Iron Maiden in the strangest places

Edington said:
To the general non-metal listening public anything that's not Run to the Hills or Number of the Beast is a deep cut.
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“Wasting Love” is apparently the most played Maiden track on Spotify, though. Is it still a deep cut? (I think it was the third single released from FOTD, for whatever that’s worth…)
 
Jer said:
“Wasting Love” is apparently the most played Maiden track on Spotify, though. Is it still a deep cut? (I think it was the third single released from FOTD, for whatever that’s worth…)
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You sure? Apparently it's ninth and there's been some discussion as to why that might be.

To a Maiden fan, no, Wasting Love, Be Quick or Be Dead, Bring Your Daughter, or any other single isn't a deep cut. In the context of what I'm talking about, British tea-time game shows and the type of people that watch them and go on them (admittedly some of them will be music moguls who probably know about Maiden's chart history even without being fans), I would say they would be. In the show I mentioned, Pointless, the exact aim of the game is to find the most obscure answer and I doubt those songs would be among the most frequently guessed.
 
Edington said:
You sure? Apparently it's ninth and there's been some discussion as to why that might be.

To a Maiden fan, no, Wasting Love, Be Quick or Be Dead, Bring Your Daughter, or any other single isn't a deep cut. In the context of what I'm talking about, British tea-time game shows and the type of people that watch them and go on them (admittedly some of them will be music moguls who probably know about Maiden's chart history even without being fans), I would say they would be. In the show I mentioned, Pointless, the exact aim of the game is to find the most obscure answer and I doubt those songs would be among the most frequently guessed.
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Exactly, the average middle aged tea-time watching Englishman isn't going to have heard of Here to Eternity outside of the Burt Lancaster film. I would argue the only songs that have gotten into the mainstream consciousness in any way would be Hills and Trooper. I wouldn't even put Beast up there as a song, maybe they'd just know it was the name of an album.
 
Belshazzar said:
Exactly, the average middle aged tea-time watching Englishman isn't going to have heard of Here to Eternity outside of the Burt Lancaster film. I would argue the only songs that have gotten into the mainstream consciousness in any way would be Hills and Trooper. I wouldn't even put Beast up there as a song, maybe they'd just know it was the name of an album.
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Maybe Can I Play With Madness? I remember it being in a TV ad in the late noughties.

I also remember normal people bringing up BYDTTS and Fear of the Dark when I told them I'm a Maiden fan.
 
re: Be Quick or Be Dead was a number 2 or 3 single in the UK so it certainly wouldn't be that outlandish that someone of a certain age in the UK would be able to identify it.
 
I walked past someone painting their fence while I was at work today and I'm 99% sure they were listening to Live After Death. I caught the end of one song and the start of the next, I could definitely hear eighties Bruce and crowd noise. The first song may have been The Trooper, the next song started with a slower drum count so it could well have been Revelations.
 
Belshazzar said:
On Pop Master TV, a British television version of a radio quiz show, Iron Maiden has featured twice in the Mix Tape round (one audio clip of TAATG unbelievably, and one video clip of BQOBD), once as a general question, and once as the 3-in-10 final round. That's just from my personal watching of the show.
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My Wife and i like the series Pop Master TV, i noticed Maiden get a mention a few times too. I felt under a bit of pressure to get 3 in 10!!
 
I just listened to this and wasn't expecting to hear another Maiden in the strangest places drop.

Another example of a rock band throwing in "Iron Maiden" quite randomly. A precursor to Wheatus "teenage dirtbag" but because this Canadian pop/rock/grunge band never really hit it big back in 1996 I'm not sure it had *any* effect on Maidens back cataloque sales....

Curiously enough, the song title itself seems to be a borrow from a unreleased Nirvana track.....

Pure - Nobody Knows I'm New Wave

In my closet, there's a bunch of records
Flock of Seagulls, and Iron Maiden
It got confusing, when we were children
Separation and the beauty myth

 
SixesAlltheway said:
I just listened to this and wasn't expecting to hear another Maiden in the strangest places drop.

Another example of a rock band throwing in "Iron Maiden" quite randomly. A precursor to Wheatus "teenage dirtbag" but because this Canadian pop/rock/grunge band never really hit it big back in 1996 I'm not sure it had *any* effect on Maidens back cataloque sales....

Curiously enough, the song title itself seems to be a borrow from a unreleased Nirvana track.....

Pure - Nobody Knows I'm New Wave

In my closet, there's a bunch of records
Flock of Seagulls, and Iron Maiden
It got confusing, when we were children
Separation and the beauty myth

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This is basically on the same level as the Aqua song "Back to the '80s" (though less shopping-listy, of course).
 
Black Abyss Babe said:
This is basically on the same level as the Aqua song "Back to the '80s" (though less shopping-listy, of course).
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It's funny but just occured to me....if you listen to the song again there's a second voice that appears only when they sing the words "Iron Maiden" and it's basically the tone that the singer from Wheatus keeps throughout Teenage Dirtbag :lol:
 
MindRuler said:
Yesterday evening, after a sweaty hot day, I took a refreshing shower and all of a sudden I heard the Fear Of The Dark intro! My mom was watching a tv show where couples buy a house they´ve never seen before. (Don´t know if the format is known in other countries)
Apparently the song was used in that show. :lol:

Maybe it was a house on 22 Acacia Avenue...
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I missed this when you mentioned it first time around, but I know the kind of show you're talking about! We have Homes Under The Hammer here in the UK that's gained some notoriety for using lesser-known and sometimes tenuously-fitting music while couples wander around houses they're interested in buying. I remember one episode years ago that had Audioslave's "Light My Way", was kind of odd to hear Chris Cornell screaming while a couple looked at some fairly ordinary lighting arrangements in a hallway :lol:

Here's comedian Dave Gorman (I met him, shook his hand -_-) showing some examples, 2:20 is when he starts talking about the music:

 
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