Your Maiden blasphemy

How many of us were actual fans of Maiden when VXI first came out? I was. And the whole vibe of the album really felt like Steve was trying to turn the ship around and make and album with a more upbeat feel and compact song writing (relatively,the album is about 20 minutes shorter than X Factor) similar to Somewhere in Time. The album hasn’t aged too well but I adored it when it came out and still really enjoy listening to it.
 
chaosapiant said:
How many of us were actual fans of Maiden when VXI first came out?
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I was.
chaosapiant said:
And the whole vibe of the album really felt like Steve was trying to turn the ship around and make and album with a more upbeat feel and compact song writing
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Well, "Futureal" and maybe "Lightning Strikes Twice" felt that way, but the rest of the tracks sure didn't.
chaosapiant said:
The album hasn’t aged too well but I adored it when it came out and still really enjoy listening to it.
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I tried to get into it at the time, but failed. Subsequent listens haven't helped. "Futureal" is still pretty good, but the rest is just mediocre to bad. It's the only album of theirs that gets a sub-5/10 rating from me.
 
Shifting things, I've always felt that the lyrics on TBOS album have never been that good. When you look at the lines individually, there's some absolutely fantastic writing, but when they're put together they seem to have no meaning or they're at least poorly executed. Like the title track is supposed to be about the fall of the Aztecs but it mainly looks like gibberish imo with the story going in 50 million directions yet still going nowhere
 
phantomoftheicarus said:
Shifting things, I've always felt that the lyrics on TBOS album have never been that good. When you look at the lines individually, there's some absolutely fantastic writing, but when they're put together they seem to have no meaning or they're at least poorly executed. Like the title track is supposed to be about the fall of the Aztecs but it mainly looks like gibberish imo with the story going in 50 million directions yet still going nowhere
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The exceptions being DOG, TOAC, and Empire IMO. Come to think of it, I never did figure out what IESF is actually about.
 
I think that TBOS has some interesting arrangements of lyrics, but they aren’t bad outright. And EOTC is phenomenal, the best lyrical song ever written by them.
 
Wogmidget said:
The exceptions being DOG, TOAC, and Empire IMO. Come to think of it, I never did figure out what IESF is actually about.
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Agreed with that. Those songs are pretty clear and nicely done. The way I see it, IESF is about humanity becoming extinct before the ending of time, because 'eternity will fail' to kill us
 
I always thought that IESF was about how people believe there’s something beyond this life without any proof whatsoever and instead of focusing on doing great down here, they’re always striving for ‘up there’, even when it may all just be a grand illusion and they’ve only fooled themselves out of a life. “We think our wisdom will get that far” is the most telling line.
 
chaosapiant said:
How many of us were actual fans of Maiden when VXI first came out? I was. And the whole vibe of the album really felt like Steve was trying to turn the ship around and make and album with a more upbeat feel and compact song writing (relatively,the album is about 20 minutes shorter than X Factor) similar to Somewhere in Time. The album hasn’t aged too well but I adored it when it came out and still really enjoy listening to it.
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I'm not the only one who connects VXI musically with SIT then? I'll admit that when I first heard VXI I found it the hardest album to get into (but I'm really glad I persevered!) - it starts strong and ends strong but the rest seemed sort of directionless, as though they weren't quite sure what they wanted. Until I went back to it after hearing SIT a bit more, then I understood. It's a strange album, like the slack water in between the stormy, almost unbearable darkness of TXF and the turning of the tide with the return of Adrian and Bruce. But I love it for its strangeness and because it captures Maiden at a unique moment in time, when they had come through the fire and survived but were yet to discover their true destiny as the unstoppable force of nature we know today. It's genuinely one of my favourite Maiden albums.
 
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Black Abyss Babe said:
I'm not the only one who connects VXI musically with SIT then? I'll admit that when I first heard VXI I found it the hardest album to get into (but I'm really glad I persevered!) - it starts strong and ends strong but the rest seemed sort of directionless, as though they weren't quite sure what they wanted. Until I went back to it after hearing SIT a bit more, then I understood. It's a strange album, like the slack water in between the stormy, almost unbearable darkness of TXF and the turning of the tide with the return of Adrian and Bruce. But I love it for its strangeness and because it captures Maiden at a unique moment in time, when they had come through the fire and survived and but were yet to discover their true destiny as the unstoppable force of nature we know today. It's genuinely one of my favourite Maiden albums.
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:cheers:
 
Black Abyss Babe said:
I'll admit that when I first heard VXI I found it the hardest album to get into
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It was definitely their hardest for me as well ("The Angel and the Gambler" being the hardest song). Though it's still my least favorite of all Maiden albums, I don't find it nearly as bad as I used to in the past, and I'm really glad for that because it truly is a very good album overall; it's just not a very good Maiden album.
 
Black Abyss Babe said:
I'm not the only one who connects VXI musically with SIT then? I'll admit that when I first heard VXI I found it the hardest album to get into (but I'm really glad I persevered!) - it starts strong and ends strong but the rest seemed sort of directionless, as though they weren't quite sure what they wanted. Until I went back to it after hearing SIT a bit more, then I understood. It's a strange album, like the slack water in between the stormy, almost unbearable darkness of TXF and the turning of the tide with the return of Adrian and Bruce. But I love it for its strangeness and because it captures Maiden at a unique moment in time, when they had come through the fire and survived and but were yet to discover their true destiny as the unstoppable force of nature we know today. It's genuinely one of my favourite Maiden albums.
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Yep, samsies. VXI is to Brave New World as SIT is to 7th Son: they are the embryonic states of the albums that would come after. But also as an album, the heavier use of synths, the album theme, lyrics and some music reminded of SIT also.
 
Killers is the worst Maiden album.

Virtual XI is a very good album - consistent with a fantastic melodic sound/vibe that no other Maiden album have.

Brave New World is the best Maiden album.

Prodigal Son is the worst Maiden song.

I think that is enough for now... :lol:
 
Black Bart said:
Quite a lot of people around here sincerely think this is no blasphemy. God bless 'em.;)
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That's great, I hope more people will understand the magic that is inside the BNW album. ;) Though, there is no such thing as a bad Maiden album, just a album that is less awesome than the others.
 
Kalata said:
Killers is the worst Maiden album.

Virtual XI is a very good album - consistent with a fantastic melodic sound/vibe that no other Maiden album have.

Brave New World is the best Maiden album.

Prodigal Son is the worst Maiden song.

I think that is enough for now... :lol:
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I agree with all of this...
 
Diesel 11 said:
I always thought that IESF was about how people believe there’s something beyond this life without any proof whatsoever and instead of focusing on doing great down here, they’re always striving for ‘up there’, even when it may all just be a grand illusion and they’ve only fooled themselves out of a life. “We think our wisdom will get that far” is the most telling line.
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I think it's about eternity failing. Only death awaits.
 
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