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i was quite intimately acquainted w/ maiden's first 4 albums or so, but after my disappointment w/ powerslave, i began delving into black and thrash metal, and so i lost touch w/ maiden. so most of the stuff on this album is new to me.
* 'wildest dream' is okay. i've never heard it. kind of an anthemic chorus--kind of annoying, to tell you the truth.
* 'wrathchild' is of course one of their best songs off 'killers', and this live rendition has the audience joining in during the chorus. the live sound is poor, though, and consequently steve's opening bass line is muffled. they take a few liberties w/ the solos, but it's decently done--nothing is screwed up.
* 'can i play w/ madness' is another of those songs from after maiden disappeared off my radar (post-powerslave). the use of the cowbell invokes memories of grand funk railroad's 'american band'. the song just sounds too disjointed, but that's what happens when one hears something for the first time and it happens to be live.
* 'the trooper' from 'piece of mind' is of course a classic, flawlessly played.
* 'dance of death', which i've not heard before, is one of those drawn-out epics. lots of medieval-sounding melodies, which bruce's accent lends itself well to. actually once the song gets going it's quite decent.
* 'rainmaker' starts out w/ an appropriate rainstorm sound effect. never heard this one either. lots of melody. hmmmm not really gripping.
* i haven't heard 'brave new world'. it starts extremely mellow, and it better pick up quickly before i jump to the next song. hmmmm okay, more anthemic tripe. next.
* 'paschendale' is one i've never heard either. sounds like warfare sfx going now, no music. just a narration. hmmm another dramatic epic tune. it stops and starts repeatedly. once it's finally running on all cylinders, it fairly wails. they surely love their military history, it accounts for a significant percentage of their subject matter. unfortunately, this song is idling or warming up more than it is actually humming down the road.
* 'lord of the flies' starts out promisingly, though the weird riff sounds a bit too bizarre. once the gets going, it's more of the same.
* okay, i couldn't handle listening to the other newer maiden songs, so i've skipped ahead to 'iron maiden', which is classic. of course, w/ bruce singing instead of paul, it's just not the same--in fact, it sucks. bruce has just ruined this song w/ his weirdly affected inflections. but of course the music is flawlessly played, and the song itself kicks ass, so i guess bruce didn't really ruin it.
* skipping over 'journeyman' to 'number of the beast'. the vincent-price-sounding narration is identical to the classic album. bruce's singing is starting to suck worse. his range has diminished. he definitely favors the upper range now, and simply cannot do the lower stuff any more--like basically the first part of the song. he sounds out of breath to tell the truth. as i recall, his voice always improved when he put a foot up on a monitor, and it sounded terrible when he stood in that trademark metal vocalist crouch.
* 'run to the hills'--ahhhh yes. classic tune. aaaagh bruce is screwing it up again. geez dude i'm sure there's some young buck devotee for maiden, like judas priest had ripper owens. why don't you just hang it up and let someone w/ fresh pipes take over? then again, halford's still going strong, so the analogy does not quite hold.
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| I was going to pick this up the other day but I got busy and didn't get that done... I'm a huge Maiden fan... and I thought Rock n Rio was a fabulouus CD/DVD... with great musical and vocal performances... I'll definitely be picking up this CD... to see how it compares... Although it is sounding as though it will not.
"Belief solely based upon faith is inherently rooted in the fear of negative consequence" - Bare
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