I also applaud you for having a friggin' OPINION! Not a pure fanboy who stands by everything. Hell, I have never once said that I am not a Maiden fan but I can't stand their recent material. Not as bad as Metallica but close. IMO, Priest just leaves them in the dust.
Also, I agree with your assessment of "Somewhere." I love some of those songs and, as you said, the artwork is without compare. 'Blade Runner.' While I am a long distance runner, I can't stand the song, however. Sea of Madness, eh.... not my fav. Wasted years and Caught Somewhere in Time are my big favs. Still, I could stare at that artwork forever.
Somewhere In Time is the most under-rated Maiden album. I don't think it has a weak track. Some people might say De Ja Vu, Sea Of Madness or The Loneliness Of The Long Distance Runner are not that great but I reckon they are cool songs. It also has top notch cover artwork and three songs that are Maiden classics, Wasted Years, Stranger In A Strange Land and Heaven Can Wait.
J.D. DIAMOND wrote:
WOW. I'm impressed...somebody who isn't afraid of listing Iron Maiden albums however I am utterly "shocked" at how you list Somewhere In Time over Killers,Piece Of mind,Iron Maiden and Powerslave....from 1986 when it came out till now I'm still trying to figure out what is good about this album I can't take any of it,not even one song but I must have to say to each his own. At least this is "an opinion" and your not saying "oh gaga everything they do is equally excellent". I agree that AMOLAD is boring,even though I do like most of it it isn't anywhere near,not even near thier first 5 studio albums(1980 - 1984).
Whats also interesting is your first 7 albums listed are all from the 1980's and my first 6 albums are also from the 1980's and the rest is all rated as "aeh..ok" to "shit" from both our opionions. I can't even fathom how many people/fans have said the same thing year after year that the 80's material is the band's best and everything else is "ah...ok I guess"...everybody nowadays just wants to see the band "live" because they can't "get anything special" out of thier albums from 1990 till now,they just can't get anything they want from these less than average albums.
I'd like to see how many people would go see Iron Maiden if they were to only play songs from the shitty albums from 1990 No Prayer For The Dying to now with A Matter Of life And Death"...1990 - 2006 no "Number Of The Beast" song no nothing just those albums from 1990 to 2006,I'm sure they would still pack em' in because of how many fan boys out there but I'd still bet there wouldn't be as many people excited about it.
jimmyjames wrote:
Ok, I wouldn't really call it a challenge though.
Number Of The Beast ( awesome )
Somewhere In Time ( awesome )
Killers ( awesome )
Piece Of Mind ( agree about Quest For Fire and don't really like To Tame A Land either )
Powerslave ( Solid but the good songs aren't as good as the good songs on POM )
Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son ( Great all round album, a touch mellodramatic )
Iron Maiden ( This and Seventh Son I rate equally )
Fear Of The Dark ( Not bad, 7/10 )
Dance Of Death ( A few good songs )
Brave New World ( A few good songs , I rate this and Dance Of Death equally )
No Prayer For The Dying ( Boring )
A Matter Of Life And Death ( Long and boring )
X Factor ( Crap )
Virtual XI ( haven't even heard it because X factor was so crap. )
J.D. DIAMOND wrote:
Hey jimmy,since "you know what your talking about"...why don't "YOU" list your favorite Iron Maiden studio albums from the best album to the most shit album and you have to list if you like the album or not,this has nothing to do with the baby fanboy but I'm just courious what your ratings would be,so are you up for the challange since you seem to know just about everything or are you afraid of what your fanboy will say? I say you will "chicken out".....
Heres mine:
Killers - exellent
Iron Maiden-excellent
The Number Of The Beast-excellent
Piece Of Mind -excellent except for Quest For Fire the shit song
Powerslave-awsome except for The Duellists shit song
Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son -good album except for The Evil That Men Do crappy song
A Matter Of Life And Death -fair album except for Different World and Benjamim Bragg shit songs
Brave New World -half "ok" half shit album
Somewhere In Time-poor album
Fear Of The Dark- shit album except for the song Be Quick Or Be Dead that song is awsome on a shit album
No Prayer For The Dying -shit album except for Mother Russia that track is good
Dance Of Death - horrible shitty record I hate it all
Virtual Eleven-total SHIT
The X Factor - total SHIT
Well step up mr.major in the english language.... lets see where you stand on Iron Maiden's discography...
