The Top 5 List Thread

[HamburgerBoy]

I'd probably go

1. Where Eagles Dare
2. Rime of the Ancient Mariner
3. Killers
4. 22 Acacia Avenue
5. Alexander the Great

But they've got so many great songs. Cool to see some love for Flight of Icarus, I know it's not exactly one of their more obscure songs, but it seems to get the "Oh just a Maiden single, the epics are better" treatment even though the pacing and tension is fucking spine-chilling. People that say it's better live because it's faster are totally missing the point.

 

[CiG]

Alexander the Great

 

[Vilden]

Cool to see some love for Flight of Icarus, I know it's not exactly one of their more obscure songs, but it seems to get the "Oh just a Maiden single, the epics are better" treatment even though the pacing and tension is fucking spine-chilling. People that say it's better live because it's faster are totally missing the point.

I agree! It's also one of my favorite Dickinson-performances!

 

[EspaDa]

It'd be like this for me:

1. Where Eagles Dare
2. Die with Your Boots On
3. Infinite Dreams
4. Paschendale
5. Hallowed Be Thy Name

 

[CiG]

My 5 favourite Iron Maiden tracks:

1. To Tame a Land
2. Rime of the Ancient Mariner
3. Alexander the Great
4. Hallowed Be Thy Name
5. Quest For Fire

 

[The Ozzman]

4. Paschendale

Sup?

Favorite Maiden songs? Shit, that changes a lot but currently:

1) The Trooper (all time favorite Maiden song)
2) Paschendale
3) 2 Minutes to Midnight
4) The Clairvoyant
5) Deja Vu

 

[EspaDa]

Dance of Death is a really overlooked album. It contains some real gems.

 

[Phylactery]

The lack of "Powerslave" on these lists upsets me.

 

[Vilden]

It was in my runner up atleast.

 

[EspaDa]

Powerslave is a consistent album but it's really tough to choose one song off it. I'd probably go with either Rime or Flash of the Blade.

 

[The Ozzman]

TELL ME WHY I HAD TO BE A POWERSLAAYYYVE

 

[Vegard Pompey]

Top 5 Maiden? Stupidly hard subject but okay.

1. To Tame a Land
2. Aces High
3. Where Eagles Dare
4. Starblind
5. The Evil That Men Do

Honorable mentions; The Number of the Beast, The Prisoner, The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner, Seventh Son of a Seventh Son, The Clairvoyant, No Prayer for the Dying, The Thin Line Between Love and Hate.

 

[HamburgerBoy]

Fuck yeah Starblind. One of a small handful of 10/10 songs from newer Maiden, Dickinson really needs to just take over the whole creative process in the band. Also one of their few "prog" songs that actually sounds proggy rather than just long. Good call (CASSETTE too) with To Tame a Land at #1 as well, probably their heaviest and most aggressive epic, that one is usually at least in my top 10.

Now that I think of it, there are a lot of songs named that have been in my top 5 at least at one point or another.

 

[zabu of nΩd]

Only one of you picked a Di'Anno song? I am disappoint.

• Prowler
• Aces High
• Be Quick or Be Dead
• Lord of the Flies
• Paschendale

 

[CiG]

I like Di'Anno era a lot, but it's not really what I go to Iron Maiden for.

 

[zabu of nΩd]

CIG ranks a band's songs not by how good they are but by how well they meet his expectations for the band. Noted

 

[CiG]

Literal definition of semantics!

 

[Satanstoenail]

Top 5 Maiden:

Where Eagles Dare
Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Aces High
Die With Your Boots On
Phantom of the Opera

 

[The Ozzman]

I like Di'Anno era a lot, but it's not really what I go to Iron Maiden for.

This

 

[CiG]

Di'Anno era is cool ass NWOBHM, but Bruce era is glorious, soaring heavy metal mastery.