An overrated band. Always.

Written by Dr. Strawberry on 26.05.2014 at 14:32

An overrated band. Always.

maybe best Overrated band ever

Intense opening with Aces High and 2 Minutes to Midnight and probably the best ending on a Maiden album with Powerslave and RIme of the Ancient Mariner. So far so good. It's the middle songs that don't live up to the hype. People seem to love Flash of the Blade, sure it got a cool intro, but the lyrics are lame written and both the verses and chorus is extremly annoying. The Duallist also suffer from a bad chorus. Losfers Words and Back In The Village are though both pretty rocking tracks, Back in the Village has a mean main riff. So all in all a very good album but no masterpiece.

Written by [user id=159927] on 21.08.2016 at 22:29

I think number of the beast is overrated and this album crushed it. fight me, those who disagree.

Written by [user id=159927] on 23.08.2016 at 03:30

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Anyway, The Number of the Beast is the more consistent (and consistently great) album. Powerslave has an excellent one-two punch opening and closes with 20 amazing minutes, but that leaves four weaker songs. Of course, "weak" is a relative term when it comes to Maiden's '80s work, but "The Duellists" is filler (though with a great instumental section) and "Back in the Village" is quite possibly Maiden's worst song of that decade.

For me, nothing beats "Rime of the Ancient Mariner". I usually listen to Iron Maiden in my car. I often play this song from "Powerslave", and play it again from "Live After Death". That live version is even better than the studio version. The mere fact that I can listen to a 13-minute song twice in a row says a lot about how much I like it I guess. I've known this song for 30 years and still listen to it on a regular basis.

Written by [user id=159927] on 24.08.2016 at 02:08

anyways, you actually have made some great points, but Powerslave has a lot of Maiden songs that are personal and are personal favorites to me. The first 2 tracks and the title track just hit me so hard when i first heard them. It is not the same now, but Powerslave is MY Personal favorite.

Yeah, I get it. I feel the same way about Seventh Son of a Seventh Son as you do about Powerslave. At the end of the day, when discussing Maiden's albums of the '80s it's important to remember one thing: they're all great.

It's the best from the first five albums. While it sounds a lot like PoM, IMO song writing is better here. Highlights: Aces High, Duellist, Powerslave and some parts of Mariner.

Indeed tracks 5 and 6 are weak in comparison to the opening and closers. I still think Number of the beast is their best and felt the sound here was a bit cheerful and ecstatic when the aforesaid album had enough darkness for a heavy metal record.

Starts and ends well, but the 4 songs in the middle are nothing really interesting... The 2 following albums are waaaay better!

Maiden shows how talented they are in progressive territory.

I've just been revisiting the whole Maiden discography and I think this album is one of their most overrated. I think the bookends are the strongest parts overall and the middle section drags quite a bit. Aces High is fantastic along with the title track and Rime of the Ancient Mariner of course, though I always thought 2 Minutes to Midnight was severely overhyped and while it's not a bad song, it just sounded a bit run-of-the-mill for me. Tracks 3-6 range from good (Flash of the Blade) to generic (Losfer Words, The Duelists) to bad (Back in the Village). The chorus for Back in the Village is rather atrocious in my opinion and I consider it to be the weakest song they've ever put out in the classic 80s era. If it wasn't for Aces High, Powerslave and RotAM, this album would probably be ranked lower in my mind.

Written by CobiWan1993 on 23.09.2021 at 07:24

I've just been revisiting the whole Maiden discography and I think this album is one of their most overrated. I think the bookends are the strongest parts overall and the middle section drags quite a bit. Aces High is fantastic along with the title track and Rime of the Ancient Mariner of course, though I always thought 2 Minutes to Midnight was severely overhyped and while it's not a bad song, it just sounded a bit run-of-the-mill for me. Tracks 3-6 range from good (Flash of the Blade) to generic (Losfer Words, The Duelists) to bad (Back in the Village). The chorus for Back in the Village is rather atrocious in my opinion and I consider it to be the weakest song they've ever put out in the classic 80s era. If it wasn't for Aces High, Powerslave and RotAM, this album would probably be ranked lower in my mind.

While the highlights are definitely the first two and last two songs, I wouldn't call The Duellists generic! It has one of the greatest guitar solos of all time - Sooo melodic!

Definitely up their with the greatest work of the band. It might actually be their best record. Some people say that the middle four tracks aren't good. They are! Just not as strong as the first two and last two. Still the middle four tracks may be better than any of the songs on Somewhere in Time (which isn't necessarily saying much though). Aces High, 2 Minutes to Midnight, Powerslave and Rime of the Ancient Mariner are all among Iron Maiden's best songs.

Written by Vinther1991 on 22.04.2022 at 22:49

Still the middle four tracks may be better than any of the songs on Somewhere in Time

Well that is of course not true, since the middle four tracks include Back in the Village. The other three tracks are really great, yeah, though also not better than the classic tracks from SIT, if you ask me.

Written by Redel on 22.04.2022 at 23:31

Well that is of course not true, since the middle four tracks include Back in the Village. The other three tracks are really great, yeah, though also not better than the classic tracks from SIT, if you ask me.

Back in the Village is great, it is a riff-fest!! I think the two weakest songs are Losfer Words and Flash of the Blade. I will give you Wasted Years is probably stronger than those.

Written by Vinther1991 on 23.04.2022 at 00:32

Back in the Village is great, it is a riff-fest!! I think the two weakest songs are Losfer Words and Flash of the Blade. I will give you Wasted Years is probably stronger than those.

Interesting view, to everyone their own I guess.

Will be most people's best or second best album. Easier and quicker to talk about the weakness- back in the village. Nothing new or creative about the song, just a normal metal song. Powerslave is not that interesting either That's it.

The good - The 2 outstanding songs here are pretty much signature and will make it into everyone's top 5 list for IM. Rime of the ancient mariner is an epic conclusion to an epic album, includes everything, fast playing, ballards, slow parts. Very interesting song. Duelists and flash of the blade are very solid Iron Maiden, not outstanding, but still good listening. Losfer Words is a good run into flash of the blade, and their first instrumental.

You can see them really trying to push the boundaries with this album, do something different and creative. The only point where they fail is where they try to play it safe.

The second best Maiden album after SSOASS IMO. It was my favourite for a long time, but the latter has grown on me more over the years.

9.5/10 leaning towards a 10 for me - the first and last 2 tracks are the strongest ('Rime Of The Ancient Mariner' is a favourite of mine). 'Back In The Village' is probably the weakest song.