Spinal Tap - Stonehenge
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- čas přidán 11. 05. 2011
- In ancient times,
hundreds of years|before the dawn of history,
lived an ancient race of people.
The Druids.
No one knows who they were
or what they were doing.
But their legacy remains.
Hewn into the living rock
of Stonehenge.
Stonehenge
Where the demons dwell
Where the banshees live
and they do live well
Stonehenge
Where a man is a man
And the children dance
to the pipes of Pan
And you, my love
Won't you take my hand
We'll go back in time
To that mystic land
Where the dewdrops cry
And the cats meow
I will take you there
I will show you how
And, oh, how they danced,
the little children of Stonehenge,
beneath the haunted moon,
for fear that daybreak
might come too soon. - Hudba
About 15 years ago the Irish band I was in performed this at a Renaissance Faire, complete with an 18" Stonehenge model and two dancing dwarves. One of my finer moments.
lol, awesome!
Stonehenge, where a man's a man and the children dance to the pipes of pan.
😈🤘but did you have a girlfriend called Janine & a killer mullet hairdo?😂
And O, how they danced . . .
PLEASE tell me there's a video!!!!
"No one know who they were...or...what they were doing, but their legacy remains."
Hilarious because it makes it sound like an ancient race of druids were some kids at a junkyard.
+Will Warden Haha! Yes, at least with kids in a junk yard you know what they're doing! lol
#stonehengeandchill
Laugh O' The Day™!
"wot they were doin'"
When you slowly see them lowering the mini Stonehenge replica on to the stage, I have never laughed so hard in my entire life. Their facial expressions and the elves dancing around it makes it even more hysterical.
"Keep the dwarfs clear. You know, so they won't trod upon it..."
LMAO
I laughed to the point of pain many times in this movie. It is simply brilliant.
There was a Stone'enge monument on stage that was in danger of being crushed by a dwarf!
zachandsully I cried in the theatre when that scene was on . Simply brilliant and unbelievably hilarious.
Probably the best shit I ever did with my life was going to the real Stonehenge in person, staring at it and listening to this song on my headphones
+kwirkLA That is fucking legendary.
+kwirkLA
no one there knew who you were, or what you were doing.
+kwirkLA I DID THE SAME!
man, that must have been surreal.
went there yesterday and COULD NOT get the song out of my head. In the new visitor centre they actually have Nigel Tufnell's "no one knows who they were or what they were doing.." quote up on the wall and a Spinal Tap limited edition "Stonehenge" 12" in a display cabinet.
"hundreds of years before the dawn of history" takes me out every time
The bit that makes me pause is how "Druid" is apparently an ethnicity.
@billypribbo9668 It's that and his voice. In stitches everytime. god I wish they could make someting like this again
@billypribbo9668even the “where the banshees live, and they do live well”
When I found out these actors were American my jaw dropped, as an Englishman I can tell you that these accents are not only 100% accurate, but 100% accurate to the 70s rock band english accent its actually mind blowing
Technically, by the book, they are English dialects because English is their (as in then actors AND the characters) native language.
I'm Scottish (but lived in England for years)... I thought the same the first time I heard them
Yet... When I watch BBC Scotland's series "Shetland", nearly all the actors sound like they come from Glasgow.
Well, Nigel Tufnel is played by the Right Honourable Lord Haden- Guest, who has actually sat in the House of Lords. (This, presumably, would make Jamie Lee Curtis a titled Lady).
Whilst not necessarily preparing Christopher for a "mockney" accent, it does mean that this half-English actor would be far more attuned to a variety of English accents than most people born in New York.
I'm more impressed with Michael McKean - totally believable as David St.Hubbins, and a world away from Chuck McGill. 😄
@@adventussaxonum448 I think Nige and Co. speak more Estuary English, not quite Cockney, not quite Essex Boy but a very light touch. There are people who sound like this... Notably the Kursaal Flyers from Southend on Sea, when they've been interviewed. They seem to have been an influence on Tap - they did a documentary and there are some resemblancea.
@@anonb4632
Yes, that's a good point. That's why I said "mockney" ... not really Cockney, but similar enough to an American audience.
