[J.D. DIAMOND] Saturday, April 23, 2011 10:47:56 AM
LOL! Here is a worse one than that Brian, check out this pile of fuck...."I Can't Wait anymore" 1988 Destiny shit album....
You know whats sad? Is that 16 members voted for this shit over your 5 members sticking up for Iron Maiden ...HA! lMFAO!!!!! Dude your Maiden can't beat this shit man! lol!
Now that is some funny Saturday morning shit!! lol!!
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[Brian_Evans] Saturday, April 23, 2011 10:30:18 AM
You've been right all along man, a band that could do a cover like this has to be better than Maiden. They set the standard for classic metal with this one.
I love Cross's version but this ... wow ... the guitar and the harmonies ... geez ... knocks me off my feet.!!!!
16 members says it is better than Maiden,5 members says its not. You do the math...wait.....I'm sorry,this is too difficult for you to do. (lol) Fucking dork lol
Brian_Evans wrote:
That track is not even in Maidens league.
Nostradamus is better than that ..lol
Edited at: Saturday, April 23, 2011 12:45:54 AM
Edited Edited at: Saturday, April 23, 2011 10:39:20 AM
[J.D. DIAMOND] Saturday, April 23, 2011 3:07:42 AM
16 members says it is better than Maiden,5 members says its not. You do the math...wait.....I'm sorry,this is too difficult for you to do. (lol) Fucking dork lol
[Brian_Evans] Saturday, April 23, 2011 12:08:05 AM
That track is not even in Maidens league.
Nostradamus is better than that ..lol
Edited at: Saturday, April 23, 2011 12:45:54 AM
[J.D. DIAMOND] Friday, April 22, 2011 3:28:49 PM
Saxon - Hammer Of The Gods - 2011 Call To Arms
Yes The Final Frontier sucks big balls Rik,its flat and boring to say the least. Lets face it,Saxon nowadays DESTROYS Maiden,and writes better songs for british heavy metal while Maiden is writting long boring flat dull folk/rock.
Edited at: Friday, April 22, 2011 3:30:37 PM
[Rik_] Friday, April 22, 2011 12:48:55 PM
As you say priest & particularly saxon kept it going. All this talk had me playing Final frontier in the car today. I've only played it once before since I bought it, and seeing a we have tickets for the tour this summer I thought i'd give it anoher go but apart from maybe a couple of tracks I cant get into it. too long winded. A bit like the lst one.
Well ya know I don't really think thats the case with Maiden,I mean look at Priest after Turbo the same year as Somewhere In Time 1986...they at least had Ram It Down which was better than 1990's No Prayer album,and of course we have Painkiller 1990 same year as No Prayer...even Jugulator was better than ANYTHING Maiden did in the 1990's. And of course Angel Of Retribution totally smokes anything Maiden has done since Powerslave,thats for sure.
Look at Saxon...thier first 5 studio albums (1979 - 1983) were good (not as good as 80's Maiden though) then from 1984 to 1992 they wrote 6 shit albums in a row. But they snapped out of it starting in 1995 with Dogs Of War and changed thier image to a normal rock/heavy metal band like they should be instead of thier silly 1980's image and the song writting from that album....up to now 2011 Call To Arms the last 8 studio albums Saxon has written has been the best material they have ever done in my opinion(and many others too).
Why can't Maiden do this? Priest and Saxon at least recovered from thier shitty albums but Maiden keeps writting these boring lame dull albums.Brave New World to me is only half good just like Point Of Entry,sure half of it is cool but the other half sucks balls. Dance Of Death I hate the entire album,AMOLAD I do like minus the two shit singles & videos and The Final Frontier is all SHIT.
Steve Harris is the reason Maiden sucks,he is also the reason the old Maiden albums(1980 - 1984) is so good. He just forgot how to write killer albums. Maiden should of returned Eddie back to the streets like he was in Killers,and numberous drawings ect...and harken thier sound back to Piece Of Mind/Number Of The Beast....
Thats what formula they should of gone with because I think it would of sparked the quality of the song writting. This progressive shit like The Final Frontier is so much further progressed than A Matter Of Life And Death its not even funny,its like a "folk/rock album" not a british heavy metal album. Saxon just stays within thier bounderies and uses the same formula and thier fans love them for it.
(Quoting Message by Rik_ from Friday, April 22, 2011 6:33:56 AM)
Rik_ wrote:
Maybe we're just old stick in the muds JD "caught some where in time" !! , but I agree to some extent with what you say, I've not really bought much Metallica since master of puppets and likes Def Leppard appeal to a totally different audience to what they did in their first couple of albums.
Must be hard for likes of maiden & metallica though to follow up early successes and keep it going for years If they don't do something a bit different they get accused of every album being the same like AC/DC or Status Quo, they'll not win many new fans but at least you know what you're getting. I think some bands just get too big if that's possible?
J.D. DIAMOND wrote:
Whatever it may be,Iron Maiden has "SUCKED" for the last 25 years now(1986 Somewhere In Shit album) with only one decent album(2006). The Final Frontier is utterly a gross display of shit,its boring,and spanks of shit song writting.
This band used to crank out cult classics like Where Eagles Dare,Flash Of The Blade,The Prisoner,To tame A Land,Aces High,Wrathchild,Phantom Of The Opera...and then came the Somewhere In Shit album....sure Seventh Son was ok,and then 2006's A Matter Of Life And Death was "ok" but everything else is shit.
After Powerslave and since they wrote the Somewhere In Crap album they have "NEVER RECOVERED". There are a small percentage of fan..(a small) that like the newer Maiden just as much as the old,but not many. Thats like saying there are a small percentage of fans that like the shit Turbo album too. Same thing. Iron Maiden are the 2nd biggest disappointment in metal history with Shitallica at number one.
Rik_ wrote:
Speaking in general, I reckon what sometimes happens is bands develop as musicians from the early days and want to showcase this in their albums. You often hear them saying it in interviews. This seems in many cases, to result in songs becoming technical magnum opuses, or concept albums. Sometimes though it's the rawness of the earlier music which attracted a lot of people to them, many of who are not accomplished musicians ourselves and don't appreciate the "improved" direction of the newer stuff. Probably this is why after a while you get a back to their roots album.
I remember that documentary a few years ago featuring Saxon where Harvey Goldsmith the PR man was trying to basically commercialise the band sound to appeal to a new audience. The band didn't like what he had planned for them and told him it was great to get new fans, but they had fans who'd been following them for nearly 30 years to consider too.
