Tron's Maiden Countdown - ROTAM and AMOLAD win
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CriedWhenBrucieLeft
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Yeh, you can't argue with where you've placed them --all good/VG solid tracks. I suspect some folks might have them all a little lower though.
Yeh, you can't argue with where you've placed them --all good/VG solid tracks. I suspect some folks might have them all a little lower though.
CriedWhenBrucieLeft
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I'm thinking everything pre-2000 is taking a bit of a pounding here. Only Powerslave in the top five!; the rest all the most recent albums. I don't know (shaking head), I just don't think BNW or DoD are that good. TFF still think needs time to fully digest, but I suppose you have to place it somewhere...
#1 - #5 To be revealed...
#6 - Seventh Son of a Seventh Son
#7 - Piece of Mind
#8 - The Number of The Beast
#9 - Somewhere in Time
#10 - Iron Maiden
#11 - Fear of the Dark
#12 - No Prayer for the Dying
#13 - Killers
#14 - The X Factor
#15 - Virtual XI
I'm thinking everything pre-2000 is taking a bit of a pounding here. Only Powerslave in the top five!; the rest all the most recent albums. I don't know (shaking head), I just don't think BNW or DoD are that good. TFF still think needs time to fully digest, but I suppose you have to place it somewhere...
#1 - #5 To be revealed...
#6 - Seventh Son of a Seventh Son
#7 - Piece of Mind
#8 - The Number of The Beast
#9 - Somewhere in Time
#10 - Iron Maiden
#11 - Fear of the Dark
#12 - No Prayer for the Dying
#13 - Killers
#14 - The X Factor
#15 - Virtual XI
Tron
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#20 - Coming Home - An amazing little gem straight from that powerful emotion in the riffing to begin with... From there its Bruces song leading us through his homeward bound flight, filled with those images he creates that just kick you in the chest and make you think... thats brilliant. curving on the edge of daylight til it slips into the void; cover countries with my span; just a lonely satellite, a speck of dust in cosmic sand. This is Maiden just showing every band thats ever made a ballad that they preside over them too. The story likens itself, both to the flight home of the band in ed force one and with the theme of the album in fliying home from space in its imagery (above). The instruments are equally as incredible with the beginning riff reappearing here and there and the solos being real movers and carrying the song on even more to Albions land The songs only downfall is that it is a ballad and lacks explosive speed and energy (i think thats the problem), or maybe theres just 19 other songs ranging from incredible>perfect
#19 - Prowler - The first song on the first album and its AMAZING... starting with the riff at a lower volume then pumping it up into the big song it is. The lyrics geared to well a fella sculking in the bushes i imagine in a long coat
but either way its instruments just make it a huge guilty pleasure and the best song of the early days, The sound is so dirty fitting the theme and it drives with so much energy that it does carry you away a bit. It launched the band and for me it still holds all the energy and cheeky grit it had 31 years. It hits like a train but not much else to say really haha 
paul sounds good
#20 - Coming Home - An amazing little gem straight from that powerful emotion in the riffing to begin with... From there its Bruces song leading us through his homeward bound flight, filled with those images he creates that just kick you in the chest and make you think... thats brilliant. curving on the edge of daylight til it slips into the void; cover countries with my span; just a lonely satellite, a speck of dust in cosmic sand. This is Maiden just showing every band thats ever made a ballad that they preside over them too. The story likens itself, both to the flight home of the band in ed force one and with the theme of the album in fliying home from space in its imagery (above). The instruments are equally as incredible with the beginning riff reappearing here and there and the solos being real movers and carrying the song on even more to Albions land The songs only downfall is that it is a ballad and lacks explosive speed and energy (i think thats the problem), or maybe theres just 19 other songs ranging from incredible>perfect
#19 - Prowler - The first song on the first album and its AMAZING... starting with the riff at a lower volume then pumping it up into the big song it is. The lyrics geared to well a fella sculking in the bushes i imagine in a long coat
but either way its instruments just make it a huge guilty pleasure and the best song of the early days, The sound is so dirty fitting the theme and it drives with so much energy that it does carry you away a bit. It launched the band and for me it still holds all the energy and cheeky grit it had 31 years. It hits like a train but not much else to say really haha paul sounds good
CriedWhenBrucieLeft
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Prowler is a great song --or, at least, Dave's guitar sound is great. It's amazing how much their music really has changed from the early early stuff. You've placed these both pretty fairly I think. CH is also VG --it's the lyrics that stand out though. You sense this might become a setlist favourite.
