Best Album Ever Survivor: Somewhere In Time wins

Vote for your least favourite album

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I second the two Samson albums, the two remaining Bob Dylan albums, and The Wild, The Innocent, & The E Street Shuffle. Some other suggestions:

Boston - Boston
Oasis - Definitely Maybe / (What's the Story) Morning Glory
Elton John - Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
Janis Joplin - Pearl
 
White Spirit is amazing and Janick is shinning there.. I too like more Head On, the drumming of Thunderstick Vice Versa is just awesome..
 
I second Kill Devil Hills nomination for Elton John - Goodbye Yellow Brick Road

Also, I just noticed. There is no Iron Maiden in any of these lists? :p Or its that on purpose since they are likely to win by default?
 
mckindog said:
Welcome to the Maidenfans Best Album Ever Survivor.
I’ve picked albums from each of the past 40-plus years from the hard rock/prog/metal genre — chosen from a combination of reading this board and surfing the net for best album lists. More than 200 albums total, they’ve been split into 18 groups based on release date and we will face them off using the traditional Survivor formula.

The top two in each group, plus 15-20 wildcards move on to the playoffs to meet Maiden’s 15 albums. Then we’ll continue whittling away until we select the forum’s favourite.
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Updated. Please add in years when nominating new albums, much easier to update then. _____no5, I have no idea if you're nominating White Spirit and Head On or not, I decided to not add you.
 
Great work Vap, or great teamwork may I say. :D

I second the nominations of Head On (1980) and Shock Tactics (1981).
 
I see some more some imo big omissions, but I'd like to nominate these in the next topic, because then they might generate more attention (this poll will end soon and the discussion and Vap's list will continue in the next topic?).
 
I second Head On (1980) and White Spirit (1980) -forgot to do it yesterday.

Also I'd like to nominate two more:

Procol Harum -Shine on Brightly (1968)
Edgar Broughton Band (1971)

Not that they'll make it even qualify, but they are two of my best albums ever ::)
 
Head On? Really. Some of you guys amaze me. This is the best album ever, let me repeat that, best album EVER poll. The only reason Head On is worth listening too is because Bruce Dickinson is on it.
 
Let me rephrase it then, who here would be listening to Samson if Bruce Dickinson wasn't in that band before Maiden. No one. Samson was a so-so NWOBHM band. Besides Maiden fans and NWOBHM connoisseurs - no one knows them or cares about them!
 
So being a band that is relatively unknown to many makes them "not that good" ? I would listen to Head On and Shock Tactics if Bruce wasn't on them. Shock Tactics features one of the greatest songs ever written (Communion).

Maiden was a support band for Samson in their early days, they were quite popular in the metal scene in UK.
 
SixesAlltheway said:
Head On? Really. Some of you guys amaze me. This is the best album ever, let me repeat that, best album EVER poll. The only reason Head On is worth listening too is because Bruce Dickinson is on it.
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In the base of this forum, Sixies.. Dog explained it very well. I don't think any Maiden album would made it in my top 10, same for a lot of albums I nominate.. Probably only Revolver & Tommy (#1) are in my top 10.. Of course, what I nominated, are all time favourites, but they got nominated based to what dog's said. Plus they are kind of silent suggestions to people I like, including you ;)
 
SixesAlltheway said:
Let me rephrase it then, who here would be listening to Samson if Bruce Dickinson wasn't in that band before Maiden. No one. Samson was a so-so NWOBHM band. Besides Maiden fans and NWOBHM connoisseurs - no one knows them or cares about them!
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Well we are on a Maiden fans forum indeed (and some of us are clearly bigger fans than others). But if I had heard those albums without knowing Maiden first, I am pretty sure I could appreciate such music as well. Taste is taste. It can be formed and changed, but the core of it can lead to similar sounding bands.

I am glad Maiden has led us to lesser known music. Because I don't believe that more known music is per se better. Nor in the theory: If you haven't heard of it, it should be crap. Some bands just had bad management or bad luck. The music can still be good.

I have said before and will do again, Sixes: It feels like you judge older albums by members or ex-members disproportionally harder than (imo sometimes overrated) and reviewed-to-death classics from softer and more commercial artists. Sometimes I wonder if you really know the music by bands that were not so successful.

Ever heard of the White Spirit album? Ever played this?
What an epic song, I'd rate that as high as Seventh Son's title track.
 
Exactly.
Back in '89 or '90, but in any case before No Prayer For The Dying, Lars Ulrich released a compilation called NWOBHM Revisited. The entry for White Spirit was Cheetah and I was amazed. Particularly from Gers' playing. Could be the best Gers' work ever this album..



ps: If Foro mentions 7th Son, attention!! :)
 
Listen, Samson is good, White Spirit is good. But guys there are hundreds of those bands out there. I'm listening to White Spirit right now and it sounds like every other small time hard rock band from the 70s/early 80s. Typical hard rock NWOBHM stuff. I'm not saying it is bad (or that more known music is better) but it is just not terribly original or stands out in any way. When people pick those albums and not far better ones from the same genre there can't be any other reason than it is because past or present Maiden members feature on them and that is just perhaps a bit too uncritical and biased for my liking...

And perhaps the first indication that we'll just end up with 9 Maiden albums and a White Spirit one as best albums EVER when the poll is done.

Why not make a "best of ex or present Maiden member side project/band album" list instead to play these albums out in? Would make more sense.
 
Sixes, you're the only one to talk like this about these albums. Have you considered that ? Maybe we just like these albums more than you do.
 
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