Edited at: Friday, April 22, 2011 3:12:49 AM
Edited at: Friday, April 22, 2011 7:43:52 AM
[J.D. DIAMOND] Friday, April 22, 2011 7:40:15 AM
Well ya know I don't really think thats the case with Maiden,I mean look at Priest after Turbo the same year as Somewhere In Time 1986...they at least had Ram It Down which was better than 1990's No Prayer album,and of course we have Painkiller 1990 same year as No Prayer...even Jugulator was better than ANYTHING Maiden did in the 1990's. And of course Angel Of Retribution totally smokes anything Maiden has done since Powerslave,thats for sure.
Look at Saxon...thier first 5 studio albums (1979 - 1983) were good (not as good as 80's Maiden though) then from 1984 to 1992 they wrote 6 shit albums in a row. But they snapped out of it starting in 1995 with Dogs Of War and changed thier image to a normal rock/heavy metal band like they should be instead of thier silly 1980's image and the song writting from that album....up to now 2011 Call To Arms the last 8 studio albums Saxon has written has been the best material they have ever done in my opinion(and many others too).
Why can't Maiden do this? Priest and Saxon at least recovered from thier shitty albums but Maiden keeps writting these boring lame dull albums.Brave New World to me is only half good just like Point Of Entry,sure half of it is cool but the other half sucks balls. Dance Of Death I hate the entire album,AMOLAD I do like minus the two shit singles & videos and The Final Frontier is all SHIT.
Steve Harris is the reason Maiden sucks,he is also the reason the old Maiden albums(1980 - 1984) is so good. He just forgot how to write killer albums. Maiden should of returned Eddie back to the streets like he was in Killers,and numberous drawings ect...and harken thier sound back to Piece Of Mind/Number Of The Beast....
Thats what formula they should of gone with because I think it would of sparked the quality of the song writting. This progressive shit like The Final Frontier is so much further progressed than A Matter Of Life And Death its not even funny,its like a "folk/rock album" not a british heavy metal album. Saxon just stays within thier bounderies and uses the same formula and thier fans love them for it.
Maybe we're just old stick in the muds JD "caught some where in time" !! , but I agree to some extent with what you say, I've not really bought much Metallica since master of puppets and likes Def Leppard appeal to a totally different audience to what they did in their first couple of albums.
Must be hard for likes of maiden & metallica though to follow up early successes and keep it going for years If they don't do something a bit different they get accused of every album being the same like AC/DC or Status Quo, they'll not win many new fans but at least you know what you're getting. I think some bands just get too big if that's possible?
J.D. DIAMOND wrote:
Whatever it may be,Iron Maiden has "SUCKED" for the last 25 years now(1986 Somewhere In Shit album) with only one decent album(2006). The Final Frontier is utterly a gross display of shit,its boring,and spanks of shit song writting.
This band used to crank out cult classics like Where Eagles Dare,Flash Of The Blade,The Prisoner,To tame A Land,Aces High,Wrathchild,Phantom Of The Opera...and then came the Somewhere In Shit album....sure Seventh Son was ok,and then 2006's A Matter Of Life And Death was "ok" but everything else is shit.
After Powerslave and since they wrote the Somewhere In Crap album they have "NEVER RECOVERED". There are a small percentage of fan..(a small) that like the newer Maiden just as much as the old,but not many. Thats like saying there are a small percentage of fans that like the shit Turbo album too. Same thing. Iron Maiden are the 2nd biggest disappointment in metal history with Shitallica at number one.
Rik_ wrote:
Speaking in general, I reckon what sometimes happens is bands develop as musicians from the early days and want to showcase this in their albums. You often hear them saying it in interviews. This seems in many cases, to result in songs becoming technical magnum opuses, or concept albums. Sometimes though it's the rawness of the earlier music which attracted a lot of people to them, many of who are not accomplished musicians ourselves and don't appreciate the "improved" direction of the newer stuff. Probably this is why after a while you get a back to their roots album.
I remember that documentary a few years ago featuring Saxon where Harvey Goldsmith the PR man was trying to basically commercialise the band sound to appeal to a new audience. The band didn't like what he had planned for them and told him it was great to get new fans, but they had fans who'd been following them for nearly 30 years to consider too.
Edited at: Friday, April 22, 2011 3:12:49 AM
Edited at: Friday, April 22, 2011 7:43:52 AM
[Rik_] Friday, April 22, 2011 6:33:56 AM
Maybe we're just old stick in the muds JD "caught some where in time" !! , but I agree to some extent with what you say, I've not really bought much Metallica since master of puppets and likes Def Leppard appeal to a totally different audience to what they did in their first couple of albums.
Must be hard for likes of maiden & metallica though to follow up early successes and keep it going for years If they don't do something a bit different they get accused of every album being the same like AC/DC or Status Quo, they'll not win many new fans but at least you know what you're getting. I think some bands just get too big if that's possible?
Whatever it may be,Iron Maiden has "SUCKED" for the last 25 years now(1986 Somewhere In Shit album) with only one decent album(2006). The Final Frontier is utterly a gross display of shit,its boring,and spanks of shit song writting.
This band used to crank out cult classics like Where Eagles Dare,Flash Of The Blade,The Prisoner,To tame A Land,Aces High,Wrathchild,Phantom Of The Opera...and then came the Somewhere In Shit album....sure Seventh Son was ok,and then 2006's A Matter Of Life And Death was "ok" but everything else is shit.
After Powerslave and since they wrote the Somewhere In Crap album they have "NEVER RECOVERED". There are a small percentage of fan..(a small) that like the newer Maiden just as much as the old,but not many. Thats like saying there are a small percentage of fans that like the shit Turbo album too. Same thing. Iron Maiden are the 2nd biggest disappointment in metal history with Shitallica at number one.
Rik_ wrote:
Speaking in general, I reckon what sometimes happens is bands develop as musicians from the early days and want to showcase this in their albums. You often hear them saying it in interviews. This seems in many cases, to result in songs becoming technical magnum opuses, or concept albums. Sometimes though it's the rawness of the earlier music which attracted a lot of people to them, many of who are not accomplished musicians ourselves and don't appreciate the "improved" direction of the newer stuff. Probably this is why after a while you get a back to their roots album.
I remember that documentary a few years ago featuring Saxon where Harvey Goldsmith the PR man was trying to basically commercialise the band sound to appeal to a new audience. The band didn't like what he had planned for them and told him it was great to get new fans, but they had fans who'd been following them for nearly 30 years to consider too.
