Most Underrated Maiden Song

[Kalata]

I think somehow Shadows Of The Valley is very underrated. It is my favorite song from TBOS album - a melodic ''mystic'' song with great solos and chorus. It fit perfectly on the album !

 

[Operations666]

Judas my guide whispers in the night..

 

[Brigantium]

How on earth did this get bumped from 2010?

I was just going to ask this, but realised I'd already done it.

 

[Welsh Phantom]

If someone made a new similar thread, some of the longer time members would say "there is already a thread for that".

Fact

 

[Mosh]

The thread that won’t die

 

[Сури Вук]

Caught Somewhere in Time

 

[Afraid to shoot rangers]

To watch Janick throw his guitar in the air, spin around, stretch his legs on the amps and butcher solos that used to belong to Adrian.

I like his solos sometimes but Adrian’s solos get destroyed when he tries to play them and oh god HBTN is godawful

 

[Danimal77]

The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner
Prodigal Son
Strange World
Children of the Damned
Still Life
Flash of the Blade
Wasted Love
No Prayer For the Dying
The Assassin
The Aftermath
Judgement of Heaven
2 AM
The Unbeliever
Face in the Sand
No More Lies
Journeyman
The Age of Innocence
Deja Vu
The Clairvoyant
Afraid To Shoot Strangers
Isle of Avalon
The Thin Line Between Love and Hate
Dream of Mirrors
To Tame a Land
Back in the Village

 

[chaosapiant]

Starblind

edit cuz I thought of more:

Mother Russia
The Prophecy
Losfer Words
Nomad
Face in the Sand
Strange World

 

[MindRuler]

I'd like to add The Man Of Sorrows too.
Don't think it's among anyones favorites of The Book Souls.
That intro! Bruce vocals in the verses! The solo's! Yes, this turned out to be one of my favorite songs of The Book Of Souls.

 

[KidInTheDark666]

I've said this before, but to me The Man of Sorrows literally sounds like someone with a cancer tumor in his mouth is trying to sing it. Not a good performance by Bruce imo.

 

[Randalf]

I sort of agree with the above about the vocal performance being... in some ways, on the weaker side. It has a lot of soul in it and I do like the overall mood of the song, but it's a bit too demo-ish, unpolished and disjointed, even when compared to some of the other stuff on that record suffering from the very same thing.

Musically, it's nice and I quite like it, but the melancholic atmosphere just screams for slightly more intense performance and overall deeper and heavier sound.

Bruce is, in my opinion, usually on the top of his game when singing that kind of stuff and this particular song has some makings of a very grand level of performance, but for reason or another his performance here doesn't quite strike me as much as in the mentioned bunch - for example.

Anyway, I do find the song a bit underrated though, as it's definitely musically very interesting one and gives relatively good deal of variety for the record overall. It's just one of those songs that suffer from their writing-recording-ok done! approach a bit more than some others songs.

 

[chaosapiant]

On Man of Sorrows, Bruce's performance reminds me of his work on Man Who Would Be King: kind of a perfunctory mid range performance with no real flexing of his range or any vocal acrobatics, and as such it comes across as a touch stale, imo.

 

[Magnus]

Only The Good Die Young.
A bloody masterpiece that got neither live play nor the praise it deserved.

 

[-Westy-]

Huh, I was thinking Still Life before I saw the poll!

 

[Kalata]

Out Of The Silent Planet and No Prayer For The Dying

and to add more: Face In The Sand, Childhood's End, Deja-Vu, JBMG...

 

[Connor19]

Isle of Avalon!

 

[KidInTheDark666]

It's up there for sure.

 

[Connor19]

It's up there for sure.

Its the intro that does it for me. Makes me feel like I'm standing on top of some windy cliffs by the seashore

 

[SirRobbins]

Songs that were very worthy of being played live but weren't and thus are underrated to me

Starblind
Alexander the Great
Only the Good Die Young
Mother Russia (sounds very similar to Seventh Son though)