Iron Maiden - top albums & songs
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Topic: Iron Maiden - top albums & songs
Posted By: Hiram
Subject: Iron Maiden - top albums & songs
Date Posted: March 11 2022 at 12:18
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Iron Maiden are one of the most important and influential metal bands ever. What are your top 3 albums and top 10 songs from them? Feel free to list more or less if you like. I'm not counting points or anything. Any discussion about the band is encouraged. Top 3 albums: 1. Powerslave 2. Piece of Mind 3. Somewhere in Time Top 10 songs: 1. Aces High 2. Powerslave 3. Rime of the Ancient Mariner 4. Alexander the Great 5. Fear of the Dark 6. Hallowed Be Thy Name 7. The Trooper 8. The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner 9. Caught Somewhere in Time 10. Back in the Village |
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Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: March 11 2022 at 12:25
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Top Album 1. The Number of the Beast Top Song 1. Run to the Hills
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Posted By: Archisorcerus
Date Posted: March 11 2022 at 12:38
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Top 3 Albums: 1-) The Number of the Beast 2-) Fear of the Dark 3-) Seventh Son of a Seventh Son Top 10 Songs: 1-) Judas Be My Guide 2-) The Evil That Men Do 3-) 22 Acacia Avenue 4-) Where Eagles Dare 5-) Aces High 6-) Rime of the Ancient Mariner 7-) Powerslave 8-) Be Quick or Be Dead 9-) Sign of the Cross 10-) Como estáis amigos |
Posted By: Gentle and Giant
Date Posted: March 11 2022 at 14:07
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1. Killers 2. Iron Maiden 3. Piece of Mind I've always preferred Paul Di'Anno over Bruce Dickinson and those first 2 albums were so raw. ------------- Oh, for the wings of any bird, other than a battery hen |
Posted By: Catcher10
Date Posted: March 11 2022 at 15:49
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1. Piece Of Mind 2. Powerslave 3. Number of the Beast -------------   
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Posted By: mellotronwave
Date Posted: March 12 2022 at 01:24
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Song Paschendale |
Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: March 12 2022 at 01:56
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my Top 3 albums: Somewhere In Time Seventh Son of the Seventh Son Powerslave
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Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: March 12 2022 at 02:30
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Debut Killers (Maiden Japan) Number top songs will most likely include all tracvks on the debut and fill the rest with some from Killers. Don't get me wrong, I like the Dickinson era, but I was a Maiden fan right from their debut album. ------------- let's just stay above the moral melee prefer the sink to the gutter keep our sand-castle virtues content to be a doer as well as a thinker, prefer lifting our pen rather than un-sheath our sword |
Posted By: David_D
Date Posted: March 29 2022 at 16:53
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1. Powerslave  ------------- quality over quantity, and all kind of PopcoRn almost beyond |
Posted By: Guldbamsen
Date Posted: March 30 2022 at 00:44
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Back in my teen years I overdosed on Maiden. Waaaaaay too much Maiden in one go..or one year…but this has effectively brought me off them for over 20 years. Anyhoo the one I always reach for and consequently also their best release per my tastebuds is Live After Death. As for pure studio albums? Powerslave, Killers, Somewhere In Time and Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son. ------------- “The Guide says there is an art to flying or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.” - Douglas Adams |
Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: March 30 2022 at 00:47
one of the best live albums ever
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Guldbamsen wrote:Posted By: The-Station-Pilot
Date Posted: March 30 2022 at 05:20
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Top 5 Albums 1 Powerslave 2 Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son 3 Brave New World 4 Somewhere In Time 5 The Final Frontier Top 10 Songs 1 Aces High 2 Sign Of The Cross 3 The Thin Line Between Love And Hate 4 Powerslave 5 The Clairvoyant 6 The Prisoner 7 The Evil That Men Do 8 Out Of The Silent Planet 9 The Reincarnation Of Benjamin Breeg 10 Stranger In A Strange Land
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Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: March 30 2022 at 06:29
I think The Final Frontier is one of their worst albums. Funny and interesting how we all see things differently.  |
Posted By: Necrotica
Date Posted: March 30 2022 at 06:31
The Final Frontier would be in my top 3  ------------- Take me down, to the underground Won't you take me down, to the underground Why oh why, there is no light And if I can't sleep, can you hold my life https://www.youtube.com/@CocoonMasterBrendan-wh3sd |
Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: March 30 2022 at 06:34
i ranked all Maiden albums on a metal site. TFF is bottom 3 if I remember right
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Posted By: Necrotica
Date Posted: March 30 2022 at 06:37
Yeah, I think I just have an odd opinion on Iron Maiden albums. I have Seventh Son as one of my least favorite Iron Maiden albums and can't stand a lot a good chunk of that album, but to each their own ------------- Take me down, to the underground Won't you take me down, to the underground Why oh why, there is no light And if I can't sleep, can you hold my life https://www.youtube.com/@CocoonMasterBrendan-wh3sd |
Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: March 30 2022 at 06:40
SSOTSS blew my mind when I was a teenager. For me it's an all killer no filler album. Top 3 Maiden albums for me. The only later day album I really like is Brave New World.
