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[Ariana]

Yes, you did. I need a new one now.

 

[Moon Child]

Well, your now broken computer must be holding out pretty strongly because you're still here.

 

[SixesAlltheway]

Oh my god haha

 

[Moon Child]

Not looking forward to today at all...

 

[Ariana]

Keeping my fingers crossed that everything goes well. If such a thing can go well at all.

 

[Moon Child]

There are ways for things to go better than I expect them to be, I'm sure.

Thank you.

 

[Saapanael]

1 minute 10 seconds, Dave Murray. What the hell is this song, it feels sooo familiar, I even remember some of the lyrics but the name just doesn't pop up in my mind.

 

[Srogyy]

The solo seems pretty much random, but it contains a melody from The Aftermath

 

[The Flash]

The fact that Dave always finds himself a spot in these kinds of compilations, lists and Adrian doesn't drives me nuts. I love Dave's playing but Adrian's playing gets underappreciated by many. Both should be mentioned in the same breath.

Having a truly rough day. Illness sucks.

 

[Saapanael]

The solo seems pretty much random, but it contains a melody from The Aftermath

Thanks, the melody was exactly what I meant.

 

[____no5]

Wednesday. The day of Wednes. Who the fuck is Wednes.

 

[The Flash]

It's the day of Wodanaz, who can be considered as an equivalent of Mercury in Germanic paganism/Norse mythology.

 

[Ariana]

The solo seems pretty much random, but it contains a melody from The Aftermath

Sounds like The Edge of Darkness to me.

Actually, I just heard those melodies form The Aftermath and The Edge of Darkness back to back. I'd never noticed they were so similar.

 

[The Flash]

There are so many Maiden melodies similar to that one. Because it's in E minor. There's also an almost identical melody on The Alchemist.

 

[Ariana]

Yeah, you're right about The Alchemist. When I hear these melodies I think "typical Maiden" but I've never bothered to listen to them back to back. It's startling when you realise how similar they are.

 

[The Flash]

Exactly, it's the main reason I keep saying "E minor, E minor, E minor" about the stuff Steve Harris writes. It just gets old after a while.

 

[Wästed The Great]

Random quiet day at work.

I've got a pile of 30+ p/s 2 keyboards that i'm going to box up and get out of my sight.

 

[Perun]

Three hours to get five books.

 

[Dr. Eddies Wingman]

There are so many Maiden melodies similar to that one. Because it's in E minor. There's also an almost identical melody on The Alchemist.

I think pointing out the key is irrelevant. A similar melody is still similar if you transpose it a fourth up and play it in A minor instead. Would you give 'Arry credit for creativity if he made a new song that sounded almost the same as Hallowed Be Thy Name but one fourth higher?

I would agree that there is repetitiveness in the songwriting since the mid-90s, but the choice of key does not have so much to do with it. Recycling melody snippets and chord progressions, on the other hand, does.

 

[The Flash]

It has much to do with chord progressions, of course. But still, the usage of the same key in similar sounding melodies make them sound even more similar.