No Player For The Dying

[BookOfThel78]

This album by most fans is considered the worst album with Bruce. I was listening to it and i have to say it's just as good as the rest. I like pretty much everthing that Maiden has made. Even the stuff with Blaze and Paul.
I also noticed that the Maidens only played two songs from No Prayer For The Dying. Like Bring Your Daughter......To The Slaughter and Tailgunner. There is also Holy Smoke, No Prayer For The Dying, Public Enema Number One, The Assassin, Hooks In You, and Mother Russia which are really good songs too.

 

[HobbesDawg]

Hate hate hate hate that album. Absolutely the worst Bruce era album, but not the worst album. Those would be XFactor and Virtual XI.

That said, I disliked Blaze not because he's not a great singer, but I couldn't stand his vocal style with Maidens music. It never seemed right to me. In Wolvesbane tho, he was perfect.

 

[Metallicat180]

That was my favourite album when I first started getting into Maiden (probably cos it had BYDTTS on it) and I do still like it. I much prefer it over FOTD (I think we can all agree those 2 are the weakest Bruce albums). Mother Russia is a criminally underrated song and I would really love to hear the Maidens do the title track.

Hobbes - I agree with you about Blaze. His Wolfsbane and solo stuff is awesome, but his voice just didn't fit with Maiden.

 

[Rendclaw]

As my buddy who got me into metal said when The X Factor came out, someone needed to put Blaze's sack in a vise in order to squeeze an extra octave out of his voice.

 

[spideyjg]

No Prayer is heavy on keyboards on quite a few tracks. The title track is far too keyboard dependent to do justice without them. Remember the ladies do not have a keyboardist.

Wanda does have her foot pedals and they would probably work for something like Run Silent Run Deep which is mainly atmospheric keys like Alexander, and Heaven Can Wait but for something elaborate, such as No Prayer, she doesn't have that many feet.

A few songs on that are dogs but others are great. Run Silent has some awesome right hand work by Steve.

Jim

 

[BookOfThel78]

Hate hate hate hate that album. Absolutely the worst Bruce era album, but not the worst album. Those would be XFactor and Virtual XI.

That said, I disliked Blaze not because he's not a great singer, but I couldn't stand his vocal style with Maidens music. It never seemed right to me. In Wolvesbane tho, he was perfect.

Have you heard Blaze's new solo career? It's really good. I like Blaze's own material with Maiden. When he tried to sing songs that are from the Bruce era. They were pretty bad.

 

[ironmaidenfan09]

Hooks in you is one of the worst maiden songs ever written. That cowbell is just horrid lol. I like the title track a lot, its good. Mother Russia I like, Run Silent Run Deep is decent and I like Tailgunner. Can't stand the rest of it though.

I do like it over all better than Fear of the Dark so I will say Fear of the Dark is my least favorite Bruce Era album

 

[Jeff Milne]

Since everyone's giving their opinion:

Hooks in You and Bring Your Daughter to the Slaughter are horrendous, The Assassin is mediocre, and otherwise it's a good album. I saw the tour 3 times.

 

[yosmark]

I think its the record i like the less it is maybe not the maiden i like but i do liked bring your daughter to the slaughter ... does this turns me into a bad fan??

 

[ironmaidenfan09]

Since everyone's giving their opinion:

Hooks in You and Bring Your Daughter to the Slaughter are horrendous, The Assassin is mediocre, and otherwise it's a good album. I saw the tour 3 times.

That tour was great, with Anthrax. They were at Irvine and Long Beach. The Irvine show was fuckin amazing. They played for seriously over 2 hours and had about 5 encores. Never seen anything like it. That was my favorite Maiden show to date.

"Better watch out, Im the Assasain" haha. There are always a few songs Maiden puts out that you really wonder what the hell they were thinking when they wrote them and then actually recorded them and THEN actually listened to them and thought they were 'good'

 

[Tap_Legion2]

That tour was great, with Anthrax. They were at Irvine and Long Beach. The Irvine show was fuckin amazing. They played for seriously over 2 hours and had about 5 encores. Never seen anything like it. That was my favorite Maiden show to date.