Edited at: Friday, April 22, 2011 3:12:49 AM
[J.D. DIAMOND] Friday, April 22, 2011 5:58:31 AM
Whatever it may be,Iron Maiden has "SUCKED" for the last 25 years now(1986 Somewhere In Shit album) with only one decent album(2006). The Final Frontier is utterly a gross display of shit,its boring,and spanks of shit song writting.
This band used to crank out cult classics like Where Eagles Dare,Flash Of The Blade,The Prisoner,To tame A Land,Aces High,Wrathchild,Phantom Of The Opera...and then came the Somewhere In Shit album....sure Seventh Son was ok,and then 2006's A Matter Of Life And Death was "ok" but everything else is shit.
After Powerslave and since they wrote the Somewhere In Crap album they have "NEVER RECOVERED". There are a small percentage of fan..(a small) that like the newer Maiden just as much as the old,but not many. Thats like saying there are a small percentage of fans that like the shit Turbo album too. Same thing. Iron Maiden are the 2nd biggest disappointment in metal history with Shitallica at number one.
Speaking in general, I reckon what sometimes happens is bands develop as musicians from the early days and want to showcase this in their albums. You often hear them saying it in interviews. This seems in many cases, to result in songs becoming technical magnum opuses, or concept albums. Sometimes though it's the rawness of the earlier music which attracted a lot of people to them, many of who are not accomplished musicians ourselves and don't appreciate the "improved" direction of the newer stuff. Probably this is why after a while you get a back to their roots album.
I remember that documentary a few years ago featuring Saxon where Harvey Goldsmith the PR man was trying to basically commercialise the band sound to appeal to a new audience. The band didn't like what he had planned for them and told him it was great to get new fans, but they had fans who'd been following them for nearly 30 years to consider too.
Edited at: Friday, April 22, 2011 3:12:49 AM
[Rik_] Friday, April 22, 2011 3:11:02 AM
Speaking in general, I reckon what sometimes happens is bands develop as musicians from the early days and want to showcase this in their albums. You often hear them saying it in interviews. This seems in many cases, to result in songs becoming technical magnum opuses, or concept albums. Sometimes though it's the rawness of the earlier music which attracted a lot of people to them, many of who are not accomplished musicians ourselves and don't appreciate the "improved" direction of the newer stuff. Probably this is why after a while you get a back to their roots album.
I remember that documentary a few years ago featuring Saxon where Harvey Goldsmith the PR man was trying to basically commercialise the band sound to appeal to a new audience. The band didn't like what he had planned for them and told him it was great to get new fans, but they had fans who'd been following them for nearly 30 years to consider too.
Edited at: Friday, April 22, 2011 3:12:49 AM
[J.D. DIAMOND] Thursday, April 21, 2011 4:22:56 PM
Yes,Saxon are much better song writters these days than Maiden is. Maiden's albums after Seventh Son are shit besides a few songs and one album I like "A Matter Of Life And Death" besides the 2 shit songs on the album Different World and Benjamin Bragg(yuk) the album's 8 other songs are decent for what Iron maiden is these days but the album is nowhere near Seventh Son...which Seventh Son is nowhere near Powerslave...which is nowhere near Piece Of Mind,Number Of The Beast,Killers or Iron Maiden debut album.
So in general the last 21 years of Maiden is crap,just because I like one album doesn't mean I like post 1988 Iron Maiden. Saxon on the other hand have 8 studio albums in a row that are top notch 1995's Dogs Of War up to thier new album Call To Arms,the band is amazing and keep putting out classic albums with only 1 or sometimes 2 lame songs on an album but they give you 9 or 10 tracks that are totally awsome. Saxon has totally wiped up Maiden these last 16 years but don't get enough credit for it.
Iron Maiden are living off thier early 80's albums,while writting shitty albums and Eddie's marketing,album covers,merchandise ect... Saxon are giving thier fans kick ass british styled heavy metal.
I agree JD about the earlier albums but Saxon have a lot of individual tracks which still go down well at live shows now and are classics. They always seem to have had to work harder to get the recognition they deserve too , which has resulted in them touring extensively playing a lot of smaller venues and has probably helped them keep on improving by staying in touch with the fan base. They are always avilable to talk to fans at gigs and pose for photos etc.
The Iron Maiden brand seemed to take on a life of it's own and sold it's self during the 80s and up to present. Although I like the latest stuff I find it harder to listen to than the earlier work, & it doesn't have the live crowd pleasers in my opinion.
Edited at: Thursday, April 21, 2011 4:39:37 PM
[Rik_] Thursday, April 21, 2011 2:12:21 PM
I agree JD about the earlier albums but Saxon have a lot of individual tracks which still go down well at live shows now and are classics. They always seem to have had to work harder to get the recognition they deserve too , which has resulted in them touring extensively playing a lot of smaller venues and has probably helped them keep on improving by staying in touch with the fan base. They are always avilable to talk to fans at gigs and pose for photos etc.
The Iron Maiden brand seemed to take on a life of it's own and sold it's self during the 80s and up to present. Although I like the latest stuff I find it harder to listen to than the earlier work, & it doesn't have the live crowd pleasers in my opinion.
[J.D. DIAMOND] Thursday, April 21, 2011 12:45:04 PM
With your post, Saxon is up 16 votes to Maiden's 5 votes in this thread,but lets be honest...its because of Saxon's last 16 years and thier last 8 studio albums.
I agree Saxon is better but again its because of the last 16 years(1995 - 2011) because if the thread were about 1980's Maiden vs. 1980's Saxon I'd vote for Iron Maiden hands down,and so would 95% of us all.
Maiden's albums in the 80's were much much better than Saxon's albums in the 80's. But give credit where credit is due...Saxon nowadays is writting better heavy metal/rock material than Iron Maiden is and I think this thread shows it.
Have to say I have seen both bands many times since the 80s, but I prefer Saxon. They don't have the mass appeal of Maiden but this means they tour all the smaller venues on a regular basis which makes for a better atmosphere than these big stadiums in my opinion. As much as I like Iron maiden I find I have to be in the mood to listen to them, particularly the newer stuff which is quite intense, and the tracks are long, whereas I can listen to Saxon most of the time as the music is more accesible.
Edited at: Thursday, April 21, 2011 12:48:26 PM
[Rik_] Thursday, April 21, 2011 12:04:44 PM
Have to say I have seen both bands many times since the 80s, but I prefer Saxon. They don't have the mass appeal of Maiden but this means they tour all the smaller venues on a regular basis which makes for a better atmosphere than these big stadiums in my opinion. As much as I like Iron maiden I find I have to be in the mood to listen to them, particularly the newer stuff which is quite intense, and the tracks are long, whereas I can listen to Saxon most of the time as the music is more accesible.
