The Scorpions are from Germany, this song is about the removal of the Berlin wall and reuniting east and west. The wall stood for 28 years dividing people and families.

@Aaron-io8vw

2 жыл бұрын

Sorry but that's not correct. The video shows the wall being torn down. But the song was written months before thar. It was inspired by the Scorpions playing The Moscow Peace Festival in August of 1989, the wall did not get ton down till October of that year.

@mickaelmatias6891

2 жыл бұрын

In one side there was capitalism, and on the other side communism...Nobody was tryng to go t the communist side

@Burlyhawk

2 жыл бұрын

@@Aaron-io8vw if it were only that simple. you are partially correct, yet so am I... The "Wind of Change" that was blowing was the fall of the Soviet Union, which is what the song is about, but when the Berlin Wall fell on November 9, 1989, the song became the unofficial anthem for the German Reunification, an event that politically lasted from the fall Wall to the official reunification on October 3, 1990. The official music video plays to this interpretation, with footage of the Berlin Wall being dismantled.

@callumnolan

2 жыл бұрын

@@Burlyhawk It's associated with the Berlin Wall but it is clearly not about Berlin, considering the Moskva and Gorky Park are in Moscow.

@Aaron-io8vw

2 жыл бұрын

@@Burlyhawk the song was still written in August before the wall came down I never said it did not come to symbolize the wall coming down but that was retroactive. its origin is from Western bands being able to play that concerts moscow. . Klaus' first lyrics reference Moscow not Berlin specifcally the Moskva river and Gorky park.

As already mentioned it's about the fall of the Berlin Wall. I know it may sound stupid but this song provided one of the best moments of my life. I was at the Scorpions gig to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the fall of wall, at the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin in 1999. When this song was played all these hairy arsed rockers, many of whom were former East Germans, all dressed in denim and leather (me included) were openly crying and hugging everyone around them. That night we truly did feel "like brothers" and we thought we could change the world. Sadly, it didn't turn out that way. I really wish we could all feel like that again, the world really needs it.

@cristyrawks6325

2 жыл бұрын

That's a wonderful memory, but the song wasn't written about the Berlin Wall. Glad you got to be there in 99 though.

@erichjacoby-hawkins3076

2 жыл бұрын

This song was written & released before the Berlin wall fell and Germany re-united, which is why it's set in Moscow, Russia rather than Germany. It was inspired by the changes of glasnost (openness) and perestroika (restructuring) that were ending the Soviet dominance of the Easter Bloc and in fact led to the fall of the Communist government and the release of the European satellite nations from behind the Iron Curtain. But it was out just in time for the Berlin Wall's collapse (both literal and figurative) so it became the theme song of that event & time.

@guidorehder6802

2 жыл бұрын

@@erichjacoby-hawkins3076 a lot of people don't get the lyrics or they just ignore them. I mean it's pretty obvious that Gorky Park is not in Berlin.

@cristyrawks6325

2 жыл бұрын

@@erichjacoby-hawkins3076 Erich, many of us on here, already went down the same rabbit hole in quite detail. lol

@justdave9610

2 жыл бұрын

Life is made up of moments, both ups and downs. You will always have that special moment and feeling though and change is built-in upon moments like those on a personal level. Such a touching story so thanks for sharing

It's about the end of the Cold War. Scorpions are a German band so they saw all that cold war stuff from up close.

@Huddle_House56

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah communism is so evil they had to write a beautiful song about how we beat it back for awhile

@benedekistvan2655

2 жыл бұрын

@@Huddle_House56 it's not about communism bro,it's about the end of cold war and peace.If it was about communism they couldn't have played it for Russians.

@Fuerwahrhalunke

2 жыл бұрын

"from up close" That doesn't even describe it that well. There was a literal wall that split our country for so long that even today there are cultural and economical differences between east and west. One country (And a nation state) divided into two because of (especially) Russia and America being at bureaucratic war that's visibally fought out in Germany. When you tried to cross the wall you got shot, when you lived in the east you had to be cautions who you talked to about what topic, there was the Stasi (Staatssicherheit = Nationsecurity) that put you into jail for saying or doing something that could be layed out as being against the DDR. Not to mention the torture done by the mentioned Stasi. There is a reason why east Germans are, for the most part, against socialism, communism and any form of left authoritarianism for that matter. They saw and felt what it can do.

@seantimmons5900

2 жыл бұрын

@@Fuerwahrhalunke I'm just going to mention that the Stassi we're always doing their own thing separate from the Soviets. They were an independent form of dictatorship.

