GMD Poll: Top 10 Metal Albums of 1983

[CiG]

Yeah it's a great album. Not my favorite by them, but still great. And even the two weaker songs are still 7/10 or 8/10.

Which is your favourite by them out of curiosity?

 

[crimsonfloyd]

Seventh Son of a Seventh Son

 

[CiG]

Unexpected. I'm not quite sure where I land with that album just yet. Lately, Somewhere in Time is really doing it for me.

 

[Vegard Pompey]

Piece of Mind is the closest thing to an optimal Maiden album for me. It contains several of their greatest songs and is also consistent as fuck, with even the songs that are popularly considered filler being pretty damn great. I'm curious as to how a song survivor of that album would turn out, and in fact, if people are interested, I'll host one.

 

[Phylactery]

Yeah do it. I love a good song survivor and since it's an album basically everyone here has heard we might get a lot of people voting.

I disagree that it should have been number one for this year. It deserved to be number 4, behind Slayer, Mercyful Fate and Satan but I'm fine with it being third.

 

[crimsonfloyd]

Unexpected. I'm not quite sure where I land with that album just yet. Lately, Somewhere in Time is really doing it for me.

I'm surirpsed you're surprised. It and the self-titled (so long as you don't count Sanctuary) are the only albums where every track nails it for me. However, SSoaSS is far richer and conceptually engaging than the debut.

I would cluster NotB, PoM, and PS in spots 3-5. Those are their five "A" or "A-" albums in my eyes.

 

[Phylactery]

The Number of the Beast definitely doesn't belong in the same tier as Powerslave and Piece of Mind!

 

[HamburgerBoy]

The Number of the Beast definitely doesn't belong in the same tier as Powerslave and Piece of Mind!

It's close enough, far closer to those other two than riff-lite mediocrity like SS of ASS.

 

[Vegard Pompey]

This belongs in the controversial opinion thread but I've thought for a long time that Hallowed Be Thy Name is kind of a shit song. I mean you have these amazing atmospheric first two minutes or whatever but then it just goes into this endless sequence of upbeat riffs that don't gel with the mood of the song at all. That's some Dream Theater-tier songwriting.

 

[crimsonfloyd]

The Number of the Beast definitely doesn't belong in the same tier as Powerslave and Piece of Mind!

It definitely does. It's just hip to not praise it.

 

[HamburgerBoy]

This belongs in the controversial opinion thread but I've thought for a long time that Hallowed Be Thy Name is kind of a shit song. I mean you have these amazing atmospheric first two minutes or whatever but then it just goes into this endless sequence of upbeat riffs that don't gel with the mood of the song at all. That's some Dream Theater-tier songwriting.

Don't agree with that at all. I mean I could get saying it's overrated relative to other songs maybe but it doesn't feel remotely happy to me, just very tense and dramatic. I will say however that on a recent listen after a multi-year break from the album, there were parts of the vocal pattern that I swear sound made for some kind of reggae/dub rhythm though.

 

[alex76]

Number of the Beast is Iron Maiden's best album, and certainly most consistent.

 

[Phylactery]

Well I disagree. I think it's a hugely overrated album and I've never understood its status as Iron Maiden's most classic album. Definitely the weakest of the first 5.

 

[The Ozzman]

Well I disagree. I think it's a hugely overrated album and I've never understood its status as Iron Maiden's most classic album. Definitely the weakest of the first 5.

This

 

[alex76]

Number of the Beast > Piece of Mind = Powerslave > Iron Maiden ≥ Killers

 

[Talos of Atmora]

Number of the Beast

consistent.

LOL

 

[EspaDa]

Number of the Beast is actually the least consistent album of classic Maiden.

 

[Talos of Atmora]

Powerslave is the most consistent. By far.

 

[crimsonfloyd]

Powerslave is the most consistent. By far.

Nope. It's easily the least consistent. Beginning slays, the middle drags, the last two songs are absurdly epic.

 

[rms]

have we spent enough time arguing about a shitty album from an average band? fack