Brave New World Vs. Piece Of Mind

Which one is your favourite?

  • Brave New World

    Votes: 15 40.5%

  • Piece Of Mind

    Votes: 22 59.5%

  • Complex decision making process is not my cup of tea

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Total voters
    37
Siddharth

Siddharth

Long Distance Trooper
Well guys, a few days back I was ranking all the 17 Maiden albums, which is definitely a tough job.

1. Somewhere In Time
2. Powerslave
3. The Number Of The Beast
4. Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son
5. A Matter Of Life And Death
6. Brave New World
7. Piece Of Mind
8. Dance Of Death
9. Iron Maiden
10. Killers
11. Fear Of The Dark
12. The Book Of Souls
13. The X Factor
14. Senjutsu
15. Virtual XI
16. No Prayer For The Dying
17. The Final Frontier

But somehow even after doing it, I felt a sense of dilemma between some couple of albums here and there. So, give me your best shot and this is your time to defend your favourite album right here! And I may consider a change in my list.

(Basically a thread for albums comparison)
 
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I voted for Piece of Mind. It has such gems as “Where Eagles Dare,” “Revelations,” “Flight of Icarus,” “The Trooper,” and “To Tame a Land” (though I’m not too keen on the lyrics there). I also really like “Sun and Steel,” “Still Life,” and “Die With Your Boots On.” Even “Quest for Fire” is listenable—minus the lyrics. And I really enjoy how the album sounds overall.

Brave New World has great moments too: “The Wicker Man,” “Brave New World,” “Blood Brothers,” “Out of the Silent Planet.” But I’ve never liked the muddy guitars on “Ghost of the Navigator.”

Production-wise, Brave New World is solid, but to me, it’s just not on the same level as Piece of Mind.
 
These 2 are pretty close for me. BNW has my second favourite reunion song (ghost of the navigator), but PoM has 2 of my favourite Maiden tracks ever (Still Life and Revelations). Revelations is definitely in my top 3. So, I have to go with POM.
Production-wise they are both great and they are both top 5 Maiden albums for me.
 
I voted for Piece of Mind.
BNW is a very consistent album - I think every song is good, some very good, but none of them strike me as great.
POM hits that note repeatedly with Revelations, Die With Your Boots On, The Trooper and Still Life.
I also very much like Where Eagles Dare, Sun and Steel and To Tame a Land.
Only Flight of Icarus and Quest for Fire miss the mark for me but I'll usually still listen to them when I have the CD going.
 
Tough choice this one but i am going Piece of Mind, first Maiden album i bought and still stands up as a very strong one .BNW was a return to something close to the 1980`s peak when it was released.
 
BNW is my favorite album and it's all killer, no filler. POM has songs like Sun And Steel and Quest For Fire, which I still like and enjoy, but are weaker and compared to the other songs and 80's as a whole. Both albums are full of classics.
 
PoM has a run of six top-tier songs in a row (Where Eagles Dare through Still Life), which is unrivalled in any other Maiden album, but tanks pretty hard in its final three songs and ends with Steve's weakest epic of the eighties. BNW has a number of top tier songs too, although not in a consecutive run like PoM, but it's consistently strong from start to finish.
 
Both of these albums have weaker back halves, so for me, it is a matter of which one I find weaker, and that is POM. There's some nostalgia in there as I'm nostalgia for BNW in a way I cannot be for POM.
 
Iron Lurker said:
Martin Birch really elevated Maiden. Kevin is a fine producer and BNW proves that as Steve wasn't meddling with the production then.
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Yeah, Steve—by today’s standards—was still a mere youngster back then, and he had a certain awe or respect toward producers. He was just at the beginning of his own journey into knob-twiddling, with The X Factor and Virtual XI under his belt.
 
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