Your bottom 5 Iron Maiden albums

14. A Matter of Life and Death: Others here have noted that this album has much in common with X Factor, particularly the overall gloomy / dark mood to both music and lyrics. Some folks say this is a major reason while they like this album, but for me it has the opposite effect. There's some very good music on here, but I can only take 2-3 songs at a time before I want to hear something else.
15. The X Factor: Same rationale as AMALOD above, but the overall song quality & production isn't quite up to the same standards as AMALOD.
16. No Prayer for the Dying: I just straight up don't like this album. Particularly Bruce's vocals.
17. Fear of the Dark: Same rationale as NPFTD above, but more so.
 
13. No Prayer for the Dying: There's some good material here, so it was hard to put it this low in the ranking. I suppose it was down to there being nothing truly outstanding that gave it this spot in the end.
14. Piece of Mind: Like others, I'm not preferential to their "golden age." It of course has a few undeniable classics in the first half, and then a steep drop-off on the old Side B. To Tame a Land is cool, but it's still at the low end of Maiden epics.
15. The Final Frontier: An album that never truly connected with me, no matter how hard I try. Odd, since there are a few great songs here that stand well on their own--it's just the album as a whole always leaves me feeling very little. This is the opposite of PoM. A mostly weak Side A, followed by a stronger Side B.
16. Iron Maiden: Also like others here, I'm not partial to the Di'Anno era. Earlier in the thread, it was articulated perfectly in a way that hit home with me: this era isn't what I'm looking for when I feel like listening to Maiden.
17. Killers: Yet another vote for Killers at the bottom. It's a fine album, the production's better than the debut, and there are some decent songs. Sorry, Di'Anno. Great voice for a punkier-type singer, but punk was never my bag, baby.
 
Guess it will be something like this:

No prayer for the dying
Fear of the dark
Dance of death
Virtual XI
The final frontier

The last three are for sure, the first two are very even with Piece of mind, Brave new world, A matter of life and death and Senjutsu.
 
Kalata said:
I actually like all Maiden albums
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I like them all too, even VXI at some level. I've been listening to most of them back the last week or so, I started with Piece of Mind and just ended up moving from there onwards and am up as far as AMOLAD now. I was surprised that I enjoyed Fear of the Dark much more than I was expecting to.
 
Senjutsu-up one
Fear-down one
X
Book
XI

Senjutsu is rising in it's older age and may yet escape this hell-hole.
Fear's ok in places but I have to adopt a forgiving mindset.
X is grim. Bruce's versions indicate what could've been.
Book's mostly the same stuff done worse.
XI, there's a whole other world out there!
 
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