Killers: 8.6/10

Number of the Beast: 10/10

Piece of Mind: 10/10

Powerslave: 10/10

Somewhere in Time: 9.2/10

Seventh Son...: 9.6/10

No Prayer for the Dying: 5/10

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I'm gonna track by track this actually.

1. Tailgunner--It's no Aces High, but it

2. Holy Smoke --I like this one, again in part because it dovetails with the culture wars of the late 1980s and the reaction from the splatterpunks, etc.

3. No Prayer For the Dying Filler

4. Public Enema Number One Also filler, and a horrible title, but it's solid, and has a shout-out to The Earth Dies Screaming, which is the sort of British horror namedropping I appreciate

5. Fates Warning I don't really remember this one

6. The Assassin --I loved this song in high school. I'll concede it hasn't aged that well--it's kinda hokey--but I think it's catchy as hell.

7. Run Silent Run Deep --This is total classic Maiden--historically grounded, good Steve Harris work, incredible operatic Bruce vocals.

8. Hooks In You--Love this song! Catchy catchy catchy!

9. Bring Your Daughter... To The Slaughter--It's a pretty bad title, but Bruce gives it his all on the vocals, and I'm just really fond of it.

10. Mother Russia--Closing strong, with a heavy, portentous track (and more history!)

I've never really clicked w/ Seventh Son that much; I need to remedy that. It's not that I don't like any of the songs but they never jump out at me, and honestly some of it is way too poppy ("Can I Play With Madness" isn't a bad song but to me it's all the things people complained about w/ No Prayer)

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I was a gigantic Iron Maiden fan in high school, and still love them

I don't think they've done anything truly great since Brave New World, but the records since then still have good stuff on them

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i stop with iron maiden at seventh son. i like specific songs, like fear of the dark, etc. but i just don't listen to the albums.

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2. number of the beast

3. powerslave

very hard, they could all be no. 1 though. the rolling stones are my favorite band and i'd have an easier time ranking their classic albums. hard to do with maiden.

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The correct ranking is PS, POM, NOTB.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55ISbbSopXA&t=171s

i used to listen to that on loop for hours at a time

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1. Piece of Mind

2. Powerslave

3. Number of the Beast

4. Seventh Son...

5. Somewhere in Time

6. Killers

7. S/T

8. NPFTD

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Paul Di'Anno's gravelly lower register voice makes them sound like a generic proto-version of the classic Iron Maiden we all love.

But those early records have some of the band's absolute best songs.

From Self-titled, I'd put Prowler, Phantom, Iron Maiden and Transylvania against any 4 songs on any other album.

Killers has some absolute monster tracks too. The opening 3 in particular (Ides, Wrathchild, Murder in the Rue Morgue) are some of Harris's best compositions. You also have Ghengis Khan. Prodigal Son is a uniquely pretty song too.

I'm going to say something a little controversial here, but I think Number of the Beast is a bit overrated as an album even if we can say it is "great". It has Hallowed be Thy Name which is prob my fav Maiden song. Number of the beast is a solid, if monotonous and overrated song too. 22 Acacia Avenue is good too. But Run to the Hills is massively overrated. Invaders is a decent song but kind of generic within their catalog. Also not a huge fan of children of the damned which kind of drags. The song makes you suffer and there's no real payoff. The Prisoner too, for me, is a bit forgettable outside of the intro. It's like a few slapped together riffs to justify a half assed sing along chorus.

I've kind of run out of steam here so i'll just do a ranking:

1. Seventh Son

2. Iron Maiden

3. Powerslave

4. Piece of Mind

5. Killers

6. Somewhere in Time

7. Number of the beast

EDITED on 8/21 to account for the face that I got a lot more into Iron Maiden after making this post and have learned a ton of their songs on bass since that time.

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Pre-Bruce albums might as well be a different band.

It's a shame he's had vocal issues. His decline is worse than Eric Adam's, but Kiske's a freak and sets too high a standard in old age.

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