The Iron Maiden appreciation thread - Music Banter Music Banter

Go Back   Music Banter > The Music Forums > Rock & Metal
Register Blogging Today's Posts
Welcome to Music Banter Forum! Make sure to register - it's free and very quick! You have to register before you can post and participate in our discussions with over 70,000 other registered members. After you create your free account, you will be able to customize many options, you will have the full access to over 1,100,000 posts.

Reply
 
Thread Tools Display Modes
Old 03-19-2013, 01:32 AM   #131 (permalink)
Buzz Killjoy
 
BastardofYoung's Avatar
 
Join Date: May 2011
Location: Canada
Posts: 2,692
Default

Quote:
Originally Posted by Unknown Soldier View Post
Piece of Mind and Powerslave are considered the two to have.



It's always been a flawed album but it's also one of the most important metal albums ever released and therefore essential to have.


Look at Rate Your Music for a good idea of the popular choices for must have Maiden Albums.

Powerslave
Seventh Son

are top 2 studio albums. And are very close in rating.

Coming in after those 2 is "Number of the Beast", "Iron Maiden", "Piece of Mind", "Somewhere in Time" and "Killers".


Number 1 rated is actually "Live After Death" and "Rock in Rio" is between "Iron Maiden" and "Piece of Mind"


Not saying these are the perfect embodiment of best, but as far as what people rate as best, gives you an idea of popular opinion.

http://rateyourmusic.com/artist/iron_maiden
__________________
last.fm

‎"I hope that someday we will be able to put away our fears and prejudices and just laugh at people." - Jack Handey.

Last edited by BastardofYoung; 03-19-2013 at 10:28 AM.
BastardofYoung is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 03-19-2013, 08:48 AM   #132 (permalink)
cooler commie than elph
 
Isbjørn's Avatar
 
Join Date: Sep 2012
Location: In a hole, help
Posts: 2,811
Default

So... Seventh Son is a good choice? I think so, I like the tracks on it and it is the next piece in the "puzzle" (which currently consists only of Powerslave and Somewhere in Time).
Isbjørn is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 03-25-2013, 05:24 AM   #133 (permalink)
Music Addict
 
Vertigo's Avatar
 
Join Date: May 2012
Location: North West England
Posts: 167
Default

In all the time that I've been into metal/hard rock (since '87) one band that I never took time to really try was Iron Maiden. Why? I don't know. I never went through a phase of disliking them or their music, content to just have respect for them as a well established band. I just never gave them chance or took the time to listen to an album, only ever having heard the more well known Maiden tracks that had relative commercial success (Number Of The Best, Clairvoyant, Run To The Hills etc.) It's took me all this time to finally get round to listening to them and I'm now working my way through, what is up to now, a very impressive back catalog.
Still, better (very) late than never I suppose!
Vertigo is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 03-27-2013, 10:15 PM   #134 (permalink)
Music Addict
 
Sharkie's Avatar
 
Join Date: Mar 2013
Posts: 54
Default

Quote:
Originally Posted by Vertigo View Post
In all the time that I've been into metal/hard rock (since '87) one band that I never took time to really try was Iron Maiden. Why? I don't know. I never went through a phase of disliking them or their music, content to just have respect for them as a well established band. I just never gave them chance or took the time to listen to an album, only ever having heard the more well known Maiden tracks that had relative commercial success (Number Of The Best, Clairvoyant, Run To The Hills etc.) It's took me all this time to finally get round to listening to them and I'm now working my way through, what is up to now, a very impressive back catalog.
Still, better (very) late than never I suppose!
It's never too late. You will not regret.
I have an awfully wide taste in music. It was hard for me to choose a favorite band, but Iron Maiden got a place in that spot for me. Why? Because they're amazing.

Wow, I sound very confident.
__________________
"I'm sick and tired of people saying that we put out 11 albums that sound exactly the same.
In fact, we've put out 12 albums that sound exactly the same."


-Angus Young
Sharkie is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 03-29-2013, 01:52 PM   #135 (permalink)
Music Addict
 
XtremeEclectic's Avatar
 
Join Date: Mar 2013
Location: SC
Posts: 67
Default

Enjoy almost every song, from almost every album. They have stayed strong with the years and rarely deviated from there sound. I love them to peices.
XtremeEclectic is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 04-03-2013, 08:56 AM   #136 (permalink)
Groupie
 
Join Date: Apr 2013
Posts: 7
Default

Iron Maiden win the prize of my favourite band... just due to the fact that they were never content to squeeze all of the success from one good album. The only two albums that I have never been able to enjoy are the two from the Blaze Bayley era - but even then 'The Clansman' and 'Man on the Edge' are still really good tracks. I can enjoy the short 3/4 minute full on songs like 'Holy Smoke' and 'Sanctuary' just as much as the epic 8-9 minutes + songs like 'Rime of the Ancient Mariner' and 'Phantom of the Opera'.
Not only do they have a full back catalogue of awesome music spanning 15 albums and 30 years but they can still kick it live. All in all, Iron Maiden make me feel proud to be a metal loving British teenager.
Bharris16 is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 04-13-2013, 10:11 AM   #137 (permalink)
cooler commie than elph
 
Isbjørn's Avatar
 
Join Date: Sep 2012
Location: In a hole, help
Posts: 2,811
Default

Listened through their debut album, it's great. I think it'll be the next Maiden album I buy. Or Piece of Mind or Seventh Son. I want to finish the picture of Eddie smoothly.
Isbjørn is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 04-13-2013, 10:16 AM   #138 (permalink)
Zum Henker Defätist!!
 
The Batlord's Avatar
 
Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: Beating GNR at DDR and keying Axl's new car
Posts: 48,199
Default

Quote:
Originally Posted by Briks View Post
Listened through their debut album, it's great. I think it'll be the next Maiden album I buy. Or Piece of Mind or Seventh Son. I want to finish the picture of Eddie smoothly.
You mean the one on the sides of the CDs?
__________________
Quote:
Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien
There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.
The Batlord is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 04-13-2013, 11:18 AM   #139 (permalink)
cooler commie than elph
 
Isbjørn's Avatar
 
Join Date: Sep 2012
Location: In a hole, help
Posts: 2,811
Default

Yes. I have Powerslave and Somewhere in Time, so buying Seventh Son of Seventh Son or Piece of Mind will allow me to finish it smoothly. However, Iron Maiden is a great album, and just the fact that it is their first studio album counts to me.
Isbjørn is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 07-04-2013, 07:29 AM   #140 (permalink)
Melancholia Eternally
 
Mojo's Avatar
 
Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: England
Posts: 5,018
Default

Iron Maiden beer to be sold in House Of Commons bar | News | NME.COM

And then they all threw the horns and had a mosh.
__________________

Last.FM | Echoes and Dust
Mojo is offline   Reply With Quote
Reply


Similar Threads



© 2003-2024 Advameg, Inc.