― Bush Doctor, Sunday, 5 January 2003 03:39 (twenty-one years ago) link
For worst, I'd have to say Virtual XI. What the ---- is supposed to be going on with that one? The X Factor is pretty bad, too.
― G. Marius, Thursday, 8 April 2004 22:05 (twenty years ago) link
― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Thursday, 8 April 2004 22:33 (twenty years ago) link
― Bill Brady, Sunday, 7 May 2006 20:54 (seventeen years ago) link
http://img834.imageshack.us/img834/821/maidenfrontier.jpg
New one is not so good. (The album is, tho!)
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 10 August 2010 01:54 (thirteen years ago) link
I don't know, I like that cover a lot! Not as good as their classic covers, not by a long shot, but miles ahead of the last couple.
This one is BY FAR the worst:
http://sleevage.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/iron_maiden-dance_of_death.jpg
― he's always been a bit of an anti-climb Max (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 10 August 2010 02:02 (thirteen years ago) link
http://images.uulyrics.com/cover/i/iron-maiden/album-iron-maiden-a-matter-of-life-and-death-limited-deluxe-edition-with-bonus-dvd.jpg
I thought A Matter of Life and Death was not only their best album since the '80s, but also had one of the better covers.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 10 August 2010 02:05 (thirteen years ago) link
But yeah, the cover of Dance of Death is an all-time low.
I guess it is better than I remembered, but I like the cartoonish aspect of the new one.
I think we can all agree on Dance of Death though, right? I mean, look at the baby!
(lol xpost)
― he's always been a bit of an anti-climb Max (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 10 August 2010 02:05 (thirteen years ago) link
isnt the story behind dance of death that the designers accidentally sent over a work in progress and it got sent into production without being checked?
― reallysmoothmusic (Jamie_ATP), Tuesday, 10 August 2010 02:09 (thirteen years ago) link
Dance of Death should be subtitled "Oh Poser, so much to answer for..."
― EZ Snappin, Tuesday, 10 August 2010 02:10 (thirteen years ago) link
Looking at the Dance of Death cover, you get the feeling none of those masked people, animals, etc., were there in the first version - that it was just Grim Reaper Eddie. And that would have been a pretty awesome cover. But then they threw all those smooth digital people in, got the perspective all wrong so none of them have any spatial relationship to any of the others, and...yeah, it's an atrocity.
Interestingly (okay, maybe only to me), my T-shirt from that tour is one of my favorite shirts, because it doesn't have Eddie on it - it's got a photo of the band on the front. I think that might be the only time they've ever done that.
My favorites are Powerslave and Live After Death, with The Number of the Beast and A Matter of Life and Death close behind. I like the cover to Piece of Mind a lot, though I don't love the album as much as many others do.
― Born In A Test Tube, Raised In A Cage (unperson), Tuesday, 10 August 2010 02:11 (thirteen years ago) link
Dance of Death is so Eyes Wide Shut. Ick!
Matter of Life & Death cover was great, also liked Brave New World.
Of the old covers, Killers might be my favorite...sooo iconic!
Not an album cover, but this might be my alltime fave:
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Trooper.jpg
― VegemiteGrrrl, Tuesday, 10 August 2010 02:33 (thirteen years ago) link
Killers is iconic and hard to top, but I like all the Blade Runneresque aesthetic that they bought into for the Somewhere in Time era as well.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 10 August 2010 02:35 (thirteen years ago) link
Agh forgot Somewhere in Time. As Mr Veg noted, that's the "lay on your bed kicking your feet studying the album cover for hours" cover
― VegemiteGrrrl, Tuesday, 10 August 2010 03:43 (thirteen years ago) link
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/a1/ResidentsAnimalLover.jpg
― shake that ˁxᴥxˀ (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 10 August 2010 04:09 (thirteen years ago) link
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y176/edwardiii/Killers.jpg
― (e_3) (Edward III), Tuesday, 10 August 2010 04:44 (thirteen years ago) link
how about the original cover for maiden japan, which their manager put the kibosh on when he found out they were planning to fire di'anno
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y176/edwardiii/DSCN0738.jpg
― (e_3) (Edward III), Tuesday, 10 August 2010 04:54 (thirteen years ago) link
lotsa awesome 12" covers too
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y176/edwardiii/Iron-Maiden-Sanctuary---Uncen-96848.jpg
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y176/edwardiii/single_iron_maiden_flight_of_icarus.jpg
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y176/edwardiii/16535.jpg
― (e_3) (Edward III), Tuesday, 10 August 2010 04:57 (thirteen years ago) link
^ cover of purgatory was favoritest metal tee for 8th grade me
― (e_3) (Edward III), Tuesday, 10 August 2010 04:58 (thirteen years ago) link
thing'd prolly go for $200 on ebay now
― (e_3) (Edward III), Tuesday, 10 August 2010 04:59 (thirteen years ago) link
that flight of icarus cover is awesome!
― markers, Tuesday, 10 August 2010 05:07 (thirteen years ago) link
Purgatory is great!!!
― VegemiteGrrrl, Tuesday, 10 August 2010 05:07 (thirteen years ago) link
killers is pretty much unbeatable, but i've always loved number of the beast. the hierarchy of chaos, etc.
http://thedaysoflore.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/iron-maiden.jpg
pull the strings!
― a CRASBO is a "criminally related" ASBO (contenderizer), Tuesday, 10 August 2010 07:21 (thirteen years ago) link
great colors too, reminiscent of the british flag. plus cool how the singles flesh out the tale:
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_ZMdFwon2pfg/Roo3CSicuCI/AAAAAAAACJI/Wy9QGv-Zqas/s400/Iron_Maiden_-_Run_to_the_Hills.jpg
http://991.com/newgallery/Iron-Maiden-The-Number-of-The-313828.jpg
― a CRASBO is a "criminally related" ASBO (contenderizer), Tuesday, 10 August 2010 07:30 (thirteen years ago) link
unofficial, but competitively horrid:
http://www.ead666.com/Images/Boots%20Covers/1982/1982-04-03-MadridFront.jpg
― a CRASBO is a "criminally related" ASBO (contenderizer), Tuesday, 10 August 2010 07:34 (thirteen years ago) link
i wonder if this is where they got the font logo from?
http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/t_ku-xlarge/cqfkw2t5u36cmo8aumsf.jpg
― gimme the lute (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 7 March 2014 19:49 (ten years ago) link