THE Iron Maiden Thread

[cramx3]

DoD is a great song, I dont care if they danced and pranced, the song rocks.

[Nick]

DoD is a great song, I dont care if they danced and pranced, the song rocks.

[The King in Crimson]

Sun and Steel is a great track. Don't you go lumping it together with Quest for Fire. 

Sun and Steel is actually worse than Quest for Fire.

Who turned the Fail-O-Tron 5000 on?

"Sun and Steel" is great.

I'll never understand the love for Dance of Death (the song).  Every time I hear it it reminds me of Stonehenge by Spinal Tap

Its a very good song, and the whole Celtic feel is cool, but like Stonehedge, it feels kind of silly even for Maiden.  Especially with the lines: "AND I DANCED AND I PRANCED"

This.

I'm starting to think that "The Alchemist" might be my least favorite on TFF. I just kind of... zone out during it.

[Zook]

Sun and Steel is better than anything after Brave New World save a few tracks. I don't like post reunion Iron Maiden.

[Seventh Son]

Sun and Steel is better than anything after Brave New World save a few tracks. I don't like post reunion Iron Maiden.

Sun and Steel is in my bottom 10 Iron Maiden songs. Considering the crap that's on Fear of the Dark, No Prayer for the Dying, and Virtual XI, that's saying a lot.

Bruce's voice is just so intolerable, bleh

[TAC]

The Death On The Road version of Dance Of Death is 10 times better than the studio version.

[AndyDT]

First listen to new album. There's a song on there that sounds like Lord of Light and Out of the Shadows which seemed a good sign. A Bruce-type song.

Also, I forgot that When the wind blows ended with the revelation that the couple had mistaken the earthquake for a bomb. I thought they died of radiation sickness?

[wolfking]

Also, I forgot that When the wind blows ended with the revelation that the couple had mistaken the earthquake for a bomb. I thought they died of radiation sickness?

Yeah I thought that also, quite confused.

[MykeHavoc]

Sun and Steel is better than anything after Brave New World save a few tracks. I don't like post reunion Iron Maiden.

WTF? I beg to differ. Minus the last track, BNW is a perfect record. Great songs and performances.

[TAC]

Sun and Steel is better than anything after Brave New World save a few tracks. I don't like post reunion Iron Maiden.

WTF? I beg to differ. Minus the last track, BNW is a perfect record. Great songs and performances.

...but ...the last track is my favorite on the album.

[Birch Boy]

Brave New World is phenomenal through and through

[Zook]

I know it is. That's why I said AFTER Brave New World.

[Birch Boy]

Ah, I must've missed that. Carry on.

[skydivingninja]

Sun and Steel is better than anything after Brave New World save a few tracks. I don't like post reunion Iron Maiden.

WTF? I beg to differ. Minus the last track, BNW is a perfect record. Great songs and performances.

...but ...the last track is my favorite on the album.

Anyone who doesn't love The Thin Line can GTFO!

[Plasmastrike]

Sun and Steel is better than anything after Brave New World save a few tracks. I don't like post reunion Iron Maiden.

WTF? I beg to differ. Minus the last track, BNW is a perfect record. Great songs and performances.

...but ...the last track is my favorite on the album.

Anyone who doesn't love The Thin Line can GTFO!

Phenomenal fucking track.

[Birch Boy]

Sun and Steel is better than anything after Brave New World save a few tracks. I don't like post reunion Iron Maiden.

WTF? I beg to differ. Minus the last track, BNW is a perfect record. Great songs and performances.

...but ...the last track is my favorite on the album.

Anyone who doesn't love The Thin Line can GTFO!

Phenomenal fucking track.

Agreed

[sneakyblueberry]

Sun and Steel is better than anything after Brave New World save a few tracks. I don't like post reunion Iron Maiden.

WTF? I beg to differ. Minus the last track, BNW is a perfect record. Great songs and performances.

...but ...the last track is my favorite on the album.

Anyone who doesn't love The Thin Line can GTFO!

Phenomenal fucking track.

Agreed

I agree its phenomenal.  But its still the weakest track on the album.

[glaurung]

Brave New World is probably my least favorite of the reunion albums. It's not bad at all, but I like the others better.

[Birch Boy]

Sun and Steel is better than anything after Brave New World save a few tracks. I don't like post reunion Iron Maiden.

WTF? I beg to differ. Minus the last track, BNW is a perfect record. Great songs and performances.

...but ...the last track is my favorite on the album.

Anyone who doesn't love The Thin Line can GTFO!

Phenomenal fucking track.

Agreed

I agree its phenomenal.  But its still the weakest track on the album.

I coincidentally also agree with this.

[tri.ad]

TTLBLAH is a top 10 Maiden song for me. No way in hell it is the weakest song on BNW (it's rather the strongest one).

[AndyDT]

Also, I forgot that When the wind blows ended with the revelation that the couple had mistaken the earthquake for a bomb. I thought they died of radiation sickness?

Yeah I thought that also, quite confused.

He might be using the film as inspiration and making a general point about people getting worked up about the latest crisis and acting rashly?

