Iron Maiden in the strangest places

[Jer]

To the general non-metal listening public anything that's not Run to the Hills or Number of the Beast is a deep cut.

“Wasting Love” is apparently the most played Maiden track on Spotify, though. Is it still a deep cut? (I think it was the third single released from FOTD, for whatever that’s worth…)

 

[Edington]

“Wasting Love” is apparently the most played Maiden track on Spotify, though. Is it still a deep cut? (I think it was the third single released from FOTD, for whatever that’s worth…)

You sure? Apparently it's ninth and there's been some discussion as to why that might be.

To a Maiden fan, no, Wasting Love, Be Quick or Be Dead, Bring Your Daughter, or any other single isn't a deep cut. In the context of what I'm talking about, British tea-time game shows and the type of people that watch them and go on them (admittedly some of them will be music moguls who probably know about Maiden's chart history even without being fans), I would say they would be. In the show I mentioned, Pointless, the exact aim of the game is to find the most obscure answer and I doubt those songs would be among the most frequently guessed.