Bruce Dickinson

[dickinson1978]

For his first couple of albums the best or most interesting songs are found in the bonus tracks or B sides in my opinion. Yeah, Tears is the exception, but stuff like Darkness Be My Friend, Fire Child, the two No Way Outs, hell even weird experimental stuff like Tibet or dumb fun stuff like Cadillac Gas Mask; I prefer those to anything on TM and BTP (again, with the exception of Tears, though even there I prefer the First Bit, Long Bit, Last Bit version to the album version).

The only song i remember that is a bside and its good is ghost of cain.

 

[Belshazzar]

I don’t mind the Mandrake Project. I don’t think there are any terrible songs on the album. My only frustration is you can hear that Bruce used different vocal takes from over the course of 25 years. It is really obvious which takes were done pre and post cancer (just listen for the lisp in the new verse of Eternity). I wish he would have just re-recorded all the vocals. That would have given the album a more consistent sound and feel.

Fair enough, but no bad tracks? My opinion of Face in the Mirror is that it's the most insipid, bland, boring, lacklustre unmemorable "song" that he's ever recorded. It sounds like something Ozzy would have done with Kelly. After he was dead. (Which reminds me, one week sober! Well done John!)

Any of the B side songs like Acoustic Song are way better.

 

[Vaenyr]

Damn, Face In The Mirror is one of my favorites on that album lol

 

[Kalata]

I don’t mind the Mandrake Project. I don’t think there are any terrible songs on the album. My only frustration is you can hear that Bruce used different vocal takes from over the course of 25 years.

I also think TMP doesn't have bad songs, weaker, yes. ^The new album might have another such song, the leftover from TCW sessions that Bruce and Roy found last year - that could have been added to TMP. It's probably co-written with Roy, so let's see if it shows up. What about Nightmares, I'm still curious. The thing is, we don't know if the current 18 demos are newly written material or not. Maybe they are new since his relationship with Roy is no more - and his said ''we did the demos''... which would be too bad for TCW and Nightmares songs. We know they have a lot of leftover material from the last 2 albums and that they wrote new ideas in 2024 (1 hour worth of music), Bruce has no problem losing them?

I feel that album hasnt been worked like CW or AOB and maybe like TOS too and they were in different places.

Definitely not. It was not a concentrated process.

Damn, Face In The Mirror is one of my favorites on that album lol

Face In The Mirror, as far as a purley acoustic song goes, is great and memorable which is important.

(again, with the exception of Tears, though even there I prefer the First Bit, Long Bit, Last Bit version to the album version).

I like some ideas in First Bit, Long Bit, Last Bit of Tears (the backing vocals), but the acoustic parts are essential to the song and it's too ''electronic'' for me. The changes were for the best. The current live version of the song is inspired by that version. Bruce's solo is full of interesting and good bonus stuff, every album.

 

[dickinson1978]

I also think TMP doesn't have bad songs, weaker, yes. ^The new album might have another such song, the leftover from TCW sessions that Bruce and Roy found last year - that could have been added to TMP. It's probably co-written with Roy, so let's see if it shows up. What about Nightmares, I'm still curious. The thing is, we don't know if the current 18 demos are newly written material or not.

Definitely not. It was not a concentrated process.

Face In The Mirror, as far as a purley acoustic song goes, is great and memorable which is important.

I like some ideas in First Bit, Long Bit, Last Bit of Tears (the backing vocals), but the acoustic parts are essential to the song and it's too ''electronic'' for me. The changes were for the best. The current live version of the song is inspired by that version. Bruce's solo is full of interesting and good bonus stuff, every album.

I think bruce said the 18 songs are new.