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Personally, I like both Smith/Dickinson songs, and my least favorite (it's not a bad song though, and who knows, it could grow) is When The River Runs Deep, which is of course Smith/Harris, and my favorite song of the album is Empire of the Clouds. Gk1's attitude that everything Harris touches...

Anyway, on the actual topic of the song itself, I love parts of it. Other parts don't grab me as much. This is probably the most difficult song on the album for me; it hasn't really clicked yet, but unlike some other posters who have commented on it, I feel no urge to reach for the skip button...

The fact we're fans (so are you, as far as I can tell, so I'm not sure how this is a relevant distinction,) doesn't mean that posters who disagree with you lack critical thinking skills or are "forcing" themselves to love songs. Personally I think the idea that Steve's "old standards" were...

I have to say, a poster with an anti-Steve Harris agenda is probably the most counter-intuitive thing to encounter on a Iron Maiden fan forum. 1. This is all speculation. Given your particular bias, it's not even terribly credible speculation. Of course you'd say any good song Harris has...

Or, you know, instead of proving that Steve suddenly and permanently lost the ability to write good songs, maybe he just wrote a few weak songs and did a poor job of producing the record. But nah, it's not like he's written or co-written anything even remotely good at all for the reunion albums.

I like all of them pretty equally for different reasons, but in recognition of his excellent song-writing contributions, I picked Janick.

Empire of the Clouds for me. It succeeds spectacularly in telling the story that it set out to tell, and for me, is one of the most unique and beautiful songs in the Maiden catalogue.

No Prayer for the Dying: The Assassin, Hooks In You, Public Enema Number One Virtual XI: Don't Look To The Eyes of a Stranger, The Angel and the Gambler, When Two Worlds Collide Fear of the Dark: Chains of Misery, Weekend Warrior, The Apparition Killers: Twilight Zone, Innocent Exile, Drifter...

I wasn't quite as disappointed when I first heard it, but my experience was somewhat similar; I had recently actually seen Maiden live on the SBIT tour for the first time, and my immediate thought was that Bruce sounded quite a lot better in recent times.

Maybe I'm weird because I'm young and buy everything as MP3s, but to me, it's just one album. So the Seventh Son/SIT analogy doesn't make any sense to me, since they're two separate albums, whereas the two sides of TBOS are not.

Perhaps not all of us have the same capacity for self-deception you're crediting yourself with.

I actually like both these songs quite a lot, haha. Anyway, for me, I would name the following. Don't Look To The Eyes of a Stranger Weekend Warrior Chains of Misery Twilight Zone Hooks in You The Assassin Age of Innocence I don't care for the lyrics to Quest for Fire and New Frontier, but I...

Just ashes at the last.

I tends towards Travis' position on the matter, that we shouldn't treat the album's halves like separate entities. That said, I am interested to see disk 1 seems to be winning the vote, given that The Red and the Black and When The River Runs Deep are among the more criticized tracks on the album.

Do you mean lyrically? If so, sure, I'll give it a spin. I've never read the Orson Scott Card novel that inspired the album however, nor am I terribly familiar with the book of Revelation, so take my interpretation for what it's worth. This serves not just as an intro to the song itself, but...

A like for the Supernatural reference.

Here you go, Forostar.

I don't think anyone would accuse it of being dishonest. I just don't agree with it in the slightest.

Speaking of unpopular opinions, anyone seen AMG's Book of Souls review? http://www.angrymetalguy.com/iron-maiden-the-book-of-souls-review/

If anything, I hear it more than on any reunion album since Brave New World.