Favourite song without a chorus

[Reumeren]

It's quite easy: what is in your opinion the best Iron Maiden song without a chorus.

Lyrical repetition is not a chorus, therefore Another Life and Innocent Exile ist on the list. Let me know if I forgot someone or you think I should remove anyone from the list.

(PS: first attempt at a poll. Be gentle )

 

[SinisterMinisterX]

Simple. I need only consider my list of the best Maiden songs...

1. Paschenfuckingdale, brother!
2. Powerslave
3. Hallowed Be Thy Name

...and find the first one I can vote for.

 

[Natalie]

I go for Rime this time just because I was so impressed when I heard it live last summer (ok I heard Hallowed live too but then it's on other live albums like Death on the Road). Honorable mentions go to Dance of Death and Infinite Dreams, as well as Hallowed be thy Name.

Nice first poll Reumeren!

 

[Perun]

therefore Another Life and Innocent Exile ist on the list.

Aha! Ve heff ze Gestapo hier!

I'm gonna poke on that a little, though. I always thought Where Eagles Dare has a chorus, because the final half-lines of the verses echo each other quite accordingly, even if the words are not identical:

no one should go where eagles dare - no one should fly where eagles dare - they chose to fly where eagles dare

My definition of a chorus is that it, in a lyrical sense should be a reflection of the preceding verse(s). These half-lines nicely wrap up the dramaturgy of the each verse, and therefore could be described as choruses. Then again, that is only my opinion.

And of course, my vote will go to Hallowed Be Thy Name.

 

[Natalie]

How boring and utterly predictable.

 

[Perun]

Is it my fault that it happens to be the second-best song ever written?

 

[Reumeren]

I agree with what you say about Where Eagles Dare. ''Meditate on this I will''

Nice first poll Reumeren!

Thank you!

 

[Forostar]

Rime!

 

[Aeolis]

I'll go for Infinite Dreams.

 

[Jeffmetal]

Infinite Dreams

 

[Moonchild33]

This looked impossible at first.

Then I saw Rime. Win.

 

[Kalata]

''Dance Of Death'' (POTO and NPFTD are both on close second).

 

[Diesel 11]

Voting Apparition because no one else will.

 

[Perun]

That is not dead
Which can eternal lie
Yet with strange aeons
Even threads may die.

 

[BlackCountryBushido]

I voted for Hallowed since it the first one I came to in my top 10 songs, then afterwards I saw Dance Of Death. Oh well.