Your Maiden blasphemy

It's just that the logo is red, but I preferred your answers.
I'm pretty sure Steve's is Final Frontier. I am a confused kid.
NP is great for me, SIT, apart from Wasted Years, Sea and title track, sounds a bit empty.
 
Aha, wait a minute: Perhaps he meant something in this vein:

(on the Final Frontier)
Forostar said:
The "real" song itself I do not find that phenomenal, musically, but the lyrics I find very intriguing and I see a connection between these and the lyrics of The Apparition (see my post in that topic, if interested). The intro makes sense to me, naturally the lyrics have an integral role, but the music itself is special as well. And therefore the connection makes sense.
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(on The Appariton + also The Final Frontier)
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Forostar said:
Re: Daily Song: The Apparition

The lyrics of this song are interesting when you put them in context of Maiden's career, because we hear a positive advise -uttered by some kind of ghost or spirit (which could even be Steve himself, advising himself- about life and the road one can take.

... Live your life with a passion
Everything you, do well
You only get out of life what you put in ...

and check this out:

... can the soul live on through space and time? ...

... You don't be alarmed now, if I try to contact you
If things go missing or get moved around ...

... We'll meet up again some place, some way ...

Some way indeed! When listening to The Final Frontier Steve's input shows a continuation of this positive message, but now in a more reflecting way.
Space and time return, plus an attempt of contact.

... I think of my life, reliving the past
There's nothing but wait 'til my time comes
I've had a good life, I'd do it again
Maybe I'll come back some time, my friends

For I have lived my life to the full
I have no regrets
But I wish I could talk to my family
To tell them one last goodbye ...

... If I could survive to live one more time
I wouldn't be changing a thing at all
Done more in my life than some do in ten
I'd go back and do it all over again ...

... There isn't much time, must say my last rites
Nobody is here to read them to me
Must say my goodbyes, if only a line
A message to tell them in case they might find ...

The perspective might be different, but I see The Apparition's lyrics as an integral part of the positive aura circling above the band, and its motivator, Steve Harris.
I think this is not portrayed so well (in this manner) in any other song. The circle is round with The Final Frontier.

A. In The Apparition an advice is told to someone
B. That someone lives his life
C. And in The Final Frontier he reflects on that life, and surely shows that he has followed the advice.
One might even imagine that this someone (which is Steve of course) has again contact with the same spirit, but now Steve talks, and the Apparition "listens".

So I do find the lyrics important, and very uplifting. I can imagine that they even can support people who have lost a friend or a dear family member.

Musically the band ventures into the realm of "hotspaces". We hear short sudden silences in the couplets, because all the musicians and Bruce, play and sing and stop in sync, and continue together again. There's more going on in those couplets than I first thought, and I now I can appreciate them.

When Bruce sings "it's true!", the song suddenly continues in a different key, and the synth comes in, creating a different mood (like a sudden realization of the message). I like the short solos and the way we get back to the couplets.

Also note the last chord which is chosen very well (I bet it's no coincidence), because the next song starts with the same chord. Another reason to never skip this track, because it makes me enjoy Judas Be My Guide even more.

During that moment Bruce sings his last line of the song, like he means to say: "to be continued!":
a prophetic line.

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Foro, mate, are you suggesting this random red topper is actually your biggest superfan, and he can make sense of your posts that most of us are left going...huh?

Perun said:
Yeah, the WTF Nobel Prize.
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This may not be the medal in question.
 
LooseCannon said:
What is the red top!? I MUST KNOW.
This could become part of Maidenfans lore. We should make it so.
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D'uh. The obvious answer has passed you all by. The red top is:
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I call the classic red logo with white border a 'red top'. Just my terminology.
The 1st 4 albums use this(although my IM is a bit orangy) and these can be attributed to current band members due to their debuts - Dave(and Steve?), Adrian, Bruce and Nicko.
All other logos differ, but NP has a RT(too soon?) albeit reduced in size. Janick's debut.
TFF has a translucent red with a white fading to silvery metal border. Not quite the same as the previous RT's but we could be talking Steve who's a bit special here.

Other albums, which I'm sure you know,
PS small gold, white border
SIT small yellow border
7th purple, yellow border
FOTD yellow border but vertical
X metal
X1 fiery with red coach-lining
BNW blue border
DOD white border
MOLAD faded white border

So, was it all meant to be? Is fate at work here?
From what I can gather watching the history dvd there have been 24 members of Maiden. 12 recorded, 6 now reside.
I realise there may have been more that have been forgotten, but these are nice round numbers. Not quite 666 though or is my maths crap?
 
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eddie666 said:
Not quite the same as the previous RT's but we could be talking Steve who's a bit special here.
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I am compelled to speak.
What on earth are you talking about?
eddie666 said:
So, was it all meant to be? Is fate at work here?
From what I can gather watching the history dvd there have been 24 members of Maiden. 12 recorded, 6 now reside.
I realise there may have been more that have been forgotten, but these are nice round numbers. Not quite 666 though or is my maths crap?
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WHAT DOES THIS EVEN MEAN!?
MrKnickerbocker said:
The only good albums are the ones where Eddie's face is perfectly aligned in the center of the album cover.
TFF, AMOLAD, FOTD, and NOTB are shite albums!
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This makes more fucking sense! :p
 
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