Bruce Dickinson

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I think a lot of the reworkings are well done, and it's possible that I'll be listening to them instead of the originals in the future.
Could it be that Roy Z is now also sensing that this might happen—perhaps contrary to what he originally believed—and that's what's upsetting him so much?
 
Quick thoughts:
Cyclops - they added too much junk in the opening but overall the song benefited from the changes.
Hell No - yeah, this one sounds pretty good
Gods of War - a little too much nonsense but fine
1000 Points of Light - really good, I like it, not much more to say, feels like a fine-tuning rather than a huge overhaul
Laughing in the Hiding Bush - ugh, this is bad, do not love any of these changes.
Change of Heart - this really benefits from the remaster, probably the best of any song yet. sounds fantastic.
Shoot all the Clowns - wow huge changes here. Did it need the horns? I don't love this off the bat but I could see myself getting used to it.
Fire - not a song I've listened to a lot but it sounds a lot busier now. I don't think I prefer it to the original in anyway. it feels...slower.
Sacred Cowboys - I am not 100% sold on the extra vocal layers but otherwise this feels like it has more oompf. Is Bruce getting tuned in the choruses? Weird choices here.
Tears of a Dragon - I've always thought the original mix of Tears was a little bland. So I find this to be a little better, with a little more going on, I like the orchestration, but I don't think it gets to the level I want this song to have in my mind.

Overall pretty good, but a few big misses that make it not the quintessential version of the album.
 
Melony said:
I think a lot of the reworkings are well done, and it's possible that I'll be listening to them instead of the originals in the future.
Could it be that Roy Z is now also sensing that this might happen—perhaps contrary to what he originally believed—and that's what's upsetting him so much?
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Yes, and I think Roy Z was always mentioned together with Bruce so far. It is therefore difficult for him to move on.
 
Given it a couple of spins. I am not normally a fan of remixes, but it works on most tracks. I regard it as a companion album to the original rather than better or worse- it is substantially heavier so maybe closer to what Bruce originally intended.
 
Jer said:
Some people recall talk of just an Atmos remix, while others recall an Atmos + “More” style remix. I don’t know that we ever got definitive sourcing on this, but Chris Dale apparently heard a snippet of the updated version and liked it…?
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I will drop this transcript again from a podcast earlier in the year where Brendon Duffy talks about remixing Skunkworks for Atmos. However there is nothing about extra guitars or parts mentioned.
 

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Ascendingthethrone said:
I very much doubt Bruce is innocent in all of this, but Roy is not coming across well in all of this. He sounds like a sad and bitter man.
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At the end of the day it is a Bruce solo album not a joint Roy and Bruce album. As long as he gets paid any royalties he is due I think Roy should let it rest. At the moment he is acting all Roger Waters like...
 
Finally got around to listening to More Balls, and like a few others, this will be my go-to version from here on out. I always liked BtP, and have some really fond memories of playing the bejeezus out of it in my late teenage years. However, it always struck me as a very safe album, especially once I started hearing the more bonkers songs that Bruce was experimenting with in the two scrapped albums leading up to BtP. To me, the changes in More Balls aren't all that extreme, but they do give the album a bit more identity and flavor than the original version, and a much fuller sound. It may have also upped the album's ranking as far as Bruce's solo discography goes, where I previously had BtP roughly tied with Mandrake, and now this version I think has pushed BtP above Mandrake.

I know some on here said "Tears of the Dragon" was pushed a little too far, but I dig the more grandiose take on it. It's such a good song I feel like it deserves it a bit, and wonder if Bruce will add any of the symphonic backing tracks to it this Fall on tour, though I imagine he'll keep the show as stripped-down as possible. "Sacred Cowboys" I'm a bit mixed on. I love the wall of sound thing they did to the chorus to make it this huge thing, but the pre-chorus leading up to it sounds oddly diminished somehow. The doubled spoken verses I like. Overall, I like most of the additions, and feel they do elevate the songs to a degree, though as mentioned above, not to stratospheric levels. To me, the album needed a bit of a bump, and it got a good bump.
 
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