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Y;know what, I know it pisses people off but I really like the fact that Maiden mix up the setlist. I like that fact that when I go see 'em I don't know what I'm going to get. When you see AC/DC you're night doesn't contain any surprises, and some people like that. But to me, it feels cabaret...
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binnie hit the nail on the head.it is good to see that maiden don't just play what they are expected to play, suppose it keeps it fun for them what with such an enormous back catalogue to pick from.It takes balls for a band to do that (i still wish bruce would leave pauls stuff alone though).I am pretty sceptical about this album though.i dont really dig the space themeI really love you baby, I love what you've got
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For the most part I agree. It took some balls to play the whole AMOLAD cd back in the 2006 tour. Then in 2010 to play mostly songs from 00-06 (Brave New World/Dance of Death/AMOLAD).
BUT there is still a small part of me that would want to hear the track "Powerslave" everytime I see Maiden.
I guess they have balanced it out with a greatest hits tour in 2003 & SBIT Tour 2008-09. Plus the super rare "EARLY years" tour in 2005.
It also comes down to if this is your first time seeing Maiden LIVE. I have been lucky enough to see them a few times over the years, so this new tour would be cool for me. But if you have never seen them before I could see how the setlist would seem lacking if you only knew them from the 80s hits.Comment
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But back to the 2010 set list.....
After listening to the whole AMOLAD cd today, I am suprised that they left off a few tracks from the current LIVE show. I could have seen them including "Different World" as it is a pretty up beat track and was well recieved when they played it in 2006. It was also to bad they recently dropped BTATS from the set. That only leaves 2 tracks from AMOLAD on the current tour set list. I am a big fan of Longest Day, but even I know that is to long to add to the current set, I mean every song can't be an 8 minute epic, can it........lol...
As for Dance of Death, I would have liked to see "Rainmaker". To bad they also dropped Paschendale, even though it is pretty long it is still a cool song.
The Brave new World songs probably get the best reception. Seems like there was real good crowd responce for both "The Wicker Man" and "Brave New World". And of course they get a big cheer when they dedicate "Blood Brothers" to RJ Dio. Even though most of the crowd probably doesn't even know the track....lol....Comment
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I don't know. It is ok. Maybe a bit to much chorus. The 1st solo from H is pretty kick ass though. The song is also pretty heavily edited. With the intro "Satilite 15" and part of TFF taken out it took an 8 minute song down to under 4 minutes of music.
The video is cool for the kids with all the space shit and aliens. My son though it was cool with the Space Alien Eddie......
Maybe it is a grower as even with the other song "El Dorado", it has taken me a couple of weeks to get into it.Comment
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atomicpunk5151, you're a pretty big maiden fan aint ya
I really love you baby, I love what you've got
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I have seen so many vids of them playing their classics, it will not bother me in the least to see them play stuff I have not seen them play live before.
This Sunday in Chicago. I am so fucking there!Comment
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You will have a blast.
I caught them a few weeks ago...glad to see the crowd for the most part into the setlist.
I caught the Somewhere back in time tour so this tour was the a good follow up.
A few idiots went on about being the biggest Maiden fan ever but did not know the songs they played...LOL...Comment
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it looks like a few Print and media guys are now reviewing the whole new cd. That also means we may see a leak pretty soon...
Anyways this review is pretty long. It was also translated by google or something so it was not originally in ENGLISH.
After four years riecco Iron Maiden back on the shelves with the fifteenth disc of unreleased their sensational career. Considered among the greatest exponents of the heavy metal scene for nearly thirty years, Harris and company were very focused on this new release.
