Your Maiden blasphemy

I like the idea of "Charlotte's" lyrics, but as with other songs on the album, while they aren't awful or anything, they're quite immature. "22 Acacia Avenue" handles the subject much better.
 
Night Prowler said:
I think that Paschendale is overrated because there are better songs on Dance Of Death, like the title track, Journeyman, No More Lies and Rainmaker. I like Paschendale, but it really is overrated.
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Yup... it's good and dramatic song. But my favorite DOD tracks are without shadow of doubt Face In The Sand and Montsegur.
 
Froggy03 (Sparkles) said:
My Maiden blasphemy(s) would probably be liking FOTD the least from the 90's albums, and disliking Purgatory.
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How come disliking FOTD is a blasphemy? Not only I do concur it is their weakest 90's album but IMO it's their worst EVER... PERIOD! And don't get me wrong... I love me some Be Quick Or Be Dead and Afraid To Shoot Strangers. And I can certainly enjoy songs like Judas Be My Guide, Childhoods End or the title track (that became nearly unbearable due to ridiculous overplaying).
But... From Here To Eternity, Fear Is The Key, Wasting Love, The Apparition?.... besides being trash these doen't even sound like Maiden!Maiden playing some kind of AOR Hard-Rock crap?The same works with Chains Of Misery and Weekend Warrior. And that's HALF THE RECORD! I Like Purgatory, though (I think Killers has no fillers).
 
I actually quite like FOTD album - it flows really well, some really amazing and underrated songs on it. Great album !

For me it is one of the albums that are very good to listen to them from start to finish.

I really enjoy it and can say that it is one of my favorite Maiden's albums.
 
Ok Ok... I'm going to get so much flak for this list. But here goes nothing:

- I love Prowler but not only should the band include Sanctuary on the record (I think some USA 1980 editions do) and it should be the opening theme.
- I think The Number Of The Beast is largely overrated album (not his influence in metal but its quality when comparing with their other albums up till 1988)
- Although it features an amazing intro, a following great harmonizer and superb closing, I find the rest of Hallowed Be Thy Name to be ultra overrated.
- On the other hand Invaders receives too much flak. Yes I know it has the single more stupid chorus in metal history. But the rest of the song is BRUTAL (oh and that bass line!)
- I never was much of a fan of Flight of Icarus. Good song, nevertheless.
- Really like Losfer Words. Also consider The Duelists, Back In The Village and Flash Of The Blade to be really good and far from being fillers.
- Alexander The Great seems a bit out of place in SIT and that undermines such a great tune. Also may come as a surprise to some but SIT is my favorite Maiden album.
- The Prophecy is one of my 7th son favorite tracks
- I really like No Prayer For The Dying as an album (though Hooks In You is garbage)
- Holy Smoke is a great rocker but has the same problem that Alexander in SIT to an even deeper degree... it sounds completely dislocated among the other songs
- Bring Your Daughter is EASILY one of my top 20 favorite Maiden songs ever done (really near #20 but top 20 nonetheless)
- Fear Of The Dark as an album is crap. Songs like From Here To Eternity, Fear Is The Key, The Apparition make my stomach turn.
- Although having quite a nice lead guitar Wasting Love is awful. That chorus and Bruce's vocal performance is dreadful to say the least.
- Kinda like Weekend Warrior. It sounds like a nice B side. Putting it a soft, relax rocker in a Maiden album makes it sound awful and out of place though.
- I barely can hear one more compass of Fear Of The Dark... good song but BY FAR the most overrated maiden song ever!
- The X Factor is my 6th favorite Maiden album (tied with Killers) ahead of popular albums like FOTD, TNOTB or their debut.
- Sign Of The Cross is one of my top 5 favorite Maiden songs.. enough said.
- Really love Fortunes Of War and still eager to listen to Bruce singing it. To be fair I would be delighted if they re-recorded the entire album with the actual line up.
- Judgement Day is amazing and should be on that disc. The unbeliever should be ditched. I like 2 AM also.
- Really like Futureal... Also like Virtual XI's cover art - yes even the kid with the VR device and the footbal match - Not one of my favorites but not as bad as people say. Find it superior to both TFF and DOD and with a better all around effect than TXF, TBOS and BNW.
- I think songs like Ghost of The Navigator, Dream Of Mirrors and most of all Brave New World to be poor compositions based in excellent rifs, ideas and performances
- Maiden commited a crime by editing the original vocal line at the chorus on The Wicker Man. It came out good also but have they kept the original chorus it would be out of this world.
- Regarding these points and a couple poor songs like The Mercenary and The Fallen Angel I find Brave New World to be quite forgettable. It's a shame because it features so many good parts... but so poorly put together.
- I think Dance Of Death is way better than its predecessor... and kinda love the cover art (just kidding! That CGI nonsense is crappy as crap can get :p )
- Face In The Sand and Montsegur are by far my 2 favorite songs here and are in my top 20.
- AMOLAD is my 5th favorite Maiden album. That alone shows how much I love this record it is one of the 6 Maiden records that IMO is devoid of filler songs ... the others being their debut, Killers, Powerslave, SIT, 7th Son and...
- ... and The Final Frontier. Although I regard it as a middle of the chart among other Maiden records, TFF is pretty solid album. There's not a single track here that I consider to be a stinker or filler along with a couple of top notch songs.
- When The Wild Wind Blows is also one of my 20 favorite Maiden songs.
- The lead guitar that copies the melody of Bruce's vocal line in The Red And The Black while he's singing is simply annoying and undermines the song. Nevertheless it's such a great song I still love it regardless.

There you go... Incoming stones in 3... 2...1..

Dodge!

