Iron Maiden-A-Thon Fear Of The Dark Review: The End Of An Era
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- Опубликовано: 8 сен 2024
- Iron Maiden reaches their final album with Bruce Dickinson (at least until he came back). Does it make up for the previous album being their worst? 1992's Fear of the Dark has a lot of good ideas for a heavy metal album, but it also has some real stinkers. Check out my review as part of Iron Maiden-A-Thon! What do you think of this album! Make sure to leave a comment below and like the video!
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I love these different 'eras' The Irons have. These peaks and troughs are what makes us love them and talk about them. Great review. Keep it up dude!
it's what makes Iron Maiden our favorite band! Each era is practically a different band! Thanks for watching!
Fear the dark is one of the greatest albums not just iron maiden but rock albums ever.. unbelievable
The live official video with Blaze is the only way to listen to afraid to shoot strangers.
Its defo the best .....after every single version of Bruce singing it
Totally agree about Judas be my guide. Has always been my favorite song on this album. It’s good to hear that other folks agree! I’ve always figured that the reason that the song was not more popular was partially because of the name and how some folks may have misconstrued what the s song is about in about in a way. I think you kind of alluded to that. Also, underrated on this album is Nicko’s drumming on Childhoods End.
Love that track so much! Agree wholeheartedly.
My problem with this album is that there were so few songs with fast dynamics. Most songs to me are too staccato- oriented. Judas be my guide is an amazing exception and the only track next to the title track that I really love.
The ending to chains of misery is awesome, Bruce's screaming and Nicko just going crazy on the drums love it. Good pick for judas my guide.
I listened to this recently! Actually pretty badass and heaviest of their 1st era albums IMO
For this one, I cut the last 2 minutes 15 seconds from Fear Is The Key (before Bruce goes on about "lies and lies and lies", thus ending it with a guitar squeal), and I eliminated The Apparition and Weekend Warrior (these were awful: the latter is the worst track Maiden have ever done, period).
The end result sees a tight and fantastic ten track album that clocks in at 46½ minutes.
Totally agreed. I don't think NPFTD or FOTD is all that bad. It's just... They followed a legendary run of amazing records that got better and bigger each time. I get the disappointment people have/had but they're not bad records. Imo
Worst song they've ever done is empire of the clouds, by a huge margin
No Prayer for the Dying is a unique album that has some very beautiful moments. It is more classic Maiden than Fear of the Dark, which sounds like an American heavy metal album.
Appreciate these vids, thank you Hunter. Hope that you love Senjutsu as much as I’m loving it. By the way, love the Friday the 13th box set on the shelf behind you too. My favourite film series.
Thanks for watching and welcome to the channel! I absolutely love Senjutsu!
Iron Maidens second best album.
There's a certain irony to this album that I love. Namely, that while all the folks in the world who wish that Iron Maiden would step out of their comfort zone and express some new musical idea...well...they did that on this album. Quite a few of them. And it's generally regarded as one of their lesser albums. It's certainly not my personal favorite, but I love it and the entire album (I feel) must be played all at one time. It just works. It's punchy, has a gigantic drum sound and is just a very fierce record, while also exploring some interesting song ideas and sonic textures, like the 70s rock vibe of ...Eternity or the glam-rock-ish vibe of Chains of Misery. I was 12 when this album came out and, at the time, it was one of my favorite Maiden albums. My opinion has cooled over the years, but it's still a fantastic record.
Definitely not my favorite album, but I can appreciate this opinion on Fear of the Dark.
1) SIT
2) POM
3) NOTB
4) Powerslave
5) Seventh Son
6) A Matter of Life
7) Killers
8) Dance of Death
9) debut
10) BNW
11) Final Frontier
12) book of
13) no prayer
14) X factor
15) fotd
16) xI
I can agree with a good portion of this list.
I don't know if it's their worst, but it was signified the end of Maiden as I knew them. In other words , when they were good.
Hard disagree on them not being good anymore.
Childhood's End is a book yo
Fear of the Dark is my fav Maiden CD and much Better than SSOASS IMO
Respect your opinion, but can't say I agree with it.
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FOTD is in my top 5!
Thanks for watching, still a good album, but not in my top 5.
Judas my guide is so underrated I saw this tour it was good the album not so much
Seventh son! Where you go after that though in all honesty.. that was a masterpiece and you only go one way after
Fear of the dark is a great album, far better from the mediocre reunion era
Adraid to shoot strangers sounds wayy better with blaze
Hunter where did you get that shirt?
I got this one from a booth at the LA County Fair a couple of years ago. I know they have the same one with different colored Iron Maiden font on their website.
Definitely prefer No Prayer to FOTD.
I can see that, the front half of No Prayer is rock solid.
I rank Fear Of The Dark on the 13th place out of the 17 albums.
I've always referred to Fear of the Dark as a roller coaster of an album. Up and down, up and down. Here's how I put the songs.
Great out of your seat airtime hills and fun inversions:
Be Quick or Be Dead
Afraid to Shoot Strangers
Childhood's End
The Fugitive
The Apparition
Judas Be My Guide
Fear of the Dark.
Bottom of a drop on an old rickety Wooden Coaster jackhammering your body:
From Here to Eternity
Wasting Love
Chains of Misery
Being stuck on the chain lift at the top of the first hill for 2hrs waiting for the fire department to arrive:
Weekend Warrior (2nd worst song in the catalogue)
Train derails at 40mph. News at 11!
Fear is the Key (WORST MAIDEN SONG OF ALL TIME!) Lies and lies and lies and lies and...
I also hate Mother Russia like you but thats the 4th worst in the catalogue.
There's a magnificent album here if you cut down to the 7 songs you listed and include one of From Here To Eternity/Wasting Love/Chains of Misery.
Great songs and stinkers in this album. Judas Be My Guide is just fantastic, The Apparition is by far the worst Iron Maiden song IMHO
Yeah, it's a bit of a mixed bag. Love me some Judas Be My Guide though!
I hate npftd and fod, but with fod taking the cake. EVERYONE hates the X factor but I reckon it's far better than the last two with Bruce. Fod sounds SO damn lazy and tired. Even their best tunes on the album sound a bit meh, it's ploddy and tired at worst and uninspired at best.
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Shit album. Soft.. simple...bland. Alot of songs have a hair metal sound. From here to Eternity. Weeken Warrior sounds like AC/DC. It just sucks bad. I mean Dying had depth and the guitars had bite. I think tgey wanted radio airplay on this album.
Sorry you feel that way, can't say I agree with you on most of that.
@@HunterBoldingVideo not a matter of perception, just fact. Even Nicko's drumming sounds like plastic buckets, the guitars are not cranking. It just has this generic soulless 90's sound.
@@tiborosz1825 Opinions are not facts. LOL
@@HunterBoldingVideo well the audio characteristics and musical complexity can be measured. As someone who plays bass I can tell thst Steve was keeping it quite simple on this record. So its like saying Metallica's Black Album is simple compared to AJFA is simple would only be a matter of opinion. Its not.
@@tiborosz1825 The two albums were recorded in the same place. They're similar in "complexity", like I've said to plenty of people, it's perfectly okay to not like something, but don't pass off opinion as fact when it's YOUR own opinion.