*Nods in agreement*
The difference is small though. There's a lot of strong songs on both albums but I find that TCW has more weaker songs (relatively but also in absolute numbers) than AOB. Another reason is that I find that AOB has more melodic awesomeness. TCW is darker, heavy as fuck and very riff oriented. AOB has some great chopping as well but also nice chord progression where the (vocal) melodies are a bit more in the frontline.
These following tracks I enjoy a bit less than the average ones:
TCW:
"The Tower"
(awesome midpart with the solo and harmonies, but in total not that awesome)
"Killing Floor"
"Machine Men"
"The Alchemist"
(I like the first couple of minutes immensely but the return of the title track theme makes it less special)
AOB:
"Road to Hell"
"The Magician"
"Welcome to the Pit"
(All these songs I find a bit simple, and I clearly enjoy them less than the others)
I also like
Balls to Picasso &
Skunkworks a lot. Especially the latter might need some more time to get into, but it contains one of my favourite Bruce songs "
Back From the Edge". Great, deep lyrics, soaring vocals and nice stimulating uptempo music. If you get the chance go for the editions with the 2nd disc, especially
Balls has two awesome bonus tracks, which should have been on the album:
"The Breeding House"
"No Way Out ... ... To be Continued"
Plus of course you'll get the mighty "Cyclops" and the famous "Tears of the Dragon". All songs are imo better than the average track of AOB or TCW.
Bruce's latest solo album,
Tyranny of Souls isn't much of a disappointed either. On the contrary, a great varied album. Lighter and heavy moments, culminating into one of his best songs, namely the closing
title track, which kicks major ass.