Let's talk about Iron Maiden

by **boovidge** on Wed Sep 19, 2007 6:07 pm

forget maiden and listen to Lizzy. There i said it. :lol:

by **The Fourth Norseman** on Wed Sep 19, 2007 6:20 pm

X factor is awesome, Maiden are awesome

Fuck the h8erzz :lol:

by **MartinC** on Wed Sep 19, 2007 6:23 pm

My dream job is to be a judge on X-Factor. Me and Simon Cowell would shit on everyone.

by **Dian Wei** on Wed Sep 19, 2007 7:36 pm

Very good, but equally overrated.

by **James** on Wed Sep 19, 2007 7:46 pm

MartinC wrote:My dream job is to be a judge on X-Factor. Me and Simon Cowell would shit on everyone.

Simon Cowell is god.

by **Lev** on Wed Sep 19, 2007 7:50 pm

jonny_boy34 wrote:
Lev - Pulverizer wrote:
jonny_boy34 wrote: but it still suffers from problems of repetition in terms of song structure, and also the same chord progression (E/C/G/D) is used about 50 billion times in every song

Welcome to the world of Harris! - It wouldn't be the same without it. I'd be disapointed if they didn't use that chord progression. Maiden's signature sound. With a lot of members and eras, it's that one thing that they hold onto that never changes.

I have to disagree with you completely there I'm afraid. As far as I can tell (and I've studied the ways of the Harris pretty intently!) they didn't start overusing that particular chord progression until this very album - obviously it has been used a fair amount throughout the years, but never so obviously with so little imagination to go with it. It's on nearly every song - for example, off the top of my head, it's the chorus of Different World, almost the whole of These Colours Don't Run, the bridge of The Longest Day, the verse and middle section of For The Greater Good of God, and probably more that I can't remember. It seems a silly thing to complain about I know, but when I keep hearing the same thing over and over again, I get a distinct feeling that they are getting very lazy and reliant on a formula that was never that original or good in the first place. If I were to write a whole album, I'd go out of my way to make sure I didn't do the same thing on nearly every bloody song. And I know Iron Maiden are the kings of sticking to formulae (plural), but they've never been this lazy. And also all the bloody acoustic intros and outros are pointless and rubbish apart from in the Legacy. The only reason all this upset me so much is because I love this band more than my mother. More songs like The Pilgrim, that's what they need.

They overused it for the same reason they chose Trivium as a support act. Moolah! They realised all their hit songs had it in, and made an album full of it. That doesn't make them bad songs. I can see if you listened to the album from start to finish it would get repeatative on you, but after one time through you'd notice it was repeatative and mix them about a bit. They're awesome songs if you spread them throughout a playlist and not one after another.

by **James** on Wed Sep 19, 2007 8:19 pm

I don't think there is anything awesome about the new album.

by **Metal Iain** on Wed Sep 19, 2007 8:47 pm

James wrote:I don't think there is anything awesome about the new album.

On the contrary, everything is right about it. That is, apart from the sheer length of the beast. Whoever decided that albums should last longer than forty minutes needs to be taken out and shot.

by **Metal Iain** on Wed Sep 19, 2007 8:48 pm

MartinC wrote:My dream job is to be a judge on X-Factor. Me and Simon Cowell would shit on everyone.

And by that you meant to say, 'Myself and the Honourable Mr. Cowell would tag-rape Dannii Minogue until she was no more than a jizzy bin liner.'

by **oxfordrocks** on Wed Sep 19, 2007 9:31 pm

A Matter of Life & Death is pretty good. Been on my MP3 player since it was released (still not bored of it)

Dance of Death sucked shit through a straw though.

by **Darkweasel** on Thu Sep 20, 2007 1:12 am

Dance of Death sucked shit through a straw though.

The only thing shit about DOD was Wildest Dreams and the cover art.

by **Lev** on Thu Sep 20, 2007 9:51 am

Darkweasel wrote:
Dance of Death sucked shit through a straw though.

The only thing shit about DOD was Wildest Dreams and the cover art.

The cover art was major gay like.

by **couchslouch** on Thu Sep 20, 2007 12:10 pm

jonny_boy34 wrote:Now it's time for Sign of the Cross from Rock In Rio. What an unbelievable thing. It's secretly one of Maiden's best songs, the horrible production of the X Factor and terrible singing of Blaze just makes you think otherwise. But on RIR it's ridiculously brilliant.

I love Iron Maiden.

this is so true

Iron maiden are my favourite band, ever

by **H.O.D. Feemo** on Thu Sep 20, 2007 12:52 pm

Yeah, like this thread a lot, maiden got me into metal back in 93' and made me friends with the people I'm still close to this very day.

I regard maiden as like a dodgy (but with good intentions) family member you have that you always slag off but if someone turned around to you and said "your brother is a cunt" you end up wanting to fight them as they are so close to you.

I'll always go on the instant defensive but it's no secret (even in their biography) the martin Birch era (NOTB -> SSOASS) was their golden time.

I bought me & my wife a maiden ticket in December and had to endure the full new album plus 4 predictable 'others' at the end of the set. Worst £82 pound I ever spent. No hold on, Nearly as bad as watching Blaze at the Manchester Apollo. That was utter dogshit

by **Metalbrew Stu** on Thu Sep 20, 2007 1:21 pm

H.O.D. Feemo wrote:I regard maiden as like a dodgy (but with good intentions) family member you have that you always slag off but if someone turned around to you and said "your brother is a cunt" you end up wanting to fight them as they are so close to you.

That's brilliant. I'd whole heartedly agree.

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