New Iron Maiden

Powerslave is great but a bit too repetitive. Most songs sounds the same, except ROTAM, of course. I wouldn't put it among my favorites (Brave New World, SSOASS, Somewhere in Time, Book of Souls and maybe The X Factor).

Tom Ozric wrote: ^ I can agree with that. It's pretty darn hard to have 90+ minutes of perfection, especially with a back-catalogue of incredible work. BNW is pretty awesome, AMoLaD too, however, on-par are DoD, TFF, and TBoS. And even then, still hard to top much of the 80's classics and The X Factor. No Prayer holds the lowest rate for me, even though a weak 3 star. Virtual XI being a 3.5 for me. Then it's all 4's and a few 5's.

To me, Virtual XI is their weakest effort; also Dance of Death was rather uneven yet better than TFF which bored me terribly last time I gave it a chance.

No Prayer... was ok with me but it came after SSOTSS plus they had lost Adrian Smith. It was a failed attempt to get back to the roots. Still there are some songs I like on it (the singles Holy Smoke and Bring Your Daughter...being the weakest songs for me).

Tom Ozric wrote: ^ Well, the title-track is in the Top-Ten for Maiden, if not Top-5, but the album overall falls short of Somewhere In Time. I think so, anyway. And Powerslave has Back In The Village, which has always been a slightly 'lesser' track on an otherwise BRILLIANT album.

new IM album has 4 songs I don't like.
Back in the Village is more than ok with me.

To me, the new album falls short of even Brave New World which I enjoyed a lot more and had no filler songs IMO.

Tom Ozric wrote: ^ Just BRILLIANT, more consistent than Seventh Son...........

oh, are you serious??

Tom Ozric wrote: Whoa !! Revelation !! Somewhere In Time is a permanent fixture on my TT lately and could well surpass Powerslave as the best Bruce-led album The debut for Di'anno The X Factor for Blaze

Really glad to hear SOMEWHERE IN TIME has made sweet dear love to your eardrums lately.
Certainly a vinyl remaster would do that album some sweet justice. :)
I've been trying to tell many people I know for years just how good that album is. Do they listen to me?
Of course not.
It's in their top 3 for me. I've adored it for around 12 years now.

Hocus Pocus ?? I never heard their version

^ Not to mention NEKTAR - they covered King Of Twilight too.

Revelation !!!!!
I've had Somewhere In Time on cassette since shortly after it appeared in '86. I listened to it a lot back then, but moved on from it and haven't listened to it since, maybe 1990 or so. I bought the vinyl re-issue yesterday and listening to it absolutely FLOORED me !! A remarkable album, easily up there with Powerslave. The use of guitar-synth was a risk for them to take, but adds so much texture to the songs. And the production is bang-on. It sounds quite mighty today. In fact, I gonna plonk it on the TT right now.
And then The Book Of Souls.......

Catcher10 wrote: They probably grew up listening to Yes, Genesis, Pink Floyd, GG, Hawkwind, stuff like that as well as AC/DC, Zeppelin, Scorpions, The Who and the Beatles .....but that latter group does not make them prog or prog-related.

I like The Final Frontier a lot, especially the second side. The Talisman, Starblind, When the Wild Wind Blows and to a lesser extent The Man Who Would Be King are amazing.