 Genius Meanings
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Iron Maiden – Losfer Words (Big 'Orra)
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This is the fourth and last instrumental recorded by Iron Maiden. The guitar harmonies and galloping bass are almost a perfect distillation of the sound of the album.
The title is
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Iron Maiden – Rainbow's Gold
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[Intro] / [?] / [Instrumental] / [Verse 1] / In the heat of the morning / When your day is still dawning / And your bird, he's singing / Catch your soul, he's willing to fly away
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Iron Maiden – I've Got the Fire
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[Verse 1] / If you're looking for something that you can keep / Well baby, pass me by / But if you want something that's twenty years deep / Oh baby, don't even try / But you want
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Iron Maiden – Live After Death - Art and Tracklist
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VHS\DVD (Show Setlist) / "Churchill Speech"/"Aces High" (Harris) / "2 Minutes to Midnight" (Smith, Dickinson) / "The Trooper" (Harris) / "Revelations" (Dickinson) / "Flight of
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Iron Maiden – 2 Minutes to Midnight
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Released as the first single from their 1984 album Powerslave, Iron Maiden deliver another riff-heavy song. The subject of this rocker is the Doomsday Clock, an international
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Iron Maiden – Powerslave
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The title track from “Powerslave”. It details the account of a power mad Pharaoh who is on his deathbed.
Bruce Dickinson always performs the song wearing a ritual mask, no
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Iron Maiden – Flash of the Blade
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The first of two sword fighting songs on this album. Swordplay is not a new topic for Iron Maiden.
Frontman Bruce Dickinson is an accomplished fencer, and obviously enjoys singing
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Iron Maiden – Invasion
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This song appeared on The Soundhouse Tapes as the result of the band’s first ever studio experience, in which they also recorded Prowler, Strange World and, of course, Iron Maiden
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Iron Maiden – King of Twilight
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The B-side of the Aces High single. It’s a cover of Nektar’s “King of Twilight”, from their 1972 album A Tab in the Ocean. Iron Maiden’s cover is actually a medley of the songs “
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Iron Maiden – Aces High
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A rocking ditty about the aerial battles over Great Britain that occurred during WWII.
The song’s lyrics are written from the viewpoint of a British RAF pilot fighting against
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Iron Maiden – Cross-Eyed Mary
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This song is a cover, originally performed by Jethro Tull on the 1971 album Aqualung. It was the B-side song on the single for The Trooper.
Cross-Eyed Mary is a song about another
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Iron Maiden – Back in the Village
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This song is a call back to “The Prisoner” from 1982’s The Number of The Beast. The village in question is a seemingly idyllic retreat, but is actually a horrific prison where the
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Iron Maiden – Burning Ambition
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“Burning Ambition” is one of Iron Maiden’s first songs. It only appeared as a B side for “Running Free” and later on the B-side compilation album Best of the ‘B’ sides and the
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Iron Maiden – The Duellists
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This song combines two Iron Maiden specialties: swordfighting and songs inspired by movies.
In this case, The Duellists was the first film by director Ridley Scott, who would
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Iron Maiden – Women in Uniform
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This song is a cover, originally performed by Skyhooks on the 1978 album Guilty Until Proven Insane. It was released as a single, with Invasion as a B-side.
The band was advised
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Iron Maiden – Rime of the Ancient Mariner
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A musical version of the 1798 poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Two verses from the poem are directly quoted in the song lyrics.
For 31 years, it was the longest Maiden song ever
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Iron Maiden – Mission from 'Arry
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Mischievously placed as one of the B-Sides to “2 Minutes To Midnight” on Powerslave, “Mission From ‘Arry” is a recording of an argument between Bassist Steve Harris and drummer
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Iron Maiden – The Number of the Beast [Live Chapter]
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[Spoken intro: Barry Clayton] / Woe to you, o'er Earth and Sea / For the Devil sends the beast with wrath / Because he knows the time is short / Let him who hath understanding
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Nicko McBrain – Listen with Nicko! Part VII
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...oh, hey! What! Dave, is that you? Yeah? What day is it? Saturday. Saturday? What do you mean, I've been in here a week? I have? I don't remember.... I did number four or five
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Nicko McBrain – Listen With Nicko! Part I
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What ho sed de ting! / How you doing, you lot out there? Gosh! You, I guess you are now the proud owners of / The very first little box set of the re-released singles from Iron
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Nicko McBrain – Listen with Nicko! Part IX
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...what ho! Nicko here! Welcome to Nicko's "Not alot of people know that, number 9!" Yes! This is the one that comes after eight or before ten, but if you don't have number eight
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