Controversial opinions on metal

[HamburgerBoy]

Yes, there were a few good songs from that period, and it's easy enough to put the bad ones all at the bottom. Blood on the World's Hands is a pretty overlooked song; Iron Maiden has done the dark, brooding, anti-war thing to death by now, but that one does it right.

 

[no country for old wainds]

If you can't rank every single Maiden song, you aren't an autism

fixed

 

[HamburgerBoy]

If you're not autistic, you're probably an ape.

 

[CiG]

Judas priest is alternative buttrock

 

[Vilden]

Would that include the Bayley shit?

The X-Factor is a really good album! Virtual XI not so much though...

 

[Omni]

I think that "Phantom of the Opera" is the best Iron Maiden song.

I can't understand liking Iron Maiden and not enjoying 1970s Judas Priest because of the clear similarities between them, but I also can't understand thinking that Iron Maiden is better than Judas Priest or that Dickinson Maiden is better than Di'Anno Maiden.

 

[CiG]

Respectable choice, it's possibly my second favourite after "To Tame A Land."

 

[JontRevolting]

"Children Of The Damned" for me. The Number Of The Beast was huge and it was so awesome in those days having that album especially on jukeboxes and the music vids were always on TV.

Yeah Aces High and HBTN also Flight Of Icarus,Wasted Years, Sun and Steel.

 

[The Butt]

Hallowed Be Thy Name or Aces High is my favorite.

 

[requiem]

Favourite Maiden tracks? 'Aces High' wins for me, closely followed by 'Powerslave'. I was also going to say 'Hallowed Be Thy Name' but I didn't want to be completely cliched....

Worst song? 'Back in The Village'.

 

[HamburgerBoy]

Worst song? 'Back in The Village'.

Number of the Beast and Powerslave aren't their only albums.

 

[requiem]

Number of the Beast and Powerslave aren't their only albums.

Which is noteworthy that Powerslave has my favourite and least favourite Maiden track.

 

[CiG]

Is it really your least favourite? Because there are so many shitty songs that they laid down post-1980's.

 

[JontRevolting]

Speaking of Maiden it was great to get those vinyl reissues this year but the first box that came with the first three LPs didn't house all of the LPs properly but if you sent Warner I think it was an email they sent your out another. Very nice collection though I couldn't be bothered collecting the singles.
I think they had only been reissued once or twice previously and once was only on pic disc.

 

[no country for old wainds]

here's a related controversial opinion: bruce dickinson's SKUNKWORKS pretty much rules.

(obviously TCW is his masterpiece though)

 

[HamburgerBoy]

Agreed, I just listened to Skunkworks a couple weeks ago in the car, and the only bad song is Dreamstate. Most of it is great; pretty clearly influenced by some of the alt rock stuff that was going on at the time, but obviously Dickinson still sings full power and the space/sci-fi theme throughout makes it especially interesting.

I actually like all of his albums. Even his B-sides/leftovers have some surprisingly good stuff. Overall he's clearly the main creative force behind the band these days.

 

[The Ozzman]

Dickinson's solo stuff is well done. I will relisten to Chemical Wedding tomorrow but I remembered it was pretty solid

 

[Dak]

I own B2P and TCW as far as BD's solo works go, and that's all you really need.

 

[HamburgerBoy]

wot aboot Accident of Birth? You can't dismiss an album with songs like Taking the Queen or Darkside of Aquarius.

 

[The Ozzman]

I own B2P and TCW as far as BD's solo works go, and that's all you really need.

Tyranny of Souls would beg to differ