MANOWAR- Defender 12″ (Music for Nations, UK, 1984)
My heart beats like a machine gun fired by a spaz: This is the most courageous of posts! It takes a heart of steel and blood of fire to speak out the truth. The first four MANOWAR albums, the first demo and this 12″ are godlike. Immortals (immorals?) of Metal!
Yes, this is actually Orson Welles’ voice you hear there. Crazy, innit. When you play the song on 45, it loses much of its heroic and larger than life aura though, but it adds a very smurfish feeling. Crazy crazy crazy. The B-side has the album version of “Gloves of Metal”. Gloves of Metal. The title alone. Priceless.
Defender.mp3 [Original version, not the lame re-done version of the 90s]
Smurf-Defender.mp3 [on 45 RPM]
Frank Mossi wrote:
GREAT song!!!!!!!! The smurf version is a bit too much for me as a fan of MANOWAR LOL. The salami on the cover made me think: what are you trying to tell us with it?
Posted on 27-Jun-08 at 12:16 pm | Permalink
jlijoijoi wrote:
the cover is real cheesy.
Posted on 27-Jun-08 at 12:17 pm | Permalink
Pär wrote:
Haha, Manosmurf was really great!!!! I Love it!! And I was wrong this is ripped with love!
Posted on 27-Jun-08 at 12:35 pm | Permalink
Admin wrote:
Now that’s the question Pär: Manosmurf or Smurfowar.
PS - Frank: It LOOKS like a salami. But it could be a SWORD!
Posted on 27-Jun-08 at 12:43 pm | Permalink
Adrian Son of Satan wrote:
Erich I thought you was vegan?!
Posted on 27-Jun-08 at 12:46 pm | Permalink
Admin wrote:
@ Adrian: I am vegan! Except for meat, fish and milk etc. But I’d never eat honey, that’s too exploitative!
Posted on 27-Jun-08 at 12:49 pm | Permalink
Pär wrote:
Manosmurf gets my vote.
Posted on 27-Jun-08 at 1:06 pm | Permalink
Industrislaven wrote:
Manosmurf!
I can’t belive no-one thought of this before. Tomorrow i’m gonna give Battle Hymns and Hail to England a 45 rpm spin.
Posted on 27-Jun-08 at 1:29 pm | Permalink
Picard wrote:
“Mongo Rock”. Of Course.
Posted on 27-Jun-08 at 3:41 pm | Permalink
raymond wrote:
orson welles makes the song interesting. but still it’s scary. those lyrics …..
is this the only blog to change record covers? honestly I think this picture with the cheese and the sausage thing is art. really. it’s disturbing, gross, nasty.
Posted on 27-Jun-08 at 4:05 pm | Permalink
John Scharpen wrote:
Priceless! Long live Smurfowar! All smurfs play on 2!
Posted on 27-Jun-08 at 7:34 pm | Permalink
Pär wrote:
Listen to both songs now early this morning again and as much as I love Manowar, the Manosmruf version is far superior the Manowar one. The vocals of Eric Adams sound it´s taken from a third rate NWOBHM 7″ and Orson Welles has never sounded so powerful as he does on 45 rpm and I´ll bet he now smiles in heaven thinking that “finally I got my revenge on Joey DeMaio for tricking me into readning those words”
Posted on 27-Jun-08 at 9:17 pm | Permalink
Billy wrote:
hahahah, i thought it was the smurf version i heard about ten years ago with epic rhythm section doup-doupou-doup and a smurf choir singing but this one on 45 is cool too
and the photo is nice
Posted on 28-Jun-08 at 5:32 am | Permalink
Peter - KBD Records wrote:
Mmmm pass me the cheese please mister :).
Posted on 29-Jun-08 at 1:04 pm | Permalink
Admin wrote:
I ate it all.
Posted on 29-Jun-08 at 1:20 pm | Permalink
Joe Stumble wrote:
The most Mongo of them all my friend.
Hail To England!!!!!!
Posted on 29-Jun-08 at 3:49 pm | Permalink