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I listened to Iron Maiden today

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01:22 / 18.01.02

Yup, I did. The whole Seventh Son album. And I listened to it with my son. He didn't react adversely, but there may be lingering after-effects. We'll see.

Any other Maiden-heads out there? Did you like them then, or do you like them now? I think 7th son was their last good album, but I might not know what I'm talking about.

Do you?

Zoom.

05:23 / 18.01.02

Yup I'm another one, started liking them after hearing bring your daughter to the slaughter in the local pub jukebox, must have been about 13, I actually still remember getting my first maiden t-shirt and first album (No Prayer for the Dying)

its funny that you mentioned them I've been downloading some of the old tracks the last few days and I checked their website and their playing a special gig in Brixton in March so I'm going to try and get tickets !

I still like them I bought the new album but didn't like it so much maybe I just like the older stuff because it brings back memories..

Favourite albums, not sure I kinda like Fear of the Dark

07:25 / 18.01.02

OLd Skool Maiden fan, with a soft spot for the SEVENTH SON OF A SEVENTH SON. Can't remember of hand the name of teh long progressive track on tha talbum, but it burns in my head.
Maiden should really promote their early stuff, with Paul on vocals, I find its proto Maiden sound a treat. It seems that they were a metal band working in a studio more geared for punk productions.

Classic Maiden tracks
Aces High
Phanton of the Opera
Run to the Hills
22 Accacia Avenue

Now I've really let the cat out of the bag

Haus about we all give each other a big lovely huggle?

07:30 / 18.01.02

Wasn't 22 Acacia Avenue where Bananaman lived?

07:40 / 18.01.02

Certainly was Erics home and also a song by Maiden, connected? hmmm

I prefer Bruce's vocals but to each their own...

Fav songs -

Hallowed be thy name
Fear of the Dark
Running Free
lots really thats enough...

07:43 / 18.01.02

Got to add Running Free and The Prowler

Haus you were close, but no biscuit

07:43 / 18.01.02

By Captain Zoom:
quote:I listened to Iron Maiden today
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With all due respect, Captain, the important is that you're still healthy. My best thoughts are with you.

07:43 / 18.01.02

Do you think we'll ever get through a music thread without someone dissin someone eles tastes?

10:16 / 18.01.02

I was
K I D D Y I N G
here have some

and some more

(no he wasn't the arrogant twat!! squash him, squash him now!)

10:25 / 18.01.02

Guess you just touched a nerve Iron Maiden teenage years and all that, and I was kidding anyway - anyone watch it my post amount is nearing 666 and when that happens all hell will break loose

As someone said -

Iron Maiden - 666 - The Neighbour of the Beast

11:11 / 18.01.02

Iron Maiden holds a very deep place in my heart. Fucking great live band, nice people, humane crew (I saw them play a "secret gig" at L'Amours–for the Seventh Son tour actually–and the roadies saved me from getting sucked under by the crowd...pulled me out, took me outside to get some air, then let me watch the rest of the show from backstage)...Love 'em.

I still have my black & white striped Steve Harris spandex pants

12:13 / 18.01.02

quote:Originally posted by Bear:
Iron Maiden - 666 - The Neighbour of the Beast

It's 664. They're the neighbour of the beast.

Maiden is probably my favourite metal band. I've still got my denim jacket with the detachable sleeves and "Killer" patch on the back. I got it in grade 7 so I can't wear it as a jacket anymore, but it still fits as a vest. I wore that, a sleeveless rising sun shirt and too tight jeans to their show a few years back. Autobot wore similar atire. We looked like a couple. A couple of fucking dudes!

Bruce has remarkable nads.

Favourite album. Live after Death.

15:39 / 18.01.02

Hi, my name is CUSM, and I was a hard core Maiden head.

7th Son was the end of it for me, though. They seemed to peak out on the prog there, and nothing I've heard since has excited me like their older stuff, which I still have all of, even some of the import singles. I still have my glow in the dark Live After Death poster too, and the LP for Powerslave so you can see all the goofy art.

Favorites have to be Hallowed Be Thy Name, Revelations, Infinite Dreams, and Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner.

Aah, prog metal. Great stuff.

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[ 18-01-2002: Message edited by: cusm ]

15:51 / 18.01.02

Maiden's great.

I also think Seventh Son was their last GREAT album.

Dickenson's solo albums 'Accident of Birth' and 'The Chemical Wedding' - both with Adrian Smith on guitar - are excellent also.

'The Chemical Wedding' is really good and not just because of nostalgia. My girlfriend's son and his friends heard me play it and thought it was incredible too.

It's also a damn fine occult album.

17:52 / 18.01.02

Everytime I think that rock'n'roll has become too smart for its own good, I just remind myself that Iron Maiden is out there, being profesionally stupid for those out there trying to be rock intellectuals. Even the metal people are trying to show that they're not morons by putting out folk albums, but Maiden is still doing what they always have, which is why I love 'em.

