Said this before but here goes... I used to hang out with these guys back in the late 70s, early 80s before they"made it" . We hung out mainly in the Ruskin Arms in East London. It was a real "rock" pub and i must have seen them play there at least 30 times,of course that was in the Paul D' ianno days and they really were the most humble decent guys you could meet. I met Bruce in the same pub when he was the singer with Sansom and it was quite obvious he would join Iron Maiden. The best thing about Iron Maiden is they have stayed true rockers and are STILL the most decent humble guy's ever. I played football ⚽️ with Stevie Harris for our local amateur team (Melbourne FC) and he was as good at that as he is on the bass. All the original members were/are West Ham fans......so Up the Irons⚒️⚒️⚒️
Can’t explain the impact of that album back in 1982. I’ve never been the same … my teenage years. Now i’m 56 and still love that album. Hugs from Brazil 🎉
I was in 9th grade when this record came out, and here in northeast US where I grew up there were two bands whose shirts metalheads were wearing in school. One was Quiet Riot, and the other one was Maiden. QR was bubblegum pop, so I dismissed them out of hand, but Maiden was something else completely. It helped that the other big song in that record started off with _"White man came across the sea, he brought us pain and misery..."_ Having started as an amalgam of punk and metal (proto thrash I call it), years later Maiden turned into a very sophisticated, literary-based band with almost prog rock pretensions. My musical taste at the time was running in the opposite direction, but I still respected them. Turns out a few years later that the lead singer of one of my favorite bands of all time (Catherine Wheel's Rob Dickinson) is the first cousin of Bruce Dickinson.
Peak Maiden for me! Glorious album. I highly recommend Rime of the Ancient Mariner for a Long Song Saturday ( studio not live though, first at least) . Based on/ drawing most lyrics from Samuel Taylor Coleridges epic poem of the same name, full of light and shade and shifts. A bridge between 'old' Maiden (which I prefer) and 'new' Maiden.
Have you listened to anything from their first album yet? With their original singer Paul Dianno. I think that's my favorite Maiden album. Spectacular!
@@Owlstretchingtime78 Iron Maiden and Killers are the only Iron Maiden albums I've ever owned. As soon as I heard The Number of the Beast with Bruce Dickinson, I knew it wasn't for me !
This was the first iron maiden album I bought as a picture disc when officially released in the UK, Seventh son of a Seventh son is my favourite album, my one of many favourite songs is fear is the key
One of the first bands I saw live, with their 'World Slavery Tour' back in 1984. Fantastic live and lyrically brilliant as well. My musical tastes may have widened considerably since my teenage years, but you can't beat a bit of Maiden!
Why didn't you watch the video ??....Anyways my name is Brian from White Bear Lake, Minnesota...Iike the reaction, they are my favorite band and Bruce Dickinson is my favorite singer. But the video I sent with this comment should have been your first introduction to Iron Maiden. So if you really want to hear Iron Maiden singer Bruce Dickinson's opera like voice then watch this video of 'Hallowed Be Thy Name' Live from Hammersmith 1982. Bruce can hold a note longer than anyone else, his vocal range is amazing along with his strong even vibrato, and in my opinion is why every other rock singer wishes that they could sing like Bruce could in his prime. The song is about a man getting ready to be hanged at the gallows and is looking back on his life. *Must Watch*...Alot of Iron Maiden songs are about an important event that has happened in history, so it is like having a little history lesson in every song. Pay attention to the long note in beginning of song & the 2 long notes at end of song, 'They Are EPIC'..Thanks 🤘🤘 th-cam.com/video/7vP2hFFV57E/w-d-xo.html&feature=sh
It's a perfect track, and possibly the one that most defines that era of British rock. It has so many great individual moments from the spoken intro to Dickinson's scream and the beginning of Murray's guitar solo. Hearing this in 1982 really was a revelation for me. The saintly shrouded men from Supper's Ready do make an appearance in a later song written by Harris. He was a big Genesis fan. Bruce Dickinson doesn't have any credits on the album, I believe for contractual reasons, but nevertheless has said he had a considerable input in the writing of some of the tracks.
