Least favourite album

Your least favourite album

  • Iron Maiden

    Votes: 6 3.7%

  • Killers

    Votes: 7 4.3%

  • The Number Of The Beast

    Votes: 1 0.6%

  • Piece Of Mind

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Powerslave

    Votes: 1 0.6%

  • Somewhere In Time

    Votes: 3 1.9%

  • Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son

    Votes: 4 2.5%

  • No Prayer For The Dying

    Votes: 37 23.0%

  • Fear Of The Dark

    Votes: 13 8.1%

  • The X-Factor

    Votes: 17 10.6%

  • Virtual XI

    Votes: 56 34.8%

  • Brave New World

    Votes: 2 1.2%

  • Dance Of Death

    Votes: 7 4.3%

  • A Matter Of Life And Death

    Votes: 7 4.3%
  • Total voters
    161
Forostar said:
If Maiden will not play it again, before they call it quits, then why not see "Live at Donington", or play "A Real Live One" to taste a bit of it. Like it or not, let's not disqualify hundreds of thousands (or even millions) of people who do like it, by disqualifying Maiden's no. 1 hit success, and by disregarding the energy that this song creates in a live situation, when a crowd gets enthousiastic. Tastes differ, but facts don't.

Of course it's far more important what you like than what others like, so don't take my comments too seriously. I only like to make clear that the song was not unwelcome when Maiden played it.
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Well, when you consider how the track works live, it is a different cup of tea - but when I decide what songs I like, I mainly take album versions into consideration.

I'd like to add that the :turd: wasn't aimed at the song, but at hit lists. I think that when this song (which I rate low as a Maiden song, but I'd rather hear BYDTTS than any of the so-called R'n'B the radio stations are spreading nowadays) becomes the one and only Maiden song that has topped the list, while songs like Aces High, The Trooper and Infinite Dreams have never done so, I consider the lists as worthless. By this, I mean that hit lists shouldn't be used as an argument in music discussions.

As you state, for every one of us the most important taste is one's own, so if someone enjoy BYDTTS, be my guest. If they would play it in concert, I would sing along. The same goes for Gangland, The Fugitive and The Angel and the Gambler. (The Apparition isn't too singalong-friendly, so I didn't mention it with the others  :)
 
Eddies Wingman said:
If they would play it in concert, I would sing along. The same goes for Gangland, The Fugitive and The Angel and the Gambler.
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Deal! ;) And you bloody record it, to prove you did! :p
 
SinisterMinisterX said:
I think I'm detecting some sort of pattern here...

It appears LooseCannon has way too much free time. :P
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Or I am tired of people who don't post their reasons for voting in a poll, and just assume we can read their minds  :bigsmile:
 
Bah!  I've heard many complaints about Virtual XI: Nicko was not drumming, not heavy enough, needless repetitions, etc.  This is the first time I've heard anyone complain about the lyrics of Virtual XI.  I think it has great lyrics in many of the songs: The Educated Fool and Como Estais Amigos are probably the best examples.
 
X Factor.

I don't like it's dark mood, and i think that music is dull. Except Sign Of The Cross and Lord Of The Flies. Those songs stand out, while good ones are Man On The Edge, and Judgement Of Heaven also. Everything else is below average. Even with great lyrics. IMHO, VXI is somewhat better, Futureal is a nice opener, Clansman is a good epic, Como Estats Amigos is a great song too...TAATG sucks major, and rest is a bit mediocre too, but there are some nice harmonies and riffs in every song. Nicko's drumming is catastrophe, but still i think that the whole record is nicer to me than XF.
 
I found Virtual XI to be repetitive and boring.  Other than The Clansman, Futureal, and Como Estais Amigos, the album comes off to be really drawn out, and could have had so much chopped off of it.
 
Cold_Victim said:
I found Virtual XI to be repetitive and boring.  Other than The Clansman, Futureal, and Como Estais Amigos, the album comes off to be really drawn out, and could have had so much chopped off of it.
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Lets face it, the songs you have mentioned there comprise nearly alf of all the songs on the album  :smartarse:
 
To me, that album will be Seventh Son of a Seventh Son.
Songs that are worth hearing - Can I Play With Madness, The Evil That Men Do, The Clairvoyant, Infinite Dreams
 
thousand_suns said:
To me, that album will be Seventh Son of a Seventh Son.
Songs that are worth hearing - Can I Play With Madness, The Evil That Men Do, The Clairvoyant, Infinite Dreams
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Oh my God!!!  Planet Ban does not want him either!!!  :P
 
PS, SIT, SSOSS got voted ???     :o


Somewhat disappointing: NPFTD (Dickinson, lyrics, overall construction of the songs), FOTD (too many fillers, FOTD song studio version very, very slow), VXI (i don´t like the lyrics, except for the Clansman; too many bad songs, imo); DOD (same problem here, some songs are quite weak, Dickinson is in terrible shape on some songs, like Montsegur).

Again, in my opinion, Killers is a great album, the X-Factor is way better than those four i mentioned. The rest of the catalog is...  :ok:

So, my vote goes for... VXI.
 
Raven said:
On the contrary, I find Killers to be a razor-sharp slab of NWOBHM, freshened up with Martin Birch's production to give an excellent follow-up to the self-titled.  Indeed, the sheer intensity of the songs on Killers (particularly songs like Purgatory, Murders... and the title track) can be seen to have influenced the thrash metal movement in America, as both Metallica's and Slayer's early songs are an almost natural conclusion to what bands like Maiden, Diamond Head, Blitzkrieg et al were releasing in the early 80's (not to forget Venom as another influential BHM band!)
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Really can't agree, that statement would definately be true about the First album, but not for Killers. The only songs which i find really worth listening to are: Wrathchild, Murders In The Rue Mourge, and Killers. The rest, while not actually bad, just aren't particually exciting or memorable. For me at least.

I reckon the main reason is that Steve Harris was bascially the sole writer for the album (Pauil and Dave had one extra writing contribution each, which considering there is 11 tracks, ain't much), and Steve had already used up most of his songs for the first album, so he was trying to write too much very quickly, and the songs suffer as a result. Fair enough, he could probably do it these days, but back then he lacked enough experience.....

Each to their own, i suppose......
 
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