FOTD album rating: song by song ranked best to to worst

Dick Brucinson

Dave Sustaine
my ranking, best to worst:

1. Wasting Love
2. Judas Be My Guide
3. Fear Is The Key
4. Childhoods End
5. Afraid To Shoot Strangers
6. Be Quick Or Be Dead
7. Fear Of The Dark
8. Chains Of Misery
9. The Fugitive
10. Weekend Warrior
11. From Here To Eternity
12. The Apparition
 
Love this album. It's my 2nd favorite Maiden album after Powerslave. I know that's a very unpopular opinion here, but this album just clicked with me like few ever have. It was the right music at the right time in the right place for me. I liked the early 90s "hard rock" version of Maiden and Bruce's singing style for it. I liked the jagged edge that Janick brought to the music. Even got a cool FotD tattoo on my back!
 
1. Fear Of The Dark
2. Afraid To Shoot Strangers
3. Judas Be My Guide
4. Be Quick Or Be Dead
5. The Apparition [for the lyrics!!!]
6. Fear Is The Key
7. Childhoods End
8. Chains Of Misery
9. The Fugitive
10. Wasting Love
11. From Here To Eternity
12. Weekend Warrior

...reminds me how much filler there is on this one. And how I'd rate two of the singles at the lower end of the album.

But Apparition remains a guilty pleasure! Love the meaning behind the lyrics, I keep singing them to myself still to this day.
 
There’s a thread in the commentary section for each Maiden album that already covers this. The one for FOTD is here.
 
1) Fear Of The Dark
2) Judas Be My Guide
3) Be Quick Or Be Dead
4) Afraid To Shoot Strangers
5) From Here To Eternity
6) Chains Of Misery
7) Fear Is The Key
8) Wasting Love
9) The Fugitive
10) Weekend Warrior
11) Childhood's End
12) The Apparition
 
Be Quick Or Be Dead
Afraid To Shoot Strangers
Fear Of The Dark
Childhood's End
Judas Be My Guide
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The Fugitive
Chains Of Misery
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The Apparition
Weekend Warrior
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From Here To Eternity
Wasting Love
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Fear Is The Key
 
Fear Of the Dark album should have been:

1. Be Quick or Be Dead
2. From Here to Eternity
3. Afraid to Shoot Strangers
4. Childhood's End
5. Judas Be My Guide
6.Holy Smoke
7. Run Silent Run Deep
8. No Prayer For the Dying
9. Bring Your Daughter... to the Slaughter
10. Fear of the Dark
:rocker:
If this album would be produced at Black album's level...
Song Dance of the Tsars is not included, because of today's political context.
 
Fear Of the Dark album should have been:

1. Be Quick or Be Dead
2. From Here to Eternity
3. Afraid to Shoot Strangers
4. Childhood's End
5. Judas Be My Guide
6.Holy Smoke
7. Run Silent Run Deep
8. No Prayer For the Dying
9. Bring Your Daughter... to the Slaughter
10. Fear of the Dark
:rocker:
If this album would be produced at Black album's level...
Song Dance of the Tsars is not included, because of today's political context.
It's a decent mash up.

My "No Prayer For The Dark" would be:
  1. Be Quick Or Be Dead
  2. Afraid To Shoot Strangers
  3. P.E. Number One
  4. No Prayer For The Dying
  5. Childhood's End
  6. Fates Warning
  7. Tailgunner
  8. Mother Russia*
  9. Run Silent Run Deep
  10. Bring Your Daughter To The Slaughter
  11. Fear Of The Dark
* despite Putin and his minions being utter bastards can't see why it should be left out. Putin isn't Russia or its people (and even less so in 1990)

Also like Holy Smoke a lot and Judas Be My Guide but I think they would sound like strange bodies alongside these other songs
 
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Fear Of The Dying
1. Tailgunner
2. The Fugitive
3. Public Enema Number One
4. Afraid To Shoot Strangers
5. No Prayer For The Dying
6. Childhood´s End
7. Hooks In You
8. Judas Be My Guide
9. Fates Warning
10. Fear Of The Dark
 
1. Fear of the Dark
2. Afraid to Shoot Strangers/ Childhood's End
3. Be Quick or Be Dead
4. From Here to Eternity
5. Wasting Love

I don't care much about the rest, as I think that all of them are fillers. However 6 songs that I like a lot in a pre-2000 Iron Maiden album is really worth noting. I barely have more than 2 in each album they released before Brave New World. (Killers has none, and Piece of Mind has only Revelations for me)
 
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