Band Members Favorite Maiden Albums?

Samantas5855 said:
I thought people liked this one :(
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I like it - great intro, melodies (like in the whole album) and the instrumental part after the repetition of the chorus is fantastic.... - I remember reading a quote from Steve about that fast instrumental part and he said that Janick was not too sure about that part.
 
Kalata said:
That's true. Steve also said that his favorite live songs are HBTN and TETMD. About the other band members favorite songs - I remember reading an interview in which Janick pointed out COTD, SSOASS and DLTTEOAS as his three favorite songs. Bruce likes HBTN and ROTAM (the latter is his favorite live song... he said that in Flight 666 documentary, if I'm not mistaken). Adrian's favorite solos are in TWM and TOAC. Nicko probably likes the most WED. Dave, he likes all songs. I think we can say that HBTN is the favorite song of the whole band.
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About favorite songs, in DOTR documentary, Adrian said that ''Prodigal Son'' is one of his favorite songs. I had forgotten about it. And iirc - ''Wrathchild'' (in an interview in 2010), ''The Longest Day'' (AMOLAD documentary), ''Stratego'' (in an interview before the release of the album) and ''Wasted Years'' and ''Stranger In A Strange Land'' (maybe ''Paschendale'' too), I guess. For Bruce, we should also add ''Phantom Of The Opera'', I think.
 
I remember to see a vídeo interview to all of them in pairs. I think it was a swedish tv circa 2005-2006. I think the vídeo was retired frontis YouTube.
They had all the albums cd on the table and They had to take two favorites.
Steve took the x factor and Seventh son although he said until seventh son his favorite one was piece of mind.
Bruce took the number of the beast and powerslave
Adrian took Somwhere in time and i don’t remember the other one.
And I don’ t remember the likes of the rest of the band.
 
The_7th_one said:
Bruce took the number of the beast and powerslave
Adrian took Somwhere in time and i don’t remember the other one.
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I remember seeing that on YouTube, IIRC they chose 5 between them. Both agreed on four - Killers, Powerslave and Number of the Beast (I forget the fourth, possibly Seventh Son?) - then Bruce chose Piece of Mind and Adrian picked Somewhere in Time.
 

Interview with Steve from 1996 where he talks about all albums. I've never seen it before.

debut - it's not my favorite album, it has some great songs, but the production wasn't so good. Still a good album.

Killers - strong album, some fast stuff on it, a lot of the fast bands said they were influenced by it.

TNOTB - very strong album, I don't think it's one of our best albums just purely because of the 2 songs I think are not as strong as the others. Ok songs.

POM - it was my favorite album for a long time, very very strong album.

Powerslave - isn't really my favorite album, it has 4 really strong songs, and the rest are good, but not as strong as those 4.

SIT - experimental album, some different stuff, some really strong stuff on there.

SSOASS - probably my favorite Maiden album, really strong album. I think probably along with the new album (TXF back then), this is probably... I can't understand what he said, maybe something like THE Maiden albums. It didn't do as well in US as we expected.

NPFTD - Adrian left just before the recordings. This was like doing a studio album but almost live, we put some live audience on it, it's more like a live album.

FOTD - it's got a couple of my favorite songs on it (the title track and Afraid), but I suppose because Bruce was pulling one way and we pulling in another, this was a little bit up and down maybe, idk.

TXF - probably on par being my favorite album, not just because it's the new one, it's a very strong album. A bit different, but not that different. The next one has to be very strong to surpass it.
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Maiden Japan - the recordings are ok, not fantastic, but alright. A testament to Paul's period.

Live After Death - a testament to the period up until this point, almost like a best of. A really strong live album.

A Real Live Dead One - I really like these albums, because they were recorded across different places. The crowd participation is great, especially on Fear Of The Dark.
 
Sth2112 said:
Interesting, it’s almost the same he said in the Run to the hills book back then. I believe he still have the same opinions today
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I recognize a lot of this from the interview before the Ullevi 2005 concert - particularly the Piece of Mind/Seventh Son love
 
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