Overrated/Underrated Songs

i love satellite 15 its dark and atmospheric and i enjoy every moment of it leading up to the explosion into tff

ROTAM is still underrated  ;)  but more depthfull explanations of both of these are soon to come.
personally while npftd has some rubbish, there are some songs like holy smoke and public enema that dont get much praise
 
Hallowed is overrated, that is all. It was #2 about 12 months ago, but has dropped a huge amount since (I await the numerous bannings and stonings and whatever else that will no doubt be thrown at me). :innocent:

Revelations was also high in my rankings, but it too is also now overrated. In terms of overratedness outside this forum, the usual Run to the Hills, Fear of the Dark, The Number of the Beast, The Trooper etc. Underrated on this forum is a bit more tricky, I'll have a think about it tomorrow and see what I come up with.
 
Forostar said:
Not on this forum. I am the only one (maybe one or two others) who don't find it the greatest. The rest is raving about it, and the scores are very good.
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Yea I don't like it that much either.
 
Forostar said:
Hope it's not too confronting what I wrote.

Even though you said that Pink Floyd was also connected with that period, perhaps, at some point you might return to these Maiden works and who knows the music will be lifted above anything else that happened in that era....
Some lyrics are really powerful (even the ones from The Apparition!) and may be (re-)appreciated (again).

Respect to you sir for being so open and honest.
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Not confrontational at all, Foro... I know you put a lot of thought into your posts, and I respect you for calling me on this one. When I posted that I was unable to appreciate Floyd sober as much as I did as when I was under the influence of something, I meant it. Something was lost when the heightened sensory perceptions that come with mind and mood altering substances were eliminated from my listening sessions. With the Powerslave album being released at the height of my alcoholism, wouldn't that suggest that my heightened musical awareness from booze and dope would lend itself to me appreciating the album more rather than less? Upon reflection, if anything was casting a shadow on my favourite band's fifth album, it might have been the anger that was my constant companion in those days. I had the "angry young man" schtick down to an art form, and it coloured every aspect of my existence 24-7-365... I honestly remember actively disliking the album from first listen (except Aces High...loved it then, love it now), but then again, I actively disliked everything in my fucked up little life at that point in time. When it comes to ROTAM, I have a lot more respect for the song now than I did in the 80's... as I said, it has some great moments (Adrian's solo nails me to the wall every time). What brings this song down for me every time is from 5:00 - 7:35 or so. Yawn. Just about enough time to squeeze a kidney or make a sandwich  :D Eliminate that section of the tune, and I'd be able to give it a high 9 instead of the 7 I rated it with... Trust me man, since joining this forum (getting close to a year I think) I've come a long way from the musical tunnel vision that was precluding me from enjoying a lot of songs, but I think I probably have miles to go before I sleep ;) I'll keep working on Powerslave (and the Blaze stuff etc.)...

As for Thin Line, I was underrating it more in comparison to my including it in my personal holy trinity... PFD and Starblind are pretty hallowed company to keep :edmetal:
 
Forostar, in repsonse to several people stating their underrated songs, you've reponded with "not on this forum". I'm not being glib, but what songs actually are underrated on this forum?  :D

While agreeing with much that has been said, I find it hard to accept the idea that any two songs that were written, let's say, two decades apart can (potentially) have had the same listening relationship with any given fan. So with older songs, interest in repeat listening may have ebbed & flowed --but this can hardly be the case with tracks off of TFF. Ditto, if you just don't listen to a particular album that much, because you don't rate the album itself as a whole. My point is, most people probably don't rotate listening enough to not over or underplay songs --therefore creating bias in their opinion of rating. Plus, as previously touched upon in another thread, live songs tend to rise in people's opinion, which makes comparison with never-played-live tracks very difficult.

That said, I agree with Mosh --FOTD & RTTH seem overrated; & stupidly overfavoured by Maiden themselves (on live albums). I don't see anything amazing about these two. Having said this, I'd imagine many would agree.
 
