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Kashmir75 
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Posted: September 10 2012 at 18:46 |
My favourites are Seventh Son, Powerslave, and A Matter of Life and Death.
I've particularly enjoyed all the albums since Bruce and Adrian rejoined the band. Their songs have got a lot more proggy and complex recently. I think Maiden get BETTER with age, whereas some bands get more tired with age.
I don't even mind the Blaze Bayley albums. Sign of the Cross is a great song.
My favourite Maiden songs would be:
Old: Phantom of the Opera Wrathchild Flash of the Blade Infinite Dreams Seventh Son (title song) Moonchild (love the SSOASS album)
New: The Thin Line Between Love and Hate Ghost of the Navigator Journeyman The Legacy The Talisman Isle of Avalon
Edited by Kashmir75 - September 11 2012 at 02:09
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Kashmir75
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Posted: September 10 2012 at 18:48 |
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Sorry, I put the debut album 'Iron Maiden' on the poll but it seems to have disappeared. Don't know how to fix the poll.
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Posted: September 10 2012 at 19:09 |
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Killers will always be my favorite, yes I prefer Di'ano to Dickinson.
Edited by bytor2112 - September 10 2012 at 19:09
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Posted: September 10 2012 at 19:17 |
Only ever heard the
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Kashmir75
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Posted: September 10 2012 at 19:20 |
 bytor2112 wrote:
Killers will always be my favorite, yes I prefer Di'ano to Dickinson.
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It was a very different band under Paul Di'anno, that's for sure. Paul had a more rough, punky, raw voice than the operatic Bruce.
Both Bruce and Blaze had operatic vocals, but Blaze had a much lower singing voice.
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Posted: September 11 2012 at 01:47 |
Kashmir75 wrote:
Sorry, I put the debut album 'Iron Maiden' on the poll but it seems to have disappeared. Don't know how to fix the poll. |
To your right you press: Post Options --> Edit Post
You put their debut where you are supposed to ask the Poll Question.
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richardh
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Posted: September 11 2012 at 02:04 |
Powerslave
(Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son and Somehere In Time not far behind)
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Posted: September 11 2012 at 07:50 |
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The number of the Beast.
Followed by:
Powerslave,
Piece of Mind
Somewhere in Time
Seventh Son..
Killers
I'm not that familiar with anything else they done. I lost interest after SSOASS.
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Ultimately bored by endless ecstasy!
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Posted: September 11 2012 at 08:44 |
Seventh Son, closely followed by Piece of Mind. The album that I hate and others love is totally Somewhere in Time. Also, new albums are great! Maybe even better than SSOASS, but I haven't listened to them enough.
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Posted: September 11 2012 at 09:18 |
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# of the Beast probably would be, but i've always thought that 22 Acacia Ave and Gangland brought it down a bit. The rest of the album is superb. I think Piece of Mind is solid throughout, and so cast my vote.
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Posted: September 11 2012 at 09:29 |
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Posted: September 11 2012 at 13:51 |
richardh wrote:
Powerslave
(Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son and Somehere In Time not far behind) |
This.
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Posted: September 11 2012 at 15:53 |
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I can't vote, but Seventh Son of a Seventh Son would be my favorite. After that Caught Somewhere in Time and Fear of the Dark. The debut is great as well, especially "Remember Tomorrow". I never liked Number... as an album, imo "Gangland", "The Prisoner" and some other song I can't remember drag it down a lot. "Total Eclipse" is flawless though.
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Posted: September 11 2012 at 15:55 |
I really have a weird taste regarding Iron Maiden's albums. My favorite I guess would be Killers and then the debut. Next would be The X Factor
 fantastic album really. I only like about two or three Dickinson albums, and Fear Of The Dark would be one of them.
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Kashmir75
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Posted: September 11 2012 at 17:53 |
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I like The X Factor as well. Blaze suits the darker style of the album, more than Bruce would have.
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GoldenGod2112
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Posted: September 11 2012 at 18:13 |
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Seventh son of course! So amazing and progressive!
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Posted: September 12 2012 at 12:51 |
Kashmir75 wrote:
I like The X Factor as well. Blaze suits the darker style of the album, more than Bruce would have. |
Yes, it's a fantastic album despite some people hate the Bailey era.
I'ts hard to pick an album...The last four are fantastic, in the 80's they made some masterpieces (SSOASS, Somewhere in time), as I said, I love The X Factor too...but if I have to pick it's "Brave New World". There's not a single song that it's not great and it has some of Maiden's best songs imo (Silent Planet, Love and Hate, Blood Brothers, Dream of Mirros, etc)
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Posted: September 12 2012 at 16:08 |
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Killers, although the debut is a close second. I do like a few of the Bruce albums as well (Piece Of Mind was my first foray into the band so I have a soft spot for that) but the Paul Di'anno albums are more my style personally.
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Posted: September 12 2012 at 16:32 |
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Piece of Mind will forever be my favorite, but Seventh Son is not that far behind. I'm not very familiar with their 90s stuff, but I doubt any of them will challenge Piece of Mind. I don't really like the new stuff they did with Bruce and Adrian. A few great tracks ("Ghost of the Navigator", "Paschendale", "Different World"), but mostly I find it too plodding and repetitive, with too many power chords and not enough actual riffs. And they turned their stupid "chant the title in the chorus over and over" shtick up to eleven.
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Posted: September 12 2012 at 23:20 |
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The number of the beast for me.
But why is not the first one on the list? (Their first album I mean)...
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