Your Maiden blasphemy

[Magnus]

Objectively speaking, if you're really honest, Derek Riggs isn't really that great of an artist.

I'd say that's a fact not a blasphemy.

And yet, haven't we all tried to reproduce Eddie as seen on the covers of Killers and Live After Death, with a pen, in an exercise book, with some random teacher droning in the background?

Could Dali or Caspar David Friedrich, not to mention da Vinci, ever boast achieving that?
Kittelsen maybe, later, and within a much more limited public.

 

[Magnus]

Heh, yeah whatever. I happen to like colorful album covers that have lots of stuff thrown in there, but I guess it's just a matter of taste. I didn't expect anyone to agree with me.

 

[KidInTheDark666]

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However those are all shite except the fourth one.

 

[Magnus]

However those are all shite except the fourth one.

See? Google seems to disagree with you as well.

 

[Ascendingthethrone]

The best version of HBTN is from A Real Dead One. Crowd interaction and Bruce has lots of power and growl.

 

[srfc]

The best version of HBTN is from A Real Dead One. Crowd interaction and Bruce has lots of power and growl.

That's not blasphemy, that's a well established fact. Only flaw is no "scream for me moscow"

 

[Ascendingthethrone]

That's not blasphemy, that's a well established fact. Only flaw is no "scream for me moscow"

I didn’t know it was held in such high regard.

 

[srfc]

I didn’t know it was held in such high regard.

Ah I'm only joking, It's held in high regard by me! And I suspect maybe, people of a similar age to me who were fairly new Maiden fans when it was released.

 

[Black Bart]

Ah I'm only joking, It's held in high regard by me! And I suspect maybe, people of a similar age to me who were fairly new Maiden fans when it was released.

Yes, what is it?

 

[Ascendingthethrone]

Ah I'm only joking, It's held in high regard by me! And I suspect maybe, people of a similar age to me who were fairly new Maiden fans when it was released.

I grew up on Live at Donnignton as it was my first live Maiden album. I think it’s great but the Hallowed version on ARLDO is better than Donnington.

 

[Murder of Rue Morgue]

Sign of the Cross is the best 9-or-more-minutes epic Iron Maiden have ever done, better than both Rime of the Ancient Mariner* and Seventh Son of a Seventh Son.




* also, regarding Ancient Mariner: Santiago 2009 > Flight 666 > Live After Death > Powerslave

 

[Austrogoth]

Sign of the Cross is the best 9-or-more-minutes epic Iron Maiden have ever done, better than both Rime

It sounds more like a very reasonable opinion to me.

 

[Murder of Rue Morgue]

It sounds more like a very reasonable opinion to me.

To me too, obviously, but not to my experience

 

[KidInTheDark666]

I would take Sign Of The Cross over those two as well, but there are several epics that I like more.

 

[Cat Milk Supreme]

'Several' epics that are better than Rime, 7th Son and Sign of the Cross? Im intrigued.

 

[Murder of Rue Morgue]

The only epic I would choose over Sign of the Cross is Dance of Death.

 

[KidInTheDark666]

'Several' epics that are better than Rime, 7th Son and Sign of the Cross? Im intrigued.

Yeah, let me list them.
Hallowed
Alexander the Great
Fear of the Dark (debatable if this counts as an epic)
Blood Brothers (also debatable)
Dream of Mirrors
The Thin Line Between Love and Hate
No More Lies
Dance of Death
Paschendale
Brighter Than A Thousand Suns
Benjamin Breeg (debatable)
For the Greater Good Of God
Lord of Light
The Legacy
Isle of Avalon
Starblind
The Talisman
The Red and The Black
The Book of Souls
Empire of the Clouds

Yes, a terrible opinion, I know. I'll log out right away.

 

[Murder of Rue Morgue]

Revelations in Live After Death is too fast and it doesn't fit the lyrics. I guess Steve's the one to blame for this.

Powerslave is their worst album among the first seven.

Anyone who blames Wasting Love because it's a radio friendly song has clearly never listened to Can I Play with Madness. To say one.

The Unbeliever has one of their best solo sections ever.

Janick's solo in Paschendale is the best out of the three because it perfectly fits the atmosphere of the song. Way better than both Dave's and Adrian's.

Dave Murray is a great guitar player as far as it concerns solos and harmonies. He's not that great in rhythm sections, though.

 

[Kalata]

Powerslave is their worst album among the first seven.

Now that's a blasphemy.

 

[Ascendingthethrone]

Now that's a blasphemy.

I would place it 6th. Just above Iron Maiden. I like Poweslave but it is just an onslaught of riffs and guitars without any real concern for light and shade. There are some rest-bite moments like the middle of the title track and Mariner. However, most of it just bores me.