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By ACE BURPEE
They have the greatest mascot ever.
They've sold more than 100 million records and have never appeared on their own album covers.
With all due respect to The Beatles, The Police, Radiohead, The Doors, Coldplay, or any other band from any other era or genre, Iron Maiden is the greatest band of all time.
Period.
I've thought about it, and I've never been so sure of anything in my life.
A five-pack of reasons why Iron Maiden, who play the MTS Centre on Monday, is the greatest band of all time:
5 Maiden might be the least successfully imitated commercially successful band of all time. Only Iron Maiden sounds like Iron Maiden. Metal's Jay-Z.
4 Guns N'Roses opened for them at the Winnipeg Arena, not vice-versa.
3 Any dude can write songs about girls, just as any woman can write a song about a boy. Iron Maiden never wrote songs about girls. I didn't know exactly what their songs were about, but they sounded clever and I never noticed they were all eight minutes long. And they didn't really write ballads. Anyone can write ballads.
2 I saw them during one of the many low points in their career and they had to move the stage all the way up to the close blue line at the Winnipeg Arena, as only a couple thousand of us showed up. They rocked out the same as they did to a full house 10 years previous, seemingly unaware their "cool" factor was very low in this town. And some of you will remember, they always saluted our massive portrait of the Queen hanging from the rafters.
1 I have more Iron Maiden songs on my iPod than I do of the Stones, Pink Floyd, Zeppelin and Nirvana combined. Therefore, Maiden alone is better than all those bands. You can't argue with the numbers. Of the beast.
And we support the same English football team. Up the Hammers.
Taken from www.winnipegsun.com.
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