Senjutsu - 3rd September 2021

I'm 42, I think you're a bit younger than that. not young enough to be up on a high horse though!
 
Maiden’s epics are like ordering a footlong from subway instead of a 6’’. If it’s so damn good, why cut it down? The longer the better. :ph34r:
 
Diesel 11 said:
Maiden’s epics are like ordering a footlong from subway instead of a 6’’. If it’s so damn good, why cut it down? The longer the better. :ph34r:
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Yeah but once you get to the end of that footlong you're beginning to feel a bit stuffed, a bit tired and wishing you had ate the 6" instead.
 
Spaldy said:
Yeah but once you get to the end of that footlong you're beginning to feel a bit stuffed, a bit tired and wishing you had ate the 6" instead.
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I kinda wish the experience had gone on for longer, stuffed as I may be. The more new Maiden music I get, the happier I am, because I like having a massive amount of their material to digest and I can be certain that the quality will never be outright bad. Maybe a clunker or two, but the highs always make it worth it. These past two records (and their whole career, really) have been incredibly consistent and as it among my favorites from their entire discography.
 
____no5 said:
Fixed that for you! :D
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I don’t know that I’d call Steve the best songwriter ever because he does have his Steve-isms, but he’s certainly up there. The fact that his band also includes Bruce and Adrian, Janick and the occasional gem of Murray, is why I can say that Iron Maiden is the best band ever. What I love about them so much is that even though Steve is the leader and by far the biggest songwriter of the group, he does not dominate the material. It’s not like Nightwish where everything is Tuomas bar a couple inputs from Marko, or Iced Earth where Schaffer writes every song with occasional additions by others who pass through — that kind of thing. Everyone brings something to the table* and Steve is just the binding glue that keeps everything firmly Iron Maiden. A really great dynamic which is how they’ve managed to keep putting out killer fucking records forty one years since they first dropped their debut.

*Nicko only has “New Frontier”, but hey, it’s fun!
 
Diesel 11 said:
The fact that his band also includes Bruce and Adrian, Janick and the occasional gem of Murray, is why I can say that Iron Maiden is the best band ever. What I love about them so much is that even though Steve is the leader and by far the biggest songwriter of the group, he does not dominate the material. It’s not like Nightwish where everything is Tuomas bar a couple inputs from Marko, or Iced Earth where Schaffer writes every song with occasional additions by others who pass through — that kind of thing. Everyone brings something to the table* and Steve is just the binding glue that keeps everything firmly Iron Maiden. A really great dynamic which is how they’ve managed to keep putting out killer fucking records forty one years since they first dropped their debut.
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Correct, it’s certainly more dynamic that some other bands, but Steve does dominate. He directs the sound, he’s involved in the mixes, he has directed videos, recently he’s directing the artwork. He decides the when, the how. The setlists most probably. There’s no much left really.
His domination is the reason why both Dennis left, Paul getting demotivated (among others), Bruce & Adrian leaving. Not sure about Clive probably not.

I’m not sure he fully realizes it though.
 
I have a question about The Parchment - can we view the part that starts with ''The prodigal has returned'' as a (sort of) chorus?

Some of Steve's other epics are also without a defined chorus, WTWWB and TTAL come to mind.
 
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