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Fear Of the Dark is an undervalued album... It really has a different flavour than other maiden albums I remember this album taking me on a no coming-back deep dark journey first time i've listened to it ....
Something I love doing is, if you cut that album down to 8 songs it totally stacks up right up alongside all those classic Bruce 80s records, Be Quick or Be Dead is my favorite Maiden opener
If they cut 2-3 of the weaker songs like Judas and the Apparition and had another banger on there like quick and the dead it would be much much better in my eyes.
1. Iron Maiden 2. Powerslave 3. Killers 4. Seventh Son of a Seventh Son 5. Number of the Beast 5. Somewhere in Time (tied with NOTB) 7. Piece of Mind (perhaps too low for many of you reading but I feel the second half drops off a bit) 8. Brave New World 9. Fear of the Dark 10. Book of Souls 11. Dance of Death 12. The X Factor 13. A Matter of Life and Death 14. No Prayer for the Dying 15. Virtual XI 16. The Final Frontier (but top 3 cover art!)
It’s brilliant. If it was in the first half of the album or even a single then most people would like it I guarantee. It’s so catchy, what’s the problem?
My ranking: 1. The Number Of The Beast 2. Powerslave 3. Piece Of Mind 4. Killers 5. Iron Maiden 6. SSOASS 7. Somewhere In Time 8. The Book Of Souls 9. Brave New World 10. A Matter Of Life And Death 11. Dance Of Death 12. The Final Frontier 13. The X Factor 14. Fear Of The Dark 15. Virtual XI 16. No Prayer For The Dying
16. No Prayer for the Dying 15. Virtual XI 14. The X Factor 13. Fear of the Dark 12. Iron Maiden 11. Killers 10. Dance of Death 9. The Final Frontier 8. The Number of the Beast 7. Piece of Mind 6. Powerslave 5. A Matter of Life and Death 4. Brave New World 3. Seventh Son of a Seventh Son 2. Book of Souls 1. Somewhere in Time
My ranking: 17 - Virtual XI 16 - The X Factor 15 - No Prayer for the Dying 14 - Fear of the Dark 13 - Dance of Death 12 - The Final Frontier 11 - A Matter of Life and Death 10 - Brave New World 9 - The Book of Souls 8 - Iron Maiden 7 - Senjutsu 6 - Killers 5 - Piece of Mind 4 - Seventh Son of a Seventh Son 3 - The Number of the Beast 2 - Powerslave 1 - Somewhere in Time
Great top 3. I guess I'd switch out Seventh Son of a Seventh Son for Powerslave, but I can see why you'd go that way. I've just spent way more time with Powerslave and to be fair, it is a perfect album. They're basically 4 perfect albums, really. I think Brave New World, though arguably my favorite of the four, is the one that might contain one or two flawed tracks, but the awesomeness of the rest of the album more than make up for that. And the tracks I'm thinking of are still insanely good.
1) The Number Of The Beast 2) Killers 3) Powerslave 4) Somewhere In Time 5) Brave New World 6) Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son 7) Iron Maiden 8) Senjutsu 9) Fear Of The Dark 10) Piece Of Mind 11) Dance Of Death 12) Virtual XI 13) No Prayers For The Dying 14) The Book Of Souls 15) A Matter Of Life And Death 16) The X Factor 17) The Final Frontier
My list, from worst to the best: 16- Final Frontier 15- Fear Of The Dark 14- AMOLAD 13- Virtual XI 12- Killers 11- Piece Of Mind 10- Book Of Souls 9- Number of The beast 8- The X Factor 7- Iron Maiden 6- No Prayer For The Dying 5- Dance Of Death 4- Brave New World 3- Seventh Son 2- Powerslave Of Course #1 Somewhere in time
This ranking made me realize just how many classic albums Maiden have released. They’ve got like 9 to 11 stone cold classics, which is INSANE to think about.
