Maiden Albums: Head to Head

Vote for your favourite song from each pair

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  • Poll closed .
Phantom of the Opera trounces Fear is the Key with a shutout score reminiscent of a New Zealand-Japan rugby match, while Women in Uniform beats Weekend Warrior by one vote to push the debut past Fear of the Dark, 6-5.

Next round Powerslave versus Dance of Death. :fencing:
 
Damn, this is tough. My favorite Maiden album VS a Maiden album I really love and consider to be highly underrated... damn.

Voted for everything from Powerslave + Mission From 'Arry, Paschendale, and Face In The Sand.
 
The toughest choice for me was "2 Minutes..." v "Rainmaker". Went with the former in the end.
  • "Aces High"
  • "2 Minutes To Midnight"
  • "Flash of the Blade"
  • "Back In the Village"
  • "Powerslave"
  • "Rime of the Ancient Mariner"
from Powerslave.
  • "No More Lies"
  • "Dance of Death"
  • "Paschendale"
  • "Face In the Sand"
  • "Age of Innocence"
from Dance of Death.
 
Too bad The Duellists face(s) Dance of Death. Would have a good chance vs many other opponents.... For the rest: several tough pairings!

Aces High vs Wildest Dreams
2 Minutes to Midnight vs Rainmaker
Losfer Words vs No More Lies
Flash of the Blade vs Montsegur
The Duellists vs Dance of Death
Back in the Village vs Gates of Tomorrow
Powerslave vs New Frontier
King of the Twilight vs Paschendale
Rainbow's Gold vs Face in the Sand
Mission From 'Arry vs Age of Innocence
Rime of the Ancient Mariner vs Journeyman

7 votes for Powerslave-era songs.
4 for Dance of Death

7-4 is also the current score for Powerslave.
 
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From 'Powerslave':

2 Minutes to Midnight
Back in the Village
Powerslave
Rime of the Ancient Mariner

From 'Dance of Death':

Wildest Dreams
No More Lies
Montsegur
Dance of Death
Paschendale
Face in the Sand
Age of Innocence
 
Niall Kielt said:
This thread is bound to bring up some good, interesting debate with plenty of diverse opinion and insightful analysis. I would be surprised, however, if it features anything as downright clownish as Monsieur Diesel's comment on Remember Tomorrow. So surprised would I be that I may consider making a video for y'all of me eating my own foot.
Although, if Age of Innocence wins it's particular duel I may regret these words....
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Well against Mission From 'Arry, Age of Innocence should actually be the favorite! :innocent:
 
7-4 here. Powerslave is my favourite album, so the only song I find better head-to-head (except for the b-sides) on DOD is the title track.

Aces High
2MTM
Losfer Words
Flash of the Blade
Back in the Village
Powerslave
Rime

Dance of Death
Paschendale
Face in the Sand
Age of Innocence (Mission is comedic gold, but come on :P)
 
Aces High
Rainmaker (I like it much more than 2MtM, to be honest)
No More Lies
Montsegur
Dance of Death (Voting against DoD here is insanity.)
Gates of Tomorrow (I dislike BitV since day one, it's pretty annoying... GoT has a lot of cool stuff in it.)
Powerslave
Paschendale
Face in the Sand
Age of Innocence (It's a decent song.)
Rime of the Ancient Mariner

Losfer Words vs No More Lies was the only one where I was kind of on the fence. Ended up going with NML. I used to like it quite a lot, but now I don't enjoy it that much. Still, it's more in the vein of my favourite side of Maiden than LW (to which I go back very rarely).

Mission From 'Arry troll votes should be disqualified. ;)
 
Aces High - No contest.

2 Mins - Not quite no contest but nowhere near close.

Losfer Words - No More Lies should be good and I used to think it was but it bores me now, lacking spark whereas Losfer Words is fun.

Montsegur - Close run thing, this. The heaviness shades it. The silly chorus nearly screws the pooch here.

Dance of Death -Unfortunate for The Duellists. DoD only has Rime and Paschendale as serious competition in this round.

Back In The Willage - No contest. Gates has some decent sections, to be fair to it.

Powerslave

Paschendale

Face In The Sand

Age Of Innocence - Possibly the only match up this turd of a song would have won.

Rime Of The Ancient Mariner - Tip Top Shit

6-5 to Powerslave. Closer than I would have thought. Powerslave is a Top 5 album for me whereas Dance of Death is probably Bottom 5. Although it features two Top 10 songs and Powerslave only features one.

Interesting game, good stuff.
 
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