If you do a hit of blotter and run that intro through a reverb effect, you will be a life long Maiden fan. In 1987, I did that very thing. All these years later, this song is still my Maiden gateway. Killer Jam.
Hey. Hurm. This is a good good song. As to the brig inning voice: The message is actually Nicko McBrain speaking in a thick accent (actually doing his impression of Idi Amin Dada) and saying: Hmm, Hmmm What ho sed de t'ing wid de t'ree bonce Don't meddle wid t'ings you don't understand. This essentially means: "What ho said the monster with the three heads, don't meddle with things you don't understand." The message is mainly intended for the religious bigots who had condemned the band as devil worshippers.
The beginning is a backward message by Nicko that translates "Don't mess with things you don't understand, burb. A great song, once again. Please don't compare to Pink Floyd.
Greetings and Love from Köln/Cologne, Germany again. Well, just play the CD, MP3, Tape, MP4...whatever, ..backwards. Like we did in the eighties with our vinyl records. Hehe, actually really smart from the record company. Cause every stupid idiot, like me, played their records backwards, over and over again, til the damage was done and we jerks had to buy new ones....damn,! Well, "Still Life" is inspired by fantasy/horror writer Clark Ashton Smith's pre-World War II short story Genius Loci. At the beginning of…Still Life, the band included a hidden message which could only be understood by playing the album backwards. This was a joke and an intended swing back at the critics who had accused Maiden of being satanic. The backwards-message features Nicko McBrain mimicking Idi Amin (or rather mimicking John Bird mimicking Idi Amin) uttering the following phrase "What ho said the t'ing with the three "bonce", do not meddle with things you don't understand…", followed by a belch. The phrase itself is taken from the satirical album The Collected Broadcasts of Idi Amin by Bird and Alan Coren. "What ho" and "What ho said the t'ing" are phrases that also crop up regularly on McBrain's "Listen With Nicko!" tracks from the First Ten Years collection. Oh, btw..playing records backwards.? I highly suggest to watch the Movie "Ragman: Trick or Treat" from 1986. It's awesome. The Soundtrack is great too. Played by 'Fastway'. Oh, in the movie two cameo apperence by Gene Simmons & Ozzy...
If you do a hit of blotter and run that intro through a reverb effect, you will be a life long Maiden fan. In 1987, I did that very thing. All these years later, this song is still my Maiden gateway. Killer Jam.
One of my top ten favorite maiden songs
Hey. Hurm. This is a good good song. As to the brig inning voice:
The message is actually Nicko McBrain speaking in a thick accent (actually doing his impression of Idi Amin Dada) and saying:
Hmm, Hmmm
What ho sed de t'ing wid de t'ree bonce
Don't meddle wid t'ings you don't understand.
This essentially means: "What ho said the monster with the three heads, don't meddle with things you don't understand." The message is mainly intended for the religious bigots who had condemned the band as devil worshippers.
Melodic and musical
The beginning is a backward message by Nicko that translates "Don't mess with things you don't understand, burb. A great song, once again. Please don't compare to Pink Floyd.
Greetings and Love from Köln/Cologne, Germany again. Well, just play the CD, MP3, Tape, MP4...whatever, ..backwards. Like we did in the eighties with our vinyl records. Hehe, actually really smart from the record company. Cause every stupid idiot, like me, played their records backwards, over and over again, til the damage was done and we jerks had to buy new ones....damn,!
Well, "Still Life" is inspired by fantasy/horror writer Clark Ashton Smith's pre-World War II short story Genius Loci.
At the beginning of…Still Life, the band included a hidden message which could only be understood by playing the album backwards. This was a joke and an intended swing back at the critics who had accused Maiden of being satanic. The backwards-message features Nicko McBrain mimicking Idi Amin (or rather mimicking John Bird mimicking Idi Amin) uttering the following phrase "What ho said the t'ing with the three "bonce", do not meddle with things you don't understand…", followed by a belch. The phrase itself is taken from the satirical album The Collected Broadcasts of Idi Amin by Bird and Alan Coren. "What ho" and "What ho said the t'ing" are phrases that also crop up regularly on McBrain's "Listen With Nicko!" tracks from the First Ten Years collection.
Oh, btw..playing records backwards.? I highly suggest to watch the Movie "Ragman: Trick or Treat" from 1986. It's awesome. The Soundtrack is great too. Played by 'Fastway'. Oh, in the movie two cameo apperence by Gene Simmons & Ozzy...
I bought the album when it came out in 1983 I think. It's the same as the album. They are trolling the record industry with the backwards stuff.