Which song is a better addition to TNOTB album ?

Which song is better - Gangland or Total Eclipse

  • Gangland

    Votes: 18 29.5%

  • Total Eclipse

    Votes: 43 70.5%
  • Total voters
    61
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Gangland, by far. Total Eclipse is among the worst 3 Maiden songs of all time for me, that unmusical howling in the final verse is beyond painful. Gangland needed a bit more time and could've been a genuinely good song, but as it stands right now it's merely alright. Still leages above the atrocity that is Total Eclipse.
 
It’s Gangland for me. I’ll admit there is a bit of nostalgia in my choice here. I’ve been spinning eclipse quite a bit lately and perhaps if it were the original winner my decision may have been different. Both songs are tremendous in their own right.
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This is kind of a tough one. I think that I like Total Eclipse slightly more for its concept and structure, but I think the arrangement could've been improved a bit... say, if the song was reworked for some later release, it might have turned out a bit better.

As it is, I think it would fit The Number of the Beat instead of Gangland well enough, but I think that Ganglad has a lot more curiosity value due to Clive Burr's writing credit (Edit: thanks to @Diesel 11 for pointing out that Total Eclipse has that too...) and I think it has fairly nice groove in it. In a way, I see it as one of the last "raw, off-the-streets", early-Maiden type of tracks from them before moving on to more grandeur song material for the four following records.

So uhm. To (kind of...) answer the question... Personally, I probably like Total Eclipse as a song a bit more, but I think Gangland brings more character to the album itself, although I consider as probably the weakest track there. Or actually, I might even like it more than Invaders. Ah, well, anyway.

EDIT #2: Funny enough, @chaosapiant pretty much summed all of the above in a lot more sensible and straightforward form below! :D
 
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I have the 40th addition of Beast with Total Eclipse on it. I haven’t listening to the record yet. That should tell you how excited I am to listen to hear the song on the album…

Hammersmith on the other hand is incredible.
 
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