The Top 5 List Thread

[EspaDa]

Seventh Son of a Seventh Son

1. The Evil That Men Do
2. Infinite Dreams
3. The Clairvoyant
4. Moonchild
5. Seventh Son of a Seventh Son
(Only the Good Die Young)

 

[Vilden]

The Clairvoyant is an interesting song because it has to be one of the songs with the biggest difference in quality between the verse and the chorus. The verse is seriously one of my faves by Maiden, mysterious, epic, filled with emotion, great build up etc while the chorus, while not bad at all just feels so mundane and boring compared to the verse.

 

[EspaDa]

top 5 Fear of the Dark

1. Afraid to Shoot Strangers
2. Wasting Love
3. Be Quick or Be Dead
4. From Here to Eternity
5. Fear of the Dark

the rest is barely passable

 

[The Butt]

Top 5 Magic sets:
Onslaught
Odyssey
Judgment
Revised
Ice Age

 

[Vilden]

Top 5 favorite sets (going by what feels right in my stomach, not strictly "best playability" or "best flavor" just "favorite"):

1. Tempest
2. Ice Age
3. ABU
4. Odyssey
5. Arabian Nights

 

[The Butt]

Oooooh. Tempest and Arabian Nights are good ones also. Basically pre-2003 you can't go wrong.

 

[Bloopy]

top 5 Pentagram songs revisited

1. 20 Buck Spin
2. Be Forewarned
3. Last Days Here
4. Relentless
5. Forever My Queen

1. Much Too Young to Know
2. Forever My Queen
3. Be Forewarned
4. Vampyre Love
5. City Romance

 

[HamburgerBoy]

Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Powerslave
Flash of the Blade
The Duellists
2 Minutes to Midnight

Infinite Dreams
The Prophecy
Can I Play With Madness
Seventh Son of a Seventh Son
The Clairvoyant

Chains of Misery (fuck off haters)
Judas Be My Guide
Afraid to Shoot Strangers
Be Quick or Be Dead
Weekend Warrior

 

[Vilden]

How the hell can you have Can I Play With Madness but not Moonchild on that list?

 

[HamburgerBoy]

I haven't listened to the album in a decade and I'd probably like Moonchild more today, but at the time at least I found the vocal delivery in the verses very forced, and speed metal riffing has never been their strong suit. Can I Play With Madness is goofy pop-metal fun.

 

[EspaDa]

Chains of Misery (fuck off haters)
Weekend Warrior

Hahaha, nice troll. These songs are candidates for top 10 worst Maiden tracks.

 

[HamburgerBoy]

Chains of Misery is a great song. Almost sounds like a Trouble song circa Manic Frustration, melodic and groovy and it has what may be my favorite Dave Murray solo.

Weekend Warrior is a dumb AC/DC wannabe but that still puts it above a lot of the other garbage on the album. A person listing From Here to Eternity has no room to talk.

 

[EspaDa]

From Here to Eternity and Wasting Love are much better than Chains and Weekend Warrior. Even Fear Is the Key is better, man.

 

[CiG]

A person listing From Here to Eternity has no room to talk.

Guns'N'Maidens.

 

[HamburgerBoy]

From Here to Eternity easily has some of their most embarrassing lyrics and it's just a dumb cock rock forced-single anyways.

Wasted Love is a poor power ballad by a band struggling one last time for radio play.

Fear is the Key is literally AIDS.

 

[EspaDa]

Weekend Warrior is literally AIDS.

That's right.

 

[EspaDa]

Brave New World

1. Dream of Mirrors
2. The Mercenary
3. Brave New World
4. Out of the Silent Planet
5. Blood Brothers

 

[Oblivious Maximus]

Brave New World:

The Nomad
Ghost of the Navigator
Dream of Mirrors
The Thin Line Between Love and Hate
The Wicker Man

Almost had Out of the Silent Planet on there but The Wicker Man has the slight edge just based on its infectiousness.

 

[HamburgerBoy]

Ghost of the Navigator
The Fallen Angel
The Thin Line Between Love and Hate
The Wicker Man
Brave New World

All good-to-excellent songs (title track suffers from chorus repetition but the rest makes up for it). The Fallen Angel has to be one of their most underrated, and has at least a top 5 Maiden chorus if not better.

Dream of Mirrors is pretty shitty though, iirc Blaze Bayley claims he was involved in writing it and a couple other BNW songs without being credited, and I could believe it for what a riffless wonder it is.

 

[EspaDa]

I like the dense atmosphere of Dream of Mirrors. The last track of the album is disappointing though.