@swabia1554

2 жыл бұрын

@@Fuerwahrhalunke Just fpr the details GDR is the international abreviation of what in German is called DDR. For me this song especially marks the era when Germany became finally reunited this song was kind of the soundtrack to it. So being divided since the end of WW II so 1945 onwards until 1990. Andaround 1989 this "wind of change " was felt more I'd say. I was 9 at the time. I know parts of my family which originates in the GDR this meant a lot because ppl back then fled from the East also because they were asked/forced to spy on their neighbors! And that meant risking their lifes.Our now ex chancellor Merkel also has lived in the former GDR.

This song is Iconic It was the Anthem of the fall of the Berlin Wall

@cristyrawks6325

2 жыл бұрын

It was the unofficial anthem. But, actually you know who was honored in having the theme song for the fall? David Hasselhoff. smh it was tragic.

@vanhattfield8292

2 жыл бұрын

​@@cristyrawks6325 I was lucky enough to be there when the wall came down as I was stationed in Germany at the time . I was also lucky enough to do the last SMLM checkpoint with the Soviets traveling from Baden Baden, Germany o Berlin, it was amazing. Normally it was an EXTREMELY serious event, the Soviet officer standing rigid and glaring as he would hand us his documents to verify and call in and doing the same as we received them and the handed them back once complete. A constant concern was that there would be an incident would occur, whether intentionally or through misunderstanding, and that it would be captured on video or pictures and create an international incident. The Cold War was still very much in effect. A day or two after the wall came down I was assigned to go to the checkpoint as there was a Soviet officer returning to Berlin. I arrived early and was standing by when they arrived but this time, instead of an ultra serious Russian stepping out of the car looking like he wanted to kill me, a very drunk and smiling older officer got out with two bottles of wine in hand and laughing. He approached with arms wide open as if to hug me. I held up a hand to stop him and once he did, I motioned to him to wait and returned to my squad car (I was an Army MP). I contacted our desk sergeant and notified him of the situation and he advised me to stand by. A few minutes later he called back and advised that it was over, I could do whatever I wanted but to stay professional. I exited my vehicle and approached the wobbling Russian and as I got close, I smiled and opened my arms and he grabbed me and picked me up off my feet, swinging m in a circle as he laughed and said something in Russian that I did not understand. When he put me down he handed me one of the bottles of wine and made motions to open it. I pointed at my MP brassard and gear and shook my head no and he understood. I gave him my head gear, which was just a standard BDU hat in return for the bottle of wine and he took off his hat, which was the round dress hat and gave that to me. I tried to refuse it because it was not a fair trade but he insisted. After a few moments I motioned that I had to go and he hugged me one more time then we both posted up, saluted each other and he returned to his vehicle and they left, on to the next check point on their way to Berlin. It was an amazing experience...

@samael7867

2 жыл бұрын

@@vanhattfield8292 exciting time back in the days, the russian Soldiers are home now, would have been nice if the US Army would have gone home to.

@vanhattfield8292

2 жыл бұрын

@@samael7867They did, How are you not aware of that?

@samael7867

2 жыл бұрын

@@vanhattfield8292 Ramstein is still very very buisy

I had been a soldier three years when the Berlin Wall came down. I wept tears of relief, knowing the war we had feared my entire life wouldn't happen. This song brings me back to that moment sitting in front of the TV, watching East and West Germans tearing the wall down.

Masterpiece of Rock. They don't make songs like this too often, My opinion.

@snooks5607

2 жыл бұрын

maybe we should put up another Berlin Wall so they could make a song about it lol

@alfioplays7443

2 жыл бұрын

@@snooks5607 there are a lot of "walls" standing still., just not enough "cojones" to sing about them...those green pieces of paper can make a man or women change their values...

@stephenbrown199

2 жыл бұрын

Your correct

@andymullarx6365

2 жыл бұрын

No they don't and the fools of the moment lust for a return to communism which is a result of woke grooming.

@chaostade4087

Жыл бұрын

well, whoever has an oposite opinion is wrong :P

I remember in an interview or another video where Klause mentions that the inspiration for this song was when they were playing a concert in Moscow and the crowd was singing along to "Still Loving You" and he couldn't believe a Russian audience was singing along to a German band. It meant to him that the scars from World War 2 and the Cold War were beginning to heal.

@Lakshyakh

2 жыл бұрын

Everyone like that ❤️

@cristyrawks6325

2 жыл бұрын

Exactly, I wish everyone would realize that. The words are mentioning places and things in Russia.

@geoffn54

2 жыл бұрын

A Russian audience singing along to a German band in English... quite something.

@sqrly2u

2 жыл бұрын

Gorbachev's family was at that concert. He died in 1991. He was the last true Russian emperor of peace.

@sqrly2u

2 жыл бұрын

As was Reagan.

one of the defining moments from my lifetime. east and west germany reuniting. great song iconic even

@XFreQ69

2 жыл бұрын

Funny how for me it's just one of those songs we played at afternoon parties when we were kids in the 90's. You know when you're like 12 years old and you go ask one of the girls to dance? Didn't speak english nor german, it was just one of those songs to slow dance with girls :)

@juliocabral6949

2 жыл бұрын

All thanks to Rocky Balboa.

