rate all 17 Maiden albums best to worst

Can't believe I missed that thread originally. Behold!

01. Virtual XI
02. A Matter Of Life And Death
03. Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son
04. Dance Of Death
05. Fear Of The Dark
06. Brave New World
07. Senjutsu
08. The Book Of Souls
09. No Prayer For The Dying
10. Somewhere In Time
11. The X Factor
12. Powerslave
13. Piece Of Mind
14. The Number Of The Beast
15. The Final Frontier
16. Iron Maiden
17. Killers
 
Ok, this is my list, I’ve changed it a billion times but this is, as of today, my list:

1). Somewhere in Time (11/10)
2). Powerslave (11/10)
3). Seventh Son of a Seventh Son (10/10)
4). The Number of the Beast (10/10)
5). Fear of the Dark (8.5/10)
6). A Matter of Life and Death (8.5/10)
7). Killers (8/10)
8). Piece of Mind (7.5/10)
9). Dance of Death (7.5/10)
10). Brave New World (7.5/10)
11). Iron Maiden (6/10)
12). No Prayer for the Dying (6/10)
13). The Book of Souls (5.5/10)
14). The Final Frontier (5.5/10)
15). Senjutsu (5/10)
16). The X Factor (4.5/10)
17). Virtual XI (2.5/10)
 
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Vaenyr said:
Can't believe I missed that thread originally. Behold!

01. Virtual XI
02. A Matter Of Life And Death
03. Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son
04. Dance Of Death
05. Fear Of The Dark
06. Brave New World
07. Senjutsu
08. The Book Of Souls
09. No Prayer For The Dying
10. Somewhere In Time
11. The X Factor
12. Powerslave
13. Piece Of Mind
14. The Number Of The Beast
15. The Final Frontier
16. Iron Maiden
17. Killers
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No1
 
1. Seventh son of a Seventh Son
2. Piece of Mind
3. The X Factor
4. The Number Of The Beast
5. Powerslave
6. Iron Maiden
7. Killers
8. The Book Of Souls
9. Dance of Death
10. Brave new World
11. A Matter of Life and Death
12.Somewhere in Tine
13. No Prayer for the Dying
14. Senjutsu
15. The Final Frontier
16.Fear of the Dark
17. Virtual XI
 
Something like this...

1. Seventh Son of a Seventh Son
2. Piece of Mind
3. Iron Maiden
4. The Number of the Beast
5. Powerslave
6. Somewhere in Time
7. Killers
8. No Prayer for the Dying
9. Brave New World
10. Senjutsu
11. Dance of Death
12. A Matter of life and death
13. The Book of Souls
14. Fear of the Dark
15. The Final Frontier
16. The X-Factor
17. Virtual XI
 
Black Bart said:
I believe that if people managed to "mental-block" the cover of Dance of Death, this album would rank much higher on average. ;)
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For me its all. After bnw the energy and magic wasnt there and i remember my first listen song after song and the 3 or 4 last songs were really bad. I give the album 3/10
 
Dance of Death is fine, it has some top tier songs, like Paschendale, Rainmaker, the title track, Montsegur, but it's inbetween their 2 best albums in the reunion era, 2 albums with 0 filler tracks. DoD has some fillers, for sure.
 
karljant said:
Remains the same:
  1. Somewhere In Time
  2. Powerslave
  3. Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son
  4. Piece Of Mind
  5. Killers
  6. A Matter Of Life And Death
  7. The X Factor
  8. Iron Maiden
  9. The Number Of The Beast
  10. Dance Of Death
  11. Senjutsu
  12. The Final Frontier
  13. The Book Of Souls
  14. No Prayer For The Dying
  15. Brave New World
  16. Virtual XI
  17. Fear Of The Dark
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Updated:
  1. Somewhere In Time
  2. Powerslave
  3. Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son
  4. Piece Of Mind
  5. Killers
  6. The X Factor
  7. A Matter Of Life And Death
  8. The Number Of The Beast
  9. Iron Maiden
  10. The Final Frontier
  11. Dance Of Death
  12. Senjutsu
  13. No Prayer For The Dying
  14. Brave New World
  15. The Book Of Souls
  16. Virtual XI
  17. Fear Of The Dark
 
  1. Powerslave
  2. Piece of Mind
  3. Somewhere in Time
  4. Number of the Beast
  5. Seventh Son
  6. Brave New World
  7. A Matter of Life and Death
  8. Killers
  9. Iron Maiden
  10. Book of Souls
  11. Dance of Death
  12. Senjutsu
  13. Fear of the Dark
  14. Final Frontier
  15. No Prayer for the Dying
  16. X Factor
  17. Virtual XI
However in my mind a lot of albums are tied - Powerslave, POM, SIT & NOTB are all No.1 in my mind :lol:
 
Except for the #1 and #2 spot, they're changing a lot.