[GREXUMER] Monday, April 18, 2011 2:02:53 AM
I like both, but obviously I have more time listening to Maiden, than Saxon. However, both are great bands.
[guidogodoy] Wednesday, April 06, 2011 11:37:35 AM
"a funin.' " - You should try to use that phrase more often: "I'ze jest a funin' ya!"
yeah, I am just having fun with you. fun, on the internet. who would have thought?
guidogodoy wrote:
Hey, now. Never once did I say that running wasn't boring. You know that I run just because I have nothing better to do!
Still, bad decision to make a SONG about a boring story made into a boring movie about such a monotonous activity! (Quoting Message by Head banger from Tuesday, April 05, 2011 7:30:56 PM)
Head banger wrote:
you mean running isnt boring? actualy I realy like the album except for that song.
guidogodoy wrote:
Ya know, J.D., while I hate posting anything in this troll's fucking thread, the IM discussion points you raise here are pretty darn accurate. Just coming in from the afternoon run and seeing your comment about "Somewhere in Time" prompted me to pull out the LP itself (shame not to have the art of an LP!). I distinctly remember how sad I was when it came out. While I still think "Caught Somewhere in Time", "Wasted Years" and even "Deja-Vu" are absolute GEMS and, for that reason alone (plus the art...WAY cool to try and find all the hidden messages) the album is priceless, I also temper that comment with how lame and - even worse - PREDICTABLE the rest of the songs were IMO. Worst? The absolutely lame, long and drawn-out "Lonliness of the Long Distance Runner!!" I was bopping around Chicago when this album came out. The three songs I mentioned above really caught my attention but the rest were pretty blah. "Try again," I think, so went for a nice long walk with the cassette in my ears. GAWD, I almost whipped that tape into Lake Michigan just because of that one song! LOL! While I absolutely loved Maiden before it, I really felt like a "Stranger in a Strange Land" (booooring) and far from "Alexander the Great" (pffff...so memorable, I can't even remember the basic chorus).
Funny how I can remember that rainy day back in 1986 when I almost chucked that tape as far as I could even thinking "running must be damn boring!" LOL!
Still think the album is worth it for the three songs I mentioned above, though. Oh yeah, did I mention the great artwork? HAAAAA!
J.D. DIAMOND wrote:
Yes Brian (you fucking dummy .....) Even I admit the first 5 Iron Maiden albums are totally excellent and yes some of them,not all but some of them are better than Saxon's albums. But the point is....Iron Maiden nowadays will never catch Saxon. Saxon is writting thier best material and Maiden are writting thier worst and that is a fact from an overwhelming %percentage of fan's opinions(like probably 95%) you'll have to live with.
Thats why Saxon is up 15 to 4 here. They are voting for the current Saxon,not the sillyish Saxon from the 80's. Its mother fucking "SAD" that a band like Maiden can sell out arenas that Saxon can't yet when asked about comparing albums in quality the same Maiden fans that bought the tickets vote for Saxon? Its sad man.
Iron Maiden are living off thier first 5 studio albums( JUST LIKE SHITALLICA) while Saxon are living off thier current albums which are better than Iron Maiden's last 10 studio albums......"10" albums man....... not 1,2,3,4,5.......10!!!!!
All these people who voted for Saxon are voting for them because of Saxon's last 8 studio LPs dating back 16 years to Dogs Of War. So this shows the last 16 years and counting Saxon totally blows Iron Maiden out of the water.
Now if the thread were Saxon and Iron Maiden showdown just from the 1980's alone I would vote for Iron Maiden hands down,all Iron Maiden albums from the 1980's blows all Saxon albums from the 1980's away. But thats what is sad,this again shows how much better Saxon is now-a-days from a percentage of people's votes.
These people that go to Maiden's concerts that sell out 60,000 thousand fans just to see Maiden on a whopping percentage are not buying the tickets to hear El Dorado or any Maiden album after Seventh Son,they are buying the tickets to hear songs from 1980 debut "Iron maiden" ,Killers,The Number Of The Beast,Piece Of Mind,Powerslave,Somewhere In Time (yuk but fans like it better than thier nu stuff) and Seventh Son albums.
People are tired of getting watered down material from Iron Maiden,even Bruce's last 3 solo albums "Accident Of Birth,The Chemical Wedding and Tyranny Of Souls" blows all modern day Maiden albums out of the water,but its Bruce not Steve Harris.
And these people who voted here are not being "biased they are giving credit to Saxon for out-writting Iron Maiden in song quality. They are not just voting for Saxon to piss you off,they are sick of Steve Harris and thats what it boils down to. Steve Harris has ruined Iron Maiden and has since 1990.
The Number Of The Beast,Killers and Piece Of mind....these 3 albums are classics and even I will admit that even the best Saxon album Lionheart to me can't top it,thats how cool this band used to be. I was an Iron Maiden fan before you were born as I started liking them in 1982 when I bought The number Of The Beast and have been nothing but disappointed from 1990 till now...thats 21 years.
I do think the debut album "Iron Maiden" and "Powerslave" are excellent but they to me are just barely not as good as Lionheart and The Inner Sanctum,but its close.
However I still do like A Matter Of life And Death. Maybe you should of titled the thread "1980's Iron Maiden or 1980's Saxon"...instead,then Maiden woiuld be up 20 to 0!
(Quoting Message by Brian_Evans from Tuesday, April 05, 2011 12:20:58 PM)
Brian_Evans wrote:
Since I'm the one who created this thread just thought I might comment on the situation here. I'm not shocked at the results so far because of biased opinions but I am a little suprised at the low support for Maiden, although it's still too early to declare the winner based on so few votes. I respect all the opinions here ...well almost all the opinions ...lol. Even if some don't like Maidens recent cd's Jimmyjames made an excellent point that Maidens early cd's alone set the bar so high that their basically out of Saxons reach and thats a total slam dunk in my opinion....Ka chunk!! And that "up the saxons" comment is pretty lame and cheesy sounding ...lol! ...but give some credit where credit is due to Saxon for playing classic metal and putting up a decent fight so far even though it's still early.
Up The Irons!!!!!
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[Head banger] Wednesday, April 06, 2011 7:57:39 AM
yeah, I am just having fun with you. fun, on the internet. who would have thought?
Hey, now. Never once did I say that running wasn't boring. You know that I run just because I have nothing better to do!
Still, bad decision to make a SONG about a boring story made into a boring movie about such a monotonous activity! (Quoting Message by Head banger from Tuesday, April 05, 2011 7:30:56 PM)
Head banger wrote:
you mean running isnt boring? actualy I realy like the album except for that song.
guidogodoy wrote:
Ya know, J.D., while I hate posting anything in this troll's fucking thread, the IM discussion points you raise here are pretty darn accurate. Just coming in from the afternoon run and seeing your comment about "Somewhere in Time" prompted me to pull out the LP itself (shame not to have the art of an LP!). I distinctly remember how sad I was when it came out. While I still think "Caught Somewhere in Time", "Wasted Years" and even "Deja-Vu" are absolute GEMS and, for that reason alone (plus the art...WAY cool to try and find all the hidden messages) the album is priceless, I also temper that comment with how lame and - even worse - PREDICTABLE the rest of the songs were IMO. Worst? The absolutely lame, long and drawn-out "Lonliness of the Long Distance Runner!!" I was bopping around Chicago when this album came out. The three songs I mentioned above really caught my attention but the rest were pretty blah. "Try again," I think, so went for a nice long walk with the cassette in my ears. GAWD, I almost whipped that tape into Lake Michigan just because of that one song! LOL! While I absolutely loved Maiden before it, I really felt like a "Stranger in a Strange Land" (booooring) and far from "Alexander the Great" (pffff...so memorable, I can't even remember the basic chorus).
Funny how I can remember that rainy day back in 1986 when I almost chucked that tape as far as I could even thinking "running must be damn boring!" LOL!
Still think the album is worth it for the three songs I mentioned above, though. Oh yeah, did I mention the great artwork? HAAAAA!
J.D. DIAMOND wrote:
Yes Brian (you fucking dummy .....) Even I admit the first 5 Iron Maiden albums are totally excellent and yes some of them,not all but some of them are better than Saxon's albums. But the point is....Iron Maiden nowadays will never catch Saxon. Saxon is writting thier best material and Maiden are writting thier worst and that is a fact from an overwhelming %percentage of fan's opinions(like probably 95%) you'll have to live with.
Thats why Saxon is up 15 to 4 here. They are voting for the current Saxon,not the sillyish Saxon from the 80's. Its mother fucking "SAD" that a band like Maiden can sell out arenas that Saxon can't yet when asked about comparing albums in quality the same Maiden fans that bought the tickets vote for Saxon? Its sad man.
Iron Maiden are living off thier first 5 studio albums( JUST LIKE SHITALLICA) while Saxon are living off thier current albums which are better than Iron Maiden's last 10 studio albums......"10" albums man....... not 1,2,3,4,5.......10!!!!!
All these people who voted for Saxon are voting for them because of Saxon's last 8 studio LPs dating back 16 years to Dogs Of War. So this shows the last 16 years and counting Saxon totally blows Iron Maiden out of the water.
Now if the thread were Saxon and Iron Maiden showdown just from the 1980's alone I would vote for Iron Maiden hands down,all Iron Maiden albums from the 1980's blows all Saxon albums from the 1980's away. But thats what is sad,this again shows how much better Saxon is now-a-days from a percentage of people's votes.
These people that go to Maiden's concerts that sell out 60,000 thousand fans just to see Maiden on a whopping percentage are not buying the tickets to hear El Dorado or any Maiden album after Seventh Son,they are buying the tickets to hear songs from 1980 debut "Iron maiden" ,Killers,The Number Of The Beast,Piece Of Mind,Powerslave,Somewhere In Time (yuk but fans like it better than thier nu stuff) and Seventh Son albums.
People are tired of getting watered down material from Iron Maiden,even Bruce's last 3 solo albums "Accident Of Birth,The Chemical Wedding and Tyranny Of Souls" blows all modern day Maiden albums out of the water,but its Bruce not Steve Harris.
And these people who voted here are not being "biased they are giving credit to Saxon for out-writting Iron Maiden in song quality. They are not just voting for Saxon to piss you off,they are sick of Steve Harris and thats what it boils down to. Steve Harris has ruined Iron Maiden and has since 1990.
The Number Of The Beast,Killers and Piece Of mind....these 3 albums are classics and even I will admit that even the best Saxon album Lionheart to me can't top it,thats how cool this band used to be. I was an Iron Maiden fan before you were born as I started liking them in 1982 when I bought The number Of The Beast and have been nothing but disappointed from 1990 till now...thats 21 years.
I do think the debut album "Iron Maiden" and "Powerslave" are excellent but they to me are just barely not as good as Lionheart and The Inner Sanctum,but its close.
However I still do like A Matter Of life And Death. Maybe you should of titled the thread "1980's Iron Maiden or 1980's Saxon"...instead,then Maiden woiuld be up 20 to 0!
(Quoting Message by Brian_Evans from Tuesday, April 05, 2011 12:20:58 PM)
Brian_Evans wrote:
Since I'm the one who created this thread just thought I might comment on the situation here. I'm not shocked at the results so far because of biased opinions but I am a little suprised at the low support for Maiden, although it's still too early to declare the winner based on so few votes. I respect all the opinions here ...well almost all the opinions ...lol. Even if some don't like Maidens recent cd's Jimmyjames made an excellent point that Maidens early cd's alone set the bar so high that their basically out of Saxons reach and thats a total slam dunk in my opinion....Ka chunk!! And that "up the saxons" comment is pretty lame and cheesy sounding ...lol! ...but give some credit where credit is due to Saxon for playing classic metal and putting up a decent fight so far even though it's still early.
Up The Irons!!!!!
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[J.D. DIAMOND] Wednesday, April 06, 2011 3:12:37 AM
I couldn't agree more Guido! For me Somewhere In Time "SUCKS". When this piece of shit album came out I was pissed off because I bought the god damn thing. I was 100% totally "butt-hurt". I was aching for a Powerslave follow up and this crap came out of my speakers? Fuckin "LAME"!!!! And yeah the current Saxon fuckin wastes the current Maiden,no question. Like I said before,the 1980's Iron maiden blows away the 1980's Saxon. Killers,The Number Of The Beast and Piece Of mind are the 3 albums that are hard to beat,however I think Lionheart and The Inner Sanctum can stand up against the 1980 debut album "Iron Maiden" and Powerslave as well.
And Metallian.....how can you not like Painkiller anymore?? Arrghhh as much as I get sick of hearing about it,I still LOVE the album hands down. Victoria and I just listened to this entire LP the other day for the billianth time and it keeps getting better and better!!! "SIGH" to each his own,except for Brian_Evans (the shithead).
And to that jerk off loser in the Iron Maiden discussion thread...this is not to Guido............Yes I'm posting it here......yes I do like 'A Matter Of life And Death" but its nowhere near the early 80's albums and nowhere even near the current Saxon albums,no where near!!! You want me off the fence? Come and try and knock me off of it I dare ya HAHA!!! I'd break that hand of yours so quick you'd never be able to put on another shitty Iron Maiden album again LOL!!!! Here is a finger not to Guido but to that little boy who comes here because the Iron Maiden forum charges $60.00 bucks a year to be a forum member?
Ya know, J.D., while I hate posting anything in this troll's fucking thread, the IM discussion points you raise here are pretty darn accurate. Just coming in from the afternoon run and seeing your comment about "Somewhere in Time" prompted me to pull out the LP itself (shame not to have the art of an LP!). I distinctly remember how sad I was when it came out. While I still think "Caught Somewhere in Time", "Wasted Years" and even "Deja-Vu" are absolute GEMS and, for that reason alone (plus the art...WAY cool to try and find all the hidden messages) the album is priceless, I also temper that comment with how lame and - even worse - PREDICTABLE the rest of the songs were IMO. Worst? The absolutely lame, long and drawn-out "Lonliness of the Long Distance Runner!!" I was bopping around Chicago when this album came out. The three songs I mentioned above really caught my attention but the rest were pretty blah. "Try again," I think, so went for a nice long walk with the cassette in my ears. GAWD, I almost whipped that tape into Lake Michigan just because of that one song! LOL! While I absolutely loved Maiden before it, I really felt like a "Stranger in a Strange Land" (booooring) and far from "Alexander the Great" (pffff...so memorable, I can't even remember the basic chorus).
Funny how I can remember that rainy day back in 1986 when I almost chucked that tape as far as I could even thinking "running must be damn boring!" LOL!
Still think the album is worth it for the three songs I mentioned above, though. Oh yeah, did I mention the great artwork? HAAAAA!
J.D. DIAMOND wrote:
Yes Brian (you fucking dummy .....) Even I admit the first 5 Iron Maiden albums are totally excellent and yes some of them,not all but some of them are better than Saxon's albums. But the point is....Iron Maiden nowadays will never catch Saxon. Saxon is writting thier best material and Maiden are writting thier worst and that is a fact from an overwhelming %percentage of fan's opinions(like probably 95%) you'll have to live with.
Thats why Saxon is up 15 to 4 here. They are voting for the current Saxon,not the sillyish Saxon from the 80's. Its mother fucking "SAD" that a band like Maiden can sell out arenas that Saxon can't yet when asked about comparing albums in quality the same Maiden fans that bought the tickets vote for Saxon? Its sad man.
Iron Maiden are living off thier first 5 studio albums( JUST LIKE SHITALLICA) while Saxon are living off thier current albums which are better than Iron Maiden's last 10 studio albums......"10" albums man....... not 1,2,3,4,5.......10!!!!!
All these people who voted for Saxon are voting for them because of Saxon's last 8 studio LPs dating back 16 years to Dogs Of War. So this shows the last 16 years and counting Saxon totally blows Iron Maiden out of the water.
Now if the thread were Saxon and Iron Maiden showdown just from the 1980's alone I would vote for Iron Maiden hands down,all Iron Maiden albums from the 1980's blows all Saxon albums from the 1980's away. But thats what is sad,this again shows how much better Saxon is now-a-days from a percentage of people's votes.
These people that go to Maiden's concerts that sell out 60,000 thousand fans just to see Maiden on a whopping percentage are not buying the tickets to hear El Dorado or any Maiden album after Seventh Son,they are buying the tickets to hear songs from 1980 debut "Iron maiden" ,Killers,The Number Of The Beast,Piece Of Mind,Powerslave,Somewhere In Time (yuk but fans like it better than thier nu stuff) and Seventh Son albums.
People are tired of getting watered down material from Iron Maiden,even Bruce's last 3 solo albums "Accident Of Birth,The Chemical Wedding and Tyranny Of Souls" blows all modern day Maiden albums out of the water,but its Bruce not Steve Harris.
And these people who voted here are not being "biased they are giving credit to Saxon for out-writting Iron Maiden in song quality. They are not just voting for Saxon to piss you off,they are sick of Steve Harris and thats what it boils down to. Steve Harris has ruined Iron Maiden and has since 1990.
The Number Of The Beast,Killers and Piece Of mind....these 3 albums are classics and even I will admit that even the best Saxon album Lionheart to me can't top it,thats how cool this band used to be. I was an Iron Maiden fan before you were born as I started liking them in 1982 when I bought The number Of The Beast and have been nothing but disappointed from 1990 till now...thats 21 years.
I do think the debut album "Iron Maiden" and "Powerslave" are excellent but they to me are just barely not as good as Lionheart and The Inner Sanctum,but its close.
However I still do like A Matter Of life And Death. Maybe you should of titled the thread "1980's Iron Maiden or 1980's Saxon"...instead,then Maiden woiuld be up 20 to 0!
(Quoting Message by Brian_Evans from Tuesday, April 05, 2011 12:20:58 PM)
Brian_Evans wrote:
Since I'm the one who created this thread just thought I might comment on the situation here. I'm not shocked at the results so far because of biased opinions but I am a little suprised at the low support for Maiden, although it's still too early to declare the winner based on so few votes. I respect all the opinions here ...well almost all the opinions ...lol. Even if some don't like Maidens recent cd's Jimmyjames made an excellent point that Maidens early cd's alone set the bar so high that their basically out of Saxons reach and thats a total slam dunk in my opinion....Ka chunk!! And that "up the saxons" comment is pretty lame and cheesy sounding ...lol! ...but give some credit where credit is due to Saxon for playing classic metal and putting up a decent fight so far even though it's still early.
Up The Irons!!!!!
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[guidogodoy] Tuesday, April 05, 2011 8:36:53 PM
Heh. While I think you mean the Island of MISFIT toys, it is a funny to think of "No Prayer" hanging out with ol' "Charlie-in-the-box."
So, to put this thread back on track? Current Saxon pwns current Maiden!
I agree,i remember being saddened by the release of Somewhere in Time too!
After that blow to us metalheads with Turbo ( I bought it April 3rd 1986),i kept thinking,maybe there is hope with the Maiden release,well, i thought wrong!
1986 was the end of metal as we knew it back then!
It was the big hair and glitter shit,man ol man,what a depressin time that was!
