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I'm almost certain it's "speck of dust and cosmic sand." "In" would make little sense. But yes, I really like that line. All in all, Coming Home is an excellent song, lyrically. My favorite from it may well be "We will ride this thunderbird..." To me, grammatical errors are not a huge problem...

This is a harder than it looks! Just listened to The Final Frontier and so I'm adding some more obscure guesses from that (some may just be wrong, feel free to debunk them) based on having it in recent memory. Coming Home: -Albion -vapor -align The Alchemist: -scrolls -timbers -Magus Isle of...

Moonchild "Be the mother of a birth-strangled babe" How about New Frontier: -Recycled -Spawn Hooks In You: -Decor Mother Russia: -Tsars -poetry -majestic -snowflakes

Don't think I've done this thread yet... First song heard: When the Wild Wind Blows (newbie here, obviously, a friend got me into Maiden and knew that a) I wasn't really into any music and b) I was a major intellectual, so he obviously succeeded in impressing me with a lengthy song with...

Megadeth is not the most experimental band ever, but you can't honestly say that you don't hear any evolution listening to Rust In Peace and Endgame back to back. Megadeth isn't always trying new things, but Mustaine has evolved and matured as a songwriter. And I think Endgame is right up there...

That is probably true, since the song stands out as one of the weakest reunion-era songs. Perhaps it inspired Steve to start taking a more... Prominent role in all songwriting.

Not sure I really want to become involved in this conversation, but as a compulsive fact checker I feel like I have to say this: New Frontier is credited to McBrain/Smith/Dickinson, with no Harris (source).

I do quite like the song, there's just something about it so that it doesn't do much for me. It's not by any measure a bad song, I just think it's slightly overrated.

Gates of Tomorrow certainly does not deserve a bottom 10, so in that sense I guess it is underrated here.

Hmm. In general, Iron Maiden, Fear of the Dark and Run to the Hills, for certain. The other popularly played songs (TNotB, HBTN, 2MTM) are all very good, but those three are played more than they deserve. Among the more hardcore fans (this forum): Genghis Khan Sea of Madness To be honest...

Really, I would say that he is quite good at conveying emotions. Think Fortunes of War, 2 AM, The Unbeliever, Stare At the Sun, The Hunger. I think he's a very emotional singer, and when I'm feeling down I definitely go to his material (Maiden, especially TXF, or solo) because of his voice...

I will agree that Bruce improved The Clansman, but I think he did about the same on Man On the Edge and Sign of the Cross (Blaze isn't to blame for the bad production on the album version). And I would hardly call Lord of the Flies an improvement, Blaze nails that song perfectly, and Bruce's...

Speaking of truth distortion, I just love how CNN and the other media outlets spin their own commentary into fact, for example, "A day after losing the first presidential debate..."

Right, I wasn't disagreeing with that. I was just stating that there is a snowball's chance in hell that they actually mention on national TV indefinite detention or drones, which are, in my opinion, among the most important issues of this election.

I would say that anyone who is on the ballot in enough states to theoretically win the electoral college should be allowed in all the debates, period. I'm betting that of all the issues I mentioned, only Iran will be brought up in the foreign policy debate. All the others have been kept very...

The unspoken issue with the presidential debates is the fact that Obama and Romney are so similar and that the Democratic and Republican parties work so hard to ensure that no other parties get into the debates. The debate committee (which was founded by the Dem and Rep parties) requires a...

That would certainly make more sense. I wasn't really considering the history of the band when I made that list. I just looked at the part of the booklet that said who played on what tracks and saw that he wasn't listed there, then happened to see him in Leslie's acknowledgements. Your...

I know it's been said before, but Maiden really needs to have him as an opening act. For all the talk we hear about the "Iron Maiden family," it would really be something good to do. I bet the vast majority of Maiden fans have never even heard any of his solo material.