No Prayer For The Dying Vs. The Final Frontier

Which one is your favourite?

  • No Prayer For The Dying

    Votes: 17 34.0%

  • The Final Frontier

    Votes: 33 66.0%

  • Who listens to albums? I make my own playlists.

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Total voters
    50
I think I've started to come around to NPFTD a bit, but there's still a collection of all time bad songs (Tailgunner, The Assassin, Hooks in You). While I find Mother of Mercy and The Man Who Would Be King subpar from TFF, and I would easily list Where the Wild Wind Blows as my least favourite Harris epic, at least it has an epic on it. Two, really. Mother Russia is a joke as a closer, and NPFTD's high points do not belong in the same city as the mid points of TFF. To put it shortly: El Dorado is a better song than everything on NPFTD.
 
LooseCannon said:
...and NPFTD's high points do not belong in the same city as the mid points of TFF. To put it shortly: El Dorado is a better song than everything on NPFTD.
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I understand what you mean, but let's not forget the awesome title track. One of Maiden's gems and classic sounding 90's songs. It would be great as an encore live (like Blood Brothers), just saying. I consider it a unique song in the band's discography.
 
TFF is in my top 5 favorite Maiden albums of all time. It's one of their most unique and by far their most progressive sounding album. And I'll take every opportunity to say that Starblind is my absolute favorite Maiden song.

No Prayer is also definitely an album and I listen to it sometimes and when I'm done I'm not sad or regretful that I listened to it.
 
Blood On The World´s Hand said:
Okay I´m just gonna say it what many are thinking...

...would it have killed them to play one effing song for one tour from NPFTD for the first time in 22 years?? I´m probably never gonna get over it!
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Actually yes. It would have killed them, each of their loved ones, you, your loved ones and quite possibly the world. If you like Marvel Avengers, anything in those movies pale in comparison to what would be if Maiden would play something off NPFTD, with the possible exception of Daughter; which "only" would result in mass extermination of around 35% of the population in a worst case scenario.
 
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Both albums have the unfortunate position of being sandwiched between two albums that are considered bigger and better. Ok FOTD ride on the coattails of the title track, but you get what I mean.

I think The Final Frontier is an outstanding album. Some brave compositional choices and there are some outstanding moments (Adrian’s lead line after the second Avalon chorus).
 
I really like both albums but, overall, The Final Frontier is not only more cohesive, IMO its highs are higher. First and foremost, the only track I really dislike from both records is Hooks In You. Then there's lots of what I consider to be excellent tunes, with The Talisman and When The Wild Wind Blows even surpassing that status as far as I'm concerned. Plus, unlike their latest two albums (which aged a bit badly), TFF conserved the value I gave to him in 2010 (Not a classic but a rock solid and really enjoyable album) and, although I felt kind of disappointed when I bought NPFTD in 1990, with the passing of time I came to enjoy it way more. Here's a song tier list to illustrate how I feel about each one.

Tier S (masterpieces)
  • The Talisman
  • When The Wild Wind Blows
Tier A (excellent)
  • Tailgunner
  • Bring Your Daughter To The Slaughter
  • The Final Frontier (without Satellite 15)
Tier B (great)
  • Holy Smoke
  • Fates Warning
  • Run Silent Run Deep
  • El Dorado
  • The Alchemist
  • Isle Of Avalon
Tier C (good)
  • No Prayer For The Dying
  • Public Enema Number One
  • Mother Russia
  • Coming Home
  • Mother Of Mercy
  • Starblind
  • The Man Who Would Be King
Tier D (listenable)
  • The Assassin
Tier E (meh!)
  • Hooks In You
So, yeah... Apart from one I dislike, there's lots of songs here I really dig (namely everything down to Tier C included).
 
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