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I used to listen to "Die With Your Boots On" after reading chapters in The Fountainhead and We The Living. Good soundtrack to Rand's better works.

which of their albums have some of the best lead guitar playing and/or guitar solos?

"manufactured" was my take on it too (first several listens) but Bruce imbues it with so much ... BRUCE ... that it just works for some reason.

not a fan of this band *until* Koi No Yokan - several songs on KNY connected with me, and I like what I've hard from Gore so far. Don't know why I can't connect with the earlier material, perhaps the melodies just don't work for my ears.

Death or Glory is surprisingly good for a late-error Maiden non-epic rocker (beats the pants off of any rocker on The Final Frontier) but it doesn't quiet reach the dizzying heights of Aces High. Unpopular Maiden Opinion? For The Greater Good of God is one of the weakest tracks (and has aged...

fantastic track that has wonderful ebb and flow and a great dynamic throughout - some of my favorite melodic yet rhythmic H riffing patterns. for any Rainbow heads here, "Starblind" works great when played immediately after Rainbow's "Stargazer" and immediately before "A Light in the Black"...

more "The eyes of the Nile are opening you'll see" a friend friends and I did a drunken karaoke version of Revelations once, singing "The thighs of the Nile are opening you'll see" instead, hehe.

I have little (if any) emotional attachment to the Whoa-Oh's in The Red and The Black - but they're fun from a rhythmic standpoint - and they lead up well to the Bruce's impassioned "I need somebody to save me" post-chorus

looks as if Empire of the Clouds didn't hook a lot of people in after repeat listens - took me a good 5-6 listens, but it finally clicked with me on about listen #7 whilst on a 2 hour drive (many Maiden songs click for me while driving - there's always been a certain "scenic" quality to their...

SIASL would fit into the same spot that Coming Home and The Great Unknown have been placed in recent tours.

Revelations is an outstanding composition, but I find myself nearly laughing out loud at some of the lyrics.

au contraire - SIASL is nobody else's favorite Maiden song (rarely in anyone's top 10) and fans seem to prefer H over Dave by nearly a 3-1 margin Thus, there's a degree of blasphemy in both statements. not to mention that which is perhaps the greatest blasphemy I can imagine ... I count Piece...

Stranger in a Strange Land is my all-time favorite Iron Maiden song .... ... but Dave Murray is my favorite guitarist in Iron Maiden

I take this back -- BNW hit all the right spots on a road trip a week or so ago.

I like how the chorus of "Coming Home" begins with Bruce's low voice and then kicks into high gear - always a pleasant (an unexpected) surprise

I play clips from his channel nearly every day on my commute

YMMV - old thrasher like me can't make out any identifiable riffs, and the vocals don't work for my aging ears either.

BNW is best vocally DoD best guitar work AMOLAD best unifying concept The Final Frontier - still hasn't made its way into the "great" top-tier Maiden albums for me yet The Book of Souls has the best songwriting

AMOLAD maybe - gushing praise at the time of its release. It's a good album, but those who give it gushing praise are rarely (if ever) able to describe why it's more worthy of praise than the other reunion era albums.

Speaking of Corey Taylor, is there any particular reason (other than brand marketing) that Slipknot's "Solway Firth" always plays immediately after nearly every Iron Maiden video on YouTube?