1:Brave New World 2:A Matter of Life and Death 3:Piece of Mind 4:Seventh Son of a Seventh Son 5:Powerslave 6:Killers 7:The Number of the Beast 8:Fear of the Dark 9:Iron Maiden 10:Somewhere in Time
1. Somewhere in time best maiden album by far 2. Powerslave 3. Seventh son of the seventh son 4. Iron Maiden 5. Killers 6. Piece of mind 7. Fear of the dark 8. Brave new world 9. Number of the best 10. Matter of life time 11. Dance of the death
1: powerslave- my favourite album of all time. Perfect 11/10 . 2: the number of the beast- sounds normie to say, but all the songs are good. 3: seventh son of a seventh son- my favourite for the longest time. Changed recently. 4: somewhere in time- great production and songwriting. 5: fear of the dark- great cover art and, other than weekend warrior, every song is great. 6: killers 7: piece of mind 8: brave new world 9: a matter of life and death 10: iron maiden- great album but the production does bring it down. 11: book of souls 12: no prayer for the dying 13: dance of death 14: the final frontier 15: the X factor 16: virtual XI
My list updated to 2021: 1) The number of the beast 2) Somewhere in time 3) Powerslave 4) Iron Maiden 5) Seventh son of a seventh son 6) Killers 7) Piece of mind 8) Brave new world 9) Fear of the dark 10) Dance of death 11) Senjutsu 12) Book of souls 13) No prayer for the dying 14) A matter of life and death 15) The X Factor 16) The final frontier 17) Virtual XI UP THE IRONS!!! 🤟
My Ranking 17: Virtual XI (1998) 16- The X-Factor (1995) 15- The Final Frontier (2010) 14- A Matter Of Life And Death (2006) 13- Dance Of Death (2003) 12- The Book Of Souls (2015) 11- No Prayer For The Dying (1990) (Huge Gap) 10- Senjutsu (2021) 09- Brave New World (2000) 08- Fear Of The Dark (1992) 07- Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son (1988) 06- Somewhere In Time (1986) 05- Killers (1981) 04- Piece Of Mind (1983) 03- Powerslave (1984) 02- The Number Of The Beast (1982) 01- Iron Maiden (1980)
First off, the new Ulcerate is my 2020 album of the year. Nice shirt. As for Maiden rankings, 1 - Piece of Mind 2 - Killers/Iron Maiden/Number of the Beast/Somewhere in Time/Powerslave/Seventh Son of a Seventh Son...whatever else.
1. Powerslave 2. Piece of Mind 3. Seventh Son of a Seventh Son 4. Somewhere in Time 5. Brave New World 6. Number of the Beast 7. Iron Maiden 8. Killers 9. Fear of the Dark 10. Dance of Death 11. No Prayer for the Dying 12. Book of Souls 13. A Matter of Life and Death 14. The Final Frontier 15. The X Factor 16. Virtual XI
1. Somewhere In Time 2. Powerslave 3. Brave New World 4. Seventh Son 5. The Number Of The Beast 6. Piece Of Mind 7. Killers 8. Dance Of Death 9. The Book Of Souls 10. Iron Maiden 11. A Matter Of Life And Death 12. The Final Frontier 13. Fear Of The Dark 14. No Prayer For The Dying 15. The X Factor 16. Virtual XI
1 Powerslave. Masterpiece. 2 Somewhere in time. Masterpiece. 3 Piece of mind. Masterpiece. 4 Killers. Masterpiece. 5 Number of the beast. Masterpiece. 6 Seventh son of a seventh son. Masterpiece. 7 Iron Maiden. Masterpiece. 8 Brave New World. Masterpiece. 9 Fear of the dark. Pretty good. 10 X Factor. Pretty good in a dark and heavy way. 11 No Prayer for the dieing. Decent. 12 Dance of Death. Decent. 13 A matter of life and death. Decent. 14 The final frontier. Back end of Album is good. 15 Book of Souls. Ok. 16 Virtual XI. Poor.