A listen-only is almost never enough for any disk, especially an album so long (76 minutes and 37 seconds) will require much more extensive listening sessions, but we'll tell you my first impressions and emotions that "The Final Frontier" spurred in us that we listened to the relatively small volume a few days ago. Meanwhile, fans are quiet standing: there is still a great desire to play, to play the game, to try (yeah right) and give moments of excitement like few others can. Critics, however, or who has never enjoyed the post-reunion of 1999 (or generally considered "Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son" the latest work worthy of the Virgin) probably will not even listen to the platter, making a mistake, since we are facing one of the parties most interesting decade. There is a progressive streak that emerges here and there, there are moments and inspired blues riffs and seventies (Purple and Zeppelin appeared at the window every now and then), there are five long compositions placed by mid to end of the disc and involving not give the listener pause, merely the repetition of these same tunes and were tested much better than before, there are many orchestrations or less pompous than the previous work, the guitars are actors and structures that bring the three together are very enjoyable, Dickinson also often varies his vocal register, using the medium-high with less frequency than before, then the whole record sounds and faster pace of the previous "A Matter Of Life And Death".
And the bad things? Meanwhile, the single "El Dorado" is not right in the mood of the disc and could be better was a bit 'shorter, there are those two or three pieces avoidable (all in the first part) that impair compared to what follows, the intro to long pieces are now standardized and arpeggios seamless (although they are functional too predictable), difficult to understand why it was built a tracklist so unsettling that makes it difficult to follow the logical disk (or at least no books available ) that literally explodes in the middle then ... but now we end up shooting into the pile and let's see what we reserve the ten songs on the new Iron Maiden "The Final Frontier. We are aware that a track by track and can tell little confusing food or different expectations, which can be realized or off dramatically at the time of hearing. Take the following with the necessary clamps and read our thoughts as if they were (what they are really) simple notes of emotions and feelings in an hour and a quarter of listening ...
Satellite 15 ... The Final Frontier (8:40): we have not understood anything for the first 4 ½ minutes. A futuristic drums and effects (we thought of "Eat The Rich" by Aerosmith as we are in a period of HJF) with electronic spread open dances, Bruce recites while developing a structure that could also bring to Dream Theater's Metropolis 2, especially when the alternation of snare and double pedal suggest the band Petrucci and companions. In the middle part of the piece intended as a piece of Iron Maiden, mid tempo classic rock that speaks to Dickinson's solo album more than anything (the sound in particular has made us think for a nanosecond to the production of "Fear Of The Dark "but we could be left to carry too much). A couple of solos dell'opener lead to the conclusion that flows directly into the single launch. A great way to start the CD.
El Dorado (6:49): We all know this by now, the beginning is nothing but the final title track above. Although most metal, the piece would probably have convinced more than a minutaggio. The impact is very live like all the hard indeed, but we know that the Maiden of the new millennium are not friends of cleaning and prefer to immediately register all the tracks within incision with few frills. Finally, a live song break, disk after nearly seven minutes we are happy to finish.
Mother Of Mercy (5:20) here early arpeggiated mentioned earlier, so we talked a couple of pieces that could have been avoided, it is basically one of them. A mid tempo that some nostalgic webzinaro define 'rocky' but that does not take off because of a chorus rather anonymous. The solo is not bad but we wonder why a song like occupying the third position in the lineup.
Coming Home (5:52) which suggests a slow lot at Dickinson solo, a ballad here and there that brings to mind the lines of "Man Of Sorrow" and could be passed under the hands of Desmond Child, both clarify what is the atmosphere of the piece. Overall song is neat, pimp and that is certainly not a bad bill, the chorus is good and overall the piece is not sorry, however, is a drop in pace, again, we would not expect so soon.
The Alchemist (4:29): just reading the tracklist could guess that this was a classic piece of lot faster. Actually the rhythms are very significant, although the piece is not snarling or overly aggressive. However, we awaken from its torpor, even if it begins to dawn in us the suspicion that, having reached the fifth track, maybe we are faced with a disc not exactly inspired. The melodies and the speed of the alchemist come to an end and, fortunately, we realize here that the real short drive is about to begin.
Isle Of Avalon (9:06): the first brick for nearly ten minutes is one of the finest pieces of The Final Frontier. It begins with the trademark we have found to be preferred by the incipit Brave New World by Iron Maiden on, or the arpeggio opening track. Piece that takes off up-time after two minutes and 40 seconds, then clearly surprised with a change log after four minutes with a digression progressive traits Rush-ian with a lot of underlying organ solos to the center. The conclusion is very reminiscent of the title song Powerslave, but overall the excitement back beyond danger levels thinking about how much meat they put the fire boys in one piece.
