Educational Reaction Poll! 🎉
Added 2025-02-27 19:32:54 +0000 UTCHey friends! 📚🧠
It’s time to vote for our next educational reaction! 🌍🏛️
We’ve got 10 choices lined up, and whatever wins will be reacted to and uploaded next Wednesday.
Cast your vote and let us know which one you’re most excited for! 💚💜
Comments
Hey Eddy! Well, since this video has 16% of the vote, it looks like plenty of people think it’s worth their time. So yes, they might just want to ‘move on’ to the many ‘FAB-ulous and fascinating documentaries’ you mentioned 😛
Ringo
2025-02-28 19:11:57 +0000 UTCHey Ringo! As a former member of the band, I suspect you have a vested interest 😛 . Would anybody bother 'moving on' to better things though?
Eddy
2025-02-28 17:03:08 +0000 UTCAs a Beatles super fan, I agree that there are much better videos out there that could have been put together more effectively to showcase the band’s history. But if we went down that road, we’d be here all day. That said, for someone who doesn’t know much about the band, this is actually a solid introduction. In just 25 minutes, it crams in a lot of information, covering the essentials well. While the visuals may not be great, the content is what matters, and with 4.4 million views, it’s clearly resonated with a lot of people. It doesn’t “suck” if you actually watch the whole thing. Saying “don’t waste your vote” is ignorant, as this video serves its purpose as an entry point before moving on to more detailed and well-produced content.
Ringo
2025-02-28 13:31:48 +0000 UTCI've just done the same to see what you meant and I wholeheartedly agree. I admire more than like them, understanding their seminal contribution to popular music, but there are SO many FAB-ulous and fascinating documentaries about them that I wonder how this made it on to the playlist.
Eddy
2025-02-27 23:14:08 +0000 UTCAlso in Italy, would you believe? They also have a thriving Mod scene, which I’ll be checking out next week.
Thomas
2025-02-27 22:50:14 +0000 UTCI’ve never been into The Beatles but I have just checked a little of the video on the list, and it does them a disservice. It sucks and looks like it was put together by a 12-year-old for a school project which any teacher would slap a fail on. Don’t waste your vote.
Thomas
2025-02-27 22:46:11 +0000 UTCThere is indeed. I see one other person at least has voted for the one I put on the playlist: the Kokada diggers. I just hope that - since there is no way it will ever win a poll, clearly - that at least a few people watch it and the other one I also added (I couldn't find the original documentary I watched on the BBC a few years back that had both the emotional impact of this one and the factual content of the other) to understand and honour the almost unknown story of the incredible sacrifice and bravery of the young men who turned the course of WW2 in favour of freedom from tyranny against apparently insurmountable odds. It's frankly incredible that they are barely known, such is the hegemony of the American media behemoth that treats the peoples of the British Commonwealth from Canada to India, Africa and Australia as a quaint little sideshow that barely registers in their story of US exceptionalism.
Eddy
2025-02-27 22:37:57 +0000 UTCWas just going to say 24 Hour Party People should be on the list after the Hacienda doc, and / or the Joy Division one for that matter
Kieran B
2025-02-27 22:21:16 +0000 UTCSome great stuff here
Kieran B
2025-02-27 22:20:06 +0000 UTCWent for northern soul would give you an insight to a great genre of music that s still very much loved in the UK today
philip king
2025-02-27 22:02:44 +0000 UTCYeah, I really couldn't work out whether he was too stupid to work out or too thuggish to care just how dangerous what he did was. My apprentice at the time worked for a charity for the blind and refused even to use the tiny stepladders I also owned because he claimed too many of his patients had lost their sight falling a mere 4 feet or so. As a result, I did all the scary work on the huge A-frame Zarges and rarely had the luxury of being able to hold on. I was shaking with adrenalin from a mixture of fear and anger when I got back down and ended up shouting at the guy, but, given he was the head bouncer and there were about 10 of these huge thugs sat around laughing at me and nobody else there, I could do no more. What I wanted was to command him to go the top of the ladder, perch there with no hands and let ME shake it to see how brave he turned out to be! Anyway, I'm alive, as you gathered, but every time the Hacienda is mentioned I get PTSD 😵💫
Eddy
2025-02-27 21:05:35 +0000 UTCI'm from Manchester so I should probably vote for The Hacienda too, but I voted for Brunel. It's in keeping with the last few Clarkson specials and IKB was a true pioneering genius. It's a really good watch.