A real fave of mine, and what I consider quintessential 'Maiden'. Ahh, if i'd hung on to all the money i'd put into juke boxes playing this in rock pubs every which-were..... I'd have more dosh than Musk now.
I can begrudgingly see what people find to be great about this, for what it is, but it's nothing I would ever want to hear again. This is headache music to me, and I love sophisticated music that goes 10 on the loud aggressive spectrum, like the thrashiest King Crimson or The Stranglers or Zeppelin or Rush or, or, or. This sounds like sophomoric piffle to me. His voice is exceptionally grating, and the whole thing just seems, well, stupid to me. And this is the #6 top metal track?! I could name 60 Black Sabbath songs that put it to shame, for starters. Sorry to be so harsh, I know a lot of folks love it - don't kill me, we'll have to agree to disagree.
AFAIK all the band members are part of the Evil Atheists Church, so don't believe in the Devil like other churches do, so my bets go with the "affliction of the mind" interpretation. (It's safe to do affliction of the mind songs for Christianity today, because the Inquisition is on hiatus. Might be a bit riskier to sing a song that says some guy in a cave who gets grabbed by the throat and told to Proclaim Proclaim Proclaim was probably just imagining it. About 300 years ago (just to remember how recent this was) there were places on Earth where you could get stretched taller than your bones would allow for the Number of the Beast version of this theme, but today if you're famous enough (and sometimes even if you're not) ... well bad things could happen to you, hey? Just to not be specifically picking on anyone (I think the above quite clearly doesn't but, let's remember there are more than just two potentially lethal guardians of the truth and reality of such claims) there are places on this Earth to this very day where if you bring some beef to barbeque there, you'll be dead before the afternoon is out, too. Hmm ... And now for no good reason at all, I remember something I first learnt of as the title of a poem: _ Yakhal' inkomo_ ("The cow cries out"). A proper sacrifice to the ancestors requires the cow to say something about the matter. Don't judge. It's just how it is. Every human on this Earth has an almost fanatical devotion to the "normal", and what's "normal" is pretty arbitrary. In a not exactly poetic way one could say it's something that's handed to you by the ancestors. And I remember the guy with the scar from ear to ear. Literally from ear to ear. Thick, like a piece of rope. Was hitching a lift home on Friday afternoon to go back to the country for the weekend, and some nice guys gave him a lift. Put him in the middle of two of them on the back seat. Took a wrong turn. He said hey. They said. Nothing. Pulled over, got out, dragged him out, and brought out a rusty knife. (Again the only way to "judge" this properly is to place it maybe 500 years ago. That should be long enough ago. Now that's not "them"; it's "us" at it again; listening to the voices we hear; "knowing" what we "know". Same story, just a more intense set of circumstances.) What? Yes, rusty. Rusty knife. Blunt too. _Yakhal' inkomo_ - only the satanic version of that. The ancestors never want to hear the cries of another human being like that, but you always get someone who adapts a religion to his own purposes. And you get some people who just think of all the cash when what the buyer wants is a human head for magical purposes. I'm not making this up. This really happened. Don't worry, life gave the story a happy ending. He fought back. I supposed it helped that they weren't trying to kill him - at least not right away. Fought back broke free, ran, "holding his neck on". Made it through the river. Ran up through the ploughed fields on the other side. Got to a filling station, passed out, lived. And everyone lived happily ever after, amen. And now I see it's pretty obvious how the repressed memory popped back up out of its grave like that. Same thing. Seeing hellfire on its way, making a man cry out like a cow does when sacrificed, ... er ... But NOT when a chosen one is in the cave and a real voice says proclaim. Sometimes this stuff is real. (And don't kill me. I didn't say it was just madness.) OK. I think I'll go try to forget this again. (Imagine it being your own memories, and not just those of some stranger who saw the rope of scar tissue round your neck, and the evil bugger the cops bagged a for it. Rather don't.)
