Most overrated Maiden album?

Still Life
Stranger In A Strange Land
Run To The Hills
Back In The Village
Wasting Love
The Book Of Souls
The Assassin
Innocent Exile
Strange World
The Educated Fool
Gates Of Tomorrow
The Aftermath
The Prophecy
Dream Of Mirrors
Isle Of Avalon
The Time Machine
Out Of The Shadows
 
I have no idea if I've responded to this thread before and I don't care to check, but I am gonna come back and say that although I enjoyed The Future Past tour immensely, I still think my answer is Somewhere in Time. It's not as big of a gap as it was, but I don't think it's a perfect album, nor anywhere close to the best of the discography, which is often what I see on Maidenfans dot com. Still a great album, of course.
 
Honestly 2 days ago, I listened to the first 5 albums with Bruce in the row. From Number to 7th son.
The only album, that didn't have a filler track imo, was SIT. I didn't skip any songs, but I really wanted to skip Gangland or Sun and Steel after the first chorus. I also wanted to skip Back to the Village or Losfer words. In the end, I skipped CIPWM, I coudn't resist.
So for me SIT is their best album and also Wasted Years their best hit. Then probably Piece of Mind comes 2nd for me, because I really love the first few tracks and the last one. 3rd place goes to Seventh Son (because it has only 1 bad song imo, the rest are so good together). Then probably Powerslave (I honestly like half of the album, but the half I like consists of perfect songs : Rime, Powerslave, Aces and Flash).
So, for me Number is the most overrated, as it's probably their best album for casual fans.
(of course, I wanted to skip Number, Hills, Trooper etc, but that is because they're overplayed and also I hate 2 mins, but this time around it didn't bother me)
 
Yeah, I would probably put Number of the Beast up there on my personal overrated list. Side 2 of Piece of Mind is also a little weaker, but that's because To Tame a Land doesn't really work for me, probably my second least favourite Harris epic. Still a good song, of course. It's all pretty darn good (well, Gangland is kind of a stinker).
 
Dick Brucinson said:
And if I did a "Which is the best 6th song on a Maiden album" poll, Back In The Village would slay any other 6th song on any other Maiden album. Mark my words. :cool:
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Only falls short to Still Life and The Prophecy for me. And it's not by much: Back In The Village is an amazingly wild track. Love it!

P.S. : Powerslave? Fillers? WTF?
 
LooseCannon said:
I have no idea if I've responded to this thread before and I don't care to check, but I am gonna come back and say that although I enjoyed The Future Past tour immensely, I still think my answer is Somewhere in Time. It's not as big of a gap as it was, but I don't think it's a perfect album, nor anywhere close to the best of the discography, which is often what I see on Maidenfans dot com. Still a great album, of course.
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Exactly this, and I’ll go a step further and say Future Past reaffirmed my take on this as those songs were significantly less powerful live than any of the classic McBrain era 80s songs.

I personally don’t think Beast qualifies just because it always ends up rated in the mid tier in survivors/polls/etc. In general SIT is the only album that seems to cast a large shadow over the rest of the albums, I find the 80s generally to be rated accurately.

If anything, the other candidate for me would be Brave New World, as there are two or three albums since then that are better and the back half has some unforgivably weak moments.
 
To be clear, when I was talking about Beast, I meant it in popular opinion rather than Maidenfans opinion. I think we generally rate it correctly here. A landmark album but just the beginning for what comes next.

25 years of distance has given me some perspective on BNW, but I still think it's a great song. However, I've skipped The Thin Line Between Love and Hate a lot to not give you some level of agreement. I still put it so very high, but I can admit a significant percentage of that is nostalgia.
 
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