Your Maiden blasphemy
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DJMayes
Ancient Mariner
EddieoftheOpera
Trooper
I agree whole-heartedly. Side one is perfect, an absolutely flawless work of metal majesty. "Still Life" indicates that side two will be every bit as awesome. It isn't. Still, I like "To Tame A Land" but it's not a good enough closer to redeem the album from it's two proceeding numbers, and has some flaws.
Dr. Eddies Wingman
Brighter than thousand_suns
EddieoftheOpera
Trooper
I've listened to The Final Frontier again and I maintain it's a bad album. "Satellite 15" has some cool bits to it and is unlike any intro you'd ever expect from Maiden but goes on way too long with far too few changes to be interesting. The title song of which it's conjoined to it might as well be a pop song, it's that lacking in excitement, and even though "El Dorado" has the ability to make you nod your head at first, it suddenly becomes clear to you that it has very little else to reveal. I mean i'm not gonna act like A Matter of Life and Death and the more progressive side of Dance of Death didn't suffer from repetitive choruses at times, and i'll admit (as I mentioned earlier in this thread) that they didn't grab me at first because they just aren't very immediate records. But they have so many interesting layers to them that are fascinating on re-listen. I'm totally okay with a simple meat and potatoes riff though and Maiden generally do those brilliantly. Yet when I want a little bit more immediacy, I didn't expect something this plain (though given the first two shorter tracks on Dance of Death, perhaps I should have). Next we get a two songs that have some good ideas but not enough of them and go absolutely nowhere and in "The Alchemist", another boring meat and potatoes piece of forgettable-ness with a lacklustre singing performance. "Isle of Avalon" is nearly good but once it actually builds to something, it reverts to a verse-chorus structure. Same thing goes for "Mother of Mercy" which has some awesome soloing and feels like it's about to turn into a killer song but then closes with a few minutes of repeating it's chorus more than a gregorian chant. I don't really have much more to say about the next few tracks, but "When the Wild Thing Blows" is pretty good. It's a gradual build that doesn't waste a single note and never feels too repetitive. It's a journey rather than a verse-chorus/quiet-loud structure which is my problem with most of the other songs on the album.
CriedWhenBrucieLeft
Meme Only Account
I think you need to take a long hard look in the mirror & be truthful with yourself. You really don't like this meat & potato band.
SixesAlltheway
Ancient Mariner
mirtilo
Educated Fool
I think people doesn't like to take Iron Maiden as a ROCK band. Maybe FOTD is to much rocker for them.
I like all the songs on Fear of the Dark.
It's so strange for me people regarding Virtual XI better than FOTD.
HERE I AM, CAN YOU SEE ME?
viced92
Nomad
I've really warmed up to this song also.
viced92
Nomad
I like it more than Rime.
Babo 91
Nomad
The duelists rivals losfer words as the most filler song on Powerslave
Pand
Ancient Mariner
I would rather listen to Losfer Words than The Duellists.
Deus_Adrian
Prince of the Final Frontier
Both those songs are killer. The whole album smokes.