This, Tron, is the countdown everyone's talkng about!
Prowler is a great song --or, at least, Dave's guitar sound is great. It's amazing how much their music really has changed from the early early stuff. You've placed these both pretty fairly I think. CH is also VG --it's the lyrics that stand out though. You sense this might become a setlist favourite.
This, Tron, is the countdown everyone's talkng about!
finalfrontier
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5. Brave New World
4. Dance of Death
3. A Matter of Life and Death
2. Powerslave
1. Final Frontier
My guess
5. Brave New World
4. Dance of Death
3. A Matter of Life and Death
2. Powerslave
1. Final Frontier
My guess
CriedWhenBrucieLeft
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I sincerely hope BNW isn't any higher than #5 too!
I sincerely hope BNW isn't any higher than #5 too!
Tron
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it worked bloody well, hopefully its never overplayed though, thatd be a shame... if it were played as frequently as say Fotd i dont think coming homes popularity would take it (its not amazing enough live i dont think) but still a killer lyrical masterpiece.
And for the last bit ooh thats nice
Definitely and id have no problem atall with thatCriedWhenBrucieLeft said:You sense this might become a setlist favourite.
This, Tron, is the countdown everyone's talkng about!
it worked bloody well, hopefully its never overplayed though, thatd be a shame... if it were played as frequently as say Fotd i dont think coming homes popularity would take it (its not amazing enough live i dont think) but still a killer lyrical masterpiece.And for the last bit ooh thats nice
CriedWhenBrucieLeft
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I think as Maiden get on, and the end draws near, this type of song (the lyrical content) might appeal more & more --England, their home, nostalgia etc. Plus there might not be that much time to overplay it like FoTD!, which we've had nearly 20 years of.
I think as Maiden get on, and the end draws near, this type of song (the lyrical content) might appeal more & more --England, their home, nostalgia etc. Plus there might not be that much time to overplay it like FoTD!, which we've had nearly 20 years of.
Tron
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yeah plus well probably have fear of the dark still to the bitter end and i dont mind one bit.
#18 - The Evil That Men Do - one of those awesome singles from seventh son. its both full of power and mystery while being sincere and heartfelt. It can be so much, building into the mysterious styled love is a razor and i walk the line. The guitar move with the song and seem to be doing harmonies with bruce in places, and i will pray for you bringing in the emotion. This number manages to pull of the miracle of being a short rocker complete with driving music, mesmerising solos and a stonking great live sound... then also having a nice little story. overall i think the bass/drumming section is the biggest here and creates the best part of the song, that driving surging sound.
#17 - These Colours Dont Run - hear that Sharon Osbourne?!? i really have a soft spot for this one, its not cryptic as would be expected and its brashness in its writing only helps in a way, it conveys an anger and aggression. the dark instrumental sound of course being important but a big lyric song this. first a soldier leaving home with in part nieve interest in war. then proud images far away from the land of our birth, we fly a flag in some foreign eartg/ our fathers before/ these colours dont run/ paying for your freedom with our lonely unmarked graves. it all stirs a shivver in my spine and works amazingly as a flagship song of the armed forces... a beatiful solo section and the songs (to my reconing unique) guitar line to close. wonderous, minutes silence anyone
yeah plus well probably have fear of the dark still to the bitter end and i dont mind one bit.
#18 - The Evil That Men Do - one of those awesome singles from seventh son. its both full of power and mystery while being sincere and heartfelt. It can be so much, building into the mysterious styled love is a razor and i walk the line. The guitar move with the song and seem to be doing harmonies with bruce in places, and i will pray for you bringing in the emotion. This number manages to pull of the miracle of being a short rocker complete with driving music, mesmerising solos and a stonking great live sound... then also having a nice little story. overall i think the bass/drumming section is the biggest here and creates the best part of the song, that driving surging sound.
#17 - These Colours Dont Run - hear that Sharon Osbourne?!?
i really have a soft spot for this one, its not cryptic as would be expected and its brashness in its writing only helps in a way, it conveys an anger and aggression. the dark instrumental sound of course being important but a big lyric song this. first a soldier leaving home with in part nieve interest in war. then proud images far away from the land of our birth, we fly a flag in some foreign eartg/ our fathers before/ these colours dont run/ paying for your freedom with our lonely unmarked graves. it all stirs a shivver in my spine and works amazingly as a flagship song of the armed forces... a beatiful solo section and the songs (to my reconing unique) guitar line to close. wonderous, minutes silence anyonefinalfrontier
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Maiden fans will never forget.