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Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: March 30 2022 at 07:13
Iron Maiden's Number of the Beast and Piece of Mind albums were real Killers, but after that, all of their albums failed to take off with me, unlike their pilot Bruce Dickinson.   |
Posted By: DreamTechPlus
Date Posted: July 21 2022 at 04:02
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To be honest, after Dianno left I think they lost their mojo. I like Powerslave but I can't deal with the epic length tracks, including Rime of the Ancient Mariner. They seemed to succumb to formula by then, and Dickinson's got kind of a pitchy quality to me. I dunno, nothing they did after Killers had the same viscera or punch. But Killers, though? Now that's a great f**kin' album. Wall to wall hits. Love, DreamTechPlus.
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Posted By: Lesanderd
Date Posted: August 28 2023 at 05:33
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Somewhere in Time Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son Powerslave Iron Maiden Piece of Mind songs The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner Rime Of The Ancient Mariner Remember Tomorrow Hallowed be Thy Name Revelations https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwijgaXin_-AAxVYh_0HHT5QD5IQFnoECCsQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FHallowed_Be_Thy_Name_%28song%29&usg=AOvVaw1ncdiq7arBqc-wk2xLGy7o&opi=89978449" rel="nofollow -
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Posted By: Nogbad_The_Bad
Date Posted: August 28 2023 at 06:24
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Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son Powerslave The Number Of The Beast Piece Of Mind Killers I probably don't need anything more than that ------------- Ian Host of the Post-Avant Jazzcore Happy Hour on Progrock.com https://podcasts.progrock.com/post-avant-jazzcore-happy-hour/ |
Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: August 28 2023 at 06:27
Maybe their self-titled debut, which I always thought was better than Killers, and Somewhere In Time (one of my favorites from the band).
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Posted By: MikeEnRegalia
Date Posted: August 28 2023 at 06:36
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Powerslave is THE iconic Iron Maiden album IMHO. ------------- https://awesomeprog.com/users/Mike" rel="nofollow">Recently listened to: 
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Posted By: Octopus II
Date Posted: August 28 2023 at 10:00
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Iron Maiden Killers Number Of The Beast
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Posted By: Hiram
Date Posted: August 28 2023 at 10:53
Agreed. If someone came and asked what's this Iron Maiden I've heard about, I'd play them Powerslave. Not too long ago I gave the debut and Killers a listen after a few years and no matter how much I wanted to like them, I didn't.
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Posted By: Hector Enrique
Date Posted: September 29 2023 at 00:15
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The podium of studio albums: Powerslave / Seventh Son of a Seventh Son / Somewhere in Time. My favourite songs are the ones that are closest to the progressive genre, mentioned by Harris as one of the band's greatest influences: In alphabetical order: - Alexander the Great (Somewhere in Time): very progressive and powerful! - Face in the Sand (Dance of Death): one of the best introductions in their discography. - Ghost of the Navigator (Brave New World) - Hallowed Be Thy Name (The Number of the Beast) - Phantom of the Opera (Iron Maiden>Live After Death version) chilling initial guitars and an extraordinary development. - Paschandale (Dance of Death) - Powerslave (Powerslave>Live After Death version) - Rime of the Ancient Mariner (Powerslave) after the screeching of the ghostly ship for eternal minutes, guitars explode - Revelations (Piece of Mind>Live After Death version): the arpeggios of the guitars with Dickinson's voice, out of this world. - Seventh Son of the Seventh Son (SSotSS) - The Classman (Virtual XI>Live in Rio version) unsurpassed Dickinson's interaction with the crowd - When the Wild Wind Blows (The Final Frontier): epic instrumental section. For now, the last great song of the heavy metal band that is closest to the progressive world. It's impossible for me to make a shorter list... ------------- Héctor Enrique |
Posted By: Jeffro
Date Posted: September 29 2023 at 11:19
Wrathchild remains a favorite (and killer!) Maiden tune but otherwise I agree about the first two albums. For me, they just haven't held up. ------------- We all dwell in an amber subdomain, amber subdomain, amber subdomain. My face IS a maserati |
Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: September 29 2023 at 13:33
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I'm not really an Iron Maiden aficionado, but I did have a good friend who was and exposed me to various 80's IM albums. While my bedroom was covered with posters of sports cars, his was covered in Iron Maiden posters. Speaking as a layperson, I would have thought that both The Number of the Beast and Powerslave were the iconic Maiden albums. I tried to ring the Beast once, but got a deep growly voice that informed me, "Sorry, wrong number" and then hung up. I guess I misdialed. |
Posted By: mellotronwave
Date Posted: September 29 2023 at 15:58
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Not a fan but I like their Paschendaele epic track a lot |