@davidburrows4801

2 жыл бұрын

Fine ,but the song wasn't about that.

You were right, Brad, this song is about (the end of) a very specific war: the Cold War.

@raymo6795

2 жыл бұрын

...thank you Ronald Reagan and George Herbert Walker Bush...I think 1989?...IMO one of the premiere metal acts of the 80s

@GeneOh

2 жыл бұрын

And the beginning of the end of Socialism in the Soviet Union.

@SDLEIKAM

2 жыл бұрын

Yes, it was about the end of the Cold War and the wall separating the two Berlins was being dismantled and the East Germans were powerless to stop it. This also gave hope to the Chinese dissidents and their quest in throwing off the chains of totalitarianism. Unfortunately the movement was crushed in Tienanmen Square. The original video for the song showed many of these events and I recommend that Brad and Lex watch the original for the full impact and understanding. 😉

@akula682

2 жыл бұрын

Thats what the video shows but they said it wasn't about the end of the Cold War.

@DanInBranson

2 жыл бұрын

@@akula682 The lyrics celebrate glasnost in the Soviet Union, the end of the Cold War, and speak of hope at a time when tense conditions had arisen due to the fall of Communist-run governments among Eastern Bloc nations beginning in 1989. The opening lines refer to the city of Moscow's landmarks: I follow the Moskva Down to Gorky Park Listening to the wind of change The Moskva is the name of the river that runs through Moscow (both the city and the river are named identically in Russian), and Gorky Park is an urban park in Moscow named after the writer Maxim Gorky. The song also contains a reference to the balalaika, which is a Russian stringed instrument somewhat like a guitar. The balalaika is mentioned in the following lines: Let your balalaika sing What my guitar wants to say

The solo in this song is unparalleled. I get goosebumps every time.

Thanks for reacting to this! I was a young (20) Soldier stationed in W. Germany when the wall came down…it brings back a flood of memories. I remember the people of Muenchweiler that we had so many festivals with; I remember my brothers and sisters in arms and the lifelong bonds we formed during the Cold War; mostly I remember seeing on Armed Forces Network the wall being torn down and how a country divided was reunited!! Thanks for bringing back such perfect memories to me!!❤️🤘🏼🤘🏼

@eleazargutierrez8553

2 жыл бұрын

I bet you have many stories to tell your kids!

This song holds a special place in my heart.

@doggystylez10

2 жыл бұрын

I hate saying these younger kids because it means Father Time is creeping up on me but it’s hard for them to comprehend what a big deal it was for The Berlin Wall to fall down and how this song inspired hope for a better world

@piratemccall

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah,, this is really a "you had to be there" song.

@littlewigglemonster7691

2 жыл бұрын

@@doggystylez10 as a younger kid I agree

@B-Killin

2 жыл бұрын

@@doggystylez10 my wife and i were born in ‘87. She associates this song as the first music video she saw on MTV. Damn i miss MTV

@donfette5301

2 жыл бұрын

@@doggystylez10 No offense, but … Who cares? What does such a statement accomplish? Not only is it obvious, but it verges on gaslighting: not their fault they weren’t alive or were too young to “comprehend” how “big deal” something was. They live life in their own time. Don’t put them down or criticize them for limitations. Especially when it slyly makes you look superior. Don’t double down on the ugliness, please. Think about what I just said.

I was in Germany, serving in the U.S. Army, when the wall came down. It was a time that I will never forget. This song is part of those memories.

@hankhaney3785

2 ай бұрын

....generations are affected by WWII still to this day. Btw, Putin is delusional and still "lives in the cold war".

man i feel young again, when all the people flet from east germany through czechia, i was a child but that song i heard litteraly everywhere. everyone was so excited that the cold war ended and everyone was full of hope for a better world , for a better future.

This is later Scorpions. Try "No one like you" and "Still Loving You" are both iconic songs.

@chriswildhaber35

2 жыл бұрын

My favorite band, saw them in 84,85 in my hometown, Love at first sting tour, And they rocked everyone and everything like a hurricane.

@chriswildhaber35

2 жыл бұрын

@the world has fallen great album.

@consterus

2 жыл бұрын

I thought you write Sopranos. LOL!

This song is about the fall of the Berlin Wall and Communism. He references the Moskva (a river in Moscow) and Gorky Park as he presumably is walking around Moscow after the fall of the USSR. He is talking about all of the hope in the air with the fall of the divisions between everyone. There's an awesome live version in Moscow after the fall of Communism and everyone is singing along that you should watch (whether it is on the channel or not).

