Iron Maiden - No Prayer for the Dying
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Artist: Iron MaidenEdition: Music CD
Format: Enhanced, Original recording reissued, Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2002-03-26
Music Label: Sanctuary Records
Soundtracks:
- Tailgunner
- Holy Smoke
- No Prayer for the Dying
- Public Enema Number One
- Fates Warning
- The Assassin
- Run Silent Run Deep
- Hooks in You
- Bring Your Daughter...To the Slaughter
- Mother Russia
Music reviews of No Prayer for the Dying
Music Review: ...The bomber boys are going home....
Rating: 4 Stars
No Prayer For The Dying, Iron Maiden's 8th studio album. If anyone has read my review on Fear Of The Dark, you will understand how this album ties in with their follwing one. After a huge tour for Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son, I felt that Iron Maiden were worn out, tired mentally and physically. It showed more on Fear Of The Dark, but it was on this album where you could start to see a few changes.
Guitarist Adrian Smith calls it quits in early 1990, before this album was made, but a song he did co-write beforehand did make it to the album (Hooks In You). Enter new guitarist Jannick Gers.
What I noticed from this album are the more simpler lyrics/music, and the shorter songs. Gone are the long 6-9 minute epic tracks we've heard in the past. The longest song on this album is only 5:32. But despite all that, they seem to get away with it due to great songs and few fillers. This indeed is an underrated album.
Tailgunner starts off this album, and it's a great opener. Reminds you of Aces High, but nowhere near that classic song. Great solo and great guitar riffs. Holy Smoke is next, and here is where we see the lyrics change a bit from what we are used to hearing. The song itself is good and these different lyrics would continue later.
The title track comes next, a semi-ballad which speeds up for a brilliant solo towards the end of the song, another standout track on this album. Public Enema Number One follows the title track. Nothing special here, just a typical Maiden track, but it just works. It just gets better as it goes on.
Fates Warning is next, again nothing special and is just an OK track. I've noticed that almost all the tracks so far all have the same type of structure and most go for the same length of time, which I think is the result of their tiredness. For Iron Maiden, these are easy songs, without too much creativity or challenge, yet with most of the songs, they get them to work.
The poorest track on the entire album is next, The Assassin. It's totally a filler and disappointing that master song-writer Steve Harris is the one who wrote it.
Run Silent Run Deep is next, one of the best songs on the album so far, along with Tailgunner. The erie beginning is a great start, with a galloping thundering riff throughout the track makes it a standout song.
Hooks In You would be the 2nd of the OK to average songs on this album. It's another song where the lyrics are quite different, and it's only the catchy chorus which saves this track.
The best song of the album is easily Bring Your Daughter...To The Slaughter. A crowd favourite and always played in live shows, the song is an instant Maiden classic.
The album finishes off nicely with Mother Russia. In the vein of To Tame A Land & Alexander The Great, Mother Russia is a fitting end to this album. With Russian type guitar sounds during the verses, the song is catchy and leaves you satsified.
Overall, although this is no way Iron Maiden's best album, and it does seem uninspired at times, it is an underrated, good album, where they do seem to get away with making great songs and working them well. In parts, especially with lyrics and song structure, I believe Iron Maiden were wearing thin, tired from long and lengthy tours and No Prayer For The Dying shows that in parts. It shows even more with their following album, Fear Of The Dark.
(rating each song is as follows: 0.98-1= killer track, 0.95-0.97= awesome track, 0.90-0.93= very good track, 0.85-0.88= OK/good track, 0.80-0.83= poor/average track)
Tailgunner: 1
Holy Smoke: 0.92
No Prayer For The Dying: 0.95
Public Enema Number One: 0.93
Fates Warning: 0.90
The Assassin: 0.85
Run Silent Run Deep: 1
Hooks In You: 0.88
Bring Your Daughter To The Slaughter: 1
Mother Russia: 0.95 = 9.38 divided by 10 (tracks) = 93.8%
Give this album a go, you'll either like it or hate it...
Description of No Prayer for the Dying
Enhanced CD-Rom version of the original. Includes full-length videos, band biographies, photo galleries, and internet links.TRACK LISTING:
1. Tailgunner
2. Holy Smoke
3. No Prayer for the Dying
4. Public Enema Number One
5. Fates Warning
6. The Assassin
7. Run Silent Run Deep
8. Hooks in You
9. Bring Your Daughter... To the Slaughter
10. Mother Russia
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