Burning Freeeeeeeeeeeeeedom - Maiden

Today's is Burns Day, also known as Burns Nicht which sounds German but hey ho. This is Steve 'Arry Harris's tribute to the Scot's sung by Bruce and after the jump Blaze. Freeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeedom

Between Nations Iron Maiden and Motörhead go Anti-War

I always thought a war was for the courageous heroes to fight,
To take up arms for country, to fight on the side of God and Right,
To win the bloody battle to proclaim victory is at hand,
To never surrender this soil so sacred is this land.

But I always knew a war was fought by reluctant heroes of chance,
Sent by fearless men of words using pen instead of lance,
Told by these men of power, ignorant to the pain,
That we must beat the bastards now and kill ‘till all are slain,
That we must hate our fellow man for his race, colour and creed,
Because hate is what we want and hate is what we need,
And so with God upon our side, death we shall not dread,
Until we have built Jerusalem from the corpses of their dead.

Copyright Craig Mitchell 1994

#OF: 2 Minutes to Midnight

Go to war again, blood is freedoms stain,
But dont you pray for my soul anymore.

Iron Maiden's powerful, classic anti-war song from the Powerslave album. As a child this had a deep impact on me, not so much the words which I knew were related to the then ongoing Cold War but the image of Eddie and Nuclear War (right).

According to many commentators we are closer to Nuclear War now (well it keeps proliferating and we keep trying to arm ourselves to the teeth) than we were back in the 1980's. We also had America threaten to use Nuclear Weapons (the small ones that no one ever really gets hurt by, they are Nice Nukes) in the Iraq war. WTF!?

As always if this doesn't play, there are more live videos (and the lyrics) after the jump: 

Aces High

We shall go on to the end. 

We shall fight in France 

We shall fightover the seas and oceans. 

We shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air. 

We shall defend our island whatever the cost may be.

We shall fight on beaches, 

We shall fight on the landing grounds, 

We shall fight in the fields and in the streets,

We shall fight on the hills. 

We shall never surrender.

Eddie's Little Brother

Revalations, one of the greatest Maiden tracks IMO, however this was just an excuse to post the amazing cover by Mark Covell of Megalomaniac Stewie Griffin as Eddie:

Video after the jump: