Up the irons

This is a fantastic review. Great closing paragraph.

Haha, thanks guys

Good review. This album and Powerslave are IMO the best Maiden albums.

Hey heres an idea: how about posting a review about an album that isnt almost 30 years old and isnt older than the guy who posted it. please dont put these reviews of very old albums on your news feeds, its not news, no matter how much i do love iron maiden.

^ Someone's a Negative Nelly. I think this is a great review, regardless of the album's release date and reviewer's age.

I was expecting some fanboy writing given the rating, but I was happily disappointed by the time I was finished. Nice review and I agree with everything you said about the album. Dickinson is an immensely talented vocalist.

Imo although a very good album it is also overrated. Some great tunes but also a couple of filler tracks. But then again Iron Maiden have never released a totally brilliant album. Every single albums is always marred by fillers.

Written by Wopatoolie on 19.02.2010 at 00:45

Hey heres an idea: how about posting a review about an album that isnt almost 30 years old and isnt older than the guy who posted it. please dont put these reviews of very old albums on your news feeds, its not news, no matter how much i do love iron maiden.

Hey, here's an idea: Quit being a dick. The album's age has nothing to do with the quality of this review. Way to come off as a twat with your first post on this site. :l

...if only Maiden could release something good again...
R.I.P. Eddie

Good review - and this is obviously a classic album, from perhaps the ultimate traditional Heavy Metal band. Good that you mentioned the 'lyrical concepts' too, as Maiden have often written about interesting, varied topics, inspired by literature, historical events and such.

continuing with lyrical themes... "The Prisoner" ... that was a trippy ass show. never saw the original, but they recently did a remake with Ian McKellen (2), and Jim Caviezel as six/the prisoner. the show made little sense at all at times, but after watching it, the song made more sense... and i gained an additional appreciation for it.

Thanks for the feedback guys. I really apreciate it.

@Marcel: I do kind of agree with it being overated, but I feel that there isn't any filler, really. Even Total Eclipse, a not so mentioned song, has alot of good qualities. The album deserves it's hype in alot of ways. imo most of what makes it overated is that everyone and their grandma has it.

Written by Arian Totalis on 19.02.2010 at 09:14

Thanks for the feedback guys. I really apreciate it.

@Marcel: I do kind of agree with it being overated, but I feel that there isn't any filler, really. Even Total Eclipse, a not so mentioned song, has alot of good qualities. The album deserves it's hype in alot of ways. imo most of what makes it overated is that everyone and their grandma has it.

Total Eclipse isn't on the original release though. It was only added in the age of cd's
Gangland I find a filler of the highest order. Same could be said for Ivaders and Run To The Hills imo.

Nice review, agree with everything you said bout this album

Written by Marcel Hubregtse on 19.02.2010 at 15:41

Written by Arian Totalis on 19.02.2010 at 09:14

Thanks for the feedback guys. I really apreciate it.

@Marcel: I do kind of agree with it being overated, but I feel that there isn't any filler, really. Even Total Eclipse, a not so mentioned song, has alot of good qualities. The album deserves it's hype in alot of ways. imo most of what makes it overated is that everyone and their grandma has it.

Total Eclipse isn't on the original release though. It was only added in the age of cd's
Gangland I find a filler of the highest order. Same could be said for Ivaders and Run To The Hills imo.

I agree. I was going to say the same. I actually don't find Total Eclipse a filler at all. I'm also not sure about Run to the Hills being a filler though... I would think that it was put on the album for for single purposes, not filler purposes.

Imo even gangland is a good song. I guess it doesn't stand up to the rest of the album that well, so in that sense I guess it could be called filler. And invaders imo is perfectly placed in the album. It's a great opener.

Written by BitterCOld on 19.02.2010 at 07:30

continuing with lyrical themes... "The Prisoner" ... that was a trippy ass show. never saw the original, but they recently did a remake with Ian McKellen (2), and Jim Caviezel as six/the prisoner. the show made little sense at all at times, but after watching it, the song made more sense... and i gained an additional appreciation for it.

I haven't seen the remake yet, but the original series of The Prisoner, from the 1960's, is brilliant! I own all the episodes on video and DVD and loved it since I was a kid. Of course, that's where the sample of dialogue in the introduction to Maiden's song is taken from. It's a timeless drama about what it means to be an individual, the meaning of identity and such, and is fantastically surreal!

The late, great Patrick McGoohan played the main character, and wrote most of the episodes, and when Maiden phoned him for permission to use a sample from the programme in the song, they were nervous as McGoohan had a reputation for being a rather intense fellow. Apparently McGoohan said "what's the name of the band? Iron Maiden? A rock band? Do it!" and that was it!

Run To The Hills being a "filler"...i must be seriously misunderstanding the meaning of this word...

Written by Marcel Hubregtse on 19.02.2010 at 15:41

Written by Arian Totalis on 19.02.2010 at 09:14

Thanks for the feedback guys. I really apreciate it.

@Marcel: I do kind of agree with it being overated, but I feel that there isn't any filler, really. Even Total Eclipse, a not so mentioned song, has alot of good qualities. The album deserves it's hype in alot of ways. imo most of what makes it overated is that everyone and their grandma has it.

Total Eclipse isn't on the original release though. It was only added in the age of cd's
Gangland I find a filler of the highest order. Same could be said for Ivaders and Run To The Hills imo.

I agree 'bout Gangland being a filler, but I certainly disagree 'bout the latter two.

I don't see why people constantly refer to low quality Maiden songs as fillar. A filler song is a song written purley to take up space on the album, and has nothing to do with the song quality. Paranoid is a filler song, yet it is widely regarded as a metal classic. We can't know if Gangland, and other poor quality Maiden tunes are actually filler or just bad songs. It just seems like people don't want to admit that early Iron Maiden did have a fair amount of low quality songs, although much more brilliant songs.

Oh yeah, and this album. Above average for metal standards, below average for Maiden standards. The title track and Run To The Hills are among the most overrated metal tunes out there-good songs, but nothing that special, aside from Bruce's scream in the title track. The Prisoner, Total Eclipse, Children Of The Damned, and Twenty-Two Acacia Avenue are all great songs, but not quite as good as the best songs off of later 80's Maiden albums. Invaders in just kind of there, not doing any harm, but not adding anything, while Gangland does do some harm. Hallowed Be Thy Name does deserve all the praise heaped upon it; it really is one of metal's all time greatest songs.

Written by Troy Killjoy on 19.02.2010 at 00:54

^ Someone's a Negative Nelly.

It's Negative Nancy, for the record.

Written by [user id=111774] on 24.07.2011 at 08:58

I don't see why people constantly refer to low quality Maiden songs as fillar. A filler song is a song written purley to take up space on the album, and has nothing to do with the song quality. Paranoid is a filler song, yet it is widely regarded as a metal classic. We can't know if Gangland, and other poor quality Maiden tunes are actually filler or just bad songs. It just seems like people don't want to admit that early Iron Maiden did have a fair amount of low quality songs, although much more brilliant songs.

Well i'm not even saying gangland and total eclipse are low quality song, I do like them. THey just kind of feel weak when compared to the rest of the album...and also I guess my definition of 'filler' was a lil bit wrong...

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[i]British Steel[i] can someone fix that in lyric