Recent content by CA Bryers

After a good few days, I finally got my iPod (mostly) sorted out. First thing I did was make a playlist of the The X(panded) Factor, and gave it a listen while I rearranged my writing office. Most notable was that you are correct--the album totally works when arranged this way and the somewhat...

Yeah, pretty sure the hard drive/motherboard is fried. Spent about 30 bucks on a program to export the library onto iTunes and to get a hard drive backup, and it's about 3K songs into getting onto iTunes right now. Tried the free way to do it, and that didn't work for whatever reason. Anyway...

I haven't yet since I'm stuck to my old iPod, and...long story short, my computer housing my digital library crapped out and took my 8K+ song library with it. Got a new one, and have been trying to get around to pulling the library off my iPod and onto the new computer, but haven't found the...

My theory's always been that he got what he wanted in sound for BNW, and then that demand for great-sounding records dropped in priority. He was playing in front of huge crowds again, and that seems to have been his number one priority. Having Kevin Shirley remain aboard beyond that gives the...

I like the idea of it, and hey, if 30,000 people show up to your concert, there's potentially 30K customers who might want that as a keepsake. Buy your ticket, maybe it comes packaged with a Keepsake CD fee, and you enter your mailing information/email for digital buyers. Or, I'd be cool with a...

I've always been in the "tune down for the baritone bastard" camp, but I also like the suggestion that Blaze had taken the time to rework all the vocal melodies to fit his voice once he got the setlist. Since lyrics and vocal melodies I believe are the brunt of his songwriting contributions...

Keeping The Apparition is a bold move around these parts... Unpopular song, but I like it too. It's simple-but-unique, and has a nice sentiment to the lyrics. I'd keep it too.

That's a solid lineup of songs, and yeah, upon a recent listen, All in Your Mind does fit the vibe of the album incredibly well. Agreed, which is why the only one I'd consider a contender for inclusion would be Reach Out, being an original composition that wasn't comedic a la Sheriff...

Lots of great thought put into this. I don't typically love Maiden's covers, but All in Your Mind is definitely one of the better ones they've done. I also really dig Kill Me Cesoir. And yeah, the fact they stuck the Satellite intro to Final Frontier is irritating. I went and split them myself...

This was exactly the kind of deep dive I was hoping for when making this thread, and I nerded out like a madman reading the whole thing. Thanks so much for typing it all out. One thing I was going to bring up in the original post but passed on it was whether to reorder TXF, because it's always...

Those are some super-tight tracklists! I found Book of Souls alarming with only 5 songs (very EP-like), but when you account for The Red and the Black and Empire of the Clouds alone, that's 31 minutes right there. I might have to experiment listening to some of these as a playlist to see how...

I prefer Judgment over Justice any day of the week as well. And yeah, the album definitely needed another short banger like one of those two. I used to like I Live My Way a lot, but nowadays it kinda sounds like Maiden doing a bad impression of a Wolfsbane song. The first song written for the...

Since, for the last two albums, we've been in the era of "no song left behind" resulting in double albums, I was wondering if there were any B-Sides that could've/should've been included on the album proper. For instance, Maiden themselves rectified the absence of Total Eclipse on The Number of...

I would have put money on the fact that I would never read this combination of words in this sequence all together in my entire life. :D No hate, it just always baffled me as to why Nicko Steve would have laid down a polka beat into an Iron Maiden song. As for production, I can't argue with...

Yep. Instead of being one of the more poorly received albums in their discography, it would've become a laughingstock amongst critics and fans. Critics to this day in reviews would still be sticking it was jabs like, "well, the new album isn't their best, but at least they didn't slap on crowds...