@@artrock101 Or I should just not remember the kinds of things it's best not to remember? If you're telling me I imagined this, I suppose it would be impossible to tell you that, no, it's actually something that really happened. (I live in a country where in certain regions this kind of thing sometimes happens. But if you don't believe me, then at very least it's "outside of your imagination" - as in what you consider possible - so I've just wasted all this ink saying so.) Oh well, doesn't matter I suppose. You'd be quite reasonable to believe that this kind of thing is impossible. (Doesn't give me nightmares or put me in too deep a depression, and if I'm mad there's no medication that's going to cure me of delusion. Still, maybe I should see if I can get some meds for it? I've heard the pink pills are nice. Muscle relaxant, so at times a bit risky, but maybe the risks are worth the rewards?) As long as you don't think I have doubts about the great man who went into a cave, and had something tell him to Proclaim in there, I'm fine with you being skeptical about this. Just remember that I said that the guy who went into the cave is absolutely dead right, and that there's no need for his followers to somehow find and murder me for saying otherwise, that's all.
Being a Di'Anno fan, although Dickinson is technically superior, i prefer the punkier approach that accompanied their first two albums. Also, Clive Burr, the original drummer was twice as inventive as Nicko 'flat nose' BcBrain!
@jfergs.3302 Clive Burr possessed a sensibility that you may not think is important in heavy metal music. I'm a drummer myself, and his hi hat subtlety and choice of perfectly timed fills was something that was beyond BcBrains heavy handed ways!
@@Owlstretchingtime78TBH, my comment was more just to highlight that Nicko, while at a hugely successful stage in his career, still had time to appear on The Sooty Show, (for those not in the know) a childrens puppet show. And I love that about the guy. And not to besmirch drummers, but when talking the subtleties, and nuance of drums, you may as well be talking to a gerbil... I've never been that interested in drums, drumming, and couldn't tell one from another. As long as they can keep a steady beat, that'll do for me, the rest hardly registers. Case in point: Ages ago when Yes was played, there'd be endless debates of White Vs Brufford... I had no idea what people were talking about, and found the whole discussion rather tedious. Maybe it's a drummer thing 🤔
I also find long winded conversations concerning competitiveness amongst musos intensely mind numbing . There's only so much to say before one starts to nod off. Just to prove i don't take this whose technical nonsense seriously, here's a drum joke. 'Mother, when i grow up i want to be a drummer' 'Oh son, don't be silly, you can't do both' 😉
Indeed, I think that one was being used by Josephus in his 'Antiquities' published in AD 94. Of more interest is that the real number of the beast is 616 according to the earliest versions of the Bible. In that same version it's revealed that the ruler of Hell was actually called Stan but owing to a misprint on an early dot-matrix printer, he has been known as Satan ever since. (Plus, Lucifer was actually Lucy before she had the op.)
Said this before but here goes...
I used to hang out with these guys back in the late 70s, early 80s before they"made it" . We hung out mainly in the Ruskin Arms in East London. It was a real "rock" pub and i must have seen them play there at least 30 times,of course that was in the Paul D' ianno days and they really were the most humble decent guys you could meet. I met Bruce in the same pub when he was the singer with Sansom and it was quite obvious he would join Iron Maiden. The best thing about Iron Maiden is they have stayed true rockers and are STILL the most decent humble guy's ever. I played football ⚽️ with Stevie Harris for our local amateur team (Melbourne FC) and he was as good at that as he is on the bass. All the original members were/are West Ham fans......so Up the Irons⚒️⚒️⚒️
Can’t explain the impact of that album back in 1982.
I’ve never been the same … my teenage years. Now i’m 56 and still love that album.
