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Anti-Maiden bias is starting to affect people’s sanity.

Is anyone watching this? It's filmed in my little hometown. (Alan Tudyk is fantastic)

For example, just see above. And for the record, I think Cooper is comic book classy, Kiss is comic book brainless fun, and early WASP is comic book repulsive. So even if musically I don't see a huge difference, emotionally there is a ton.

I'm talking about from a marketing perspective. Artistically, they might emphasize similar elements but there will still be tonal qualities that make or break or it for the individual. Given my general tastes and what they are on paper, I should like Dream Theatre, but they've never grabbed me.

Early WASP is pretty much Kiss reinvented for the audience 10 years later, or Alice Cooper 15 years: pop hooks in heavy arrangements and a carefully contrived presentation designed to appear edgy or fascinating to 13-year-old boys. Hair metal, maybe more so than any other metal subgenre, is...

I blame you for not taking my post as intended, a self-deprecating joke based on the most crucial element of the Canadian national identity: that we aren’t Americans and we think the rest of the world is too self-absorbed to notice or care. And I thank you for reinforcing the stereotype. I’m...

Bachman Turner Overdrive is American as maple syrup, hockey pucks and saying sorry. I will be over here , acting all passive-aggressive in a middle child kind of way.

Well they sure were Beating Around the Bush with that ^^^ one

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I think it is a fair take and have to admit it “lost love returns” probably factors into my personal feelings. But 20 years later, my affection for this one hasn’t dropped.

This seems to be a common take for a number of what I consider the best albums post 2000. To me Resurrection is the best thing Halford ever did post-Painkiller - great melodies, fantastic riffing and the epitome of the Roy Z sound.

I have no idea if this song has any cachet world-wide, but it you went to high school in the 80s in Canada, pretty much every girl in your class had a poster of pop idol Corey Hart on her wall. His biggest hit was a track called Sunglasses At Night and it is the subject of a completely...

Will a Maiden album lose to AC/DC of all bands? (FTR, it should. Highway to Hell is the epitome of catchy hard rock. Cheeky, focused, crackling with energy and — contrary to the stereotype — varied.) Another round of good material

UNLEASH THE ARCHERS: Abyss I think the thing that has most disappointed me most about the evolution of heavy metal over the 40 years I've cared about it is its fragmentation — the increasing hyperfocus on one particular aspect of the genre, and the way most bands (or their fans) want to cling...

I dunno man. Try this one?

Not sure how a Maiden fan could not love this. It has pretty much all the elements we love about Maiden without being a blatant ripoff.

Empire might be Queensryche‘s last good album, but it is really, really good. If you like your metal commercial, yet smart, well crafted, well-performed, aNd varied, without being soulless and calculated (and I do) you really can’t get much better than this. Nightfall is good power metal, but it...

Not Balls to the Wall, which remains the apex of Accept And I would argue Restless and Wild and Metal Heart as well. Fair comment to the rest. The Tornillo stuff is generally pretty consistent.

An average Maiden album is better than most albums. I don’t care if anyone calls me a fanboi Final Frontier is very good Maiden album.

So much quality here. Deeper, better albums that deserve to be here. Surprised Fast as A Shark doesn’t get more love. That was a seminal song. Comparing anything to Stargazer is unfair. Long Live isn’t as deep enough be an all-time album, but the first five tracks? The beauty of Lady of the...