Why Iron Maiden stopped writing them 40 years ago?
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- čas přidán 30. 07. 2024
- With almost 200 songs in their catalog Iron Maiden still have only four instrumental tracks with the last one released almost 40 years ago.
So as a part of our Up the Iron Series let's first of all take a look at some of the lesser known facts about all of them and then hopefully answer the question why Iron Maiden did not only suddenly stop playing those live... but also stopped writing such songs.
We will take a look at the songs Transylvania (Iron Maiden), The Ides of March (Killers), Genghis Khan (Killers) and of course Losfer Words (Big 'Orra) which appeared on the band's fourth album Powerslave. And which is your favourite instrumental song by Iron Maiden?
00:00 - Intro
00:25 - Transylvania
02:45 - The Ides of March
05:05 - Genghis Khan
07:01 - Losfer Words (Big 'Orra)
08:25 - So what happened?
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I have never considered Ides an instrumental as much as it is an intro to Wrathchild. For me, Wrathchild is incomplete without IOM just like Queen's, We Will Rock You and We Are the Champions.
Ive always loved Losfer Words.... just fits Powerslave so well.
The whole album is a banger.
Damn right..... Whole album slammin
@@Aeronaut1975 Nah. Middle part is kind of unfinished sounding. It's good, but nowhere near same level as the beginning and end of that album. Songs from Losfer words to Back in the village are like from different album
I guess they had to rush it a bit to get it done.
As others have commented, they didn't really stop doing instrumentals, they just made them part of longer songs.
Genghis Khan is so underrated, anyone who thinks Clive Burr was just another drummer needs to listen to that song! He's slaying on that one!
Clive Burr kicks asss
In the "battle" part of the song is a very interesting drum beat that I've never really heard elsewhere, yet which could fit in many metal songs. It's so powerful.
He was like an athlete drummer.
Transylvania was always my favourite maiden instrumental. Love it so much . Never gets old
Losfer Words was one of the very first songs I learned playing on the electric guitar 😍
Much as I love Genghis Khan and Transylvania, when you have a vocalist of the caliber of Bruce Dickinson, you don't want him to have to be sidelined during the show for the sake of the few instrumentals the band have
They do long songs with instrumental sections that are longer than entire older songs, and Bruce then gets a rest (and he’s not getting any younger)
They started merging their instrumental tracks into their epics
Stop with the revisionist history. Paul left the band due to his reservations about being in a major rock band, and Steve has never said Paul was a bad singer. And a lot of stuff from the first two albums just doesn't fit Bruce that well since Paul had a deeper voice.
@@ryanjacobson2508 No revisionist history here. Don't know where you're getting that from 🤔
Paul D'Ianno was the ideal voice for Maiden's early material which had - despite what Steve Harris says - a more Punk influenced sound, and Paul's voice and attitude was suited to that. It's not revisionist to say his voice probably wouldn't have suited the material from 82 onwards. And besides, as others have been pointing out here, instrumentals are incorporated into the epics.
@@ryanjacobson2508 paul may have wanted to leave for that reason , but he was kicked out almost at the same time he wanted to leave . the reason he was kicked out , He was complete psycho when high on coke. that's strait from his autobiography. he basically picked one too many fights with band mates while high on coke.
Clive Burr's drumming on Transylvania is just awe-inspiring!
Los'fer Words is my favorite and it is super fun to play on guitar.
Ides Of March is my favorite, it really revs you up for Wraithchild.
Losfer Words (Big 'Orra) for me. Way back when I was 16 my guitar teacher handed me this song to learn and was my first introduction to Maiden. It Opened my Universe, been a maiden fan ever since.
This song and the Powerslave album will always have a special place in my heart
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Long time Maiden fan. Just found out about this awesome instrumental they played only on the Somewhere in time tour. It's called "WALKING ON GLASS". Should've been on the album!!
Keep up the awesome work Pilgrim🤘🏻🤘🏻
This is a piece inspired by Howard Blake's Snowman. It used to be part of Dave's individual solo, already, on World Slavery Tour, then, he and Adrian worked that out as a full instrumental, for the next tour, instead of only Dave soloing, on his own. It's brilliant!
@@jeffersoncamargo3738 🤘🏻👍🏻
Yeah, that one should've perfectly fitted on Somewhere🤷♂️
This takes me back about 40 years, thanks for the trip down memory lane, up the irons and SLAVIA UKRAINE.