"Where the dewdrops cry
And the cats meow
I will take you there
I will show you how"
Pure poetry
1:22 That portion of the song is actually a nice passage musically. I like Guest's voice there.
@@blujay9191you should hear “lick my love pump”? 😂
@@crazyralph6386 .. Hear it? I wrote it.
@@blujay9191 bwahaha
Cracks me up every time😅
No one knows who they were
Or what they were doing
But their legacy remains
Hewn into the living rock of…Stonehenge
You said that about Spinal Tap hahahaha
@@calzabbath *Stone'enge
Hundreds of years before the dawn of history...
+KPEC3arrival priceless..
Its like, where does he get "hundreds of years before the dawn of history"? Like, Stonehenge they think was constructed around 2,000 BC. We have hieroglyphs before that. But where does he get hundreds? That's what makes this movie comedy gold.
no one knows who they were. or what they were doing,- but their legacy remains. hewn into the living rock.
of Stonehenge!
no one knows who they were or what they were doing !
@@ignorecorporatenews That statement explains almost every musician I ever played with, lol.
I have been to shank hall in milwaukee where this was actually recorded. I stood on the stage and felt the power of the druids course through my veins. But, I still dunt kno who dey wuhr, oh, wha dey wur dooin.
But their legacy remains, hewn into the living rock....
waysgoose:..........in "dubbly".
@@Van_Der_Lay_Industries ....ahv stone'enge
I know this is 5 years old, but, at the time Spinal Tap was filmed and subsequently released, Shank Hall didn't exist in Milwaukee (I know, I live here), but the popularity of the film caused a guy who bought a venue to name it Shank Hall in honor of the film. Eventually the guys in Spinal Tap visited the place probably in 92 while touring Break Like The Wind when they played at the Riverside Theater.
"Where the cats meow!"
+John Dwyer DEEP
Where the banshees live, and they do live well
@Deep - That's because they've witnesses the dewdrops crying.
STFU
That would be in my neighborhood, and I'm in Oregon!
"where the banshee's live and they do live well"
BANSHEES, not fucking BANSHEE'S. No apostrophes in plural words. Is this BASIC rule of grammar so fucking hard to maintain?
JARED BARATTA spell check doth make fools of us all, dude.
Well BanShee is An Angalised version of the Irish & Scottish Gaelic "Bann Sidhe" or Fairy Women can I suppose Ya could pluralise it like that in English.
JARED BARATTA There are apostrophes in plurals if the singular word ends in an a “s”
@@jaredbaratta8589 -- Are u the youtube comment section grammar authority?
Are u?
Dick!
"Nigel gave me a drawing that said 18 inches. Now, whether or not he knows the difference between feet and inches is not my problem. I do what I'm told."
"But you're not as confused as Nigel are ya, It's not your job to be as confused as Nigel...." HA HA.... ( Sorry if I have misquoted )
Dan Edwards nailed it and is the cherry on top 🤣
Two dots=inches.
One dot=feet.
Backwards to what you'd think...
Should've been one prime mark ('), not two as it was finally depicted.
Fuck the napkin!
I genuinely find it really moving when Nigel sings ‘And you my love/ won’t you take my hand’.
I like the aaaaaaaaaaahhhh harmony whilst he's singing that bit
This entire song is a perfect satiracle homage (and lampoon) of the that generations prog rock era. Absolutely perfect.
i listen to this song unironically. it’s good af. i will show you how 🎶🎶🔥
Dude Stonehenge is a good song
very david gilmour-esque
I for one do not think that the band was down. I think the problem may have been...that there was a Stonehenge monument on the stage that was in danger of being crushed. By a dwarf.
Ian: Nigel gave me a drawing that said 18 inches... Now whether or not he knows the difference between feet as inches is not my problem... I do what I'm told...
David: But you're not as confused as him are you? I mean it's not your job to be as confused as Nigel
And inches my bad
SirJamesDTech Can I raise a practical question at this point: Are we going to do Stonehenge tomorrow?
+Roald Hoffmann No we're not gonna do farking Stonehenge.
+SirJamesDTech...this is one of the funniest quotes in movie history, "...in danger of being crushed by Dwarf..."Definitely Rob Reiner's best film.
