a teen in 1989 and I thought that the end of the Iron curtain would surely see peace in our time, alas not but still we live in hope..
big song around the time the wall came down. I was there serving when the wall came down, and myself and 2 buddies took a truck to Berlin to see history. Officially the end of the cold war.
So many memories. Was a US military NCO in Europe on that November night in 1989, walked into the pub just outside of Madrid, and there was no music, everyone just staring at the TV's over the bar. People dancing on a wall, I asked what was going on, and people just pointed at the TV's and said, "Berlin. You did this." I served in the Cold War, as did my Dad, and my Grandfather, all three of us in both "Cold" and "hot" wars, and while we played a part, I realized what I watching what was going on in Berlin, that it wasn't us that had finally ended the Cold War, it was the oppressed citizens of Eastern Europe, and their allies in the West, and all those that gave so much in the name of Freedom, that finally tore down that rusty, old Iron Curtain.
The thing I love so so much about all the variety of music out there is that there is something out there for every mood you can imagine. I listen to music based on my emotion of the moment. Some days the thought of hearing a voice just grinds on me and I want pure classical violin and piano. Other times I'm so full of energy I don't know what to do with myself so I bust out some rare Cannibal Corpse and go ballistic. I sometimes find myself in weird moods I can hardly describe and find a song from the 30's, 40's, and so on that only fits that specific mood I'm in. It is wonderful to have so much choice and so much good music.
I know an American hillbilly guy who was in Russia at the time studying for his degree in what was to become a pharmaceutical research scientist. He said this song was playing all over Russia at the time the wall was being taken down. The whole atmosphere there was somewhat electrified. Pity it never lasted....
This is a fantastic Anthem from the Scorp`s and on the other end of their musical spectrum "Animal Magentism" (the Song) reigns supreme. Aileen, you have got to check it out! I remember when they tore down the Berlin Wall and shortly after the Scorpions released this, its an Incredible song of historical value and to a Great time in the History of Germany!
Yes! I’m clicking like before it even starts, I know you’re gonna really like this. Hard to explain how this had such a global affect,…just a beautiful & historic song. The band actually performed this for Gorbachev in Moscow a few years later.
The very first time I heard this was while watching a Filipino band in Singapore. I had been at sea so didn't get to hear it before that. LOVE Scorpions. Favorite song from them. 05/10/2018 GSR Reno, NV😎
I love this song so much. It brings me back to when I was in my early 20's when the world was for the taking and life was so exciting and there was so little responsibility
If you get an opportunity, you REALLY need to listen to the full version of this song. So, so, much more to this song especially when you see all the video that goes with it. I CAN NOT STRESS ENOUGH HOW MUCH YOU NEED TO LISTEN TO IT. Love your channel and watching you. Just a couple of suggestions - John Denver's Annie's Song and Calypso. You will love them both.
My dad was in the Army when he was stationed in Germany in 84'-89', he took the one and only chance to go to Eastern Germany before the wall fell he got a Stein that has the USSR on it. He then got a call that his Dad passed away so he came back to the US and he was watching the news when the wall came down. He missed the tear down by 6 months he said.
Enjoyable reaction. If you want another song with a similar feel then do their song Send Me An Angel. If you want a song of theirs with a totally different feel then the songs Blackout, Big City Nights, or When Passion Rules The Game.
Nice, great song choice!! If you wanna check out more from Scorpions, I highly recommend "The Zoo" next. Very underrated song, good to see you posting again! 🤘🤘🤙🤙
Welcome to the new home, hope it's everything you wanted. So happy you did this song. It's a big deal to us older people who were around when the wall came down.
Aileen Singer, Klaus Meine, who will be 75 in this month still has his vocal skills. He other members still rocking for 58+ years as Scorpions. Scorpions has influenced a lot of biggest bands in Rock such as Motley Crue and Metallica.
This is such a great song by the band Scorpions is one of my favorite rock and metal bands of all time it's really sad that they are not in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
Nice reaction as always. This song became kind of an anthem to the german reunification. Another great german band of this time period would be the "Münchener Freiheit" or just "Freiheit" as it is known in english speaking countries. Their songs are mostly in german but some of their more popular stuff was also rearranged into english lyrics. One of their most popular songs would be "so lang man Träume noch leben kann" in german or "Keeping the dream alive" (english version) which is often played in the UK during Christmas also it is not really a Christmas song.
This is a song that doesn't judge, doesn't care, its as free as a butterfly in the wind,,, Hits the soul every time your driving on that highway, late night with a summer breeze, windows down, and your just vibing to the star line sky.. And than... It HITS you.. The Winds of Change :)
