I know for sure you'd love Maiden's 'Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner.' A masterclass in atmosphere, emotion and storytelling. "The Duelists" is another stunning example of Maiden's ability to tell stories that are not only dramatic, but also human, immediate and full of paradox and ambiguity. It's both about the futility of a duelists refusal to admit defeat and an ode to the bravery that leads him down his doomed path. Another great one is 'Brave New World'; the song puts you right into the shoes of the so-called "Savage" and the alienation and overwhelmingly loneliness he feels in the 'Brave New World.'
The loneliness... that’s one of my favourite ones. I enjoy running, and that song is part of running playlist. Every time it comes in, a pace increase is guaranteed 😁
@@luisarreaza4502 In 1986, I drove my buddy to Tower Records in Van Nuys where he bought that album and I taped it. There was a skip in Loneliness that was on my tape. I was in the Army on leave and was getting ready to go overseas to Germany where I could drive my 78 Corolla on the Autobahn. So I set out on a cross country drive from LA to Charleston SC, listening to this tape the entire way.
If Dunes writer could have seen a live performance of this song with 400,000 Brazilian Iron Maiden fans singing along to an English song in the 1980’s he would have asked them for forgiveness. Lol 😂
Thanks so much for reviewing To Tame a Land. It's such a different piece of music for them. Yeah, like you mentioned it features all of the Iron Maiden'isms....but the addition of the middle-eastern style and fluctuation of the chord progressions and melodies, really make it stand out I feel. Great song...one of my fav's by them!
Fun fact: The riff played between 8:38-9:10 is sort of a rocked up version of "Asturias" by Spanish composer Isaac Albeniz, with a little ornamentation on the 6th and 7th.
Infinite Dreams Doug, it's the one Maiden song that was unlike any other when that album was released. When I first heard it, I wasn't a fan. But it opened me up to different types of music, and the band used it to progress to different sounds. It's now one of my favorite Maiden tracks. Next Monday perhaps???
Gotta agree on When the Wild Wind Blows. You've gone over Mariner and Empire of the clouds which are among the longest songs in Maiden's repertoire. When the Wild Wind Blows stands as their third longest song and these songs are always a nice ride to go through.
@@marmadisjr4729 You're right. My mistake. Remembered the lenght wrong. Red and the Black has this play between the guitar melodies and Bruce vocals so it would be a great choice to review too.
Piece of mind album is one hell'owa piece of art. And probably my fav album from Iron Maiden. Can't wait to hear more from this album. Up The Irons \m/
you ask "it's iron maiden, right?" at 9:05 and my inner voice replies "no dude, it's isaac albéniz!".. very popular theme among many rock anthems, asturias..
This is a very good album and includes several tracks based on movies (Where Eagles Dare, Quest For Fire), historic battles (The Trooper) or even folk songs (Revelations). The drumming of Where Eagles Dare is out of this world, Revelations is a masterpiece and The Trooper is iconic. Quest For Fire is great but it is often overlooked in favour of Die With Your Boots On or Flight Of Icarus. It would be intereting to see you react to Revelations and Quest For Fire.
I recommend Flash of The Blade. It's an amazing maiden song, it's definnitely not their average E minor song XD, some great harmonies and refreshing chord proggressions, and really catchy melodies. Also, I noticed you referenced the multiple guitars on this one after the solo. You should know, Iron Maiden OWN multiple guitar harmonies, especially if it's in thirds. You can bet each time you see a metal band out there doing dual guitar harmonies that they were influenced by Maiden, you'll win 95% of the time. Not even joking haha
The guitar harmonies were influenced by Wishbone Ash, which Steve Harris listened to in his youth. Of course later the great Thin Lizzy would also be an influence.
@@RedLP5000S Maybe the very end of aces high actually. My favourite though is Quest For Fire. As far as Bruce notes go, it's not the highest, but its the most out of nowhere. So soon into the song after starting really in the middle of his range
There's a new Dune adaptation coming later this year, and it was directed by one of the best directors working today, Denis Villeneuve. You could check that out!
Looking forward to this movie. But I suggest everyone read the book. A simple movie cannot do it justice (I think Villeneuve's Dune will be split into 2 movies). So far I have read the first 3 books.
@@ozricaurora6943 Fair play, we all have our own personal tastes. I prefer older Maiden or their more melodic music. A lot of their more recent stuff that gets a bit too heavy can sound a bit of a mess to me. Maiden were a lot stronger with Martin Birch as their producer, their music had more clarity & melody then. Under Kevin Shirley a lot of their music to me can just sound too heavy & congested. Everybody to their own though.
Aces high, children of the damned, powerslave and evil that men do are in my top ten that you haven’t done yet, do them Doug, love your musical insight!
Another great video Doug, I'm a huge Iron Maiden fan and I recently found your RUclips channel, I've been enjoying all of your content. As for Bruce's highest singing note, I think it's at the end of "where eagle dare", from the "piece of mind" album, where he hits a D5 and then goes to an E5 in full voice, the same note can be heard at the end of "childen of the damned", but I prefer the first one. If we count screaming or falsetto notes I think the highest note is in "gangland" where it goes up to B5, there are also a couple of short highs A in that song. As for Bruce's highest singing note from the 2000s and 2010s, I think we can find it in "the legacy" where in the chorus he belts a short E5, he can no longer sustain a high note, he mainly restricts to b4. Sorry for my English, is not my native language
I have rarely awaited the content of a RUclips creator more than I currently expect your videos each monday. It gives me a reason to wake up on mondays :D Thank you
I’m 22 and my parents turned me onto metal especially Iron Maiden when I was 10…..To Tame a Land is by far in my top 4 IM songs along with Fear of the Dark, Hallowed be thy Name and Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Wow lucky you....I also started to listen to Iron Maiden at 10yo but as a reaction against my parents forcing me into symphonic/opera music and they still think I'm mad for listening to them
@@satansfall0760 what’s really hilarious is that a lot of metalheads are also into classical and opera and many are classically trained. If you think about it, the original long haired guys with drinking problems making epic, powerful, occasionally cheesy songs were all classical composers. Grieg wrote a ballet about trolls. Mussorgsky’s “Night on Bald Mountain” is about pagan rituals. Stravinsky’s “Rite of Spring” involves human sacrifice. Camille Saint Saen’s “Danse Macabre” was not only a huge influence on Iron Maiden’s “Dance of Death” but also was considered scandalous when it debuted in the late 1800s with many people thinking that a waltz about dancing skeletons would be a bad influence on the youth of the time. You just need to find better classical music
So happy that you did this one. It is one of my favorite songs of all time from my favorite album. Piece of mind was the first album I ever bought way back as a kid, and I still listen a lot to it.
