shit you wish bands would stop doing

[Seasonreaper]

Covers: Please, do more covers! Covers are great. I love covers. Bands don't do enough of them. Just...it would be nice if they picked songs that people would be familiar with.

I disagree with the part about familiar songs. I'd like to see more covers of lesser-known songs from well known bands, such as Remember Tomorrow - Opeth and Stranger in a Strange Land - Disbelief. Obviously both are by Maiden, yet aren't likely to be known by anyone who isn't a Maiden fan. Covering the same old familiar songs gets boring (Looking at Master of Puppets covers here )

 

[BlackMetalWhiteGuy]

You mean when the physical disc isn't in there straight? I'm pretty sure that kind of obsessive-compulsive behavior is God's way of telling you to stop buying music and save the money for therapy.

Yes, this is exactly what I'm talking about. The only time any CD should be upside is if there's cross on it.

 

[waif]

The whole of the first two albums, with the exception of "Killers" and "Wrathchild", are giant black spots. There's nothing wrong with their 90's albums. "Fear Of The Dark" and "No Prayer For The Dying" generally aren't in question so I won't dwell but, while Blaze's voice may not have been perfectly suited to Iron Maiden, the music they put out in the late 90's was still fucking solid. "Lighting Strikes Twice", "The Clansman", "When Two Worlds Collide" and "Sign Of The Cross" were some of the best material they'd recorded since "Somewhere In Time". Even "The Angel And The Gambler" is alright if you cut out about 90% of the choruses and bring the song down to around the 3 minute mark.

So basically, Angel and the Gambler sucks?

I'm not just saying the Blaze albums suck. I'm saying that FotD and No Prayer also suck. Consider.
First you have Number of the Beast, Piece Of Mind, Powerslave, Seventh Son, and Somewhere In Time. Maiden seems like the best band ever. Then all of a sudden the suck sets in. No Prayer for the Dying. The only song that's even decent is Running Silent Running Deep. Hooks In You and Bring Your Daughter are entertaining, but not good music. Rest of the album is boring. Then along comes Fear Of The Dark. That song is good live, but on album it sounds really boring. As does the rest of the album. The Fugitive, The Apparition, and Be Quick Or Be Dead are all right. The rest completely sucks. Two thoroughly mediocre albums from an awesome band. Then Bruce leaves, Blaze comes in, and it just goes downhill from there.

I disagree with the part about familiar songs. I'd like to see more covers of lesser-known songs from well known bands, such as Remember Tomorrow - Opeth and Stranger in a Strange Land - Disbelief. Obviously both are by Maiden, yet aren't likely to be known by anyone who isn't a Maiden fan. Covering the same old familiar songs gets boring (Looking at Master of Puppets covers here )

I mean obscure songs by obscure bands that you wouldn't know unless you were part of the scene. Covering any maiden song means the cover isn't obscure. Covering Slaughterlord is.

Covers of obscure songs by well known bands are great too. But even covers of obscure stuff is fine. Covers are overall a great way to fill out an ep/provide bonus tracks for a rerelease. what covers are NOT is a good way to fill up an album, the way GnR did with Use Your Illusion.

 

[zabu of nΩd]

I'm not just saying the Blaze albums suck. I'm saying that FotD and No Prayer also suck. Consider.
First you have Number of the Beast, Piece Of Mind, Powerslave, Seventh Son, and Somewhere In Time. Maiden seems like the best band ever. Then all of a sudden the suck sets in. No Prayer for the Dying. The only song that's even decent is Running Silent Running Deep. Hooks In You and Bring Your Daughter are entertaining, but not good music. Rest of the album is boring. Then along comes Fear Of The Dark. That song is good live, but on album it sounds really boring. As does the rest of the album. The Fugitive, The Apparition, and Be Quick Or Be Dead are all right. The rest completely sucks. Two thoroughly mediocre albums from an awesome band. Then Bruce leaves, Blaze comes in, and it just goes downhill from there.

I don't consider either No Prayer for the Dying or Fear of the Dark bad, just a little weak for a band like Iron Maiden. No Prayer is actually pretty good, but obviously it's not as serious or epic-sounding as the early albums. I think "Tailgunner", "Holy Smoke", "No Prayer" and "Bring Your Daughter" are all great songs. Fear of the Dark has slightly fewer good songs.

But yeah, I'd say they haven't released a truly great album since Powerslave.

 

[The Ozzman]

But yeah, I'd say they haven't released a truly great album since Powerslave.

???

 

[FerretallicA]

So basically, Angel and the Gambler sucks?

The version on my computer has most of the choruses chopped out and it's actually enjoyable in a short 3 minute burst. The full length song doesn't totally suck, it just goes for waaaaaaaay too long.

I'm not just saying the Blaze albums suck. I'm saying that FotD and No Prayer also suck. Consider.
First you have Number of the Beast, Piece Of Mind, Powerslave, Seventh Son, and Somewhere In Time.

"Number Of The Beast" only had two really good songs- "Hallowed Be Thy Name" and "Run To The Hills". The title track is unbearably cheesy and the rest of the album is just shit.

"Piece Of Mind" improves. The first half of the album is pretty solid but then... hmm. They should have left the last four songs off and released it as an EP.

"Powerslave" is even better again with only a couple weak songs and even their worst one ("Flash of the Blade") still being mildy enjoyable.

Enter "Somewhere In Time": Maiden's absolute peak. One of the best albums, by any band, ever. Not a single weak or filler track on the whole album.

Admittedly after that point they started going backwards again. Each album had more and more struggling songs until "Fear of the Dark" came along which was nearly half filler. Still enough gold on their to warrant buying but not looking good. Perfect time for a change of staff.

