This is the thread where we talk about Iron Maiden!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bVmswOIYWlg

ah fuck it, play this whole thing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZfU_zLWsh6I

ragh screw that link, it's way out of sync

this one's better

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWF-B95qZj0

got home from a morning appointment and my daughter immediately runs up to me and says "I have something very sad to tell you. One of your drummers died"

:(

:(

yr daughter is the cutest

That guy could pull off drum fills like no other. I remain a big fan of Nicko's, but Clive really did bring a lot of personality to those early Maiden songs.

Yeah Nicko is terrific. I do think there was something special about Clive's drumming though (possibly sheer nostalgia for him talking but I'd like to think not) - I feel like he helped to set the speed and the punk feel of that first album and helped informed their early style through full-out metal transition with Dickinson and NOTB. I don't know if you could do that with just any drummer.

Yeah, Clive definitely brought the speed that the first two records demanded. Like Nicko, he was one of a kind, the perfect fit for that era of Iron Maiden.

it's funny how Nicko still feels like the new guy to me and he's been playing with them for how many years now?

RIP to a great drummer

Why did he leave Maiden?

So Piece of Mind is thirty years old today, sez Ade.

i recommend CRANKING THE HELL out of this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udUlQmI3Mys

happy birthday Piece of Mind!

FLYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY
ON YOUR WAAAAAAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY
LIKE AN EEAAAAAAAAAAAAAGLLLEEE
FLY AS HIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIGGGGHHH
AS THE SUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUN

Well yes.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qfel9LJIGco

I've been listening to a lot of Maiden the past week because I finally read Garry Bushell's Iron Maiden Running free, which has been out of print for a long time, but revived on Kindle earlier this year for $5.99. I hoped it would be better as he does have writing/journalism credentials, and covered the band for various magazines over the years. However it's largely fanboy stuff, with a lot of fawning about what a blast it was partying with the band, relating (largely in heavy cockney slang) had-to-be-there inside jokes/pranks, and boring play-by-play accounts of their soccer games. Ah well, if you're a fan it's still kind of enjoyable. Most alarming was all the stories about what a dangerously bad driver Bruce was, and he vowed never to ride with him again. I wonder if he ever flew with them since then!

Regarding references to the band's annual Xmas cards, there was a (crappy B&W) reproduction of the one from 1981 in the book. I asked Martin Popoff if those cards are included in his Run For Cover: The Art Of Derek Riggs book. He said there should be a bunch in there. They are out of print, but you can still order from Riggs' site (derekriggs.com) or via Amazon.

I used this one for a piece 8 years ago that was likely from a card (I added the "Heavy Metal Holidaze" type):

http://fastnbulbous.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/eddie_dwarves.jpg

Lastly, I considered starting a thread about Iron Maiden acolytes, bands with strongly recognizable Iron Maiden influence, but I couldn't think of that many. There are a lot of bands with some Maiden influence of course, but not that many where they are easily recognizable as their primary sound. Savatage, Wolf, 3 Inches Of Blood and of course Slough Feg. Any others?

Dawnbringer springs to mind.

I always maintained that The Decemberists' (yawrn, I know) "The Infanta" was heavily Maiden-influenced.

There's a whole genre of (generally really shitty) metal that was spawned from the furrow Maiden ploughed, called "Power Metal". Other than the genre-dwellers, I don't know that Maiden had a lot of recognizable influence. It's too bad. They're my favourite metal band, hands-down, and one of the all-time greats in any genre. That run of albums up to Seventh Son was unbeatable.

I finally got the Maiden England reissued set (1988) and it kind of blows me away how not dissimilar 88 Bruce sounds to '14 Bruce. I mean he's definitely lost his highest of highs but when I saw him last year he sounded about as good on these songs as he does on this album. Guy's definitely got longevity.

i wish they were bringing teh Maiden England tour back to the US again this year. saw it in back to back years in 2012-2013 and it was so effing dope.

also noticing how he's managed to sing flat throughout "Wasted Years" :/

FLYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY
ON YOUR WAAAAAAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY
LIKE AN EEAAAAAAAAAAAAAGLLLEEE
FLY AS HIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIGGGGHHH
AS THE SUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUN

― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, May 17, 2013 11:28 AM (1 year ago)

otm

i love how right off the bat quest for fire is so ridiculous

In a time when dinosaurs walked the earth

that when they keep going

When the land was swamp and caves werrrre hooooooommme
In an age when prize possession was fire
To search for landscapes men would roam.

it sounds like dickinson is hitting the high notes just to underscore it

work has offered up a lip sync contest for our sales meeting this year

think I'm going to do 'Run to the Hills' :D

mainly because I have listened to it more times than most of the other songs that I like and it's SO MUCH FUN

Well THIS sucks, glad it was caught early but

http://www.ironmaiden.com/bruce-dickinson-undergoes-cancer-treatment.html

fingers crossed for him

New album, The Book of Souls, September 4 (single global release date). A 92-minute 2CD set, last song is 18 minutes long.