Metallica was the only thing in 86 that feed my metal hunger,but,i could feel there was a turn for the worst comin,and it did!
By the early 90's all my favorite Metal bands went to shit,then came Grunge!UUUUUUUUUUGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHH!FUCK!
Most people got all excited about Painkiller,well,i liked it at first,better than No Prayer by Maiden that is for sure!
But now,i don't really care for Painkiller anymore!
No Prayer,well,that is downstairs in the box of reject cd's,just like the island for reject toys on that christmas show!!
LOFL!
Cheers everybody!
Rock Hard Ride Free!
The Master of all fucking Music!
The Metallian!
Sorry for kind of going off topic!
(Quoting Message by guidogodoy from Tuesday, April 05, 2011 7:11:03 PM)
guidogodoy wrote:
Ya know, J.D., while I hate posting anything in this troll's fucking thread, the IM discussion points you raise here are pretty darn accurate. Just coming in from the afternoon run and seeing your comment about "Somewhere in Time" prompted me to pull out the LP itself (shame not to have the art of an LP!). I distinctly remember how sad I was when it came out. While I still think "Caught Somewhere in Time", "Wasted Years" and even "Deja-Vu" are absolute GEMS and, for that reason alone (plus the art...WAY cool to try and find all the hidden messages) the album is priceless, I also temper that comment with how lame and - even worse - PREDICTABLE the rest of the songs were IMO. Worst? The absolutely lame, long and drawn-out "Lonliness of the Long Distance Runner!!" I was bopping around Chicago when this album came out. The three songs I mentioned above really caught my attention but the rest were pretty blah. "Try again," I think, so went for a nice long walk with the cassette in my ears. GAWD, I almost whipped that tape into Lake Michigan just because of that one song! LOL! While I absolutely loved Maiden before it, I really felt like a "Stranger in a Strange Land" (booooring) and far from "Alexander the Great" (pffff...so memorable, I can't even remember the basic chorus).
Funny how I can remember that rainy day back in 1986 when I almost chucked that tape as far as I could even thinking "running must be damn boring!" LOL!
Still think the album is worth it for the three songs I mentioned above, though. Oh yeah, did I mention the great artwork? HAAAAA!
J.D. DIAMOND wrote:
Yes Brian (you fucking dummy .....) Even I admit the first 5 Iron Maiden albums are totally excellent and yes some of them,not all but some of them are better than Saxon's albums. But the point is....Iron Maiden nowadays will never catch Saxon. Saxon is writting thier best material and Maiden are writting thier worst and that is a fact from an overwhelming %percentage of fan's opinions(like probably 95%) you'll have to live with.
Thats why Saxon is up 15 to 4 here. They are voting for the current Saxon,not the sillyish Saxon from the 80's. Its mother fucking "SAD" that a band like Maiden can sell out arenas that Saxon can't yet when asked about comparing albums in quality the same Maiden fans that bought the tickets vote for Saxon? Its sad man.
Iron Maiden are living off thier first 5 studio albums( JUST LIKE SHITALLICA) while Saxon are living off thier current albums which are better than Iron Maiden's last 10 studio albums......"10" albums man....... not 1,2,3,4,5.......10!!!!!
All these people who voted for Saxon are voting for them because of Saxon's last 8 studio LPs dating back 16 years to Dogs Of War. So this shows the last 16 years and counting Saxon totally blows Iron Maiden out of the water.
Now if the thread were Saxon and Iron Maiden showdown just from the 1980's alone I would vote for Iron Maiden hands down,all Iron Maiden albums from the 1980's blows all Saxon albums from the 1980's away. But thats what is sad,this again shows how much better Saxon is now-a-days from a percentage of people's votes.
These people that go to Maiden's concerts that sell out 60,000 thousand fans just to see Maiden on a whopping percentage are not buying the tickets to hear El Dorado or any Maiden album after Seventh Son,they are buying the tickets to hear songs from 1980 debut "Iron maiden" ,Killers,The Number Of The Beast,Piece Of Mind,Powerslave,Somewhere In Time (yuk but fans like it better than thier nu stuff) and Seventh Son albums.
People are tired of getting watered down material from Iron Maiden,even Bruce's last 3 solo albums "Accident Of Birth,The Chemical Wedding and Tyranny Of Souls" blows all modern day Maiden albums out of the water,but its Bruce not Steve Harris.
And these people who voted here are not being "biased they are giving credit to Saxon for out-writting Iron Maiden in song quality. They are not just voting for Saxon to piss you off,they are sick of Steve Harris and thats what it boils down to. Steve Harris has ruined Iron Maiden and has since 1990.
The Number Of The Beast,Killers and Piece Of mind....these 3 albums are classics and even I will admit that even the best Saxon album Lionheart to me can't top it,thats how cool this band used to be. I was an Iron Maiden fan before you were born as I started liking them in 1982 when I bought The number Of The Beast and have been nothing but disappointed from 1990 till now...thats 21 years.
I do think the debut album "Iron Maiden" and "Powerslave" are excellent but they to me are just barely not as good as Lionheart and The Inner Sanctum,but its close.
However I still do like A Matter Of life And Death. Maybe you should of titled the thread "1980's Iron Maiden or 1980's Saxon"...instead,then Maiden woiuld be up 20 to 0!
(Quoting Message by Brian_Evans from Tuesday, April 05, 2011 12:20:58 PM)
Brian_Evans wrote:
Since I'm the one who created this thread just thought I might comment on the situation here. I'm not shocked at the results so far because of biased opinions but I am a little suprised at the low support for Maiden, although it's still too early to declare the winner based on so few votes. I respect all the opinions here ...well almost all the opinions ...lol. Even if some don't like Maidens recent cd's Jimmyjames made an excellent point that Maidens early cd's alone set the bar so high that their basically out of Saxons reach and thats a total slam dunk in my opinion....Ka chunk!! And that "up the saxons" comment is pretty lame and cheesy sounding ...lol! ...but give some credit where credit is due to Saxon for playing classic metal and putting up a decent fight so far even though it's still early.
Up The Irons!!!!!
Edited at: Tuesday, April 05, 2011 12:44:46 PM
Edited at: Tuesday, April 05, 2011 4:40:26 PM
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[The Metallian] Tuesday, April 05, 2011 7:45:13 PM
I agree,i remember being saddened by the release of Somewhere in Time too!
After that blow to us metalheads with Turbo ( I bought it April 3rd 1986),i kept thinking,maybe there is hope with the Maiden release,well, i thought wrong!
