Your Maiden blasphemy

[Kalata]

I don't quite like the Losfer Words (Big 'Orra) instrumental - it is ok, but maybe for a bonus song or as a B-side.

Instead of it, I think one power ballad would have worked very well on the Powerslave album...

 

[Number 6]

Instead of it, I think one power ballad would have worked very well on the Powerslave album...

Wut

 

[Black Bart]

Instead of it, I think one power ballad would have worked very well on the Powerslave album...

Like "It's hard to be a princess promised to the Pharaoh" feat. Cindy Lauper?

 

[Eddieson]

I don't quite like the Losfer Words (Big 'Orra) instrumental - it is ok, but maybe for a bonus song or as a B-side.

Instead of it, I think one power ballad would have worked very well on the Powerslave album...

I truly think this is what Powerslave misses.

Aces High
2 Minutes To Midnight
Children Of The Damned/Revelations/Infinite Dreams - type song
Flash of the Blade
The Duellists
Back in the Village
Powerslave
Rime Of The Ancient Mariner

This would give the album that extra dimension for me.

 

[Number 6]

Like "It's hard to be a princess promised to the Pharaoh" feat. Cindy Lauper?

I want that song.

 

[chaosapiant]

Powerslave's "ballad" parts are the acoustic part of the title track and the bass part of Rime of the Ancient Mariner. It's such a lovely tune that Nicko has been known to insert his body into a swimming pool when played live. If a pool is not in reach, he's also been known to sit there.

 

[Diesel 11]

Powerslave is perfect the way it is.

 

[Kalata]

Wut

Why not ?

Powerslave is perfect the way it is.

I know you are a big fan of the album @Diesel 11 , me too - one of the best Maiden albums, but an instrumental on album is unnecessary with a singer like Bruce and they even played an instrumental, Transylvania on the last Bruce tour/concert in 1993, but for me Transylvania is the best Maiden instrumental ! Ides Of March is a great intro and I like the speed and the rhythm change on Genghis Khan.

Ok, maybe not a power ballad, but a typical Maiden song like FOI or like Revelations and COTD would have worked very well and could had become a classic.

 

[Diesel 11]

I get your point of view, but I think “Losfer Words” is great because it kinda lets you enter the album itself without any lyrics to guide you outright.

 

[Edington]

What Powerslave is really missing is a Dave Murray composition.

 

[Kalata]

What Powerslave is really missing is a Dave Murray composition.

Yes, with his beautiful trademark legato/slow full of melody intros.

But, as we all know, Dave writes song only when there is a blue moon...

 

[Black Bart]

What Powerslave is really missing is a Dave Murray composition.

I think he makes up for it in the solo, whose beginning sounds a little like a Murray intro.

 

[frus]

they even played an instrumental, Transylvania on the last Bruce tour

They also did play Losfer Words on its album tour

 

[Kalata]

They also did play Losfer Words on its album tour

Yeah, that was a strange decision.

 

[Ziggyplayedguitar]

Dave Murray is very underrated with his writing, and is the definitive Maiden guitar slinger.

 

[stjerky]

Dave Murray is very underrated with his writing, and is the definitive Maiden guitar slinger.

Yes. Hmm, must make a Murray songs Spotify-list.

 

[Jer]

Yes. Hmm, must make a Murray songs Spotify-list.

Are you saying that making a Murray songs Spotify list would be a blasphemy? LOL...

 

[chaosapiant]

David Leeroy Murray is my favorite guitarist but my least favorite songwriter in the band called Iron Maiden.

 

[Magnus]

I like Michael Jethro Gibbs too

 

[Black Abyss Babe]

I wonder how they managed to survive for a full 14 years without Janick .