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Better yet listen to the Sanctuary B-side version (which also has a killer Dave solo). I always felt that Bruce only did the audience participation part because the crowd expected it. Paul seemed to do it more earnestly (or fake it better).

DAMN THIS IS TOO HARD. I was so sure I was going to vote for CSiT because I remembered not being too hot on ATG, but I was actually thinking of Adrian's fighting-with-the-time-signature solo. Dave's is stellar.

It has a curious case of not-really-top-heaviness in that the 3 singles - well, the two singles plus the title song of the souvenir EP - come at the beginning, but they are firmly in the 'meh' camp. Another problem is that the lyrics and subject of "New Frontier" spoil what to me is one of the...

I'm unable to listen to this one all the way through... ...LESS than three times in a row. Gets the blood pumping and I love the melody of the chorus. I bet this was a total riot in their club days. Another one that sounds best with Clive, but Doug Sampson raised a thunderstorm in the BBC...

As for the solos, I think the first solo in this is the reason it got pulled from the EP release of the Soundhouse tapes. Let's face it, the first solo in the Soundhouse version is TERRIBLE. It's beyond pitch-imperfect. It makes the pitch go so out of whack that actually if you listen you'll...

I think I will vote for CSiT for bronze but I'll wait and listen with open ears. (Would you believe this game has made me pay so much more attention to some of the solos, some of which I did not recognize at first that now for several of the songs when I hear the solo I say "ah, I recognize...

I voted "same as this year" although of course it's not perfect but what is? I have been comfortable with it, although there have been cases when I felt a bit uneasy because the presence of the spoiler tag itself is a spoiler...

My quick and dirty ranking: 7th Son = NOTB > Debut > Powerslave = Piece = Killers > SiT > TBoS = BNW > DoD > AMOLAD = TFF > VXI > FOTD > TXF > No Prayer EDIT: I must however say that while I have listened to the first five album plus LAD a lot for years, I have listened to the rest of the...

He had quite a backlog of songs that were hits live and the one he wrote new, "Murders" is better than half of NOTB, so I do not think he needed extra help. In fact I think if there's anything that has deteriorated over the years is Steve's songwriting. He cannot write entire albums of classics...

The debut has the advantage of better songs, but Killers has better production, better singing - I wonder if Martin Birch coached Paul a little, he also seems to be the producer with which Ian Gillan sang better - and Adrian. I also happen to think Killers is Clive Burr's finest hour.

The production of BNW is very good but it has the same problem as TXF, VXI and DoD: overcompressed mastering. DoD in particular is almost brickwalled and if my ears do not fool me, the songs from BNW and DoD sound much better in From Fear to Eternity.

I think that from the 80s catalogue only the debut, NOTB and Seventh son are clearly better. IMHO Killers is on the same level as Powerslave and Piece of Mind and better than SiT.

Killers is fun. Why do you hate fun?

The X Factor, AMOLAD and TFF. I certainly cannot understand the Killers hate; it's in my top 7, if not top 5.

Besides, Richter only grew better and better - but a disheartening number of rock players "peaked" before they were 35.

Which I mentioned - but usually still using the "young" approach. I think my misuse of verbal tenses might have made you think I was talking in absolutes. :-)

There were Japanese editions of Killers, Beast and Piece of Mind that are nice - although with some inaccuracies - and some of them are full band. Be warned though - Japanese transcribers are prone to write things as they personally play them rather than as they think the original musician does.

I also play guitar. And I always find it curious that rock musicians are the most prone to lose something with age and not replace it with something else. A great classical pianist at 25 will floor you with exuberant performances full of fire; that same pianist at 65 will not be able to play...

Whoa, whoa, WHOA. Wait a minute, are you actually kicking me out? It reached the last four. And deservedly so. I like it better than lots of the solos that went away. But the same can be said about SIASL. And once a contestant reaches this far you hold it to a stricter standard. My comments...

Stranger by a mile. CSIT is just a series of disjointed licks without direction or reason. Technically impressive but adding nothing to the song. Whereas in jazz parlance the Stranger solo "tells a better story".