And to the fanboy...we need nothing from you as remember..this thread is for serious Iron Maiden discussions" as you haven't added one aspect of anything serious about the band yet lol!!!
(Quoting Message by jimmyjames from Thursday, March 25, 2010 1:18:54 PM)
jimmyjames wrote:
I know exactly what I'm talking about.
J.D. DIAMOND wrote:
LOL! Whatever dude,if thats what makes you "feel better' than go for it .Its no skin off my nuts. You obviously don't know what your even talking about so I'll lay this un-needed conversation to rest,you need to learn what your talking about before you question.
jimmyjames wrote:
So you are being anal about the way the sentence was structured? Maybe he didn't say it the "correct" way but I understood perfectly what Brian was getting at and I'm sure you did too. You're just looking for a fight because you don't like Brian.
PS. You are extremely anal about everything to do with metal.
J.D. DIAMOND wrote:
LOL! Ha ha,thats not correct jimmy as you and Brian are not understanding what these statements actually mean in a stuctured sentence.I'm not being "anal" about anything jimmy,Brian has contradicted himself and I just called him out on it,no need for you to worry about it,but we will "agree to disagree" thats all.
And I'm not the Maiden fanboy,you should dedicate that Twilight Zone song to Brian...after all,any other song by any other band that did not have a guitar solo in it is considered "not good" but if its an Iron Maiden song than it "is good" and doesn't really need one. HA!
Brian Evans wrote today: "And I never said all metal tracks had to have a solo in it to be good"
Brian Evans wrote: "What every goodmetal track should have is an excellent guitar solo"
Think about it. lol!
(Quoting Message by jimmyjames from Wednesday, March 24, 2010 2:39:23 PM)
jimmyjames wrote:
To make up for disappointing you I will play Twilight Zone on my show next week and dedicate to you.
J.D. DIAMOND wrote:
No jimmy,I'm afraid your wrong on this one pal.He said every track should have one to be "good". Your not understanding the meanings of these sentences,look them up and you will find I'm right. Your confusing the words should and has together,look them up in sentences and depending on how its used they are showing what I'm saying is absolutely correct. We'll have to agree to disagree,no problem but he just basically said that the song Twilight Zone is not a "good" track unless it had an 'excellent" guitar solo in it, the word "good" in the sentence is why I'm right,had he worded it another way then you'd be right....
Its not that hard to understand,I'm disappointed in you jimmy hahahaha!!!!
JD, he didn't say every great song "has" to have a great solo. What you think he was saying and what he said are two different things. You are wrong on this one.
J.D. DIAMOND wrote:
Brian Evans wrote March 1st in you tube videos thread: Bathory formed in 1983. Ha! 1983? HaHaHA!! Thats too funny! Where's the good guitar solo? No way these guys can compete with the masters like Iron Maiden
(lol!) Oh ok,so you laugh at Bathory for not playing a guitar solo but its ok if Iron maiden doesn't play a guitar solo in the song Twilight Zone?
LOL! Fuckin contradictional fanboy! LOL! Gotcha!
Brian_Evans wrote:
"And yeah I knew you would throw the live versions of the JP tunes,thats why I posted what I posted for you to shy away from the Iron Maiden Twilight Zone non-guitar solo track."
I didn't shy away from anything. You're just grasping at straws here and you probably don't even know how to play chess. The bass solo thing I said was just a joke. Although Steve Harris does more in that track than most bass players do in ten. Twlight Zone is a solid metal track. And I never said all metal tracks had to have a solo in it to be good. Read the post five more times and maybe just maybe(fingers crossed) you will finally catch on. You can't stump me man, give it up and go back to your littie Saxon cave of a thread. You're out of your element here.
(Quoting Message by J.D. DIAMOND from Wednesday, March 24, 2010 1:21:48 AM)
Whatever dude,if thats what makes you "feel better' than go for it .Its no skin off my nuts. 