Iron Maiden Head to Head XXXVIII

[mckindog]

Rules here:
http://forum.maidenfans.com/threads/iron-maiden-head-to-head-i.23045/

Yesterday's poll remains open for voting

 

[mckindog]

Two concert staples in this one — Running Free, Fear of the Dark — where people tend to prefer the live versions.
How many of you consider how a song works live when you pick?

 

[Jeffmetal]

Running Free (that was hard to choose!)
Prodigal Son
Flash Of The Blade
Transylvania
Fear Of The Dark
2 Minutes To Midnight
The Number Of The Beast
Children Of The Damned
Infinite Dreams

 

[Ariana]

Running Free
Prodigal Son
Wrathchild
No Prayer
Still Life
These Colours Don't Run
Afraid to Shoot Strangers
Sign of the Cross
Phantom of the Opera

 

[Crimson Idol]

Cross vs Damned is hardest for me if live is included.. if not, its easy!

 

[Forostar]

1. Lord of the Flies
2. Genghis Khan
3. Wrathchild
4. Transylvania
5. Still Life
6. These Colours Don't Run
7. Afraid to Shoot Strangers
8. Sign of the Cross
9. Infinite Dreams

Ha: 7 pairs are 4-4 now.

 

[LooseCannon]

And I have broken those ties.

 

[Crimson Idol]

Pair 7 is terrible, such people need a lesson learnding!

 

[Mosh]

Yea! Who in the right mind would vote ATSS over the classic Maiden rocker?!

 

[Kill Devil Hill]

Lord of the Flies (VERY difficult)
Prodigal Son
Flash of the Blade
No Prayer For the Dying (tough)
Still Life
These Colours Don't Run
Afraid to Shoot Strangers (how in the world is this losing?)
Sign of the Cross
Infinite Dreams

 

[Forostar]

Afraid to Shoot Strangers (how in the world is this losing?)

A disappointment. And a major example in underrating. I expected that the song was stained because of the album it is on, and it's logical that an early nineties song apart from the ever existent Fear of the Dark never gets far, but to loose from NOTB: WTF is going on here!?

Are people stuck to their secure concert favourites? Instead of preferring an atmospheric and especially melodic brilliant and rare gem containing excellent psychological lyrics, they really prefer an overplayed fistpumper?

 

[national acrobat]

Running Free
Genghis Khan
Wathchild
Transylvania
Fear of the Dark
2 Minutes to Midnight
Number of the Beast
Children of the Damned
Phantom of the Opera

The last four paris were very tough to choose.

 

[mckindog]

A disappointment. And a major example in underrating. I expected that the song was stained because of the album it is on, and it's logical that an early nineties song apart from the ever existent Fear of the Dark never gets far, but to loose from NOTB: WTF is going on here!?

Are people stuck to their secure concert favourites? Instead of preferring an atmospheric and especially melodic brilliant and rare gem containing excellent psychological lyrics, they really prefer an overplayed fistpumper?

I know why you love ATSS. Outside the match-up, I'm curious to hear your thoughts on NOTB — not the overplayed aspect, but the song itself.
For what its worth, I think both songs are brilliant.

 

[Kill Devil Hill]

I have to agree with Foro here. It's nothing against NOTB; it's just so unbelievably inferior when compared to the likes of ATSS. ATSS is atmospheric and dynamic. It has one of the coolest guitar lines in Maiden's catalog. The lyrics are some of Maiden's best war lyrics. You can feel the fear.

I expected this song to not make it as far as I wanted it to, but to lose to NOTB? I like NOTB, but ATSS and NOTB are just incomparable. I expected it to lose to something like Sign of the Cross or Alexander the Great, and I was fine with losing to songs like those. But Beast?

I just listened to the songs back to back, and my mind is just not comprehending any of this.

 

[Sara]

Lord Of The Flies
Prodigal Son
Flash Of The Blade
No Prayer For The Dying
Still Life
2 Minutes To Midnight
Afraid To Shoot Strangers
Children Of The Damned
Infinite Dreams


Although I voted for ATSS, I agree with mckindog here... both songs are brilliant, although NOTB is overplayed, and ATSS is very underrated. ATSS is the better song, but not by much.