22, Acacia Avenue

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Suffers from the "Black Sabbath Syndrome": starts out great. Heavy riffing, catchy hooks, overall nice song. Then after the second chorus, it suddenly shifts into some complete randomness with unnecessary tempo change, out-of-place random riffing, B-side melodies and mindless soloing. The songs has great ingedients, but lacks proper arrangemen. That's why I give it a 5.
 
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“A song I wrote when I was 16 ended up on an Iron Maiden album! And the chugging guitar was inspired by a Queen track”: Guitarist Adrian Smith reveals the origins of his first song for Maiden

It’s on their classic album The Number Of The Beast
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“Although it might not feel natural, when you translate what he does for guitar, it sounds different”: Adrian Smith on how Steve Harris is the secret to Iron Maiden’s triple-guitar attack – and the prog instincts driving their sonic evolution

When your principal songwriter and driving force is directing traffic on bass, is it any wonder the guitars took a different path in search of brave new worlds to explore?
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Adrian in 2025:

''That song was one of the first things I ever wrote. And it was inspired, loosely, by that Queen track, 'Now I'm Here'. You know, the chugging guitar, the stabs. Steve added a few bits and I also had this other riff that I’d play at soundchecks, so we stuck that on the end - another time change''.

''Steve did a lot of songs in D, and D is not a really heavy key. The Number Of The Beast, Run To The Hills, it’s not a heavy key, and I think if we did it now I’d suggest we did a different key, or we’d try different tunings, but at the time you just go along with it. That’s a thing that’s gone all through the years. Steve is main songwriter, and as a bass player he has a pretty unique way of playing. So when you translate that to the guitar, it's just something you would not do on guitar, normally, which is a double-edged sword, because although it might not feel natural, when you translate what he does for guitar, it sounds different.''

Btw, this is a quote from Steve: ''It just taught me to do whatever the hell you want to do and to go in any direction you want to. That’s a pretty good lesson. And it’s all about the songs, at the end of the day.''
 
It's come to my attention that there's a comma present in the title of this thread. It shouldn't be there, away with it.

Whoever wrote this title, explain yourself.

:p
 
Eddie's Uncle said:
Suffers from the "Black Sabbath Syndrome": starts out great. Heavy riffing, catchy hooks, overall nice song. Then after the second chorus, it suddenly shifts into some complete randomness with unnecessary tempo change, out-of-place random riffing, B-side melodies and mindless soloing. The songs has great ingedients, but lacks proper arrangemen. That's why I give it a 5.
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I don't see that. The second section has a more solid structure than the first. Verse, chorus, verse, chorus, bridge, (very much not-mindless) solo, verse, solo, end. It's a pretty standard structure with a long-arse (but good) intro.

Diesel 11 said:
Boy when, I find out who Anonymous, is I’m gonna, give them a real, piece of my ,mind!
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You,ll hav,e to, get, in, l,ine,!
 
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