Unknown One said:
Hallowed is overrated, that is all. It was #2 about 12 months ago, but has dropped a huge amount since (I await the numerous bannings and stonings and whatever else that will no doubt be thrown at me). :innocent:
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Im with you on that, its by no means the undesputed best song theyve made and its dropping with me lately aswell. Its a beautiful song and captures that emotion of the gallows but not #1
 
Thanks for the reaction taker!  :ok:

CriedWhenBrucieLeft said:
Forostar, in repsonse to several people stating their underrated songs, you've reponded with "not on this forum".
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Yep, I explained that.

CriedWhenBrucieLeft said:
I'm not being glib, but what songs actually are underrated on this forum?  :D
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I mentioned two in my first post. These are songs which are not liked that much (or are not found that special) by a big share of the forum. I don't really understand that and that's why I call them underrated (better explained in that post).
 
Eh... three different individual posters said they thought Futureal, Die With Your Boots On, & "Thin Line" respectively were underrated --& you just told them they weren't. What's the point in giving ones opinion if this is the reponse? It seems like your definition, despite what you said previously, of underrated is fairly set in stone. My point is, do we have to trawl through the forum finding out individual song ratings before giving our thoughts in this thread? I don't feel like mentioning any particular song I think is underrated if the forum has already decided!

As I said, I wasn't being glib --I just meant could we perhaps have an overview (if anyone can be bothered) of, for example, the top & bottom (10?) rated songs according to the forum?
 
CriedWhenBrucieLeft said:
Eh... three different individual posters said they thought Futureal, Die With Your Boots On, & "Thin Line" respectively were underrated --& you just told them they weren't.
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It didn't go like that. I gave arguments in these posts respectively:
A song can't be underrated in a community when a large majority in that community likes the song in question a lot.

Compare this with calling Obama impopular when he was chosen as a president.
Impopular? Right. He wasn't impopular. If he was, he wasn't elected.
 
Forostar said:
It didn't go like that. I gave arguments in these posts respectively:
A song can't be underrated in a community when a large majority in that community likes the song in question a lot.
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Alright, as a newbie can you point me to where all the ratings for each track are? (--so I can have a look at what the forum thinks.)  :blush:
 
CriedWhenBrucieLeft said:
Alright, as a newbie can you point me to where all the ratings for each track are? (--so I can have a look at what the forum thinks.)  :blush:
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Sure. :)

Go here to see rankings of songs, but at least as interesting, check out the recent song reviews. Before people started to post their own lists, lots of us had already reviewed all songs.
 
Forostar said:
Sure. :)

Go here to see rankings of songs, but at least as interesting, check out the recent song reviews. Before people started to post their own lists, lots of us had already reviewed all songs.
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Cheers.
Well, everything on SiT is chronically underrated!  :lol:
No, seriously, looking at SiT (as an album, in isolation), it's funny how HCW isn't that popular; or not as popular as other tracks. It's almost the exception to the rule regarding being played live --seems everyone's a little sick of it. Either that, or everyone generally thinks it's one of the poorer tracks, musically, on SiT.
 
  On this forum I have to say Dance of Death the album is quite underrated.  I see it as a real gem and the best of the reunion era.  A return to the glory days as far as quality and sound.  Individually as songs go, again some of the songs on DOD.  Why more people are not gaga over Montsegur is beyond me.
    Also  Losfer Words is also not nearly as appreciated as it should be.  It is my favorite instrumental by the band. That entire album gets less love than it should here too.  I actually have read some posts referring to Powerslave as having.....sit down for this...................filler!!!!!    Holy guacamole Batman!
 
On this forum I have to say Dance of Death the album is quite underrated.  I see it as a real gem and the best of the reunion era.  A return to the glory days as far as quality and sound.  Individually as songs go, again some of the songs on DOD.  Why more people are not gaga over Montsegur is beyond me.
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The sound is horrible. It's one of their worst produced albums. There are some fantastic songs there (the ones that got live attention in last 8 years), but it's full of fillers and tracks of dubious origin and quality.
 
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