That bass riff acting as a segue to the bridge section with the guitar solos is inspired by ‘Asturias’ by Isaac Albeniz. :) As a lifelong Maiden fan, this was one of the last songs I discovered only a few years ago. When I heard it, I couldn’t believe what my ears were telling me. Turned out I was right when I googled it. Steve Harris is such a Boss for doing a Blackmore on bass with classical riffs right in the middle of such an intricate metal piece. Up the Irons!
I´m surprised no one has commented on Dune itself. Doug, if you ever read one science fiction book in your life, it has to be Dune. It is elegantly crafted and the way the ideas on gobernance, ethics and religion are display throughout the novel (the whole series, actually) rivals, in my opinion, War and Peace. Yes, I actually said that.
As a classical composer, Doug, you would appreciate the middle section of Orion. Cliff Burton used to say his biggest influences were Thin Lizzy (very apparent in the middle section with the harmonies) and Mozart.
The bass is the prime mover in their music to me and what really differentiates them from their peers (Judas Priest, etc.) not to mention that Harris is composer of almost all of their music. Odd that there's little to no mention of it in any of these reaction videos.
I implore you to do the Ozzy Osborne song “Dairy of a Madman.” His guitarist at the time, Randy Rhoads, was a classically trained guitarist and teacher. This is considered some of Ozzy’s best work. Unfortunately, Randy died in a planet crash in 1982.
Yes and Diary Of a Madman intro is inspired by a guitar study (study number 6) by cuban composer Leo Brouwer that Randy was teaching. Ozzy came one day apparently and heard Randy playing this with one of his students and asked him if it was a new song he composed. Bob Daisley said that when he gave the lyrics to Ozzy and he heard them rehearse Ozzy explained "I will not sing this, I am not Franck Fucking Zappa", since the verse section was really strange for him rythmically.
Today I learned that Doug likes Star Trek. Which has made me like him even more! Also, Patrick Stewart (captain Picard) appeared in the movie version of Dune. Apparently it was by accident because they thought he was somebody else.
Thank you so much for doing this song... This is one of the greatest songs of all time... I don't think I ever would have learned phrygian scales if not motivated by this song...
@@garymitchell5899... Your wealth of ignorance is astounding. You understand nothing of the classical genius of Diary, and you especially don't understand that Doug is a classical teacher. Go listen to Crazy Babies you noob
@@garymitchell5899 oh, look... Chopin just arrived to the chat. Enlighten us wity your magnificence, you excelence. We are very sorry to have our own criteria and not to recommend the popular classics. Luckily for Dough, we have you.
One of my favourite unsung Maiden songs - thank you! This whole album has an amazingly murky, articulate quality about it which really makes it stand out in it’s individuality - to me it sounds like a concept album; Seventh Son‘s crooked older cousin. The mix & tone of the album blends really nicely with the introduction of Nico and shows a marked maturity in song writing after the blistering Number of the Beast. Derek Riggs‘ art work on the gate fold sleeve, just captured it all beautifully and tied it up in a nice bow. Every time I hear any song on this album I am transported back to my early teens and grabbing my Hondo 2 P bass, desperately trying to learn the bass lines!
I don't believe I thanked you for doing this song so THANK YOU! This one means the world to me as it was the first Maiden song I heard in a friends car on cassette tape at the lake cottage, and switched me from guitar to bass back in 1996 and changed my musical life forever.
One of my favorite songs of all time- by any artist, not just Maiden. I recall a Bruce interview many moons ago in which he thought Steve was playing a gag on him after doing a read through of the lyrics for this. I, for one, am pleased that Bruce went ahead with laying down the vocal track in this epic song.
You should check out The Thin Line Between Love and Hate - mega under-rated song! Or for something a bit left-field and Maiden-related - check out Tears of the Dragon which is off Bruce Dickinson's solo album!
Hey Doug, had a nice time watching your video, as always! If you want to emphasize a bit more on Bruce Dickinson, i would recommend Face in the Sand ( like i did last week ) or Talisman ( extremely touching lyrics and riffs ). I would also love to watch you making a reaction video of the song " Chance" by the band Savatage. One of the most impressive songs I've came across in my life, something like an epic metal opera style. Cheers!
There's a metal band from back in the day that put out some extreme music, but not extreme metal, but extreme musicianship and extreme technical metal. Maybe the most technical to have existed. They were called Watchtower.
This is the song that made me read Dune. And Dune Messiah. And see the movies. I loved those little quotes in the books in the beginning of each chapter, and one of those I have remembered all my life. “There is probably no more terrible instant of enlightenment than the one in which you discover your father is a man - with human flesh.”