@mnomadvfx

2 жыл бұрын

It's more potent for the fact that Scorpions are German and Germany was cut in 2 by the Iron Curtain during the Cold War. The fall of the Berlin Wall and the USSR heralded the reunification of Germany and allowed families separated by decades to reunite.

@mnomadvfx

2 жыл бұрын

@@jamesc5535 *the Soviet Communist party then.

@spyretto

2 жыл бұрын

@@jamesc5535 And the difference being? socialism is the application of the socialist ideas in a society, communism itself as Marx envisioned it is unattainable goal, it cannot be applied to people.

@linusromey561

2 жыл бұрын

Lex, it was not about the era changing. It was about the WORLD changing. The collapse of the Soviet Union and the end to decades of German families being separated was a world changing event. I do not think anyone who had not lived in Germany during the Cold War could ever understand what hope was in the air as these events were unfolding.

@christiandieckmann9828

2 жыл бұрын

That's not right. The song was written before the fall of the Berlin Wall. It's about the change of the mood and the politic in the Soviet Union at the end of the cold war and what led to the fall of the Berlin Wall and made it possible. And then it became the soundtrack of the fall of the Berlin wall.

You guys should react to… Scorpions - Still Loving You 🎸🤘

@chriswildhaber35

2 жыл бұрын

In my opinion the greatest rock ballad of all time.

@VikingGruntpa

2 жыл бұрын

Hell yes

@TheConservativeinaction

2 жыл бұрын

yes and also send me an angel

The fall of the wall in Berlin between East and west

The meaning behind this song goes so much deeper than just the surface.

“The Zoo “by the scorpions is another unique rock song that I think you would both like ! love the scorpions !!! Keep those classic rock reactions coming !!!

@tracysnow349

2 жыл бұрын

One of their greatest songs ever!

@barrettflorida

2 жыл бұрын

I agree @Tracy Snow, but I think Brad would bitch. Long song, great song

I was living in Germany from '76-'79, my dad was in the Air Force. We got to go into East Berlin through Checkpoint Charlie with his military credentials. Even as a child I recognized how terrible that whole situation was. It was like going from vibrant and colorful to drab, depressing and black and white.

The contribution music (and rock music in particular) made to ending the Soviet Union and bringing down the Berlin Wall is highly underrated.

You guys need to watch the official video to this. It shows many historical events from the time they recorded this song.

@TheBruceGday

2 жыл бұрын

Yes! A poignant song for a tremendously important point in history.

@adatek7399

2 жыл бұрын

They did, just put the album art over it. On the top there is a small strip where you can see it…

Love the Scorpions. I remember watching an interview with the band 30 years ago, and I couldn’t understand a word they were saying. I just thought it was crazy that his singing English and spoken English were so different.

Another great track from them is Send Me An Angel..

There is a great podcast called winds of change based on this song it has a fascinating history it's well worth a listen ps keep doing your thing you guys are both awesome and lexs smile is incredible

“I follow the Moskva down to Gorky park” The Moskva is a river that runs through Moscow. Gorky park is Moscow’s central park.

@mdjey2

2 жыл бұрын

There is Gorky park in Kharkiv as well.

Other great Scorpions songs include "No One Like You" and "Still Loving You". In both cases, pick the long, album version to react to. Back then, there were short radio versions, which were ok, but the longer versions are much better.

@terryhintsala7197

2 жыл бұрын

I agree no one like you and still loving you excellent songs

@TheConservativeinaction

2 жыл бұрын

send me an angel amazing song by them

This was one group I got to see when I was a little girl and to this day I still see all the lighters throughout the venue and smell the pot when I hear this one. lol

For me the best Scorpions tracks are: "Still loving you"; "Always Somewhere"; "Rock you Like a Hurricane" and "When the smoke is going down"

@natelee3075

2 жыл бұрын

When the smoke is going down, epic suggestion.