Hugs from Brazil 🎉
I was in 9th grade when this record came out, and here in northeast US where I grew up there were two bands whose shirts metalheads were wearing in school. One was Quiet Riot, and the other one was Maiden. QR was bubblegum pop, so I dismissed them out of hand, but Maiden was something else completely. It helped that the other big song in that record started off with _"White man came across the sea, he brought us pain and misery..."_ Having started as an amalgam of punk and metal (proto thrash I call it), years later Maiden turned into a very sophisticated, literary-based band with almost prog rock pretensions. My musical taste at the time was running in the opposite direction, but I still respected them. Turns out a few years later that the lead singer of one of my favorite bands of all time (Catherine Wheel's Rob Dickinson) is the first cousin of Bruce Dickinson.
Same 56 and still love this album
Fun fact: the guy who did the spoken intro also did the narration for Count Duckula.
This album changed my taste in music forever. Steve wrote this song after having a bad dream after watching the movie "Omen 2".
Iron Maiden is the GREATEST(live;]BAND in the world now and forever🤘
Up the mighty Irons!!!🤘🤘🤘
Peak Maiden for me! Glorious album. I highly recommend Rime of the Ancient Mariner for a Long Song Saturday ( studio not live though, first at least) . Based on/ drawing most lyrics from Samuel Taylor Coleridges epic poem of the same name, full of light and shade and shifts. A bridge between 'old' Maiden (which I prefer) and 'new' Maiden.
Have you listened to anything from their first album yet? With their original singer Paul Dianno. I think that's my favorite Maiden album. Spectacular!
Totally agree. The success doesn't imply as such, but i believe with Di'Anno the first two albums haven't been matched!
@@Owlstretchingtime78 Iron Maiden and Killers are the only Iron Maiden albums I've ever owned. As soon as I heard The Number of the Beast with Bruce Dickinson, I knew it wasn't for me !
Killers is probably the Maiden album I heard more times. And is still my favorite. Despite Somewhere in Time sound (so good...)
Phantom of the Opera from the Live After Death Album is one of the absolute Genre Highlights for me
Classic Maiden. Someone I knew always thought the lyrics went ..... Were they reflections of my Walkman staring back at me.
🤣
Steve Harris writes 99% of Maiden's material, so it's not like they 'gave him' some space to shine, lol...
This was the first iron maiden album I bought as a picture disc when officially released in the UK,
Seventh son of a Seventh son is my favourite album, my one of many favourite songs is fear is the key
80's Music rules ❤❤❤❤😊😊😊😊😊
One of the first bands I saw live, with their 'World Slavery Tour' back in 1984. Fantastic live and lyrically brilliant as well. My musical tastes may have widened considerably since my teenage years, but you can't beat a bit of Maiden!
Why didn't you watch the video ??....Anyways my name is Brian from White Bear Lake, Minnesota...Iike the reaction, they are my favorite band and Bruce Dickinson is my favorite singer. But the video I sent with this comment should have been your first introduction to Iron Maiden. So if you really want to hear Iron Maiden singer Bruce Dickinson's opera like voice then watch this video of 'Hallowed Be Thy Name' Live from Hammersmith 1982. Bruce can hold a note longer than anyone else, his vocal range is amazing along with his strong even vibrato, and in my opinion is why every other rock singer wishes that they could sing like Bruce could in his prime. The song is about a man getting ready to be hanged at the gallows and is looking back on his life. *Must Watch*...Alot of Iron Maiden songs are about an important event that has happened in history, so it is like having a little history lesson in every song. Pay attention to the long note in beginning of song & the 2 long notes at end of song, 'They Are EPIC'..Thanks 🤘🤘
th-cam.com/video/7vP2hFFV57E/w-d-xo.html&feature=sh
It's a perfect track, and possibly the one that most defines that era of British rock. It has so many great individual moments from the spoken intro to Dickinson's scream and the beginning of Murray's guitar solo. Hearing this in 1982 really was a revelation for me. The saintly shrouded men from Supper's Ready do make an appearance in a later song written by Harris. He was a big Genesis fan. Bruce Dickinson doesn't have any credits on the album, I believe for contractual reasons, but nevertheless has said he had a considerable input in the writing of some of the tracks.
First time I saw Iron Maiden live was 1983 x
There's a whole story behind how producer Clive Burr got THAT scream out of Bruce. Look it up!
