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formulas-fatal-to-your-mom · 1 month

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#iron maiden #killers #the number of the beast #piece of mind #powerslave #somewhere in time #seventh son of a seventh son #no prayer for the dying #fear of the dark #brave new world #the final frontier #the book of souls #senjutsu #heavy metal #eddie #steve harris #bruce dickinson #metal

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helloforgottenlibrary · 6 months

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#iron maiden #heavy metal #bruce dickinson #dave murray #steve harris #janick gers #nicko mcbrain #1990 #no prayer for the dying #music

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crepuscularpete · 7 months

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#iron maiden #no prayer for the dying #1990 #hard rock #rock #metal #heavy metal #classic metal #metalhead #headbanger #metal music #music lover #autumn #leaves #cd #cd collector

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k-i-l-l-e-r-b-e-e-6-9 · 1 year

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Iron Maiden - No Prayer For The Dying

#Iron Maiden #No Prayer for the Dying #Self titled #Release date: October 1st 1990 #Full-length #Genre: Heavy Metal NWOBHM #Lyrical themes: History Literature War Mythology Society Religion #UK

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dickinson-devotee · 1 month

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1990 — Behind the Scenes of "No Prayer For the Dying"

#iron maiden #bruce dickinson #steve harris #martin birch #music #heavy metal #behind the scenes #behind the music #youtube #no prayer for the dying #holy smoke #interview

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animalb0y · 10 months

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Eddie? 🤔

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andrewckeeper · 1 year

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LIDMF Classics “Franco´s Vengeance”

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guerrilla-operator · 3 months

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Iron Maiden // Bring Your Daughter...To the Slaughter

Bring your daughter Bring your daughter to the slaughter Let her go, let her go, let her go

#iron maiden #no prayer for the dying #bring your daughter...to the slaughter #heavy metal #metal #tunes #audio #favorite songs ever #Spotify

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listieshadows · 3 months

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Listie babbles about her CD haul (2024/01/14)

Yesterday I walked into my local Sunrise Records with the intention of purchasing The Beatles' Yellow Submarine Songtrack to complete my collection of Beatles albums featured on a picture I've had of their discography that's been hanging on my wall for years. However, unfortunately, it wasn't there, and in a fit of "Well, since I'm here," I impulse purchased a bunch of other albums. And since I wanna talk about music more, hey, I'm gonna take a sec to talk about them! I hope nobody who sees this on their timeline minds the self-indulgence.

Green Day – Warning (2000)

One of my top five favorite Green Day albums. Probably even top three. I really liked this brief folk punk turn for the band, and tunes like "Misery", "Macy's Day Parade", "Waiting", "Church On Sunday", "Minority"... Aw, it's just great stuff.

I've been meaning to get more Green Day stuff, anyway. For years the only albums of theirs I've had are American Idiot and Revolution Radio, and I'd like to have an unbroken line of their discography from Kerplunk to 21st Century Breakdown. After that, with stuff like the "Trilogy" and Father Of All... Eh, I'll pass. And we'll see about their new album when that comes out. For now, I'll say that I did also consider picking up Dookie while I was there, but all they had was the anniversary box, and I didn't wanna add an additional $92 onto my purchase. But speaking of anniversary editions being my only option...

Elton John – Honky Châtaeu (50th Anniversary Edition) (2023)

This is currently my second favorite Elton John album, behind Goodbye Yellow Brick Road. I mean, come on, side one is a killer. Aside from having "Honky Cat" and "Rocket Man", it's got "Mellow" and "Susie (Dramas)"... Come on! Of course side two is great as well—"Amy", "Hercules", all that—but "Mona Lisas And Mad Hatters" has just never done it for me, honestly? Plus, sometimes I forget what "Slave" sounds like, so there's that, too.

Now, if I could've avoided it, I wouldn't have paid $32 to own the two disc anniversary edition. But that was the only version they had there, an', y'know, that just sucks a little sometimes, right? Like, you just want the darn album and not all of the extra demos and live recordings they're charging you more for, but that's your only option unless you wanna go trawling around Discogs or eBay for a more standard edition. And if I didn't love physically browsing so much...! Although that's probably what I'm gonna hafta put up with anyway if I wanna get Yellow Submarine Songtrack, so...

Iron Maiden – Powerslave (1984) and No Prayer For The Dying (1990)

I'm pairing these two together for a specific reason, and I'll get to that in a second, but first lemme get my opinions out of the way. Powerslave might be my favorite Iron Maiden album—at the very least it's in solid competition with The Number Of The Beast. I find there's hardly a moment wasted on it, and of course the big hits are all fantastic: "Aces High", "2 Minutes To Midnight", "Powerslave" and the incredible "Rime Of The Ancient Mariner". In terms of Maiden's "epic songs," I like "Empire Of The Clouds" better, but "Rime Of The Ancient Mariner" still holds a very high second place.

