If a Top 50/75/100 IM songs is happening at some point, I am starting a run through of their discography now to spread it out a bit. When I went through Rush's albums for that thread I got pretty burned out toward the end.
I just started this myself; I'll try to give little thoughts along the way. I was in an Iron Maiden mood today, and used that as momentum to listen to the debut.
So, I remain pretty much steadfast in the opinion I've held of the Di'Anno era for years now: A lot of it is good music, though it's a little uneven, but most of it is not really for me. I'm just not into the straightforward, rough-and-tumble vibe they're going for on a lot of these early tracks, I'm not a huge fan of PdA as lead singer, although he has his moments, and I find a lot of the lyrics, especially the sexual ones, genuinely off-putting.
But you can hear the seeds of their later greatness in a lot of these songs, which alone would make me interested in this album as a historical document of how one of my favorite bands came to be. And Remember Tomorrow and Phantom of the Opera just are great songs, with many of the qualities that I love about their later material.
Also, I really noticed this time through how poor the production on this album is. It takes a lot of the teeth out of Phantom especially, which sounds far better on
Live After Death. If it wasn't for the two standout songs, I would probably prefer
Killers on grounds of production alone.