Iron Maiden POX

In any case.....

1. "Two Minutes to Midnight"
2. "Sanctuary" (live version on Live After Death)
3. "Die with Your Boots On"
4. "Running Free" (live version on Maiden Japan)
5. "Wrathchild"
6. "Number of the Beast"
7. "Run to the Hills"
8. "Wasted Years"
9. "Prowler"
10. "Iron Maiden"

The Wicker Man (New, but stands up alongside ANY of their songs. It's the one with the chorus "Your time will come"
The Number Of The Beast
Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Run To the Hills
Can I Play With Madness
Wasted Years

I feel pretty confident in this list, in fact I may even burn it.

In no real order, 9 more:

Flight of Icarus
Invaders
Aces High
Murders In the Rue Morgue (This is totally great r'n'r. No love at all?)
Number of the Beast
Where Eagles Dare
The Prisoner
Sanctuary
Fear of the Dark (Is this a controversial pick? The melody is really pretty.)

Best. One-liner. Evah.

Meanwhile:

1. The Trooper
2. The Number of the Beast
3. Back in the Village
4. Powerslave
5. Where Eagles Dare
6. Murders in the Rue Morgue
7. Flash of the Blade
8. Two Minutes to Midnight
9. Can I Play With Madness
10. Run to the Hills.

It feels lame to admit this, but I've only recently "discovered" Maiden, having picked up Number of the Beast and Piece of Mind used on vinyl... HOW DID I LIVE SO LONG without these records?! Why did I think they were somehow more commercial or arena-rock-y before now? Will the used LP gods smile upon me soon with copies of Killers, Powerslave, etc?

I don't know, I'm impressed that you even came across the ones you did. I NEVER see used Maiden vinyl, at least not for reasonable prices. A ridiculously overpriced store near me once had a beat to shit copy of Powerslave for like $45 once.

Fuck that... I found Number for $15 and Piece of Mind for $18, and both (especially Piece) play great. What is with people charging outer-space egregious amounts?! Is there actually a sucker out there who'd pay $45 for a beat-up Powerslave? It's not as if it was a limited pressing of 500 records or something...

Well, it was a local shop that is notorious for that type of thing anyway, so it wasn't a huge surprise.

I come across places like that as well, and I always wonder how they stay in business... It's funny, I've even found what I considered underpriced things before at places like that; it's like they have no nuance in their pricing structure, or no basis in reality.

It seems to have come out that the dude in this particular case is independently wealthy and just wants to run a record store, he couldn't give a shit if he ever sells his stock. Which, he rarely does, because last time I poked my head in for a chuckle, there was a lot of the exact same copies of albums that had been there three years prior. I mean, he is one of those dudes that still sells those dodgy CDR bootlegs of old Neil Young shows for $75 a pop and slaps label's on everything that read, "FLEETWOOD MAC!!! RUMOURS!!!! ORIGINAL PRESSING!!!!! RARE!!!! $38!!!"

I found POWERSLAVE today on vinyl! It's just... incredible. If I had discovered these guys at a more tender time, I may well have become a full-on metalhead at a very early age.

Posts like that make me happy.

I'm glad, Siegbran! You know what made me happy? Finding the following last night at the WFMU record fair in great shape at very good prices:

KILLERS
SOMEWHERE IN TIME
MAIDEN JAPAN

Along with Sabbath's Sabotage (thereby completing my collection of studio LPs) and Eno's Before and After Science. Maiden are seriously rapidly becoming one of my favorite bands. I mean, I discover so much music I really like on a very regular basis, but little has given me that "WHOA!!!" feeling the way early '80s Maiden has recently. It's like when I discovered the Comsat Angels, the Sound, etc, all around the same time--finding this sound and vibe that I always kind of hoped existed but never knew did.

Killers is so great.

Love all the albums up through Powerslave, then like the next couple with Dickinson. Folks always assume I like Maiden ironically, because I'm not a metalhead, but MAN I love nearly everything about this band.

xpost Yeah I wish I'd heard "Killers" before I'd picked those X

Never heard Maiden compared to Comsat Angels or The Sound before :-)

I'm glad a few folks mentioned "Revelations"! This helped me put together a mix of 30 songs for my cousin to get him up to speed in case we go to their show this summer. Pre-sale tomorrow I believe. I heard they're gonna do Seventh Son, not my favorite, but as long as they throw in a few older ones...

