Look, I'm glad that you're so happy and content in your atheistic ways, but for fuck's sake, if I specifically create a forum post asking RELIGIOUS Iron Maiden fans what they think of Iron Maiden's music, that's not your cue to come in and announce yourselves as proudly atheistic (duh)! Last I checked, you can't be both religious and atheistic--the ( Read more... )

“Animal I Have Become”-Three Days Grace

Pretty self-explanatory, I think. Furuichi hates what he’s become as a result of the Xam’d, but he can’t avoid it, and it leads him to do some pretty awful things. Worthy of note is how passive the singer of this song sounds-“Somebody get me through this nightmare/I can’t control myself/Somebody wake me from ( Read more... )

 I just realized the other day, that Billy Joel's "The Entertainer" kind of comes across as an ancient version of the "What others think I do/What I really do" meme. It takes a job that everyone thinks of as really glamorous, and points out that it's a job like any other and that musicians, whatever fame and success they may enjoy, still have to ( Read more... )

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However, that being said, I do think there is an overarching theme to “Dance of Death,” albeit not one that applies to every song on the album: it’s socially-conscious. Of all the songs on this album, only three of them (“Wildest Dreams,” “No More Lies,” and “Dance of Death”) seem to have no obvious relevance to social issues or the call for a ( Read more... )

( My two cents... )

( Warning: suicide, death, and talk of rape and abuse )

 The website SongMeanings.com is an open-access site where you can create an account and write analyses and interpretations of your favorite songs, and read what others have written.

Bear in mind that it is open-access, which means a lot of garbage gets onto it, but a lot of gold gets onto it as well.

 This past Christmas I listened to tons of Iron Maiden. Then I watched This is Spinal Tap with my family. On Christmas Eve my family and I went to see a play called, well, "The Play That Goes Wrong," which is probably the funniest play I've seen since "Spamalot" or "The Drowsy Chaperone" and is basically what it sounds like.

I've noticed that Iron ( Read more... )

 So as I was listening to the Iron Maiden songs on my iPhone the other day I came to the conclusion that if I didn't want to listen to ALL my Iron Maiden songs at a time (I've got 11 on my iPhone and they get looooooong), I could split them up depending on the time of day, because some sound better in the daylight and others sound better at night.

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