Bring Your Daughter... to the Slaughter

Infobox Single
Name = Bring Your Daughter...to the Slaughter


Artist = Iron Maiden
from Album = No Prayer for the Dying
B-side = "I'm a Mover"
"Communication Breakdown"
Genre = Heavy metal
Released = 24 December 1990
Recorded = Summer 1990
Length = 3:50
Label = EMI
Writer = Bruce Dickinson
Last single = "Holy Smoke "
(1990)
This single = "Bring Your Daughter... to the Slaughter
(1990)
Next single = "Be Quick or Be Dead"
(1992)
Misc = Extra album cover
Upper caption = Alternate cover
Type = studio


Lower caption = Alternative cover

"Bring Your Daughter... to the Slaughter" is the second single from the album "No Prayer for the Dying", Iron Maiden's first full-length album in over two years (following the 1988 release "Seventh Son of a Seventh Son"). The song was originally recorded and released by Bruce Dickinson on the soundtrack album to the movie "". The original version of the song can now be found on disc 2 of "The Best of Bruce Dickinson".

When Dickinson recorded with Iron Maiden in the autumn of 1990 following a two year hiatus, the band recorded their own version of the song, which became the first Iron Maiden single to reach #1 on the UK charts. The single also received the dubious honour of a Golden Raspberry Award for "Worst Original Song" of 1989.

The B-side features cover versions of songs by Free and Led Zeppelin, respectively.

The promo video clip for the song features footage from the 1960 film "The City of the Dead" (also known as "Horror Hotel"), starring Christopher LeeFact|date=February 2008. A sound clip from the same film is used by Rob Zombie in the song "Dragula", the video stars Graham ChapmanFact|date=February 2008.

Dickinson once explained what the song meant and how it related to the "Nightmare on Elm Street" films: "Here I tried to sum up what I thought "Nightmare On Elm Street" movies are really about, and it's all about adolescent fear of period pains. That's what I think it is - deep down. When a young girl first gets her period she bleeds and it happens at night, and so she is afraid to go to sleep and it's a very terrifying time for her, sexually as well, and "Nightmare On Elm Street" targets that fear. The real slaughter in the Freddie movies is when she loses her virginity. That is the rather nasty thought behind it all, but that's what makes those kind of movies frightening."

The song was the only track from "No Prayer for the Dying" to survive on tours after Bruce Dickinson left Iron Maiden in 1993. More recently however it is rarely aired live; aside from notable appearances in the early summer of 2003.

Track listing

# "Bring Your Daughter...to the Slaughter" (Bruce Dickinson) – 4:45
# "I'm a Mover" (Free cover) – 3:21
# "Communication Breakdown" (Led Zeppelin cover) – 2:41

Versions

Credits

*Bruce Dickinson – vocals
*Dave Murray – guitar
*Janick Gers – guitar,
*Steve Harris – bass guitar, backing vocals
*Nicko McBrain – drums