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  1. karljant

    Which album actually has the worst production?

    As for the lack of energy I think it is also conveyed by TXF's tunes nature. Some point out SOTC but fact is when performed live with Dickinson it's played way faster than on the album thus increasing dynamics. And let's be honest, I think both Man On The Edge and Judgement Day still sound...
  2. karljant

    Which album actually has the worst production?

    Well, tastes differ... and that's fine. Yet, when I asked if it was a trick question is because the question is "which album has the worst production" and not "which album has the production you like the least". If it was the latter my answer wouldn't be the debut album, also.
  3. karljant

    Which album actually has the worst production?

    Not that I agree 100% with you but I can see your point. The twin live albums are a disaster, indeed. I don't mind TXF's production but indeed it sounds a bit tamed (perhaps I don't care too much because the album is also too dense and dark). IMO VXI was better but still sounded too bland. The...
  4. karljant

    Which album actually has the worst production?

    I also like their debut. I think the piss poor production really has its charm but hey... it's piss poor nonetheless. I have nothing against TXF's production... it's just a matter of taste if you're not bothered to have guitars at 10 or engage in the loudness wars. It all comes down to personal...
  5. karljant

    Which album actually has the worst production?

    Production wise it's your typical Shirley work... We all know nowadays he has zero input on the composition. That being said the keyboard sound on both Senjutsu and The Book Of Souls is frighteningly bad.
  6. karljant

    Which album actually has the worst production?

    Is this a trick question? Their debut by far.
  7. karljant

    Which Maiden album had the biggest "grower" effect on you on the long run?

    Easily No Prayer For The Dying. Seventh Son was the first Maiden album released after I became a fan and, like its predecessors, it was an instant classic and I was simply blown away since the first time I gave it a spin. Two years later my reaction to the new Iron Maiden full length was the...
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    Leftover Songs that Should have been Included on the Album

    I love it when music truly illustrates lyrics. Take Strange World as an example... The mysterious and kind of stall ambient of its melodies really relates to the surrealism depicted on the lyrical department. Or Children Of The Damned, where the innocence of childhood is deconstructed... the...
  9. karljant

    Leftover Songs that Should have been Included on the Album

    But that's exactly the only thing I like about Wasting Love (that and the solo/ bridge). What I dislike when it comes to that aspect is that some sections are too mellow to be main sections of a tune versing about such a depressive matter (like the first melody... I'd still use it somewhere in...
  10. karljant

    Leftover Songs that Should have been Included on the Album

    I can only tell you why I hate it. Bruce's voice sounds strained, I absolutely detest the syncopated chorus and although being quite interesting the opening melody is too whiny for my taste and I'd never open a track with such depressive lyrics with it. And it's not the format: Maiden have other...
  11. karljant

    Leftover Songs that Should have been Included on the Album

    It's not that I like it a lot. To be fair I don't since it looks like a sketch of a song, an unfinished work. It's just that I much rather have it there then the other four I ditched.
  12. karljant

    Leftover Songs that Should have been Included on the Album

    No Prayer For The Dying Tailgunner No Prayer For The Dying Public Enema Number One Fates Warning The Assassin Run Silent Run Deep Bring Your Daughter To The Slaughter Mother Russia Fear Of The Dark Be Quick Or Be Dead Afraid To Shoot Strangers Childhoods End The Fugitive Chains Of Misery The...
  13. karljant

    Maiden really buried the lead — DoD is as good as any post-reunion Maiden album

    Great record, my second or third favorite from the reunion era (the first being AMOLAD and the other being TFF). Even so I'd make slight changes like ditching Age Of Innocence and making Montsegur the opener: Montsegur Rainmaker No More Lies Dance Of Death Wildest Dreams Paschendale Gates Of...
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    Leftover Songs that Should have been Included on the Album

    I love Kill Me Ce Soir but, like Holy Smoke (another track I love), I think it doesn't combine well with the album's ambiance. All In Your Mind IMO fits there amazingly. Something like: Tailgunner Public Enema Number One No Prayer For The Dying Fates Warning The Assassin All In Your Mind Run...
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    Leftover Songs that Should have been Included on the Album

    Iron Maiden: All songs here are great but Invasion and Sanctuary are must haves IMO. I´m glad they rectified it for the latter in 1998. Killers: Once again no bad songs here, yet without being brilliant, Twilight Zone is also welcome. TNOTB: Yeah... Total Eclipse is certainly a must include...
  16. karljant

    Create a Setlist: Any band you want!

    I'd go with the other way: both dates featuring songs from all albums. This is what I'd like to see (with a reasonable dose of reality): Blackened Creeping Death Fuel Harvester Of Sorrow 72 seasons Sanitarium Frantic 2X4 Until It Sleeps Broken Beat And Scarred Motorbreath Leper Messiah Nothing...
  17. karljant

    Best New Music 2026 Edition

    Best symphonic colab ever in rock music IMO. Simply amazing how dissonance works so well with an orchestra backing it up.
  18. karljant

    Would you say there a noticeable dip in Blaze's confidence between the X Factour and the Virtual XI tour?

    When it comes to the 90's, I think TXF is excellent (top 6 album in my rank), NPFTD is good and VXI is ok-ish. TXF is an album I still revere to this day. Even though it features a more contained vocal performance by Blaze when compared with what Bruce brought (and could bring) to the table, it...
  19. karljant

    Would you say there a noticeable dip in Blaze's confidence between the X Factour and the Virtual XI tour?

    Seen them live in both 95 and 98. And yeah... it was noticeable Blaze was less lose.
  20. karljant

    Vigor Mortis Is Coming... Choose Your Preferred Version of It

    Doom and Gloom but more in the likes of modern Sabbath or Candlemass's Nightfall, Ancient Dreams "Brucefied", kind of a mix with some heavy as hell passages from TCW like King In Crimson, Machine Men or Gates Of Urizen and ATOS like Believil or River Of No Return... Or even Rain On The Graves...
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