Poll: The weakest 80's Maiden album?

[MrKnickerbocker]

Stranger in a Strange Land is the weakest song on an album that contains Heaven Can Wait, Deja Vu, a song with lyrics written by a middle school history teacher and a dramatic song about competitive running. Also, Virtual XI is Maiden’s magnum opus.

 

[Vaenyr]

Nah, Sea Of Madness is the weakest, Stranger is my second least favorite

HCW is filled with great melodies and the entire middle section is awesome.
Deja Vu is one of their best rockers.
TLOTLDR might have bad lyrics, but the song itself is one of their best for the entire 80s and my favorite song on SIT.
Alex has shitty lyrics as well, but does a lot of interesting things musically.

SOM on the other hand has an annoying main riff with some of the most obnoxious vocal lines in a Maiden song (imo of course). Never cared for Stranger's chorus/main riff either.

And yeah, VXI is awesome

 

[Fozzie]

Deja Vu is one of their best rockers.

We agree on this!

And yeah, VXI is awesome

Oh yeah, it`s a hidden gem

 

[karljant]

HCW is filled with great melodies and the entire middle section is awesome.
TLOTLDR might have bad lyrics, but the song itself is one of their best for the entire 80s and my favorite song on SIT.
Alex has shitty lyrics as well, but does a lot of interesting things musically.

Couldn't agree more with these takes. Especially TLOTLDR (my favorite tune on par with WY) and how the boring history lesson lyrics shave a bit of Alexander's charm (despite musically being one hell of a tune).

SOM on the other hand has an annoying main riff with some of the most obnoxious vocal lines in a Maiden song (imo of course).

Now this is where we disagree. Absolute monster of a song IMO. Heavy as hell and yes, the mid section is pure gold.

Never cared for Stranger's chorus/main riff either.

Also love it... yet perhaps one of the ones I fancy less among the pack.

In my book SIT, SSOASS and Powerslave have nothing but kick ass material. And POM would be the same if they dropped QFF (and TBH I consider Sun and Steel to be merely good).