Which Eddie Maiden covert art prefer?
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Topic: Which Eddie Maiden covert art prefer?
Posted By: Alberto Muñoz
Subject: Which Eddie Maiden covert art prefer?
Date Posted: February 11 2009 at 14:10
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Here's an interesting poll which is about the Eddie (The Pet of iron Maiden) over the years:
Simply you can choose which Eddie you like and why?
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Posted By: Mellotron Storm
Date Posted: February 11 2009 at 14:50
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I think the "Brave New World" cover is really cool with the face in the sky. I like "A Matter Of Life And Death" too with the army theme. ------------- "The wind is slowly tearing her apart" "Sad Rain" ANEKDOTEN |
Posted By: Carlos
Date Posted: February 11 2009 at 14:53
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Never been a fan of Maiden but Powerslave sleeve is just great...
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Posted By: Queen By-Tor
Date Posted: February 11 2009 at 14:55
Hardly their best album, but Virtual XI has always had my favorite artwork: |
Posted By: Diaby
Date Posted: February 11 2009 at 15:42
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One for AMoLaD – great album with a stunning cover. ------------- yeah |
Posted By: Ommadawn
Date Posted: February 11 2009 at 16:29
| Their bests are Powerslave and Somewhere In Time. The details are simply incredible. but my personal favorite is Killers , that scene is amazing! |
Posted By: martinprog77
Date Posted: February 12 2009 at 02:40
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Posted By: Trial and Error
Date Posted: February 12 2009 at 03:31
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Fear of the Dark for me. Honourable mentions to Powerslave, Rock in Rio and Brave New World. Dance of Death, while being a great album, easily gets the place for worst cover. And is thus the exact opposite of Virtual IX. ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Trial_And_Error/?chartstyle=SidebarRed1"> 
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Posted By: Queen By-Tor
Date Posted: February 12 2009 at 12:26
I was actually embarrassed to buy that album when I first bought it! Good thing the music was better than the poor CG cover!!  |
Trial and Error wrote:Posted By: The T
Date Posted: February 12 2009 at 14:12
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I prefer the datrker-colored ones like Brave New World and The X-factor...
While the album is absolutely legendary, The Number of the Beast cover can't be more terrible... ------------- 
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Posted By: The Miracle
Date Posted: February 12 2009 at 14:18
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Live After Death. X factor is my least favorite.
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Posted By: Alberto Muñoz
Date Posted: February 12 2009 at 14:28
I see the cover of The number of the Beast good, why is terrible? ------------- |
Posted By: The T
Date Posted: February 12 2009 at 14:47
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I don't like the awful mix of colors and the absolutely terrible Devil... It doesn't look evil but utterly ridiculous... -------------
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Posted By: Raff
Date Posted: February 12 2009 at 15:21
| Personally, I think their latest album, A Matter of Life and Death, has the best cover of them all. I especially love the use of those muted shades of grey and green, which make it by far the most tasteful and understated of their covers. |
Posted By: jimidom
Date Posted: February 12 2009 at 15:37
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It's rather simple, but quite frightening! ------------- "The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs. There's also a negative side." - HST |
Posted By: zappaholic
Date Posted: February 12 2009 at 19:02
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Definitely Somewhere In Time. It's full of all sorts of references to the rest of the Maiden catalog.
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Posted By: Lev
Date Posted: February 19 2009 at 13:17
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Aces High.
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Posted By: BroSpence
Date Posted: February 20 2009 at 18:08
| Somewhere in Time. |
Posted By: J-Man
Date Posted: February 20 2009 at 19:47
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Either Live After Death or Powerslave. They all have great artwork.
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Posted By: J-Man
Date Posted: February 20 2009 at 19:48
Yeah, that's a kind of lousy album, but does have great artwork nonetheless. ------------- Check out my YouTube channel! http://www.youtube.com/user/demiseoftime" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/user/demiseoftime |
Posted By: aapatsos
Date Posted: February 21 2009 at 13:57
Killers cover has something wicked... |
Posted By: Drew
Date Posted: February 21 2009 at 13:59
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Piece of Mind then Number of the Beast
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Posted By: Eraserhead
Date Posted: February 27 2009 at 12:45
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Gotta go with Killers
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Posted By: Stooge
Date Posted: April 25 2009 at 16:22
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Killers. Probably because it was their first good album cover. I bought Somewhere In Time on vinyl just for the big album artwork even though it's my least favorite 80s Maiden album. |
Posted By: DevilRy
Date Posted: April 25 2009 at 18:01
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Powerslave. Worst album art ever? Dance of Death:  |
Posted By: aapatsos
Date Posted: April 25 2009 at 18:08
| ^ by far, at least terrible... |
Posted By: stonebeard
Date Posted: April 25 2009 at 18:10
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Tie between Somewhere in Time and Powerslave. ------------- http://soundcloud.com/drewagler" rel="nofollow - My soundcloud. Please give feedback if you want! |
Posted By: MFP
Date Posted: April 25 2009 at 18:29
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Somewhere in Time |
Posted By: el böthy
Date Posted: April 26 2009 at 14:50
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Seven son is pretty cool, but had the Trooper image be the cover that would have been my choice. I actually have that one as a poster in my room.
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Posted By: debrewguy
Date Posted: April 26 2009 at 19:39
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The debut's Eddie matches the music - raw. After that, Eddie became more "commercial" .
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Posted By: LandofLein
Date Posted: June 19 2009 at 19:26
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The Killers one is perfect, it is the most simple, and yet the most terrifying, it gives off a jack the ripper/london streets at night feel the only bad thing about it is how similar it is to the previous album's art
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Posted By: lucas
Date Posted: June 21 2009 at 02:26
Yes, this devil doesn't look really frightening.
The devil in the movie 'legend' is really scary in my opinion :
 Another representation that is worth mentioning is the one of Jean Delville's symbolistic movement :
http://pagesperso-orange.fr/claire.viallon/META2/LivreArt/Symbol/Album3.html">
 The cover for 'Number of the beast' probably inspired this one for the death metal band Anata :
 And some pastiche of Number of the beast cover :
 But back to the topic I like these ones :
     even if the last one is very derivative of E, W & F's cover artwork of their album 'All 'n all'
 And Derek Riggs used the same theme for Gamma Ray :
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Posted By: lucas
Date Posted: June 21 2009 at 02:30
Much more sophisticated than the previous one, much more details. And note that the hair style changed from punk attitude to heavy metal attitude. Plus don't forget the shadow/light play. ------------- "Magma was the very first gothic rock band" (Didier Lockwood) |
Posted By: luger7
Date Posted: June 25 2009 at 15:17
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Dance of death is the best cover, haha..... ------------- Viva .MX cabrones! |
Posted By: Kashmir75
Date Posted: June 25 2009 at 22:10
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I love Somewhere In Time. So much detail, references to the previous albums, and the cartoon drawings of the band members are excellent.
Powerslave is great, too. As is the latest one, AMOLAD. ------------- Hello, mirror. So glad to see you, my friend. It's been a while... |
Posted By: The Sleepwalker
Date Posted: June 29 2009 at 16:14
| Piece of Mind. |
Posted By: zappaholic
Date Posted: June 29 2009 at 19:12
That one was so good it was used on two albums - A Tribute To Insanity by Hexenhaus and Blessed Are the Sick by Morbid Angel.
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Posted By: LandofLein
Date Posted: June 29 2009 at 23:06
True, but it just seems like the same basic idea
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Posted By: CPicard
Date Posted: June 30 2009 at 07:11
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Powerslave. I consider buying the LP version just for the purpose to nail the cover on my walls. |