Iron Maiden

Metal student Number of posts : 112 Age : 32

I'm trying to get into Iron Maiden, and I don't have enough cash to buy
a bunch of CD's but I wanna get something. I know it sounds like a
cop-out, but are there any compilations/best of's worth looking into or
is there one immortal album that pretty much sums the whole band up?

Subject: Re: Iron Maiden Mon Feb 18, 2008 5:13 pm

LIVE AFTER DEATH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Iron Maiden Live-After-Death

The King Number of posts : 23281 Age : 51

I would recommend The Essential Iron Maiden 2 cd set. Its pretty cheap and does a great job covering maidens career. You might be able to find one @ http://www.secondspin.com

Thanks!
Alex

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Metal student Number of posts : 112 Age : 32

Hmm both The Essential Iron Maiden and Live After Death seem interesting. In Live After Death do they do any kind of extended wankery? Extra jams and whatnot?

Subject: Re: Iron Maiden Mon Feb 18, 2008 5:29 pm

Not much, really. It pretty much rocks right through. Great energy and crowd play. I'm NOT of fan of Live albums normally but that's the ONE that got me into Maiden. It's a great sampling of everything up to and including Powerslave.

Metal is in my blood Number of posts : 4238 Age : 49

Also BEST OF THE BEAST is a great double cd best of by IRON MAIDEN and i agree with SCOTTMITCHELL74 about buying LIVE AFTER DEATH.

Metal student Number of posts : 112 Age : 32

Sounds like Megadeth - That One Night (Opinions May Vary) to me. Well the first one I see, I'll probably get, because Iron Maiden's one of those bands I'd like to hear, but wasn't allowed to till now.

Metal is in my blood Number of posts : 3367 Age : 56

I'll second Live After Death. I like live albums for sampling a
new band because they don't become redundant when you get into them and
get all the studio releases.

Plus, that is one of the best live albums ever.

Master Of The Crotch Grab Number of posts : 6841 Age : 50

KILLERS

Metal is my Life Number of posts : 12811 Age : 55

Live After Death is a good way to go.

The Essential Iron Maiden or Best Of The Beast is also a good retrospective, althought Essential is a little heavy on the Blaze years for my tastes.

My personal favorite CD is piece of mind

AMOLAD is also very good

Tough choice - start with Live or Essential

Metal, Movies, Beer Number of posts : 37971 Age : 54

Damien Solta wrote:: Iron Maiden's one of those bands I'd like to hear, but wasn't allowed to till now.

"wasn't allowed to?"

Dare I ask... why? Shocked

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Metal student Number of posts : 112 Age : 32

The PMRC. It's not like Maiden is "bad", but some people had that impression from living in the PMRC era.

Metal, Movies, Beer Number of posts : 37971 Age : 54

Damien Solta wrote:: The PMRC. It's not like Maiden is "bad", but some people had that impression from living in the PMRC era.

??? Your profile sez you're 15... you weren't even BORN in the PMRC era.

By the way, I lived through it. It sucked. Fortunately my parents realized that simply owning a couple of the albums on the PMRC's "Filthy Fifteen" list did not mean that my brother and I were going to grow up to be serial killers. Laughing

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Metal student Number of posts : 112 Age : 32

No... lol. My folks lived threw it, and well they enfoced the same thing on me for a while.

What I'm trying to say is, my parents were kinda like Metal = Satan. So I couldn't listen to any metal, including christian metal. It's taken forever to convince them it's just music.

Metal, Movies, Beer Number of posts : 37971 Age : 54

Damien Solta wrote:: No... lol. My folks lived threw it, and well they enfoced the same thing on me for a while.

Sorry to hear that. Laughing

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Metal student Number of posts : 112 Age : 32

Fat Freddy wrote:

Damien Solta wrote:: No... lol. My folks lived threw it, and well they enfoced the same thing on me for a while.

Sorry to hear that. Laughing

No kidding. But it's all good now. When I got Megadeth's That One Night I knew they had gotten over it.

Metal master Number of posts : 883 Age : 56

exact33 wrote:: I would recommend The Essential Iron Maiden 2 cd set. Its pretty cheap and does a great job covering maidens career. You might be able to find one @ http://www.secondspin.com

Thanks!
Alex

I agree The Essential Iron Maiden is a good all around introduction to Iron Maiden through the years. Iron Maiden has had three vocals and a few different guitarist teams which has, to say the least, provided diversity across the entire catalog.

Master Sailboat Number of posts : 9301 Age : 45

krokus wrote:: Also BEST OF THE BEAST is a great double cd best of by IRON MAIDEN

this would be my pick for a compilation

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Metal is in my blood Number of posts : 2682 Age : 37

Fat Freddy wrote:: Fortunately my parents realized that simply owning a couple of the albums on the PMRC's "Filthy Fifteen" list did not mean that my brother and I were going to grow up to be serial killers.

Yeah you got the Mary Jane Girls and Sheena Easton records on that list didn't you.

Metal is my Life Number of posts : 15680 Age : 51

krokus wrote:: Also BEST OF THE BEAST is a great double cd best of by IRON MAIDEN

That would be my reccomendation.

Dinky Do Number of posts : 4830 Age : 43

Best of the Beast is great.

just buy Piece of Mind every song on that is a greatest hit...

Metal is my Life Number of posts : 15680 Age : 51

MetalRob331 wrote:: Best of the Beast is great.

just buy Piece of Mind every song on that is a greatest hit...

That is an absolute truth!

Baron Von 40oz. Number of posts : 4386 Age : 34

JUST BUY ALL OF THEIR CD'S!! PISS OFF YOUR PARENTS!!

Metal graduate Number of posts : 282 Age : 47

MoonChild wrote:

krokus wrote:: Also BEST OF THE BEAST is a great double cd best of by IRON MAIDEN

That would be my reccomendation.

For me that would definately be the place to start as this includes most of the best songs from everything up to the X-Factor. If cash is tight then your next purchase should be any one or all three of the abums recorded since Bruce came back, thats either Brave New World, Dance of Death or A Matter of Life And Death.