It is a truly a great story, but I believe you meant Martin Birch. Clive (R.I.P.) was the drummer on the record though.
When I was kid, this song scared me- then I had a an epiphany later- I realized that all Steve Harris' songs were based on great literature!!
And bad dreams.
A real fave of mine, and what I consider quintessential 'Maiden'. Ahh, if i'd hung on to all the money i'd put into juke boxes playing this in rock pubs every which-were..... I'd have more dosh than Musk now.
One of the greatest songs ever written.
Doubly so if you are an old fashioned Hammer Horror fan.
666 The Number Of The Beast. 444 The bloke who lives next door.
You said tmarra because you down in Flawda, boy x
Timeless heavy metal. YES HEAVY METAL!
About devil worship and sacrificing people.. apparently 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Prisoner is best track 😛
I can begrudgingly see what people find to be great about this, for what it is, but it's nothing I would ever want to hear again. This is headache music to me, and I love sophisticated music that goes 10 on the loud aggressive spectrum, like the thrashiest King Crimson or The Stranglers or Zeppelin or Rush or, or, or. This sounds like sophomoric piffle to me. His voice is exceptionally grating, and the whole thing just seems, well, stupid to me. And this is the #6 top metal track?! I could name 60 Black Sabbath songs that put it to shame, for starters. Sorry to be so harsh, I know a lot of folks love it - don't kill me, we'll have to agree to disagree.
classic
AFAIK all the band members are part of the Evil Atheists Church, so don't believe in the Devil like other churches do, so my bets go with the "affliction of the mind" interpretation. (It's safe to do affliction of the mind songs for Christianity today, because the Inquisition is on hiatus. Might be a bit riskier to sing a song that says some guy in a cave who gets grabbed by the throat and told to Proclaim Proclaim Proclaim was probably just imagining it. About 300 years ago (just to remember how recent this was) there were places on Earth where you could get stretched taller than your bones would allow for the Number of the Beast version of this theme, but today if you're famous enough (and sometimes even if you're not) ... well bad things could happen to you, hey?
Just to not be specifically picking on anyone (I think the above quite clearly doesn't but, let's remember there are more than just two potentially lethal guardians of the truth and reality of such claims) there are places on this Earth to this very day where if you bring some beef to barbeque there, you'll be dead before the afternoon is out, too.
Hmm ...
And now for no good reason at all, I remember something I first learnt of as the title of a poem: _ Yakhal' inkomo_ ("The cow cries out"). A proper sacrifice to the ancestors requires the cow to say something about the matter. Don't judge. It's just how it is. Every human on this Earth has an almost fanatical devotion to the "normal", and what's "normal" is pretty arbitrary. In a not exactly poetic way one could say it's something that's handed to you by the ancestors.
And I remember the guy with the scar from ear to ear. Literally from ear to ear. Thick, like a piece of rope. Was hitching a lift home on Friday afternoon to go back to the country for the weekend, and some nice guys gave him a lift. Put him in the middle of two of them on the back seat. Took a wrong turn. He said hey. They said.
Nothing.
Pulled over, got out, dragged him out, and brought out a rusty knife. (Again the only way to "judge" this properly is to place it maybe 500 years ago. That should be long enough ago. Now that's not "them"; it's "us" at it again; listening to the voices we hear; "knowing" what we "know". Same story, just a more intense set of circumstances.)
What?
Yes, rusty. Rusty knife. Blunt too.
_Yakhal' inkomo_ - only the satanic version of that. The ancestors never want to hear the cries of another human being like that, but you always get someone who adapts a religion to his own purposes. And you get some people who just think of all the cash when what the buyer wants is a human head for magical purposes.
I'm not making this up. This really happened. Don't worry, life gave the story a happy ending.
He fought back. I supposed it helped that they weren't trying to kill him - at least not right away. Fought back broke free, ran, "holding his neck on". Made it through the river. Ran up through the ploughed fields on the other side. Got to a filling station, passed out, lived. And everyone lived happily ever after, amen.