17:56 / 18.01.02

Everytime I think that rock'n'roll has become too smart for its own good, I just remind myself that Iron Maiden is out there, being professionally stupid for those out there trying to be rock intellectuals. – Cop Killer

Which is incredibly subversive of them, because they're quite intelligent people, and their music is by no means simplistic.

07:49 / 19.01.02

quote:Originally posted by Ierne:

Which is incredibly subversive of them, because they're quite intelligent people, and their music is by no means simplistic.

Well, yeah, that was sorta my point; it takes a lot of intelligence to be that stupid.

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

08:10 / 19.01.02

I was never a Maiden fan, really, but from what I've seen of Bruce Dickinson he seems like a cool enough guy, and what they did, they did better than most of the other chancers doing it. (OK, I was a Maiden fan for a while, but it was a long time ago.)
The following anecdote is not meant to cast any aspersions on IM or their fans, I just think you guys'd find it funny...
I used to work in a comic shop. Bruce Dickinson came in, with his kid, to buy some comics and stuff. He was, to a fault, one of the most polite customers we ever had. And his kid was going mental, running up and down the shop, screaming at his dad to buy him stuff... My heart went out to the guy, I have to say.
Actually, that's really not much of an anecdote. Bum.

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

08:13 / 19.01.02

quote:Originally posted by Ierne:
Everytime I think that rock'n'roll has become too smart for its own good, I just remind myself that Iron Maiden is out there, being professionally stupid for those out there trying to be rock intellectuals. – Cop Killer

Which is incredibly subversive of them, because they're quite intelligent people, and their music is by no means simplistic.

Which has always been my ongoing argument for the continued existence of Zodiac Mindwarp and the Love Reaction.
(and before anyone gets cross, can I just make it plain that I'm NOT taking the piss... I've seen "Zod" a good 6/7 times, and even own a T-shirt, which I still wear.)

08:13 / 19.01.02

Was really into them in my early teens...saw a documentry a week or two ago about the Number of the Beast album which tugged a few nostalgia strings...may have to track down some cds...Killers was always my favourite...

Also got a Bruce Dickinson story...About 4 years ago my son who was then 5 or 6 had a fight with his son on top of a climbing frame in Chiswick and me and Bruce had to step in...It was an odd moment doing the whole ,'...now apologise to each other and make up' thing with the guy who sang 'Bring your Daughter to the Slaughter' whilst wearing spandex pants...He is a really nice bloke though...(very short)

11:50 / 19.01.02

Listen here wolf-child, I speak to you of the science of mythologies, maverick deviations...
DEJA VU but....Mark Manning we love you

Zod and squad were the lords of METAL, with BAD NEWS just after them.

INFINITE DREAMS was teh Maiden track I couldn't remember the name of, quality progression.

13:24 / 19.01.02

Wow, there's a lot of us out there. 7th son is my fave album, though Fear of the Dark was quite good too. And Powerslave. And Number of the Beast.

Favourite songs:

Hallowed Be Thy Name (Live)
Losfer Words
Infinite Dreams
Wasting Love
Wasted Years

I'm intrigued by "Chemical Wedding". I heard Bruce's first solo album (name escapes) and it really wasn't very good. I've read his book (The Adventures of Lord Iffy Boatrace) apparently told to the members of the band for a laugh while they were touring. Every odd. The whole band always struck me as a bunch of guys you could go to a pub with, get pissed up and have a really good laugh with.

Am I the only one who associates "Hallowed Be They Name" with Camus' "L'Etranger"? I think maybe I just discovered Maiden around the same time I read that book and it's stuck.

Will - the long track on 7th son is the title track.

Marquis - thanks for your well wishes, but I think it'll be a long time before I'm okay. A long, long, loooong time.

Zoom.

14:37 / 19.01.02

NO I'm sure it is INFINITE DREAMS that floats ma boat. Second track on the album, has awesome progression to it. Classic Harris bass. SEVENTH SON is more of the anthemic title track.

[ 19-01-2002: Message edited by: Will 'it work' Wright ]

17:49 / 19.01.02

Ah, now I see what you mean. Yeah, Infinite Dreams is the one that is all "progressive" for lack of a better word. I thought you'd meant the long track on the album, which is 7th Son at something like 9 min. long.

My mistake.

What was their latest album like? Weren't Brucs and Adrian back for that one, making them a 3-guitar band? I glanced at it, but never really gave it much thought.

Oh, and in the I've Got A Cool Store department - I've ordered the Eddie Action Figure from McFarlane Toys. (I know, McFarlane's a bastard, but I've gotta pay the rent!) So cool.
http://www.spawn.com/news/news011005a.html

Zoom.

00:21 / 20.01.02

quote:Originally posted by Captain Zoom:
Oh, and in the I've Got A Cool Store department - I've ordered the Eddie Action Figure from McFarlane Toys. (I know, McFarlane's a bastard, but I've gotta pay the rent!) So cool.

