General Iron Maiden discussion

[dickinson1978]

How on earth did they miss a trick for the AMOLAD cover and not had Eddie be a head sitting on the tank, which was the inspiration for his creation in the first place? Eddie may as well not even be on that cover, it’s like Where’s Wally trying to find him amongst the other zombies. Eddie must be the centrepiece of the album art, that’s the whole point.

I always will say that the corpse on the right bottom looks like sharon osbourne after the egg incident they did the same as margaret tacher and i remember zome people said the same here in 2006.

 

[Vaenyr]

Looking at the early 2000s album covers it kinda felt like they tried to not focus as much on Eddie. Up to VXI he was almost always very promininet. On BNW he has a cool design imo (one of my favorites) but he's just a cloud in the top half of the image. On DOD he's right in the middle, but surrounded by a million CGI characters. On AMOLAD he's a relatively small part of the overall image. It took until TFF for him to be prominent on album covers again. Live albums and compilations are a bit different, where DOTR or SBIT featured him prominently, while F666 didn't at all.

Though I must say, I like the AMOLAD cover a lot. Given the theme it fits that he's just another part of a bigger whole. An army consists of multiple people as well after all, and waging war without an army is rarely a good idea.

 

[BludBrutha]

TFF has two prominent figures on the cover and neither of them even look like Eddie. It wasn’t until TBOS that we got an Eddie-centric cover again.

 

[Vaenyr]

TFF has two prominent figures on the cover and neither of them even look like Eddie. It wasn’t until TBOS that we got an Eddie-centric cover again.

True, that's because Melvyn Grant designed the creature on the cover as not being Eddie in the first place. Though canonically (as in, Rod said so lol) it is Eddie anyways.

 

[srfc]

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Random post. This is a curious quote from Bruce on the ''El Dorado'' topic (year, idk?):

''I went into the studio excited to write a song about ancient Egypt, but we apparently already did that decades ago. I went to my backup plan of a chronological narration of the life of Alexander the Great, but sure enough, the closer to ‘Somewhere in Time’ already took care of that. So I then scrambled through some history books and wrote lyrics about the Falklands War, but it turns out we did that on ‘Virtual XI.’ Honestly, that one shouldn’t even count because I wasn’t even on that album. I ended up picking this boring credit crisis because there was literally nothing left. It’s going to be tough trying to give this subject matter that adventurous Maiden sound.''

I think they managed to make ''El Dorado'' work well enough, it is better live though.

That's a fake comedy article, it's not a real quote from Bruce