And now I see it's pretty obvious how the repressed memory popped back up out of its grave like that. Same thing. Seeing hellfire on its way, making a man cry out like a cow does when sacrificed, ... er ...
But NOT when a chosen one is in the cave and a real voice says proclaim. Sometimes this stuff is real. (And don't kill me. I didn't say it was just madness.)
OK. I think I'll go try to forget this again. (Imagine it being your own memories, and not just those of some stranger who saw the rope of scar tissue round your neck, and the evil bugger the cops bagged a for it. Rather don't.)
TL:DR - Bruh, I know it's Sunday, but don't forget to take your meds.
@@artrock101 Or I should just not remember the kinds of things it's best not to remember?
If you're telling me I imagined this, I suppose it would be impossible to tell you that, no, it's actually something that really happened. (I live in a country where in certain regions this kind of thing sometimes happens. But if you don't believe me, then at very least it's "outside of your imagination" - as in what you consider possible - so I've just wasted all this ink saying so.)
Oh well, doesn't matter I suppose. You'd be quite reasonable to believe that this kind of thing is impossible.
(Doesn't give me nightmares or put me in too deep a depression, and if I'm mad there's no medication that's going to cure me of delusion. Still, maybe I should see if I can get some meds for it? I've heard the pink pills are nice. Muscle relaxant, so at times a bit risky, but maybe the risks are worth the rewards?)
As long as you don't think I have doubts about the great man who went into a cave, and had something tell him to Proclaim in there, I'm fine with you being skeptical about this. Just remember that I said that the guy who went into the cave is absolutely dead right, and that there's no need for his followers to somehow find and murder me for saying otherwise, that's all.
Being a Di'Anno fan, although Dickinson is technically superior, i prefer the punkier approach that accompanied their first two albums. Also, Clive Burr, the original drummer was twice as inventive as Nicko 'flat nose' BcBrain!
Yeah, Clive's ok. But when Sooty and Sweep wanted to rock out, who did they turn to for a jam..... Nicko, 'nuff said 🙂
Clive had a great sound that nicko has never bettered
@jfergs.3302 Clive Burr possessed a sensibility that you may not think is important in heavy metal music. I'm a drummer myself, and his hi hat subtlety and choice of perfectly timed fills was something that was beyond BcBrains heavy handed ways!
@@Owlstretchingtime78TBH, my comment was more just to highlight that Nicko, while at a hugely successful stage in his career, still had time to appear on The Sooty Show, (for those not in the know) a childrens puppet show. And I love that about the guy.
And not to besmirch drummers, but when talking the subtleties, and nuance of drums, you may as well be talking to a gerbil... I've never been that interested in drums, drumming, and couldn't tell one from another. As long as they can keep a steady beat, that'll do for me, the rest hardly registers.
Case in point: Ages ago when Yes was played, there'd be endless debates of White Vs Brufford... I had no idea what people were talking about, and found the whole discussion rather tedious. Maybe it's a drummer thing 🤔
I also find long winded conversations concerning competitiveness amongst musos intensely mind numbing . There's only so much to say before one starts to nod off. Just to prove i don't take this whose technical nonsense seriously, here's a drum joke. 'Mother, when i grow up i want to be a drummer' 'Oh son, don't be silly, you can't do both' 😉
A little bit of satanic music to start a Sunday. Ironic.
Heh, that's what some people said in the 80s, unironically.
It’s no more Satanic than a 60s horror movie from Hammer studios.
Revelations 13:18
Great track!
667 the neighbour of the beast
(Old one, not mine!)
Indeed, I think that one was being used by Josephus in his 'Antiquities' published in AD 94. Of more interest is that the real number of the beast is 616 according to the earliest versions of the Bible. In that same version it's revealed that the ruler of Hell was actually called Stan but owing to a misprint on an early dot-matrix printer, he has been known as Satan ever since. (Plus, Lucifer was actually Lucy before she had the op.)