Saw Keith’s post about Maiden …. Didn’t want that thread to go into the ditch….. so I’ll start this one in the ditch for you……. Maiden is my favorite band

Favorite Maiden album. ??

Mine is Book of Souls

Up the Irons

I always listened to Metallica

Solid choice— Like Megadeth too….. probably just as much as Metallica

Seventh Son of a Seventh Son

Another great one Dewey !! Good choice

Powerslave

Good one Yote!!

Saw Iron Maiden on my 16th birthday back in 1984 in cedar rapids Iowa. Run to the hills was awsome in concert . Wasnt Eddie the name of there huge stage prop behind the drums?

Yes Eddie is the Mascot. On all the album covers.

In 1984, my friend Kevin Slack gave me a bootleg copy of Iron Maiden playing Cincinnati Gardens on May 23rd, 1982, he made. He was worried about being arrested for making it and giving me a copy. I literally wore that tape out. The sound quality was pretty awful, but because of the memories is still my favorite. I was distraught when the tape broke beyond repair after fixing it a few times.

Keith

Not a bad song Donnie…… but what’s your favorite album. ??

Somewhere in Time is a good one too…. Listening to it now…….

Keith maybe pick up Live After Death…….may be there best live album goes back a long tim ago now

Man, definitely one of my top 3 bands! I’ve seen them a few times and always a great show!

Favorite albums - Number of the Beast and Piece of Mind

Favorite song - Wasted Years

I bought "Live After Death" way back in the eighties. I think I have 14 Iron Maiden albums. I don't have anything after "Fear of the Dark".

Keith

Ah yes ......wasted years

I have a whole collection of Eddie posters from when I was high school in early 80s.
Listened to a lot of maiden.
Jim

I love the "Wasted Years". Here's a very good cover of it, I have posted here before.


2 friends of mine, who are brothers, were in an Iron Maiden cover band for many years. The younger brother Greg, just had his first child last week.

Keith

Saw them two years ago in Greensboro. Phenomenal show. light show and stage props were fantastic. The crowd really got into it on Run to the Hills and The Trooper.

Lots of people don't understand most of their songs are history stories.

Very cool guys …..

Keith go grab Book of Souls

I remember I gave Greg his pickup line, back when he was single. I told him when he was talking to a woman about what he did for a living, say "You know how people say it's not rocket science, for me it is, I work for NASA.". Hanging out with him and his brother, is in good part how I ended up with Diane. Their mother is one of Diane's best friends.

Keith

Album- The Number of the Beast. One of metals best song and one of my all time favorites- Hallowed Be Thy Name

Both solid choices Oak. !!

Maiden was the first real concert I ever attended. Saw them in Cedar Rapids, IA on the Seventh Son tour. Megadeth opened. Still one of the best shows I've ever seen. My favorite album is A Matter Of Life And Death., followed closely by Seventh Son Of a Seventh Son and Book of Souls.

I was late to the Iron Maiden game. Brave New World was their first album I bought. Nomad is my favorite track.

Start back peddling on them Snowy….. won’t find a bad one……just some that are better than others

I'm a heavy metal country boy, doing country things to a heavy metal soundtrack. I am usually listening to Iced Earth while running my traps.

Piece of mind…revelations is my favorite track on it
Ryme of the ancient mariner is probably my favorite song… I had no idea that it was originally a poem written a very long time ago.
Writing on the wall is another great one… the video is pretty weird.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge's poem "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" is my favorite poem because of Iron Maiden. Like the song it is very long, but I can recite most of it by memory.

That, "Revelations" and "The Evil That Men Do" are Iron Maidens most poetic songs.

I love the lines:

"She came to me with a serpent's kiss,
As the Eye of the Sun rose on her lips.
Moonlight catches silver tears I cry.
So we lay in a black embrace,
And the Seed is sown in a holy place,
And I watched and I waited for the Dawn."

and

"Love is a razor and I walked the line
On that silver blade
Slept in the dust with his daughter
Her eyes red with the slaughter of innocence

And I will pray for her
I will call her name out loud
I would bleed for her
If I could only see her now"

Keith

I bet you like Alexander the Great — off Somewhere in Time…… great tune

That was my first introduction to Maiden. Epic song. I used it in a high school presentation for history class.

Saw them in the early 80s. They opened up for Judas Priest. Good show.

Good call on the Piece of Mind album Fox !! Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner…… I appreciate the storyline to it but man,, after you know 15 minutes or so my interest starts to wain a little bit !! lol

Dan — Priest and Maiden had to be a great show!!

I love the guitar work on “stranger in a strange land and “ flight of Icarus “
Seventh son “ and mother Russia “ have cinematic elements about them.
My buddy who recently passed, and myself,, would have a freindly back and forth between who was the better band,,, maiden or ac/dc.
He was huge on ac/dc .
I was a maiden fanatic