[Zantera]

Brave New World is probably my least favorite of the reunion albums. It's not bad at all, but I like the others better.

This.

[Perpetual Change]

Also, I forgot that When the wind blows ended with the revelation that the couple had mistaken the earthquake for a bomb. I thought they died of radiation sickness?

Yeah I thought that also, quite confused.

He might be using the film as inspiration and making a general point about people getting worked up about the latest crisis and acting rashly?

I think this. There are plenty of Iron Maiden songs based on books/movies/etc., but few of them seem to be simple summaries of the source material. Like To Tame a Land, for instance. There's a lot of stuff in there that seems to be more based on Harris' interpretation than Dune.

And I agree about Brave New World. It's a good, consistent album, but the highs aren't nearly as high as those on DoD or TFF.

[Zantera]

My biggest problem with BNW is probably that it lacks songs i really really love.
DoD has the title-track and Paschendale for example, AMOLAD has The Legacy and For the Greater Good of God and TFF has Starblind and Isle of Avalon to name a few, but BNW doesn't have a song i would rank as high.
The Wicker Man is slightly repetitive and not my type of song (im more in love with the slightly longer Maiden-songs), Ghost of the Navigator and the title-track are my favorites from it, but they aren't near as good as the other tracks i mentioned.

It's actually pretty funny considering that i used to LOVE BNW and held it as one of my favorites, but now it wouldn't make my top 5 Maiden-albums.

[Perpetual Change]

I pretty much agree. Every song on BNW is above average for me, but I don't hear anything "great." Same goes for AMOLAD, in my opinion. Whereas while DoD and TFF have their duds, they've also got songs that are in my Iron Maiden top 5.

[wolfking]

I'd probably take BNW over DOD and AMOLAD.  It's just consistently good all the way through IMO, where as the other two have a few filler spots.

[Moonchild]

 
1. Piece of Mind
2. Powerslave
3. NOTB
4. Killers
5. 7th Son
6. SIT
7. IM
8. BNW
9. TFF
10. NPFTD
11. FOTD
12. DOD
13. XFactor
14. AMOLAD
15. Virtual XI

[El Barto]

1. Piece of Mind
2. Powerslave
3. NOTB
4. Killers
5. 7th Son
6. SIT
7. IM
8. BNW
9. TFF
10. NPFTD
11. FOTD
12. DOD
13. XFactor
14. AMOLAD
15. Virtual XI

I highly approve of the top half, and I'm deeply offended by the bottom half. 

The ranking of the old stuff is pretty close to how I'd do it, but some of the newer albums deserve their place in the top ten. 

[Moonchild]

1. Piece of Mind
2. Powerslave
3. NOTB
4. Killers
5. 7th Son
6. SIT
7. IM
8. BNW
9. TFF
10. NPFTD
11. FOTD
12. DOD
13. XFactor
14. AMOLAD
15. Virtual XI

I highly approve of the top half, and I'm deeply offended by the bottom half. 

The ranking of the old stuff is pretty close to how I'd do it, but some of the newer albums deserve their place in the top ten. 

Until the 8th position most of it is closed for some years. The rest changes sometimes, probably AMOLAD is worse than Virtual XI and probably DOD is better than FOTD. A couple years ago I'd rank AMOLAD at the same level of BNW, sadly to say I think it's one of their poorest album. Can't really remember most songs, drift away on complete songs which makes me indifferent. In the beginning I'd rank NPFTD at the 5 top, it still my week spot on several occasions. Bring Your Daughter to the Slaughter is such a fun song to sing.

[Zantera]

If we're doing rankings...

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

[skydivingninja]

Rankings again?

1. Powerslave
2. A Matter of Life and Death
3. Somewhere in Time
4. Number of the Beast
5. Piece of Mind
6. Brave New World
7. Dance of Death
--Tentative TFF Placement--
8. Iron Maiden
9. Killers
10. Seventh Son
11. Fear of the Dark

[Mladen]

I think I did it a couple of months ago, but it's a bit different now...

Somewhere in time
Seventh son of a seventh son
The X Factor
Powerslave
A Matter of life and death
Dance of death
The Number of the beast
Iron Maiden
Piece of mind
The Final Frontier
Brave new world
Killers
Virtual XI
No prayer for the dying
Fear of the dark

[Seventh Son]

Oh, we're ranking them again

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. Brave New World
8. The Number of the Beast
9. Dance of Death
10. Killers
11. Somewhere in Time
12. The Final Frontier
13. Fear of the Dark
14. Virtual XI
15. No Prayer for the Dying

[lateralus88]

I'll never understand the love for Dance of Death (the song).  Every time I hear it it reminds me of Stonehenge by Spinal Tap

You're just jealous because you aren't one of Maiden's best songs.

[Plasmastrike]

I'll never understand the love for Dance of Death (the song).  Every time I hear it it reminds me of Stonehenge by Spinal Tap

You're just jealous because you aren't one of Maiden's best songs.

I agree, and it's so blatantly obvious too. Good God..