Bruce also does a great job on the Dianno songs. Unfortunately have never had the chance to hear Dianno sing any of the Bruce songs, but I doubt it would be so good.
― Chicago to Philadelphia: "Suck It" (Bill Magill), Friday, 30 July 2010 13:48 (thirteen years ago) link
has anybody else noticed how woeful dickinson's vocals are on fear of the dark? that's perhaps not a very insightful question - it'd be impossible not to notice. he'd really reached the end of his tether by that point, and it was nice to see him gradually reclaim his fire on solo records and eventually return to the maiden fold in flying form.
― charlie h, Friday, 30 July 2010 23:02 (thirteen years ago) link
No question, Dickinson looked and sounded bored and apathetic around then, you can see it on the Donington footabe and the woeful Raising Hell. His snarly vocals certainly didn't help Fear of the Dark any, but it does sort of work on "Be Quick or Be Dead".
― A. Begrand, Friday, 30 July 2010 23:13 (thirteen years ago) link
Now that that's out of the way, let's get to the best W.A.S.P. studio album.
― gato busca pleitos (Eazy), Friday, 30 July 2010 23:14 (thirteen years ago) link
seventh son should've done way better. infinite dreams!
― reggie (qualmsley), Monday, 10 October 2011 16:51 (twelve years ago) link
The Clairvoyant!
― ArchCarrier, Monday, 10 October 2011 17:13 (twelve years ago) link
band name=record name=song name.
are there any more examples of this?(except for black sabbath)
― nostormo, Monday, 17 June 2013 19:13 (ten years ago) link
"Motorhead", by Motörhead, off Motörhead .
― A. Begrand, Monday, 17 June 2013 20:48 (ten years ago) link
The Dianno years were very well-represented. Thank you, ILM-circa-2007!
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Monday, 17 June 2013 20:56 (ten years ago) link
Google search also revealed Angel Witch and Bad Company to have eponymous songs on eponymous albums.
Others are a stretch, including "Court of the Crimson King" et al.
PS - I am a Killers guy!
― Nate Carson, Monday, 17 June 2013 21:09 (ten years ago) link
If I didn't vote Powerslave, I would have.
― 誤訳侮辱, Monday, 17 June 2013 21:19 (ten years ago) link
"Lucifer's Friend", "Powertrip", "Saint Vitus" and "Belfegore" also qualify as doubly-eponymous. Interesting how it's only hard-rockers who do this.
― Sir Lord Baltimora (Myonga Vön Bontee), Monday, 17 June 2013 21:50 (ten years ago) link
Another band who have done this is hard-rockers Living In A Box.
― everything, Monday, 17 June 2013 22:16 (ten years ago) link
Piece of Mind (1983) 3
insane
― Jimmywine Dyspeptic, Monday, 17 June 2013 22:24 (ten years ago) link
I think Piece of Mind is the 3rd best Maiden record. After the Dianno albums.
― Nate Carson, Monday, 17 June 2013 23:16 (ten years ago) link
Powerslave got a good showing in this one. was my first Maiden album, and hell, I think it still gets unfairly overlooked sometimes (although ok, ok, it does have two of their biggest concert staples ever, so it isn't THAT overlooked).
Lol at BNW getting a vote.
― Neanderthal, Monday, 17 June 2013 23:25 (ten years ago) link
It's not so much that POM got only three votes, but that it tied with the not-very-good SIT, well, I can't get behind that. Even SSOASS > SIT
― Jimmywine Dyspeptic, Tuesday, 18 June 2013 00:10 (ten years ago) link
I love Seventh Son. I'd even consider voting for it as my fav depending on the day of the week.
SiT, though, is second tier Maiden.
― Neanderthal, Tuesday, 18 June 2013 00:20 (ten years ago) link
Yeah, Seventh Son holds up, despite the synths. Great songs, not a dud on that album, really.
― Jimmywine Dyspeptic, Tuesday, 18 June 2013 00:22 (ten years ago) link
An interesting poll would be the best Maiden album from 1990-2010.
― A. Begrand, Tuesday, 18 June 2013 01:24 (ten years ago) link
i'd take brave new world, easy
― reggie (qualmsley), Tuesday, 18 June 2013 02:10 (ten years ago) link
If Maiden were less stereotyped as a metal band they could have gain even more fans imo.They have much more in them.
― nostormo, Tuesday, 18 June 2013 04:40 (ten years ago) link
If Maiden were less stereotyped as a metal band they could have gain even more fans imo.
They're one of the biggest bands in the world. More than 85 million records sold.
― A. Begrand, Tuesday, 18 June 2013 05:07 (ten years ago) link
Somewhere In Time and Seventh Son are both fantastic. Though the band pretty much ends right then and there for me.
― Nate Carson, Tuesday, 18 June 2013 05:36 (ten years ago) link
To answer thread revive q in a not very metal way, "Living in a Box" by Living in a Box from the album Living in a Box.