"There was a Stonehenge monument on the stage that was in danger of being crushed by a dwarf''
Fuck the napkin
I will never ever forget the laughter that exploded out of me at the moment I first saw that look upon Michael McKean's face as the tiny Stonehenge monolith descend from the ceiling to the floor and the dwarves begin to dance around it. That may have been the closest I ever came to death by laughter.
David would have been more angry had he not been under such heavy sedation at the time.
My reaction exactly. I still crack up when I watch this.
Michael McKean's agape mouth is funniest part of this scene
joeyservo looks like uncle ted
i was more amused by derek's reaction as he was like "uh.... what?"
You mean Nigel's?
This is such a brilliant satire of British Prog in all its pretentiousness - don't get me wrong, I love a lot of that stuff - the musical hooks are almost a homage and the mysticalish lyrics are just absurdly funny..."hundreds of years before the dawn of history..." Slays me every time lol
"To that mystic land
Where the dewdrops cry
And the cats meow"
No shit? Cats meow??? They don't bark???
It is fucking hilarious really I love old British psychedelic/prog, space rock that kind of stuff. They really were obsessed with trying to sound mystical. It wasn't quite dark enough to be heavy metal yet and it was stuff kids thought was cool, like a wizard black light poster or something.
So great
@PixelRelatedismyname and don't forget every time someone sings nowadays they try to do that vocalizing shit and try to make everything sound like a damn pop song I like vocalizing in rock songs like some of deep purples songs but nowadays its like the entire song is just that
I was thinking ELP. And I really like at least early ELP. Though I think most of their antics were meant to be absurd, despite many injuries. I mean, if you're playing a progged out version of Mussorgsky on a piano that levitates and does flips, at some point, someone must have said, "hey, you know what would be funny..."
“No one knows who they were... or what they were doing” is what kills me for some reason
I often listen to this song unironically.
Genius, just sheer genius. The little details - the way the stones were slowly lowered without Nigel noticing, the elves bashing off each other haphazardly when dancing, St. Hubbins’ mouth completely agape…
When dew drops cry and the cats meow! this is pure genius :)
Always love the visual gag at 1:08 where the stage hand walks behind to pick up the cowl that David St. Hubbins just discarded.
Who else actually kind of likes this song?
me
me
Me
I like it a lot
that's the point, i think anyway
In ancient times....
...hundreds of years before the dawn of history.
mariotaz Seems legit
*does math* yep, it adds up
Saul's Goodman's brother really knows how to rock.🤪✊
Back when he could still play ELECTRIC guitar.
Spinal Tap is one of the most underrated phenomenons in history. Brilliant actors ironically making brilliant satire metal that is legitimately listened to unironically. Their relationship to the Simpson's solidifies their status in my heart.
Back in pre-internet era we didn't have much information in Brazil, and after watching the movie in VHS I was determined to buy the "Intravenus De Milo", "Rock n Roll Creation", "Shark Sandwich" albums and everything by this band. As a kid, I was disappointed when I found out they weren't real. Point being, their music is much more than what people give credit for. And yes, I hold the classic "Break like the Wind" Simpsons scene very near and dear to my heart.
I would rate this 11
Stian Jensen, why not just rate it a 10 and have that be the high number?
edited
Stian Jensen I think you missed the joke
If you go to IMDb, you can, in fact, rate it 11.
Blonde bloke looks like nugent
I knew a bloke called Matt Keown. He didn't realise that Spinal Tap was a pisstake. I used to love watching this film with him, because he just did not get it. I often had to leave the room and pretend I needed the toilet: I would laugh with my hand over my mouth, then go back to sit and watch him reacting to the film.... Oh, and he couldn't play the bass either.
I've just realised how much this sounds like a Jethro Tull song
"The Broadsword and the Beast" actually was a Top 20 chart hit while they were in pre-production on this, so it's possible there's some direct influence. A lot of others had copied the basic folk-rock sound by that point, though.
Come to think of it, it's probably closest in sound to "Mayhem, Maybe", which didn't make it onto the original BatB album (but is on the 2005 CD release), or perhaps "Dun Ringill" from Stormwatch.
Nah it sound like beginning of the Twilight zone!
also Uriah Heep
The first minute also massively reminds me of the first half of 'Atlantis' by Donovan.
