Guess The Iron Maiden Song!
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Ancient Mariner
Fates Warning
Clue 1: This song makes a reference to a journey (of unknown proportions).
Clue 2: The lyrics names a specific means of transportation. Furthermore, the opening line of the song could make you think of a town often
associated with a specific journey - by another mode of transport than the journey in clue 1.
Clue 3: The name of the song contains a phrase that might make you think about a technological device, but a certain piece of Maiden merchandise suggests that the phrase does not refer to such a device.
Clue 4: The lyrics contains a particular reference (used in two separate settings here, but nowhere else in Maiden's catalogue) that should make you think about a seminal album in hard rock history.
Clue 5: When it comes to literary devices, the lyrics frequently makes use of similes and hyperbole.
Clue 6: A name often associated with a tragedy appears in the song. This name also serves as an obvious link to the seminal album in clue 4.
Clue 7: Seemingly, an instrumental bit of the song is missing - or at least delayed.
Incorrect guesses: Ghost of the Navigator, The Man Who Would Be King, Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Caught Somewhere in Time, From here To Eternity, Isle of Avalon, The Final Frontier, Powerslave, Invaderes, When The Wild Wind Blows, Fear is the Key, Tailgunner, Speed of Light, The Nomad, Face in the Sand, Die With Your Boots On, Empire of the Clouds, Fates Warning, The Edge of Darkness
Clue 2: The lyrics names a specific means of transportation. Furthermore, the opening line of the song could make you think of a town often
associated with a specific journey - by another mode of transport than the journey in clue 1.
Clue 3: The name of the song contains a phrase that might make you think about a technological device, but a certain piece of Maiden merchandise suggests that the phrase does not refer to such a device.
Clue 4: The lyrics contains a particular reference (used in two separate settings here, but nowhere else in Maiden's catalogue) that should make you think about a seminal album in hard rock history.
Clue 5: When it comes to literary devices, the lyrics frequently makes use of similes and hyperbole.
Clue 6: A name often associated with a tragedy appears in the song. This name also serves as an obvious link to the seminal album in clue 4.
Clue 7: Seemingly, an instrumental bit of the song is missing - or at least delayed.
Incorrect guesses: Ghost of the Navigator, The Man Who Would Be King, Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Caught Somewhere in Time, From here To Eternity, Isle of Avalon, The Final Frontier, Powerslave, Invaderes, When The Wild Wind Blows, Fear is the Key, Tailgunner, Speed of Light, The Nomad, Face in the Sand, Die With Your Boots On, Empire of the Clouds, Fates Warning, The Edge of Darkness
Clue 1: This song makes a reference to a journey (of unknown proportions).
Clue 2: The lyrics names a specific means of transportation. Furthermore, the opening line of the song could make you think of a town often
associated with a specific journey - by another mode of transport than the journey in clue 1.
Clue 3: The name of the song contains a phrase that might make you think about a technological device, but a certain piece of Maiden merchandise suggests that the phrase does not refer to such a device.
Clue 4: The lyrics contains a particular reference (used in two separate settings here, but nowhere else in Maiden's catalogue) that should make you think about a seminal album in hard rock history.
Clue 5: When it comes to literary devices, the lyrics frequently makes use of similes and hyperbole.
Clue 6: A name often associated with a tragedy appears in the song. This name also serves as an obvious link to the seminal album in clue 4.
Clue 7: Seemingly, an instrumental bit of the song is missing - or at least delayed.
Clue 8: The song's origins, at least parts of it, go back in time to another decade, to a non-Maiden song under another name. The song also nods to a rather obscure Maiden-related performance, for which the merchandise mentioned in clue 3 was produced.
Incorrect guesses: Ghost of the Navigator, The Man Who Would Be King, Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Caught Somewhere in Time, From here To Eternity, Isle of Avalon, The Final Frontier, Powerslave, Invaderes, When The Wild Wind Blows, Fear is the Key, Tailgunner, Speed of Light, The Nomad, Face in the Sand, Die With Your Boots On, Empire of the Clouds, Fates Warning, The Edge of Darkness, Gangland
Clue 2: The lyrics names a specific means of transportation. Furthermore, the opening line of the song could make you think of a town often
associated with a specific journey - by another mode of transport than the journey in clue 1.
Clue 3: The name of the song contains a phrase that might make you think about a technological device, but a certain piece of Maiden merchandise suggests that the phrase does not refer to such a device.
Clue 4: The lyrics contains a particular reference (used in two separate settings here, but nowhere else in Maiden's catalogue) that should make you think about a seminal album in hard rock history.
Clue 5: When it comes to literary devices, the lyrics frequently makes use of similes and hyperbole.
Clue 6: A name often associated with a tragedy appears in the song. This name also serves as an obvious link to the seminal album in clue 4.
Clue 7: Seemingly, an instrumental bit of the song is missing - or at least delayed.