― Neil S, Tuesday, 18 June 2013 08:42 (ten years ago) link
I would've voted Piece of Mind although I'm a casual fan i.e. I've not heard anything past Somewhere in Time.
― Gavin, Leeds, Tuesday, 18 June 2013 09:11 (ten years ago) link
Agreed - let's do it.
― 誤訳侮辱, Tuesday, 18 June 2013 14:05 (ten years ago) link
Best Iron Maiden Studio Album 1990-2010
― 誤訳侮辱, Tuesday, 18 June 2013 14:09 (ten years ago) link
once again 'brave new world' gets robbed
http://www.stereogum.com/1667509/iron-maiden-albums-from-worst-to-best/list/
― reggie (qualmsley), Thursday, 6 March 2014 16:58 (ten years ago) link
Nah, I stand by it. It's a really good album, but A Matter of Life and Death and Final Frontier benefit a great deal from their ambition and warranted placing a little higher.
― A. Begrand, Thursday, 6 March 2014 17:05 (ten years ago) link
I'd put Piece of Mind at number one myself. "Sun and Steel" is a solid song, "To Tame A Land" is classic, and the first half is a phenomenal stretch.
― jmm, Thursday, 6 March 2014 17:13 (ten years ago) link
the hooks are so huge on 'brave new world' though. "dream of mirrors" is one of their best epics, a total trip. my favorite maiden album after 'powerslave' for sure
― reggie (qualmsley), Thursday, 6 March 2014 17:21 (ten years ago) link
Good list. i can definitely live with that.
― Prince Kajuku (Bill Magill), Thursday, 6 March 2014 19:02 (ten years ago) link
dear God. so far I feel like this new Maiden album is finally the album I've been wanting them to make since Bruce rejoined the band. I've been iffy on most of the post-Bruce reunion material other than BNW and Final Frontier (and don't consider either to be A-work). the epics aren't wearing out their welcome either!
I would have settled for good, but this shit's hitting me in all the right places. nervous tho as I still have yet to the closer which I've been told is ridiculous.
― Hammer Smashed Bagels, Saturday, 5 September 2015 01:56 (eight years ago) link
there's riffs all over this thing too, which post-2000 Maiden has often been light on.
― Hammer Smashed Bagels, Saturday, 5 September 2015 01:57 (eight years ago) link
I'm only up to the title track and I want to cry this thing is so fucking face melting
goddamn
just bloody blistering so far, i love it
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 5 September 2015 03:33 (eight years ago) link
tempo changes! hooks! solos! yaaaaaaaah
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 5 September 2015 03:34 (eight years ago) link
do we need a new thread for this album? is there a new thread?
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 5 September 2015 03:35 (eight years ago) link
mebbe. finally getting my second listen in - "If Eternity Should FAil" is such a great opener.
― Hammer Smashed Bagels, Sunday, 6 September 2015 21:49 (eight years ago) link
why not start a new thread? It might help other ilxors check it out and get it into ilx eoy polls
― Cosmic Slop, Sunday, 6 September 2015 21:54 (eight years ago) link
THINK OF THE POLLS
:)
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 6 September 2015 22:03 (eight years ago) link
madness
― Wimmels, Sunday, 6 September 2015 23:06 (eight years ago) link
been re-spinning Number lately and while I've always loved it I always considered it overrated. but starting to believe that was due to overexposure to "Number of the Beast" and "Run to the Hills", etc, cos listening to it fresh after years of not hearing it, and I've enjoyed it a lot more.
btw they played "Children of the Damned" when I saw them the other night. I'm still shaking from that.....
― you are no man. take the balls. (Neanderthal), Saturday, 27 February 2016 14:10 (eight years ago) link
Piece of Mind got so fucking jobbed in this thing.
― Neanderthal, Saturday, 5 March 2016 15:37 (eight years ago) link
Live After Death is so far and away the best thing they did, but I think I would have gone Killers or Seventh Son.
― Poacher (Chinaski), Saturday, 5 March 2016 15:47 (eight years ago) link
Really surprised POWERSLAVE is ranked so highly here. I mean, it's a fine record, but....
― Alex in NYC, Saturday, 5 March 2016 17:58 (eight years ago) link
it's one of my favs, but it was also the first I heard
― Neanderthal, Saturday, 5 March 2016 18:02 (eight years ago) link
Powerslave always sounds thin and laboured to me - especially next to the beefy wallop of Live After Death.
― Poacher (Chinaski), Saturday, 5 March 2016 18:08 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ECbJdeh1VvA
― reggie (qualmsley), Saturday, 17 June 2017 16:10 (six years ago) link
lmao i love the results to this poll, i was just listening to the s/t and thinking about how awesome it is, kinda posed between their own embryonic style and extreme thin lizzy worship, it smokes. clive burr is a monster
― american bradass (BradNelson), Sunday, 15 September 2019 15:16 (four years ago) link