Let's rank Iron Maiden, #10

1. Powerslave (1984) 25% votes
2. Killers (1981) 20% votes
3. The Number of the Beast (1982) 39% votes
4. Iron Maiden (1980) 32% votes
5. Piece of Mind (1983) 44% votes
6. Somewhere in Time (1986) 53% votes
7. Seventh Son of a Seventh Son (1988) 54% votes
8. Brave New World (2000) 31% votes
9. Fear of the Dark (1992) 43%

Fear of the Dark takes 9th place despite including two of the worst ever Iron Maiden songs (The Apparition and Fear Is the Key).

There's room for one more in the top 10. Pick your favourite.

No Prayer For The Dying.

Mother Russia is such a classic song. I always wondered why they barely played it live.

Gilbert wrote:

No Prayer For The Dying.

Mother Russia is such a classic song. I always wondered why they barely played it live.

No Prayer for the Dying is very underrated imo.

I really don't care for any of the ones that are left, so I voted for Book of Souis. All of them are pretty bland and uninspired to me.

My top 10 is: #1 s/t, #2 Number of the Beast, #3 Powerslave, #4 Somewhere In Time #5 Piece of Mind #6 Killers #7 Seventh Son of A Seventh Son #8 Brave New World #9 is "A Matter of Life and Death" #10 Fear of the Dark

I'm going to go with "A Matter of Life and Death" once again.

No Prayer For The Dying now

AMOLAD is top five Maiden album for me, maybe top three on the right day.

I’m starting to think that AMOLAD finding a rank soon is actually becoming a matter of life and death.

I may need to give it a fresh listen because when I owned the thing as a new release, I thought it was another bloated post reunion snooze fest.

That's my issue with all the post reunion albums. They're not bad albums by any stretch but most are rather bloated, especially the Book Of Souls.

Yeah, but No Prayer, for instance, IS a bad album. The Assassin, Hooks in You, Public Enema... bleh. Even the single, Bring Your Daughter, sucks. 

By far worse than anything they did post-reunion. Virtual XI is the only one that competes with No Prayer in suckiness.

Book Of Souls gets my vote.

For a tie breaker vote, I'd change mine to Fear of the Dark between that and AMOLAD. Book of souls is still my choice on this poll.

Lari wrote:

Yeah, but No Prayer, for instance, IS a bad album. The Assassin, Hooks in You, Public Enema... bleh. Even the single, Bring Your Daughter, sucks. 

By far worse than anything they did post-reunion. Virtual XI is the only one that competes with No Prayer in suckiness.

I disagree. Sure it’s not a perfect album, but it’s hella melodic and I like the lighthearted approach with the lyrics compared to some of the novelette story stuff. I think they had a nice early Def Leppard heavy rock thing going for No Prayer. Less metal, but still cool imo.

Lari wrote:

Virtual XI is the only one that competes with No Prayer in suckiness.

Factually and objectively wrong statement. Wrong both logically and morally. Only Satan has opinions like that, so...

Oof. No Prayer vs. AMOLAD?

Gonna go with AMOLAD on this one, only cuz I saw them perform that one live in its entirety, which was pretty badass. Tho honestly I don't listen to either album very much anymore.