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2024-01-01T18:59:32+00:00
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Scream for me, Minds!@unblinkingeye has just started #itmusthavebeenyears and I'm going to pair it with #metalmonday to do something I've been threatening to do for the last year or so: present Bruce Dickinson's solo discography. Conveniently he's made five solo albums, and there are five Mondays in January.The first of these is 1990's "Tattooed Millionaire", which Kerrap! reviewed as one of the worst albums of the year. This album is not, emphatically not, an Iron Maiden soundalike - for the most part, it's cock rock of the kind I'd expect from degenerate Los Angeles gutter-trash bands like Mötley Crüe, rather than someone known for having a history degree. But, Bruce being Bruce, even when he tried to write sleazy, lowest-common-denominator lyrics he still managed to be slightly clever with it.I came to the conclusion a year and a half ago that Bruce should be promoted to one of my god-tier heroes because he could write an album that, by all rights, I should hate - and yet I don't, and I can't, objectively not very good though it is. I don't play this album much, I admit - and there are better tracks than "Zulu Lulu" that I've provided here, though they don't really reflect the content of the album (otherwise it'd have been "Gypsy Road", or possibly "Born in '58").Also, if anyone was unaware, this is the album that introduced Janick Gers to Iron Maiden. He'd been unemployed for five years since contributing to Jonathan "crooked-smiled-nonce" King's failed Gogmagog project, and when Adrian Smith announced his departure, Bruce suggested Janick as a ready-made replacement for his favourite songwriting partner. Bruce played a gig with the solo band, then the rest of Iron Maiden joined in with Janick on guitar, and that was announced there and then as the new line-up. https://yewtu.be/watch?v=jJfLGLe1pQA