IRON MAIDEN ALBUMS SURVIVOR: TIEBREAKER

[Mosh]

I don't really care what the isolated tracks sound like as long everything sounds fine together. I like NOTB's production.

The recent vinyl master is a bit bland though. Not sure if the original sounded that way but the early CD sounds great to me.

 

[Deus_Adrian]

TBOS: 3 songs in my top ten. No bad songs.
NOTB: 1 song in my top ten. 2 bad songs

TBOS >>>>>> NOTB

You guys are all stuck in 1982.

http://goo.gl/images/jH8bQK

Right on.

 

[JudasMyGuide]

Is this the 1 year itch?
One has been celebrated as a classic record for 34 years, the other has been out a year. The latter is winning. Go figure

Ask me in 34 years... I might not even will have listened to Maiden in quite some time, but I'm pretty sure my answer's going to be the same.

Many albums have been "celebrated as a classic," but the popular opinion has its flaws.

For what it's worth, NOTB is probably my least favourite Maiden album, probably even below Killers, Hallowed and Prisoner (and maybe 22AA) notwithstanding.

 

[Brigantium]

Ask me in 34 years... I might not even will have listened to Maiden in quite some time, but I'm pretty sure my answer's going to be the same.

Sobering thought. I could well be dead by then.

 

[JudasMyGuide]

Why would you? Keef Richards definitely won't be...

 

[Mosh]

Yet another tie! This one will be a nail biter.

 

[Cat Milk Supreme]

SiT. My granny plays better MIDI than the so called H

 

[Brigantium]

SIT

 

[MrKnickerbocker]

Definitely SIT.

 

[desultory]

So hard to choose here.
SIT is better, not because of the MIDI, than POM. In my POV.

^The virus called online language.

 

[RTC]

Easily PoM. It's gotten too far to be honest.

 

[Spaniard in the Works]

SiT wants to be like PoM when it grows up and it will never be.

 

[Forostar]

When does this tiebreaker end? I don't want to cheer too early again.

 

[Mosh]

I've set it to close in 24 hours

 

[MindlessPieces]

Apart from the over all sound of SIT which I don't like,
I have only one track from SIT in my top 25 (Alexander at 19), I have two from POM in top 25 (Revelations at 6, Where Eagles Dare at 17) both higher ranked than Alexander.

2 other SIT tracks I rank as very good:
Wasted Years
Stranger in a Strange Land

But 4 POM tracks at very good:
Flight of Icarus
Die with Your Boots On
The Trooper
Still Life

It's not even close, POM is a clear winner in my book.

 

[Whooten]

Both of these are better than AMOLAD.

But SiT is worse than PoM.

 

[ghkghk]

Tiiiiiiiime is not always on my side.
Tiiiiiiiime id not always on my siiiiiide....

 

[RTC]

Really? One of PoM or AMOLAD guaranteed in the top 3 is ridiculous. Especially lacking SiT and BNW.

 

[Forostar]

Yep, the newbies have negative opinions on Somewhere in Time and the nineties. Let's hope it changes again, in a while.

 

[ghkghk]

Really? One of PoM or AMOLAD guaranteed in the top 3 is ridiculous. Especially lacking SiT and BNW.

I don't know if I'm a newbie. But I've been a Maiden fan for 30 years and if POM is kicked out, my top three would be the remaining albums.

SIT is the most overrated album in Maiden's discography.