Best Album Ever Survivor: Somewhere In Time wins
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Forostar
Ancient Mariner
The drums on Ram it Down are very bad computer simulated drums in my ears. The crappy tracks on this album are terrible. If I was in the band I would have dumped the ideas of Love Zone, Come And Get It & Love You To Death immediately into the trash can.
But the other 7 tracks aren't bad. Actually, I think that the title track is amazing, Heavy Metal has good parts and I like the intro as well! Hard As Iron has an excellent midpiece. Blood Red Skies' atmosphere I like a lot. A bit of a Blade Runner feel. I think it's a strong song with great moments, the keyboards (or guitar synths) really lifting it all to higher level. Monsters of Rock and I'm a Rocker (what a solo!) are nice as well.
So imo it has some really strong moments but the worse songs put the overall quality down.
But the other 7 tracks aren't bad. Actually, I think that the title track is amazing, Heavy Metal has good parts and I like the intro as well! Hard As Iron has an excellent midpiece. Blood Red Skies' atmosphere I like a lot. A bit of a Blade Runner feel. I think it's a strong song with great moments, the keyboards (or guitar synths) really lifting it all to higher level. Monsters of Rock and I'm a Rocker (what a solo!) are nice as well.
So imo it has some really strong moments but the worse songs put the overall quality down.
Saapanael
Ancient Mariner
The drums don't particularly disturb me, but I love the album as a whole. Only 1 crap song in my opinion: Love You to Death. Some other songs are half-bad (Monsters of Rock) but get cancelled out by great guitar parts. The biggest downside on this album are cheesy lyrics (that I don't care a lot about) and somewhat too happy-sounding, power metally riffs.
I love Ram it Down's beginning scream and the guitar solos; Heavy Metal's construction (beginning solo etc) resembles an inferior version of Metal Meltdown; Love Zone is catchy; Come and Get It acts the same way as Monsters of Rock but is better; Hard as Iron is an amazing song with fast and furious riffs, the sound is heavy as hell, the harmony is among their best, nice vocal things here and there; Blood Red Skies; longer, more serious, another likeable song; I'm a Rocker is very well built, superb guitar touches; Johnny B. Goode is one hell of a cover, as good as Diamonds and Rust, however very different, the harmony is great and smoothly turns into an appropriate solo.
The Flash
Dennis Wilcock did 9/11
Well, you've said you don't like Rush because of the vocals.
Rules are here:
Finishing seventh? It's Heaven and Hell.
TOP 10 (Non-Maiden edition)
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3. Heaven and Hell
4. Chemical Wedding
5. Ride the Lightning
6. Screaming For Vengeance
7. Accident of Birth
8. Defenders of the Faith
9. Sin After Sin
10. Rising
TOP 10 (Iron Maiden)
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5. The Number of the Beast
6. Brave New World
7. A Matter of Life and Death
8. The X-Factor
9. The Final Frontier
10. Killers
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7. Heaven and Hell
8. Number of the Beast
9. Chemical Wedding
10. Ride the Lightning
Unknown One
I see the ghost of navigators.
Piece of Mind cause there's too much Maiden bias even on a Maiden forum.
Unknown One
I see the ghost of navigators.
The Flash
Dennis Wilcock did 9/11
There's certainly too much Maiden bias on the forum. There's no way in hell The Number of the Beast is a Top 10 album, it probably wouldn't make my Top 50 even though it's an album I rate 5/5.
Cornfed Hick
Ancient Mariner
At least one source thought otherwise: http://www.digitaldreamdoor.com/pages/best_albums-metal.html