This song, every time I hear this song, I remember her, and I remember us. I was drinking alone in a dark, smoky rock bar in West Germany. The year was 1990. I was barely 19 years old, the Berlin Wall had been down for just a year, our world was changing, and so was mine; forever. She walked in. Blonde hair in the black light. She looked lost, as if walking in was a mistake, as if she almost didn’t expect to find a bar behind the door. She was looking for something. And so was I. She passed my corner table as she wove her way to the restroom. I caught her glance once, and then again at me as she passed. Her lips never smiled, but her eyes told me otherwise. My God… she was beautiful. She was the kind of beautiful that a girl doesn’t even know that she is, and that just made her even more-so. I wasn’t letting this go. As she came back towards my table, I stood up, smiled, and asked her if she’d like to sit with me. “Thank you, but I need to be alone tonight” was her reply. I leaned in to her ear. She pulled her hair back as if to encourage whatever it was that I had to say. I almost whispered, purposely, to cause her to lean in closer, “I need to be alone tonight as well, so we might as well be alone together”. I finally saw the smile that matched her eyes. She sat down, and I sat down beside her. “Jason”, I offered. “Melanie”, a soft angel responded. I was still swirling from the smell of her hair from just moments ago. Just then, one of the waitresses that knew me by name stopped at our table. She asked Melanie if she’d like a drink, and Melanie looked at me. “Two Jack and Cokes, tall glasses, no straws, crushed ice please”, was my answer. Melanie smiled; I thought I might be in trouble. I hoped I was. The waitress looked at Melanie, Melanie smiled again and said “please”. After very little small talk, the conversations got deeper. Almost as deep as I was into her eyes by that point. I could see her soul, and it was just as beautiful as her face. What those conversations were, are forever for just me and her. Those are just ours. Something we had that the world never will. So don’t ask. Fast-forward several hours, the bar is getting ready to close. I knew the lights would be coming on soon, and I didn’t want this to end. And then this song… this song comes on. Melanie now has her head on my shoulder, the table is sticky with several empty glasses, just melting ice remaining, reminding us both that all things are finite, and that beauty, love, and life is about now, and it is all forever fading away. This song. You need to know what it is about for context. Once you understand that, you’ll better appreciate a teenage American soldier, and an teenage girl that grew up in east Germany holding on to each other. In the middle of this song, Melanie raised her head from my shoulder, looked into my eyes, and said, “I don’t like this world, I want you to take me away”. She kept staring into me, waiting for the answer. I took her by the hand as I stood up, she then stood up and faced me. “Let’s go”, was my answer. She smiled again and hugged me tightly; man… I can still smell her hair as I write this. It was the night before a 4-day weekend, I had a pocket full of German and American cash; God had planned this all out very well. We spent the next 4 days traveling around Germany together. We played in a fountain with children, we danced in the streets, we helped a little girl find her mother, we earned a fine dinner by helping a shopkeeper repair his door, we laughed, we talked, we held hands in silence for hours. For the first time in my young life I saw true beauty in this world. All reflected in her eyes. We went to museums, and we went to raves. We went to beer festivals, and we went to a movie. We were surrounded by millions of people one moment, and in the next we were alone together, making love high atop an old abandoned tower in a rainstorm. That thunder, that lightning, and that hard rain on that tin roof will never be forgotten. And then, the last day came. The guesthouse was quiet that morning. We filled our bags with things we didn’t need, in preparing to leave what we did. The train ride to her little town was a beautiful one. She pointed out things along the way from her childhood. Truth be known, I was staring more at her beautiful face reflecting from the window. There’s that smile to match those eyes. There’s the smell of her hair. The train slowed to a stop. We were there. I cannot remember the name of the town now. But, here 30 years later, I still remember that goodbye. She turned to me with that smile. She kissed me as I still to this day have never been kissed again. But then it ended. Like the melting ice in those glasses a few nights ago. She now had a tear in her eye. She softly said, “please, never forget me”. “I’ll sooner forget my next breath” was my reply. I walked her to the door of the train. She turned one last time, slowly put her little arms around me, and whispered something in German that I’ll never know, except for one of the words; “Liebe”, which I know means “love”. One last kiss, then she turned and stepped onto the platform. I watched her walking away, not looking back. Dear God I wanted her to look back. I returned to my seat. I’d never felt so alone in all my life. The train shuddered and began to move. I looked out the window, but now only seeing my lone reflection in the glass. Then I saw her leaning against the wall of the station. She was looking directly at me, watching me go; wiping away her tears. We’d forgotten to tell our souls to also say goodbye. The train continued on. The reflection in the glass stayed solitary, and blurred by tears. From the pain in my stomach and chest, I’d say that my heart was ripped out and left on that train station platform with her 30 years ago. Writing this made me smile again, and just now writing the ending made me cry again. So, no Melanie, I’ll never forget you. That promise has been kept. I love you too.

I love Klause’s voice even if I can’t always understand his German accent.

This song expresses so much meaning to our culture. My family has lived/worked our farm for almost 375 years (1647 CE). They have experienced much extremism of Nationalism, Socialism, und Marxism long before. I still hate looking at das remnants of that dreaded wall that once oppressed und harmed millions of our German people. Hopefully such acts of war will never be felt necessary again...by any authority. I've walked through Gorky Park with Russian friends. It ist quite pleasant now. :-) Ja, awesome tune. I like your reactions much. Auf Wiedersehen aus Wiesbaden :-)

@SuperHappyflowers

2 жыл бұрын

CE?

@ivankaleoniefuchs333

2 жыл бұрын

@@SuperHappyflowers "BCE [BC] >>> CE [AD]"? I'm a German Anthropologist, not Latin Catholic Priest. :-)

@SuperHappyflowers

2 жыл бұрын

@@ivankaleoniefuchs333 I guess that's the modern chip-on-shoulder method of BC/AD, I see. I hadn't actually encountered it before now. Live and learn.

