Seven minutes? Hell, Bruce composed Empire of the Clouds, and that’s 18 minutes and 2 seconds long. The Book of Souls is 10 minutes and 30 seconds long, and is my favorite off the album.
His point in the doc was about exposure on a mass media platform like terrestrial radio. Today most folks can’t listen to a even a 2.5 min song unless they are doing something else, driving , walking, whatever. With Maiden you have to be into it to appreciate fully, it isn’t 8 minutes of background or whatever. At least that’s what I took from it.
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I love that a 2018 FR Weezer thread is going Maiden. Pretty funny.
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Listen to “Rhapsody in Blue” by Gershwin in its entirety sometime. It’s impossible for me to conceive of an orchestra being able to rehearse it, much less play it and get it right. It’s something like 16 minutes long, and weaves in and out of a lot of complex melodies and instrument interplay. Wow.