Up the Irons! What's your favorite Maiden album??

Hot take: Maiden's first two albums are actually pretty underrated. Sure, it's not as refined as their later work, but it still has some of the strongest bangers they've ever written: Iron Maiden, Prowler, Phantom of The Opera, Remember Tomorrow, Killers, Wrathchild etc. It's pretty beloved around here in Brazil Plus Paul is actually a pretty good vocalist and fitting in the style of the first 2(I actually took a photo with him :) ), despite Bruce being way better

Only Bradley could pull off an iron maiden video like this that does not mention lead songwriter (bass aside) Steve Harris by name even once.

Empire of the Clouds is a godlike song imo. And yeah I would tend to agree on Seventh Son being one of my favorites as well, it's just so good lol.

Iron Maiden's gonna get you! 🤘 Up the Irons, thanks for the video @BradleyHallGuitar

Paul Di'Anno was made for PROWLER. Bruce doesn't have enough anger in him for this song, and Paul's punk style fits it perfectly. He's perfect for it and it's a perfect song

“Killers” is still my favorite album and lineup

Powerslave is my favorite, even after 30 years.

I'm a huge Somewhere in Time stan. In fact, it's my favorite album of all time. I still go back to it from time to time and wonder at the awesome that is somewhere in time.

6 s tier is crazy just shows how great Maiden has been!

There are no D or bin tier albums in their discog. #justice4Blaze

Anybody who likes Blaze Bailey's voice but found his Iron Maiden albums lackluster needs to listen to Silicon Messiah. One of the most slept on metal albums ever.

I think The X Factor is underrated, it's very different to the others and dark but it always felt to me a class above Virtual XI. Also obviously Bruce is their best vocalist, but Afraid To Shoot Strangers with Bailey just sounds better. (there's the official video with this lineup on youtube)

The fact that he skipped the 3 most famous songs of number of the beast 😱😱. And the best on : hallowed be thy name. This song IS m'y favorite of all groups, it's just incredible

Thin Lizzy did guitarmonies before those other bands just saying, Give us Irish some credit lol

You might be the only person I've ever seen ranking X Factor below Virtual XI. I REALLY like X Factor and think it's in the better half of Maiden's albums but I can get why people would dislike em. Sign of the Cross, Lord of the Flies and Fortunes of War are all bangers IMO

X-Factor underrated

Hot take: The X Factor is a great album and the best of Maiden in the 90s

Coming Home best track change my mind

I think X Factor might be one of the albums I've listened to the most; there's some really good guitar work going on in the background, especially the smouldering stuff on The Unbeliever, and Blaze's voice is moody and dark. I basically put it on after dark and just let it wash over me.

Seventh son, closely followed by a Matter of Life and Death!

Probably one of (if not the) best metal debut albums ever.

How dare you not mention quest for fire. The single greatest line to open a song ever

X Factor is F** AMAZING!

X factor is underrated imo I love almost every song on it

But I do want to listen to all their albums.

Listening to Maiden in my teen years was the best thing that could happen to me. Adds another level of magic.

Phantom at the Opera is such a good song for a debut album

Sorry - harmonized twin guitars = Thin Lizzy

Bro Paul is a fucking beast. The best era.

The sign of the cross by itself won't allow me to place the album on BLAZE BINLEY

Bayley albums are GREAT!

If eternity should fail from book of souls, is indeed one of my favourite intros to an album, out of iron maiden. Then again favourite albums, number of the beast is there (with total eclipse over ganglands) But dance of the death and brave new world are also up there

Somewhere in Time is a masterpiece along with the first 2 Maiden albums.

Their self-titled album is my favourite. Dickinson made them stars, but I have a soft spot for the spit and snarl of the Di'Anno albums.

Brave new World and DOD are both S tier. Dream of Mirrors, Rainmaker, Dance of Death, Brave New World, etc Those two albums are slept on in comparison to the discography as a whole EDIT: commented this before I finished the video so glad that’s a common consensus lol

It's insane how good you are at this KZfaq thing man.

You missed some comedy gold by not talking about ‘Hooks in You’ off of NPFTD. 🎶Hooks in you, hooks in me, hooks in the ceiling for that well hung feeling🎶

The Final Frontier rules. It's very proggy.

Great video Brad, I was in for most of the stream and its amazing to see all the clips edited together perfectly!

The best album is definitely Seventh son of a Seventh son, dynamic, the story telling, the melodies, drum patterns, the atmosphere just beyond my childhood life and it still gives me chills at my 22 years of life🗿

A Matter of Life and Death is still the best post-Reunion album IMHO and very underrated.