Speaking of Eddie & Iron Maiden, anybody else ever see the PSA they did about a decade back. It basically went like this:

"Hi, I'm <insert name of band member> from Iron Maiden. Did you know that thousands of people die needlessly every year in auto accidents? All because they didn't wear their seat belts. So please, if you're going to drive, drive sensibly--and make sure that you wear your seat belt.

<camera slowly crops in and pans right>

"Because you don't want to end up like Eddie here!!! Bwahahaha!!!!!"

I guess Motley Crue was too busy mainlining Jack Daniels to do a PSA....

The Sinister Haiku Bureau

01:13 / 20.01.02

Slightly OT, but... did any of you ever listen to the 'Bruce Dickinson Rock Show' on radio one back in 1994... It was probably the best rock show I've EVER heard on radio 1... Amazing music, funny as fuck, kewl interviews, like when he refered to Ginger Wildheart as 'crazy beyond the rock and roll norm' or when terrorvision did a jazz version of Bring your daughter to the slaughter... And the guy set up a special plane service so people could join the mile high club....
Maiden were slightly before my time, but they did some gooood shit. Can I play with madness is my fave... All respect to the fuckers.

22:13 / 20.01.02

Big Maiden fan, right here. Had the posters all over my room in Grade 10. Saw them a few times, best being a couple of years ago during the 'reunion' tour, at the Hammerstein Ballroom in NYC. Couldn't even hear Bruce, the crowd was singing along so loud. Brilliant. Went last year to Madison Square Garden, which was great as well.

And hell, they introduced me to The Prisoner

11:04 / 21.01.02

quote:Originally posted by Moominstoat:

Which has always been my ongoing argument for the continued existence of Zodiac Mindwarp and the Love Reaction.
(and before anyone gets cross, can I just make it plain that I'm NOT taking the piss... I've seen "Zod" a good 6/7 times, and even own a T-shirt, which I still wear.)

Another Zodiac fan! Oh thank god. I thought it was just me, (just got me sweaty mitts on a signed copy of Fucked by Rock)

And we're all going to sit here, with our hands on our heads, until someone mentions Paul DiAnno and how infinitely superior Iron Maiden and Killers were to the later toss.
I'm waiting.

11:13 / 21.01.02

quote:And we're all going to sit here, with our hands on our heads, until someone mentions Paul DiAnno and how infinitely superior Iron Maiden and Killers were to the later toss.
I'm waiting.

I doubt that's going to happen since many people have stated that some of the later albums are their favourites... I joined the Maiden bandwagon after he'd left so I think I'll always prefer the later stuff....

11:22 / 21.01.02

Gotta say that the early stuff rocked, as mentioned earlier. It is teh production of these early albums that sets them apart.

Does anyone remember the terribly Middle Class MR Dickinson in The Decline of Western Civilisation PT 2, The Heavy Metal Years?

One could say 'Swordfighting Nonce', but I think Lemmy sums up the Spandex thing well.

12:17 / 21.01.02

...the best being a couple of years ago during the 'reunion' tour, at the Hammerstein Ballroom in NYC...– videodrome

That show ROCKED!

Oh and y'all can stop sitting with your hands on your heads because I got into Maiden way back in 1980-81 when Paul was still with them. Don't get me wrong, Bruce is an incredible vocalist, but the first two albums are fucking ace.

[ 21-01-2002: Message edited by: Ierne ]

13:33 / 21.01.02

Thank you.

And wasn't spandex the suckiest thing to ever happen to metal? Apart from David Coverdale, of course.
What made them think 'I look cool and hard in these! You can see my nads!'
All hail Cliffy 'boy' Burton for never letting his flares go.

13:44 / 21.01.02

quote:Originally posted by mr y:

And we're all going to sit here, with our hands on our heads, until someone mentions Paul DiAnno and how infinitely superior Iron Maiden and Killers were to the later toss.
I'm waiting.

Heh. I don't like to choose between the two. I loved the first two albums and I loved the next 4 or 5 albums too.

I kinda think of it as getting two great vocalists for the price of one band.

13:48 / 21.01.02

quote:Originally posted by Captain Zoom:

I'm intrigued by "Chemical Wedding". I heard Bruce's first solo album (name escapes) and it really wasn't very good.

His first album sucked. His solo career only started to really soar with "Accident of Birth" and "The Chemical Wedding" is in my opinion the best metal album in years. He had a great producer and great musicians for both those albums and not to mention again Adrian Smith was playing with Bruce on both those albums.

Also, William Blake was the major influence on "The Chemical Wedding".

13:57 / 21.01.02

Did listening to Iron Maiden (baby) lead you, in a whiny-but-heartwarming manner, to an implausible Friday date with a girl called Noelle who didn't know who you were?

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