Героям Слава!
Great video mate
And don't forget...
Up the irons
Transylvania is my favorite out of these
I have to say Losfer words, just because it is such an important song, for me anyway, of the Powerslave album. I bought that album when it was released and was listening to it constantly until Live after death came out, what a great time that was🤩😎🤘
Genghis Khan
Driving me nuts the way he is saying it
Chenkiss han
I don't know where the "Genghis" comes from. His name should be pronounced more like english pronounce "Chenghis".
In finnish his name is translitterated Tshingis Khan
For me, Losfer Words is by far Maiden's best instrumental track. I've never understood why so many think it's a weak point on Powerslave.
Слава Україні!
Thunderburst by Samson from 81, with credits to Thunderstick, Harris and Dickinson - wow that's a story to tell by beer!!
Love instrumentals miss them live
I’ve always loved all these instrumentals and would like to hear Maiden writing some short instrumental song nowadays. I once played Losfer Words live and it was just amazing! Stay strong, Ukraine 🇺🇦
Amazing video as always. Just one suggest: I would like to watch episodes about A Matter Of Life And Death, The X Factor and No Prayer Flt The Dying. And in those episodes, I'd love to hear your opinion and analisis about each song, cause your opinions are always interesting. Love your content! Long life Heavy Metal, up the Irons and Slavia Ukraine!
Thanks a lot ❤
I saw Nicko at a drum clinic years ago and he had Phil Hilborne on guitar. They played Losfer Words at a volume that I have never before experienced for such a small room. Just amazing! 🤘🏻
Thank you, that was a great journey back (somewhere) in time. My favourite is Transylvania but looking back, they’ve all aged well. I think there’s more than enough very ordinary songs in Maiden’s catalogue after Losfer Words (with both Blaze and Bruce singing) that would have been better hearing the rest of the band doing an excellent instrumental instead
Yes I would like to hear another instrumental and the Ides of March would be my favorite but then like you said I have never skipped a track anytime I was listening to Maiden every time you mention the powerslave tour it brings back fond memories I seen them twice on that tour fantastic makes me feel young again take care and be safe
I like your POV's on Maiden to be honest and learned a lot through your Maiden related videos I didn't know and even didn't even consider thinkin' about it to be honest like this one.
Even though I got again a little bit clickbaited by the title, I wasn't dissapointed.
Love your vids! Keep them up. Big love to your country from Scotland! 🏴🇺🇦
At school my sports team using Idles of the march as our backing music but all 3 are great Maiden in Japan double LP still get lots of play time
Genghis Khan performed by Angel Corpse in the A Call to Irons album is definetively my preferred version of an Iron Maiden cover. They've put even more brutality to the song, keeping the main idea. It's awesome.
Another great video on some Maiden history. And your little humorous slides and inserts get me laughing.
My pick. Ides of March. Because it rolls into Wrathchild. It's how I learned how to play bass.
Wow. Losfer Words was a song that got me into Iron Maiden. Still one of my favorites.
I genuinely love all four of them! Ides of march is actually one of the best show openers ever written. If I ever saw that piece live I think I’d die.
Genghis Khan is just great fun. I love the middle bit that changes! That gallop sounding very much like Phantom but also shadowing Hallowed to come later.
As for “Losfer Words” being weak, I completely disagree! It’s one of my favourites off that amazing album. It’s much better than back in the village and the duellists 😂😂
But honestly I have to choose Transylvania as the favourite. I love the first album more than any other album and when I first heard that intro riff to Transylvania, my head exploded. It’s one of the funnest songs I’ve ever heard and always come back to it!
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I absolutely love you brother man !!!
First off, Losfer Words is a great track! I'd rank it high among my favorite Maiden songs. It really rounds up the sound of Powerslave I think.
I've always thought that Iron Maiden songs would work very well as instrumentals, and perhaps it's because I personally really enjoy good instrumental songs. Let's not forget that Powerslave's title track and Rime of the Ancient Mariner have LONG sections of instrumentals in them. Your point about Dickinson's vocals being an added instrument is very valid though. They must've taken some influence from an early great, Uriah Heep, in that regard.
I wish they would have recorded a studio version of the instrumental they played on the Somewhere In Time tour.
I thought it was called Space, but apparently it's called Walking on Glass.
