Moments you thought "Maiden sounding weird here"

[Mosh]

Reading the interview, this instrumental isn't Alexander The Great (perhaps, part of it was added), 'cos Bruce says Steve already had a song about a greek warrior and I wonder which Bruce song was going to be on the record.

Thanks! This is the interview.

The interview doesn't really disprove anything about the instrumental's relation to Alexander. Yes he says there is a song about a Greek warrior, but he also says all the songs are 4-5 minutes in length. It's not a big stretch to suggest that the instrumental got shoehorned into Alex sometime after the fact. What Bruce describes definitely sounds like a lot of what is in the Alexander the Great instrumental, challenging guitar parts, weird rhythms, etc.

 

[Belshazzar]

For me the biggie is the Bruce falsetto in the middle of Sea of Madness.

Apart from his screams, I can't think of one other part where he sings in falsetto. He always belts when going for the high notes.

Literally the only other example I can think of is in that one behind the scenes video (very specific I know) where he's singing with a guy on a piano, and he sings the words "What shall I do" in that style for comedic effect.

 

[Abas]

The shift in the second solo of The Great Unknown is never not an awkward moment

 

[Spaldy]

The middle part of Fear is the Key. Sounds like they were smoking something.

 

[dickinson1978]

The whole last songs on dance of death. Really bad songs. All

 

[weebaggy]

The apparition. From start to finish. It's not necessarily terrible, just weird. I can't think of another band or song that sounds like it and feel like everyone's alright with that.

 

[Azas]

Fear Is the Key
Wasting Love
Chains of Misery
The Apparition
Weekend Warrior
2 A.M.
Lightning Strikes Twice
When Two Worlds Collide
The Educated Fool
Como Estais Amigos
Face in the Sand
Age of Innocence
Journeyman
Mother of Mercy

 

[Belshazzar]

Satellite 15... Obviously

 

[Abas]

The middle part of Fear is the Key. Sounds like they were smoking something.

Excuse me, the thread title is "sounding weird" and not "sounding bad"

The whole last songs on dance of death. Really bad songs. All

Does this also include Face in the Sand?

 

[Kalata]

For me the biggie is the Bruce falsetto in the middle of Sea of Madness.
Apart from his screams, I can't think of one other part where he sings in falsetto. He always belts when going for the high notes.

The falsetto in Sea Of Madness sticks out and fits the song. He's developed his singing during his solo career, for sure.

The shift in the second solo of The Great Unknown is never not an awkward moment

It's weird, but I like to have such a unique moment in a song. Something different.

The middle part of Fear is the Key. Sounds like they were smoking something.

Added to make the whole song sounding even more Purple. Wild moment.

The whole last songs on dance of death.

Double bass in a Maiden song is kind of weird, but Journeyman is like Prodigal Son.

The apparition. From start to finish. It's not necessarily terrible, just weird. I can't think of another band or song that sounds like it and feel like everyone's alright with that.

Is Apparition that different in feel from some other songs on the album. Or parts. The rock style from the early 90's albums. It's weird that there's no chorus for a short rocker. Atypical song for Steve, for sure.

Wasting Love
Chains of Misery
Weekend Warrior
2 A.M.
Lightning Strikes Twice
Mother of Mercy

Songs since the 90's with acoustic parts and a bit different in feel don't sound weird. In the 80's, yes. 2AM, Weekend Warrior. Wasting Love is not that different either imo, from the previous album's title track. The choruses of Chains and Lightning aren't typical, yeah. Mother Of Mercy? And the others I omitted, not really sure.

Satellite 15... Obviously

The second part of it could be a Bruce solo piece, but I can see the first part as a shorter intro to some extent, with some modulations thinking of Ides Of March or for the Reunion era in general.

 

[Brazilian Benjamin Breeg]

The bass intro to Blood on the World's Hands. Then Steve repeated the idea in The Red and the Black, but the former is quite worse imo.

 

[THESEVENTHMARINER]

The proggy time signature that seems to come out of nowhere for Adrian’s solo in The Time Machine. That really stood out live, in particular.

 

[Belshazzar]

The bass intro to Blood on the World's Hands. Then Steve repeated the idea in The Red and the Black, but the former is quite worse imo.

Blood on the World's hands is one of the best songs in their catalogue in my opinion. The riff during the chorus, the structure, the opening... The live version was spectacular!

 

[Edington]

The shift in the second solo of The Great Unknown is never not an awkward moment

I feel the same about When the River Runs Deep's final solo. The fast lead melody is great, it really feels like it's building momentum... then Adrian's solo hits with its slower, heavy rhythm and it sounds like a completely different song. Seems like Adrian had a cool riff/solo idea and nobody wanted to waste it so they just stuck it in there.

The proggy time signature that seems to come out of nowhere for Adrian’s solo in The Time Machine. That really stood out live, in particular.

Weird, yes, but I like this. I call it the "time vortex" riff, it's when the titular machine is activated and the listener begins to be transported to another time.

 

[karljant]

I can't think of one other part where he sings in falsetto.

From the top of my head: Flash Of the Blade's chorus, The Duelists chorus, Invaders chorus (one that shouldn't be ) and Quest For Fire in some verses' terminations. I think there's a handful more.

 

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