very good ranking ! here is my top 10 1. Powerslave (1B. Live after Death) 2. Somewhere in Time 3. Piece of Mind 4. The number of the beast 5. Brave new world 6. seventh son of a seventh son 7. Iron maiden 8. killers 9. Dance of death 10. a matter of live and death
Great ranking, I have only listened to a few Iron Maiden albums, so this will be my list: 1 Brave New World (it came out when I was 15 so is very special for me, great album) 2 Piece of Mind 3 Powerslave 4 Somewhere in Time 5 Seventh son from a Seventh Son 6 Dance of Death 7 Fear of the Dark
My Top10 10.- Killers 9.- A matter if life and death 8.- Fear of the dark 7.- Dance of death 6.- 7th son of a 7th son 5.- The number of the beast 4.- Piece of mind 3.- Iron Maiden 2.- Somewhere in time 1.- Powerslave
The thing that has always puzzled me the most about Iron Maiden album rankings is the low placement of Fear Of The Dark. Even on this channel it’s continued and in people’s rankings. It is without a doubt their most underrated album in my opinion, should be ranked in the middle. I think Powerslave and Brave New World are a little overrated.
Good ranking!!! I like to see Dance of Death be given the love it deserves, I adore that album, kind of how you like Brave New World. Wouldn't say it's my second favorite but it's high up. Also nice to see the debut shown the love it deserves!
Surprised nobody has ranked AMOLAD first. That is Maiden's real masterpiece, with Powerslave close behind. But AMOLAD has to be listened to quite a few times and lyrics are a must, or else you'll never fully appreciate. And for those of us who were fortunate to see it played live in '06 from start to finish, I'm sure that experience bumps it up the rankings list for most. Probably the most impressive 72 minutes I've seen from any band in concert. Stunning.
Great choice for best Iron Maiden song! With epic part 'One after one, by the star dogged moon....too quick for groan of sigh.....' Best song of all time
My ranking: 1. Ssoass 2. Powerslave 3. Somewhere in time 4. Number if the beast 5. Piece of mind 6. Brave new world 7. No prayer for the dying 8. Book of Souls 9. Iron Maiden 10. Dance of Death 11. Final Frontier 12. Fear of the Dark 13. Senjutsu 14. A matter of life and Death 15. Killers 16. Virtual 17. The x factor
Your top 3 is basically identical to mine, except I tend to put Somewhere in Time on top. I do go back and forth between Somewhere in Time and Brave New World. The Brave New World title track hits me hard every time; it's so melancholy and profound. But Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner is probably my favorite workout song of all-time. Powerslave is insanely good and The Duelist is a very, very special song for me, in the running for my favorite, but the other two just slightly edge it out. As a child of the 80's, Somewhere in Time is the perfect gestalt of all the 80's greatest musical tendencies, the Devastator of 80's music if you will.
10/10 Number of the beast 9.8/10 Live After Death 9.8/10 Somewhere in time 9.7/10 Powereslave (would be 9.8, but Somewhere has way cooler b-sides) 9.5/10 Maiden Japan 9.4/10 Debut 9.3/10 Maiden England 9.2/10 No Prayer For The Dying 9/10 Killers 8.9/10 A Real Live Dead One 8.8/10 Seventh Son 8.5/10 Fear Of The Dark 8/10 Piece Of Mind
Solid rankings if judging by what I have. My #16, #15, #14 and #13 is exactly the same as yours. Also good to see Brave New World and Seventh Son get the kind of respect they deserve imo. Some Maiden fans rank Brave New World nearly last of the 16 and I've never understood it. One thing I don't get. You say Piece of Mind would be a perfect album if not for 2 bad songs that you wish were off the album. How about just skip those 2 songs? Now you have your perfect album.
16:virtual 9 15:x factor 14:final frontier 13:dance of death 12:book of souls 11:Iron Maiden 10:killers 9:a matter of life and death 8:fear of the dark 7:brave new world 6:no prayer for the dying 5:seventh son of a seventh son 4:somewhere in time 3:piece of mind 2:powerslave 1:number of the beast
1. Somewhere In Time 2. Powerslave 3. Seventh Son 4. Number Of The Beast 5. Brave New World 6. Killers 7. Peace Of Mind 8. Matter Of Life And Death 9. Iron Maiden 10. Book Of Souls 11. No Prayer For The Dying 12. Final Frontier 13. Dance Of Death 14. Fear Of The Dark I like all of the above. 15. X Factor 16. Virtual XI Not so keen on the Blaze albums.
