Rank all Iron Maiden albums

Troublezone wrote:

Also to rank an album high just because it's longer is weird too

I think both Life & Death and Powerslave are perfect 10/10. So just thinking Life & Death has equally good music, just more of it.

Like how there's nothing better than a bottle of your favourite beer... except a six-pack of the same beer!

Killers
Powerslave
Piece Of Mind
Iron Maiden
Number Of The Beast
Somewhere In Time
Brave New World
Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son
Fear Of The Dark
The Final Frontier
Book Of Souls
A Matter Of Life And Death
No Prayer For The Dying
Dance Of Death
The X Factor
Virtual XI

I am sure about my top 5:
- powerslave
- number of the beast
- fear of the dark
- piece of mind
- book of souls (yes this is an awesome mature release which i find amazing, just like priest's nostradamus).

Lari wrote:

Troublezone wrote:

Also to rank an album high just because it's longer is weird too

I think both Life & Death and Powerslave are perfect 10/10. So just thinking Life & Death has equally good music, just more of it.

Like how there's nothing better than a bottle of your favourite beer... except a six-pack of the same beer!

To each their own!

From just the ones I care about

Piece of Mind
Number of the Beast
Seventh Son
Somewhere in Time
Powerslave
Fear of the Dark
Brave New World
Matter of Life and Death

While I've done it several times before, it felt a bit weird ranking the albums this time. In general, I just like them all, and on any given day there's one that I'm bound to enjoy more than others for whatever reason. Looking forward to seeing Maiden live again in June. Their setlist is always a mystery until a given tour starts, which is one of the things I admire most about them. I wish more bands would do the kind of "history" tours that they do, plus actually promoting an album by playing at least half of the songs on it.

1. Killers
2. Number Of The Beast
3. Powerslave
4. Iron Maiden
5. Piece Of Mind
6. Somewhere In Time
7. Brave New World 
8. Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son
9. No Prayer For The Dying
10. Fear Of The Dark
11. The Final Frontier
12. The Book Of Souls
13. A Matter Of Life Or Death
14. Dance of Death
15. The X-Factor
16. Virtual XI

Somewhere in Time
Seventh Son

Then all post-reunion albums I've heard: BNW, TFF and AMLOAD. Equally good, more or less. And Piece of Mind.

Powerslave and Number will be here.

After that, No Prayer and Fear - both have some great songs (Judas Be My Guide for instance), but flooded with other stuff.

Everything else I don't care for. But I tried.

I was losing interest when "Life After Death" came out and "Somewhere In Time" is the last studio release purchased. Seen them a few years back and it was a good show, but I'll stick with the gigs seen from 81 to 83 for my Maiden Memories. They were on fire then and the cream of the drop in metal (IMHDO). Leo gave me a gang of more recent-ish Maiden gigs and they pretty much give me enough exposure to what they are doing now musically. It is too hit n miss for me to even want to buy anything. You still rock Leo

I find both fear and no prayer to be awesome albums. Never undertood why they are so under estimated among fans.

I will say that one thing I find unfortunate about the new releases is that there are hardly any memorable solos post-Brave New World. And that's despite the fact that many of the songs have multiple solos. Anytime I listen to one of the last four albums all the way through, I can't remember a single solo by the end of it. I suspect it is due to Kevin Shirley's method of having them do multiple live takes of the solos, and then piecing them together in the studio.

glassprison wrote:

While I've done it several times before, it felt a bit weird ranking the albums this time. In general, I just like them all, and on any given day there's one that I'm bound to enjoy more than others for whatever reason. Looking forward to seeing Maiden live again in June. Their setlist is always a mystery until a given tour starts, which is one of the things I admire most about them. I wish more bands would do the kind of "history" tours that they do, plus actually promoting an album by playing at least half of the songs on it.

That sums it up nicely for me. I've never owned/heard either Blaze albums in full (just a few tunes), so I can't account for those. The other albums just depend on my mood.

Sometimes I wanna hear Paul and the rawness of those albums. Sometimes I want classic Bruce and more recently, I've been appreciating the post-reunion, longer, proggier albums. They all have something that I like.

My rankings change through the years...

1/2 - Tie - Piece of Mind/A Matter of Life and Death
3. Powerslave
4. Book of Souls
5. Brave New World
6. Seventh Son
7. TNOTB
8. Final Frontier
9. Somewhere In Time
10. Dance of Death
11. Iron Maiden
12. Killers
13. Fear of the Dark
14/15 - Tie - No Prayer/The X Factor
16. Virtual XI

1. Killers
2. Number Of The Beast
3. Somewhere In Time
4. Piece Of Mind
5. Powerslave
6. Iron Maiden
7. Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son
8. Fear Of The Dark
9. Brave New World
10. Dance of Death
11. The Book Of Souls
12. A Matter Of Life Or Death
13. No Prayer for the Dying
14. The Final Frontier
15. The X-Factor
16. Virtual XI

1. Piece of Mind [the best album by any band any era]
2. Somewhere in Time / Seventh Son of a Seventh Son
3. Iron Maiden / Killers / Number of the Beast / Powerslave
4. Book of Souls
5. Brave New World / Dance of Death
6. Fear of the Dark / No Prayers for the Dying
7. The X-Factor
8. A Matter Of Life Or Death
9. The Final Frontier / Virtual XI

akeldama wrote:

1. A Matter Of Life And Death
2. The Final Frontier
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I know it all boils down to personal choice, but this!!!!

MoonChild wrote:

akeldama wrote:

1. A Matter Of Life And Death
2. The Final Frontier
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I know it all boils down to personal choice, but this!!!!

Well... Life & Death IS their best album

Book of Souls is pretty good, too. I don't see what's wrong with that ranking. Some people prefer the more proggy and deliberate Maiden to the straight forward 80's stuff. Or it just could be that the old stuff gets, well, old, after awhile. I've been burnt out on Maiden a couple of times, but the new albums they release just keep reeling me back in, they're that exciting and fresh and different.

You're both wrong! Powerslave is their best !

Am I the only one blown away by the high ranking for AMOLAD? I didn't know it was ranked so highly. I like the album and think its #2 in the post glory years albums, but putting it at #1 or #2, I'm shocked.

Powerslave
Piece of Mind
Iron Maiden
The Number of the Beast
Somewhere in Time
The Book of Souls
Brave New World
Seventh Son of a Seventh Son
Dance of Death
Fear of the Dark
The Final Frontier
A Matter of Life and Death
Killers
No Prayer for the Dying
The X Factor
Virtual XI

For some reasons i never really could get into Killers, i liked the first album but somehow the sound and the production don't mix well with Di'Anno's voice and Wrathchild in my oppinion sounds a lot better with Dickinson.

MoonChild wrote:

akeldama wrote:

1. A Matter Of Life And Death
2. The Final Frontier
......................................

I know it all boils down to personal choice, but this!!!!

1. Screaming For Vengeance
2. Painkiller


Is this better?

akeldama wrote:

MoonChild wrote:

akeldama wrote:

1. A Matter Of Life And Death
2. The Final Frontier
......................................

I know it all boils down to personal choice, but this!!!!

1. Screaming For Vengeance
2. Painkiller


Is this better?

YAY hahaha YES!

I love AMOLAD so i'm not surprised someone has it that high.

Never cared for Maiden.
I like a lot of their songs, but never owned a cd by theirs.
I did own three or four videos of concerts and music videos,
A band obviously beloved by the entire world.
I actually own Paul DiAnno CDs.
This poll though has me thinking, it's time !