Hi Doug. My father is a classical composer (Doctorate) and pianist (Masters) and I'm a guitar player. I bought Piece of Mind on album once, on cassette 3 times and CD twice. There are many stories of theft and loss, etc. but the fact is all you need to know. This album is their Quadraphenia, a masterpiece cover to cover! The Trooper, Flight of Icarus, To Tame a Land and others have held the title of my favorite track, but it's currently Sun and Steel. There's a power and conviction in Bruce's voice that is unique. Listen to this album!!
I think few of very underrated and interesting songs are "The Nomad", "Lord Of Light" and "The Red And The Black". Your video are very super ! Keep it up !
Fun Dune fact- In the original movie the part of Feyd-Rautha Harkonnen was played by Sting. That's why his hair was orangish in the video for Synchronicity II
My dad seen the world peace tour, 1983 on release of Piece of Mind. I am following in his footsteps and have attended Maiden shows in 2016, 2018 and will be going in 2022. As Bruce said at the concert in 2016, if the world was like a Maiden gig, it would be a much better place! Up the irons!
This album it's amazing. First album with Nicko Mcbrain on drums. Where eagles dare he shows he shows he is an amazing drummer from the fist albums song.
@@clintstudt3796 Way ahead of their time. Control and Resistance is an amazing album. They released new material a few years ago, it's impressive but not as good as their old stuff.
@@ericdepagne I first got into Scorpions in 1979 with Lovedrive', worked my way backwards to Lonesome Crow, then with Animal Magnetism and each album as they came along. I still love the Roth era the most!
That was COOL. First one to react/analyze this forgotten masterpiece. Those vocals by Bruce, uh-huh. His career top performance in this record. But Doug, I insist, Infinite Dreams. I see you try to avoid that one, please, stop :-) And same goes to Powerslave.
@@garymitchell5899 Doug is a big boy, he makes his own choices, we are just suggesting, no one is wasting his time. And if you say, that listening to Infinite Dreams is time wasting, well, I can´t find anything nice to say, but you´re entitled to your opinion.
I love this song. This is what got me reading the entire Dune series to start with! I have learned more history and of good books from Iron Maiden than from any other band. Their music is epic in nature. A real pity they will never do a real orchestral version of their works. Symphony and Iron Maiden would be a real winner for me!
"To Tame a Land": with a title like that, you'd think it'd be based on the 1955 novel of the same name by Louis L'Amour...but nope. (Funny enough, it had me thinking of a line from the Star Trek episode "Space Seed", the one featuring the first appearance of Kahn, with his quote, "to tame a world", and quoting Milton's PARADISE LOST...)
The band might be fans of Louis L'Amour, though. Equally tantalizing, their sci-fi themed "Somewhere in Time" album cover painting is absolutely loaded with dozens and dozens of little "Easter egg" references to the band's song titles and favorite authors, movies, and other influences, such as Doctor Who's TARDIS on a street corner and the car from Blade Runner parked near the "Bradbury Towers Hotel" - and just in the background is "L'Amour's Bar and Grill"... alas, that's probably not a reference to the author, either: there's a pub of that name which the band played at a number of times before they were famous, and which they would sometimes sneak back into in disguise so play cover songs under assumed names for fun! Still, Iron Maiden have surely recorded hundreds of songs at this point inspired by all sorts of literature, so it wouldn't surprise me at all if a Louis L'Amour homage is in their discography somewhere!
Interesting side note about this song: Steve Harris wrote it after reading "Dune" by Frank Herbert. The song was going to be called "Dune" until Mr. Herbert found out about it. Frank Herbert apparently hated rock & roll bands, & he threatened to sue Iron Maiden & stop the Piece Of Mind album from coming out if they released the track with that title. So the song had to re-titled as "To Tame A Land."
Hahahaha! That's dope! Haha, I realized you couldn't help but moving along to the song at a few certain point in the song haha........ that's how you know a piece of music is fire. Hahaha. 🤘😎🤘
10 years ago I heard to this song and was like "wtf are those lyrics?" Did a bit of research and discovered Dune. It became my favorite novel since then :) There is a new adaptation by Denis Villeneuve coming up later this year, really promesing stuf
Thank you so much for looking at this song! I have always loved this song, bu I had no idea it was based on "Dune". I also have not read the novel, but I saw the movie many years ago (and it's quite the watch - LOOONGGG movie...) and the name of the family you mentioned (Atreides) is pronounced Uh-Tree-Dees. Just for your reference. Again, thanks for listening to this one! Piece of Mind has many great tracks. Maybe next time consider "Flight of Icarus", "Die With Your Boots On" (which, despite the dire title, is about the fabled predictions of Nostradamus), or "The Trooper" (really interesting riffing going on there between the verses). Or my personal favorite, "Quest For Fire", however inaccurate historically. Anything off that record, really. Edit: If you ever decide to listen to "Revelations", may I suggest the version off of "Live After Death" (or any live recording, I suppose) because they play it somewhat faster than the almost painfully slow studio version on POM. There's nothing wrong with slow - but, well - it's really slow...
@@isaiahneilguitaristofficia549 ,Man, the three tracks, Losfer Words, The Duellists and Flash Of The Blade, for me, are the best on the album, I said and ran away hahaha.
That bridge is very much a precursor to Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner. And I can't remember ever being a a concert of theirs where they played this, not even early on.
Absolutely love the puzzled look when the verse comes in. I love that the bass carries this song and the guitars alternate between an almost percussive ostinato with the drums and then a higher melody with the bass. A lot of people that aren’t into the more technical side of music don’t like this song. Put it randomly into a playlist and watch them say”what the hell is this?”
I would highly recommend you do Infinite Dreams. It's unlike any other Maiden song out there.
Dream of Mirrors
Also he should do The Prisoner, god that chorus is amazing.
Yeah infinite dreams is great !
