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Poll Question: Which has the best composition?
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2 [2.60%]
34 [44.16%]
4 [5.19%]
16 [20.78%]
3 [3.90%]
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2 [2.60%]
1 [1.30%]
0 [0.00%]
2 [2.60%]
5 [6.49%]
2 [2.60%]
0 [0.00%]
6 [7.79%]
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 06 2009 at 04:40
Rime!
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 06 2009 at 09:43
Rime of the Ancient Mariner! Clap
Also, special mentions to "Phantom of the Opera"!
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 06 2009 at 12:32

Easy....Ancient Mariner.

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 06 2009 at 15:50
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 06 2009 at 18:12
Originally posted by Ivan_Melgar_M Ivan_Melgar_M wrote:

Rime, one of my all time favorite tracks, proves that you can do a 100% Prog track without mellotrons, synths, etc.

Radical changes, excellent lyrics, great coherence, a total masterpiece.

Iván



It's not really a prog track though, kinda prog related.
Regardless, amazing song anyway, one of Iron Maiden's finestBig smile
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 06 2009 at 18:36
It's between Rime and Alexander. Really can't choose coz I love both.

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 07 2009 at 08:14
Paschendale or Rime of the Ancient Mariner. Two of my favourite Maiden songs, that's for sure.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 08 2009 at 09:47
Dance of death, for sure.'' Fantom of the opera'' is not included here, damn good song.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 08 2009 at 09:54
Originally posted by angelmk angelmk wrote:

Dance of death, for sure.'' Fantom of the opera'' is not included here, damn good song.


I'm quite sure "Phantom... " is included in one of the other two Maiden polls. This one is for longer tracks, which in prog terms we'd call 'epics'.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 08 2009 at 10:00
POTO  clocks 7:07 so i would call it epic, maybe not in structure but in lenght,yes.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 08 2009 at 16:22
Originally posted by angelmk angelmk wrote:

POTO  clocks 7:07 so i would call it epic, maybe not in structure but in lenght,yes.


Phantom of the opera is in the mid-length song polls here:

http://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=55348

There's also a poll for the songs that have more standard durations (around less than 5 1/2 min)
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 09 2009 at 00:18
Seventh Son of a Seventh Son by far, beats te one from Powerslave, at least for me.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 09 2009 at 02:10
Originally posted by b_olariu b_olariu wrote:

Seventh Son of a Seventh Son by far, beats te one from Powerslave, at least for me.


Ditto.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 10 2009 at 18:36
BTW have you notice the whole of semitones that several Maiden songs have in this tracks:
 
Rime of the ancient Mariner About the 4 minutes before finish (done by Harris)
Caught Somewhere in Time in the middle of the song. done by the guitar and bass BTW quite similar to the Rime thing.
 
on the contrary in the early days they do not use that several notes
Did someone note that?




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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 16 2009 at 16:56
Shocked This was close between Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Brighter Than a Thousand Suns, however loads of people have voted for Rime, so I went for Brighter Than a Thousand Suns (it's a brilliant track & my fave from their latest album, A Matter of Life & Death).
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 17 2009 at 15:58
I cast my vote for "Hallowed Be Thy Name". Oh wait.... that's not long enough. Then I guess it's "Rime Of the Ancient Mariner".
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 25 2009 at 10:36
SSOASS - just because of the Mellotron.

DOD, Ancient Mariner, Sign of the Cross are at least as good.

In terms of pure composition, some tiny tracks are pretty stunning like Futureal. I'm also very fond of Caught Somewhere in Time - an happy blend of symph and space.

Time thresholds are really not that much of classification framework...
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 27 2009 at 12:47
Sign of the Cross
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 09 2009 at 09:29
and phantom of the opera ??????????????????????
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 09 2009 at 12:06
"Seventh Son of a Seventh Son"


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