White Dwarf
2025-02-27 20:53:05 +0000 UTCAll I can think of is Phoenix Nights, where Paddy is sick of Max calling him a baldy bouncer and shakes him off the top of the ladders 🤣
White Dwarf
2025-02-27 20:49:47 +0000 UTCMe too! There's a scene in The Wire, which I've just been rewatching, where Bubbs and his sidekick pull a con on a workman where one of them pretends to try to shake him from the top of a very tall ladder and the other 'rescues' him; it was quite like that only far worse shaking!
Eddy
2025-02-27 20:31:29 +0000 UTCThugs and criminals, man, that's scary, glad you survived though! Well, us Mancs can go on about the Hacienda, but wouldn't want to spoil anything (if that wins!)
Phil Robinson
2025-02-27 20:25:45 +0000 UTCI usually do that sort of thing myself, but decided to stick to my guns in honour of the young men who gave their lives to save us from tyranny in WW2. More people should know about them. It's a bit weird that I reckon it would be top of the poll if more people knew what Kokada was, judging by the voting for the aforementioned Clarkson documentaries (VCs, uncommon bravery and heroism and all that).
Eddy
2025-02-27 20:21:13 +0000 UTCI was torn between Kokada and Brunel... Picked Brunel because I thought not many others had heard of or would chose Kokada
CONALL MCLAUGHLIN
2025-02-27 20:14:00 +0000 UTCI went for Kate Bush. Finger on the pulse as always! lol. Ah well, Almost neck and neck between Brunel and Hacienda. And that is no bad thing, much history to be learned by our friends by either. (admittedly Brunel should win, since that's real proper history - do we go for one of the greatest engineers that Britain ever produced, or... a dodgy club in Manchester that was notorious, but a fulcrum for a massive youth culture music movement of its time.) Sure it will be good either way.
Phil Robinson
2025-02-27 20:10:04 +0000 UTCHacienda. Always a regret that I never went to the club in all my many trips to Manchester. Might inspire a reaction to the brilliant movie about the club, 24-Hour Party People, starring Steve Coogan (aka Alan Partridge).
Thomas
2025-02-27 19:55:19 +0000 UTCI'm from Manchester so I should probably vote for The Hacienda... But anything to do with the Beatles gets my vote.
BlakeK80DrumCovers
2025-02-27 19:48:56 +0000 UTCI dressed The Hacienda a couple of times on the dance music tour I used to do. My main memory is the notorious bouncers, who were gun-toting mafia, almost killing me when I was de-rigging at 4am because they objected to the noise my huge ladder made as I moved it, so they tried to shake me off when I was at the top of it, using just my knees to balance.
Eddy
2025-02-27 19:48:30 +0000 UTCTHE Kokada diggers: one of the most extraordinary, near-unbelievable and moving tales of WW2 heroism, as told by a 95 year old survivor - far more genuinely moving than the Clarkson documentaries about the VC and the raid on St. Nazaire (and I tear up at those every time). Shame nobody but me is interested! I recommend anyone interested in military history watch it anyway.
Eddy
2025-02-27 19:44:27 +0000 UTCHacienda. I had to add two Madchester videos to the playlist because it’s an important part of British music culture. 🔥
Terrahawk
2025-02-27 19:39:56 +0000 UTCHacienda 🤘🏻
Martyn Dawson
2025-02-27 19:36:30 +0000 UTCThat Brunel show is great... Hope it wins 🤞
CONALL MCLAUGHLIN
2025-02-27 19:34:41 +0000 UTC