Clue 8: The song's origins, at least parts of it, go back in time to another decade, to a non-Maiden song under another name. The song also nods to a rather obscure Maiden-related performance, for which the merchandise mentioned in clue 3 was produced.
Incorrect guesses: Ghost of the Navigator, The Man Who Would Be King, Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Caught Somewhere in Time, From here To Eternity, Isle of Avalon, The Final Frontier, Powerslave, Invaderes, When The Wild Wind Blows, Fear is the Key, Tailgunner, Speed of Light, The Nomad, Face in the Sand, Die With Your Boots On, Empire of the Clouds, Fates Warning, The Edge of Darkness, Gangland
Black Bart
Ancient Mariner
The Number of the Beast
Clue 1: This song makes a reference to a journey (of unknown proportions).
Clue 2: The lyrics names a specific means of transportation. Furthermore, the opening line of the song could make you think of a town often
associated with a specific journey - by another mode of transport than the journey in clue 1.
Clue 3: The name of the song contains a phrase that might make you think about a technological device, but a certain piece of Maiden merchandise suggests that the phrase does not refer to such a device.
Clue 4: The lyrics contains a particular reference (used in two separate settings here, but nowhere else in Maiden's catalogue) that should make you think about a seminal album in hard rock history.
Clue 5: When it comes to literary devices, the lyrics frequently makes use of similes and hyperbole.
Clue 6: A name often associated with a tragedy appears in the song. This name also serves as an obvious link to the seminal album in clue 4.
Clue 7: Seemingly, an instrumental bit of the song is missing - or at least delayed.
Clue 8: The song's origins, at least parts of it, go back in time to another decade, to a non-Maiden song under another name. The song also nods to a rather obscure Maiden-related performance, for which the merchandise mentioned in clue 3 was produced.
Clue 9: The song's opening line has a counterpart found in a ZZ Top hit. Moreover, the Maiden song in question deals mainly with an issue that should immediately make you think of an AC/DC single.
Incorrect guesses: Ghost of the Navigator, The Man Who Would Be King, Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Caught Somewhere in Time, From here To Eternity, Isle of Avalon, The Final Frontier, Powerslave, Invaderes, When The Wild Wind Blows, Fear is the Key, Tailgunner, Speed of Light, The Nomad, Face in the Sand, Die With Your Boots On, Empire of the Clouds, Fates Warning, The Edge of Darkness, Gangland, Shadows of the Valley, Number of the Beast, The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner
Clue 2: The lyrics names a specific means of transportation. Furthermore, the opening line of the song could make you think of a town often
associated with a specific journey - by another mode of transport than the journey in clue 1.
Clue 3: The name of the song contains a phrase that might make you think about a technological device, but a certain piece of Maiden merchandise suggests that the phrase does not refer to such a device.
Clue 4: The lyrics contains a particular reference (used in two separate settings here, but nowhere else in Maiden's catalogue) that should make you think about a seminal album in hard rock history.
Clue 5: When it comes to literary devices, the lyrics frequently makes use of similes and hyperbole.
Clue 6: A name often associated with a tragedy appears in the song. This name also serves as an obvious link to the seminal album in clue 4.
Clue 7: Seemingly, an instrumental bit of the song is missing - or at least delayed.
Clue 8: The song's origins, at least parts of it, go back in time to another decade, to a non-Maiden song under another name. The song also nods to a rather obscure Maiden-related performance, for which the merchandise mentioned in clue 3 was produced.
Clue 9: The song's opening line has a counterpart found in a ZZ Top hit. Moreover, the Maiden song in question deals mainly with an issue that should immediately make you think of an AC/DC single.
Incorrect guesses: Ghost of the Navigator, The Man Who Would Be King, Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Caught Somewhere in Time, From here To Eternity, Isle of Avalon, The Final Frontier, Powerslave, Invaderes, When The Wild Wind Blows, Fear is the Key, Tailgunner, Speed of Light, The Nomad, Face in the Sand, Die With Your Boots On, Empire of the Clouds, Fates Warning, The Edge of Darkness, Gangland, Shadows of the Valley, Number of the Beast, The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner
So, Nodding Donkey Blues, eh? Here are the clues explained:
Clue 1: This song makes a reference to a journey (of unknown proportions).
Oh, we'll sail across the ocean you and me...
Clue 2: The lyrics names a specific means of transportation. Furthermore, the opening line of the song could make you think of a town often
associated with a specific journey - by another mode of transport than the journey in clue 1.
Airship. "Settle down", Bruce says over one of the first bars. Settle is the Yorkshire town where you can board the famously scenic Settle-Carlisle railway.
Clue 3: The name of the song contains a phrase that might make you think about a technological device, but a certain piece of Maiden merchandise suggests that the phrase does not refer to such a device.
A nodding donkey is another name for a pumpjack, used in pits, oilwells and such. However, when Iron Maiden played a show under "The Nodding Donkeys" moniker in June 1992, a t-shirt with Eddie strangling a donkey (similar to the Be Quick or Be Dead single, swapping Robert Maxwell for a comic-style donkey) was produced, thus implying that the title of the song actually refers to an animal.
