Which song got you REALLY into Maiden?

[Transylvania_Bass]

For me, it was The Trooper

I had heard Run to the Hills before, but that wasn't the song that made me love Maiden as I now do...I just liked the song, that's all

But two years ago I listened to The Trooper on an mp3 I borrowed from my cousin, and that was it

so, which song got you seriously into Maiden?

 

[Metallicat180]

Believe it or not, it was actually Bring Your DaughteR back in 1992. I vaguely knew of Maiden a year or so before cos I know my brother had the NOTB album. We used to act out the spoken intro to NOTB and The Prisoner (well we were only about 7 and 13 then!!) but when I first heard that song I was like, "Wooooooooooah, what the hell is that?!?! That's for me!!!!" and used to sing it ALL the time!!!! I really don't know why that one struck me first rather than something from the NOTB album but that sometimes happen doesn't it - you can over look a song or album for ages and then all of a sudden it just hits you!!! That happened to me with the SIT album - I used to HATE it apart from Wasted Years!!! It's one of my favourite albums now.

 

[Rendclaw To-Vensre]

Losfer Words. I was hanging out with my friends from high school, and my buddy Rob played it for me, and I was hooked.... summer of '84, I remember it well.....

 

[spideyjg]

I would have to say RTTH because it was the first I heard.
Steve's bass just grabbed me and I had to hear more of them. It was more Steve's approach to the bass than any one song.

Plus that was 23 years ago and I don't remember.

Jim

 

[RuntoHills]

For me it was "Wasted Years".

I loved the furturistic feel of it, and still do to this day.

It was the "Somewhere In Time" original tape that got me into Quality Music anyways.

 

[Asterothe]

Hallowed be thy name.

The best song ever by any band.

 

[Metallicat180]

Losfer Words. I was hanging out with my friends from high school, and my buddy Rob played it for me, and I was hooked.... summer of '84, I remember it well.....

Summer of 84?? I wasn't even born then!!! I've read that Powerslave wasn't released until 3rd September?? Maybe that was in the UK, I dunno!!

 

[RouxBodine]

For me it was The Number of the Beast. My friend Tony turned me on to it in 1983 when I was a freshman in high school. I was hooked from the get-go and haven't looked back since.




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[Lord of Delusions]

"Can I Play with Madness"

 

[Count_Filth]

Fates Warning for me, but Hollowed Be Thy Name will always be the greatest from them

 

[MAIDEN67]

rhyme of the ancient mariner and flight of Icarus. my friend loved Iron Maiden and these were the two songs that I first heard. as they say...and the rest was history.

 

[MiniMurray]

the trooper \m/ but it was the b side of that that really impressed me - cross eyed mary which KICKS ASS. first time i'd heard a cover done heavy like that with the guitar harmonies doing the flute part - and bruce sounds amazing!

 

[momadave]

I think it was The Prisoner or Hallowed for me. That was the first Maiden album I got. When Piece of Mind came out..... WHOA!!

 

[nicktyler89]

well mine had to be Fear Of The Dark.....i love the crowd participation in that song.....and then when it kicks in with bruce......awesome

 

[Whiplash402]

HALLOWED BE THY NAME

 

[Rottenrocker]

Yeah, it was HALLOWED BE THY NAME that did me in as well. :hotjump:

Hello again, it's been awhile.


RR

 

[|ngenius]

Uhm, first of all, I didn't know that this board was about a tribute band, thought it was some Iron Maiden's fan base here, in UM.

Now, if I must pick a single song... I would go for "Number Of The Beast". That was the first Maiden record I got in tape, and I played it repeatedly for two months. So, even when I would like to choose many others ("Can I Play With Madness" is a stunning cut!!)... Dickinson screaming at the very beginning of "Number Of The Beast" was really impressive for a 15 y-o.

Now that I think about it, "Number Of The Beast" was a killing album except for "Gangland", which sounded pretty lame to me. Just an opinion, though.

|ng.

 

[Zero Dude]

Number of the Beast. First song I ever heard from Maiden.

 

[foffe]

HALLOWED BE THY NAME

I love this song

 

[Kenneth R.]

Ghost of the Navigator