michaellegge
Prowler
An ad for an unpaid Maiden podcast that wants to bring fans stories and opinions together? What a weird thing to not want.Wait a second. This thread was an ad the whole time??
NO PRAYER FOR THE DYING - Your thoughts…
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He's just jealous you don't follow him on Bluesky, like you do me.
Helmuth Von Moltke
Educated Fool
There's something anti-climatic about No Prayer. I like it and Licks of the Beast's video from 2 years ago will make you fall back in love with the riffs:
My views...
Some of Bruce's and H's better ideas clearly went into their solo albums, diluting the focus of the band. There a good other thread where Katala pulled out a 1989 interview with Harris mentioning a pair of ASAP songs he thought could have been Maiden songs.
The loss of band focus shows on the lyrics to Tailgunner, which are just an embarrassment, treating a serious, epic and emotive topic as a joke. Bruce's head was clearly in the wrong place. Also, his voice was shot and tired.
Some of the stage clothes, the vibe, the feel of the album is just not entirely there... I'm not surprised after a decade of hyper activity and such immense success with so much travel and 100s of shows. Something had to give. Other bands just break up at this point in their careers or kind of disperse. We get No Prayer... which I'll take in a heartbeat!
My views...
Some of Bruce's and H's better ideas clearly went into their solo albums, diluting the focus of the band. There a good other thread where Katala pulled out a 1989 interview with Harris mentioning a pair of ASAP songs he thought could have been Maiden songs.
The loss of band focus shows on the lyrics to Tailgunner, which are just an embarrassment, treating a serious, epic and emotive topic as a joke. Bruce's head was clearly in the wrong place. Also, his voice was shot and tired.
Some of the stage clothes, the vibe, the feel of the album is just not entirely there... I'm not surprised after a decade of hyper activity and such immense success with so much travel and 100s of shows. Something had to give. Other bands just break up at this point in their careers or kind of disperse. We get No Prayer... which I'll take in a heartbeat!
____no5
Free Man
@Helmuth Von Moltke Nicko is great content creator and guitarist but man, he hasn't say a bad word for any Maiden album. Though I'll agree, after watching his videos one feels a bit better about the bottom tier of Maiden discography 
michaellegge
Prowler
Anyone who doesn’t follow you on Bluesky is an idiot.
Kalata
Out of the Silent Planet
More like their different ideas, not for Maiden, wouldn't you say. Bruce for sure. Adrian has always liked hard rock and didn't get a chance to write for the album except for one song. True about the focus.
Some of Bruce's co-written songs on the album (with Dave and Steve) and at least 1 Steve and Dave/Steve songs are strong ideas, incomparable to both of their debut solo stuff - maybe with Son Of A Gun and The Lion. The rest is too glam/rock approach. I think the album would have benefited from Janick's writing, we can see this in the next album, for almost all songs. Or even another Dave song.
Btw, here's an interesting interview with Bruce from 1990 speaking about his debut solo album and a bit about No Prayer, topic-wise of my answer. He was really enthusiastic about it and working with different musicians, but still wanted to be in Maiden a lot. Focused? Who knows, only him.
Well said. About the feel, the album simply doesn't have clear standouts and favorites for the majority of the fans, despite the success of one of the singles.