Customer Reviews

Real Live One

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I like the CD because it has a few songs that are not on on "Live after Death" But The production is poor...The drums are drownded out you can realy only hear Nicos Snare when he is playing beats.It is like he has no bass drum,You can barley hear the rest of the kit when he does fills.THis was very disapointing to me because Nico is one of my favorite rock drummers...the bass is way to loud as if Harris was trying to say "watch me play"...and Even Bruce's VOX seem a bit off.Gears Butchers Adrians solos...he just plays too fast.It is just not the same live experence that the great "Live After Death " is....but it does have a few tunes that Live After Death does not have...so I guess this CD is worth picking up....I guess :(

This album wouldn't be so bad if it didn't SOUND so bad -- the mix is horrible! Why Steve Harris took over the mixing responsibilites from Martin Birch (the master!) is beyond me. If they could get Birch to re-mix this, it would be better I'm sure. In comparison to "Live After Death", which is, in my opinion, one of the best ever live albums, this one is just plain pathetic.

In response to an earlier reviewer's comments on this collection missing "Wasted Years", I picked up a CD single from this album that featured that as one of the "B-Sides", and it was awful. Dickinson's voice had really gone by that point.

I love Maiden, but this one really disappointed me. If you want a good live Maiden album, pick up the excellent "Live After Death".

This CD has the same tracks as "Donnington" with a few extras(read track listing).I wish thse guys would put out a live record with dome different songs,one's they have not released yet like "Caught Somewhere in time" and "T.L.O.T. Long distance Runner." Alot of people Have a problem with the production on this CD but I dont.It sounds fine to me but it could be these THX Speakers though (lol).My problem is that it is just a bunch of live songs recorded at different dates.It does not flow like "Donnington" and "Live After Death." Plus they mess with your mind by Putting a photo from the "seventh Son" tour on the back with adrian even though Adrian does not pick one note on this entire record.Not that I'm one of those Janick Gers Bashers,But I do like adrian better when I am listening to CD's Janick has a better stage presence than Adrian no doubt about it."Live after Death" and "Donnington " are better but this is not bad,and you need it to finish your eddie face...Up The Irons!!!

I don't even know how EMI let these albuns to be released ... Steve Harris mad one of the worst ever productions jobs for a heavy metal band. The sound is atrocious, the songs seem to be played by a garage cover band. Janick is in his usual low form, nothing new here. The suprise came with the inclusion of "BRING YOUR DAUGHTER.." ( what on Earth Maiden' musicians saw in this awful tune ??!!?), the terrible mixing, the lack of energy from the band ( or maybe the mixing didn't capture it, I don't know), etc, etc. Thanks God Adrian Smith is back !!

I've been a big fan of Iron Maiden for about 2 1/2 years now, and I have to say that now that I own almost all their albums including this one, that this CD does not do them justice.

Fisrt off, this CD contains lots of not so-good-songs instead of classics, if only to balance out the songs in terms of what albums they're from. Where's Aces High? Where's Killers? Those songs are far better than Tailgunner and Wasting Love. I know that we don't want another set exactly like the Live After Death CD but c'mon. There's only one song from the amazing Somewhere In Time album, and yet there's FOUR songs from Fear Of Dark, well renowned for being one of the worst albums Dickinson did with the band (even if Fear Of The Dark and Be Quick Or Be Dead are good songs in their right - although they manage to make the latter sound awful here). There's not a single song from the Killers album. Wheres Moonchild or Infinite Dreams? They've never been played live and they are far more worthy than some songs on here. The only songs which sound better live here are Where Eagles Dare and Fear Of The Dark. All the others sound pretty bad without the crisp studio production - I didn't even like Heaven Can Wait until I heard the studio version and Bring Your Daughter To The Slaughter is completely butchered by the time we reach the chorus.

Bruce's voice sounds tired, as if he's got a cold. The lack of Adrian Smith is probably another reason why this album falls flat on it's arse. Seriously, the band were great until he left, and then they went crap. Janick Gers may be a technically competant guitarist, but he doesn't have that bond with rest of the band that Smith had, and he's not as good as Smith anyway. Even classic songs on this album like The Trooper sound bad. Then Bruce goes solo after this live album and teams up with Adrian Smith again and they make a string of amazing metal albums (Under the name "Bruce Dickinson", oddly enough). Coincidence? Decide for yourself.

The only good thing about this album is a few songs which sound good, many songs which usually sound good, and Bruce working the crowd. Maybe if they'd done an album featuring only songs from 86-92, that way they'd have a wide spread play list from albums that weren't around when they released their first live album? That could have worked, I guess. All I know is that Live After Death IS a great live album by Iron Maiden. This isn't.

If all the songs in this album were the album version, this could've been a great compilation. So, it is a live album... You might say "Cool" Then this is the dilemma

Have you gotten the Live after Death album?

If your answer is "NO" Give it a try... if you dare. If your answer is "YEs" Well... You might better want to listen it a lot more.

This has a good selection of songs (Well, ARDO has some weird ones like "Remember tomorrow") and it could be a big one... if they hadn't released Live after death. Janick Gers makes The evil that men do sound like Be quick or be dead... So, if you respect Adrian Smith... You better stay with Live after death and buy BRAVE NEW WORLD

For Christ's sake ! THis band, one of my all-times favourites, practically finished after the album "SEVENTH SON OF A SEVENTH SON" ! THe only good point in this live CD is that at least there are only songs from the albuns recorded before that! But the mixing is absurdly poor, the band is playing lkike if they don't care.

Have any of you listened to this album? It is there best album ever. It contains the best tracks from all the albums! Bruce is amazing! The sollos are brilliant and the crowd are amazing! what more can you ask for? Buy it! P.s Maiden Rock

Ok, here is a great idea. Take some of the worst songs from some of your most uninspired albums and make them into a poorly mixed, train wreck of a live album and you have "A Real Live One" in a nutshell. There is nothing salvageable on this album and I give it two stars only becaue it is still superior to 90's grunge and alternative.

The band plods through the material with the vigor of old people dancing. Bruce insults French speakers everywhere with his poor attempt at speaking to the French crowd on the album. How did a song like "Bring Your Daughter To The Slaughter" make the cut instead of something like "Murder's In The Rue Morgue?" You figure it out, and let me know if you find the answer. The opening guitar runs on "Wasting Love" sound out of tune and "Heaven Can Wait" is worse live than in the studio. The guitar solos sound horrible, the production is bottom- of- the- barrel and I cringe when thinking of this album and the money wasted on it. I discovered later that this was basically Frankenstein's monster, Steve Harris having discovered Pro Tools chopped bits and pieces from many different performances for each song and spliced them together!

I love Iron Maiden. They were my favorite band in high school and as far as their live albums go, Live After Death or Rock In Rio is all you need. If you do not own this one, keep it that way.

I hate to break it you you, Maiden fans. But, if, by now, you havent heard these cd's before, its really not worth it. I am not a huge fan of Dickinson's vocal abilities. Can I play with madness has a very bad into, the mixing of the live act is very bad and I just think that when Steve Harrie compiled all this music, he must have been on drugs or was drunk beacause he said that these are some of the 'finer' Iron Maiden Moments... well if these are the 'finer' moments.... I wouldnt pay money to see them in a 'bad' moment..........