Best post 2000 Iron Maiden

[Lupton]

Let’s see, post 2000 Maiden takes on average about 8 minutes to accomplish what they used to do in 4 minutes.  After becoming familiar with the tunes, I find myself skipping alot on those albums. These are the usually the songs I listen to, that is to say I don’t skip:

Brave New World
The Wicker Man, Ghost of the Navigator, Brave New World, The Fallen Angel, Out of the Silent Planet

Dance of Death
Wildest Dreams, Rainmaker, Montségur, Dance of Death, New Frontier, Paschendale, Age of Innocence

A Matter of Life and Death
The Pilgrim, The Reincarnation of Benjamin Breeg, For the Greater Good of God, Lord of Light

The Final Frontier
El Dorado, The Alchemist, Isle of Avalon, The Talisman, The Man Who Would Be King

Book of Souls
If Eternity Should Fail, Speed Of Light, The Red And The Black, The Book Of Souls, Death Or Glory, Empire Of The Clouds


So it looks like Dance of Death wins with Book of Souls coming in 2nd. It appears I find most of AMOLAD somewhat boring.

[The Walrus]

^^ I almost published a post earlier with my favorite songs from every Maiden album until I realized that the true list of songs that I always go back to is actually pretty short from the reunion era...

Brave New World
The Wicker Man, Ghost of the Navigator, Blood Brothers

Dance of Death
Paschendale

A Matter of Life and Death
Brighter Than A Thousand Suns, For the Greater Good of God

(nothing from Final Frontier)

The Book of Souls
If Eternity Should Fail, Speed of Light, The Great Unknown, Death or Glory, Shadows of the Valley, Empire of the Clouds

[cramx3]

I think it's easier to list the songs I DONT enjoy so much from the reunion era:

Brave New World:

The Nomad

Dance of Death:

Gates of Tomorrow, New Frontier

A Matter of Life and Death:

Brighter Than A Thousand Suns

Final Frontier:

Satellite 15 (I do like TFF), Isle of Avalon

The Book of Souls:

The Man of Sorrows

[Cool Chris]

my unfair stereotype of the show is "Dave Murray stage right whipping off fucking blistering solo after blistering solo, Adrian stage center holding down the rhythm, and Janick stage left practicing some odd form of auto-erotic asphyxiation or auditioning for Cinderella, I'm not sure which."

Made me chortle...

[kaos2900]

AMOLAD gets the slight edge over Brave New World.

[The Curious Orange]

For a band this late into their career, all 5 of those albums are stunning.

[Mister Gold]

AMOLAD gets the slight edge over Brave New World.

Yeah, I'd say the songwriting on AMOLAD is a hair stronger than BNW. However I think Brave New World is still the best sounding album Maiden ever did. Sadly Steve's obsession with recreating the 'live sound' on a studio album has resulted in the subsequent reunion era albums sounding a bit too muddied. AMOLAD seems like the only time that Steve's goal actually worked for me sonically.

[Stadler]

I'm ripping my Maiden DVDs to harddrive (audio only) so I've been kind of immersed in the reunion era for the past couple weeks*, and man, is it solid.    Comparing the stuff from '90-'93, Bruce is SO much better today.  I don't know if it's him taking better care of his voice, being more invested in the band, or steroids, but man.   I'm SO impressed with the way the three guitarists intertwine - they rarely play the same thing at the same time - and the way the sound is almost like a metal orchestra at times.   

Dance of Death is still my favorite, but it's starting to be so only because of inertia or nostalgia.  AMOLAD is really growing on me over the last few months.  After seeing Blood Brothers close the "Book of Souls" tour, it's a high point for me as well.  So happy that one of my favorite bands is still delivering, and there's not even an ounce of "well, I wish I liked this, I SHOULD like this, but...".  I would not like Marillion if there weren't the first five albums in the catalogue.  I probably wouldn't be here if Dream Theater never released I&W through SFAM.  But I can honestly tell you, even though they're the first band I ever saw live (as an opening act!) and I've been a big fan since '82, if Maiden the band just "began" with Brave New World, I'd still be a huge fan right now.