Your Maiden blasphemy

I prefer older Bruce's live voice than his 80's live voice. He sounded like he struggled back in the 80's. Now it's much more mature and easier on the ears!

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The human voice continues to develop well into a person's 30s, even pushing 40 with some people. It's actually normal to sound better as you age. Of course, it's still a credit to Bruce that he took advantage of what the body does naturally and grew with his voice. If you keep trying to force yourself to sound at 60 the way you did at 20, you turn into Brian Johnson.
 
I disagree. Awesome song! I respect your opinions though. :P

IMO the worst song from the 80's is a tie between Killers quartet: Innocent Exile, Purgatory, Twilight Zone and Drifter.
 
I completely agree. I actually like FOTD much more than most Maiden fans, it seems.

Killers is only beat by NPFTD and Virtual XI as far as poor quality goes.
 
Well since this is the controversial opinions thread...I think Killers is way better than the debut and maybe Maiden's most coherent album.
 
I mostly agree on the coherent comment (AMOLAD is in the ballpark).
Killers is also Maiden's most aggressive, most metal album.
Twilight Zone and Innocent Exile are meh, but Drifter really comes alive on stage and Purgatory may be the bands most underrated song: fast, heavy and weird.
 
AMOLAD would be a close second. Now that I think of it, I'd say it's tied.

Purgatory is one of my favorite songs.
 
That's not to say HCW is awful. It isn't. Actually, it's semi-decent. But the first 3 songs blow it out of the water and it doesn't even carry the momentum onwards like Losfer does for Powerslave. It goes off on a tangent.

I love Purgatory also.
 
A lot of quality and precision was lost with Adrian leaving the band, not only live (Janick butchering H's masterpieces), but also in studio (production and songwriting).
 
Alright, here's the ultimate unpopular opinion: I like what Janick does with the Hallowed solo live.

I like how he keeps running over where the original solo ended, all the way up to that little riff, you know the one. I think it's a better connection to the following riff. And I think it's fully appropriate that a guy who's been playing that solo live longer than H gets to put his own stamp on it.

Sure, it threw me (to say the least) when I first saw Janick live. Yes, I hated his solo at first, for a few years in fact. But after seeing enough concerts and hearing enough boots, I get where he's going and what he's doing. His frenetic style is not to my taste entirely, but I hear his underlying musical thought, and it's a damn good one. It's an improvement to the song.

You read that right: I geniunely believe that Janick makes Hallowed better. Top that. :p
 
Well, I'd agree with that tbh :p I've always liked the solo he does on Rock in Rio especially, as much as I like H's original solo it can be a bit 'tame', and despite being a bit messy at times Janicks solo has a much more epic feel to it imo, which fits the sheer energy that live hallowed has - it might not have sounded right on the studio version, but for the live one I think it fits fantastically, the extended length is just icing on the cake.
 
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