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Love this album. The progression of this song is a good example of why — driving verses with cool rhythmic choices on the guitar leading into a nice melodic solo and a less aggressive bridge, then blossoming into a showcase for Daniel Heiman’s amazing pipes, and a stunning multi-part guitar interlude leading into a cool percussive outro. Also some nice lyrical and musical callbacks to the beginning of the album which make sense for the story.
 

I love even Oldfield's 80s pop songs (yep, even stuff like Innocent or those mostly unknown songs from the second side of Islands), because I love the bloke and these songs of his have rather subtle hooks that are hard to overplay and most of all it all feels very nostalgic to me.

But this particular version might be my new go-to feel-good song. I don't know what it is, but the fact BG have covered this one fulls me with strange, inexplicable joy. I don't usually like these covers (Sammett doing Dancing with Tears in My Eyes is ... weird), but this one works for me.

I know we can't post these covers in the metal song cup and you lot would probably vote it out immediately anyways, but I really need something to make me joyful today.
 

I love even Oldfield's 80s pop songs (yep, even stuff like Innocent or those mostly unknown songs from the second side of Islands), because I love the bloke and these songs of his have rather subtle hooks that are hard to overplay and most of all it all feels very nostalgic to me.

But this particular version might be my new go-to feel-good song. I don't know what it is, but the fact BG have covered this one fulls me with strange, inexplicable joy. I don't usually like these covers (Sammett doing Dancing with Tears in My Eyes is ... weird), but this one works for me.

I know we can't post these covers in the metal song cup and you lot would probably vote it out immediately anyways, but I really need something to make me joyful today.

To France is much better than loads of songs! Not a big fan of the Blind Guardian cover but the original is a classic. :)
 
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Two cracking EPs with songs recorded live in 2011.

Revisiting these great live EPs.
 
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