A Matter of Life and Death Dissection

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AMOLAD does have the best reunion-era Eddie. The TBOS art is fantastic, and easily the next best, but that AMOLAD Eddie is nice and gritty.

BNW, however has the better overall cover IMO, as I really like the painting of the city.
 
I thought the specific album was better then DOD. Some of the instrumental passages are just amazing. I think this is a love it or hate it album. This is however true for all albums if you think about it.

On AMOLAD all the songs seem to be a long piece of music just cut in 10 parts. This makes some - if not most - of the songs sound out of place and too muted, if shuffled in a Maiden playlist of the old.

I know that many people like the album. I respect that but I don;t understand it. I hardly get any groove from any of the songs the and it doesn't seem as if the band is having fun while playing them.

So this is what makes me like Speed of Light so much.the fun element. The songs get this serious turn that I really like but most of the takes are lifeless. I am pretty sure that the songs would have been much better live. I saw Maiden in 2007 but for some reason I have no real memories of that gig. I just remember that my then favorite song from the album was pretty boring live for the most part. So there goes the probably better live thing for me. It was the first time I saw Maiden give a professional live and not an energetic one.

Oh well! The strength of an album can only be seen with time. And time did no favors to the specific album as far as I am concerned. This is the first time I got really tired of trying to like a specific song. All songs have some pretty strong parts but the choruses for the most part sound like they belong to a different song altogether. It is the first time I thought that Maiden just had some different parts that they had to use and started putting them together on a random manner (pretty much as they did with TMHWBK).

And FTGGOG is the song that drove me mad. It is a pity that such an awesome instrumental part is circled by Bruce shouting the choruses for 1 minute before and one minute after it. Never got why this had to be this way....and after reading Steve said something like " FTGGOG is exactly how I want Maiden to sound in 2006" I knew that most probably I had to get online and send the biggest facepalm emoticon on earth.

On the other hand I knew that seeing AMOLAD as a much better album than BNW and better than DOD while I still had so many things I did not like........things were not looking so good between me and Maiden back in the day.

Cheers!
 
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I have a on/off relationship with AMOLAD. There are times I think it's some of the best music they have ever made and times I think "why did they do that?"

Songs I could do without: Out of the Shadows and The Longest Day. I know...I must be crazy not liking the latter. I just can't get into the chorus.

Songs that I feel are the best: Lord of Light, The Pilgrim and The Legacy. I actually think The Legacy is a great closer.

I really loved the album until TFF came out, which reminded me how I lean more towards the lighter side of Maiden.

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I hardly get any groove from any of the songs the and it doesn't seem as if the band is having fun while playing them.

So this is what makes me like Speed of Light so much.the fun element.
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This is why I tend to spin TFF more than AMOLAD. And although SoL isn't the best production wise, that dark element isn't there and it really does sound like they are having fun with it.
 
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Songs I could do without: Out of the Shadows and The Longest Day. I know...I must be crazy not liking the latter. I just can't get into the chorus.

Songs that I feel are the best: Lord of Light, The Pilgrim and The Legacy.
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Your two least favourite songs from the album are also my two least favourite, and your top three are also my top three. I think that makes us BFF.
 
SinisterMinisterX said:
Back on track with this thread:

AMOLAD does have the best reunion-era Eddie. The TBOS art is fantastic, and easily the next best, but that AMOLAD Eddie is nice and gritty.

BNW, however has the better overall cover IMO, as I really like the painting of the city.
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I do like the overall feel of BNW cover, I just feel it's assembled a little awkwardly. I think the city painting is very dated looking now...and some of those buildings :facepalm:. Besides the cloud thievery that's going on, the Eddie painting is fairly rushed looking I think. It's a funny one.
I won't start again on DOD cover
 
I think the only thing I don't like about the AMOLAD cover is how teeny tiny Eddie is. So glad that, for better or for worse really, he's been center stage on the albums since.
 
I think I'm the only one who likes this production very much, best snare sound ever, everything is in yourt head, little compressed but I like it. But album is such a great experience, so hard to get into but when you click it's beautiful ;)
 
It's one of my favourite Maiden records in terms of production. Everything has a good tone and place in the mix in my opinion.
 
although it is slowly... very slowly, growing on me, I have to say that I feel that AMOLAD is the most overrated of the three reunion albums i've heard so far. I still have TFF to go.

It's a good album, but it's not this epic masterpiece that everyone on here makes it out to be. I liked BNW and DoD much more.
 
It took me a few years to get into AMoLaD. I do like it, but it's probably my least favorite album from 21st century Maiden. It seems like Bruce's vocals are way back in the mix, like I can barely hear him. That's a bit odd to my ears. And the whole album feels very mid-tempo or kind of slogging. It never really takes off and soars like Maiden can. Still, I'm glad it exists. It's good to have some "different" sounding albums in the Maiden catalog. I think I'll listen to it today.
 
The Pilgrim, The Longest Day and Out of the Shadows are my least favorite songs on the album as well, especially The Longest Day, it's grating to my ears..that chorus.
So essentially the middle of the album.
 
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