Did any of the songs from The Book Of Souls enter your top 10 maiden songs list?

The title track firmly wedged itself into my top ten shortly after release, gradually climbed to #2 and has refused to move ever since, not that I want it to. It only follows The Evil That Men Do, which is mostly #1 for being the song that made Maiden my favourite band.

In my very disorganised and outdated Top 60 (I do plan on finishing it someday :lol:), If Eternity Should Fail is #20, Empire of the Clouds is #41, The Red and the Black is #45 and Speed of Light is #56.
 
The title track firmly wedged itself into my top ten shortly after release, gradually climbed to #2 and has refused to move ever since, not that I want it to. It only follows The Evil That Men Do, which is mostly #1 for being the song that made Maiden my favourite band.

In my very disorganised and outdated Top 60 (I do plan on finishing it someday :lol:), If Eternity Should Fail is #20, Empire of the Clouds is #41, The Red and the Black is #45 and Speed of Light is #56.
Empire of the Clouds breaks my top 30 somewhere. I’ve not organized a specific list but roughly, my top 10 is:

1. Hallowed
2. ROTAM
3. Revelations
4. The Talisman
5. BNW
6. FTGGoG
7. SSoaSS
8. TTaL (yes, that one)
9. Man of Sorrows
10. The Parchment

This list changes sometimes but stays consistent. I listen to Maiden album by album rather than track by track. So, my favorites are often heard in context of the rest of the album.
 
Well... It's interesting question. Songs are great - Title track, great unknown, empire of the clouds, when the river runs deep are all great songs hindered by bad mix. So I would say - it is easy for songs from this album to be in top 10. It is also easy to discard them from top 10 because of bad mix since there are so many equally good songs with better mix.

For time now my top 10 list is (random order):
- 2 minutes to midnight
- Ghost of the Navigator
- SSoaSS
- Starblind
- Brighter Than a Thousand Suns
- Paschendale
- Aces High
- No Prayer for the Dying
- When River Runs Deep
- The Parchment
 
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