Senjutsu - 3rd September 2021

Kalata said:
Steve has written 7 out of the 10 songs in Senjutsu (for TBOS were also 7)...

The only albums with more songwriting credits from him are: TFF, AMOLAD, BNW (all songs), DOD (10/11), TXF (10/11) and Killers.
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Lost in a Lost World is a third song credited to Steve Harris (only) with a word "world" on it's title, the others being Strange World and Blood on the Worlds Hands. All other Maiden's songs with "word" in their title also have a writing credit for Steve (When Two Worlds Collide, Brave New World, Different World). It's also a first Maiden song to feature the word "Lost" in it' title and a second one to have the same word repeated(!) twice in it's title, the only other instances being Seventh Son of a Seventh Son, which has words "Seventh" and "Son" both repeated twice in the title.

Alright, sorry for being a bit cheeky. :p
 
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Azas said:
The song title that atracts me most is Death of the Celts. I hope for something special. Maybe with celtic melodies.
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Damn me. I had no idea what are the Celts until you commented this. Now it clicked and I realized that it's just what we call "kelts". Brains do be dumb sometimes.
 
mtmccox said:
Damn me. I had no idea what are the Celts until you commented this. Now it clicked and I realized that it's just what we call "kelts". Brains do be dumb sometimes.
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Ironically it’s pronounced like “kelts” in English too.
 
If Lost in a Lost World lyrically is not 'we're f*ked in the modern world', I would be happy, because, as we already know, similar topic is on Hell On Earth.
 
I fully don't understand one thing.. Steve often mentions that he has tons of ideas, but from recent Bruce's interview in Kerrang, I got impression that Steve locked himself in the studio and composed songs being there, till 'I think i've got it'. What about 'tons of ideas'? Maybe he had some song bones, but perfected them in the studio. I mean, I wonder, how many fully fleshed out songs he had, starting from 2015, it's a long time. Or he wanted to compose from scratch, to maintain the spontanity factor.
 
I am going to put all my money on Days of the future past. If this goes wrong...then the next things would be

1) Bruce's solo album is going to suck

2) The end of the world
 
Kalata said:
Steve has written 7 out of the 10 songs in Senjutsu (for TBOS were also 7)...

The only albums with more songwriting credits from him are: TFF, AMOLAD, BNW (all songs), DOD (10/11), TXF (10/11) and Killers.
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You are right, but those figures don't tell everything. He has written more than half the new album on his own (42 min. out of 82 min.). You've got to go back to Virtual XI to see such a proportion.
 
Azas said:
I fully don't understand one thing.. Steve often mentions that he has tons of ideas, but from recent Bruce's interview in Kerrang, I got impression that Steve locked himself in the studio and composed songs being there, till 'I think i've got it'. What about 'tons of ideas'? Maybe he had some song bones, but perfected them in the studio. I mean, I wonder, how many fully fleshed out songs he had, starting from 2015, it's a long time. Or he wanted to compose from scratch, to maintain the spontanity factor.
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He has riffs and melodies, but only assembles them into songs just prior to the recording. He seems to think that he works better under pressure, and that he gets a better result (and this is what he's been doing since 1982 and The Number of Beast sessions). So yes, he writes all the time and has ideas, but he composes songs as such only when it's time to rehearse and record them.
It works well, it seems to me, but when something goes wrong during the time he has allowed himself to write, he can do as much as he had planned to: two of his relatives died during the Book of Sould sessions, and it resulted in a lower input.
 
harrisdevot said:
He has riffs and melodies, but only assembles them into songs just prior to the recording. He seems to think that he works better under pressure, and that he gets a better result (and this is what he's been doing since 1982 and The Number of Beast sessions). So yes, he writes all the time and has ideas, but he composes songs as such only when it's time to rehearse and record them.
It USED TO WORK well, it seems to me, but when something goes wrong during the time he has allowed himself to write, he can do as much as he had planned to: two of his relatives died during the Book of Sould sessions, and it resulted in a lower input.
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Fixed that for you :)
 
Azas said:
The song title that atracts me most is Death of the Celts. I hope for something special. Maybe with celtic melodies.
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I bet there will be celtic melodies.
harrisdevot said:
He has riffs and melodies, but only assembles them into songs just prior to the recording. He seems to think that he works better under pressure, and that he gets a better result (and this is what he's been doing since 1982 and The Number of Beast sessions). So yes, he writes all the time and has ideas, but he composes songs as such only when it's time to rehearse and record them.
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This.
 
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