It depends on how you define Hard Rock, I guess. Is Jeff Beck Hard Rock? What about Hendrix? Where’s the dividing line between Hard Rock and Classic Rock?
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Iron Maiden - Trooper https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4VZbjrDwQ28
Essentially reads me to me as a anti-war message, based around true life events from the 1854 Crimean war.....an anti-war message which is much needed in the current world of warlords who are about to nuke the world soon, i suppose.
(can’t quite sing flower gardens, kissing roses or how a gal broke yer heart into a million different pieces to this one....i suppose)
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I don’t think there are actually that many stories/ themes/topics, be it music, visual art or literature. It’s not the what, so much as the how. The Iron Maiden tune is very pumped up -- unrelentingly so. there’s not really any contrast -- it’s just balls out, pedal to the metal, from start to end. Personally, I find this gets monotonous very quickly. Compare it, for example, to Led Zep’s "What Is and What Should Never Be" -- way more contrast and variation in textures, dynamics, timbres. Not saying one is better -- just trying to explain what my preferences are. it’s not that I don’t enjoy rockin’ out -- "Warrior" and "The King Will Come" from Wishbone Ash’s Argus are examples of what I like. Notice how they vary more hard driving riffs with more lyrical passages. All three tunes display the influence of British Folk music. I like this, but no doubt there are those for whom this just comes across as "light-weight". Fair enough. Each to his/her own.
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@stuartk - ah yes, that old bugaboo about categorizations - one person's metal is another person's hard rock and yet another person's 'classic rock'. I think it starts getting a bit silly after awhile; there must be at least 10 sub-genres just under 'metal'. In Hendrix's day, there wasn't any 'classic rock' or 'metal'. Totally agree with you about Wishbone Ash - I always loved that original lineup. Much of Maiden's more wonderfully melodic stuff always struck me in a similar way to Wishbone Ash, with the guitars intertwining in and out.... And Steve Harris from Iron Maiden had historical and literary concerns in much of their music; their's was a more cerebral metal, generally speaking. |
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