Bruce Dickinson

Balls to Picasso

Chemical Wedding

Accident Of Birth followed closely by The Chemical Wedding. Bought The Chemical Wedding, my first Bruce solo, for a couple of bucks. Not long after I picked up the rest of the studio releases. Big fan of his solo work and I'm surprised I never tried it sooner being such a Maiden fan. After making the mistake with Bruce I promptly bought Adrian's work away from Maiden. Never yet heard any of Paul's stuff, but I did however get all of Blaze's stuff.

Stand out Bruce songs: Tears Of The Dragon and Born In 58

I'd have to say Accident of Birth, followed closely by The Chemical Wedding, and then Skunkworks (which I like quite a bit, actually). The only thing lacking on Skunkworks is the production, IMO.

I really like Skunkworks, nice to hear Dickinson branch out and do something different.

wmcollis wrote:

Accident Of Birth followed closely by The Chemical Wedding. Bought The Chemical Wedding, my first Bruce solo, for a couple of bucks. Not long after I picked up the rest of the studio releases. Big fan of his solo work and I'm surprised I never tried it sooner being such a Maiden fan. After making the mistake with Bruce I promptly bought Adrian's work away from Maiden. Never yet heard any of Paul's stuff, but I did however get all of Blaze's stuff.

Stand out Bruce songs: Tears Of The Dragon and Born In 58

Bruce's best two solo albums feature Adrian Smith! Personally, I think Accident and Chemical are better albums than X Factor and Virtual Eleven

1. Accident of Birth
2. The Chemical Wedding
3. Balls to Picasso
4. Tyranny of Souls
5. Tattooed Millionaire
6. Skunkworks

Balls to Picasso is great. Just a little weak on the production side.

1.TM 2.AOB 3.BTP

Tattooed Millionaire for me. I've loved that thing from the get go.

I went w/ Chemical Wedding, but Skunkworks is a close second...I don't get the dislike for that album...it's musically great and Bruce sounds great on it.

Skunkworks is a weird little record that took me a while to warm up to, but nowadays I dig it.

Fat Freddy wrote:

Skunkworks is a weird little record that took me a while to warm up to, but nowadays I dig it.

yup, me too. I thnk the turning point for me was seeing Anthology and the songs played live.

wmcollis wrote:

Fat Freddy wrote:

Skunkworks is a weird little record that took me a while to warm up to, but nowadays I dig it.

yup, me too. I thnk the turning point for me was seeing Anthology and the songs played live.

Mine was the SKUNKWORKS era B-side "I'm In a Band With An Italian Drummer" that was included on the 2-CD version of Bruce's Best-Of collection. That song cracked me up and prompted me to dust off the Skunkworks album for the first time in several years.

thejokeriv wrote:

wmcollis wrote:

Accident Of Birth followed closely by The Chemical Wedding. Bought The Chemical Wedding, my first Bruce solo, for a couple of bucks. Not long after I picked up the rest of the studio releases. Big fan of his solo work and I'm surprised I never tried it sooner being such a Maiden fan. After making the mistake with Bruce I promptly bought Adrian's work away from Maiden. Never yet heard any of Paul's stuff, but I did however get all of Blaze's stuff.

Stand out Bruce songs: Tears Of The Dragon and Born In 58

Bruce's best two solo albums feature Adrian Smith! Personally, I think Accident and Chemical are better albums than X Factor and Virtual Eleven

Interesting. I never really thought to make that comparison. So, I had to go look at the cover of Virtual Eleven cause I always thought it was Virtual X. Guess my mind played a trick on my eyes and saw what I wanted too.

wmcollis wrote:

thejokeriv wrote:

wmcollis wrote:

Accident Of Birth followed closely by The Chemical Wedding. Bought The Chemical Wedding, my first Bruce solo, for a couple of bucks. Not long after I picked up the rest of the studio releases. Big fan of his solo work and I'm surprised I never tried it sooner being such a Maiden fan. After making the mistake with Bruce I promptly bought Adrian's work away from Maiden. Never yet heard any of Paul's stuff, but I did however get all of Blaze's stuff.

Stand out Bruce songs: Tears Of The Dragon and Born In 58

Bruce's best two solo albums feature Adrian Smith! Personally, I think Accident and Chemical are better albums than X Factor and Virtual Eleven

Interesting. I never really thought to make that comparison. So, I had to go look at the cover of Virtual Eleven cause I always thought it was Virtual X. Guess my mind played a trick on my eyes and saw what I wanted too.

LOL!!! It's spelled out Virtual XI but pronounced Virtual Eleven

007 wrote:

Tattooed Millionaire for me. I've loved that thing from the get go.

Same here!

I went with Accident Of Birth, but Tattooed Millionaire is an old fave that I only have on cassette. I need to fix that one of these days.

I don't own any of these albums, but based on what I have heard I'll go with Accident of Birth

Though "Accident of Birth" easily beats Maiden's last 3 albums, I'd go with Roy-Z's "Balls to Picasso"

Balls To Picasso is my fav. but I voted for Skunkworks as I seem to be one of the only fans of that album. However, with the acception of Tyranny Of Souls, my favorite can switch between all of them. However, my favorite Bruce song always is and always will be Tears Of A Dragon. One of the best songs ever writen with one of the best guitar solos. I can replay the entire song note for note in my head. I also love singing along and playing air guitar to it.

My post was made before I saw some of the others. Good to see some love for Skunkworks.

Hey guys, first post. Hi!

Kinda surprised to see Accident in the lead (I voted Accident, too). Most people seem to prefer Chemical. Truth be told, they're pretty equal in quality, but I prefer Accident. Might be because it came first and made a bigger impression. It was the album that screamed "Bruce is back!". A real return to form and was likely the catalyst for getting the ball rolling for the Maiden reunion.

Accident of Birth and then Chemical Wedding. Both are better than anything Maiden has done since the 80's.

Welcome, Infinite.

I picked up 'Accident of Birth' after 'Chemical Wedding' which so far is my fav Dickinson solo album, but 'Accident of Birth' is an excellent album and like the jokerman I consider it the long lost Iron Maiden album.