THE Iron Maiden Thread

[Quadrochosis]

Are Thousand Suns/Wrathchild and Paschendale/DoD the only songs that have been switching each night?

[skydivingninja]

From the setlists I've seen so far Brighter has only been played at the first show, otherwise its been Wrathchild.  But yeah, those seem to be the only two spots switching.

[Quadrochosis]

From the setlists I've seen so far Brighter has only been played at the first show, otherwise its been Wrathchild.  But yeah, those seem to be the only two spots switching.

Oh, OK. Have Pasch/DoD been switched every other night, or is there some random way they're doing it? Trying to figure out what MSG will get. Based on if they are switching every other night, I'm gonna get DoD.

[skydivingninja]

Its been kinda random.  Paschendale has been played more than DoD though.

[UnutterableSquid]

My album rankings, feel free to flame away:

1.   Powerslave
2.   Somewhere in Time
3.   The Number of the Beast
4.   Piece of Mind
5.   Brave New World
6.   Seventh Son of a Seventh Son
7.   Iron Maiden
8.   A Matter of Life and Death
9.   Dance of Death
10.   Fear of the Dark
11.   Killers
12.   No Prayer for the Dying
13.   Virtual XI
14.   The X Factor

[ZBomber]

Can someone PM me the setlist for Iron Maiden? I want to know Maiden's set, but I don't want to see the Dream Theater set, so I'm too afraid to look for it in the thread setlist here.

edit - Thanks Quad!

[Quadrochosis]

My album rankings, feel free to flame away:

1.   Powerslave
2.   Somewhere in Time
3.   The Number of the Beast
4.   Piece of Mind
5.   Brave New World
6.   Seventh Son of a Seventh Son
7.   Iron Maiden
8.   A Matter of Life and Death
9.   Dance of Death
10.   Fear of the Dark
11.   Killers
12.   No Prayer for the Dying
13.   Virtual XI
14.   The X Factor

Mine:

1. Brave New World
2. Powerslave
3. Number of the Beast
4. Seventh Son of a Seventh Son
5. A Matter of Life and Death
6. Somewhere in Time
7. Piece of Mind
8. Dance of Death
9. Fear of the Dark
10. No Prayer for the Dying

Haven't heard the others in full yet.

[skydivingninja]

My album rankings, feel free to flame away:

I can't flame anyone who realizes Powerslave is their best album 

[glaurung]

My album rankings, feel free to flame away:

1.   Powerslave
2.   Somewhere in Time
3.   The Number of the Beast
4.   Piece of Mind
5.   Brave New World
6.   Seventh Son of a Seventh Son
7.   Iron Maiden
8.   A Matter of Life and Death
9.   Dance of Death
10.   Fear of the Dark
11.   Killers
12.   No Prayer for the Dying
13.   Virtual XI
14.   The X Factor

I would move a couple things around but I see no reason to flame you for that.

[Scard]

Toronto show was AWESOME. Had pit tickets about 2 people from the front gate. Then this afternoon me and my friends that also went to the show were walking around downtown Toronto and ran into Nicko in a weird underground starbucks that you really wouldn't expect any famous person to go to.


Slightly blurry picture

[Quadrochosis]

That's totally awesome dude! Nicko seems like a really chill guy! Can't wait for the MSG show in a week!

[Seventh Son]

My album rankings, feel free to flame away:

1.   Powerslave
2.   Somewhere in Time
3.   The Number of the Beast
4.   Piece of Mind
5.   Brave New World
6.   Seventh Son of a Seventh Son
7.   Iron Maiden
8.   A Matter of Life and Death
9.   Dance of Death
10.   Fear of the Dark
11.   Killers
12.   No Prayer for the Dying
13.   Virtual XI
14.   The X Factor

> The X Factor is last
> My face:

[Scard]

SSOASS
Powerslave
666
AMOLD
Piece of Mind
Iron Maiden
Somewhere in Time
Dance of Death
Killers
Fear of the Dark
Brave New World
The X Factor
No Prayer for the Dying
Virtual XI

[UnutterableSquid]

My album rankings, feel free to flame away:

I can't flame anyone who realizes Powerslave is their best album 

[wolfking]

My album rankings, feel free to flame away:

1.   Powerslave
2.   Somewhere in Time
3.   The Number of the Beast
4.   Piece of Mind
5.   Brave New World
6.   Seventh Son of a Seventh Son
7.   Iron Maiden
8.   A Matter of Life and Death
9.   Dance of Death
10.   Fear of the Dark
11.   Killers
12.   No Prayer for the Dying
13.   Virtual XI
14.   The X Factor

> The X Factor is last
> My face:

This is my face also regarding X-Factor being last.

[aurorablind]

These colours dont run - Toronto: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNiQlCsl-0A
Look at Dave! This is the first time i've ever seen Dave play a les paul live. It looks completely wrong on him

[Seventh Son]

My album rankings, feel free to flame away:

1.   Powerslave
2.   Somewhere in Time
3.   The Number of the Beast
4.   Piece of Mind
5.   Brave New World
6.   Seventh Son of a Seventh Son
7.   Iron Maiden
8.   A Matter of Life and Death
9.   Dance of Death
10.   Fear of the Dark
11.   Killers
12.   No Prayer for the Dying
13.   Virtual XI
14.   The X Factor

> The X Factor is last
> My face:

This is my face also regarding X-Factor being last.

The X Factor is a top 5 Maiden album. It takes several listens for it to "click" (Or that's how it happened with me, anyway), but I think once you give it a chance, its a very rewarding album to listen to. I love Maiden to death, but usually their albums have 1-2 filler songs while there isn't a song on The X Factor I don't like. Also, I seem to see a lack of love for their S/t. It really is an amazing album imo.

