Maiden studio album shoot-out, Part 15

TBOS vs. AMOLAD

  • The Book Of Souls

    Votes: 13 30.2%

  • A Matter Of Life and Death

    Votes: 30 69.8%
  • Total voters
    43
  • Poll closed .
Dick Brucinson

Dick Brucinson

The TRUE Dick Brucinson
Welcome to round #3 everybody! :welcome:

Not many albums left... What about putting A Matter Of Life And Death in contest with The Book Of Souls this time? ---> The better album is...? :blush:

The usual rules: 24 hours time to vote, poll results again can't be viewed before having voted, once casted vote cannot be changed, poll will be closed after 24 hours for then the next comparison will start.
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still in: A Matter Of Life And Death, The Book Of Souls, Brave New World, Seventh Son Of Seventh Son, Powerslave
already knocked out: Iron Maiden, The Final Frontier, Fear Of The Dark, Killers, Piece Of Mind, Dance Of Death, Virtual XI, The Number Of The Beast, The X Factor, Senjutsu, No Prayer For The Dying, Somewhere In Time

RESULTS FROM ROUND #2:
Brave New World 76% (Iron Maiden 24%)
Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son 64% (Powerslave 36%)
The Book Of Souls 70% (The Final Frontier 30%)
A Matter Of Life And Death 74% (Fear Of The Dark 26%)
Powerslave 64% (Piece Of Mind 36%)

RESULTS FROM ROUND #1:
A Matter Of Life And Death 77% (Killers 23%)
The Book Of Souls 74% (Dance Of Death 26%)
Fear Of The Dark 69% (Virtual XI 31%)
Brave New World 61% (The Number Of The Beast 39%)
The Final Frontier 55% (The X Factor 45%)
Piece Of Mind 53% (Senjutsu 47%)
Iron Maiden 57% (No Prayer For The Dying 43%)
Powerslave 58% (Somewhere In Time 42%)
Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son 76% (Senjutsu 24%)
 
I choose The Book of Souls. It has so many good songs, while A Matter of Life and Death is soooo depressing.
 
TBOS is one of my top 2 albums (the other is DOD) and the title track is my all time favourite song. So guess what I voted for...:). However, if it's going to lose against AMOLAD, I'm fine with it. All the reunion albums are winners for me.
 
I went with AMOLAD without half a second of thought. It is one of my two favorite Maiden albums depending on the day. I think TBOS is a good record - I only dislike NPFTD. However, if I could trim four songs (WTRRD, SotV, ToaC and TMoS) the album would be better off. The album in general is plodding, repetative and too many run of the mill sections compared to the reunion era in general. I still put it on in its entirety every now and then, but I only ever regularly revisit IESF and BoS.
 
The Book Of Souls is one of my least favourite reunion albums, I´d rate it as high (or low) as Dance Of Death.
Really great songs: If Eternity Should Fail, Death Or Glory and The Red And The Black and that's about it. I never understood the praise of The Book Of Souls title track either. Easy vote for AMOLAD.
 
MindRuler said:
The Book Of Souls is one of my least favourite reunion albums, I´d rate it as high (or low) as Dance Of Death.
Really great songs: If Eternity Should Fail, Death Or Glory and The Red And The Black and that's about it. I never understood the praise of The Book Of Souls title track either. Easy vote for AMOLAD.
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Try this pal... everybody is different. My highs are your lows but we both still like Iron Maiden. So we should have something in common: The Red And The Black and IESF are two that I can see. :) I'm sure there's more if we dig...
 
Eli said:
Try this pal... everybody is different. My highs are your lows but we both still like Iron Maiden. So we should have something in common: The Red And The Black and IESF are two that I can see. :) I'm sure there's more if we dig...
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This really is a case of to each his / her own. I've very much enjoyed these polls (thank you DB for posting them) but they have shown me that my favorite IM material is wildly different than the majority of fans. I'm more of a proggy guy than a true metal guy. So far my vote went for the eventual poll winner on only two occasions and both of those were round 1 albums (Iron Maiden and Final Frontier) that were subsequently drubbed in round 2.

The only remaining album even close to my top 5 was knocked out yesterday (Piece of Mind). My #1 favorite never changes however after that things fluctuate often (two years ago I was in a major DiAnno era phase). Here are my current top 5:

5. The Final Frontier
4. Dance of Death
3. Piece of Mind (this and Senjutsu swap places almost daily)
2. Senjutsu
1. Somewhere in Time
 
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TBOS is a great album overall, with every song being at least solidly good. But AMOLAD is an excellent album overall, with half its tracks being excellent or near-perfect. AMOLAD is a modern classic, and my #3 Maiden album to date.
 
Everybody has a different way to view these albums. Once again the card comes up ……AMOLAD.
 
AMOLAD for me. Remarkably consistent album that surprisingly doesn't have any obvious "hits" and tends to get ignored overall in live sets. The outcome might've been different for me with a tighter, less patchy TBOS album with fewer songs on a single disc.
 
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