An update of the old poll!
There's a lot of the classics in the list of the songs. So, everyone gets three of the choices.
I'm of the opinion that Empire of the Clouds and Rime of the Ancient Mariner are two of the best. For my third of the picks, I'm going with The Number of the Beast. It's one of the best "short epics" ever created. In only five of the minutes, you get the best of the spoken intros, the scream of the century, five verses of the satanic goodness, and two of the guitar solos - plus even one of the bass! Is there another song of the Maiden repertoire with this much of the goodness in so little of the time?
There's a lot of the classics in the list of the songs. So, everyone gets three of the choices.
I'm of the opinion that Empire of the Clouds and Rime of the Ancient Mariner are two of the best. For my third of the picks, I'm going with The Number of the Beast. It's one of the best "short epics" ever created. In only five of the minutes, you get the best of the spoken intros, the scream of the century, five verses of the satanic goodness, and two of the guitar solos - plus even one of the bass! Is there another song of the Maiden repertoire with this much of the goodness in so little of the time?