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I'd vote for Lulu over No Prayer.

SSoaSS has The Prophecy, which ruins an otherwise perfect track streak. AMOLAD wins.

Sure, but Best of The Beast, which got the ball rolling, Ed Huntour + the game were retrospective and a celebration of the band's career. BNW was a bit of a gamble in terms of viability of Maiden as a (current) recording artist, after several albums of relative flops, especially since Maiden...

I think it is quite telling that he isn’t credited on the physical release. He told them not to credit because he did not want his name on that turd and he wanted to cover his back. No top, or even decent, mastering engineer would generate that level of distortion. I would imagine they had...

Wow. That's a heavy number - congrats!

Oh, I'm not joking. I find that likely if Shirley goes off.

Would love to, but that album is just filled with noise. Heh. Heh.

And that guy just might be named Tony Newton. Ugh.

I am hungry. And seeing Priest tomorrow.

That's a tough one. They are both 10/10 songs in my book, so I can't really articulate fully why I prefer DoD to it, but I just know in my gut that I do. I think it has to do with the buildup in the song and the abundance of melodies in combination with a set of lyrics I find compelling, which...

Sir, this is the Arguments thread, not the Statements thread. :D I take it you are referring to some movie?

Today's list: 1. Brave New World 2. A Matter of Life and Death 3. Powerslave 4. Seventh Son of a Seventh Son. 5. The Number of the Beast. 6. Somewhere in Time 7. Piece of Mind. 8. Iron Maiden. 9. The Final Frontier 10. The X Factor. 11. Senjutsu 12. Dance of Death 13. Killers 14. The Book of...

I went with those as well. I'd say I rate Powerslave-7th Son higher, but I find Beast-Powerslave be more of an embodiment, somehow.

It has, as usual, some great riffing. But the songs don't hold up in large part due to a lack of hooks and vocal lines and melodies that don't gel with the music.

Yes? The screeching 2khz stuff, that just ruins not only the guitar sound but the vocals in particular, is mitigated, the bottom is nicely compressed etcetera.

Yeah, but the 2015 remaster does away with the worst offending components.

Beat me to it.

That sounds prerecorded to me, if I had to guess. There is a clear difference in stereo image, there is more bottom energy in Ides overall, the cymbals sound clearly different, the snare is more prominent etcetera. The point about the guitar feeding back is a significant counter-argument, though...

Perhaps, yes, but not any more out of place than Guns n Roses. Steve Harris, however, would have fit right in. He, like Geezer, has a prominent playing style and have influenced plenty players, and I'm my memory seems to recall Steve has cited him as an early infuence.

... And I kind of get it. Don't get me wrong, Sharon took it way too far with the egging and fucked the fans over, just way out of line, but this is meant to be a celebration of Ozzy and Black Sabbath. Let's face it, Bruce mouthed off and acted like a prick, and you reap what you sow. Do I...