I was listening to a NWOBHM playlist and all I could think of was that I totally get it why Iron Maiden is the most popular. They just did *everything* better than the other bands doing similar music. Song structure, riffs, basslines, melodies, solos, vocals (both Di'anno and Dickinson), just about everything was on point whereas other bands were lacking at least one aspect

Really enjoyed this... And I'm off to listen to everything Maiden! Well played Bradley, an awesome video!

You look like Stuttering John.

The amount of Blaze Bayley slander in this video is absurd. That means this video goes in the ‘Binley Hall’ level of my tier list!

BNW is without a doubt their finest album. Every song just goes so hard. Forming what is basically a supergroup comprised of their own previous band members was the right call.

For a band that was founded in the 70s, it is crazy how they could release an album during the 2000s (brave new world) and it´s that amazing! That is true longevity!

Brave New World deserves S tier indeed

Senjutsu is a Masterpiece! To me, it brings together so much of the best things they have done in one place. Maybe a bit derivative in comparison to more original early albums, but I LOVE it. Listened to it exclusively for months when it came out.

Bro, your editing skills keep getting better and better!!! I absolutely love that kind of sense of humor!

Powerslave is my favourite, but everything up to and including Seventh Son are stone cold classics.

Empire Of The Clouds is not a song, is history.

This was a good way to spend lunch at work. Thank you, sir.

Somewhere in Time will always be my favorite because it was my introduction to Maiden when I was 10 years old. The album was brand new at the time and my buddy’s older brother had it on cassette. My buddy snuck it to school and we listened to it on the tape recorder in our classroom. As soon as I heard Wasted Years, I was hooked for life!🤘

Definitely one of my favorite bands

Been a Maiden fan since 96 and liking this before watching

Listening to "2 minutes to midnight" today is so weird, because were officially at 90 seconds to midnight

You are doing gods work here lol! Hey Bradley im sorry i havent been around but i will definitely become a regular on your streams. Anything i can do to support you and what you do. Rock on brotha

I am a big fan of the Blaze fronted stuff. But I am very glad he made his way ( eventually) back to Wolfsbane as I need Wolfsbane AND Maiden in my life.

Steve Harris was so instrumental in making their iconic sound. Dude is a beast.

Bradley you should really listen to Blaze Bayleys solo stuff. So much better than the 2 Maiden albums he did. U might enjoy them

Fun Fact: The first Iron Maiden release was a 7" EP called The Soundhouse Tapes released in late 1979, which had earlier versions of the songs that would appear on the debut album like "Iron Maiden" & "Prowler" but "Invasion" ended up getting rerecorded as a B-side to the single "Women In Uniform" & later restructured & rewritten as "Invaders" from "The Number Of The Beast", The original pressing was limited to 5,000 copies and ended up becoming rare fetching I think $2,000-$3,000 or $1,000 im not too sure, but there are unofficial pressings of the EP that were also released on colored vinyl.

Somewhere in Time is easily my favorite Iron Maiden album. But I'm going to be nuts and actually put book of souls at my number two all time. In my opinion both of those albums are rock-solid and there is nothing uninteresting and there are no songs that I ever want to skip over between the two of them

X Factor is a masterpiece

1) Killers 2) Seventh Son Can't be arsed with the rest but IMO Killers is their best album if you separate it from the "classic" Maiden sound.

My childhood bedroom was covered in the classic large Iron Maiden posters - Trooper, Killers, Aces High, Powerslave, Piece of Mind, Somewhere in Time, Stranger in a Strange Land and of course, Number of the Beast. Those posters are so hard to find now.

When you said "Brave New World" is the best Iron Maiden album of all time, you spoke right into my heart. AT LAST, someone who agrees with me. Not a single filler on that album. Masterpiece!

THANK YOU for giving props to "Out of the Silent Planet." No one ever gives that track love.

Totally disagree on Blaze!. He did an amazing job, considering Bruce was no longer there (+ Bruce did not return with his best voice IMHO). Still my favorite band, although I prefer the first half, esp. the 82-88 era.

Powerslave and Somewhere in Time are the favorites for me, and Book of Souls and Final Frontier are ones I quite like even if they aren't up to the caliber of the classics. I'm usually flipping between all 4 of these for my favorite Maiden title track.

Dude I’ve been loving this series! Your commentary is engaging and interesting, so that even if I don’t agree with your opinion, it’s super fun to listen to

When I think of harmonized guitars I think of Thin Lizzy then Iron Maiden.

Can we agree that they have no bad albums?

