GMD Poll: Iron Maiden Albums Ranked

HamburgerBoy · Jun 16, 2017

In partial fairness, Paul Di'Anno is one of a very few number of musicians where I actually lost respect for them based on what they said. Didn't affect my enjoyment of the albums, but the dude was clearly a total poser and his "hard, tough punk edge" image was total bullshit and Steve Harris deserves 99% of the credit for those albums.

CiG · Jun 16, 2017

What was it that he actually said by the way? I'm out of the loop.

Slammed · Jun 16, 2017

CASSETTEISGOD said:
Never understand people that care so much about the personality of the musicians, what you think you're some perfect person? You're probably a total douche like the rest of us.

I never suggested I wasn't and I certainly wouldn't be offended if PD told me my singing was crap and it made him enjoy any song I sung even less. I probably still wouldn't respect him or like him but I wouldn't be offended. The fact that PD ruins those albums for me is being blown way out of proportion.

It's really no different to the many people who claim they hate everything Megadeth had done since Marty and Nick left because Dave treated them badly. Its a personal preference nothing to be offended by.

HamburgerBoy · Jun 16, 2017

I'm sure he's said a lot of things, for me though it was an interview where he criticized Iron Maiden for not being accessible enough during the early Dickinson years, saying how he could have broken them through to the true mainstream or some shit. I used to give him credit for at least being partially responsible for the aggression of those albums, and didn't care when he called Dickinson a girly-voiced poofter or whatever, but the guy is just some washed-up degenerate willing to do anything for a buck.

Slammed · Jun 16, 2017

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I'll just leave that there and bow out of the discussion. They are my choices, if anyone is offended by them I could be apologetic but I wont be.

Krow · Jun 16, 2017

I really need to make a list. Would have last night but my power went out in the storm. Maybe tonight, finished up my unheard albums over the week.

Talos of Atmora · Jun 16, 2017

So, I've completed my list. In retrospect, the real surprises in revisiting a lot of the '90s (and to an extent the '00s and '10s) material is that there are quite a few gems with a renewed appreciation for the atmosphere on albums like The X Factor.

The Ozzman · Jun 16, 2017

I have No Prayer for the Dying and Virtual XI incoming next week. I revisited some of NPFTD and it is way better than I remember. I may put it above FOTD tbh. My list is complete except for those two records.

CiG · Jun 16, 2017

Slammed said:
They are my choices, if anyone is offended by them I could be apologetic but I wont be.

Nobody is offended.

The Ozzman · Jun 16, 2017

I can understand the vocals putting someone off from an album, but being put off by reading an article is petty. If the music is good, it's good. It's like people who don't listen to the Nazi themed stuff. Lyrics to me are secondary to everything else in the music,

This viewpoint doesn't necessarily apply to other things in life, but it's just something I've held about music for a long time.

CiG · Jun 16, 2017

And if the lyrics are secondary, the personalities of the musicians is even less important I think.

Krow · Jun 16, 2017

I tend to never read interviews or anything because I just dont care what some psycho in a metal band from a third world country (or wherever) thinks about the world.

CiG · Jun 16, 2017

I love reading Nekro Drunkz interviews but that's about it.

Anom@nder Rake · Jun 16, 2017

I never really looked into their 90s albums and haven't heard The Final Frontier at all. I might edit this before the deadline
https://www.metal-archives.com/albums/Iron_Maiden/The_Final_Frontier/276114
1. Powerslave
2. Somewhere in Time
3. Piece of Mind
4. Killers
5. Iron Maiden
6. Seventh Son of a Seventh Son
7. Brave New World
8. The Number of the Beast
9. A Matter of Life and Death
10. The Book of Souls
11. Dance of Death
12. The Final Frontier
13. Fear of the Dark
14. No Prayer for the Dying
15. The X Factor
16. Virtual XI

Dak · Jun 16, 2017

People rating Iron Maiden high are probably prone to idealizing first works and S/Ts. Iron Maiden was incredibly unpolished, and not in the admirably "raw" way one may describe thrash albums. It almost wasn't even metal. The Led Zeppelin imitation is obvious.

Dak · Jun 16, 2017

EspaDa said:
Where Eagles Dare is the supreme metal song. Piece of Mind is an untouchable album, arguably Maiden's best.

I don't think the album is arguably the best, but Where Eagles Dare is every bit as good of a song as the movie is good.

TechnicalBarbarity · Jun 16, 2017

Dak said:
People rating Iron Maiden high are probably prone to idealizing first works and S/Ts. Iron Maiden was incredibly unpolished, and not in the admirably "raw" way one may describe thrash albums. It almost wasn't even metal. The Led Zeppelin imitation is obvious.