Yeah the early stuff is really special - what we retrospectively consider to be really unusual, while being quite innovative and experimental. You can hear black metal and speed metal mixed in, with some quite jazzy stuff provides by Clive Burr
Idea of March is my favorite; I even played a modified version of it at my high school’s talent show 😊
When BNW was released, and while listening to it I thought Nomad at the beginning was an instrumental song and was so happy for a moment till Bruce's voice kicked in, nevertheless I still love Nomad. As for my favorite instrumental track, losfer words is the winner by a very slight margin.
Losfer Words (The Big Orra!) is a great instrumental that i only wish they would play in concert before they call it quits!!!
I would love another instrumental track, Transylvania is an absolute blast, I like them all really.
Love Losfer Words. Powerslave wouldn't be the same album without it.
Transylvania is a killer song!
Listening to it live on A Real Dead One, is just out of this world.
Iron Maiden, best heavy metal band ever! 🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘
I'm definitely a big fan of "Losfer Words" on Powerslave (my favorite Maiden album), but I always thought the "Big 'Orra" part was short for "Big Hurrah," like a big cheer or a big finish...
As for my favorite of the Iron Maiden instrumentals, I really like "Ides of March" as the lead-in to "Wrathchild" on Killers, something about it is just perfect...
Luv these instrumental songs,,,👍,,
Yeah the ironic thing is these songs,,
all so happen to be from, 3 of my top 5 iron maiden albums 🍻☝️
Oh I thought this was gonna be about songs that aren't overly long and boring.
Ghengis Khan. Killer track.
Losfer words is an awesome song and fits perfectly on their greatest album ever 🤘🤘
I love all their instrumentals, and think their first 5 albums are their absolute best. All solid, first track to last - including the instrumentals. From there on it's been a mix of good albums with some weak songs and weak albums with a couple good songs. I wish they could recapture the early days spirit and blend it with their greater experience and release one last NWOBHM masterpiece.
Dave and Adrian played a guitar instrumental tune during the 1986 SIT tour halfway into the set. Sounded amazing actually. I was there. (Yeah I'm that old 😂) Fun fact: it was in Brussel's Forest National venue. At that time a 10000 seater. And IM sold it out. The first time a heavy metal band ever did that. Over 3000 couldn't even get in. True story. WASP opened up. Loved them too!
To this day, every single time "Losfer Words" starts to sound (yeah, I listen to full albums), I feel a bit weird. But, by the time it ends, I just love it.
Will they make another instrumental? I don't know (and frankly I don't care). They're just great!
Strenght to Ukraine! Cheers from Argentina.
The solo during the somewhere on tour could be considered one. Was called like broken glass or shattered mirror something like that y Adrian smith.
Love me some Ides of March.
Losfor Words ain’t too shabby, Transylvania, But hey they’re Iron Maiden it’s not supposed to be easy to pick just one.
When I guess, taking Rod Stewart's as a measuring stick - he sings 20 songs himself, grants 4 to his backing singers and no doubt has a guest piece/ medley thrown in intermittently. He's a mature gent and has to balance his set accordingly.
Maiden on the other hand have one sole lead vocalist and when needs do arise, can when required - fall back on an instrumental to give Bruce's voice a bit of respite.
Or more accurately, Paul Dianno whose vocal machinery, citing the Maiden Japan era especially when his pipes were famously under the cosh.
All told, Bruce's vocal chords are more robust than his predecessor, throat cancer or otherwise. Therefore not needing these intermissions to take a backseat. In fact, he prefers to do without them altogether.
Great thanks to the medical team involved for allowing us humbly to state that.
I think they still sometimes use Transylvania for a pre into song prior to Doctor doctor, at least they did on Legacy of the beast
And it works super well to pump up the crowd!🤘
Losfer Words is fantastic (one of Maiden's most prog songs, the guitar harmony is totally unique and that Adrian solo is just out of the box!); my fave is Genghis Khan. Somewhere In Time was supposed to have an instrumental track, written by Steve, but, when he showed the piece to the band, they wanted to send him 'to the funn farm', as it was very complex. Mind yourselves how great it might be, if there's any demos.
Another great episode brother. SLAVA UKRAINI From the US ❤🙏
That Samson album is so damn good!
1. Genghis Khan... the drums are insane.
2. Transylvania... also great
3. Ides of March ... also great but short
4. Losfer Words ... would be better with lyrics
I've always thought big 'Orra meaning begorra - an exclamation of surprise. As in "I'm Losfer words mate". "begorra you're never short of a phrase. "
The problem for me is that is too similar to the instrumental part of the The Duellist making the first half of the album redundant. Besides that, I always though it was in a wrong position , it should be before powerslave or before Rime
I’ve always thought exactly the same!
