Undying

I also respect your point of view, Spike Joe... I just responded to a comment that seemed rather silly to me, sharing my opinion. Of course, we don't think the same way about the concept of evolution and art, but that's also the beauty of life. Ave and see you at the next review.

There's no problem with personal tastes, for heaven's sake, but don't come telling me that the reasoning I provided was illogical because I wasn't responding to you but to someone else; if anything, I should have clarified that in the comment. In any case, de gustibus...

No dear executioner, instead I understood perfectly well, don’t come and tell me what I should or shouldn’t understand please. This is a site for music reviews, okay? So let’s talk about MUSIC, alright? The subject is COMMON whether we are talking about Iron Maiden or the examples I mentioned. When I made my previous comment, that is to say "There are those who sell and those who create art," it was in response to the person who was so excited about the 70 million records sold by Iron Maiden. In fact, I actually forgot to add that there are also those who create art (meaning those who pursue a certain artistic research, which always involves EVOLUTION—a word that is certainly not found in Dickinson and company’s vocabulary) and sell, like several of the ones I mentioned before, although not all. Since you asked me for an example of art, even though I was responding to another topic, I provided it according to the perspective of my comment. I entered this review out of curiosity, and then faced with certain comments, I felt like sharing my thoughts on Iron Maiden, or on Metal, however you want to put it. Is there a problem???

Oh yes, it's really another thing... anyway, if you label it as new wave and nothing else, it definitely doesn't refer to the genre you're talking about.

An example of art? Tom Waits, Lou Reed, David Bowie, Kevin Shields, Trent Reznor, Martin Gore... Don't worry, I could go on. Anyway, I like to reiterate that everyone who navigates this site is free to comment on any review, even those of bands they don’t like and feel the desire to express their opinions about. Open your minds, folks, accept some criticism every now and then. Iron Maiden brought a slight breeze of novelty with their first album, then a lot of desolation and a ton of overcooked, recycled stuff until it became nauseating to even the most resilient stomachs. Not a “minimal” evolution in sound for ages. And I say this having listened to their albums several times, both the most famous ones and the embarrassingly recent masterpieces.
Anyway, everyone is free to think and express their ideas however the hell they want. Hell, it seems like the least one could do! And just to be clear, the "New wave" that this album is labeled with is definitely something else...

There are those who sell and those who create art...

I didn't know it was the fourth album of the little virgin...

Great review, nice album, but "Further down the spiral," "Things falling apart," and especially "Still" are, in my opinion, superior among the remixes and various manipulations.
Hey sfascia! I'm waiting for you in my next review... you need to reaffirm the first comment, ok?
Anyway, the absolute masterpiece for me is the spiral, and the most brutal and ass-breaking one is Broken.

I completely agree with you. Metal is the perfect genre to express "technique" (often just for its own sake), certainly not creativity. Anyway, as they say: "De Gustibus..." Until next time!

Hi Claudio, I mostly agree with you, but I wouldn’t go too far with hierarchical considerations... in the end, what characterizes music is its expressiveness, the search, and above all, the emotions it can bring. Classical music can be considered superior from a harmonic and compositional standpoint, but not from all perspectives. Objectification and the frameworks of science have nothing to do with art. Every musical genre (when we talk about music with artistic purposes, of course, not the kind written to sell) has its weaknesses and strengths. There are those who have MANY more weaknesses than strengths, like Metal, which I can't stand either. But this remains our personal judgment... don't you think?