1. Somewhere in Time
2. The X Factor
3. Brave New World
4. Powerslave
5. Piece of Mind
6. 7th Son of a 7th Son
7. A matter of Life and Death
8. The number of the Beast
9. Fear of the Dark
10. Dance of Death
11. Book of Souls
12. Virtual XI
13. Iron Maiden
14. Senjutsu
15. The Final Frontier
16. No Prayer for the dying
17. Killers
 
I became a Maiden fan when The Number of the Beast came out, so my rating of their albums from beAst to worst is obvious:

The Number of the Beast (Godlike)

Piece of Mind (Outstanding)
Powerslave (Outstanding)

Brave New World (Most Excellent)
Seventh Son (Most Excellent)
A Matter of Life and Death (Most Excellent)

Senjutsu (Quite Likeable)
Book of Souls (Quite Likeable)
Somewhere in Time (Quite Likeable)
The X Factor (Quite Likeable)
The Final Frontier (Quite Likeable)

Killers (Pretty Good)
Iron Maiden (Pretty Good)

Dance of Death (Decent)
Virtual XI (Decent)
Fear of the Dark (Decent)
No Prayer for the Dying (Decent)
 
1. Seventh Son of a Seventh Son
2. Somewhere in Time
3. Powerslave
4. Piece of Mind
5. Number of the Beast
6. Iron Maiden
7. Killers
8. The X Factor
9. No Prayer for the Dying
10. A Matter of Life and Death
11. Dance of Death
12. Brave New World
13. Fear of the Dark
14. Senjutsu
15. The Final Frontier
16. The Book of Souls
17. Virtual XI

No Prayer recently went up, after I listened to it again & again, after they ignored this album in the setlist. It's a god damn good album. Martin Birch era is the best, only the debut and X Factor can get there between with its bold character.

Somewhere in Time sometimes gets my #1.
 
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Prowler said:
Dance of Death is fine, it has some top tier songs, like Paschendale, Rainmaker, the title track, Montsegur, but it's inbetween their 2 best albums in the reunion era, 2 albums with 0 filler tracks. DoD has some fillers, for sure.
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Worst fillers than the fear of the dark album Gates of tomorrow,new frontier,face in the sand, and also for me journeyman and montsegur(that second medieval chorus ruins the song) and then we have paschendale,dance of death the epics not the best ones but good and no more lies wildest dreams and rainmaker for me very weak.
But its just each ones tastes. For me X factor have amazing passages ,dark and depresive atmospheras but beautyfull parts,and blaze voice fits so well on them. Without him they couldnt do that.
 
Ok lets revise as everyone else is:

1. Seventh Son of a Seventh Son
2. The Number of the Beast
3. Powerslave
4. Brave New World
5. Somewhere in Time
6. A Matter of Life and Death
7. Killers
8. Peice of Mind
9. Dance of Death
10. Iron Maiden
11. Fear of the Dark
12. The Book of Souls
13. The Final Frontier
14. No Prayer for the Dying
15. Senjutsu
16. The X Factor
17. Virtual XI
 
Yax said:
Ok, has been a while since a thread like this. This is my current standing, although they all tend to move around (although BNW and AMOLAD switch between spot 1 and 2). No Prayer for the Dying is constantly cemented in the last place.
1. Brave New World
2. A Matter of Life and Death
3. Powerslave
4. Seventh Son of a Seventh Son.
5. The Number of the Beast.
6. Senjutsu.
7. Somewhere in Time
8. Piece of Mind.
9. Iron Maiden.
10. The X Factor.
11. The Final Frontier
12. Killers
13. The Book of Souls
14. Dance of Death
15. Fear of the Dark
16. Virtual XI
17. No Prayer of the Dying.
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Today's list:

1. Brave New World
2. A Matter of Life and Death
3. Powerslave
4. Seventh Son of a Seventh Son.
5. The Number of the Beast.
6. Somewhere in Time
7. Piece of Mind.
8. Iron Maiden.
9. The Final Frontier
10. The X Factor.
11. Senjutsu
12. Dance of Death
13. Killers
14. The Book of Souls
15. Fear of the Dark
16. Virtual XI
17. No Prayer of the Dying.
 
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