Tron said:hear that Sharon Osbourne?!?
Maiden fans will never forget.
Tron
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#16 - Isle of Avalon - A nice building song, starting from an open distant intro. A story about the ancientesque worship of a diety to bring harvest and wealth, Makes me imagine a scene of a pagan civilisation in a leafy meadow. It builds up to i can hear you when it moves on to a section of multiple godly gifts like birth and then to what i see as a failed harvest and following which the tone becomes darker and there is more talk of sacrifice and the dead. The guitars follow it all through and get a brilliant few areas to put out interesting melodies and riffs and semmingly just jam around in a really productive way before rejoining it all and creating that distant mysterious plucking.
I dont see me fully grasping the story for a while yet but it the imagery it bring up is very beautiful and descript back to the typical chockfull storyline and cryptic imagery... Also exploring what i see as a different view, They should do more on ancient civilisations because their sound here suits it greatly. Idea for the next studio album to be a concept album of civilisation through time
#15 - 2 Minutes to Midnight - The first Maiden song i ever heard so it has a special place in my heart. Sat on Grand Theft Auto Vice City on my Playstation2 innocently driveby-ing a group of old women this popped on and from that opening riff alone i was hooked. Then the guitars swept away into Bruces harsh vocals and so much energy. Taking me through a world of corruption and pain with the beauty of the music that was telling the story. to kill the unborn in the womb/ napalm screams of human flames/ blood is free dont stain powerful images and powerful music. Then into the amazing soloingand instrumental section leading from light melody into long emotional tones before drumlead back into the dark images children torn in two. Bruce holding His position as a dark storyteller.
The song that opened my eyes to the world of metal and a never turned back to that rap and RnB crap. A story culminating in me seeing it live this year twice and it didnt disappoint one bit.
Midniiiight, all night
Album #5 - Dance of Death -
A brilliant in my opinion and rather underrated, Wildest dreams and rainmaker just straight rockers and nothing too special but No More Lies, Dance of Death, PFD and Age of Innocence and new Frontier AND Journeyman are all Brilliant songs ranging up to the outright amazing. It has as others have mentioned a very folk feel which was interesting to hear from Maiden, especially as this was the last album i heard from them (prior to TFF) and it took a while to get into but i grew into it. The folk melodies work very well with Bruces recent more emotional tones and allow the bass section to come through a lot clearer, in addition the orchestral sound here and there adds a grandure and some of the orchestral extras work really well also. It averages out at 7.72 which even seems a bit low but thats how it works and the orders turned out pretty fair for me from that system
#16 - Isle of Avalon - A nice building song, starting from an open distant intro. A story about the ancientesque worship of a diety to bring harvest and wealth, Makes me imagine a scene of a pagan civilisation in a leafy meadow. It builds up to i can hear you when it moves on to a section of multiple godly gifts like birth and then to what i see as a failed harvest and following which the tone becomes darker and there is more talk of sacrifice and the dead. The guitars follow it all through and get a brilliant few areas to put out interesting melodies and riffs and semmingly just jam around in a really productive way before rejoining it all and creating that distant mysterious plucking.
I dont see me fully grasping the story for a while yet but it the imagery it bring up is very beautiful and descript back to the typical chockfull storyline and cryptic imagery... Also exploring what i see as a different view, They should do more on ancient civilisations because their sound here suits it greatly. Idea for the next studio album to be a concept album of civilisation through time
#15 - 2 Minutes to Midnight - The first Maiden song i ever heard so it has a special place in my heart. Sat on Grand Theft Auto Vice City on my Playstation2 innocently driveby-ing a group of old women this popped on and from that opening riff alone i was hooked. Then the guitars swept away into Bruces harsh vocals and so much energy. Taking me through a world of corruption and pain with the beauty of the music that was telling the story. to kill the unborn in the womb/ napalm screams of human flames/ blood is free dont stain powerful images and powerful music. Then into the amazing soloingand instrumental section leading from light melody into long emotional tones before drumlead back into the dark images children torn in two. Bruce holding His position as a dark storyteller.
The song that opened my eyes to the world of metal and a never turned back to that rap and RnB crap. A story culminating in me seeing it live this year twice and it didnt disappoint one bit.