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Kalata said:
I actually quite like FOTD album - it flows really well, some really amazing and underrated songs on it. Great album !
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I agree about some of the songs being very good and that it does have a good flow for most of the time; while the material isn't often that strong, there's at least enough interesting things and diversity to keep it going. But...

Kalata said:
For me it is one of the albums that are very good to listen to them from start to finish.
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Funny enough - considering what I just said - I don't really agree about the above. :D While it is relatively easy to listen from start to finish, it's not something I'm thrilled to listen; some of the "hard rock" songs are indeed good fun and enjoyable on their own right and context, but the album doesn't really lure me to it's world that often. Some good stuff, some great stuff, but altogether a bit too messy record - or it is to me, at least. But as stated, I enjoy most of the songs and it's cool that you and maybe some others like the whole thing; I actually used to really like the chorus of Weekend Warrior back in the day... that's a blasphemy, I guess. Now I don't find it that exciting. Eleven saintly, shrouded men came and washed that sin away, I guess.

Kalata said:
I really enjoy it and can say that it is one of my favorite Maiden's albums.
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So, all things considered, I agree about some things you pointed out and I do feel indeed that FOTD has a lot of interesting, different things going on, but it falls a bit flat in the end and therefore I strongly disagree with that last statement - for my part. :p

But it's really cool that people enjoy different albums. Personally, I'm a bit too diplomatic when it comes to these things, so it's often hard to say where the line between "understanding" and actually liking musical content in these albums (especially the more controversial ones like TXF and VXI) goes, but I guess it's also a blessing to be able to enjoy even some of their very worst outputs - at least to a some degree - while still acknowledging their faults and what my absolute favourite albums, such as Seventh Son of a Seventh Son, did right and obviously so much better. Makes one appreciate the very best work of the band very highly, but also grants certain feeling of discovery and love with the weaker stuff as well.

I guess another suitable blasphemy would be that I was, and kinda still am, intrigued about the whole "audiovisual world" behind Virtual XI; while I dislike the production and the very lackluster vibe on it (despite some of the songs being actually great) and I do agree that the Eddie and the visuals from booklet to stage sets in 1998-99 weren't that great, I also think that everything could have turned out much better in the end, if given another thought and treatment. Then again, it was late 90s and clumsy CGI was integral part of that era in general, but the apocalyptic whatever virtual visions from the cover art could have resulted in much cooler visual designs than what they eventually came up with.

Just a little play-with-thoughts.
 
KidInTheDark666 said:
Blaze is far superior to Paul.
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If you compare Blaze's voice during this decade to Paul's voice in the 80's I agree 100% (Blaze got soooooo much better!)
Now if we're comparing 1995 to 1998 Blaze that's a different story (I'm not taking in account Blaze's performing Bruce's era songs)
 
Randalf said:
I agree about some of the songs being very good and that it does have a good flow for most of the time; while the material isn't often that strong, there's at least enough interesting things and diversity to keep it going. But...

Funny enough - considering what I just said - I don't really agree about the above. :D While it is relatively easy to listen from start to finish, it's not something I'm thrilled to listen; some of the "hard rock" songs are indeed good fun and enjoyable on their own right and context, but the album doesn't really lure me to it's world that often. Some good stuff, some great stuff, but altogether a bit too messy record - or it is to me, at least. But as stated, I enjoy most of the songs and it's cool that you and maybe some others like the whole thing; I actually used to really like the chorus of Weekend Warrior back in the day... that's a blasphemy, I guess. Now I don't find it that exciting. Eleven saintly, shrouded men came and washed that sin away, I guess.

So, all things considered, I agree about some things you pointed out and I do feel indeed that FOTD has a lot of interesting, different things going on, but it falls a bit flat in the end and therefore I strongly disagree with that last statement - for my part. :p

But it's really cool that people enjoy different albums. Personally, I'm a bit too diplomatic when it comes to these things, so it's often hard to say where the line between "understanding" and actually liking musical content in these albums (especially the more controversial ones like TXF and VXI) goes, but I guess it's also a blessing to be able to enjoy even some of their very worst outputs - at least to a some degree - while still acknowledging their faults and what my absolute favourite albums, such as Seventh Son of a Seventh Son, did right and obviously so much better. Makes one appreciate the very best work of the band very highly, but also grants certain feeling of discovery and love with the weaker stuff as well.
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Maybe I'm not gonna surprise you that I also really like VXI album and NPFTD is also a very good album - because the albums of the 80's were so strong and was released after SSOASS, the album did not shined. TXF album also has a couple of very strong songs, though I like VXI more. I find them two of the most melodic Maiden albums (especially VXI) and that is something which I like a lot. The albums from the 90's are so underrated (by fans and the band) and I love them - that being said, I really like Maiden era in 1990-1992. In 2014, they should have done a short tour of only songs from the 90's (with stage set full of Marshall speakers - as a tribute to those years and that would have been a very easy and very fast stage set to be done) instead third year of the ME tour !

I think I can do a review of FOTD album...., but I really like some of the more rock style songs in this album (and NPFTD too), like FHTE, for example - very fun song (fantastic chorus) which I always liked. And these albums contains some short songs, which are good - COM is very short, maybe too short, but I find it a good song. Yeah, Maiden are specialist with the epics and normally the best song on a Maiden album is the longest one or some of the epics, but they also have so many good short songs - Futureal (which for me is a classic) is another good example. And at this very moment, I prefer more short straight forward songs as opposite to the never ending long epics....

Yeah, for sure the FOTD album would have been more strong if 2-3 songs were removed (and NPFTD was 8, not 10 songs... sorry Adrian), but I think it is a strong album IMHO. The other album that I love to listen from start to finish is BNW, which is my favorite Maiden's album ! :)
 
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