Gangland

6/10 THE MOST forgettable song ever, by the time its finished i cant think how to rate it. ... just 6

This one along with Invaders are the unlucky ones of this album.I like the drum intro again.The instrumental parts really stand out. 9/10

5

6/10

"Dead men tell no tales" is such a promising lyric for a chorus, but the melody is a bit lost on this one.

8. This is another song that I have recently started to finally apreciate. It is a great rocker that can really get you pumped up. The chorus is not that great though.

A 9, one of my favorites from the album.

6/10. My least favourite on the album.

5/10. Pretty forgettable song, and the parts that I can remember for any length of time, I don't particularly care for.

Woah, I'm a bit surprised at the hammering this song is recieving from most on here!

Only 2 things about this song bring it down slightly for me. The "Where the jailbirds die" lyric sounds a bit silly and lets the chorus down a bit. The "Dead men tell no tales, in Gangland, murder's up for sale" is a fantastic line though. The other thing, is the solo section sounds far too short, H's solo in particular. So I'm not surprised to hear that the song actually did have a longer solo section originally. Overall though, this is a great song, with powerful drumming, a very intense vocal by Bruce, and the music sounds grimy and gritty, very befitting for the lyrical content. "Total Eclipse" definitely should have been on the album originally, but not at the expense of "Gangland". They both should be on it!

Reading "30 years of the beast" by Paul Stenning the other day in the bit about NOTB, he mentions Gangland as being instrumental... I am assuming he was just being rather dumb, or was Gangland once released as an instrumental?

Never released as an instrumental, and I also don't recall having read that it was meant to be an instrumental either.

Mmm, thats what I thought. There was no other mention of it being instrumental in the book it just said (offhand, books in the other room and I'm lazy) "The throwaway instrumental Gangland" or something similar when going through a description of the tracks.

Doesn't sound like someone who paid much attention to the song when judging/reviewing it.

Drum intro is a beaut and I love the middle 8 The rest of it is poo 5/10.