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

[Saapanael]

I tried to rate individual songs on both albums out of 10 and add them together and ended up with an equal 65 points for SSOASS and Powerslave...

 

[JudasMyGuide]

Yeah, both are, like, at least 35% shit.

 

[Saapanael]

No, not 65% but 65 points for 8 songs, that is 81.25% out of 100. Of course, the album as a whole brings the percentage higher but I’m talking points here, not a mark for the album as a whole. I need to listen to them back-to-back to vote, hope the poll won’t close before Saturday.

 

[Midnight]

voted out by a plurality

Especially true in my case.

Anyway, I voted for SSOASS.

 

[Whooten]

My very valid and very real opinions:

Rime > Seventh Son
Powerslave > Evil That Men Do
(you can reverse those but they generally are the top rated)

Infinite Dreams, Moonchild > Aces High, 2 Minutes
(first one is close, 2nd not so much)

Duellists > The Clairvoyant
(the instrumental section of the Duellists is the most under-rated 3 minutes in Maiden's entire catalog)

Flash of the Blade > Can I Play With Madness
(battle of the cheese)

Only the Good Die Young > Back in the Village

Prophecy > Losfer Words
(although lots of people love Book of Souls, but hate on Losfer Words--listen closer, they're the same)

So clearly Powerslave is the better album. How? you ask. It is longer.

 

[MindRuler]

The instrumental section of The Duellists is heavenly indeed.

 

[Saapanael]

I’ve made my choice: voted for Powerslave to be eliminated.

 

[PhantomOfTheOpera]

Hm..now thinking of both albums, they are both absolutely awesome.
And yes, the instrumental-section in The Duellists is very cool, too bad they never played that song live.

 

[Austrogoth]

Voted for Powerslave with no regrets. SOASS is my favorite album. I like it so much, it accompanies my life for so many years now. At the age of 17, I started to listen to it before every important events: exams, driving licence, job interviews, even my wedding day and the day of my son's birth. So now it's not just only a perfect album, it became the soundtrack of my life.

 

[matic22]

SSOASS is THE album IMO. Despite losing some of the power of the earlier albums and conceptualy being iffy... It's the masterpiece. It shows what mature IM is. And what they would be if H stayed.

 

[Brigantium]

Is it over yet?

 

[Forostar]

Seventh Son barely won.

 

[Brigantium]

It's a bigger-than-Brexit margin

 

[LooseCannon]

I'm just happy Someexit In Time happened.

 

[Night Prowler]

Top 16
01. Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son ▲1
02. Powerslave ▼1
03. Somewhere In Time ▲2
04. A Matter Of Life & Death ▼1
05. Piece Of Mind ▼1
06. Brave New World ◄0
07. The Book Of Souls ◄0
08. The Number Of The Beast ◄0
09. Iron Maiden ▲1
10. The X Factor ▲1
11. The Final Frontier ▼2
12. Dance Of Death ◄0
13. No Prayer For The Dying ▲1
14. Killers ▼1
15. Fear Of The Dark ◄0
16. Virtual XI ◄0

 

[Night Prowler]

Standings of the Ultimate Top 10:

		Total	I	II	III	IV
1	Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son	58	13	14	15	16
2	Powerslave	58	14	13	16	15
3	Somewhere In Time	56	15	15	12	14
4	Piece Of Mind	49	12	12	13	12
5	A Matter Of Life & Death	48	10	11	14	13
6	Brave New World	40	9	9	11	11
7	The Final Frontier	35	11	10	8	6
8	The Number Of The Beast	34	8	8	9	9
9	Iron Maiden	27	6	6	7	8
10	The X Factor	27	7	7	6	7
11	The Book Of Souls	20	0	0	10	10
12	Dance Of Death	20	5	5	5	5
13	Killers	15	4	4	4	3
14	No Prayer For The Dying	10	2	1	3	4
15	Fear Of The Dark	8	1	3	2	2
16	Virtual XI	7	3	2	1	1

 

[KidInTheDark666]

I'm happy that Fillerslave didn't win, otherwise not so much.

 

[Lampwick 43]

Standings of the Ultimate Top 10:

Ranking by total points isn't really fair to The Book of Souls because the album didn't exist for the first 2 survivors and thus couldn't accumulate any points.

 

[Diesel 11]

Honestly, all things considered, that’s a solid enough ranking. I’m satisfied. I just wouldn’t rank them like that at all, lol.

 

[Jer]

Aside from the debut and The X Factor being about 5 slots too high, the rest is surprisingly close to my own personal ranking.