Only studio version
prodigal son
I know for sure you'd love Maiden's 'Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner.' A masterclass in atmosphere, emotion and storytelling. "The Duelists" is another stunning example of Maiden's ability to tell stories that are not only dramatic, but also human, immediate and full of paradox and ambiguity. It's both about the futility of a duelists refusal to admit defeat and an ode to the bravery that leads him down his doomed path. Another great one is 'Brave New World'; the song puts you right into the shoes of the so-called "Savage" and the alienation and overwhelmingly loneliness he feels in the 'Brave New World.'
I second Long Distance Runner! What a great tune!
The loneliness... that’s one of my favourite ones. I enjoy running, and that song is part of running playlist. Every time it comes in, a pace increase is guaranteed 😁
@@luisarreaza4502 In 1986, I drove my buddy to Tower Records in Van Nuys where he bought that album and I taped it. There was a skip in Loneliness that was on my tape. I was in the Army on leave and was getting ready to go overseas to Germany where I could drive my 78 Corolla on the Autobahn. So I set out on a cross country drive from LA to Charleston SC, listening to this tape the entire way.
I'm a distance runner. Now nearing 50, it still runs in my head when I'm on an interval training.
He'd love that whole album, and Seventh Son. They'd be his top two imo
If Dunes writer could have seen a live performance of this song with 400,000 Brazilian Iron Maiden fans singing along to an English song in the 1980’s he would have asked them for forgiveness. Lol 😂
Dunes writer was a close minded fool
@@bobross8786 or he was already filthy rich given that 400k not sold copies of his book were nothing for him 😁
@@bobross8786but open-minded enough to write a book that years (decades?) later inspires songwriters😃😉
Never happened though. By the time they played Brazil for the 1st time, in 1985, the tune was no longer played live. But....yeah, in theory.
Wrong !
They didn t play this song in Rock in Rio 1985
still life is a great song
I was about to suggest this but I see another cultured individual already did so! For the longest time my favorite from "Piece of Mind", actually.
Mine too, its such a gem. Im surprised it didnt become a classic Maiden song. It has literally everything
Thanks so much for reviewing To Tame a Land. It's such a different piece of music for them. Yeah, like you mentioned it features all of the Iron Maiden'isms....but the addition of the middle-eastern style and fluctuation of the chord progressions and melodies, really make it stand out I feel. Great song...one of my fav's by them!
Fun fact: The riff played between 8:38-9:10 is sort of a rocked up version of "Asturias" by Spanish composer Isaac Albeniz, with a little ornamentation on the 6th and 7th.
Infinite Dreams Doug, it's the one Maiden song that was unlike any other when that album was released. When I first heard it, I wasn't a fan. But it opened me up to different types of music, and the band used it to progress to different sounds. It's now one of my favorite Maiden tracks. Next Monday perhaps???
One of my fav's. I agree wholeheartedly.
yeah, Infinite Dreams sounds like Iron Maiden making a song just after listening to the Rocky IV OST, amazing song.
Gotta agree on When the Wild Wind Blows. You've gone over Mariner and Empire of the clouds which are among the longest songs in Maiden's repertoire. When the Wild Wind Blows stands as their third longest song and these songs are always a nice ride to go through.
The Red and the Black sad noises.
@@marmadisjr4729 You're right. My mistake. Remembered the lenght wrong. Red and the Black has this play between the guitar melodies and Bruce vocals so it would be a great choice to review too.
Also The Man Who Would be King is awesome from Final Frontier
Sign Of The Cross is also longer, by 17s
@@alexandre_am Oh yeah. Never noticed that. Funny. You really learn something new everyday I guess.
Piece of mind album is one hell'owa piece of art. And probably my fav album from Iron Maiden.
Can't wait to hear more from this album. Up The Irons \m/
I agree, there's no filler on this album.
Quest For Fire
If there's a Maiden song that can be called a filler, it's this one
Great Album my favorite, one of the underated songs is Die with Your Boots.
My favorite album all bands all times owman so perfect \m/
This is my all time favourite Iron Maiden song and you hit the nail on the head, great disection of this masterpeace!
I’m no metal head but to me this is the apex of metal and if it’s not it’s still a masterpiece and one of the best songs ever
It's a masterpiece as far as I'm concerned
Agree
You know what else has a Middle Eastern feel to it?
*GATES OF BABYLON BY RAINBOW*
Strongly second this!
Oh yeah
And the most epic guitar solo!
Hell yeah probably has my favourite Blackmore guitar solo.
THIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIS!!! WHY IS THAT ONE SO UNDERRATED!?!?
you ask "it's iron maiden, right?" at 9:05 and my inner voice replies "no dude, it's isaac albéniz!".. very popular theme among many rock anthems, asturias..
Just another manic Monday... err I mean Maiden Monday. Up the Irons!
Now I have that song in my head 😂😂
D'oh
Yeah! Up The Irons, Mate! 🤘🎶🎵🎶🤘👍😎
The live version from 'The Talisman' from En Vivo would be great !
I just love Maiden Mondays! I wish it never stops! 🤘🏻
Same here 👍
@@BrotherMan321 😭
Nice, this is somewhat of a deep cut, but great song. Next please: Sign of the Cross from Rock in Rio :)
Yes! Doug, if you ever do Sign of the Cross or The Clansman, do the live versions from Rock in Rio!
@@sergejmiladinovic1181 Definitely Sign of the Cross and The Clansman are both must views and yes they must be from the Rock In Rio concert :)
Yes mr Doug, listen to all those fine gentlemen and do Sign of the Cross (or Clandsman) from rock in rio next monday!
That's a great one
I wish there was a studio version with Bruce.
This album was the reason I started playing music. I heard it the first time when I was 5.