@jeffreycherep8264

2 жыл бұрын

@@SuperHappyflowers I don't think that it's a "chip on shoulder" thing as you put it. The old way was BC (before Christ) and AD(after death). Using this calendar system,it doesn't account for the years of Christ's life,making the calendar inaccurate. Therefore BCE/CE makes more sense.

@SuperHappyflowers

2 жыл бұрын

@@jeffreycherep8264 Is there a word/term that means logical sophistry? If so, insert it for me here, please. What it amounts to is Newspeak, which is becoming more popular by the day.

@BRAD AND LEX PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE READ! You *MUST* watch the video for this. There are some songs that you either have to watch the video or watch a live performance to be able to truly feel and capture the gravity and significance of the music and the cultural moment in time that makes it such great art. The "Wind of Change" that was blowing was the fall of the Soviet Union, which is what the song is about, but when the Berlin Wall fell on November 9, 1989, the song became the unofficial anthem for the German Reunification, an event that politically lasted from the fall Wall to the official reunification on October 3, 1990. The Scorpions are a German band, and the music video plays to this interpretation, with footage of the Berlin Wall being dismantled and their live performance at the wall! If you are worried about copyright strikes, just blur the video for us but make it so that YOU'RE watching it when you react. You can do the same for other music videos or live performances, such as the Nightwish song "Ghost Love Score", specifically them performing it Live at Wacken in 2013, as this is another song that you will just never experience fully any other way.

I was lucky to have seen them in concert on the first leg of their "Wind of Change" tour in Brussels, Belgium in 1991. They sound like their albums live, and would recommend "Still Loving You" as one of your next songs to review..... Song is about the fall of the Berlin wall and reunification of Germany..... another milestone I got to see first hand.....to this day I have a piece of that wall... when east and west joined (about a year before their tour kicked off;1990's)......was the party of the decade.....filled with lots of hope.

This song is about the end of the cold war, not just the fall of the Berlin Wall. "Follow the Moskva down to Gorky Park" sets those verses in Moscow. It was a time when we thought freedom had won. The song reflects the optimism of the time.

@erichjacoby-hawkins3076

2 жыл бұрын

It was written about the thaw in the Cold War that ended it not long after. So it was already out there, ready to be a theme song, when the Berlin Wall came down and Germany re-united, and when the Soviet system collapsed.

@michaelbirdwell7985

2 жыл бұрын

@@erichjacoby-hawkins3076 I stand corrected, for the most part. It was written before the fall of the Wall but not released until after, and the USSR didn't fall until a year after its release. (I was a Soviet Studies major at the time, lol.) My memory tells me that we all knew that the cold war was over, even before the collapse of the USSR. But memories are tricky things.

This song is all about time and place. This was the anthem of the end of the Cold War. For many people this song is very emotional because it brings up a lot of imagery of that time. You had to be there.

@Noclaf555

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Seems the world learn nothing

This one the video would've helped your understanding. The Collapse of the Soviet Union, The Berlin Wall coming down and reuniting both sides of Germany , Scorpions being a German band had alot of meaning for them and they penned a masterpiece that can be related to many changing events

Absolutely love this song, and band. They've done some amazing stuff.

I remember the fall of the wall. Everytime I hear this song, because it was so much a part of that whole ethos at the time, I still get shivers and goosebumps every time I hear this song.

Hey guys try “No one like you” or “Blackout” by them. They’re a bit older and more rocking bangers, I think you’ll like them!

@sryther1970

2 жыл бұрын

The Zoo is a great song too

As a long time SCORPIONS fan I must say this is the beginning of the final version of the band. 3 eras. The Uli Roth origin. The 80's version & then this. I didn't like this song when it first came out but I grew to appreciate it's signifigance over the years. I was just so used to the band that I grew up on, the wild shows, the memorable songs. Pure hard rock on the cusp of even today's metal heaviness back in the day. Suggestions: Uli Roth era Pictured Life, The Sails of Charon. 80's era The Zoo, Coming Home, Can't Get Enough. After that not much to suggest. Also love China White, Falling in Love, Always Somewhere.

lm 53....and seen them many times. This song still gives me chills........Change CAN happen AGAIN.

Their Blackout album and tour were the ones I owned and witnessed and still my favorite. In the beginning of the song it says I follow Moskva (river) down to Gorky Park (in Moscow). Times were changing at the end of the Cold War in Russia.

This is one of the many Ballads. You should check out some of their older more heavy songs like Sails of Charon with Uli Jon Roth on guitar or Another Piece of Meat from the Love Drive album

Lex- " I bet everyone back in the day was whistling that" Me- I am still whistling that. Great song. If I am correct, I believe it's about the ending of the cold war, and the Berlin wall being torn down.

