IRON MAIDEN ALBUM REFERENDUM 2020: Results -> Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son wins!

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Mosh said:
I mean, why should Maiden tour on new material if the older stuff is better? Why even record new material in the first place?
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There is a big difference between appreciating listening to a record and attending a concert, whatever the setlist and the conditions are. Releasing new albums mean they at least try to keep on coming up with relevant output, and there is always a couple of great songs on the "new" albums. Besides, with Now What?! and Firepower, Deep Purple and Judas Priest have shown that there is still hope to release great albums that everybody had stopped waiting for.
 
Forostar said:
Debut album > post-TXF albums
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Agreed... with the exception of AMOLAD. That album is something and I rank it above their debut. And that doesn't imply that the albums post TXF are bad or mediocre per se apart from Virtual XI (meh)... they all have several excellent cuts , especially DOD and TFF.
 
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Forostar said:
1 minute of the debut has more aggression, drive, energy, live impact, soul, guts, balls, magic, atmosphere, authenticity, originality and authority than those complete works combined.
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But that's because Prowler is a great track, with all the qualities you describe. The rest of the album hardly continues in that vein, does it? Running Free, CtH... not really the same caliber I don't think. Also, not sure if I really expect a bunch of old guys in their 60's to be full of the same drive & aggression as they were 40 years ago. Their music really should have changed; it would be awful if they had just made a whole pile of albums in the 80's that all sounded like the debut. And then continued that up until today. Likewise, the post-2000 material should sound different to the 80's and 90's material. Of course, you're entitled to think it all of poorer quality... and lacking in balls.
 
CriedWhenBrucieLeft said:
But that's because Prowler is a great track, with all the qualities you describe. The rest of the album hardly continues in that vein, does it?
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I get your point. But if you count Sanctuary as an album track (although it was only featured in the US version when it came out) I strongly disagree. Sanctuary is one of most aggressive, energetic and nastiest tracks from their early years. Then we have the title track and Charlotte that, although not being on the same echelon of those two songs quality wise IMO, are still really aggressive.

CriedWhenBrucieLeft said:
Of course, you're entitled to think it all in (..) lacking in balls.
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Yes, mainly. With the exceptions of Montsegur and The Alchemist. Especially the first. That track is ballsy as hell,

CriedWhenBrucieLeft said:
BNW & DoD & TFF do have quite a lot crap on them mind.
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Funny enough unlike BNW and DOD (the later being the highest ranked in my list from those 3 records) there's not a single song in TFF I consider to be mediocre. It's far from being my favorite (ranking at #11) but its consistency is remarkable and still offers us 2 classics in The Talisman and WTWWB. Of course it fails to reach the quality of the remaining Maiden albums I consider to be devoid of mediocre stuff (Iron Maiden, Killers, Powerslave, Somewhere In Time, Seventh Son, The X Factor and AMOLAD) but still it is a curious fact.
 
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12. Dance Of Death
13. No Prayer For The Dying
14. Killers
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16. Virtual XI
 
first time voting Matter -- I know that makes me a considerable outlier in these parts

ideally, the diversity of Book of Souls will win out over the monochromatic environs of Matter.

the love of Matter is strong though - and I fear that the (in my view superior) BOS has had less time to build a nostalgia quotient
 
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