Hails!

hi so i'm new to iron maiden. i know...

i have been listening to one (1) iron maiden track that i put on a playlist for several months now, and i swear every time i hear it it gets better. that track is "the trooper". so if i want to listen to more awesome iron maiden on that level, in a bite-sized kind of way, do i just go to the album from which said track originates? or should i listen to a grab bag of, say, five other tracks instead, spread across their 80s heyday?

me too kinda, these are the ones i keep going back to over the last year

hallowed be thy name (was addicted to this one prob in a similar way you are to the trooper)
iron maiden
purgatory
aces high
powerslave
rime of the mariner

Just listen to their classic run: The Number of the Beast, Piece of Mind, and Powerslave. You'll get everything you need and some very pleasant surprises.

👍👍

yeah unperson otm

given the song/s you are digging, you’ll enjoy that first run of 3 Dickinson albums

def go back & listen to the first two albums when you’re done, D’ianno appreciation is kinda important, at the very least for comparison’s sake

and then just work your way through the catalog!!
fun and mayhem await!!

Listen to Powerslave, then Powerslave and Powerslave

lol also correct

I'd definitely extend the classic run with Killers and Caught Up Somewhere in Time. And Brave New World because that's when I realized I would listen to music for the rest of my life.

Wrathchild
Killers
Hallowed be thy name
The Trooper
Aces High
Powerslave
Wasted Years
Infinite Dreams
The Wicker Man
Brave New World

Hallowed be thy name from Live After Death album, utlimate in goosebumps

the first four tracks of piece of mind came on during the last stretch of my run. jesus... SO GOOD!!! where have they been all my life! this is the band i've been looking for and i didn't even know it.

Live After Death is the greatest. Sometimes, it's all I need. But basically what everyone said. I'd happily take everything up to and including Seventh Son.

The run on Live After Death from Rime of the Ancient Mariner to Hallowed Be Thy Name = God Tier.

Picking up a cassette of Seventh Son at age 13 was a life changing moment.

haha. i feel like i'm having a life changing moment at 42!

The last time I saw them live (or maybe the time before that, I forget — five shows between 2003 and 2010) they played "Rime..." and I about shit myself.

I got into Maiden through Number of the Beast and Piece of Mind, which were then their latest, and then retroactively got into the two Paul Di'Anno albums. Strangely I remember being disappointed with Powerslave when it came out, though its reputation now is such that I'm willing to admit that I missed something about it. But I saw them on the Powerslave tour (Feb 15, 1985 at the Hollywood Sportatorium in Florida, opening act Twisted Sister; very memorable). I remember being impressed by Live After Death the one time I heard it - not surprised it's become a fan favorite.

I retroactively got into the Di'Anno albums as well, and I immediately loved Killers, much much more so than the debut.

I'll even rep for No Prayer For The Dying & Fear Of The Dark - solid albums despite a few clunkers.

I read a few pages of Bruce Dickinson's first novel once, that was all I could take though. Haven't attempted Di'Anno's autobiography!

regularly playing piece of mind and powerslave on runs.

favorites so far:

losfer words (the mid section of this is god tier. dave murray rules.)
where eagles dare
flight of icarus
sun and steel (this one got stuck in my head)
the trooper (of course)
aces high
2 minutes to midnight
revelations

still kind of absorbing powerslave (the song) and rime, i like em a lot though

overall i think i prefer pieces but powerslave has some amazing highs. number of the beast is probably next for me.

Side one of Piece of Mind is Maiden at their finest, imo.

Rime is dope fyi … idk if this corny advice but read the poem & then circle back
it’s all there!

my personal fave

fully on board with rime now. am i imagining this or do the chords that start at 4:13 mirror that middle section in "losfer words"? maybe not exactly but they're similar. that solo in the middle of "losfer words" by the way still knocks my socks off. the tension of the riff with the lead guitar is just *chef's kiss*.

when bruce goes high + reverb at 8:45 in rime ("then down it falls comes the raaaaaaaaaaa"), big grin every time. and the solo after that is a real beaut.

powerslave overall has really grown on me. deep cut i adore now is "back in the village," just rips front to back, somehow kind of related in vibe to "the boys are back in town" imo. just a feeling.

The setlist for the 50th anniversary tour is epic, to say the least.

https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/iron-maiden/2025/papp-laszlo-sportarena-budapest-hungary-1b53d97c.html

Documentary coming in May:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hx4tJm25kgE

Iron Maiden, possibly even more than Judas Priest, is a band that does not talk out of school, so this is gonna be a 100% on-message documentary... but I'm definitely gonna watch it at some point.

Quite right.

Gotta be honest, seeing Javier Bardem pop up put a huge smile on my face.

Looks nice. It'll be cool to dive into that post-1999 redemption arc that's still happening.