I've just got hold of Somewhere Back In Time, their Greatest Hits album, and realised that they are in fact awesome during the 80s. Where next? I'm thinking Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son (purely because I remember how cool I thought the cover artwork was at age 11...)
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The 1st one
Really.
with the old singer?
cool, will do.
Killers
or Number of the Beast. I wouldn't bother after that.
every album up to and
including seventh son is brilliant.
my favourites are Powerslave, Seventh Son, Peice Of Mind and Number Of The Beast.
I'd
only actually heard one Maiden song all the way through before getting this album, that was The Number Of The Beast, I actually love every song on it though so I've missed out.
They'd just split with Bruce Dickinson when I was getting into music and the whole thing seemed pretty ridiculous to me, aged 13ish, reading about it in Raw magazine... I couldn't tell the difference between what was good and what was Manowar so I just stuck with grunge!
Mind you, I'm sure Manowar probably sound amazing now too....
1st one
is my favourite too.
Hail To England!!!!!!!
manowar ARE amazing!
right
this week's going to be all about getting into 1980s Heavy Metal then!
this ^^
Belittling responses be damned
I LIKE the latest one!
agree with summers
but live after death takes the cake.
the live version of aces high is fucking amazing.
I'm fed up of hearing this band..
..my mum adores them so I've heard quite enough in my lifetime.
Don't they have about 15 albums or something?
14 studio albums over
about 30 years, not exactly overworking themselves. lolz your mum is cooler than you.
Not that I want to dis anyone's Mum
but having a lot of Maiden albums doesn't define cool in any dictionary I've seen.
thats because
you have to be a certain level of cool to get the right dictionary
Your dictionary is wrong
MAIDEN MAIDEN MAIDEN
*In Alan Partridge voice*
"I'd have to say, the best of Iron Maiden."
Seriously? Dunno, get all of them. This reminds me, I've still got their latest one somewhere and I haven't listened to it yet!
Nah Summers has a point
STOP at 7th Son. Then proceed with the Judas Priest back catologue.
Give it a listen........
the first track 'Different World' is one of my favourite Maiden singles:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgLuMQnnBKs
none of them
they have one ok song, the trooper, and THAT.IS.IT..
just noticed
that the song they play at the end of School Of Rock IS 'Can I Play With Madness' with a different chorus.
Also, Jack Black's entire Tenacious D-thing is entirely based on this one song.
YOU SUCK
no, IRON MAIDEN SUCK
dude
METAL MILITIA GONNA GET YOU
If you bad mouth Maiden
Eddie comes and eats you in the night.
*sucks you off
PANSY MILITIA MORE LIKE!
Was huge huge fan as a kid
...but now I can't cope with Bruce Dickinson's wailing. So weirdly enough, the first two albums are great - Phantom of the Opera is superb! And they were still teenagers when they recorded it...
The first album i ever bought
was Somewhere in Time aged 8 in '88
Seventh Son of a Seventh Son
then
Fear of The Dark
then Killers.
I reckon.
NOT X FACTOR.
X Factor is one of the
funniest albums ever, it has to get props for that! Can't remember the name but the 1st and 4th tracks are medievil beauts
In this order:
1. Seventh Son of a Seventh Son
2. Brave New World
3. Number of the Beast
4. Iron Maiden
5. Piece Of Mind
6. Powerslave
7. X Factor
8. Killers
The rest I could take or leave but those are my essentials.
X Factor features Blaze and has maybe 4 really brilliant songs on it.
Man, I love Maiden. I'm so tragic.
7th Son
Saw them at Wembley Arena on that tour when I was in my metal years prime. Marvellous.
Spotted Bruce Dickinson at Amy Winehouses Somerset House show last year. Me and my chums were like little fan boys going "it's Bruce, look, it's Bruce, speak to him, no you speak to him, it really is Bruce". Silly sods.
I was big into them in my teens...
I'd go for -
1 - Iron Maiden
2 - Powerslave
3 - Number of the beast
You're missing
Powerslave
Number of the beast
Seventh son of a sevenths son
Piece of Mind
You're good after that.
I love 'em all up to No Prayer For The Dying
all for different reasons and songs.
I have to say thought 7th Son is their IMO.....Moonchild.....bloody brilliant.
