Now that I pissed off a bunch of people about Ozzy, let's do Iron Maiden.

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Floyd Eye said:
Conventional wisdom ranks Number of the Beast or Powerslave as their best album. That's bullshit. Number of the Beast is a good album, but it's really three or four stellar tracks and the rest is kinda filler. Same with Powerslave. Which album is really number one ? The one where every song kicks fucking ass. Where Steve Harris really loosens up and lays down perfect bass tracks on all 9 songs. Where he loses his songwriting monopoly because Adrian and Bruce and Dave all step up and write killer tracks. Obviously it's Piece of Mind. Just a fucking great album from start to finish. A handful of songs on Number of the Beast are of the same caliber as the songs on that album. Also the best personnel line up.

Fun fact I just learned. Iron Maiden had 3 singers with the first name Paul.
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Nah. Seventh Son and Brave New World are the Maiden albums that rip pretty much the whole way through. And I would give NOTB 3rd place. Piece of Mind, half the sounds totally rip, the other four are “good enough”.
 
My favorite maiden album is a tie between NOTB and SIT. The Prisoner and Alexander the Great are my 2 fave tunes.
Dance of Death and a matter of life and death don't get alot of love but I listen to em pretty often.
 
boltzthrower said:
Nah. Seventh Son and Brave New World are the Maiden albums that rip pretty much the whole way through. And I would give NOTB 3rd place. Piece of Mind, half the sounds totally rip, the other four are “good enough”.
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Disagree, but that's okay.
 
Their best album is Brave New World .Its late in their career and too prog for many but its perfect . Blood brothers , out of the silent planet , and wicker man . So good
 
Kapo_Polenton said:
I just listened to Stained class and realized I remembered it being better than I found it a few days ago when i listened to it working out. Some cheesy shit on that one. I do think Glenn was sort of ahead of his time and kept improving album after album though. That guy is brilliant. On the Maiden side though, I absolutely love Adrian too. That guy is in my top 10, incredible composer of songs and leads. Almost every single lead Adrian ever played is perfection whether or not the song itself was shit.
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Interesting that you mention both Stained Class (one of my absolute fave Priest albums) and Glenn improving.
My feeling is that he (and maybe KK too, although I always felt KK was the lesser lead player...more brawling, noodling, instead of thought-out, well-phrased leads) improved a few times, but also fell back a few times.

I mean, some of his lead-work on Sad Wings and Stained Class trumps some more basic leads he did on British Steel. Then he's back with a vengeance on Screaming and Defenders, but then comes along Turbo, which seems lacklustre. But fire regained on Ram it Down and Painkiller, where he does all high speed, virtuoso, sweep-picking stuff.

Oh, and there's a reason I've been the Adrian in various Maiden tributes. 😉 🤘 :cheers:
 
Speeddemon said:
Interesting that you mention both Stained Class (one of my absolute fave Priest albums) and Glenn improving.
My feeling is that he (and maybe KK too, although I always felt KK was the lesser lead player...more brawling, noodling, instead of thought-out, well-phrased leads) improved a few times, but also fell back a few times.

I mean, some of his lead-work on Sad Wings and Stained Class trumps some more basic leads he did on British Steel. Then he's back with a vengeance on Screaming and Defenders, but then comes along Turbo, which seems lacklustre. But fire regained on Ram it Down and Painkiller, where he does all high speed, virtuoso, sweep-picking stuff.

Oh, and there's a reason I've been the Adrian in various Maiden tributes. 😉 🤘 :cheers:
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Good point because you are right about KK AND Glenn sort of improving, then backing off, then coming back for the attack. I wonder how much of that was due to the producer though. Being told to simplify? Or maybe drinking lol
 
I don’t see how 22 Acacia Ave compares at all favorably to anything off POM besides maybe Quest For Fire and To Tame A Land.
NOTB absolutely has filler.

And Killers above POM ? No way.
 
Some bizarre takes in this thread. I just read every post.

22 Acacia Avenue is an epic classic! One of Maiden’s finest. NOTB is perfect start to finish.

To the dude with the English teacher - I can relate. I did my report on that poem and my English teacher let me bring in a ghetto blaster and rip Rime out to the whole class. He did make me shut down during the mellow “on the sea” part. The preppy’s were grateful when he made me kill it.

Oh and Stained Class is awesome!
 
I think all you guys are high. The riffs, changes, progressions, Melodies, contrapuntal bass melodies, vocals, lyrics and subjects were far superior on POM. NOTB, has a few glimpses of what was to come on POM.
 
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