Best Album Ever Survivor: Somewhere In Time wins

Vote for your least favourite album

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I got a hunch that we're having one album eliminated again. :innocent:

I don't mind. It adds to the suspense, now we're getting nearer to the end. :)
 
SixesAlltheway said:
I like Rising it is a good album but it surely isn't all it is cracked up to be...and to me it falls short compared to many of the other album masterpieces
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Disagree -- Rising is amazing, and unbelievably influential, to boot. "Stargazer" is one of the greatest hard rock tracks of all time, and "Tarot Woman" and "Light in the Black" are also significantly better than anything on several of the other albums in question (Mindcrime, Accident of Birth and X Factor, to name just a few). It's one of the three best albums RJD ever recorded, along with H&H and Mob Rules -- and one can make a strong case it's better than either of those.
 
Rising is my favorite Dio album. It's short but amazing and by far his best album I think. It would be a crime for it not to be in the top ten.
 
Stargazer and Tarot Woman are amazing, yes but most of the rest of the album is just solid hard rock stuff, nothing more (which doesn't mean it is bad) but in the whole spectrum of spectacular albums in the 70s I don't rank Rising that highly. I agree it is a better album than those you mentioned in your parenthesis above though :D
 
Oops, forgot to vote, but all I'm going to say is that there is too much Maiden bias even for a Maiden forum. :P

And Rising is brilliant, it's in my top 5 albums of all time.
 
Call me a fanboy, but I think every Maiden album well deserves its spot, even if we take out the fact that this is a Maiden forum.
 
Ride the Lightning, Sin After Sin, and what is sure to controversial...
....Seventh Son :eek:

I wonder how many — if any — albums can push a remaining Maiden album out of the top 10, or even the top seven?
 
Catching up on the last thread's debate:
Mindcrime > Rising

Rising: 35 minutes of music, most of it excellent.
Mindcrime: nearly 60 minutes of music, most of it excellent

Rising gets bonus points for the glory that is Stargazer, but Mindcrime gets some too for its sheer scope.

Mindcrime just has more to offer. It would be in my top 10.
 
The problem with Mindcrime is that there's about a half hour of filler, some of it helps the story move along but it's still a lot of stuff that I don't go back too. With Rising, not a minute is wasted.
 
Mosh said:
The problem with Mindcrime is that there's about a half hour of filler, some of it helps the story move along but it's still a lot of stuff that I don't go back too. With Rising, not a minute is wasted.
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Keep in mind we're debating flaws in two of my favourite albums of all time.
But Rising could have done better with the three minutes that are Do You Close Your Eyes?
The interludes on Mindcrime are short enough that they work in the context of the album.
And as far as the full-on songs go, I guess I never go out of my way to listen to a few of them, but I like them, and, again, they all work well in the context of the album.
A "half-hour of filler" is a gross exaggeration.
 
I guess as a complete package Mindcrime is better, but for individual songs I choose Rising, it's really close. I Just think that as good of an album as it is, Mindcrime has quite a few flaws.

Also, I happen to really like Do You Close Your Eyes.
 
  1. Ride the Lightning — Metallica
  2. Screaming for Vengeance — Judas Priest
  3. Number of the Beast
For me Beast is clearly the weakest Maiden album of this group and also worse than the non-Maiden albums I am not voting for. Anyone with me?

There should be more room for other albums (preferably Priest ;-).

And Rising should go. Sad Wings has much more variation, great atmosphere and not to forget some awesome Priest classics such as Victim of Changes.

In the last 18 albums we're having:

7 Iron Maiden albums:
The Number of the Beast
Piece of Mind
Powerslave
Somewhere in Time
Seventh Son of a Seventh Son
Brave New World
A Matter of Life and Death

11 non-Maiden albums, represented by 6 different acts.
Band with 5 albums:
Painkiller — Judas Priest
Sad Wings of Destiny — Judas Priest
Screaming for Vengeance — Judas Priest
Sin After Sin — Judas Priest
Defenders of the Faith — Judas Priest

Band with 2 albums:
Chemical Wedding — Bruce Dickinson
Accident of Birth — Bruce Dickinson

Bands with 1 album
Heaven and Hell — Black Sabbath
Moving Pictures — Rush
Rising — Rainbow
Ride the Lightning — Metallica
 
I find A Matter of Life And Death to be the weakest Maiden album remaining. Very heavy album but also slow and plodding. Tracks like Different World, The Pilgrim, Out of The Shadows, The Reincarnation of Benjamin Breeg and For The Greater Good...Doesn't do much for me anymore.

The rest of the Maiden albums are all intense and highly enjoyable albums from start to finish.

Oh and I voted against Sad Wings because I feel it is too uneven. It has three fantastic songs. Victim, Ripper, Tyrant and then a lot of forgettable tracks and the worst track they ever did in Epitaph.
 
To be frank, from this bunch, there are at least three Maiden albums I do not wish to see in the top 10. But since I don't see others voting for them (or hardly), mine would be wasted. Perhaps other people are waiting as well. It's getting more and more tactical now.

Confession:
I would "only" have three to four of these Maiden albums in the top 10.

EDIT:
Bah. Both my favourite Priest album from the seventies and my favourite Priest album from the eighties are getting closer to the danger zone.
 
Judas Priest – Sin After Sin (1977)
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Filler? None. I think I'd give every track (besides Last Rose of Summer) 4 or 5 stars. This album features outstanding drums of Simon Philips who was only 19 at the time of recording. “Let Us Prey/Call for the Priest” is special to me because of the harmonies in the mid-part, and I think this is the first real speed/power metal kind of song ever created. This mid-piece is really the basis of the prime-elements in Helloween's music. “Starbreaker” has a cool guitar riff, “Dissident Aggressor” I like because of its intense aggression, the vocals, the riffs. Last, but not least, an honourable mention for “Here Come The Tears”. What an emotion, what a melodies, what a build-up and what a vocals. Such deep and low vocals (check with headphones how it goes from left to right and back) and later high ones. Very impressive.
 
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