Iron Maiden..

[neatbik]

Ive been into Metal now for longer than i can remember. Metallica got me into it, aswell as Guns and roses.
But for some reason or another i never ever listened to any Iron Maiden. A mate lent me 'The best of the beast' album last week, and i cant stop listening to it! Why the fluck did i wait till now to discover them?? Totally awesome!!

[thx1138]

Yeah, I kinda like them too.

https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v616/THXII38/tatcamera.jpg

^ me ^

[trevoriv]

Is that tat finished, looks like it needs more going on cool though,

not a massive fan myself, more modern metal for me but I saw them at download last year and they were pretty good.
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Iron Maiden are far better than any of the modern stuff. Far better.

Awsome tat by the way...
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[Phil_G]

[yambabe]

Probably because they started gigging well before you were born?

So shall we do the old old argument, who is the best Maiden singer?

Technically Bruce but I prefer the Dianno stuff cos I always thought Bruce was just playing at being a singer in a band, it was never really part of him like it was for the rest of them.

But I am old, and smell of wee, and first saw Maiden in 1979 so my opinion probbaly doesn't count!
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[mistergixer]

I once had to fence against Bruce Dickinson in a tournament, only he didn't show up.
That is all.
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[hellkat]

How mad is this :
I am not sure I even know one Iron Maiden song.
I like head-banging, and I have no doubt there is Iron Maiden stuff which I know, but I just don't know its them.

Obviously I'm not an aficionado
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I'm better at fencing than Bruce Dickinson.
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[Tricolor Fan]

I grew up with Maiden being played by my older brothers, I like 'em. Alas, I don't play them much anymore, I'm more into newer metal - Killswitch is playing as we speak. Jesse or Howard...

I've lost track of maiden singers...

Bruce is bit like a kid who can't decide if he wants to be a rock star or a pilot (he is a commercial pilot BTW!)
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[kitty kat]

OMG I feel so old

I was into Maiden in my youth (about 28 years ago), when I used to go to the Floral Hall in Southport & Maxim's in Wigan for rock nights every week.
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[Bendy]

[thegubner]

Best of the beast is a fantastic album.


Fear of the dark FTW.

[virus]

i dont know whether to slap you for your years of ignorance or lend you edward the great


maiden are awesome, just dont listen to the trooper whilst blasting along b roads at 75, its not good for your life expectancy.
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[neatbik]

Its not really that they started up before i was born, ive been into Black Sabbath, Hendrix, even really old blues stuff like Robert Johnson for a long time now, i just never listened to any of there stuff
Babyam, interestingly the year you first saw 'Maiden was the year i went from being a twinkle in someones eye to a living breathing screaming shit machine - you can keep your korns, linkin park and good charlottes, its the old stuff where its at

[MarJay]

Its nice to hear some of the people who go "Yeah, of course Maiden are great - Edward The Great/The Best Of The Beast are great albums!"

Its amusing as they are both effectively greatest hits compilations!

The best album for me is probably Powerslave, followed closely by The Number Of The Beast, and then possibly Killers or Iron Maiden.

As for singer, I would probably describe myself as more of a Bruce Dickinson fan than a Maiden fan (although I detest the term 'fan'). I like the Paul DiAnnio stuff, but I can't help but think it might sound better with Bruce singing. I've got a bootleg MP3 of Bruce singing the song 'killers' and the screaming bits sound sooo much better when Bruce does it.

Someone mentioned Fear Of The Dark. A pretty awful album as Maiden albums go, and the studio version of the song itself isn't very good. It really comes alive when sung live of course, much like many of the more 'mediocre' maiden stuff.

The tracks that I listen to the least when listening to the studio albums are actually the ones I enjoy the most when seeing them live. For example, Can I Play With Madness? And I just can't get on with Run To The Hills. Sounds a bit too comedy for my liking I think.

If you're new to Maiden, and don't want to buy the whole shebang, I would suggest buying The Number Of The Beast, Iron Maiden and Brave New World albums. That covers all of the stuff that I think is good. You've got some early stuff, some early Bruce stuff, and some of the best 'Bruce returns' stuff.

I don't own any of the Blaze Bayley stuff, and I don't think I want to. But If I was advising someone who was getting into maiden, I'd probably suggest not buying Fear Of The Dark or No Prayer For The Dying. They are the weakest albums IMO, and only contain one or two tracks each. The rest of the tracks are some what of a acquired taste!
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[hellkat]

Alright, possibly I know Run to the Hills
But I didnt know that was whose song it was.

Thanks for those links, Phil, I shall go and listen to them later on, and improve my seriously-lacking musical knowledge. I'm so ignorant of these things, its incomprehensible to imagine such a scenario. People are always shocked when I have no idea who sings what songs, me being so old and ev'ting

I'm sure the No. 1 Chaperone said once that he was mates with one of them, but I can't remember whether it was one of them, or Motorhead (no, possibly not, actually: that was someone else I know who is old mates with Lemmy) ... shows how unimpressed/ignorant of such things I can be
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[thegubner]

Personally Marjay I think if you like iron maiden you like iron maiden, liking the best of stuff doesn't mean you like them less, after all its them that sang the best of stuff.

More of a doors man myself anyway.

Jim Morrison was the dogs danglies of a singer.

[hellkat]

[Bendy]

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The new Maiden 'best of' is out next month btw.

https://www.ironmaiden.com/images/news/webversion.jpg

And tickets are still available for their only UK gig this year @ Twickenham Stadium. With a giant pyramid, walking cyborg and shitloads of pyro (the full show didn't fit in the plane for the first leg, but we'll be getting the whole shebang )

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[Phil_G]

[MarJay]