Maiden needs to release one last "killer, no filler" disc that clocks in at around the 50 minute mark, and then call it a day. Nothing they have released since A Matter of Life and Death has been particularly memorable in totally.
They are all good...
Being an American, that's the first time I've heard "Genghis Khan" pronounced that way - which is most likely the way it's SUPPOSED to be pronounced.
It actually had a lyric version two years before...lol czcams.com/video/qAbHGe9b0_Y/video.html
Losfer Words is great, but Transylvania and Ghenghis Khan are EPIC
Fun fact, when Steve wrote Killers it was supposed to have been an instrumental as well. But Paul wrote the lyrics to it which can be heard on the live at the rainbow video.
Ya know, i always wondered about that because we covered it in my band and I always thought if we just took one of the guitars and had them play the melody its a kick ass instrumental
Losfa words is fantastic🤘
Always wondered what (big ‘orrah) means
Up The Iron's
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I actually thought listening to the latest album that Hell on Earth could have been an instrumental. It would have been a nice surprise to the listener plus a bit of a curve ball. I really like the song as is but it's one of those where the guitars have played pretty much every vocal melody before Bruce even starts singing and when there is a change in vocals in the middle the guitar plays the exact same melody that he sings so none of the "tune" would be lost.
Last time I saw Maiden was during the Brave New World Tour. Left after Bruce said they got a new album out and they aren't singing any of the old corporate shit. So much for the first ten years.
I disagree about losfer words, i actually think it's one of the best instrumental songs written by any band ever. It's not just a guitar solo like so many of them. It has its own identity.
Jengus han?
Most bands have stopped doing instrumentals 🤷
I think Losfer words is a kick ass track
I love the idea of March it’s my favorite maiden music only
Big 'hora is an Irish exclamation of surprise.
They played Ides of March at their "Early Days" tour in 2005
I am 100% sure it was not played live... just a tape recording
@@MetalPilgrim You are right... just checked here and din't find it live played
Up The IRONS 🤘🍻💨
Being the world's biggest Rush fan I often wondered......is an instrumental actually a song,doesn't it need words to be called a song ?.......Another vote here for Losfer Words.
I love all their instrumentals. All. And for many other metal bands too, which is kind of weird ha ha.
edit: shout out to the Iron Maidens, who play both The Ideas of Match and Genghis Khan really well.
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Genghis Khan.
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Thanks for the great video. Very informative. I just saw Maiden a few months ago and personally I wish they would remove all songs after Seventh Son and replace them with the entire Killers album, including the instrumentals which are great. Not a bad song on that album. Genghis Khan would be my fave, although the others are all great too.
If they were to do another instrumental I'd like something along the lines of Metallica'r Orion which has a great ebb and flow about it.
Little known fact, Genghis khans working title was "Jenkins barn".
I always thought Losfer Word (Big Orra) was a pun of “begorrah.”
Quest for fire should have been an instrumental
Question...was that an actual vid of Maiden from 1978? More accurately is that a super strat being played by Dave Murray...? I just gotta know..Word on the street is Mr Steve Vai came up with the super strat..and I beg to differ. See Dave Murray 1978. Thank you Metal Pilgrim 🤘
They also stopped writing heavy songs after 1985.
For me Transylvania is is the standout track with the Ides of March second. Interestingly you will note that many drummers love Clive Burr's work on Genghis Khan. Never really liked Losfer Words
Transylvania is so good..
Losfor words 🤘🤘
What about satellite 15?
that's not an instrumental
It would be great if they made other songs like Transylvania. I don't think it is necessary to have vocals in all songs.
I will always love Transylvania because it was dedicated to me and 3 other English fans who went to see them in Belgium. The Dedication was the first song of the encore. After the concert, we were invited back to the band's Hotel for a booze up and then because we didn't have anywhere to stay, we all slept on the floor of Steve Harris's Hotel room. That was on the Killers tour in 1981. The city was Antwerp.
How about the next record be completely instrumental? 😎
Yeah, cuz who wants to hear Bruce Dickinson sing? 🙄
Jengis Han
Transylvania and Genghis Khan are awesome songs. And Ides of March would be a great intro to their concerts. I also have to say Losfer words is a weak song, imo.