This song reminds me of my late Uncle Faron, this was the introduction song for the graduating class of 1993. I miss you uncle, I'll do my best to keep moving the family forward. R.I.P Faron N.

Oh when this first came out it was EPIC !! I remember hearing it played in cars throughout town as they drove by. Great stuff !!!

Watch everyday just to see lex' smile! You're a lucky guy, Brad!!

@frankrizzo4460

2 жыл бұрын

Yes her personality is infections such a happy soul😁

This is a pretty good song, but the only Scorpions song that gets me excited to hear is "The Zoo". It's got some really good guitar work.

@brianfranklinlee8490

2 жыл бұрын

Yesss the Zoo especially the video with the babe's.

@unholydriver4987

2 жыл бұрын

@@brianfranklinlee8490 Never seen the video...but it sounds promising!

I've loved this one for years... Thanks for this! I love the Canadian Lobster shirt too, Lex!

I like this channel because it is very hard to find another one where people do not know the greatest songs of the last 30-50 years. I am glad that you appreciate them as much as I do. It reminds me about times when I first heard them.

The "winds of change" just mean wanting peace to sweep over the world, not Cold War specific. However, the music video highlighting the wall coming down pretty much cemented the song as the soundtrack to the end of the Cold War.

It’s about the fall of the Berlin Wall.

Everything I hear this song, It reminds me of watching that famous speech from Reagan "Mr Gorbachev, Tear Down This Wall!"

If they don't admit this is one of the best Power ballads ever I'm never watching you again .......Just blown every ballad song in the last 15 years into the weeds

Saw this band when I was 7. Think 1991. First concert ever. Thanks mom and dad. ❤️ Great lyrics

Such a huge moment in history! I was just getting out of the Marines and for years I had trained to fight the Russians. I watched as all of those Germans from both side stood and started breaking that wall that so many had died trying to cross for freedom.

this song. along with Nena 99 luftballoons were big during the Berlin Wall was coming down. I was stationed there at the time and we went to experience it, even though we took an army truck unauthorized, then all the East Germans coming into West Germany. We saw all their tiny cars, even helped a few having car problems at rest stops on the autobahn. Time in my life i'll never forget.

This just shows that some context is needed when reacting to songs like these. This song came out at the time of the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of Communism. Without knowing this I don't know how you can react to the song purely on its own as a song because it is so much more, it is a song of hope of a better future. I don't think knowing the context spoils hearing a song for the first time. One other thing is I'm flabbergasted how younger people seem to have completely forgotten about the Cold War and what happened in the early 90s, it wasn't that long ago!!! I appreciate many won't have been alive or are too young to know about this, but it shocks me this isn't known these days by people of this age!!!

God damn it Brad n Lex ... you have to watch the video while you listen to this ... changes the experience completely

I was in Germany in 1990. Talk about high times. The hope in everyone's minds. Like riding the top of a massive wave. The Scorpion's were a big part of that ride. What a great time to be alive. We are a shadow of our former selves, compared to these times. Great song. Brings back sweet, sweet memories.

This song is so Iconic, timeless, It was the Anthem of the fall of the Berlin Wall, this song will never fall away. 231

The Scorpions always had a message of hope and brotherhood thru rock music... They grew up in post-WW II West Germany, where they were literally separated from East Germany by the Berlin Wall... Europe was divided by the 'Iron Curtain' between western democracies & communist regimes... the USSR had banned rock music in the 60's. The cold war had east & west pointing nukes at each other. 'Wind of change' was inspired by the Scorpions' first tour of Russia in 1988, where rock music had been banned... they played to massive crowds there in '88/'89 and it was a moment of joy for them to see things changing w/ time... The Germans had killed millions of Russians during WW II, so for a German band to become popular in Russia singing English songs was no easy feat! The song was released in 1990 and soon after, the Berlin Wall came down as Germany united as one for the first time since the 1940's.

I hear this on the radio ALL the time. I always let it roll ✌️ thanks for teaching me something

Oh my God. Pausing at the time it’s starts getting the groove on.

It was when the wall between the 2 sections of Berlin Germany was opened & the country began to be whole again. That's where the famous Ronald Regan quote of "Tear down this wall" came from, a year (or maybe 2) before it happened.

The fall of the Berlin Wall was a huge change for the world and this song has the sound of the promise of a better world that that day held. It gives me goosebumps to remember it

Was about the fall of the berlin wall. The lyrics were talking about walking through Gorky Park in Moscow and feeling the wind of change. They were in essence singing about the end of communism in the soviet union, it was what appeared to be the change of an era and a new world ahead for humanity.

