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Dickinson is much better on Maiden England (despite having a cold for those shows). Each to their own and all that, but of all the Maiden performances I've heard so far from all their live albums and bootlegs, Donington 88 is the worst, and by some distance.

Interesting. I was under the impression they'd booked it before the reunion happened. Either way, not playing any UK dates was inexcusable and a total slap in the face to all their home support.

Dance of Death's cover art was originally going to be a full painting by Dave Patchett (who did the amazing artwork for Cathedral's albums) but for some reason the band instead decided to go with the computer generated mock up he made to illustrate the concept, so he asked for his name to be...

Killers - I'm sure at some point Harris has admitted somewhere that the first two Maiden albums consisted of the band's entire repertoire up to that point, and that most of the strongest songs went on the debut, and the lesser ones on Killers. Compared to the rest of the band's classic 80s...

Going on an album by album basis and then with some more general thoughts: Iron Maiden: Phantom Of The Opera should not be dropped from the live set, ever. Also I'd like to hear Running Free again for the encore, been a while since that was played. And I think that Transylvania is vastly...

I also attended the Nottingham and first London shows. 16th and 17th time seeing the band, having attended every tour since the DOD one in 2003. I agree that the O2 was the better show of the two (helped by Bruce getting SIASL right this time) but Nottingham wasn't far behind IMO, with a...

Anyway, thanks again. Fantastic stuff.

Also I'm interested in the full Helsinki 1992 show, since that has the best FOTD performance.

I'm interested in anything from the 82 tour. Birmingham is a good show. Does it need speed correcting at all? Also I have the Donington 92 broadcast and it's a great show but does that run fast as sometimes I think it is a fraction quick here and there? Given that it's a radio broadcast it...

Thank you so much for this. Having seen Maiden a lot over the years I've got several of the shows I went to on CD but so good to have access to the rest of them.

That was my point - despite how brilliant much of Maiden's catalogue is, the fact that I'd still rate those two Bruce solo albums above much of it shows how fantastic both records are. If only Maiden could hire Roy Z for production duties.

Both of the LOTB shows from the O2 in 2018 are also on Youtube. I went to the show on the 10th. Great performance.

It has high points but a ton of filler. Empire Of The Clouds sounds half finished. Harris should have kept to his original plan to make 15 albums. Though TFF is a step down from the career peak of AMOLAD - if Maiden had kept on as a live band but not a studio one after 2006 their recording...

My rankings: 1. AMOLAD 2. Somewhere In Time 3. The X Factor 4. DoD 5. Iron Maiden These are my top 5 and don't usually change. AMOLAD and DoD are both flat out masterpieces. SiT is really good too, a very consistent album that you can pretty much play at any time and enjoy. The X Factor, by...

Here's another one: Accident of Birth and The Chemical Wedding are better than 90% of Maiden's back catalogue. In particular AoB is one of the best records in any genre of the last 30 years. I would rate it above every Maiden album apart from SiT and AMOLAD.