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Originally Posted by David2380

Maiden's greatest live album IMO is live after death but that is the powerslave tour so it won't include any songs from somewhere in time forward. If you are cool with that grab that one. If you want to hear their contemporary stuff they just released "En Vivo" which is the tour from the last studio albun the Final Frontier...I have not listened to it but the setlist looks great...

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My favourite live albums are Live after Death, Live at Donnington and a Di Anno era bootleg published by Metal Memory that I love (but cannot remember the name).

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Originally Posted by David2380

freaking LOVE The Talisman

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I do too. That was far and away the best song off Final Frontier, even if the acoustic intro was conspicuously similar to The Legacy. But once it gets going, wow. Love the vocal melodies and the solo where the three guitarists manage to make it actually sound like a ship going through huge waves in a thunderstorm. I haven't heard En Vivo yet, Maiden tends to get a little carried away with live albums. There are SO many. I have Live After Death on CD (awesome) and for DVDs, I have Flight 666 and Death on the Road (which I basically got for Paschendale). I might YouTube En Vivo at some point.

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Originally Posted by Plutarch

I do too. That was far and away the best song off Final Frontier, even if the acoustic intro was conspicuously similar to The Legacy. But once it gets going, wow. Love the vocal melodies and the solo where the three guitarists manage to make it actually sound like a ship going through huge waves in a thunderstorm. I haven't heard En Vivo yet, Maiden tends to get a little carried away with live albums. There are SO many. I have Live After Death on CD (awesome) and for DVDs, I have Flight 666 and Death on the Road (which I basically got for Paschendale). I might YouTube En Vivo at some point.

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Maiden has that quality...that's the reason I compare them to classical music sometimes. Their music actually sounds like what it is Bruce is singing about. In Rime you feel like you are all alone on a ship in the middle of the ocean at night. Aces high is as hectic musically as you would think getting planes up in the air for a dogfight would be. Dance of death is as eerie as the subject matter. Do you know the cymbal hits in the beginning of Pascendale is morsecode which they obviously used in WW 2. I could go on and on...awesome stuff

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Originally Posted by David2380

Do you know the cymbal hits in the beginning of Pascendale is morsecode which they obviously used in WW 2. I could go on and on...awesome stuff

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Yeah I had read that. Paschendale is another really good example of that quality. There's a certain melancholy to the entire song, even the solos, that (along with the lyrics) makes you feel how sad war really is. As proof of how well it works musically, I synched up one of the solos to a short clip from the movie War Horse where the horse runs across a battlefield (that battle might have even been Paschendale itself, the movie was set in WWI but I'm not sure). It synched PERFECTLY, it was really amazing.

Just Played ROTAM on pro guitar and was surprised to find it much easier than flight of icarus ... On ROTAM I managed a dignified (albeit messy and definitely improvable) 76%, while on flight of Icarus I only scraped a 68% (and I'm not entirely sure I'd finish it without no fail on).

How did you guys fare?