Midniiiight, all night
Album #5 - Dance of Death -
A brilliant in my opinion and rather underrated, Wildest dreams and rainmaker just straight rockers and nothing too special but No More Lies, Dance of Death, PFD and Age of Innocence and new Frontier AND Journeyman are all Brilliant songs ranging up to the outright amazing. It has as others have mentioned a very folk feel which was interesting to hear from Maiden, especially as this was the last album i heard from them (prior to TFF) and it took a while to get into but i grew into it. The folk melodies work very well with Bruces recent more emotional tones and allow the bass section to come through a lot clearer, in addition the orchestral sound here and there adds a grandure and some of the orchestral extras work really well also. It averages out at 7.72 which even seems a bit low but thats how it works and the orders turned out pretty fair for me from that system
Donner
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The more time that passes and the more I live it, the better and better These Colours Don't Run gets for me. I'd go so far as to say it's my favorite off that album. What a great, great song!
I've really enjoyed reading your rankings even though I disagree with some of them. Keep it up!
The more time that passes and the more I live it, the better and better These Colours Don't Run gets for me. I'd go so far as to say it's my favorite off that album. What a great, great song!
I've really enjoyed reading your rankings even though I disagree with some of them. Keep it up!
CriedWhenBrucieLeft
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Apart from Colours (good, but quite a few pushing it out the way, for me) I think you've placed the remaining songs really well. Avalon is difficult, since it's so new, & we haven't heard it live --but if you think it's up there, fair enough. God damn it though! DoD at #5 --that means you've got BNW in the top four! C'mon!, it just isn't that good.
Apart from Colours (good, but quite a few pushing it out the way, for me) I think you've placed the remaining songs really well. Avalon is difficult, since it's so new, & we haven't heard it live --but if you think it's up there, fair enough. God damn it though! DoD at #5 --that means you've got BNW in the top four! C'mon!, it just isn't that good.
Tron
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#14 - The Reincarnation of Benjamin Breeg - Loved this song since i first heard it, a really dark sound to begin with the promo video only deepening it. Bruce in low emotion tones as the voice of a dead man. the sound breaks into a lunging section of guitar (finally found a way to describe that sound i love in like 30% of the songs theyve made) anyway that lunging emotional guitar along with building sections and energetic riffs here and there. During this sound Bruce builds a painfull story of sin, death and dealing with demons. A heavy bass sound trundles off taking us into soloing that never really takes control and instead furnishes the pounding drumbeat re-entering its powerful story. Theres always the mystery of who exactly our character is and why he was named but i love the personal story in this and a more personal view on darkness whereas the rest of the album deals more with the broad subject of suffering.
#13 - Out of the Silent Planet - For me this shouldve been the opener (given a grander opening) and definitely shouldve been played extensively live, or at least extensively enough for me to see it
It explodes into drumming and while being what is very straight and repetitive to some i cant deny how amazing it is having that powerful driving drumbeat above everything else in the mix and pounding the whole thing along. Bruce in high voice where he sounds really comfortable and delivering in that suspensive voice from previous songs a story about the arrival or evil. Its not too technical but i rather what it turned out as, every member of the band giving it everything as one unit and turning out with what is an amazing song with a high melody and amazing soloing and a huge powerful sound that makes you wanna go insane and break stuff out of the silent planet, dreams of desolation 
#14 - The Reincarnation of Benjamin Breeg - Loved this song since i first heard it, a really dark sound to begin with the promo video only deepening it. Bruce in low emotion tones as the voice of a dead man. the sound breaks into a lunging section of guitar (finally found a way to describe that sound i love in like 30% of the songs theyve made) anyway that lunging emotional guitar along with building sections and energetic riffs here and there. During this sound Bruce builds a painfull story of sin, death and dealing with demons. A heavy bass sound trundles off taking us into soloing that never really takes control and instead furnishes the pounding drumbeat re-entering its powerful story. Theres always the mystery of who exactly our character is and why he was named but i love the personal story in this and a more personal view on darkness whereas the rest of the album deals more with the broad subject of suffering.
#13 - Out of the Silent Planet - For me this shouldve been the opener (given a grander opening) and definitely shouldve been played extensively live, or at least extensively enough for me to see it
It explodes into drumming and while being what is very straight and repetitive to some i cant deny how amazing it is having that powerful driving drumbeat above everything else in the mix and pounding the whole thing along. Bruce in high voice where he sounds really comfortable and delivering in that suspensive voice from previous songs a story about the arrival or evil. Its not too technical but i rather what it turned out as, every member of the band giving it everything as one unit and turning out with what is an amazing song with a high melody and amazing soloing and a huge powerful sound that makes you wanna go insane and break stuff out of the silent planet, dreams of desolation