17) Virtual XI, 16) The X Factor, 15) The Final Frontier, 14) The Book Of Souls, 13) No Prayer For The Dying, 12) Senjutsu, 11) Dance Of Death, 10) A Matter Of Life And Death, 9) Fear Of The Dark, 8) Iron Maiden, 7) Brave New World, 6) Killers, 5) The Number Of The Beast, 4) Powerslave, 3) Piece Of Mind, 2) Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son, 1) Somewhere In Time
1) Somewhere in Time (10) 2) Brave New World (10) 3) Seventh Son of a Seventh Son (10) 4) The Final Frontier (9.7) 5) Dance of Death (9.6) 6) Piece of Mind (9.5) 7) Powerslave (9.3) 8) Fear of the Dark (9) 9) A Matter of Life and Death (8.8) 10) Killers (8.8) 11) The Number of the Beast (8.5) 12) Senjutsu (8.4) 13) Iron Maiden (8.3) 14) The Book of Souls (8.3) 15) No Prayer for the Dying (7.3) 16) The X factor (7) 17) Virtual XI (6.5)
Quest of fire and flight of icarus are pure masterpieces. You are wrong on that 😎 Favorite are 1) seventh son, piece of mind, powerslave, somewhere in time, number of the beast
Somewhere In Time was the first album I heard from them and made me a fan of them :) and after all these years and after I've listened to all the albums of the band many times, it's still my favorite album...other favorite albums, Piece Of Mind, The Number Of The Beast, 7th Son Of A 7th Son and Dance Of Death, Dance Of Death, for me at least, is the best album since Bruce returned to the band...the "not so good" albums of the band are, again for me, Virtual XI, No Prayer For The Dying, Fear Of The Dark and The Final Frontier...the albums with Di Anno were good, not as good as the ones I mentioned, but good...the X-Factor was definitely better than Virtual XI, I even liked it more than No Prayer For The Dying and Fear Of The Dark...again, nice video :)
1. Iron Maiden 2. Dance of Death 3. Powerslave 4. Fear of the dark 5. No prayer for the dying 6. Killers 7. A matter of life and death 8. The X factor 9. The final Frontier 10. Virtual Xi 11. Somewhere in time 12. Seventh son of the seventh son 13. Number of the beast 14. Piece of mind 15. Senjutsu 16. The book of souls 17. Brave new world
1. Number Of The Beast 2. Piece Of Mind 3. Brave New World 4. Somewhere In Time 5. Powerslave 6. Dance Of Death 7. Killers 8. Iron Maiden 9. Seventh Son .. 10 A Matter Of Life And Death
16. Virtual XI 15. No Prayer for the Dying 14. The Final Frontier 13. Fear of the Dark 12. Killers 11. The Book of Souls 10. The X Factor 9. Iron Maiden 8. Dance of Death 7. The Number of the Beast 6. Powerslave 5. Brave New World 4. Somewhere in Time 3. Piece of Mind 2. A Matter of Life and Death 1. Seventh Son of a Seventh Son
1. Somewhere In Time 2. The Number Of The Beast 3. Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son 4. The Book Of Souls 5. Brave New World 6. Senjutsu 7. Powerslave 8. A Matter Of Life And Death 9. Piece Of Mind 10. Fear Of The Dark 11. Iron Maiden 12. Dance Of Death 13. Killers 14. The Final Frontier 15. No Prayer For The Daying 16. The X Factor 17. Virutal XI
@Quest for metal You said you've never heard something like Journeyman before. We'll. Try Arc of Space, from 1997 Bruce's solo album Accident of Birth. You have the seed right there
Before I watch this video I will do my ranking of my favorite band of all time… Up the Irons!!!! 1. Powerslave 2. Piece of Mind 3. Seventh Son of a Seventh Son 4. Killers 5. Fear of the Dark 6. A Matter of Life and Death 7. Dance of Death 8. Iron Maiden 9. The Number of the Beast 10. Brave New World 11. Somewhere in Time 12. No Prayer for the Dying 13. The X Factor 14. The Book of Souls 15. The Final Frontier 16. Virtual XI Waiting for Senjutsu to debut and this may throw my ranking later. Kick ass!!!
