An album with demos, rejected material, etc.

chaosapiant said:
Not to be a snob, but if it wasn't good enough for Steve, why would it be good enough for us?  Unless the quality is that of the b-sides from X Factor; those rocked harder than the album tracks!
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Just because Steve didn't like it doesn't me we won't.
 
It were actually the lyrics that Bruce wrote for SIT and when Steve brought him RSRD, he said to Steve he had the perfect lyrics for that soundtrack, then he dug up the lyrics and Steve loved right away the combination.
 
I can't imagine there's much other than b-side covers that we haven't heard.  Steve always says how they write just enough material for an album and that working on anything more is wasteful.  So I'm not entirely sure what sort of stuff they would have for a project like this.

And I'm generally not a fan of double albums as they are too long.  I think TFF is about perfect in terms of length, not sure I'd want something longer.  But if it's good (which, for example, Priest's Nostradamus which clearly was awful), I'd take it in a heartbeat.
 
I've yet to encounter a double album I actually like.

I don't like Dream Theater's Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence (i.e. I like about half of the songs on both CDs), or RHCP's Stadium Arcadium, which is full of filler tracks. In the RHCP case, had they condensed those tracks to a single cd, it would be a killer album.
 
As much as I would love to hear all the unrealesed stuff, I kind of think it would spoil it for me in a way. I hope that makes sense.
 
Travis_AKA_fonzbear2000 said:
That would be sweet if Maiden would release an album with demos, stuff that Steve rejected and didn't make it to the final album and any other interesting material they could come up with.
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Steve has probably compiled tons of material from every album that wasn't used.  He has probably turned them into demos, at least.  I'm thinking that Iron Maiden has tons of unreleased stuff, and I hope they release it all post retirement.

Unreleased studio songs, demos, b-sides, and maybe even live rarities.  They can release it individually to give the fans lots of releases post retirement, or they can load it all onto a massive box set!
 
Ranko said:
I've yet to encounter a double album I actually like.

I don't like Dream Theater's Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence (i.e. I like about half of the songs on both CDs), or RHCP's Stadium Arcadium, which is full of filler tracks. In the RHCP case, had they condensed those tracks to a single cd, it would be a killer album.
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The Wall by Pink Floyd. I agree with you on the Dream Theater one, but my God is the Wall amazing (I'm not one of those people that just like Another Brick in the Wall Pt. 2 -_-)! The White Album by the Beatles is pretty decent... but I feel like there's quite some filler. Then the only other one I can think of after those two is Physical Graffiti by Led Zeppelin, which I don't think is anything spectacular. It's got a FEW okay songs, nothing special.

OT now... I'd love to see an unreleased collection set by Maiden, it'd be great! We already have the Best of the B Sides, so why not unreleased works?
 
The wall is ok. Definitly a lot of filler but at the same time some great gems. The white album is my favorite beatles album and physical graffitti is a classic. Also more recently In Your Honor by the Foo Fighters was a really well thought out double album. (one disc electric one disc acoustic) The only problem is that the whole thing would've fit on one disc.
 
I would rather have an album with re-recorded songs from TXF and VXI. They could re-arrange and shorten some songs that are to repetitive (The Angel & The Gambler, Don't Look To The Eyes Of A Stranger) or speed up some songs (Sign Of The Cross, like it's played in Rock In Rio). And to be honest, I want them to do that because of the vocals :)
 
That's just sad, especially TXF, which I think is one of the best Maiden albums there is.

I'd love them to do something with VXI...remaster it, or something, so it doesn't sound so muted. There's hidden genius there.
 
I think an excellent idea would be to do what Black Sabbath is doing with their "Deluxe" editions from Sanctuary records label.

Iron Maiden should release proper remasters with a second disk containing demos, extras, live tracks, etc. that relate to the album it comes with.
LooseCannon said:
That's just sad, especially TXF, which I think is one of the best Maiden albums there is.

I'd love them to do something with VXI...remaster it, or something, so it doesn't sound so muted. There's hidden genius there.
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It's muted because of a large amount of compression in the mastering.
 
TheRimeOfIcarus said:
Iron Maiden should release proper remasters with a second disk containing demos, extras, live tracks, etc. that relate to the album it comes with.
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I agree. I would also like to see them re-release those 2CD album versions with second CD with b-sides from singles.
 
Bruce dickinson did that right? Maybe they willl if Bruce did. (my albums are all originals so I'm not sure)
 
Bruce Dickinson reissue albums had previously released single b-sides and also unreleased material, Maiden reissues had only previously released single b-sides.
 
NightProwler666 said:
Bruce Dickinson reissue albums had previously released single b-sides and also unreleased material, Maiden reissues had only previously released single b-sides.
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oh thats right, they did. I forgot about that. I've never seen one of those remasters.
 
LooseCannon said:
That's just sad, especially TXF, which I think is one of the best Maiden albums there is.

I'd love them to do something with VXI...remaster it, or something, so it doesn't sound so muted. There's hidden genius there.
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I'd love them to force Nicko to re-record the drum tracks, this time the proper way.
When you listen to those tracks in concert, you realize how much was lost with his utterly stupid decision to oversimplify the drums.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CR93jefNuqQ

Compare those drums to studio record. On album, they are bleak and insignificant. Live, they are...thunder.
 
Oh man, Zare. Thanks for the link. Lightning Strikes Twice was one of my early favourites, and it's good to know it sounded monstrous live.

Blaze sounds pretty awesome too, and Davey rocks that solo.
 
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