Maiden Albums: Head to Head

[Diesel 11]

A few of the first ones are close and Ides and CSIT are literally back to back in my list. Still, only voted for Khan from the Killers thing, everything else is SIT.

 

[Number 6]

1. "The Ides of March" vs "Caught Somewhere In Time"
2. "Wrathchild" vs "Wasted Years"
3. "Murders In the Rue Morgue" vs "Sea of Madness"
4. "Another Life" vs "Heaven Can Wait"
5. "Genghis Khan" vs "Reach Out"
6. "Innocent Exile" vs "The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner"
7. "Killers" vs "Stranger In a Strange Land"
8. "Twilight Zone" vs "Deja-Vu"
9. "Prodigal Son" vs "That Girl"
10. "Purgatory" vs "Juanita"
11. "Drifter" vs "Alexander the Great"

6-5 for Somewhere In Time.

 

[Mosh]

I kinda wanna vote all Killers to troll the fanboys and haters, but SIT really slaughters it. 7 - 4

 

[LooseCannon]

7-4 SIT. Killers is legit one of the albums I like less than SiT so this makes sense.

 

[permanenteddie]

One of the easiest list of choices so far, all SIT minus Purgatory.

 

[Confeos]

Ides of March vs Caught Somewhere in Time
Wrathchild vs Wasted Years
Murders in the Rue Morgue vs Sea of Madness
Another Life vs Heaven Can Wait
Genghis Khan vs Reach Out
Innocent Exile vs Long Distance Runner
Killers vs Stranger in a Strange Land
Twilight Zone vs Deja Vu
Prodigal Son vs That Girl
Purgatory vs Juanita
Drifter vs Alexander the Great

6-5 in favour of Killers.

This honestly surprised me - even though both albums are "lesser efforts" in my book, I thought SiT would win it. I guess the fact that Killers have grown on me a bit in recent years was a decisive factor here, and by the looks of it the B-sides might have something to do with it too*.

* - I do think both Prodigal Son and Purgatory are stellar songs, so they could easily have won matchups against proper album tracks.

 

[Cat Milk Supreme]

8-3 Killers.
Couple of tough ones. Went for CSiT, Lonliness & Alexander from SiT.
Di'Anno Era >>>> Synths

 

[Brigantium]

Killers is low on my Maiden album rankings, but I had to go for a few tracks. Realising I preferred Wrathchild to Wasted Years was quite surprising.

 

[Black Wizard]

Realising I preferred Wrathchild to Wasted Years was quite surprising.

A few years ago I would of voted for 'Wrathchild' but, while I still like it a lot, I now like 'Wasted Years' a lot more than I used to.

 

[Cat Milk Supreme]

Realising I preferred Wrathchild to Wasted Years was quite surprising.

Same as that

 

[JudasMyGuide]

6-5 for SIT. That's interesting considering how low do I rank Killers in general, but it only goes to show I mostly dislike the album as a whole, because some of the songs by themselves are pretty great.

 

[Srogyy]

6-5 for SIT. That's interesting considering how low do I rank Killers in general, but it only goes to show I mostly dislike the album as a whole, because some of the songs by themselves are pretty great.

I think b-sides distort the score a little bit.

 

[The Flash]

8-3 for SIT.

 

[Magnus]

Toughest so far, two of my four favourite albums. Killers vs Stranger and Murders vs Sea Of Madness broke my heart.

 

[Lampwick 43]

7-4 for SiT. The Killers tracks: Khan, Killers, Son, Purgatory.

 

[Confeos]

Realising I preferred Wrathchild to Wasted Years was quite surprising.

No matter how overplayed it is, I'll always pick Wrathchild in this matchup. I believe I already mentioned Wasted Years in the "most overrated Maiden song"-thread

 

[Wogmidget]

Ides vs CSIT
Wrathchild vs Wasted Years
Murders vs Sea of Madness
Another life vs Heaven Can Wait
Genghis Khan vs Reach Out
Innocent Exile vs TLOTLDR
Killers vs SIASL
Twilight Zone vs Deja Vu
Prodigal Son vs That Girl
Purgatory vs Juanita
Drifter vs Alexander

7-4 to SIT

 

[Magnus]

At least I'm not alone on Drifter. Cheers, @Whooten !

 

[Cat Milk Supreme]

I voted Alexander but I'd say I more likely to listen to the early live version of Drifter, complete with all the audience participation.

 

[Whooten]

Yes, Beast Over Hammersmith puts it over the top! Both have some pretty cringe-worthy lyrics though. In the end I guess I prefer cuddling to poorly researched essays on history.