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Originally Posted by nonsubmissivewife (Post 737818)

The only Archive album I’ve heard in its entirety is “You All Look The Same To Me”, and I absolutely love it. I normally can’t handle those epically long songs, but ‘Again’ is a definite exception. You mentioned them having monotonous, repetitive hooks which I suppose is true but I feel like they do a nice job of keeping to rest of the song interesting and varied vocally and instrumentally (I’m specifically talking about ‘Again’ here). Where you say those types of hooks really grab you, they usually turn me off, so this is a band I’ll have to tentatively pursue further.

I’m pretty sure I have “Noise” laying around on my hard drive somewhere but I have not gotten around to listening to it yet, with the exception of ‘F*ck U’…another good song but I didn’t enjoy it as much as most of the songs on “You All Look the Same to Me”. Perhaps I should make “Lights” my next listening venture instead??

As for the first vid you posted there from the new album, I have to admit I didn’t care for that at all. :( Not sure if it was because it seemed a lot more up-tempo than what I’m used to hearing from them, but it didn’t seem all that spectacular lyrically either. Are there any different songs from the new album you can recommend?

The new album is a little patchy I have to admit and it's generally a small fault of the band that they have never made one truly oustanding album with filler on all albums. YUATSTM is probably the most cohesive album. Lights is very good though.

If members would like starter compilations for any artists I put up in here then holler back and I will gladly oblige.

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Originally Posted by jackhammer (Post 738677)

If members would like starter compilations for any artists I put up in here then holler back and I will gladly oblige.

Yes I would, Archive or John Martyn would both be very nice to have.

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Originally Posted by storymilo (Post 738838)

Yes I would, Archive or John Martyn would both be very nice to have.

This :)

I just started listening to Iron Maiden, which will probably surprise many of you here :D. They were one of the many names I heard being thrown around by so many around me to the point where it made me not want to listen to the band. The same thing has happened so far with bands such as Metallica, Slayer, The Beatles, Red Hot chilli Peppers, and many more. Of course I've heard a song or two by those bands before, as with Iron Maiden, but I never gave them a chance. I will get around to all of them at some time. I guess I'm kind of going in reverse in terms of discovering new music. I started listening passionately with a handful of really obscure bands and now I'm working from expanding myself to all forms of music.

One of the biggest things I really loved about Iron Maiden when I first listened is the bassiest, it just brought a certain energy to it that I loved, that you just never hear in other metal music that puts so much emphasis on the guitar.

Steve Harris' bass technique is certainly distinguised. I'm not really sure what word to use to describe it but i'm not really surprised that you would notice it. The bass can often be the overlooked instrument in metal bands and a lot of bands write bass lines that simply mirror the lead guitar and so get lost in the mix. Steve Harris' bass sound is the backbone to Maidens music in many ways.

I really love the Powerslave album, the last 2 tracks on the album alone make it one of my favourites. Rime Of The Ancient Mariner and the title track are just epic beyond belief. My favourite album is Piece Of Mind, apart from Quest For Fire (which i admit is terrible) every track is mind blowing.

I do admit that Maiden are as cheesy as hell, but they do cheesy metal 1000 times better than everyone else.

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Originally Posted by Zero1986 (Post 742372)

I much prefer Piece Of Mind to number Of The beast myself and you are right in that's it a damn solid album. One of the most underated of Maiden's tracks from Piece Of Mind:

Compilations coming soon for the first 3 entries.

Piece Of Mind has always been my favourite Dickinson era album.

I love the guitar sound on that album, it's a bit crunchier & dirtier than Maiden usually do, and yet on the other hand it sounds a much more complex album than anything they'd done before. I think both those qualities make it their most unique sounding album.

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Originally Posted by Urban Hatemonger (Post 742454)

I agree. Powerslave is a good album but the live versions on live after death far outshine it I think. TNOTB is the breakthrough album but there is filler. On POM they really got heavy I think whereas Powerslave' is a little too polished for me, although the album cover is still one of my faves.

As for the guitar sound you mentioned I think that the final track is a great example of this. Love that riff.

Still the quintessential Metal band and still faithful to their roots.