This is a very good album and includes several tracks based on movies (Where Eagles Dare, Quest For Fire), historic battles (The Trooper) or even folk songs (Revelations). The drumming of Where Eagles Dare is out of this world, Revelations is a masterpiece and The Trooper is iconic. Quest For Fire is great but it is often overlooked in favour of Die With Your Boots On or Flight Of Icarus. It would be intereting to see you react to Revelations and Quest For Fire.
Where eagles dare is based on a novel. The same as To tame a land, which is based on Dune.
Revelations seems to always get lost in reviews and analysts...a shame as it really is, as you say, a masterpiece.
Revelations is undoubtedly one of the best maiden songs! Sad it’s overlooked
@@omarlopez-ortega that's correct, written by Alistair MacLean. Great novel and an great hollywood classic movie
@@omarlopez-ortega Ah yes. I have never read the novel but I have seen the movie with Richard Burton and Clint Eastwood countless times.
I recommend Flash of The Blade. It's an amazing maiden song, it's definnitely not their average E minor song XD, some great harmonies and refreshing chord proggressions, and really catchy melodies.
Also, I noticed you referenced the multiple guitars on this one after the solo. You should know, Iron Maiden OWN multiple guitar harmonies, especially if it's in thirds. You can bet each time you see a metal band out there doing dual guitar harmonies that they were influenced by Maiden, you'll win 95% of the time. Not even joking haha
The guitar harmonies were influenced by Wishbone Ash, which Steve Harris listened to in his youth. Of course later the great Thin Lizzy would also be an influence.
Judas Priest should been included in the list of dueling guitar solos. 🤔
The highest note that Bruce ever sang, would probably be the ending section of ''Total Eclipse'', it's ridiculous
What about the yell at the end of Flight of Icarus?
@@RedLP5000S Maybe the very end of aces high actually. My favourite though is Quest For Fire. As far as Bruce notes go, it's not the highest, but its the most out of nowhere. So soon into the song after starting really in the middle of his range
Uhhh... Ever heard the scream that starts Number of the Beast??
@@Relyx That one (QfF) is kind of ridiculous, I think he was protesting the silly lyrics or something. There's a story behind that anyway.
There's a new Dune adaptation coming later this year, and it was directed by one of the best directors working today, Denis Villeneuve. You could check that out!
Looking forward to this movie. But I suggest everyone read the book. A simple movie cannot do it justice (I think Villeneuve's Dune will be split into 2 movies). So far I have read the first 3 books.
Other suggestions would be "Caught Somewhere in Time", "Stranger in a Strange Land", "Wasted Years" or even "Powerslave".
the highest note I've heard from Bruce is on "Flight of Icarus"
btw, please react to Sign of the Cross
Rock in rio 2001 with bruce!
More likely the ending of Total Eclipse
@@ΣωκράτηςΚουτρούμπας Yup, with that high D right after Adrians solo. Amazing
@@Nghilifa So fucking good, he goes all in
@@ΣωκράτηςΚουτρούμπας He does indeed!
Iron Maiden suggestions:
1. Afraid to Shoot Strangers
2. Nomad
3. Revelations
Maiden are my joint favourite band along with rush but I've never been able to get into afraid to shoot strangers.
not a big fan of the nomad song is pretty dull
Oh hell yeah, afraid to Shoot strangers!!
@@dunkydog1676 I love nomad. Love the desert imagery it conjures with the guitar
@@ozricaurora6943
Fair play, we all have our own personal tastes.
I prefer older Maiden or their more melodic music. A lot of their more recent stuff that gets a bit too heavy can sound a bit of a mess to me.
Maiden were a lot stronger with Martin Birch as their producer, their music had more clarity & melody then. Under Kevin Shirley a lot of their music to me can just sound too heavy & congested. Everybody to their own though.
Aces high, children of the damned, powerslave and evil that men do are in my top ten that you haven’t done yet, do them Doug, love your musical insight!
Another great video Doug, I'm a huge Iron Maiden fan and I recently found your RUclips channel, I've been enjoying all of your content. As for Bruce's highest singing note, I think it's at the end of "where eagle dare", from the "piece of mind" album, where he hits a D5 and then goes to an E5 in full voice, the same note can be heard at the end of "childen of the damned", but I prefer the first one. If we count screaming or falsetto notes I think the highest note is in "gangland" where it goes up to B5, there are also a couple of short highs A in that song.
As for Bruce's highest singing note from the 2000s and 2010s, I think we can find it in "the legacy" where in the chorus he belts a short E5, he can no longer sustain a high note, he mainly restricts to b4.
Sorry for my English, is not my native language
your english is excellent
My favorite Maiden track! Doug, your expressions mimic how I feel when I listen to Iron Maiden. 😁 You were hard to hear over the boys. Up the Irons! 🤘
Sign Of The Cross next!
They haven't played To Tame A Land live since the tour for Piece Of Mind ended in 1983.
Nice to see you here. Small world. It's dough.
Two years after your reaction -- To Tame a Land was the track that really hooked me. How Harris used novels and history for song material.
Infinite Dreams please?
Revelations is another great song.
I have rarely awaited the content of a RUclips creator more than I currently expect your videos each monday.
It gives me a reason to wake up on mondays :D
Thank you
I’m 22 and my parents turned me onto metal especially Iron Maiden when I was 10…..To Tame a Land is by far in my top 4 IM songs along with Fear of the Dark, Hallowed be thy Name and Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Wow lucky you....I also started to listen to Iron Maiden at 10yo but as a reaction against my parents forcing me into symphonic/opera music and they still think I'm mad for listening to them
@@satansfall0760 what’s really hilarious is that a lot of metalheads are also into classical and opera and many are classically trained. If you think about it, the original long haired guys with drinking problems making epic, powerful, occasionally cheesy songs were all classical composers.
