My Maiden Mania Comps

Doubt anyone really cares but these are the CDs I made for my own personal Best Of Maiden set as mentioned in the playlist thread:

Disc 1
Dream Of Mirrors
Fear Is The Key
Killers
The Angel And The Gambler
Can I Pay With Madness
The Longest Day
Remember Tomorrow
Face In The Sand
Lord Of The Flies
The Duelists
Flight Of Icarus
22 Acacia Avenue
Fates Warning

Disc 2
No More Lies
2 Minutes To Midnight
Sea Of Madness
Fortunes Of War
Still Life
Children Of The Damned
Another Life
The Fugitive
Ghost Of The Navigator
Futureal
Infinite Dreams
Run Silent Run Deep
The Reincarnation Of Benjamin Breeg
Transylvania

Disc 3
Affraid To Shoot Strangers
Holy Smoke
The Prisoner
The Edge Of Darkness
Wasted Years
Revelations
Brave New World
Strange World
These Colors Don't Run
Only The Good Die Young
Rime Of The Ancient Mariner

Disc 4
Journeyman
Stranger In A Strange Land
Judgement Of Heaven
Bring Your Daughter To The Slaughter
Innocent Exile
Judas Be My Guide
Rainmaker
Sun And Steel
Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son
Aces High
The Lonliness Of The Long Distance Runner
Out Of The Silent Planet
Man On The Edge
Charlotte The Harlot
The Clairvoyant

Disc 5
Blood On The Wold's Hands
Caught Somehwere In Time
To Tame A Land
Montsegur
Childhood's End
Genghis Khan
Flash Of The Blade
Moonchild
Look For The Truth
Drifter
Fear Of The Dark
New Frontier
Public Enema Number One
Prowler
Losfer Words (Big 'Orra)

Disc 6
The Thin Love Between Love & Hate
The Trooper
Deja Vu
Sign Of The Cross
The Number Of The Beast
Tailgunner
From Here To Eternity
Twilight Zone
The Evil That Men Do
The Clansman
The Prophecy
Be Quick Or Be Dead
Powerslave
Run To The Hills

Once I finish completing my Dio, Savatage, and Galactic Cowboys discography, I will make mass comps for them too.

Nice mix there DB, looking forward to the Dio & Savatage lists.

Would have to pick Disc 6 myself.

Excellent comps DB especially due to how many deep cuts made unto your discs.

I don't think I could come up with enough Maiden tracks to make a Best Of comp. I'm just not a fan of Bruce's soprano vocals.

Yeah, I know, that's sacrilege on a metal board.

Thanks, Maiden has been my favorite band since '93 and only Savatage has come close. Now that I once again have all the studio releases, I wanted to play my favorite Maiden songs but also mix them up instead of going through each album one by one and skipping my least favorite. Origionally I was only going to pick my four favorite from each album but on albums like Killers, Somewhere In Time, Seventh Son, etc. I couldn't narrow it down.

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Nice mix there DB, looking forward to the Dio & Savatage lists.

Would have to pick Disc 6 myself.

All I need is Angry Machines (which shouldn't cost too much) and Sirens (which does cost too much)

tohostudios wrote:

I don't think I could come up with enough Maiden tracks to make a Best Of comp. I'm just not a fan of Bruce's soprano vocals.

Yeah, I know, that's sacrilege on a metal board.

You can't help what you do or don't like but he's a tenor, not a soprano. He only did high pitch vocals on Number Of The Beast (and very sparingly I might atdd) and usually sticks to his lower to mid range.

He still sounds like Tarja Turunen to my ears.

Yet somehow I like Rob Halford. Go figure.

EDIT: to add that in general, the older I get, the less tolerance I seem to have for the stereotypical metal "shriek". Kai Hansen, Andi Deris, Bruce Dickinson, Tim Owens, even most Halford, just seems to grate on my ears.


Lower register vocals are my main reason for liking a band like Falconer; power metal without the "cat tail in a toaster" vocals.

Just my opinion which I realize is not a popular one.

tohostudios wrote:

He still sounds like Tarja Turunen to my ears.

You might want to clean out your ears then ( ) because I don't see how anyone could confuse Bruce's voice with a woman's.

Of course I don't mean that literally; I'm "posting" metaphorically.

I've just gotten to the point where I don't like high pitched male vocals. Remember my opinion of Steve Perry?

This is just an extension of that.

But I don't want to derail your IM comp thread so please continue.

BTW,

I'm over here listening to high school girls (Care Bears On Fire) shrieking about not fitting into the Barbie image so it's not like I have any room to criticize the vocals of bands other people like.

hey DB, any significance to the order of the tunes or why you put what songs on what disc ?

thanks, laterz

tohostudios wrote:

BTW,

I'm over here listening to high school girls (Care Bears On Fire) shrieking about not fitting into the Barbie image so it's not like I have any room to criticize the vocals of bands other people like.

nice comps DB!!

Nice!!! Maiden is one of my two favorite bands!!!!

Nice comps!

I love Iron Maiden!!!

James B. wrote:

hey DB, any significance to the order of the tunes or why you put what songs on what disc ?

thanks, laterz

No, since I couldn't narrow the field down I just put all the Maiden songs on one playlist and randomly broke it up into separate discs leaving out my lesser favorite Maiden songs (although Heaven Can Wait and Mother Russia are favorites, I ran out of room-I might just make a last disc of all the songs that didn't make the cut, after all, there isn't a Maiden song that I flat out hate).

Nice comp