The Druid intro LOL Awesome!!! The standard Rock Metal Double Drum Roll intro LOL Awesome!!!. The Metal 80's lives Epic!!!!!
If the Stones can tour in 2024 so can Spinal Tap!!!!!!!!!!The most contentious and most Epic Metal band of all time!!!!!!!!!!!!!
2:08-2:20
Phenomenal comedic writing. His reaction to the tiny Stonehenge being lowered down is priceless.
I absolutely love this fucking movie.
Me too. They just couldn't get it any more right.
The ppl who loves Spinal Tap - knows music.
And the answer is none. None more right.
Max Power get the DVD. There's basically a whole other movie of hilarious outtakes
Yeah, well, that's just like your opinion man.
“No one knew who they were or… what they were doing..”
But their legacy remains
Not only one of the best scenes in the film, its brilliant writing
For all their crassness and childishness, this song shows that they’ve genuinely got talent when they try.
Their playing an amazing set and Nigel is shredding on the mandolin, then down comes the tiny Henge prop. They all look defeated-even at their best they can’t catch a break!
It does not reach the heights of "Tonight I'm gonna rock you tonight":
You're sweet but you're just four feet
And you still got your baby teeth
You're too young and I'm too well hung
but then no other song does.
A great parody of Kiss's lyrics.
The lowering of the tiny model is the funniest thing about this scene but for some reason the close second funniest thing for me is the line "Or what they were doing". Gets me every single time.
Closely followed by the smug look on Ian Faith's face, watching backstage, and the corresponding look on Jeanine Pettibone's.
I think it says something when a group actors and a director can go write and perform songs as a total joke , and still have it be more enjoyable than a large majority of stuff put out today.
Brilliant musicians and writers. Funny as fuck with it. What's not to like.
Amen
That is the problem with Spinal Tap. Its meant to be a mockumentary, a spoof of has been rock bands with the obvious problem being that they are a damned good band in their own right.
yeeah you got it... the first row will always be the best place to see the stage... but the best place to see who are looking the stage, is actually on that stage.. than you can creat a perfect environnement to bring the "watcher's thoughts exactly where it is needed to be sure they appreciate the show and de talk about it to the most persons as possible this is how the success is possible... more "watcher less doudts about the musicien capacities to act as the song playing suggest the behavior to apply on stage.... ITS THE SUCCESS
The really awesome thing is that this song actually rocks, even if it was meant as satire.
yeah dude
True of pretty much all Tap songs.
Totally agreed! It has the makings of an epic Power Metal song!
"No one knows who they were.....or what they were doing." That's some heavy stuff LOL.
31 years ago when i was ten I saw them on Simpsons I became a fan of spinal tap and rented the movie the next day after school and became one of my favorite comedy movies
I lead tours to Stonehenge and love this!!!
Based on a true story, like most things in Spinal Tap. Black Sabbath in Toronto 1976 (IIRC, Technical Ecstasy, maybe?). Tony Iommi sketched a trilith on a napkin with " 16' " next to it, the artist was a French Canadian who built one that was 16 meters tall (i.e. 50 feet). It was so tall that the evil-dwarf-with-devil-horns by law had to be hoisted up by a crane in a safety harness. Ozzy went into near terminal brain freeze when he saw it.
+Alp Tigin Actually, it was during the Black Sabbath Born Again tour. They had a Stonehenge set that got the measurements wrong, which was to big to fit in most stadiums. The dwarf was dressed in the Devil Baby costume from the Album cover and would crawl around on top of it. He fell off it during one of the concerts and injured himself, which stopped them from using that set. There is a CZcams Documentary of all the crazy stories that happened during the making and tour of Born Again. Spinal Tap creators took that story and others from many different bands around that time.
ON a related note, check on the Tony Iommi interview by Rick Wakeman on YOutube. It's hilarious! Like the mistaken booking for a wedding, where they don't get paid, and end up stealing all the catering trays, tea pots, etc.
@@PointyTailofSatan a truly badassed band could pull off a whole show just from memory on stuff they never played. See "The Blues Brothers."