Exit: Bruce Dickinson. Enter: Blaze Bailey. Not that Bailey is by any means a great contributor to the band (the songs he co-wrote tended to be the weaker ones) but his inclusion helped change the direction of the band so they were able to stop writing the same sounding album yet again with even more filler. The songs are, for the most part, still distinctly Maiden, but different enough to be fresh. There's almost an underlying prog rock vibe to a lot of the songs and they wrote some of their better epics when Blaze was with the band.

By the time Dickinson rejoined Maiden they'd had close to 10 years between albums to gather ideas and inspiration as opposed to pushing out an album every year or two. The result was their most solid and cohesive album since "Somewhere In Time". It's a shame that most people look upon this as meaning Blaze was holding the band back because in fact I view it as being a necessary change of pace to ensure the band didn't end up like Slayer and enter an irrecoverable downward dive.

I mean obscure songs by obscure bands that you wouldn't know unless you were part of the scene. Covering any maiden song means the cover isn't obscure. Covering Slaughterlord is.

...or songs by bands people turn their nose at after their 'peak'. I played a solo acoustic arrangement of Deep Purple's "Sometimes I Feel Like Screaming" off "Purpendicular" at a local pub and it was extremely well received. When people asked if I wrote it and I told them it was actually a Deep Purple song they were stunned... even more so when I told them Deep Purple are still actually together and going strong.

But yeah, I'd say they haven't released a truly great album since Powerslave.

"Brave New World" > you

 

[The Ozzman]

Seventh Son > Somewhere in Time

 

[Satanstoenail]

Enter "Somewhere In Time": Maiden's absolute peak. One of the best albums, by any band, ever. Not a single weak or filler track on the whole album.

Bzzzzzzzt. Wrong.

 

[Vimana]

This isn't really what a band does but its related to bands so yeah. I wish people who make fake band myspaces wouldn't put the same songs that are on the official myspace or other fake ones, it pisses me off.

Also I wish some bands wouldn't experiment to the point where they are complete shit so that they can sound different and interesting. Some unsigned bands I listened to a couple years back did this. I wish I remembered their names.

 

[Evil?]

First two Maiden > The rest.

 

[waif]

Deep Purple are still actually together and going strong./QUOTE]

Holy shit, I had no idea...then again, it took me a while to realize Sabbath continued to exist after Ozzy left, and I just discovered Kreator...

I don't consider either No Prayer for the Dying or Fear of the Dark bad, just a little weak for a band like Iron Maiden. No Prayer is actually pretty good, but obviously it's not as serious or epic-sounding as the early albums. I think "Tailgunner", "Holy Smoke", "No Prayer" and "Bring Your Daughter" are all great songs. Fear of the Dark has slightly fewer good songs.

Bruce has a great story about Tailgunner. Apparently it's named after a porno he watched...

Anyhoo, that's what I'm saying. Those albums aren't bad per se, they're just kinda mediocre. Remember that mediocre just means that there's nothing special about it...\

But yeah, I'd say they haven't released a truly great album since Powerslave.

Everyone but me thinks Seventh Son is amazing, I think it's damn good. Somewhere In Time is genius. Brave New World is amazing. A Matter Of Life And Death is flawed genius. Dance of Death is better than you think.

 

[Ze Boy]

I wish that the Australian Recording Industry Association would stop blatantly ignoring Alternative, Rock and Metal bands in this country

We have a thriving underground music scene right in the heart of Melbourne and probably Sydney as well and yet most artists are forced overseas or onto independent record labels to release their music it sucks and it's completely frustrating

 

[Satanstoenail]

I wish that the Australian Recording Industry Association would stop blatantly ignoring Alternative, Rock and Metal bands in this country

We have a thriving underground music scene right in the heart of Melbourne and probably Sydney as well and yet most artists are forced overseas or onto independent record labels to release their music it sucks and it's completely frustrating

The ARIA awards are a crock of shite anyway. And bands look overseas for deals because that's where the labels are. There aren't any big labels here that do underground stuff. The scene may be thriving but it's still tiny compared to other countries.

 

[Ze Boy]

The ARIA awards are a crock of shite anyway. And bands look overseas for deals because that's where the labels are. There aren't any big labels here that do underground stuff. The scene may be thriving but it's still tiny compared to other countries.

Agreed it is small but I feel it just needs a kick to really get onto the world stage something our own "crock of shit" record industry seems incapable of doing whereas other countries have

 

[FerretallicA]

Bruce has a great story about Tailgunner. Apparently it's named after a porno he watched...

I'll never listen to that song the same way again...

 

[challenge_everything]

I wish bands would stop encouraging the 'devil horns' gesture at concerts and people would stop being mindless sheep by going along with it. It's like being in church. Especially since most of the bands aren't kvlt enough to pull it off.

 

[V.V.V.V.V.]

...it's called a sense of brotherhood.

 

[The Ozzman]

I wish bands would stop encouraging the 'devil horns' gesture at concerts and people would stop being mindless sheep by going along with it. It's like being in church. Especially since most of the bands aren't kvlt enough to pull it off.

LOL

 

[General Zaroff]

I wish bands would stop encouraging the 'devil horns' gesture at concerts and people would stop being mindless sheep by going along with it. It's like being in church. Especially since most of the bands aren't kvlt enough to pull it off.

 

[ShredHeadJHJ]

I wish bands would stop encouraging the 'devil horns' gesture at concerts and people would stop being mindless sheep by going along with it. It's like being in church. Especially since most of the bands aren't kvlt enough to pull it off.

Jeez, I agree with this statement actually. It's gotten to be really cheesey.