Line #14 YMMV/BruceDickinson


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2	* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic:
3	%% (ZCE/WANE) ** Music/BlackSabbath playing "Sabbath Bloody Sabbath"? Great. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dgkmt35-shw The same song performed by Bruce Dickinson?]] Unbelievably awesome.
4	** "Road to Hell" and "The Magician", from ''Accident of Birth''. Both pretty Maiden-ish songs for what Bruce's career is about, especially the former, which wouldn't be out of place in some of the most melodic albums. When you have Adrian Smith in the band, nothing can go wrong.
5	%% (ZCE/WANE) ** His cover of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHr9zmlCNs4 "Black Widow"]] originally by Music/AliceCooper with narration by Creator/VincentPrice, both fairly {{Large Ham}}s in their own right. Bruce brings enough pork for both parts.
6	%% (ZCE/WANE) ** Pretty much all of ''Skunkworks'', but [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWvblzFGXto "Meltdown"]] in particular.
7	%% (ZCE/WANE) ** His cover of Music/DeepPurple's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSLDly-xafE "Perfect Strangers"]] with Music/DreamTheater.
8	%% (ZCE/WANE) ** His cover of Music/{{Scorpions\|Band}} [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qumAZeG8Bwc "The Zoo"]].
9	* BrokenBase:
10	** His fans are EXTREMELY divided with regards to ''Skunkworks''. Either it's Bruce being more experimental incorporating some bluesier and jazzier sounds into some more standard hard rock than metal, or it's yet another typical '90s hard rock album with Bruce singing over it, attempting to cash in on the 90s grunge trend. The fact that it was released in 1996 doesn't help matters either, although since then opinions of it have started to improve.
11	** ''Tyranny of Souls'' is either one of his best albums or one of his worst. Either it's a continuation of an epic sound on his previous album, or it's a rushed, sloppy rehash of ''Chemical Wedding'' with none of the focus or joy.
12	%% (ZCE) ** The reaction of long-time Maiden fans to the more modern sounding music created by his offspring.
13	* CreatorWorship: Bruce is among one of the most beloved figures in heavy metal amongst not only fans but fellow musicians as well. And considering his status as one of the genre's best and most charismatic vocalists and nicest guys, in addition to his jack-of-all-trades as a fencer, pilot, author, director, screenwriter, actor, marketing director and entrepreneur, it's no surprise that he gets this status.
14	* FandomRivalry: For some reason he seems to have one with Music/MotleyCrue's Nikki Sixx, likely due to Bruce's then-wife cheating on him with Nikki. Go to a video when Nikki talks about the experience, and an overwhelming number of Bruce's fans will be expressing their bitter hatred for him.
15	* OlderThanTheyThink: The Flight 666 experiment was actually pulled off 12 years before, during the ''Skunkworks'' tour, where Bruce flew his band around Europe in a small plane for the tour.
16	* SignatureSong: Often agreed upon to be "Tears of the Dragon", though "Accident of Birth" and "Chemical Wedding" often come to mind too.
17	* VindicatedByHistory: ''Skunkworks'' to a lot of fans. In fact, most claim (and are probably correct) that at the time of its release, the album got overshadowed by the 90s grunge fad dying out and was tossed into the "yet another 90s hard rock album" pile. As the years went by after its release, most fans ended up admitting to really loving it.

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