AncientMariner_Essex
Ancient Mariner
It’s funny reading back the last couple of pages of this thread. Reminds me of when I first got a pc and regular internet access, probably around 1999/2000 I believe. Computers were very expensive and the company I worked at was doing a scheme where you could have the latest intel computer and monitor and accessories and pay for it monthly from your wages before tax so worked out a pretty good deal 
First thing I did when I set it up was buy Quake 3: Arena. Was so hard playing with the laggy dial up internet back then ha ha.
Anyway, back on Topic and NPFTD. I have a mixed relationship with this album. It was the latest album by the band back in 1991 when I first got into them but it wasn’t the first thing I heard from maiden. My introduction was with seventh son and then piece of mind, loved those albums from the minute I heard them and was a fan ever since.
I began buying all the Maiden albums available at that time on cassette, one a week with my paper round money (I was 14). I wasn’t reading internet review sites and the current magazines out had some limited info on the older maiden albums so I was basically selecting which one I wanted each week based on the artwork.
Can’t remember when I finally picked up NPFTD but I don’t ever remember listening to it and thinking “wow, this is dog shit, what happened to this band after seventh son”. That might seem an exaggerated response but that’s how it comes across when I see people post opinions on the album. To me it was just another maiden album. Was it my favourite, no but it was a decent album all the same and it had a few tracks I really liked such as tailgunner, holy smoke, public enema number one abs the title track. Plus, I already knew bring your daughter….as this had recently been a no:1 single.
At the time I got into Maiden they were a huge band, commercially. I’m from the uk and NPFTD spawned their first number one single, the album peaked at number two. Then as fear of the dark rolled around that album went straight in at number 1 and be quick….peaked at number 2. Then they headlined donnington park for the second time in 1992 which was a big deal back then. These days maiden headlining the now titled download is no big deal as they’ve done it so many times.
I tend to find these days that most negative opinions on NPFTD (plus FOTD and most of the 1990’s output) comes from Americans. In the uk and Europe and South America they were still a massive band selling loads of albums and singles and playing big venues. As the 80’s came to an end the Americans had lost interest in the NWOBHM bands and were more into hair metal stuff like Dokken, motley crue, warrant, skid row and GnR. Those that preferred there metal bit more metal and less hair were into Megadeth, Metallica, slayer, testament, exodus etc. plus we had the big wave of death metal just around the corner. Death we’re up and running but soon bands like cannibal corpse, morbid angel, Deicide etc would be releasing peak career albums.
A lot of Americans either found Maiden to heavy and cheesy if they liked the hard rock and hair metal, or too soft if they liked thrash and death metal.
NPFTD is a solid album. It’s not my favourite but it’s got some great songs. I think it only suffers due to the time it was released in and people’s general taste at the time.
First thing I did when I set it up was buy Quake 3: Arena. Was so hard playing with the laggy dial up internet back then ha ha.
Anyway, back on Topic and NPFTD. I have a mixed relationship with this album. It was the latest album by the band back in 1991 when I first got into them but it wasn’t the first thing I heard from maiden. My introduction was with seventh son and then piece of mind, loved those albums from the minute I heard them and was a fan ever since.
I began buying all the Maiden albums available at that time on cassette, one a week with my paper round money (I was 14). I wasn’t reading internet review sites and the current magazines out had some limited info on the older maiden albums so I was basically selecting which one I wanted each week based on the artwork.
Can’t remember when I finally picked up NPFTD but I don’t ever remember listening to it and thinking “wow, this is dog shit, what happened to this band after seventh son”. That might seem an exaggerated response but that’s how it comes across when I see people post opinions on the album. To me it was just another maiden album. Was it my favourite, no but it was a decent album all the same and it had a few tracks I really liked such as tailgunner, holy smoke, public enema number one abs the title track. Plus, I already knew bring your daughter….as this had recently been a no:1 single.
At the time I got into Maiden they were a huge band, commercially. I’m from the uk and NPFTD spawned their first number one single, the album peaked at number two. Then as fear of the dark rolled around that album went straight in at number 1 and be quick….peaked at number 2. Then they headlined donnington park for the second time in 1992 which was a big deal back then. These days maiden headlining the now titled download is no big deal as they’ve done it so many times.
I tend to find these days that most negative opinions on NPFTD (plus FOTD and most of the 1990’s output) comes from Americans. In the uk and Europe and South America they were still a massive band selling loads of albums and singles and playing big venues. As the 80’s came to an end the Americans had lost interest in the NWOBHM bands and were more into hair metal stuff like Dokken, motley crue, warrant, skid row and GnR. Those that preferred there metal bit more metal and less hair were into Megadeth, Metallica, slayer, testament, exodus etc. plus we had the big wave of death metal just around the corner. Death we’re up and running but soon bands like cannibal corpse, morbid angel, Deicide etc would be releasing peak career albums.
A lot of Americans either found Maiden to heavy and cheesy if they liked the hard rock and hair metal, or too soft if they liked thrash and death metal.
NPFTD is a solid album. It’s not my favourite but it’s got some great songs. I think it only suffers due to the time it was released in and people’s general taste at the time.
