Your Maiden blasphemy
- Thread starter mckindog
- Start date
Um. No.
A bunch of the songs on No Prayer have insipid lyrics. They might be fun to sing, but the lyrical content of TXF is superior to all preceding albums and successive ones up to AMOLAD.
Babo 91
Nomad
Not sure if it's superior to BNW. It's a close call imo. Behind starblind and paschendale I think brave new world (the song) has the best written lyrics out of any maiden song. But then again, apart from the title track, blood brothers, ghost of the navigator, out of the silent planet and maybe dream of mirrors, none other lyrics really stand out
JAMSKING
Prowler
the lyrics on no prayer are pretty good, more diverse and flow effortlessly, they are tongue and cheek and god forbid are not about war . and i think the x factor pretty average for the most part. clunky not anywhere near the level of story telling of some of their work. i guess you guys just like lyrics revolved around self pity. that's cool with me
JAMSKING
Prowler
that is a fair point so do i, though lyrics about an assassin is pretty cool in my book. my point is the lyrics,not the lyrical content aren't very good. one would assume it would be easy to prove how great the lyrics to that album are by simply quoting them, they are written down, and letting everyone bask in there genius but nobody seems wants to do that. I mean, i know he's one of the boys and i really didn't mean to get your panties all in a bunch.
MrKnickerbocker
clap hands
Angry Metal Guy's list ends with the right album in the top spot: Maiden's Best to Worst 3-1
viced92
Nomad
I guess I'm the only one who doesn't love 7th Son so much.
DJMayes
Ancient Mariner
I get the same but with Piece of Mind instead.
JAMSKING
Prowler
i honestly don't know why i insist on being an ass about this but it's probably because you guys made definitive statements and twisted my statements as being butthurt over where he put npftd but it was all about x factor
the statement that he made convincing arguments for his placement
is what i'm specifically referring too.
he made not a single reference to brilliant or even good songwriting
he made not a single reference to an exceptional performance his only comment was shaky vocals
he made not a single reference to the great sound of the record referred to as flat i do believe
in fact he even conceded that he couldn't really justify his placement early on in his write up.
what he did do was gush over the lyrics for two paragraphs
i am assuming this but i would believe he believes the lyrics are genius, it is four on his list without a single other reference regarding the quality of the album.
i think most literary professors would dismiss these lyrics upon review as the ramblings of a depressed 9th grader with a war fetish.
i will leave your little community now obviously you're not as into intelligent debate as you are winning the internet. enjoy the tour! up the irons!!!
the statement that he made convincing arguments for his placement
is what i'm specifically referring too.
he made not a single reference to brilliant or even good songwriting
he made not a single reference to an exceptional performance his only comment was shaky vocals
he made not a single reference to the great sound of the record referred to as flat i do believe
in fact he even conceded that he couldn't really justify his placement early on in his write up.
what he did do was gush over the lyrics for two paragraphs
i am assuming this but i would believe he believes the lyrics are genius, it is four on his list without a single other reference regarding the quality of the album.
i think most literary professors would dismiss these lyrics upon review as the ramblings of a depressed 9th grader with a war fetish.
i will leave your little community now obviously you're not as into intelligent debate as you are winning the internet. enjoy the tour! up the irons!!!
Maturin
Sköldpadda
I'd rate language pretty high up among criteria for such a debate to be possible. Many here, me included, are not native speakers and make countless mistakes while writing - but at least we're trying.
Any literature professor worth a damn would acknowledge that heavy metal lyrics has to be judged while taking the performance into consideration - the performance is the 'real thing', not the lyrics on a piece of paper, that is taking them out of context.