Grieg wrote a ballet about trolls. Mussorgsky’s “Night on Bald Mountain” is about pagan rituals. Stravinsky’s “Rite of Spring” involves human sacrifice. Camille Saint Saen’s “Danse Macabre” was not only a huge influence on Iron Maiden’s “Dance of Death” but also was considered scandalous when it debuted in the late 1800s with many people thinking that a waltz about dancing skeletons would be a bad influence on the youth of the time.
You just need to find better classical music
So happy that you did this one. It is one of my favorite songs of all time from my favorite album. Piece of mind was the first album I ever bought way back as a kid, and I still listen a lot to it.
That bass riff acting as a segue to the bridge section with the guitar solos is inspired by ‘Asturias’ by Isaac Albeniz. :) As a lifelong Maiden fan, this was one of the last songs I discovered only a few years ago. When I heard it, I couldn’t believe what my ears were telling me. Turned out I was right when I googled it. Steve Harris is such a Boss for doing a Blackmore on bass with classical riffs right in the middle of such an intricate metal piece. Up the Irons!
I´m surprised no one has commented on Dune itself. Doug, if you ever read one science fiction book in your life, it has to be Dune. It is elegantly crafted and the way the ideas on gobernance, ethics and religion are display throughout the novel (the whole series, actually) rivals, in my opinion, War and Peace. Yes, I actually said that.
Please react to orion by Metallica for you to analyze cliff burtons writing would be great
Been saying this for weeks.
Absolutely. A fantastic composition. Same for Call of Ktulu.
Orion by Metallica or Stream of Consciousness by DT. Two best instrumental metal songs.
As a classical composer, Doug, you would appreciate the middle section of Orion. Cliff Burton used to say his biggest influences were Thin Lizzy (very apparent in the middle section with the harmonies) and Mozart.
Definitely this. I just found this guy because of his Dream Theater reactions, was hoping he had more Metallica lol
Playing the bassline to this song is a great way to give yourself tendonitis. Worked for me and a friend of mine.
The bass is the prime mover in their music to me and what really differentiates them from their peers (Judas Priest, etc.) not to mention that Harris is composer of almost all of their music. Odd that there's little to no mention of it in any of these reaction videos.
Yesssss.... I've been waiting for you to do this track Doug. One of my favourite Maiden songs. Glad you enjoyed it :-)
Infinite Dreams and Starblind are fantastic choices as well
I implore you to do the Ozzy Osborne song “Dairy of a Madman.” His guitarist at the time, Randy Rhoads, was a classically trained guitarist and teacher. This is considered some of Ozzy’s best work. Unfortunately, Randy died in a planet crash in 1982.
Yes and Diary Of a Madman intro is inspired by a guitar study (study number 6) by cuban composer Leo Brouwer that Randy was teaching. Ozzy came one day apparently and heard Randy playing this with one of his students and asked him if it was a new song he composed. Bob Daisley said that when he gave the lyrics to Ozzy and he heard them rehearse Ozzy explained "I will not sing this, I am not Franck Fucking Zappa", since the verse section was really strange for him rythmically.
@@ThibautKurt23 Wow. I had no idea. ☺️
I was about to comment the same thing. ;-)
I would love to see what Doug thinks of the unusual chords used in Diary!
Also, Revelation(Mother Earth), Mr. Crowley, Believer, Over the Mountain, S.A.T.O, Little Dolls.
Today I learned that Doug likes Star Trek. Which has made me like him even more! Also, Patrick Stewart (captain Picard) appeared in the movie version of Dune. Apparently it was by accident because they thought he was somebody else.
He played his role well. As usual.
Thank you so much for doing this song... This is one of the greatest songs of all time... I don't think I ever would have learned phrygian scales if not motivated by this song...
Just saw another request you should do, Dairy of a Madman… Ozzy Ozbourne…. Fantastic song!
And you did the same typo as he did...
Second time i see this recommendation. BIG YES. My all time ozzy fav. I hope he reacts to it.
There are dozens of Ozzy songs better than Diary. This is how we ended up with that piece of crap Keeper last week.
@@garymitchell5899... Your wealth of ignorance is astounding. You understand nothing of the classical genius of Diary, and you especially don't understand that Doug is a classical teacher. Go listen to Crazy Babies you noob
@@garymitchell5899 oh, look... Chopin just arrived to the chat. Enlighten us wity your magnificence, you excelence. We are very sorry to have our own criteria and not to recommend the popular classics. Luckily for Dough, we have you.
One of my favourite unsung Maiden songs - thank you!
This whole album has an amazingly murky, articulate quality about it which really makes it stand out in it’s individuality - to me it sounds like a concept album; Seventh Son‘s crooked older cousin.
The mix & tone of the album blends really nicely with the introduction of Nico and shows a marked maturity in song writing after the blistering Number of the Beast. Derek Riggs‘ art work on the gate fold sleeve, just captured it all beautifully and tied it up in a nice bow.
Every time I hear any song on this album I am transported back to my early teens and grabbing my Hondo 2 P bass, desperately trying to learn the bass lines!
Powerslave or infinite dreams, two amazing musically technical songs
i can suggest do together Powerslave and Rime of the Ancient Mariner from the "Powerslave" Album.
@@GustavoAdolfoPetit he already did ancient mariner
@@letstalkmetal6867 yes, you right, nos I remember that, but powerslave need to be reviewed by him too
"Powerslave" is an absolute masterpiece. It's really the most "Iron Maiden" Iron Maiden song.
I don't believe I thanked you for doing this song so THANK YOU! This one means the world to me as it was the first Maiden song I heard in a friends car on cassette tape at the lake cottage, and switched me from guitar to bass back in 1996 and changed my musical life forever.
