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That was chugging along a bit flatly until Bruce's Gillan-falsetto-scream! I never knew he could do that!

I love dogs. I'll love them even more when they bury their own shit, stop barking, can let themselves in and out of the house to get exercise, aren't so needy and have much softer fur for stroking.

(Thread diversion....) I think the punk influence on early Maiden is overstated. If you listen to punk of that era, most of it is mid-paced and (deliberately) sloppy. Most of it is poorly-performed pub rock, with a lot of the better bands showing ska and reggae influences. To quote Foro's and...

Great post @Zare, couldn't agree more.

A lot of disparate stuff was lumped together under the label 'NWOBHM'. Def Leppard were always at the glam/pop end of the rock spectrum. Yes, they were a bit rockier before Hysteria, but I always thought that album represented who they really were. It's meticulous, layered, technical and yet...

You get to an age when sitting down, quietly, and listening starts to appeal..... No. Not really.

It's not metal, no-one said it was, least of all the band! It's a great piece of arena-pop-rock off a great arena-pop-rock album.

Actually, the worst would be: Death on the Road En Vivo Maiden Japan Repetition!

Good: Number of the Beast Seventh Son The Final Frontier Less than good: No Prayer for the Dying Fear of the Dark AMOLAD (only because I've also seen this already). But let's face it, three albums equals AT LEAST 2 hrs 10 mins stage time, so we'd all turn up no matter what the albums!

(We'd all still go).

Those chairs! Bloody hell. Otherwise, almost exactly as you'd imagine, with extra Vikings.

The bold bits are interesting. Would he have been cynical enough back in '83 to claim to have written a song he didn't write? Or, more likely, did he have a hand every early song and, being 'his' band, he naturally claimed them all as his?

I've seen Slayer and Anthrax twice each in the last three years. Slayer with Holt and Lombardo, whilst Hanneman was sick, were awesome. After Hann's death, with Bostaph on drums, they were disappointing. Anthrax were awesome both times. Yes, they've been a bit of a soap opera, but on record and...

Why the Anthrax hate?! Worship Music was a great album, and they're a great live act. Best of the Big 4 in the 2010s definitely.

I was around in the UK at the time, and a huge Maiden and Leppard fan. Steve Clarke and H were my idols, mostly because they seemed to be the most 'rock 'n' roll' one in their bands (sadly true in the case of Clarke). Leppard were lost to me after Steve died and they turned into a pop act. I...

Good news. A powerful drummer whose style suits the arenas and festivals, and seems like a nice guy as well.

That dinosaurs and men coexisted.

Not particularly to do with the vocals, but I thought Where The Wild Wind Blows was too choppy/changy on the album but flows brilliantly on En Vivo. I find it hard to sit through the album version but the EV version is a great song IMO. Do the band under-rehearse for their albums? And, on the...

I would have thought Steve wrote his bass part, even if he's not given a writing credit. In the same way the guitarists write their solos and Nicko his fills. For the most part.