1986 was the end of metal as we knew it back then!
It was the big hair and glitter shit,man ol man,what a depressin time that was!
Metallica was the only thing in 86 that feed my metal hunger,but,i could feel there was a turn for the worst comin,and it did!
By the early 90's all my favorite Metal bands went to shit,then came Grunge!UUUUUUUUUUGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHH!FUCK!
Most people got all excited about Painkiller,well,i liked it at first,better than No Prayer by Maiden that is for sure!
But now,i don't really care for Painkiller anymore!
No Prayer,well,that is downstairs in the box of reject cd's,just like the island for reject toys on that christmas show!!
LOFL!
Cheers everybody!
Rock Hard Ride Free!
Ya know, J.D., while I hate posting anything in this troll's fucking thread, the IM discussion points you raise here are pretty darn accurate. Just coming in from the afternoon run and seeing your comment about "Somewhere in Time" prompted me to pull out the LP itself (shame not to have the art of an LP!). I distinctly remember how sad I was when it came out. While I still think "Caught Somewhere in Time", "Wasted Years" and even "Deja-Vu" are absolute GEMS and, for that reason alone (plus the art...WAY cool to try and find all the hidden messages) the album is priceless, I also temper that comment with how lame and - even worse - PREDICTABLE the rest of the songs were IMO. Worst? The absolutely lame, long and drawn-out "Lonliness of the Long Distance Runner!!" I was bopping around Chicago when this album came out. The three songs I mentioned above really caught my attention but the rest were pretty blah. "Try again," I think, so went for a nice long walk with the cassette in my ears. GAWD, I almost whipped that tape into Lake Michigan just because of that one song! LOL! While I absolutely loved Maiden before it, I really felt like a "Stranger in a Strange Land" (booooring) and far from "Alexander the Great" (pffff...so memorable, I can't even remember the basic chorus).
Funny how I can remember that rainy day back in 1986 when I almost chucked that tape as far as I could even thinking "running must be damn boring!" LOL!
Still think the album is worth it for the three songs I mentioned above, though. Oh yeah, did I mention the great artwork? HAAAAA!
J.D. DIAMOND wrote:
Yes Brian (you fucking dummy .....) Even I admit the first 5 Iron Maiden albums are totally excellent and yes some of them,not all but some of them are better than Saxon's albums. But the point is....Iron Maiden nowadays will never catch Saxon. Saxon is writting thier best material and Maiden are writting thier worst and that is a fact from an overwhelming %percentage of fan's opinions(like probably 95%) you'll have to live with.
Thats why Saxon is up 15 to 4 here. They are voting for the current Saxon,not the sillyish Saxon from the 80's. Its mother fucking "SAD" that a band like Maiden can sell out arenas that Saxon can't yet when asked about comparing albums in quality the same Maiden fans that bought the tickets vote for Saxon? Its sad man.
Iron Maiden are living off thier first 5 studio albums( JUST LIKE SHITALLICA) while Saxon are living off thier current albums which are better than Iron Maiden's last 10 studio albums......"10" albums man....... not 1,2,3,4,5.......10!!!!!
All these people who voted for Saxon are voting for them because of Saxon's last 8 studio LPs dating back 16 years to Dogs Of War. So this shows the last 16 years and counting Saxon totally blows Iron Maiden out of the water.
Now if the thread were Saxon and Iron Maiden showdown just from the 1980's alone I would vote for Iron Maiden hands down,all Iron Maiden albums from the 1980's blows all Saxon albums from the 1980's away. But thats what is sad,this again shows how much better Saxon is now-a-days from a percentage of people's votes.
These people that go to Maiden's concerts that sell out 60,000 thousand fans just to see Maiden on a whopping percentage are not buying the tickets to hear El Dorado or any Maiden album after Seventh Son,they are buying the tickets to hear songs from 1980 debut "Iron maiden" ,Killers,The Number Of The Beast,Piece Of Mind,Powerslave,Somewhere In Time (yuk but fans like it better than thier nu stuff) and Seventh Son albums.
People are tired of getting watered down material from Iron Maiden,even Bruce's last 3 solo albums "Accident Of Birth,The Chemical Wedding and Tyranny Of Souls" blows all modern day Maiden albums out of the water,but its Bruce not Steve Harris.
And these people who voted here are not being "biased they are giving credit to Saxon for out-writting Iron Maiden in song quality. They are not just voting for Saxon to piss you off,they are sick of Steve Harris and thats what it boils down to. Steve Harris has ruined Iron Maiden and has since 1990.
The Number Of The Beast,Killers and Piece Of mind....these 3 albums are classics and even I will admit that even the best Saxon album Lionheart to me can't top it,thats how cool this band used to be. I was an Iron Maiden fan before you were born as I started liking them in 1982 when I bought The number Of The Beast and have been nothing but disappointed from 1990 till now...thats 21 years.
I do think the debut album "Iron Maiden" and "Powerslave" are excellent but they to me are just barely not as good as Lionheart and The Inner Sanctum,but its close.
However I still do like A Matter Of life And Death. Maybe you should of titled the thread "1980's Iron Maiden or 1980's Saxon"...instead,then Maiden woiuld be up 20 to 0!
(Quoting Message by Brian_Evans from Tuesday, April 05, 2011 12:20:58 PM)
Brian_Evans wrote:
Since I'm the one who created this thread just thought I might comment on the situation here. I'm not shocked at the results so far because of biased opinions but I am a little suprised at the low support for Maiden, although it's still too early to declare the winner based on so few votes. I respect all the opinions here ...well almost all the opinions ...lol. Even if some don't like Maidens recent cd's Jimmyjames made an excellent point that Maidens early cd's alone set the bar so high that their basically out of Saxons reach and thats a total slam dunk in my opinion....Ka chunk!! And that "up the saxons" comment is pretty lame and cheesy sounding ...lol! ...but give some credit where credit is due to Saxon for playing classic metal and putting up a decent fight so far even though it's still early.
Up The Irons!!!!!
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Fucking dork lol
, but I agree to some extent with what you say, I've not really bought much Metallica since master of puppets and likes Def Leppard appeal to a totally different audience to what they did in their first couple of albums. 
) Even I admit the first 5 Iron Maiden albums are totally excellent and yes some of them,not all but some of them are better than Saxon's albums. But the point is....Iron Maiden nowadays will never catch Saxon. Saxon is writting thier best material and Maiden are writting thier worst and that is a fact from an overwhelming %percentage of fan's opinions(like probably 95%) you'll have to live with.
