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topographicbroadways 
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Posted: March 11 2011 at 07:46 |
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I dug out the Brave New World C.D earlier and it is absolutely brilliant but absolutely ruined for me by a horrible snare sound all the way through that is mixed too loud on the whole album. Musically amazing though and one of the best 'comeback' albums of all time.
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Posted: March 10 2011 at 16:49 |
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Powerslave has always been my favorite. But i hold 7th Son in high regard
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Fox On The Rocks
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Posted: March 09 2011 at 19:29 |
Tough Choice but for me:
1.Number Of The Beast
2.Powerslave
3.Piece Of Mind
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TheLionOfPrague
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Posted: March 09 2011 at 15:40 |
Brave New World.
All the songs are awesome ("Mercenary" not THAT awesome maybe, but it's a great song anyway).
I also love A Matter Of Life And Death, nobody mentioned it. It has two of Maiden's best songs, "Reincarnation Of Benjamin Breeg" and "For The Greater Good of God".
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TLM170
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Posted: March 02 2011 at 09:07 |
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7TH son!! my favorite!!
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ThaNuke
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Posted: February 09 2011 at 21:58 |
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I like the gritty sound that the first 3 albums had, but most of the pieces they wrote later on seemed more "finished". When you compare Run to the Hills to The Trooper, The Trooper just sounds much more clean. I also noticed this change with Rush.
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WON'T YOU COME INTO MY ROOM
I WANNA SHOW YOU ALL MY WARES
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Hanyou
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Posted: February 07 2011 at 13:19 |
 The T wrote:
Hanyou wrote:
The T wrote:
The only sure thing is which are the worse IM albums: No Prayer for the Dying, Piece of Mind, and the last one (The Final Frontier).
I vote for Somewhere in time, followed by 7th son, followed by X-factor and Powerslave |
What's so bad about Piece of Mind?
I haven't managed to get all the way through the last album, even though I got it like six months ago. It just sounds tedious. Maybe it's great, so I'll withhold my opinions on that.
My favorite album, though, is definitely Seventh Son, followed by Somewhere in Time. I find Somewhere in Time underrated--the songs on that album were all so well-constructed and consistently good, I can't think of a single dud. |
I just think it has only one good song, The Trooper. I don't like it too much. But it's less bad than the other two I mentioned... |
Hmm, I never felt that way. Where Eagles Dare is a great opener (I might actually like it more than Aces High), Flight of Icarus, Die with Your Boots On, The Trooper, and Sun and Steel are fun (especially Flight of Icarus, which I listen to a ton), and Revelations and To Tame a Land are just spectacular. The only not-so-great song is Still Life, and it's not bad by any stretch of the imagination. So that leaves Quest for Fire, which is admittedly stupid as hell.
The sentiments you express, though, apply to my listening experience for Number of the Beast. I love the title track and Hallowed Be Thy Name (the latter of which is arguably Iron Maiden's best song), but none of the rest really do much for me. Especially Run to the Hills, which has to be the most overrated song in Maiden's catalog. Good opening, but after that it just falls apart. I find myself listening to NotB less than any other Maiden album, save maybe Killers, Virtual XI, and NPFTD.
To each his own, I guess. Good to see Somewhere in Time is someone's favorite.
Edited by Hanyou - February 07 2011 at 13:21
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The T
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Posted: February 07 2011 at 12:06 |
Hanyou wrote:
The T wrote:
The only sure thing is which are the worse IM albums: No Prayer for the Dying, Piece of Mind, and the last one (The Final Frontier).
I vote for Somewhere in time, followed by 7th son, followed by X-factor and Powerslave |
What's so bad about Piece of Mind?
I haven't managed to get all the way through the last album, even though I got it like six months ago. It just sounds tedious. Maybe it's great, so I'll withhold my opinions on that.
My favorite album, though, is definitely Seventh Son, followed by Somewhere in Time. I find Somewhere in Time underrated--the songs on that album were all so well-constructed and consistently good, I can't think of a single dud. |
I just think it has only one good song, The Trooper. I don't like it too much. But it's less bad than the other two I mentioned...
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The Block
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Posted: February 06 2011 at 14:28 |
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I voted for 7th Son, but I'm surprised at the low number of ratings that Somewhere in time has gotten.
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Hanyou
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Posted: February 06 2011 at 11:53 |
The T wrote:
The only sure thing is which are the worse IM albums: No Prayer for the Dying, Piece of Mind, and the last one (The Final Frontier).
I vote for Somewhere in time, followed by 7th son, followed by X-factor and Powerslave |
What's so bad about Piece of Mind?
I haven't managed to get all the way through the last album, even though I got it like six months ago. It just sounds tedious. Maybe it's great, so I'll withhold my opinions on that.
My favorite album, though, is definitely Seventh Son, followed by Somewhere in Time. I find Somewhere in Time underrated--the songs on that album were all so well-constructed and consistently good, I can't think of a single dud.
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CPicard
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Posted: February 05 2011 at 15:15 |
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I like Piece of Mind... Oh, not all the songs (For me, "Quest for Fire", "Revelations" are rather insipid), but I can't dislike an album including "Where Eagles Dare" or "To Tame A Land" or even "Still Life".
But I never have been able to like the X Factor : there were... interesting ideas on this album, but the voice of Blaze Bayley...
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Posted: February 04 2011 at 07:24 |
The T wrote:
The only sure thing is which are the worse IM albums: No Prayer for the Dying, Piece of Mind, and the last one (The Final Frontier).
I vote for Somewhere in time, followed by 7th son, followed by X-factor and Powerslave |
Finally we agree on something. The X Factor is criminally underrated. 
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Posted: February 02 2011 at 22:43 |
The only sure thing is which are the worse IM albums: No Prayer for the Dying, Piece of Mind, and the last one (The Final Frontier).
I vote for Somewhere in time, followed by 7th son, followed by X-factor and Powerslave
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Posted: February 02 2011 at 21:56 |
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Piece of Time for me, and it's got my favorite song, To Tame a Land!
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Posted: January 31 2011 at 11:42 |
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Seventh Son of a Seventh Son/Somewhere in Time. Sorry, but is impossible to decide between these two.
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tupan
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Posted: January 27 2011 at 08:14 |
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1. Powerslave
2. A Matter of Life and Death
3. Seventh Son
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"Prog is Not Dead and never has been." (Will Sergeant, from Echo And The Bunnymen)
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Anthony H.
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Posted: January 26 2011 at 10:38 |
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Definitely Powerslave.
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ThinLizzy
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Posted: January 26 2011 at 07:32 |
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The album with their longest song is winning ...
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And then one day you find
Ten years have got behind you
No one told you when to run
You missed the starting gun
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Pekka
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Posted: January 26 2011 at 05:03 |
1. Seventh Son
2. Somewhere in Time
3. Brave New World
4. The Number of the Beast
5. Powerslave
6. Piece of Mind
+ the rest.
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Ivan_Melgar_M
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Posted: January 25 2011 at 19:22 |
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7th son of a 7th son!!!This is the first vote!!!Unbelievable!Great album!
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