Maiden Albums: Head to Head

Vote for your favourite song from each pair

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Mosh said:
The recent obsession with The Apparition here is akin to the also somewhat recent phenomenon of Star Wars prequel defenders. Like what you like but don’t be surprised when it’s a minority opinion.
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I’m not surprised that people are voting against it or that it’s losing or whatever because I’ve come to know this forum quite well.

What I am surprised is that this is considered the worst Maiden song ever and that some people absolutely despise it. That’s the crazy thing.
 
Tbh, I'm pretty sure some of "The Apparition" haters are only "The Apparition" haters because it's already automatically recognized as Iron Maiden's worst song. Honestly, I think if these people actually admitted to liking the song, it wouldn't be instantly acknowledged as Maiden's worst anymore. IRYO if you truly dislike it, though.
 
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Diesel 11 said:
And anyway, you’re the one who (jokingly, I assume) said I had poor taste. My post was a follow-up to that, again, in jest.
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Well, yes, and no. I like The Angel and the Gambler, quite a bit. I encourage people to give it a second chance, often by adding some of my own personal experience, you know, these sorts of situations in which I personally enjoy the song. However, when that is rejected, as it almost invariably is, I don't harp on the subject over and over on multiple threads, whenever the subject of a poor song comes up. I recognize that taste is a personal thing, and I like a song most Maidenfans don't just dislike, but they they actually despise. There's no point in railing on it over and over.

The entire concept of this song supposedly being good is obviously becoming your white whale, and I think you need to realize that literally generations of Maidenfans - hundreds and hundreds of votes - have been collated and that they assign the particular song to a place so far below the next worst song that it would take another fifteen years of polling at around 7.5 to move up a single place in the rankings. That's not coincidence, and that's not group think. Its spot at the bottom is significantly more secure than Hallowed's spot at the top based on statistics.

It's not that you're wrong to love the track. It's that you're wrong to assume that you're anything other than an outlier.
 
Mosh said:
The recent obsession with The Apparition here is akin to the also somewhat recent phenomenon of Star Wars prequel defenders. Like what you like but don’t be surprised when it’s a minority opinion.
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And then what? Does it feel good to be in a majority?
 
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