You are right about Dickinson, he's the better singer in terms of technique, but Di'Anno had THE sound and I'm a blues guy, so I like it raw. I like to be belligerent about it cause I always thought Metallica sucked and Maiden ruled back in the day but a buncha guys wore Metallica and Kreator shirts where I grew up and they were all dicks. Even the Maiden t-shirts were more killer so Di'Anno or Dickinson it doesn't matter I still beat those bastards by upping the irons plus it's sweet revenge on McTallica since they sucked not long after Dave got the axe.....
Bring Your Daughter To The Slaughter is prolly my fav Maiden tune. It's catchy, kicks ass, AND the name is epic.Definitely Number of the Beast for me. Not one mediocre track on it. Even Gangland. But a lot of it comes down to I like the sound of it better than Piece of Mind and much prefer Clive Burr’s drumming to Nicko. When I was an aspiring 13 year old drummer, The Prisoner was the shit to jam to. I’ll also take Killers over POM.
But what Maiden can really surpass Bring Your Daughter to the Slaughter. I mean really. It’s like first record, Boston perfect.
That was the only Maiden tour I got to see (No Prayer..) but it doesn’t really matter if the albums not good, you still get all the good stuff live.
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Agreed. PoM has overall a higher number of quality songs throughout than Powerslave.
But...production wise, style-wise, finesse-wise (of where the band was in their 'arc'), I'd recon Powerslave was them at their peak.
And yes, I prefer Clive Burr to Nicko, just like I will die defending Les Binks being the best drummer Priest ever had!
Both Clive and Les had a certain swing, almost jazzy/funky feel to their grooves.
Oh, and soooo stupid "Total Eclipse" wasn't included on the American and European pressings of NotB. That's a great fuckin' song. At 2m39s into it, Maiden basically starts doing Mercyful Fate.
Regarding the Maiden vs. Priest stuff, here's my 2 cts, and given that I've played in multiple tribute bands of each, it might be worth 2.5ct
I'd say that Maiden has a higher base level of quality in their songs, but rarely deviates from that. Say on a scale from 1 to 10 (10 being best), Maiden's base level sits around 7 or 8, where occasionally a song is a 6 or a 9.
When it comes to Priest, I'd recon to say that the base level of quality is a tad lower, but they deviate more. Priest has some absolute horse shit songs that were either just plain shit or just trying too hard to become anthems (United, Red White and Blue, Take on the World).
But against those, there are pure gems that potentially surpass some of the (sometimes better) ones from Maiden.
I mean, if we're comparing the sort of slow, clean, moody stuff, say "Strange World" vs. "Dreamer Deceiver", Priest wins that one easily for instance.
And Screaming for Vengeance, Stained Class, The Ripper, Devil's Child, Painkiller, Freewheel Burning, Ram it Down....all fuckin' bangers.
...but, that being said, I enjoy playing Maiden more usually. Except when I crank Unleashed in the East, I usually play along completely, with vigor.
And how can you not love a band that has 3 songs about BJ's on one album?!
Someone finally said it !!!
I agree with this. Plus he had some sweet Lado guitars on the Live After Death tour. I've never seen any of these forum hosers so cool they had a Lado.
When i was in high school, my English teacher played the video for Rime of the Ancient Mariner in class and all of us headbangers were in Heaven. We were reading about it in class and I about shit when she played the video.
Oh it’s tedious watching him running around twirling and tossing his guitar around.
