The Worst of Iron Maiden

[Blitzkrieg]

Haha like what? Give us a list which will in turn have some of our favourites in it lol.

 

[TinMan666]

ummm... Gangland?

 

[Goreripper]

"Gangland" is the weakest track on TNOTB, but I don't mind it.

 

[Goreripper]

I only really dislike "Quest for Fire" because of the lyrics. When I think about it, the lyrics in "To Tame a Land" and that infamous cable car line in "Where Eagles Dare" are also pretty terrible, but the first line in "Quest" beats everything for lameness.

 

[Blitzkrieg]

I like Gangland. The drumming is great. Only weakish because of the album it is on.

 

[Stonewall]

What's wrong with the cable car line in WED? Are we thinking of the same one?

 

[Spiff]

But the cable car really WAS the only way in, Brian. It was really impossible to climb. How else would they get up there?

Hater.

 

[Goreripper]

It's a bad lyric.

 

[Blitzkrieg]

It's bad, but kinda good bad, unlike some of their other stinkers, which are bad bad.

 

[Spiff]

For bad lyrics you just have to go to The Apparition:

Extrasensory perception!
Life after death, telepathy!
Can the soul live on and travel through
space and time?

 

[Stonewall]

It could be better... but reading over the lyrics for WED, it sets the scene for the story for about the first 3/4 of the song and then the last verse is pretty much they're done now they escape.

Is Fear is the Key inspired by the Alistair Maclean book as well?

 

[shadowmac]

The weakest Maiden songs had Blaze Bailey on vocals. Even "Clansman", which is a great song, sounds all wrong with his voice. The two albums he sang on had some of the best music Maiden ever made and I can't stade to listen to either one end-to-end cuz his vocals just plain suck.

In addition, and I know this will get some irate responses but... I own every album and I've never been even a slight fan of the song "Take your daughter to the Slaughter" and the album "Fear of the Dark" had some serious climkers as well as some greats.

Mac - HEDDA

 

[TinMan666]

"Gangland" is the weakest track on TNOTB, but I don't mind it.

yeah mang. My feelings exactly. That's about the worst i can say for any Maiden song - "weak track but i still don't mind it"

 

[TinMan666]

I only really dislike "Quest for Fire" because of the lyrics. When I think about it, the lyrics in "To Tame a Land" and that infamous cable car line in "Where Eagles Dare" are also pretty terrible, but the first line in "Quest" beats everything for lameness.

yeah but but but.... all those songs are based on moofies i have never seen, so i always kinda just assumed those lyrics where a reference to something in the film... so, put into context, ya feel me?

anyway if steve harris says dinosaurs and men lived at the same time, who am i to argue?

 

[Goreripper]

Hahah. Well, there's no dinosaurs in the Quest for Fire movie. And considering that Dune is one of the most heavy-handed and impenetrable wankfests in the history of the written word, Harry didn't really do too bad a job trying to translate it into a few lines of song.

 

[Iron Zombius]

The lonelyness of the long distance runner and Alexander the great have to be on there for mine.

 

[Goreripper]

Both pretty weak tracks, I'll agree.

 

[TinMan666]

WHAT! NO!

 

[Spiff]

Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner is AWESOME. I would never have climbed up and down Kings Canyon without that in my head.

 

[Mark]

As someone who always finishes his long distance runs in the last 1%, I can tell you that song is pretty true to life