Here would be my rankings:

1. Seventh Son of a Seventh Son
2. Powerslave
3. The X Factor
4. Iron Maiden
5. A Matter of Life and Death
6. Piece of Mind
7. Dance of Death
8. The Number of the Beast
9. Brave New World
10. Killers
11. Somewhere in Time
12. Virtual XI
13. Fear of the Dark
14. No Prayer for the Dying

[Quadrochosis]

Seeing as this is a Prog forum, I am not surprised at all to see Seventh Son topping so many lists. It's easily their most proggy album (if you wanted to describe it that way).

[UnutterableSquid]

The X Factor is a top 5 Maiden album. It takes several listens for it to "click" (Or that's how it happened with me, anyway), but I think once you give it a chance, its a very rewarding album to listen to. I love Maiden to death, but usually their albums have 1-2 filler songs while there isn't a song on The X Factor I don't like. Also, I seem to see a lack of love for their S/t. It really is an amazing album imo.

To be fair, it should be stressed that there is not a single Maiden album which I don't enjoy. I find all of them to be really good, even the ones at the bottom.

X-Factor (and Virtual XI, to finish out the Blaze stuff) is pretty good, I just don't care for it quite as much as i do their other albums. I'll be one of the first people to jump in and defend those albums, because I think that Blaze did a really good job filling in for Bruce and that those two albums have each produced some pretty memorable Maiden songs. That said, I still think that there are much better albums from Maiden's discography.

As for the s/t, a rather awesome album. I'm glad that Maiden still plays some songs off of it live, because it is one of the best metal albums ever recorded.

[RobD]

Teaser trailer for the new video, which is released at 3pm BST on Tuesday:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6q5dGVnG0I

HOLY. FUCKING. SHIT!

[Mladen]

Whoa, I thought they'll make a video for El Dorado, but it's the title track. Can't wait to see it. 

[zxlkho]

I thought I would post my album rankings since others were doing it. (I'm a few days late though)

1. Seventh Son of a Seventh Son
2. The Number of the Beast
3. Powerslave
4. Iron Maiden
5. Piece of Mind
6. Somewhere in Time
7. A Matter of Life and Death
8. Fear of the Dark
9. Brave New World
10. Killers
11. No Prayer for the Dying
12. The X Factor
13. Dance of Death
14. Virtual XI

1-6 are all amazing, 7-11 are good, and 12-14 are okay/meh

[skydivingninja]

Awesome!

[wolfking]

Found this on Brave Words.  Writing credits.  Lots of Adrian!!!!

'Satellite 15... The Final Frontier' (Smith/Harris)
'El Dorado' (Smith/Harris/Dickinson)
'Mother Of Mercy' (Smith/Harris)
'Coming Home' (Smith/Harris/Dickinson)
'The Alchemist' (Gers/Harris/Dickinson)
'Isle Of Avalon' (Smith/Harris)
'Starblind' (Smith/Harris/Dickinson)
'The Talisman' (Gers/Harris)
'The Man Who Would Be King' (Murray/Harris)
'When The Wild Wind Blows' (Harris)

[Mladen]

Looks ordinary. Which can't be a bad thing. 

[Spolt]

I saw Maiden and DT just yesterday, and the show was awesome ! 

80 000 people signing "Fear Of The Dark" sounded just like Live in Rio, even Bruce was laughing in joy on stage !

[zxlkho]

I saw Maiden and DT just yesterday, and the show was awesome ! 

80 000 people signing "Fear Of The Dark" sounded just like Live in Rio, even Bruce was laughing in joy on stage !

Oh my god, I can't wait for this. I HAVE TO WAIT FOR THE 20TH!!! 

[Jakartabassplayer]

I saw Maiden and DT just yesterday, and the show was awesome ! 

80 000 people signing "Fear Of The Dark" sounded just like Live in Rio, even Bruce was laughing in joy on stage !

NICE

[Seventh Son]

Cant wait for the new album! I have a feeling it'll either be really good or really bad, I don't really feel like it'll be average.

[Quadrochosis]

2 DAYS! RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA I've never been this excited for a show before.

[zxlkho]

10 DAYS! RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA I've never been this excited for a show before.

Fixed for me.

[UnutterableSquid]

Cant wait for the new album! I have a feeling it'll either be really good or really bad, I don't really feel like it'll be average.

I know a lot of people seem really "meh" about El Dorado, but I absolutely love that song. It keeps getting better every time I listen to it.

Also, based on the five seconds or so of "Satellite 15...The Final Frontier" that can be heard in that video promo, I have a feeling that it might sound pretty good too.

Given the production values of that video (and the pretty big nature of this tour) and the fact that the gap since A Matter of Life and Death is bigger than any other gap between Maiden albums, I get the impression that this album will be really awesome and filled with pent up energy and some experimenting in the styles (Murray said something about one of the songs being pretty melodic, too).

Honestly, I may be putting a big "jinx stamp" on this album, but I really think that this might give Brave New World a run for its money as the best post-reunion album.

[Seventh Son]

Honestly, I may be putting a big "jinx stamp" on this album, but I really think that this might give A Matter of Life and Death a run for its money as the best post-reunion album.

fix'd

[Quadrochosis]

lol no, BNW is the best them

[UnutterableSquid]

Honestly, I may be putting a big "jinx stamp" on this album, but I really think that this might give A Matter of Life and Death a run for its money as the best post-reunion album.

fix'd

Brave New World is a superior album, but I'll let it slide since AMoLaD is really sweet too.