IRON MAIDEN SURVIVOR 2015: Results - Hallowed wins again!

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I have to ask: What do people have against Empire? Length? Progressiveness? Lack of a Janick solo?

Ok, the last one is doubtful. But I think it's among the best songs they've ever recorded.
 
Detective Beauregard said:
I have to ask: What do people have against Empire? Length? Progressiveness? Lack of a Janick solo?

Ok, the last one is doubtful. But I think it's among the best songs they've ever recorded.
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I have already posted this in the Empire thread, but since you've asked...

JudasMyGuide said:
I have tried to summarise my biggest complaints regarding Empire and I think I have it.

1. It's way too melodramatic. You would have thought he's singing about the fall of Babylon or whatever.

2. However, surprisingly, it also (musically) lacks a clear climax - it just ... is. And then it isn't.

3. The instrumental part could have been longer and better. Also, no Janick solo.

4. Along with the previous - for 18 minutes it's way too repetitive and simplistic. Not enough meat on these bones.

5. Also, it's way too vocally, lyrically and atmospherically driven for its length.

6. The SOS is a cool idea in theory, but it brings the song to a halt... more than once. It also sounds very jarring, like a cut-and-paste songrwriting.

7. I don't like what Bruce is doing there - the first six minutes sound more like Hammill/Gabriel/Waters, heck, Bowie even, than Bruce and Maiden.

8. And finally... I just don't see this as Maiden, full stop. It would be great on a Bruce's solo album, mabe even on a special Maiden EP (like DT's A Change of Seasons), but it just doesn't fit the TBoS album, IMHO. It should be separated from the rest of their work, because it's not that much about the band, it sticks out like a sore thumb and it's way too weird to compare it with the rest of the Maiden material.

Also this:

Mosh said:
It really comes off more as a folk song than a prog rock epic
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Mosh has put it perfectly.

That said, I still like it. But I usually listen to it separately from the rest of the album and I don't get the adoration it gets.
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Eliminated
Death or Glory - 11 votes
Shadows of the Valley - 13 votes
 
BNW
Talisman
IESF
Great Unknown
Tears of a Clown

Empire just barely made the cut. It's definitely next up after this round, however.
 
Forostar said:
@Mosh how many songs from the current batch will go to the next round? In other words: how many need to be eliminated?
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The quarterfinals will start when this group is narrowed down to ten songs. As for how many get eliminated, that depends on how many votes are given. If I closed the poll now, Great Unknown, Tears, and Talisman would be eliminated, with Starblind and Wild Wind promoted and 11 songs remaining.
 
Thanks. So, apart from the how and/or when question, in the end (from now until the QF begin) six more need to go from this total (16 - 6 = 10).
 
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