What's your favourite post-reunion (with Bruce Dickinson) Iron Maiden album?

Dark Horseman wrote:

Heck yeah, Rock In Rio is great.

Agreed, it's actually my favorite Iron Maiden concert video. I also love hearing Bruce sing a couple of the Blaze tunes which ended up being great songs once a real vocalist did them.  

S.D. wrote:

Dark Horseman wrote:

Heck yeah, Rock In Rio is great.

Agreed, it's actually my favorite Iron Maiden concert video.  I also love hearing Bruce sing a couple of the Blaze tunes which ended up being great songs once a real vocalist did them.   

It's better than Live After Death (IMHO) - Bruce really does bring life to the Blaze songs. Plus, Adrian's playing adds to the songs and make them sound heavier than the studio version. Right now, RiR is in a tie with En Vivo for my favorite live Maiden release (followed closely by LAD)

I'm gonna try to rank the reunion studio albums:

1. Dance of Death
2. The Final Frontier
3. A Matter of Life and Death
4. Brave New World

I went with AMOLAD although all four albums are very strong.

What baffles me is I've seen a few posts giving a lot of love to wildest dreams??? I thinks that song is rubbish and one of the worst songs maiden have ever written lol. It's a shame its the first track on dance of death because it does tarnish that album a tad for me. Luckily the rest of the album is quality stuff.

Brave New World, the main reason that it was my first Maiden album I purchased in 2000 when it came out and I still really dig the album.

thejokeriv wrote:

S.D. wrote:

Dark Horseman wrote:

Heck yeah, Rock In Rio is great.

Agreed, it's actually my favorite Iron Maiden concert video.  I also love hearing Bruce sing a couple of the Blaze tunes which ended up being great songs once a real vocalist did them.   

It's better than Live After Death (IMHO) - Bruce really does bring life to the Blaze songs. Plus, Adrian's playing adds to the songs and make them sound heavier than the studio version. Right now, RiR is in a tie with En Vivo for my favorite live Maiden release (followed closely by LAD)

completely agree with your assessment of RIR. I only bought the video of En Vivo and watched it twice and thinking maybe I should pick up the CD.

funny how Blaze gets no love.

A Matter of Life and Death. It had the most impact on me. But I generally agree that I like all of them.

journeyman wrote:

thejokeriv wrote:

S.D. wrote:

Dark Horseman wrote:

Heck yeah, Rock In Rio is great.

Agreed, it's actually my favorite Iron Maiden concert video.  I also love hearing Bruce sing a couple of the Blaze tunes which ended up being great songs once a real vocalist did them.   

It's better than Live After Death (IMHO) - Bruce really does bring life to the Blaze songs. Plus, Adrian's playing adds to the songs and make them sound heavier than the studio version. Right now, RiR is in a tie with En Vivo for my favorite live Maiden release (followed closely by LAD)

completely agree with your assessment of RIR. I only bought the video of En Vivo and watched it twice and thinking maybe I should pick up the CD.

funny how Blaze gets no love.  

Well, if it helps, I think Blaze solo is super awesome. First 5 solo albums are on par with anything Maiden did after the reunion. The 6th one (King of Metal) was sub-par, though. I loved his live show too.

And I actually like the X-Factor a lot. Just a great record and a direct successor of Afraid to Shoot Strangers off of Fear of the Dark. A new direction for the band and Blaze was just the man to do it.

It was on Virtual XI when Blaze suddenly felt a bit out of place.

If only you could choose different vocalists based on the mood of each album...

Definitely Brave New World. My favorite from the original 80s albums is Somewhere In Time.

Thelemech wrote:

Definitely Brave New World. My favorite from the original 80s albums is Somewhere In Time.

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MetallicSeminarian wrote:

Thelemech wrote:

Definitely Brave New World. My favorite from the original 80s albums is Somewhere In Time.

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I like all of them but Dance was my favorite....