'burning Ambition'

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Good song for a frist. Lyrics...well, I don't think that i could get better lyrics for my first song...Musicaly speaking, it's pretty melodic and pretty well tied togheter.
 
It's a good track, very 1970s hard rock but that's not really a bad thing! But for a Harris track it's quite sub-par, although it was his first.

3.5/5
 
Have to agree with Black Ace, pretty well done for the first self-penned song, but only a glimpse of what was to come later.
 
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So I've voted once again ( if I remember well, it was 3/5).

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Something about his band, 'Smiler', who founded it too hard to play.
All the "Maiden elements" are in this song : tempo change, harmonized guitars and amazing solos.

I like this song ! (in fact, I remember my comments... it was not really interesting... [!--emo&:p--][img src=\'style_emoticons/[#EMO_DIR#]/tongue.gif\' border=\'0\' style=\'vertical-align:middle\' alt=\'tongue.gif\' /][!--endemo--] )
 
You can clearly hear Steve's influences here. Although it's a great track (and the first one I actually played on bass by Maiden) I'm lucky that Maiden "changed" their style - I'll give it a 3,5
 
i think this is a very good song, this is the second iron maiden track i ever heard, the first was running free the a- side, very nostalgic for me, this track.
 
Re: 'burning Ambition'

very direct, I like it....it's funny this early Maiden lyric style like

And when I get these feelings honey, you better keep away from me
                                      .....
There's things in life now, baby, that I know I've got to do
And I need your love now, baby, to help me see it through
 
Re: 'burning Ambition'

______no5 said:
very direct, I like it....it's funny this early Maiden lyric style like

And when I get these feelings honey, you better keep away from me
                                     .....
There's things in life now, baby, that I know I've got to do
And I need your love now, baby, to help me see it through
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Since i'm hearing this album for the first time since... well, i will comment this one.

Maybe that lyrics are Kiss' influenced. Anyway, despite interesting guitar riff, a b-side it is. 5\10.
 
4/10

The bonus tracks are mostly forgettable on the whole album. Burning Ambition is impressive considering Steve Harris wrote the song while still a teenager, but it sounds nothing like a Maiden track.
 
Very unusal song for Maiden, but I like the vibe and the cool verses, and a okay guitar solo to.

7/10
 
This is so different from anything else Maiden ever wrote, yet it's also pretty damn good! There's a happy vibe in the song, and it feels like the kind of thing a young band would record. Possibly a Beatles vibe in there too. Love it. 8.5/10.
 
According to FC Magazine No. 15, 'Burning Ambition' was the first song that Harris wrote while still at school. Maiden presumably played it at least until mid-1977. Another interesting fact about this song is that it was recorded before the band entered the studio to record their debut album and while they were still a four-piece (Harris-Di'Anno-Murray-Sampson) making it the first song that was officially released with a former band member.

"So when I started writing my own stuff, it was with a lot of combinations and time changes and power. I wanted to do my first real song with Smiler, but when I brought it to them they said, 'Oh shit, this has too many time changes, we're not bloody doing this!'" (Steve Harris for Michael Smolden – Guitar Player 1988)

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Some may find strange that Smiler refused to do Burning Ambition because of the alleged time changes. At the time Steve had expanded the song to something like a 8-min rock prog, so they were not exagerating in not wanting to play that!
 
lira said:
Some may find strange that Smiler refused to do Burning Ambition because of the alleged time changes. At the time Steve had expanded the song to something like a 8-min rock prog, so they were not exagerating in not wanting to play that!
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Also it wasn't as fast as the version we all know by now, so the time changes weren't as abrupt
 
- first song written by Steve and the only song with Doug Sampson on drums.

Nice short song... good solo, melodies, riffs and verses. I like it.
 
Really like this song. A bit different from most of the songs from the 1st album. Would love Maiden to play a random 'oldie' at the end of each gig a bit like Metallica do. Maybe this could be one of them.
 
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