@@Masonicbrother I'm not sure it's possible since it happened at the approximate same time... If I'm right the movie was shot slightly before Sabbath tour in Canada.
"The dimension problems and use of dwarfs bear strong similarities to the infamous Stonehenge scene in the movie This Is Spinal Tap, released a year after Sabbath's tour. However, this is simply a coincidence, because the "Stonehenge scene" was in a 20-minute early demo of the film from 1982." Wikipedia entry for Spinal Tap, sourced from www.theguardian.com/books/2000/sep/22/film.film
Derek's scream is my favorite part of the song.
I'd have to say this is my favorite scene in the movie but it's hard to pick. The looks on their faces and the argument back stage had me in tears the first time I watched it
One of my favourite moments in film ever. It kills me every time.
Perfect mix of Tull and Sabbath
Still one of England's LOUDEST BANDS!!!
The crazy thing is that this is still better than 99.9% of the complete and utter shit in the charts today.
You’re right!
Not too difficult given most of the chart toppers originated out of the descendants of people who to this day have no written language and hunt prey in the grasslands.
@@TheVoiceofTheProphetElizer
100% agree👍👍👏👏👏
@@TheVoiceofTheProphetElizer what
@@TheVoiceofTheProphetElizerokay alright okay pal
One of the funniest movies I have ever seen, I love the part where the bass players alien shell thing doesn't work
Moist Mike kent brockman
It's still funny when you see it in a bar with the sound off and no captions.
And he comes out right at the very end 😂😂
That's why this is a bullshit hatchet job.
They took hundreds of hours of "Rock and Roll Creation", and chose the one out of three times the pod went wrong.
This is most definitely my favorite Spinal Tap song. If a real band had done this I'm sure it would have been a hit at least in the areas near Stonehenge.
This is parodying Black Sabbath, who once tried to use a Stonehenge replica, but they wrote the dimensions 15 feet and it was later interpreted as 15 meters so it ended up being too big for the stage and they never used it
Even better, if you look at the time line of both Spinal Tap and Sabbath's Stone Henge screw ups...
Spinal Tap actually beat Sabbath to it, but Sabbath weren't even aware of it because it was part of the "final tour" promo the writers put together to show to the studio execs as a sort of Proof of Concept.
So Spinal Tap did the Stonehenge gag, but it wasn't a parody of Sabbath... But Sabbath purely by coincidence and entirely obliviously parodied Spinal Tap (unless someone knew about it all but has pulled off one of the greatest and longest running practical jokes know to Man). 🤣
Nobody know who they were orrrr what they were doing. haha gets me every time.
But... their legacy remains. LOL.
They were getting high
Hewn. . . into the living rock. . . of Stonehenge!
I love the way the little Stonehenge monument starts dancing around with the elves at the end....
It was trying to get out of the way from fear of being crushed by a dwarf.
I saw this movie when it first came out. It never gets old, particularly this song.
And oh how they danced, the little children of stonehenge...
...for fear that daybreak might come too soon
My favorite scene from Spinal Tap. And Nigel...😍
The pipes of pan lmao
Flute?
One non-sequitur reference after another.
This is every prog rock band of the 70's.
Just found out Rob Reiner and the boys are making Spinal Tap 2. Due out in March 2024. Yesssssss.
Perhaps the hardest I have ever laughed in my entire life. Equally remarkable, it still has the same effect on me that it did 45 years go.
"Making a big thing out of it would of been a good idea"
A cricket bat solves all problems...
That poor stage technician. He can't catch a break at anytime in the movie xD
My favorite moment in that sense is when Nigel falls backward & fights the guy every step while he tries to get him back on his feet.
The dwarves bumping into each other always makes me burst out laughing
"I spent many an hour over a few drinks with a friend of a consultant of the people who were writing the screenplay and I gave them lots of little tips about my years with Black Sabbath and a lot of other experiences, some of which appeared in the film, including the Stonehenge scene. Unfortunately, the movie had a much smaller budget, because our Stonehenge was full size, and is still dismantled in shipping containers scattered in ports around the world." - Ian Gillan -
I just visited Stonehenge.
The museum features a wall of quotes about the place, including "no one knows who they were or what they were doing" by "Nigel Tuffnell, rock musician, 1984"
as a musician you get a lot more out of this movie. painfully funny. and clever. a true classic.