Starblind (7:48): another shot of adrenaline with rhythmic prog, which shows that Bruce is exalted over medium-high registers. Zeppelino breaks into a riff just after 4 minutes and introduces the section on solos when the rhythm changes several times. A mood that returns quickly to "Infinite Dreams" in the chorus of the final part makes us appreciate even more another hit CD, which now travels at very good thanks to tracks that give the feeling of being jam session in which the Maiden have enjoyed surprising his listeners usual.
The Talisman (9:03): Looking back on "The Legacy", a song that closed the previous "A Matter Of Life And Death", we start going into the eighth track "The Final Frontier. The very early stage of Dickinson (below your usual arpeggiated now that we omit from the report, ed), gives way after a couple of minutes with up-tempo and the vocals of Bruce decided to go on the upper registers. Riecco classic ride to the Maiden are interwoven with a chorus really exciting until it slows down after more than six minutes with a break very Purple. Another very interesting song.
The Man Who Could Be King (8:28): Helloween appoint probably in error (the intro and the beginning seem to be melodic power metal) and "Virus" (yes the one with Blaze), but also "The Thin Line Between Love And Hate for you to understand the first part of another up-tempo decided. A dramatic break with the cut after 4 minutes before to let go and felt almost blues interludes and solos well structured. Excluding the central surprise, the texture of the song is fairly straightforward, this remains yet another center in a tracklist that now drawing to a close.
When The Wild Wind Blows (10:59): to be the third longest track in the history of the band, the closing song of "The Final Frontier" must be something special for strength. Echoes of Blood Brothers and Dance Of Death one another until after three and a half minutes abundant echoes from the speakers Holy Diver, because the riff is very similar to the legendary piece of God's song is played on essentially all mid tempo, with delays and unexpected changes of register, even with a vocal line that twists as heard after nearly seven-minute piece. A very vintage seventies and ends at a large disk that is an ideal cross between "Brave New World" and "A Matter Of Life And Death", very free from preconceptions and structured to be heard and not immediate. Who knows Iron Maiden, who appreciates them for their consistency and the fact that criticism aside, the new course (the one just started in 2000) believe Behold, I will be happy to have heard "The Final Frontier: A CD that will talk a lot about him and probably will be recognized as a (another) point of arrival is not just in the career of a band too often given up for dead, has always denied even the most hardened critics. Than ever for them, hoping that the Frontier is just the latest, but there are others to reach and exceed, in the coming yearsComment
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Alright here is an ENGLISH track by track review......lol..
From METAL HAMMER Magazine in the UK
IRON MAIDEN The Final Frontier Track-By-Track
Somewhere between the dark and menacing war stories of A Matter Of Life And Death and the prog-tinged melodic bombast of Brave New World, albeit with a vast amount of fresh ideas thrown in for good measure, The Final Frontier is every bit as strong as the last three Maiden albums. The difference between this one and its predecessors is that these songs repeatedly take the Brit metal legends into uncharted territory. This is a demanding album, but one that most Maiden fans are going to absolutely adore…Comment
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I heard 2 songs from "Final Frontier". "El Dorado is pretty cool, pure fucking classic Maiden with all the solos and all those typical clichês. And I also heard the title track and I really thought that song fucking sucks!!!
I think this album will be worst than AMOLAD but better than DOD and BNW.....
And I enjoyed the cover....at least is better than DOD cover....remember that computer shit made in Steve Harris's son basement?!Comment
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Had fun.
I have heard there is the possibility of a second leg for the US later in the year. Hope so.
This will be the hight point of the year for me. Really worth it.Last edited by Hardrock69; 07-19-2010, 10:46 PM.Comment
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After this 1st US leg it looks like they will be in Europe playing big festivals the rest of the Summer 2010.
You would almost guess that they will do the rest of the world (Asia, Mid East, South America) during fall of 2010/early 2011.
Some rumors also going around about being back in the US during 2011 for a proper "The Final Frontier" Tour.Comment
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