Guess The Iron Maiden Song!
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Out of the Silent Planet we are!
Here is the thinking behind the clues:
Clue 1: A Maiden B-side provides links to this next song you're trying to guess. One such link is through a book.
"Communication Breakdown" - then you have a Silent Planet on your hands - which points to both the Maiden song and C.S Lewis' book "Out of the Silent Planet". Robert Plant was also a big C.S Lewis fan.
Clue 2: The chorus of the song has a line which is also the name of a song by a band that has shared stage with Maiden.
King's X, who opened for Maiden on the No Prayer on the Road tour
Clue 3: In the lyrics you will find a Slayer song, a record label, and a US 70s punk band more influential than successful, who sang about their home city.
Killing Fields. Creation. Crime ("San Francisco is Doomed")
Clue 4: Thematically, the song has quite a few counterparts in the Maiden catalog, but not really on the album on which it was released.
Lyrics seem to lament the state of the world and how it's being run. Current affairs stuff, like "Public Enema No. 1" or "Age of Innocence".
Clue 5:
London, Mexico City, Buenos Aires
The song was only played live four times in these cities (twice in London).
Clue 6:
The song is found on more than one Maiden release, of which one has some atypical traits if we look at Maiden's overall release history.
Released as a single and hardly played live - a rare combination for Maiden. Moreover, it was released long after the album, and different versions had the same tracks, so very little for hardcore fans to enthuse about.
Clue 7:
The inspiration behind the song is probably manifold, but inspiration can definitely be found in a film, which in turn was inspired by a work of literature. Within this work of literature, a Maiden album title can also be found in a quote. The name of the work of literature in question is also the last (stage) name of a rock singer who fronts a band that has been inspired by Maiden and was on a festival bill with Maiden a few years ago.
The band said "Forbidden Planet" was the main inspiration. This film was loosely based on Shakespeares's "The Tempest", which also has the phrase "brave new world". Joey Tempest fronts Europe, who played with Maiden at the Tons of Rock festival in 2022.
Clue 8:
In the song you can hear a composition trick often used by Maiden, where the end mirrors the beginning.
Self-explanatory
Clue 9:
So we're still going? I'm a bit surprised, as this is not an obscure song. Or maybe that depends upon how you look at it... But here's the clue:
The song has been released in different versions.
Single version is considerably shorter, without the guitar lick opening the song.
Clue 10:
The guessing so far has missed the target with some margin: Neither the song right before nor the song right after in the album running order are on the list of wrong guesses below.
Self-explanatory
Clue 11:
If you were to play all the Maiden releases where the song features from start to finish, you would also get to hear two of the songs in the list of wrong guesses below.
No BNW song guessed, but Aces High and Wasted Years are on the single b-side.
Clue 12:
The song can be categorised in different ways (see clue 4): Another way is to align it with The Alchemist and Montsegur.
A rare Gers/Harris/Dickinson composition. (Ghost of the Navigator is the fourth and last with this writing credit).
Go on, @Vaenyr, we know you want to.
Here is the thinking behind the clues:
Clue 1: A Maiden B-side provides links to this next song you're trying to guess. One such link is through a book.
"Communication Breakdown" - then you have a Silent Planet on your hands - which points to both the Maiden song and C.S Lewis' book "Out of the Silent Planet". Robert Plant was also a big C.S Lewis fan.
Clue 2: The chorus of the song has a line which is also the name of a song by a band that has shared stage with Maiden.
King's X, who opened for Maiden on the No Prayer on the Road tour
Clue 3: In the lyrics you will find a Slayer song, a record label, and a US 70s punk band more influential than successful, who sang about their home city.
Killing Fields. Creation. Crime ("San Francisco is Doomed")
Clue 4: Thematically, the song has quite a few counterparts in the Maiden catalog, but not really on the album on which it was released.
Lyrics seem to lament the state of the world and how it's being run. Current affairs stuff, like "Public Enema No. 1" or "Age of Innocence".
Clue 5:
London, Mexico City, Buenos Aires
The song was only played live four times in these cities (twice in London).
Clue 6:
The song is found on more than one Maiden release, of which one has some atypical traits if we look at Maiden's overall release history.
Released as a single and hardly played live - a rare combination for Maiden. Moreover, it was released long after the album, and different versions had the same tracks, so very little for hardcore fans to enthuse about.
Clue 7:
The inspiration behind the song is probably manifold, but inspiration can definitely be found in a film, which in turn was inspired by a work of literature. Within this work of literature, a Maiden album title can also be found in a quote. The name of the work of literature in question is also the last (stage) name of a rock singer who fronts a band that has been inspired by Maiden and was on a festival bill with Maiden a few years ago.
The band said "Forbidden Planet" was the main inspiration. This film was loosely based on Shakespeares's "The Tempest", which also has the phrase "brave new world". Joey Tempest fronts Europe, who played with Maiden at the Tons of Rock festival in 2022.
Clue 8:
In the song you can hear a composition trick often used by Maiden, where the end mirrors the beginning.
Self-explanatory
Clue 9:
So we're still going? I'm a bit surprised, as this is not an obscure song. Or maybe that depends upon how you look at it... But here's the clue:
The song has been released in different versions.
Single version is considerably shorter, without the guitar lick opening the song.
Clue 10:
The guessing so far has missed the target with some margin: Neither the song right before nor the song right after in the album running order are on the list of wrong guesses below.
Self-explanatory
Clue 11:
If you were to play all the Maiden releases where the song features from start to finish, you would also get to hear two of the songs in the list of wrong guesses below.
No BNW song guessed, but Aces High and Wasted Years are on the single b-side.
Clue 12:
The song can be categorised in different ways (see clue 4): Another way is to align it with The Alchemist and Montsegur.
A rare Gers/Harris/Dickinson composition. (Ghost of the Navigator is the fourth and last with this writing credit).
Go on, @Vaenyr, we know you want to.
TheMercenary
Ancient Mariner
The Prisoner
Black Bart
Ancient Mariner
Powerslave
chaosapiant
Ancient Marinade
If Eternity Should Fail
Roll Over Vic Vella
Vaenyr
Ancient Mariner
Starts with a bass (synth)
Starts with synths so these two can't be it. The others aren't correct either, so:
Clue #2: The song has been played live before. It's featured (in a way) on at least one more release beyond its original debut.
Previous Clues:
Clue #1: There's a small number of songs in Maiden's discography which either have an intro or an outro that is not music played by an instrument or sung vocals. The song we are looking for is one of those songs.
Incorrect Guesses: The Prisoner, Still Life, Powerslave, Satellite 15... The Final Frontier, If Eternity Should Fail, Roll Over Vic Vella
Black Bart
Ancient Mariner
Public Enema Number One
TheMercenary
Ancient Mariner
When The Wild Wind Blows
Vaenyr
Ancient Mariner
That's the one! The next clues would've explained further that the "intro" is barely one and was used more as a misdirection.
Your turn @Black Bart !
Black Bart
Ancient Mariner
Clue #1: semi-modal
TheMercenary
Ancient Mariner
Edge Of Darkness
Black Bart
Ancient Mariner
No to both