Mother Russia

Dick Brucinson

Dick Brucinson

The TRUE Dick Brucinson
It's definitely one of my favourite tracks of my favourite Maiden album, but the problem nowadays: It's impossible to play it loud because of the invasion and all the Russian war crimes going on since February 2022. How do you feel about it?
 
Azas said:
to me this song is tainted forever. because russia's people are not free... they - in many cases - support this war.
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Well, if their intention was to make this song built on the euphoria due to the changes of 1989/1990: At least their result is better than the Scorpions' cheesy attempt ("Wind Of Change").
 
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And also worthy to mention that Scorpions also changed the words to the song Wind Of Change when they performed it live nowadays:
“Now listen to my heart / It says Ukrainia / Waiting for the wind to change.”

I don't actually have problem with Mother Russia..I think it sound a little like out of the place on the album and has entirely different feeling from the rest album.
I like the atmospheric intro and it sets the tone of the song. The keyboards work and are actually very working addition to the overall sound.
I really dig the instrumental part and the harmonics. While I like it a lot, perhaps now thinking Mother Russia failed to the expectations of the past few albums epics.
 
I agree that the context nowadays makes the song kinda unpleasant and I probably won't be putting it on for a rather long time if ever...

...but that said, I never liked that song to begin with. I always professed my deep love for the 90s Maiden, but NPftD is an exception - it is a really gray, average, kinda unpleasant album even, I genuinely dislike most of its songs bar the title track and Fates Warning and MR always felt as a confirmation of that, with the "epic" (if we can even call it that) being so short, such an inessential, plodding bore, a mush that tries to sound jovial (?) or epic, but meanders through its icky "imperial belly dance to the bog of the utmost importance" main section and leaves the album ending with a huge question mark.

Combine that with the current political climate (gee, I wonder if we would like to play song named Deutschland über alles for about 10-15 years after WW2 at least) and I certainly won't have any problem cutting the album off right after Bring Your Daughter... if I will be putting it on at all.
 
I'm more likely to skip Charlotte the Harlot than Mother Russia if either came on shuffle in the company of non-Maiden friends...

Make of that what you will!
 
JudasMyGuide said:
...but that said, I never liked that song to begin with. I always professed my deep love for the 90s Maiden, but NPftD is an exception - it is a really gray, average, kinda unpleasant album even, I genuinely dislike most of its songs bar the title track and Fates Warning and MR always felt as a confirmation of that, with the "epic" (if we can even call it that) being so short, such an inessential, plodding bore, a mush that tries to sound jovial (?) or epic, but meanders through its icky "imperial belly dance to the bog of the utmost importance" main section and leaves the album ending with a huge question mark.
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That's exactly how I felt about NPFTD the time it came out, nowadays it's my favourite Maiden album. :)
 
chaosapiant said:
Mother Russia is the best song on the album. I still listen to it. It’s 33 years old at this point which makes it fairly easy to separate in my head vs Putin’s Russia.
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My exact feelings. I never understood why so few seem to like this song. Along with Run silent, run deep and the title track, its the best on the album. Also, as you said, it's 33 years...so I'm not gonna compare it to the present situation, I'm not gonna mix music and political situation/war. People have to remember how it was like during the cold war and at the end of it, it probably just felt like some kind of liberation and this is what this song's about, nothing more, nothing less...I was too young back in those days but from what I read and studied in a certain way, it felt like they were "finally free" and that's all there is in here, no need to overanalyze it
 
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