No Prayer, meanwhile, is an album I only first heard last year, and I can sort of tell why people don't like it so much. After the innovations of Somewhere In Time and Seventh Son, it's a big step back; and even for fans who preferred the earlier sound to the synths, the songs just aren't as tight as Killers or Number or any of them. Fear Of The Dark later on was an improvement, but only so much because of its bloated track list. Still, I've listened to the From Fear To Eternity compilation enough times that I have a spot for "Tailgunner" and "Holy Smoke", plus I think "Mother Russia" is kind of neat as well.

But why did I get both of them? You might not be wondering that up until I tell you that I've already owned a copy of Powerslave for years. In fact, it was the second or third Iron Maiden album I'd ever bought. So what's, uh, the deal, then? To put it in short, there was a box set released in 1998 called Eddie's Head which had their first twelve live and studio albums, from their eponymous debut all the way up to Live At Donington. At some point they were all released individually, and those were the copies I was collecting. After all, their spines formed a picture of Eddie. I had to have a full collection!

But I had one stipulation in mind: I knew that No Prayer was considered the worst Dickinson album, so I wanted to get that one last. That meant if I wanted to finish my collection, I had to find a copy of Live At Donington. Though no matter how many times I looked at HMV or Sunrise, I could never find it. It was only years later when I finally checked Discogs and saw how much a copy was going for these days that I realized, "Oh, they're not selling this at chain stores anymore." And in fact, they're not selling any album from this release anymore. They've all been replaced by the 2015 remaster, so I couldn't even get an Eddie's Head version of No Prayer even if I wanted to.

So I just gave up! I picked up the 2015 remaster of No Prayer so I could finally have an unbroken studio run from their debut to The X Factor, and I got Powerslave alongside so it wouldn't look stupid sitting all by itself. Will I ever get the rest of them? I mean, if that's the only option for the Iron Maiden albums I'm still missing, sure, I guess. I like their spines, too, so I'm getting that out of this whole ordeal at least.

(And in looking up a picture of the Eddie's Head spines to link to, it seems like I was also missing A Real Live Dead One as well? So... Oops! Guess that's two albums I would've had to get!)

Prince – Come (1994)

The first time I heard this album, it was because of a podcast I'm making my way through: Jukebox Zeroes. The whole concept of the podcast is that it sees the two hosts plus guests reacting to and reviewing what's considered the worst albums from famous artists, like Metallica's St. Anger or Madonna's American Life, for example. Come was the album they'd selected to cover Prince, though by the end of the episode they admitted that they should've picked, like, Rave Un2 The Year 2000, 'cuz Come really isn't Prince's worst, or even a bad album. Frankly, it's rather something that Prince considered this "lesser material" that he threw at Warner Bros. just to get out of his contract with them.

I think they largely singled "Dark" as their favorite song on the album, but for me, it's "Letitgo". I absolutely love that synth melody that Prince sings along to for the chorus. The pre-chorus is really fun, too, I think. For, like, a month or two afterwards it was in my frequent rotation, usually played alongside Angela Aki's cover of "Still Fighting It" for some reason.

Ultimately, I prefer the album he put more attention into and wanted to have released at the same time, The Gold Experience (which I've had for months longer), but I don't think Come should be skipped. I mean, at the end of the day, it's still a Prince album. It's rare he makes bad music, and Come doesn't fall into that. Well, maybe "Solo", but your mileage will vary, of course.

And as a little divergence, can I just say that, before I got Come, it was really funny that I had the Love Symbol album and The Gold Experience sitting right next to each other on my shelf? Jus', one where Prince used the symbol as an album title, and then one where he used it as his name. It's great.

#text #long post #rambling #music #album haul #cd haul #green day #green day warning #elton john #honky château #iron maiden #powerslave #no prayer for the dying #prince #prince come

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mellawildheart · 2 years

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saw your maiden top 10 on IG. Has that changed for you any?

Indeed it has. This past summer they've quickly rose to being my favorite all-time band and they got me through one of my darkest periods. My current Maiden Top 10 would be:

10. Can I Play With Madness (the first Maiden song I ever heard)

9. Prowler (no it hasn't aged well, but I can't help but love it)

8. The Evil That Men Do (Bruce's vocals, especially during the verses! And that solo by Davey!)

7. 22 Acacia Avenue (especially the Dortmund 1983 version)

6. Wasted Years (The chorus is larger than life. Possibly Adrian's greatest riff ever)

5. Fear of the Dark (three words: Rock in Rio)

4. Dream of Mirrors (my favorite song from my favorite album; would be #3 but that little mess-up where the fast part goes into the final chorus kind of takes me out of it a bit)

3. No More Lies (imo, the best post-reunion Maiden song. That guitar melody is everything!)

2. Hallowed Be Thy Name (I have a soft spot for the Flight 666 version, idk why)

The Trooper (Need I say more?Hammersmith 1983 concert might be my fave version)