Re: Daily Song: Brighter Than A Thousand Suns Everything has been said. One of the big ones. When I first heard it, I remembered how Kevin Shirley wrote in his diaries that this album has a very special "groove" to it, and I knew exactly what he meant. This, folks, is why A Matter of Life and Death is one of their very best albums. 10/10.
Re: Daily Song: Brighter Than A Thousand Suns The force coming from these riffs is immense. The song has some of the most striking lyrics Bruce ever did. For the ones who don't know this little piece of trivia: some years ago a member called kwok fu seng found out that this is the only Iron Maiden song containing an Adrian and a Janick solo. He (and I) wondered if that would change, but it still hasn't. 10
Re: Daily Song: Brighter Than A Thousand Suns 10/10 I feel the way most here do, the song is nothing short of amazing. One of those tunes that just grabs you right away (rather than songs that take time to get into). Wish they would've made that main riff into a guitar harmony at some points during the song, but that's about as major as my complaints will get regarding this composition.
Wow! What an amazing song with so many different parts and nothing but super amazing vocal performances! I just love the end too when we get a tons of "Out of the darkness. Brighter than a thousand suns!" parts from Bruce! Still not my most favorite song from the album which is The Legacy. 9/10
A very good song, love the guitars on this one, excellent performance from Bruce, I give it a very high 7.
Re: These Colours Don I think exactly the same mate, its a hell of a song that reminds one a lot of Paschendale, but slightly weaker... and I have a question, does anyone know who wrote the lyrics and who wrote the music separately? As far as I know, this song was written by H and Harris 0or Bruce wrote the words, but I'm not sure...
You're correct, sir! Bruce wrote 5 lyrics on the album - TCDR, BTATS, TLD, OOTS & LOL; the remaining are Harris, but it seems Jan wrote words for The Pilgrim (they sound quite poetical with great rhymes, as in The Mercenary, which seems to be another of Jan's lyrical contributuions).
Favorite on the album.. Slightly ahead of Breeg. For whatever reason "Whatever would Robert have said to his god, how he made war with the son," gets me.