To me revelations is the gem on this album, the lyrics are incredible.
I love that song, but I don't care much about lyrics, especially religious ones
Agreed
One of my favorite songs of all time- by any artist, not just Maiden. I recall a Bruce interview many moons ago in which he thought Steve was playing a gag on him after doing a read through of the lyrics for this. I, for one, am pleased that Bruce went ahead with laying down the vocal track in this epic song.
You should check out The Thin Line Between Love and Hate - mega under-rated song!
Or for something a bit left-field and Maiden-related - check out Tears of the Dragon which is off Bruce Dickinson's solo album!
Thin Line is a solid, solid song. Great pull.
@@rabarebra you can't be serious, it's definitely up there in the better songs they've done!
Hey Doug, had a nice time watching your video, as always! If you want to emphasize a bit more on Bruce Dickinson, i would recommend Face in the Sand ( like i did last week ) or Talisman ( extremely touching lyrics and riffs ).
I would also love to watch you making a reaction video of the song " Chance" by the band Savatage. One of the most impressive songs I've came across in my life, something like an epic metal opera style.
Cheers!
Greatest Maiden song ever.
Dave Murray's solo is beyond belief
As a kid in the late 80s, I filled my best most beautiful cassette tape, back to back, with just To Tame A Land. Man, I love that song still.
There's a metal band from back in the day that put out some extreme music, but not extreme metal, but extreme musicianship and extreme technical metal. Maybe the most technical to have existed. They were called Watchtower.
Will check them out
This is the song that made me read Dune. And Dune Messiah. And see the movies. I loved those little quotes in the books in the beginning of each chapter, and one of those I have remembered all my life. “There is probably no more terrible instant of enlightenment than the one in which you discover your father is a man - with human flesh.”
I recommend The Talisman, The Legacy, Sign of the Cross (Rock in Rio 2001 Live version), For the Greater Good of God and Powerslave :)
Hi Doug. My father is a classical composer (Doctorate) and pianist (Masters) and I'm a guitar player. I bought Piece of Mind on album once, on cassette 3 times and CD twice. There are many stories of theft and loss, etc. but the fact is all you need to know. This album is their Quadraphenia, a masterpiece cover to cover! The Trooper, Flight of Icarus, To Tame a Land and others have held the title of my favorite track, but it's currently Sun and Steel. There's a power and conviction in Bruce's voice that is unique. Listen to this album!!
Great reaction, The Nomad is also a great song.
Yessss I love that song
It's just beautiful how you break it down....I respect your knowledge and acceptance of great classic metal to put on your channel!
I swear "Still Life" from this album is about the Dead Marshes in Lord of the Rings
I think few of very underrated and interesting songs are "The Nomad", "Lord Of Light" and "The Red And The Black".
Your video are very super ! Keep it up !
Doug would love The Legacy. Suggest what HE would love as a classical composer, NOT what YOU like. Flight of Icarus? Please
Yeah baby! Piece of Mind is a piece of art, thanks Maiden and thanks Doug to react to this awesome song! UP THE IRONS!
Blind Guardians - "And Then There Was Silence", a must do song!
Another great one Doug! Big fan of Piece of Mind! Where Eagles Dare or the Trooper (both staples) would be fun!
My favorite bruce vocals are on this album...where eagles dare would be me vote, or the Talisman
Majestic Maiden Monday makes my mood mellow, man! May Maiden Mondays maintain morale!
I really recommend "The Legacy" from "A Matter of Life and Death" Album (2006) both music and lyrics are amazing
Fun Dune fact- In the original movie the part of Feyd-Rautha Harkonnen was played by Sting. That's why his hair was orangish in the video for Synchronicity II
Iron Maiden - Infinite Dreams
My dad seen the world peace tour, 1983 on release of Piece of Mind. I am following in his footsteps and have attended Maiden shows in 2016, 2018 and will be going in 2022.
As Bruce said at the concert in 2016, if the world was like a Maiden gig, it would be a much better place!
Up the irons!
The studio version of Heart of the sunrise by Yes is a masterpiece.
One of Chris Squire's finest.
This album it's amazing. First album with Nicko Mcbrain on drums. Where eagles dare he shows he shows he is an amazing drummer from the fist albums song.
Some technical thrash would be cool: Watchtower. It’ll get you closer to pitch class analysis! 😀
Testament would be a good technical thrash band
I had forgotten about Watchtower , great stuff, very original!
@@clintstudt3796 Way ahead of their time. Control and Resistance is an amazing album. They released new material a few years ago, it's impressive but not as good as their old stuff.
I certainly need to re visit Watchtower, Thank man!,
I doubt that he would get over the vocals. I'm a huge fan of the two Watchtower classic albums but I never play that stuff with other people around.
You're going right for my heart. Haven't sat and listened to this album in a couple of years; Thanks for your great analysis.
May I suggest, The Sails of Charon, by Scorpions?
YESSSS!
Have you ever even heard that song? It’s brilliant!!!
I have suggested it to him before...I think he'll get to it eventually, as it's bound to come up more than any other Scorpions song.
@@KidsOnCampus2 there quite a few excellent songs from this era, but this one has such an un ordinary structure that I'm sure Doug will like it.
@@ericdepagne I first got into Scorpions in 1979 with Lovedrive', worked my way backwards to Lonesome Crow, then with Animal Magnetism and each album as they came along. I still love the Roth era the most!
I love your channel, Doug! I do this with a few friends with our favorite songs and it’s a joy to watch!
That was COOL. First one to react/analyze this forgotten masterpiece. Those vocals by Bruce, uh-huh. His career top performance in this record. But Doug, I insist, Infinite Dreams. I see you try to avoid that one, please, stop :-) And same goes to Powerslave.
