| 词条 | Holy Smoke (song) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| name = Holy Smoke | cover = Holy Smoke (Iron Maiden single - cover art).jpg | alt = | type = single | artist = Iron Maiden | album = No Prayer for the Dying | B-side = {{ubl|"All in Your Mind"|"Kill Me Ce Soir"}} | released = 10 September 1990 | format = | recorded = 1990 | studio = | venue = | genre = Heavy metal | length = 3:47[1] | label = EMI | writer = Steve Harris Bruce Dickinson | producer = | prev_title = Infinite Dreams (Live in 1988) | prev_year = 1989 | next_title = Bring Your Daughter... to the Slaughter | next_year = 1990 }} "Holy Smoke" is a song by English heavy metal band Iron Maiden. It is the first single release to feature guitarist Janick Gers, who joined the band in mid-1990. It was released just weeks before the album, No Prayer for the Dying, and climbed to number three on the UK Singles Chart. SynopsisThe song deals with the many televangelist scandals that took place in the United States in the late 1980s, including mentions of "Jimmy the Reptile" (a reference to Jimmy Swaggart), "The TV Queen" (a possible reference to Tammy Faye Bakker), Noah, and "plenty of bad preachers for the Devil to stoke." Contrary to what some believe, however, this song is not aimed at the Christian religion itself, but rather the people that abuse it to make gains for themselves. This is one of the very few Iron Maiden songs with profanity in the lyrics (for example, "Flies around shit/bees around honey" and "I've lived in filth/I've lived in sin/and I still smell cleaner than the shit you're in"), which is replaced by gunshot sounds in censored versions. The song is atypical for the band standards, being short and straight. It features a common pop-rock song structure with intro, verse, chorus, verse, chorus, solo, verse and ending with another chorus. The guitar solos are very fiery, making use of artificial harmonics, sweep picking, tapping and wild bends. The first solo is played by Janick and second one is played by Dave Murray. The band took a humorous approach for the video of the song, as the band members are filmed on Steve Harris's farm at Sheering, playing football and driving a tractor, while everything happens in bright daylight. There are similarities with Deep Purple's Perfect Strangers video, from 1984, such as writing on an amp behind Janick that reads, "Mind Your Head", possibly a nod to a sign on the bridge shown early in the Perfect Strangers video. Bruce Dickinson is bouncing in a turnip field, dancing randomly and wearing a pink T-shirt, Dave Murray appears playing guitar with his feet in a creek, and Janick Gers plays with a toy guitar in a swimming pool wearing only a pair of white swimming trunks, alternating with him in a goalkeeper kit playing his own guitar. The band's producer, Martin Birch, can also be seen on the video, wearing a kind of sadomasochist costume in some scenes. All this footage is interspersed with scenes of the band rehearsing in the Barnyard recording studio. The video was directed by Harris himself. The B-side has covers of Stray's "All in Your Mind" and Golden Earring's "Kill Me Ce Soir".[1] Track listing
PersonnelProduction credits are adapted from the 12 inch vinyl cover.[2]
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Chart performance
References1. ^{{cite web | url = http://www.discogs.com/Iron-Maiden-Holy-Smoke/master/20726 | title = Holy Smoke | accessdate = 7 April 2012}} {{IronMaiden}}2. ^1 {{cite AV media notes |title="Holy Smoke" 12 Inch Single|others=Iron Maiden |date=10 September 1990 |publisher=EMI }} 3. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.irishcharts.ie/search/placement |title=Irish singles archive |accessdate=14 October 2011 |publisher=irishcharts.ie |work=IRMA}} 4. ^{{cite web |url=http://swisscharts.com/showitem.asp?interpret=Iron+Maiden&titel=Holy+Smoke&cat=s |title=Iron Maiden - 'Holy Smoke' |accessdate=14 October 2011 |publisher=Swiss Hitparade}} 5. ^{{cite web | url = http://www.officialcharts.com/archive-chart/_/1/1990-09-22/ | title = Top 40 Official Singles Chart UK Archive 22 September 1990 | accessdate = 14 October 2011|publisher=Official Charts Company}} 6 : Iron Maiden songs|1990 songs|1990 singles|Songs written by Steve Harris (musician)|Songs written by Bruce Dickinson|EMI Records singles |
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