Anyone tried the beer they make, Trooper? Not bad at all imo.

http://www.thegrocer.co.uk/pictures/420xAny/6/1/7/21617_iron-maiden-trooper-beer.gif

I love the beer, personally. Strong and citrusy. I also have no idea how to describe beer. But it's yummy.

They rock, they fly 747s, they make delicious beer. I don't know what this band can't do

Yeah the beer is p good!

P good in bottles, V good on tap, IMO.

I'm glad they're still rocks my (and when I saw them in 2007 or sthereabouts, they were stellar) but for me their discography ends with 7th Son. Consistently too much work for little reward after that.

*rocking, not rocks my, jebus.

I'll have a much more in-depth review done in a couple weeks, but after a month of immersion in <i>The Book of Souls</i> I thought I'd offer some quick thoughts on Twitter.

http://bit.ly/1IJh5UV

Their best since 7th Son? Count me in!

The single is not bad.

yeah it's ill....kinda bluesy and truckin' hard rock reminds me of the paul dianno era a bit

Here's my complete take on the new record. I would have been perfectly happy with an album on par with the last four, but they've outdone themselves with this one.

http://www.popmatters.com/review/196855-iron-maiden-the-book-of-souls/

That was a very enjoyable review. As a new Maiden fan who's working through the discography chronologically, I am now excited to catch up to The Book of Souls in... well, considering my current pace, probably five or six years.

Excellent review. I'm gonna come to s'toon and make you buy me beer if this record doesn't kick my ass, ok?

"empire of the clouds" is incredible. sounds like they've been listening a little to motorpsycho and steven wilson

I ended up tearing through the whole Maiden discography over about six weeks last month in preparation for seeing them live. The whole process was one of the most rewarding musical experiences I'd ever had. So much so, in fact, that a lot of other music, even stuff I like, is sounding a little drab in comparison. This band is just bursting with energy and riffs and hooks and fun.

My top favorites ended up being Somewhere In Time for the early run and The Final Frontier for the 2000-2010s era. But I bet I'd have a different opinion if I did it over again.

I doubt, however, that anything will displace "Caught Somewhere In Time" as my single favorite Iron Maiden song.

I listened to Piece of Mind the other day for the first time in a long while and marveled at how mild and basically arena rocky it sounded. When I was a kid, Maiden was like the heaviest sounding shit ever, but now it sounds polite.

Still love 'em.

They often strike me as a rather un-heavy heavy metal band. The word that kept coming to mind as I was listening to them, especially on the faster numbers of course, was "fleet". Maybe it's all those galloping rhythms and songs about aviation, but for me they evoke swiftness alongside size and power. But I don't often get that sense of thudding wrecking-ball heaviness from them that I do get from, say, Black Sabbath.

When I was a kid

Key point. I think until I was well into high school, the only Sabbath song I'd ever heard was Paranoid (on the radio).

Iron Maiden has the gallop, which is their unique swing on the heavy metal thing.

finally listened to Bruce's version of "Remember Tomorrow". I never did in the past cos I usually don't like hearing him on most Paul songs but dare I say I think he does this one better. it's so jarring hearing him sing notes that are so low (for him), because he so rarely did, and he sounds...different.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KPG0GNGVx-Q

Nice, I think Bruce Bruce handles pretty much all the old songs pretty well. I was just reading last year's comments about not being that heavy, well to be fair they did develop their sound throughout the 70s, inspired by the likes of Jethro Tull and Wishbone Ash. There's always been a progressive element that they return to more on certain albums. Here's Opeth in 1998 covering the same song:

https://youtu.be/k-ZfPeC14qw

Flight of Icarus
Aces High
Powerslave
Run to the Hills
Rime of the Ancient Mariner (log flume)

I mean, the rides sell themselves.

“Our focus groups say that Bring Your Daughter to the Slaughter isn’t a ride that’s really gonna go over well, Steve.”

Charlotte the Harlot Flume Ride (18+)

here's one that you guys can probly help me out with: I have S/T through Powerslave, and I think I know all the major songs after '84, "fear of the Dark" "Bring yr Daughter," "wasted years" etc… but a while ago, it occurred to me that I don't know if they have their own "Sad but True" or two, like a really stomping, elephantine cut to stand up next to 70s Sabbath… they seem to be not exactly patient enuff, like they want to get to the fast part NOW…

Not sure if this is quite what you're looking for, but "stomping" and "elephantine" made me think of "The Reincarnation of Benjamin Breeg" from '06.

"Revelation" is pretty heavy, and "The Clansman" (from the Blaze Bayley era, though they made Dickinson sing it when I saw them in 2003) is a slower epic.

They did "Clansman" last year as well so it's become a bit of a staple I think.

FREEDOMMM