Powerslave possibly but not Infinite Dreams. Why do people waste Doug's time like this.
@@garymitchell5899 Doug is a big boy, he makes his own choices, we are just suggesting, no one is wasting his time. And if you say, that listening to Infinite Dreams is time wasting, well, I can´t find anything nice to say, but you´re entitled to your opinion.
I love the cadence of Bruce's singing on this one....
When the Wild Wind Blows could be interesting
@@KARYTTAH_PopMetal_Rock_BAND Yeah
I love this song. This is what got me reading the entire Dune series to start with!
I have learned more history and of good books from Iron Maiden than from any other band.
Their music is epic in nature. A real pity they will never do a real orchestral version of their works. Symphony and Iron Maiden would be a real winner for me!
Blind Guardian - And Then There Was Silence (2017)
Brilliant!!I think Where Eagles Dare is the opening track and definitely a song for you to cover on here. Brilliant info on the chord progression etc!
"To Tame a Land": with a title like that, you'd think it'd be based on the 1955 novel of the same name by Louis L'Amour...but nope.
(Funny enough, it had me thinking of a line from the Star Trek episode "Space Seed", the one featuring the first appearance of Kahn, with his quote, "to tame a world", and quoting Milton's PARADISE LOST...)
The band might be fans of Louis L'Amour, though.
Equally tantalizing, their sci-fi themed "Somewhere in Time" album cover painting is absolutely loaded with dozens and dozens of little "Easter egg" references to the band's song titles and favorite authors, movies, and other influences, such as Doctor Who's TARDIS on a street corner and the car from Blade Runner parked near the "Bradbury Towers Hotel" - and just in the background is "L'Amour's Bar and Grill"... alas, that's probably not a reference to the author, either: there's a pub of that name which the band played at a number of times before they were famous, and which they would sometimes sneak back into in disguise so play cover songs under assumed names for fun!
Still, Iron Maiden have surely recorded hundreds of songs at this point inspired by all sorts of literature, so it wouldn't surprise me at all if a Louis L'Amour homage is in their discography somewhere!
Thanx Doug ...... one of my Top 5 Maiden songs of all time.
Interesting side note about this song: Steve Harris wrote it after reading "Dune" by Frank Herbert. The song was going to be called "Dune" until Mr. Herbert found out about it. Frank Herbert apparently hated rock & roll bands, & he threatened to sue Iron Maiden & stop the Piece Of Mind album from coming out if they released the track with that title. So the song had to re-titled as "To Tame A Land."
Better title more metal lmaooo
They actually contacted him to ask for permission...
What's the point of this comment? Doug talked about this very thing in the video itself.
@@FlaskTheTapir Somehow they get a lot of upvotes for this. Do people even listen to Doug anymore?
Hahahaha! That's dope! Haha, I realized you couldn't help but moving along to the song at a few certain point in the song haha........ that's how you know a piece of music is fire. Hahaha. 🤘😎🤘
So, on the same Middle Eastern vibe of this song, Powerslave next? I love the solo on that one!
10 years ago I heard to this song and was like "wtf are those lyrics?" Did a bit of research and discovered Dune. It became my favorite novel since then :)
There is a new adaptation by Denis Villeneuve coming up later this year, really promesing stuf
"It's a bit before my time..." Really, Doug?
Great song choice Doug.. Everything on Piece of Mind is good
I really like Dream Theater's cover of this song. Jordan's keyboard solo is mint.
No disrepect to the Brits, but the DT cover improves vastly on the original. It's sharper, has a little more kick.
@@ZorgyGirl i love both bands but i find the original song better
Thank you so much for looking at this song! I have always loved this song, bu I had no idea it was based on "Dune". I also have not read the novel, but I saw the movie many years ago (and it's quite the watch - LOOONGGG movie...) and the name of the family you mentioned (Atreides) is pronounced Uh-Tree-Dees. Just for your reference. Again, thanks for listening to this one! Piece of Mind has many great tracks. Maybe next time consider "Flight of Icarus", "Die With Your Boots On" (which, despite the dire title, is about the fabled predictions of Nostradamus), or "The Trooper" (really interesting riffing going on there between the verses). Or my personal favorite, "Quest For Fire", however inaccurate historically. Anything off that record, really.
Edit: If you ever decide to listen to "Revelations", may I suggest the version off of "Live After Death" (or any live recording, I suppose) because they play it somewhat faster than the almost painfully slow studio version on POM. There's nothing wrong with slow - but, well - it's really slow...
Great song man, listen The Duellists next time
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That's definitely a beautiful song.
That song is slowly becoming a favorite off Powerslave….
@@isaiahneilguitaristofficia549 ,Man, the three tracks, Losfer Words, The Duellists and Flash Of The Blade, for me, are the best on the album, I said and ran away hahaha.
That bridge is very much a precursor to Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner. And I can't remember ever being a a concert of theirs where they played this, not even early on.
They did. Easy to find on YT.
Afraid to Shoot Strangers, anyone? However, it has to be a double reaction Iron Maiden and then Sabaton...
@@rabarebra but he can analyze/ compare the versions and vocalists
@@rabarebra not Blaze... Sabaton did a good cover of the song. Joachim's vocal style/range lends a different feel...
Absolutely love the puzzled look when the verse comes in.
I love that the bass carries this song and the guitars alternate between an almost percussive ostinato with the drums and then a higher melody with the bass.
A lot of people that aren’t into the more technical side of music don’t like this song. Put it randomly into a playlist and watch them say”what the hell is this?”
add Powerslave on the queue!!
Yes... I second that!!
Amen!
Go Doug!
Great choice and analysis as usual. Always interesting :-)