Things about Iron Maiden that annoy you

A few more for me.
- The fact that people think Adrian played a solo on Prodigal Son. Not sure why they think this, could be the production. :D
- Book of Souls simplistic artwork
- Climb like a monkey
- Trooper Beer. It's a good idea, but too much.
 
A couple of the songs from the Somewhere In Time / Seventh Son era where they didn't really bother to write a chorus, just had Bruce sing the title of the song over and over. (e.g. "Caught Somewhere In Time," "The Evil That Men Do")
 
First of all: Climb like a monkey is funny. Bruce's ape mask is funny. Stop being so serious, it's just heavy metal :D

Second, i read something about Maiden not releasing new material with frequence. Well, Maiden is a rock titan, one of those bands whom guarantee at least 15000 people whatever they go (except the US, because...well, i have no idea. But the US loves KISS, aparentely). Let's see the lapse between albums from a few bands (rock and metal) that compares, in size, with Maiden (or is even bigger):

Judas Priest: 2005-2008-2014
Metallica: 2003-2008
AC/DC: 2000-2008-2014
Deep Purple (not so huge commercially, but deserves tons of respect): 2003-2005-2013
Rolling Stones: 1997-2005
Aerosmith: 2001-2004-2012
KISS: 1998-2009-2012

And comparing with heavy metal's next tier

Motorhead: 2006-2008-2010-2013-2015
Megadeth: 2007-2009-2011-2013-2015
Slayer: 2006-2009-2015

And Maiden:
2000-2003-2006-2010-2016

What do we see with this? That Maiden's productivity is actually larger when you compare to bands of his size or even larger, specially when you compare form 2005 beyond.

"Oh, but look at the number of albums Megadeth/Motorhead released!" Well, don't we all compalin that those albums looks exactly the same? Don't we say this even about AC/DC? Maiden releases new material with a good frequency and, most important, they try to be original. DOn't get me wrong, I love Motorhead and I think DYstopia is one hell of an album, but they are not as half as original in comparison to The Book of Souls or even the average Final Frontier. I'm pretty sure there's a lot of pressure on those titan bands to play endless cabaret tours, from both companies and audience. We should be happy that Maidne still wants to be a productive member of the musical society
 
Something can be done to it:
reschedule the 1982 cancelled date in Brittany (they have never played there ever since);

Nothing can be done to it:
That Killers and Fear of the Dark are vastly considered inferior to A Matter of Life and Death and Brave New World.
 
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@StormTheTrooper

In their first 10 years Maiden put out eight albums.
If you've been following the Yearly Metal History thread you see bands like Judas Priest and Thin Lizzy putting out two albums - good ones - in the same year.

Maiden don't owe me a thing. They can and should create music on their own schedule.
But this thread is for things that annoy me, and it annoys me that they don't put out more music.
 
mckindog said:
@StormTheTrooper

In their first 10 years Maiden put out eight albums.
If you've been following the Yearly Metal History thread you see bands like Judas Priest and Thin Lizzy putting out two albums - good ones - in the same year.

Maiden don't owe me a thing. They can and should create music on their own schedule.
But this thread is for things that annoy me, and it annoys me that they don't put out more music.
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Yes, i can't disagree with that. In the 80s, all the metal bands had a lot more productivity. I didn't made myself clear, i'm afraid.
You still see bands releasing new albums a couple of years. Good bands, like Mastodon, Machine Head, Opeth. But those are bands that still have to "prove" something, they still need to reach their maximum. Like Maiden/Judas/Metallica in the 80s. But, again, that trio and a couple of other bands already reached their maximum, they already have a huge legacy. And history shows us that, when a band reach that status, they usually don't care at all about releasing new records.

If Maiden wanted, they could Metallica themselves and start touring with no reason at all, just playing random classics, and they would be able to sold out arena after arena as long as they wanted to. My point showing the lapse between albums to those bands is showing that Maiden is an exception to the rule, they are still productive (they released 5 albuns in a 15 years span. Of those bands i listed, only Megadeth released more albums). Different from their 80s counterpart, or those bands that i mentioned earlier, they don't need to release albums to be relevant. It's an irrational expectation to see a band of this size, with nothing else to prove, willing to release a new masterpiece every 1 1/2 year. Again, Metallica and Rolling Stones shows us what is the usual MO with huge bands, being either releasing 1 album per decade or putting together a bunch of bad, repetitive songs and release it every 2 years.
 
Mostly that's a stupid riff and a terrible, horrendously bad vocalist. The guitars are panned a little too much for my tastes, but otherwise that has better production than TBOS.
 
He's definitely unique, but it just sounds like nonsense to me. Like a mix of insane Les Claypool, Ian Austbury, Serj Tankian, and someone with zero vocal training.
 
Mikee's vocals grew on me over time. And I quite like the album. No Place Like Home is one of the weakest tracks on it.

Production on the album is way better than the production of every single Maiden album not produced by Martin Birch. Very dynamic. Crisp guitars, thumping drums. Bass could be louder but that's to be expected since the project didn't have a bassist.
 
Thing to remember with Maiden is that it doesn't matter who the producer is as long as Steve is in the band. Listen to Kevin Shirley's work outside Maiden. The albums he did for Rush and Dream Theater are easily among their best produced. Even if Adrian was producing, Steve Harris would be coproducing and get the final say. For that reason, I actually think letting Adrian help produce would be a bad idea, as it could very well lead to a conflict.
 
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