Clue 4: The lyrics contains a particular reference (used in two separate settings here, but nowhere else in Maiden's catalogue) that should make you think about a seminal album in hard rock history.
"The Hindenburg" is mentioned twice. An image of the burning airship is on the cover of Led Zeppelin I.
Clue 5: When it comes to literary devices, the lyrics frequently makes use of similes and hyperbole.
First and fourth verse is made up of similes such as "legs like an airship" and so on. Hyperbole is used as the size of the woman is obviously exaggerated.
Clue 6: A name often associated with a tragedy appears in the song. This name also serves as an obvious link to the seminal album in clue 4.
Hindenburg, after which the Airship HIndenburg was named, was the German politician who reluctantly put Adolf Hitler in office.
Clue 7: Seemingly, an instrumental bit of the song is missing - or at least delayed.
"Should be some kind of guitar solo here", Bruce says over the piano solo. A guitar solo appears later, though. By the way, and I know I'm not the forst to ask, does anyone know who plays the piano on this?
Clue 8: The song's origins, at least parts of it, go back in time to another decade, to a non-Maiden song under another name. The song also nods to a rather obscure Maiden-related performance, for which the merchandise mentioned in clue 3 was produced.
The song's main idea is based more or less loosely on a Samson outtake from the early 1980s, apparently about a plus-size groupie. The Maiden-related performance is the incognito "The Nodding Donkeys" show Maiden played in 1992, as a warm-up to the Fear of the Dark Tour.
Clue 9: The song's opening line has a counterpart found in a ZZ Top hit. Moreover, the Maiden song in question deals mainly with an issue that should immediately make you think of an AC/DC single.
ZZ Top's "Legs" (from 1983's Eliminator album) starts off with "She's got legs...". AC/DC's third single from the 1977 "Let There Be Rock" album, "Whole Lotta Rosie" is also a moving tale about a love encounter with a woman with certain obesity issues.
Clue 1: This song makes a reference to a journey (of unknown proportions).
Oh, we'll sail across the ocean you and me...
Clue 2: The lyrics names a specific means of transportation. Furthermore, the opening line of the song could make you think of a town often
associated with a specific journey - by another mode of transport than the journey in clue 1.
Airship. "Settle down", Bruce says over one of the first bars. Settle is the Yorkshire town where you can board the famously scenic Settle-Carlisle railway.
Clue 3: The name of the song contains a phrase that might make you think about a technological device, but a certain piece of Maiden merchandise suggests that the phrase does not refer to such a device.
A nodding donkey is another name for a pumpjack, used in pits, oilwells and such. However, when Iron Maiden played a show under "The Nodding Donkeys" moniker in June 1992, a t-shirt with Eddie strangling a donkey (similar to the Be Quick or Be Dead single, swapping Robert Maxwell for a comic-style donkey) was produced, thus implying that the title of the song actually refers to an animal.
Clue 4: The lyrics contains a particular reference (used in two separate settings here, but nowhere else in Maiden's catalogue) that should make you think about a seminal album in hard rock history.
"The Hindenburg" is mentioned twice. An image of the burning airship is on the cover of Led Zeppelin I.
Clue 5: When it comes to literary devices, the lyrics frequently makes use of similes and hyperbole.
First and fourth verse is made up of similes such as "legs like an airship" and so on. Hyperbole is used as the size of the woman is obviously exaggerated.
Clue 6: A name often associated with a tragedy appears in the song. This name also serves as an obvious link to the seminal album in clue 4.
Hindenburg, after which the Airship HIndenburg was named, was the German politician who reluctantly put Adolf Hitler in office.
Clue 7: Seemingly, an instrumental bit of the song is missing - or at least delayed.
"Should be some kind of guitar solo here", Bruce says over the piano solo. A guitar solo appears later, though. By the way, and I know I'm not the forst to ask, does anyone know who plays the piano on this?
Clue 8: The song's origins, at least parts of it, go back in time to another decade, to a non-Maiden song under another name. The song also nods to a rather obscure Maiden-related performance, for which the merchandise mentioned in clue 3 was produced.
The song's main idea is based more or less loosely on a Samson outtake from the early 1980s, apparently about a plus-size groupie. The Maiden-related performance is the incognito "The Nodding Donkeys" show Maiden played in 1992, as a warm-up to the Fear of the Dark Tour.
Clue 9: The song's opening line has a counterpart found in a ZZ Top hit. Moreover, the Maiden song in question deals mainly with an issue that should immediately make you think of an AC/DC single.
ZZ Top's "Legs" (from 1983's Eliminator album) starts off with "She's got legs...". AC/DC's third single from the 1977 "Let There Be Rock" album, "Whole Lotta Rosie" is also a moving tale about a love encounter with a woman with certain obesity issues.