It was written when the Berlin Wall that separated East(Soviet controlled) & West Germany(Allied controlled) after WW2 had come down & the band had played in Moscow in the summer of 1989-where there was a feeling the Cold War was coming to an end-hence the Gorky Park line. It became a huge hit later in 1991, when the entire Eastern Bloc was falling apart-the video makes it more obvious what the song is about with images of the Berlin Wall coming down, the guy in China standing in front of the tank etc.

What is fascinating to me is how emotionally attached this song is to so many, and how newer generations are confused even by the reference of the song. To me it was the end of a scary time and the beginning possibility and prosperity for a lot of mankind.

Damn, you two reacting to stuff that's getting closer to my heart here

This song is past their prime. No One Like You and Still Loving You are the two that you really need to react to.

I'm sure by now you know the history of this. It's one of my favorites. Humanity restored for a moment.

My mom & dad was at a concert of the Scorpions when they were touring in Bulgaria. I think it was 1990. I was a baby, but i remember the craziness on the streets. Everybody was talking about it! Posters and etc. It was about the fall of the Berlin wall and the end of the Cold War! Very iconic song!!!

This was a song about one of the most wonderful moments in human history lol... Makes me tear up every time I listen... And I wasn't even born then

@ndboulton

2 жыл бұрын

The world is well and truly closing in right now... the future's in the air... but in the opposite direction 😥

Pretty impressed you guys did this song … nice job

I always took it as the a general statement of mankind dreaming of the end of conflict. The children of tommrow never seeing war again. Soldiers laying down weapons and being brothers. Inspired by the cold war and the end of the second world war. Great song. Always felt like a simple message to me.

You, Brad and Lex, are some of those children of tomorrow, where freedom is granted at both sides of the Iron Curtain.

Always Somewhere, Still Lovin’ You, When The Smoke Is Going Down, Holiday, Life’s Like A River, Yellow Raven, In Your Park, In Trance or Touch Your Feelings

I was in Germany, saw the wall come down and saw the Scorpions at the battle of the bands, RIP Klaus.

This song is about the changes that occurred in eastern Europe regarding the Fall of the BERLIN WALL...That is the WIND OF CHANGE...This is one of the ICONIC and Beautiful songs ever written...Nowadays, you do not hear songs like this anymore...

Im from Poland, this song is priceless...

Remember seeing the Berlin Wall being pulled down on tv.this song always gives me goosebumps

""Wind of Change" is a song by West German rock band Scorpions, recorded for their eleventh studio album, Crazy World (1990). A power ballad,[3] it was composed and written by the band's lead singer Klaus Meine and produced by Keith Olsen and the band. The lyrics were composed by Meine following the band's visit to the Soviet Union at the height of perestroika, when the enmity between the communist and capitalist blocs subsided concurrently with the promulgation of large-scale socioeconomic reforms in the Soviet Union." Wiki.

I was a soldier stationed in Germany when the Berlin Wall came down.

MORE SCOPRIONS!!!! Lex will love their driving rock songs.

❤️🎼❤️🤘😎 awesome song! Great reaction!

It’s about the Berlin Wall coming down. The soldiers were the guards, “close as brothers” was referring to having access to people on the other side of the wall, etc. Yes, overall it was about the Cold War ending, but more specifically it was about the Great Wall coming down. Jesus Jones also sang about it in “Right Here, Right Now”.

I agree with Zebu Nation as well... yes, for Germany, it was a time of "change".... so many years, so many so close, but so far away, and when the wall came down all could be reunited as one again.

I was a small child when this song came out. I had dreams every night of nuclear annihilation, as did my older sisters and my parents and everyone else I knew. I am so so glad that the two of you don't know what it feels like to be terrified everyday that you're going to be dispatched with a nuclear explosion.

they are one of the best band to see live concert !

This was indeed a kind of a revolution. End of Cold War, fall of communism in East Europe, dissolution of USSR, reunion of Germany. Lot of things changed in East Europe in late 80s early 90s and this song was almost an anthem of those changes. Especially for those who lived behind communist Iron Curtain and who for the first time experienced the Freedom. It was indeed as a wind of fresh air for lot of us.

It’s about all the change and chaos of the late 80’s and early 90’s (fall of the Berlin wall, etc.)

I can still remember seeing the events of the Berlin wall coming down on TV and not understanding what was going on cause I was a kid....I was a little scared when I saw people tearing down the wall, my parents assured me that it was a wonderful time and great thing for Germany.

There is a whole podcast that is basically suggesting that this song was created by the CIA in an influence campaign. Its called Winds of Change, on Spotify

They sang this when the Berlin wall came down. Germany was finally united. Family members that hadn't seen each other for decades, and those that never met finally were able to embrace.

Power balads, is funny how in a smallntown of Chile this songs played a lot in radio stations til this days

One of my favorite tracks

This is one song where the official video provides good context for the song. I remember first seeing the video and seeing footage of the Berlin wall coming down just a year or two after watching the wall come down live on television. It was a crazy time to be alive.