Oh yeah, I remember that tour. Charlie of Anthrax is a really cool guy...Always has. Anyway, I was in the back talking with him when he said that their catering never showed and they had to drive from San Antonio out to California to play the next night or something. So Charlie said, "hey if anything shows up, help yourself... we gotta go."

About 20 minutes after they split the catering shows up with a tub of Heineken's and a 20 lb roasted turkey...Needless to say I ate well that night my friends...couldn't let all that go to waste...lol

 

[ironmaidenfan09]

Oh yeah, I remember that tour. Charlie of Anthrax is a really cool guy...Always has. Anyway, I was in the back talking with him when he said that their catering never showed and they had to drive from San Antonio out to California to play the next night or something. So Charlie said, "hey if anything shows up, help yourself... we gotta go."

About 20 minutes after they split the catering shows up with a tub of Heineken's and a 20 lb roasted turkey...Needless to say I ate well that night my friends...couldn't let all that go to waste...lol

Nice yeah Charlie is a really nice guy met him a few times. It's too bad what happend to Anthrax. They were so great back then. Bands like Maiden kept doing their thing but some bands thought they had to change and be more 'modern' to continue on, which might have been the case who knows. I was really looking forward to a new Anthrax album with Joey on vocals. The reunion tours I went to 3 of them and they were insane. Now I hear they fired Joey again and are looking for yet another new singer for the next record.

 

[HobbesDawg]

Here in SLC with Anthrax, it was a great show, but a little anticlimatic for the band, I think, cos there were maybe 2-3k people that was all. Really bugged me

However, it was great beacuse durring Anthrax's show, Maiden had pizza delivered on stage to the band before their last song..hehe so of course Anthrax returned the favor, upping the anti to even more pizzas. I remember there was a food fight with the crowd and everyone laughing. Anthrax came out and preformed a few songs with Maiden as well at the end...

I belive it was their last or 2nd to last show in the US on that tour.

 

[krame]

Since everyone's giving their opinion:

Hooks in You and Bring Your Daughter to the Slaughter are horrendous, The Assassin is mediocre, and otherwise it's a good album. I saw the tour 3 times.

I was never too keen on BYDTTS, but the I do like the second half of the song. It's good for what it is. I think Hooks in You is embarrassingly bad to the point that it's enjoyable, but The Assassin is just ridiculous. The chorus is just atrocious! That said, I'd still listen to it.

The album definitely has its moments though. Run Silent Run Deep, Mother Russia and the title track always did it for me.

 

[BookOfThel78]

I was never too keen on BYDTTS, but the I do like the second half of the song. It's good for what it is. I think Hooks in You is embarrassingly bad to the point that it's enjoyable, but The Assassin is just ridiculous. The chorus is just atrocious! That said, I'd still listen to it.

The album definitely has its moments though. Run Silent Run Deep, Mother Russia and the title track always did it for me.

Well the song The Assassin and Pantera's song Cowboys From Hell helped come up with name for a video game clan. The name of the clan is Assassins From Hell.

 

[Rendclaw]

I think that Adrian leaving the band and their decision to go with a more stripped-down sound with a noise-maker guitarist like Janick really hurt them. Janick did not really start to come into his own until Fear of the Dark, when he slowed down and played more melodically. I don't think that the rest of the band truly realized how much Adrian meant to the overall sound of the band. When I bought NPFTD, I was looking for those little hooks, those little melodic bits in a song that spoke of Adrian and helped to bring out the overall feel of the song, and they weren't there. Dave I think tried to do that, but his style does not lend to doing it. Hooks in You was written by Adrian himself, and if he had still been with the band, that song would have sounded different, I'm sure of that.

I like the album, but it ain't in my top five for damned sure.

 

[yosmark]

I know what you mean Rendclaw, is like mmmm Adrian is more to the melodical beautiful parts of the songs that catch you up and Dave is like damn he is playing like a mad man !!! and its amazing when they both get together they are amazing and with Jannick uhh there are no limits, i have always wanted to hear a version of halloweed be thy name but with three solos starting Dave then Adrian and at the end but not least important Jannick, when i play with my band since we sometimes are 3 guitarplayers we do it this way, and hell it sounds good.