Am I odd for thinking that this song makes as good a use out of two lead vocalists as any rock song that I've ever heard? Actually, am I odd for thinking that, aside from a few odd lyrics "...and the cats meow..." that this is genuinely a great, enjoyable song?
Can we just take a moment to acknowledge that in both this and Mighty Wind, a bunch of actors making spoofs of musical genres, made some damned fine songs in both.
I just rewatched Mighty Wind yesterday, perhaps not as iconic as Spinal Tap, but definitely underrated.
Yeah, this song legitimately slaps. Reminds me of a mix of Dio-era Black Sabbath, Jethro Tull, and early Magnum.
This cracks me up every single time
And oh aw dey dawnced.....thelittle chiwdren of stawn enge
This scene from the Spinal Tap rockumentary ("if you will") never grows old...
This movie is gold.
The fact that this was the 4th video in a "Stonehenge" search shows how relevant Spinal Tap's take on the monument is vs everyone else.
The look on his face when the tryptic comes down is priceless...i did actually injure myself laughing at this bit
The looks on their faces when the looked down and Stonehenge replica and the dancing was priceless.
is it just me or is this actually a pretty great song?
No this song is legit, I would totally steal that....i guess it's a bridge?
Hewn into the living rock
spewgilist of Stone 'enge....
Jeremy Watts Haha That’s how us locals pronounce it. Never with an H.
The people dancing around the tiny model gets me every time.
did you notice when the model 'henge dances...?
What an amazing song, simple really. So fantastic one can't help but be double tongued by this expansively wide song and have visions while I'm eating meows. This song is so great at helping defeat the dark snakes expanding around my mouth and biting their whip flickering heads right off. I can't help it but cry with joy when the gleeful elves jump for joy.
When I saw this I was literally rolling around on the floor, laughing so hard my friends were looking at me like I was a complete weirdo. Probably the greatest satirical movie of all time. 😂
"can I raise a practical question at this point...are we going to play Stonehenge tomorrow ?"
Houston from houston ‘No we’re not gonna play fucking Stonehenge!’
This Line Get's Me Every Effing Time!
I agree, where the cats meow is one of the finest lyrics ever.
I love that he sounds genuinely baffled when he says "Nobody knows who they were...or...what they were doin'..."
The opposite thing happened in real life to Black Sabbath, they had ordered a Stonehenge set but the dimensions got messed up and the effing set was like 3 times bigger than they expected.
"No one knows who they were or what they were doing." Fantastic.
ECHO ! ....echo ! .... ! ......
What can you say pure genius
A long time ago people didn't know what we know now but they did know secrets that they didn't know but now we know they did . They lived in in Stonehenge we think or maybe they just thought it. ...Tap Across America.
I love how dramatically Nigel blinks and he shows of his glittery eyelids.
I was literally in pain from the uncontrollable laughter!! Hysterical!!
"don't make such a big thing out of it"
"that would have been a good idea"
This is a damn good song!
Makes me think of an old van with a barbarian queen riding a polar bear
This was the best 'Rock Music' pisstake ever devised! These guys just killed it! The argument scenes were worthy of Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young!
“No one knows who they were… or… what they were doing” kills me every time
There's also a lot of Styx in this song!
Forty years later, this is still hilarious! Excellent exercise: Trying to name all the bands that come to mind during this song. Led Zeppelin, Jethro Tull, the Moody Blues, and that's just to start! But in the final analysis, they are the one, the only - Spinal Tap.
2:39 The manager's face...he mentally patting himself on the back. "Nice bit of problem-solving there Ian..."
Nothing will ever be funnier than michael's look when he first sees the monument.
I didn't remember it was this funny. I nearly choked with laughter.
Best production value of any number we’ve ever done.
I know it's a mockumentary.. but I love this song....their legacy remains.. hewn into the living rock of stonehenge...
In a made for TV Spinal Tap sequel they finally got a correct size Stonehenge replica but it wouldn't fit thru the door. BTW this also parodied how in 1980s rock videos dwarves were often seen in dream sequences. Gee, I've never in my life dreamed of any dwarf. ♣