Along with Albert above
I saw 'em on the 7th Son tour as well (only my 2nd ever gig)....at the NEC which is where they filmed the Maiden England vid/DVD.....a f**king brilliant gig.
Anyone going to Twickenham?...I am.....get in \m/
7th son..
I'm listening to
Somewhere In Time now (so, basically, I've not listened to ANY of the advice in this thread, sorry about that! I'll get Seventh Son next!!) It's great, love Wasted Years and Stranger In A Strange Land.. how come there's no love for it then? Or are all their other albums EVEN BETTER?
somewhere is a great time
somewhere in time & loneliness are great as well.
but get number of the beast, piece of mind, THEN LIVE AFTER DEATH!!
(= (& 7th son..)
sigh
is a great time...
I love Somewhere In Time, Kovacs
Heaven Can Wait = AMAZING!
WHHHOOOOAAA, WWWHHHHOOOOOAOAAAAAAAAA, WHHHOOOOAAAAAAA
Surely
'Alexander The Great' is the single greatest history lesson combined with a series of immensely cool solos ever recorded??
I never imagined that the best band I'd get into in 2008 would be Iron Maiden...
Yeah, Alexander The Great is mint as well.....as is
Sea Of Madness....hell they are all great I reckon
I love 'Number of the beast'
It was the first album I ever bought for myself. I'd got a cassette Walkman for my 11th birthday and had no cassettes so I wondered round the local woolies and chose the album purely for its cover art.
A good purchase.
I've just downloaded
an album by The Iron Maidens. Who are apparently the world's only female Iron Maiden tribute group. I'm looking forward to it.
Also,
There has to be some love out there for
Prowler.....such a great riff on those versus.
all wrong
the best Maiden album is the live on
Live After Death
"Scrrreeeeammmm for me Long Beach"
SRSLY
^^^ awesome, awesome album
I reckon the version of Hallowed Be Thy Name surpasses the studio version by a long shot \m/
hellooooo
i've stated that live after death is the best several times already. )=
i'm always so ignored here.
& it's aces high that steals the show in long beach....
The Truth!
Live After Death is the best live album ever for me. The full version of Rime of the Ancient Mariner rocks, Eddie's appearance out of the pyramid, opening with the Churchill speech, Aces High - so many fantastic moments. Still got it on VHS somewhere. My first gig ever aged 13 was Maiden, can't go wrong with that, especially with Anthrax in support doing their Red Indian - Cowboy shoot-out mid-set.
oddly enough
i saw this tour as well (anthrax in support) & it was at the long beach arena (where live after death was recorded).
anthrax ruled.
That would have been in
the early 90's right?
Aye, end of '90, start of '91
Saw the band, got the t-shirt, went out and bought the Bring Your Daughter... picture disc on 12". I thought my life had reached it's peak of excitement when it got to number one in the charts post-Christmas. Maiden at number one!
Bring back picture discs!
Opening to Rime on Live... "The moral of this story - this is not what to do when a bird shits on you" An understatement. Still floors me now, a metal song that has two stanzas from a poem in it and you don't notice. As a kid made me want to read the poem and all the other cultural and history references in their songs. Thanks Bruce!
'Tell me why I have to be a Powerslave!"
Powerslave is my fave.
Either
of the first 2. They turned to shit when Dickinson joined.
absolutely
the first one - pure hard rocking energy, with a punky edge - one of metal's finest
then Killers - great sound, fantastic songs, expecially the non-album TWILIGHT ZONE
I have a soft spot for Piece Of Mind and Somewhere In Time (saw them on that tour - at 12!!!)
I don't wanna die
i'm a god, why can't i live onnnnnnnnnnnnnn
Seriously, Twickenham is going to be the best gig of the year I reckon....cannot wait!
Piece of Mind
Somewhere in Time (Man you gotta love Sea of Madness!!!!!!!)
Seventh Son
when the life givers die
all around it's wastelaaaaaaaaands
and in my left hour I'm a slave to the power of deeeeeeeeeeath
bah
Live after death
- that's the best one!
I actually quite like no prayer for dying as that was the first one i ever heard...
I've now got...
Can I play with madness stuck in my head. It's such a pop song, even the guitar solos are stuck in my head...
Iron Maiden and Killers
The first two pre Dickenson albums are unreal.