Heaven Can Wait

[Vaenyr]

Been listening to SiT a good bit over the past year. I've always loved the album but have come to appreciate it even more. Was listening to it on my drive home today. HCW is a great song and the sing along part never fails to put me in a good mood. I find it uplifting even.

I particularly like all the little guitar licks Adrian plays in that part. There's some really cool stuff to appreciate there.

 

[MindRuler]

Can we agree there's not a single weak track on Somewhere In Time?

 

[Vaenyr]

There are a couple I'm not the biggest fan of, but by now you folks know my Maiden tastes are unhinged, so I'll just pack my takes and let this be

 

[andreljbernardo]

The repetitive chorus is the weakest part of all the entire album, imo. Just because of it, it's a 7/10 for me. Even so, it's a very good track, with great melodies, beautiful guitar solos and bass lines, in addition of interesting lyrics.

 

[Vaenyr]

I was watching a Blaze era bootleg earlier today and it got me wondering, why didn't Blaze go down the easy road, as Bruce did? Bruce, when singing this song, often would sing the first "Heaven can wait" and then would just say the "heaven can" part, with the audience singing the "wait", which is also the most demanding part of the chorus. Blaze seemed to always sing the entire line and I wonder if he wasn't confindent enough to command the audience in such a way or if he didn't want to copy Bruce's approach to his songs.