Your five favourite official Maiden video clips

Choose your 5 favourite video clips

  • Women in Uniform

    Votes: 2 7.1%
  • Wrathchild (live)

    Votes: 1 3.6%
  • Run to the Hills

    Votes: 2 7.1%
  • The Number of the Beast

    Votes: 3 10.7%
  • Flight of Icarus

    Votes: 8 28.6%
  • The Trooper

    Votes: 5 17.9%
  • 2 Minutes to Midnight

    Votes: 1 3.6%
  • Aces High

    Votes: 5 17.9%
  • Wasted Years

    Votes: 13 46.4%
  • Stranger in a Strange Land

    Votes: 7 25.0%
  • Can I Play with Madness

    Votes: 9 32.1%
  • The Evil That Men Do

    Votes: 1 3.6%
  • The Clairvoyant

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Infinite Dreams

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Holy Smoke

    Votes: 9 32.1%
  • Tailgunner

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Bring Your Daughter... to the Slaughter

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Be Quick or Be Dead

    Votes: 1 3.6%
  • From Here to Eternity

    Votes: 2 7.1%
  • Wasting Love

    Votes: 1 3.6%
  • Fear of the Dark (live)

    Votes: 1 3.6%
  • Hallowed Be Thy Name (live)

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Man on the Edge

    Votes: 1 3.6%
  • Lord of the Flies

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Afraid to Shoot Strangers (live with Blaze Bayley on vocals)

    Votes: 2 7.1%
  • Virus

    Votes: 3 10.7%
  • The Angel and the Gambler

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Futureal

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • The Wicker Man

    Votes: 5 17.9%
  • Out of the Silent Planet

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Fear of the Dark (live - Taken from Rock in Rio)

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Brave New World (live)

    Votes: 1 3.6%
  • Wildest Dreams

    Votes: 1 3.6%
  • Rainmaker

    Votes: 4 14.3%
  • No More Lies

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • The Reincarnation of Benjamin Breeg

    Votes: 4 14.3%
  • Different World

    Votes: 2 7.1%
  • The Final Frontier

    Votes: 8 28.6%

  • Total voters
    28
Wasted Years
I like the idea of showing moments from the band's life and Eddie artworks. The black and white footage fits.

The Trooper
I always liked that video.

Rainmaker
The whole atmosphere of the video with the rain and the strange figures (...xd) is great.

Stranger In A Strange Land
Because it's the only high quality video from that tour.

The Angel And The Gambler
Funny video.
 
Wasted Years
Holy Smoke
Can I Play with Madness
2 Minutes to Midnight
The Wicker Man
 
The poll doesn't allow me to vote more than 1 video so I will write here:

Aces High
Can I play with Madness
The evil that men do
Be quick or be dead
From Here to Eternity
 
5- Man On The Edge: The 5th position was the hardest one to pick. There are also some good videos that could easily get this last spot: Wasting Love's director and photography team sure did an excellent work, Women In Uniform's low budget in your face early 80's nostalgia along with great image edition would also fit and the memorabilia video from Wasted years is also really cool (plus it has personal value since it was my first contact with the band). But I really like the distorted strobbing footage of the band playing alongside the intentionally artificial montage of businessmen falling down from skyscrapers. It really gets the tense and paranoid state of made the song wants you to feel.

4- Speed Of Light: Hedgehog haired Sonic like Eddie playing a videogame starring himself is already a great idea. Adding the fact it starts in the early 80's portraying Maiden's cover and game's graphic quality from the said era and every level he passes shows us a more recent incarnation of Eddie and a better looking videogame is even better. Picturing the last level as a last generation FPS with Eddie removing his own heart on a Mayan temple is super. But the icing on the cake is when the machine crashes in the very end leaving Eddie livid (we all hate when that happens and Eddie's no different). Funny as hell, well designed, animated and conceived and filled with delicious Easter eggs.

3- Rainmaker: Once again great photography directing, wardrobe, make up, editing, etc. Hell, this video manages to deliver the ambiance that abomination of a cover from Dance Of Death failed ridiculously in a glorious and beautiful way. As a bonus we're presented with the boys doing some playback and Eddie's cameo is also great and refreshing (pun intended).

2- Can I Play With Madness: I was just a kid when I first saw this damn thing and I went bananas. a) the concept and storyline are top notch b) the Eddie animations are super c) the cave elements, situations and overall ambiance is absolutely surreal and bizarre. Even to today's standards this video is rock solid. Plus it was the last footage ever featuring the great late Graham Chapman. In sum: everything's top notch in this clip.

1- The Final Frontier: The easiest choice by far. Great inclusion of the cover's visual elements, cool plot, Hollywood like production, great CGI elements unlike the majority of the band's previous clips (although Eddie's skin texture sometimes looks a bit too glossy), top notch direction, etc, etc... To sum it up: when you put renowned cinema professionals in command of things you risk yourself to get one hell of a top notch eye popping video clip. And that's precisely what happened.
 
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