My list: S: NOTB, Piece of Mind, Powerslave. A: Somewhere in Time, Seventh Son, Brave New World. B: Iron Maiden, Dance of Death. C: Killers, Fear of the Dark. Dont really care about the rest tbh.

Amazing! I bought Edward The Great - Greatest Hits as my first Maiden Album too aged about 12. I'm 36 now - so similar time to you!

It's obvious that you've listened to some albums, but it seems to me that you're not a real Maiden fan because most of the time you don't know what you're talking about.

7/8 in Alexandar the great is beacuse that is typical Macedonian rhytam

X Factor is a great album. People are shitting on in because Bruce is not on it, but if they gave it a chance they would understand that the song writing is top notch and the dark atmosphere is 👌🏻

2:30 that gay scream made my day

Babe wake up, Bradley Hall just uploaded

Personally Senjutsu and Somewhere In Time are both my favorites, but man the title track of Killers is probably one of my favorite songs ever Playing it on bass is super super fun and imo has one of the best bass intros/main riffs of all time. W band.

Being of a certain vintage myself .its (like metallica),the first 3 or four albums for me

enjoyed songs from different albums actually. Such as Wrathchild, Children of the damned, Two Minutes to midnight, Wasted Years, The Evil that men do, Hallowed be thy name, Acacia aveneu, Somewhere in time...

Senjutsu is a good album and I'm tired of pretending it's not.

Senjutsu is A tier IMO. I like the progressive elements in that album and especially love the song Hell on Earth. Saw them play that in Indio at Powertrip festival and damn it was good. I actually agree with the rest of your grades, but would move the D's to C's because it's Maiden. Even their bad albums are better than most bands good albums.

Listened to all of them in a row before their concert in Hyvinkää, Finland 2022. Best 17 hours of my life.

Omg! That was the first Maiden album i bought too! I was around 12/13 years old and it changed EVERYTHING for me music wise.

bloody love maiden, but they have essentially released the same album for 30+ years.

I still refer to Dance of Death as being "the new album".. damn I'm old

Hey, will you make a Judas priest Ranking too? Iron Maiden done, would be cool if you also did their counterparts, especially as their new album is great

"listened to every Iron Maiden album so I don't have to" That's like saying he won the lottery so I won't have to. But I agree 100% with the opinion on Paul. Not a metal vocalist at all, should have been in a British punk band. But despite his limitations, the first two albums are god-tier metal albums.

It's prolly my age talking here but everyone should listen to Maiden's diskogg for themselves

I was introduced to Maiden at age 10 with their first disc and been a fan since the very first track. I still remember going at lunch to get Seventh Son and being late to class listening. I did not buy the ones in Blaze but own multiple copies of all the others including Bruce's solo work and if you haven't ever listened to it Accident of Birth is one of the best discs ever (Adrian played on it) and it sound like 80s Maiden and shortly after is when they rejoined Maiden. The release of Brave New World came with such excitement and was definitely a breath of fresh air, as was Accident of Birth. Don't exactly agree with your list but close enough except for No Prayer... Holy Smoke makes that disk worth it! ;) Great video!!!

An album i always come back to is brave new world, Killers album and of course number of the beast, Havent really been listening to their newer stuff

I almost jumped for joy ehen you mentioned the dance of death solo, for the longest time i always thought it was so amazing, but no one else really talked about it. Finnaly got some light🔥🔥🔥

I LOVE Book of Souls, I would definetely put it at A tier. But I agree with you about Brave New World, probably their best album ever

My top 3 would be Powerslave, Number of the Beast, and Killers. The other 2 are objectively the best but if i was to start a band, Killers era maiden would be one of the main influences

My favourite's the first one I owned, Killers. Later Maiden fell more into the "gallop", and sorry, but Nicko ain't a patch on dearly departed Clive Burr for me. Clive just has more groove. I then flip-flop between Seventh Son, Beast and Powerslave. But for me, Somewhere in Time has the best album cover (I painted it onto my leather jacket, I loved that cover so much.) I also love Blaze Bailey, but you're right, his work with Maiden wasn't the best. But you should really check out the band he came from, Wolfsbane. Fun, high speed stuff, with an excellent guitarist in the heavily-EVH influenced Jase Edwards, who is one of my favourite guitarists of all time. While not technically the best, he plays with humour and has a distinctive character. The EP "All hell's Breaking Loose Down at Little Kathy Wilson's Place" is their peak, being stupidly fun. You get to hear Blaze in his natural environment as part singer, part Brummie (well, Tamworth) raconteur, and Jase's guitar work is just sublime. Jase is basically the Jackie Chan of the guitar world.

Thanks for sharing some love to Dance of Death, so many people forget about this (amazing) album