ICED EARTH ALBUMS SURVIVOR 2014: Results -> Night Of The Stormrider wins!

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The Crucible Of Man lost the tiebreaker <_<
 
Firsts and last.

This is such an incredible farce. I can understand the love for Stormrider, but the debut is basically an unlistenable demo. Should be at the bottom of the list.
 
Even the debut is better than anything they've churned out in the last ten years.

And Stormrider going out before any of the post HS albums or the debut would be ridiculous. I'm happy with the results so far
 
A lot of my defense for the first and (to a lesser extent) second albums are the live recordings. While Stormrider holds up on its own, those songs are really immortalized on AiA and I consider those to be the definitive versions. In fact, I consider pretty much every song on AiA to be the definitive version, it's that good. But especially with those first two albums, it really proves that the songs are strong and hold up against the best tracks recorded with Barlow. So yea, the singing on those two albums might not be great and the production is definitely not something to be desired, but when it comes down to it, it's the songs that count. The post Horror Show albums are recorded with pretty great production, good singing, and a lot of the songs have good live recordings. Yet the songs still don't hold up. Which is why I won't vote for the debut until all of those albums are gone.
 
I agree that the songs hold up, but my view of an album is based solely on the recording. So, the songs might be great, but the performance is bad or mediocre. If Alive In Athens or Days of Purgatory were on this list, they'd be in my top 5 for sure because the performances captured on the recordings are great. A terrible singer singing a great song still sounds like a terrible song to me.
 
My view of an album is usually based on the recording too, but if live versions exist that change my view of a song (and this is rare), I'll factor that into my criteria when judging that song. In Iced Earth's case, there are several songs from the debut on AiA that changed my impression of them and I have to take this into account when ranking the albums.
I'm not really trying to defend the debut since its criticisms are well deserved, but I think the songwriting gets overlooked and generally the writing is much better on that album than it is now IMO. It sounds more inspired to me as well; one of my biggest criticisms of current IE is that they sound stale and uninspired.

If AiA was on this list, it'd be #1. It's the only live album by any band that I prefer over all the studio albums.
 
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09. Plagues Of Babylon
10. The Crucible Of Man
11. Framing Armageddon
 
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Top 11
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06.
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08. The Glorious Burden
09. Plagues Of Babylon
10. The Crucible Of Man
11. Framing Armageddon
 
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