1. The Number of the Beast - Gangland sucks, the rest is an instant classic 2. Seventh Son - Maiden in perfection 3. Brave New World - No bad song on the album 4. Iron Maiden - one of the greatest debuts of all time 5. Somewhere in Time - Love it, great artwork 6. Powerslave - Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Aces High, any questions? 7. The Book of Souls - Maiden back to old class 8. Piece of Mind - first five songs are great, the rest is ok 9. Dance of Death - terrible cover, but the title track and Paschendale are master pieces 10. Fear of the Dark - title track and afraid to shoot strangers are brillant, the rest is mediocre 11. X Factor - better than it's reputation. WOuld be much higher with Bruce 12. Killers - I prefer the debut. 13. A Matter of Live and death - Not bad, but also not great 14. The Final Frontier - Didn't click for me, but didn't hurt either 15. No Prayer for the dying - The 90s weren't Maiden's decade 16. Virtual XI - No Comment
It's funny to hear someone say brave new world got them into maiden. Great list I cant argue. They dont know how to put out a bad album even with blaze bailey they rock.
Brave New World at #2 is incomprehensible but at least you didn't put it at the top, props for that, lol. Also, go easier on the ads. I never sub to channels that think they can harass their viewers with ads every four minutes.
Yeah brother Blaze's voice just did not work within Maiden. But, i saw Wolfsbane in the very early nineties and they were immense. For me Seventh Son is my top Maiden album.
1. Somewhere in time 2. Brave new world 3. Number of the beast 4. Seventh son of a seventh son 5. Powerslave 6. Piece of mind 7. Killers 8. Iron maiden 9. Book of souls 10. Fear of the dark 11. A matter of life and death 12. Final frontier 13. Dance of death 14. No prayer of the dying And the other two
Trash 16 No Prayer for the Dying 15 Virtual 11 Ok 14 Fear of the Dark 13 The Final Frontier Pretty Good 12 Dance of Death 11 Number of the Beast Great 10 Book of Souls 9 Iron Maiden 8 Piece of Mind 7 The X Factor 6 Killers 5 Powerslave Masterpiece 4 A Matter of Life and Death 3 Somewhere in Time 2 Brave New World 1 Seventh Son of a Seventh Son
I would go... 16.Virtual XI, 15.The Final Frontier 14. No Prayer for the Dying 13. X Factor 12. A Matter of Life and Death 11. Dance of Death 10. Fear of the Dark 9. Somewhere in Time 8. Brave New World 7. The Book of Souls 6. Iron Maiden 5. Killers 4. Seventh Son of a Seventh Son 3. Number of the Beast 2. Piece of Mind 1. Powerslave
Well done, Lad! Powerslave is not only Maiden's best album, but I argue it is the best metal album of all time. Pound for pound, chord for chord, it can go toe to toe with master of Puppets, Reign In Blood, Painkiller, or you name it..... Iron Maiden at the absolute top of their game kicking ass and taking names. I'm happy when I see other people agree with me! And thanks for defending No Prayer For The Dying... I don't know why so many people shit on it like they do. Did they even listen to it???? The album flat out rocks. I guess it's hard to get on board after a gem like Seventh Son, but saying it sucks??? Those that hate can put down and piss off.
Totally agree with Brave New World being up there. I find people generally disregard older bands' newer albums. Fans nostalgic for the 80's who perhaps dislike BNW onwards, tells you that Maiden are nailing the modern sound. My ranking is here if anyones interested: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-NCP4oiIqufY.html
X-Factor is in my Top 3, fantastic album. people just hate it be cause 'muuh Blaze''. X-Factor is the last great album by Maiden imo. my favorite still Somewher ein Time
1 The number of the beast. 2 Seventh Son of a Seventh Son. 3 Iron Maiden. 4 Killers. 5 Somewhere in time. 6 Powerslave. 7 Piece of mind. 8 Fear of the dark. 9 Senjustu. 10 No prayer for the dying.
