Iron Maiden Virgin

[J.]

i know a guy who was into death and black metal very heavily but found the magical sounds of real doom and has listened to nothing since so now he wants to check out vintage Heavy Metal and iron maiden is kind of popular so which album for an iron maiden virgin is best?

 

[lurch70]

Fear of the Dark

 

[J.]

hes not that much of a virgin. he once broke the maiden's hymen, and pulled out

 

[Ars Magna]

Such a tough question. My favorite album is still probably Number of The Beast but that is true ONLY because it was the first I owned from them. I listened to it in my Walkman every day while I did my paper route.

IMHO, anything up to and including Seventh Son is worth picking up. Powerslave is simply amazing.

 

[lurch70]

I would say Live After Death ... it has all the great early songs delivered the best way ... live!

 

[Krilons Resa]

Powerslave

or

Piece of Mind

 

[Reign in Acai]

You can't go wrong with Powerslave. Rime of the Ancient Mariner

 

[Hell Mike]

I would say Live After Death ... it has all the great early songs delivered the best way ... live!

This is true, doit

 

[Tranquillian]

Find "The best of the beast" or "Edward the great". That way he can get taste from all albums up to the time those complilatiosn were released.

 

[einride]

i would burn a cd-r with the best songs because you can't trust the official compilations

when i got mike into maiden (because he used to think they were gay) it was a tape with killers on one side and random songs on the other

 

[Demilich]

Piece of Mind, I say!

Though they don't really have a 100% consistently awesome album, just scattered great songs, so maybe a comp is best

 

[EricT]

Seventh Son is the most consistently solid and catchy album they've made. I'd go with that.

 

[einride]

Though they don't really have a 100% consistently awesome album, just scattered great songs, so maybe a comp is best

seventh son is really consistently great all the time, except "can i play with madness" has gotten old with repeated listens but is still a quality song

the first three are also totally solid all the way through. 1983-1987, more uneven, but with very high high points

 

[J.]

thanks for recos, will stop by a store this morning to see if they've got one of the ones mentioned.

 

[Tranquillian]

Somewhere in time is an awesome album to listen to while driving. It is probably Maidens most uptempo album. I have a feeling they somewhat felt the competition of the thrash bands and wrote some faster songs because of that.

They should play more of those songs live, and not the usual ones like Wasted years, Stranger in a strange land. Sea of madness or Deja-Vu preferrably.

 

[Dark One]

The underrated Number of the Beast, Piece of Mind and Powerslave are about as safe as you can get studio wise. I actually really enjoy the new one (A Matter of Life and Death) as well.

 

[einride]

I have a feeling they somewhat felt the competition of the thrash bands and wrote some faster songs because of that.

that was "be quick or be dead"

"awright bruce, quite fancy you sing a bit like them new bands, lil bit more aggressive, innit? bit of a fast riff right here, bloody bonkers, innit? right ho, splendid ol chap," etc etc

 

[War Ensemble]

The Number of the Beast, Piece of Mind and Powerslave ...

All a good place to start.

 

[Tranquillian]

that was "be quick or be dead"

"awright bruce, quite fancy you sing a bit like them new bands, lil bit more aggressive, innit? bit of a fast riff right here, bloody bonkers, innit? right ho, splendid ol chap," etc etc

Ehhh, thrash was more or less dead in 92. Maybe you mean they felt the competition from death metal bands?

 

[einride]

Ehhh, thrash was more or less dead in 92. Maybe you mean they felt the competition from death metal bands?

naw i think they, like judas priest, were just a little bit slow on realizing that thrash was the new cool thing, so priest did "painkiller" in 1991 when speed/thrash was already dying in the mainstream again, and maiden chose "bqobt" as a single just after metallica had killed thrash metal with the black album -- bad luck!