About halfway through Powerslave, and this is already the best of the first five albums for me so far. This is some killer stuff.
Cool! Probably the best they ever sounded, and the riffiest for sure. I remember getting this my junior year. I'll be interested to hear if you end up thinking of it as album with awesome bookends but not much in the middle.
We must be the same age, as this came out in my junior year.
I must admit that I was not into this album when it came out. I found it very cliche'd.
Fast song to open which didn't impress me
Song about nuclear war with a recycled riff that I had on by at least 4 other bands by this time.
Instrumental that pales with their previous ones
Title track with a contrived and predictable mid section.
Really long song that felt long for the sake of being long. I was never a huge fan of Rime.
It seemed every interview they did at the time, they were gloating about how awesome they were that they could write a really long song like that.
And an Egyptian styled stage show, a year after Dio came through with one.
I almost (gasp!) skipped the tour that year had Accept not been opening. Even during the show, I have a few memories, and one of them was the "all of you" at the end of Revelations. I remember hearing that live and thinking it was a Dio rip.
I think the only song I liked was Back In The Village.
I remember thinking Somewhere In Time sounded so fresh and new.
That all said, my opinion of Powerslave and SiT has flipped. Powerslave has aged greatly and SiT has not.