1. Chemical Wedding (absolute masterpiece) 2. Accident of Birth 3. Tyranny Of Souls 4. Balls To Picasso 5. Tattooed Millionaire 6. Skunkworks

The Chemical Wedding is one of the best metal albums ever! It cranks and ranks with the best of Maiden. 🤘🏻

"The Chemical Wedding" is one of my favorite albums of all time! Adrian Smith's guitar solo in "King In Crimson" is straight 🔥🔥

Hot take: Chemical Wedding is, in my opinion, the best thing Bruce has ever been involved with. INCLUDING Maiden. Just an absolute masterpiece.

1. Chemical Wedding 2. Accident of Birth 3. Tyranny of Souls 4. Balls to Picasso 5. Tattooed Millionaire 6. Skunkworks The first three are stone classics.

My Tops- 1.Chemical Wedding 2.Accident of Birth 3.Tyranny of Souls 4.Skunkworks 5.Balls to Picasso 6.Tattooed Millionaire

Accident of Birth is my favorite. It also has the best album cover by far. Win/Win

I really enjoy Rich’s insight on ranking shows. He clearly takes the time to dive into each album and gives the listener a well thought out review of each album in the catalog. Nice job 👍

I guess I am in the minority, but Skunkworks is my fave. Nice video! 1. Skunkworks 2. Accident 3. Chemical

The Chemical Wedding & Accident Of Birth are my favorite Bruce Dickinson albums

6. Skunkworks 5. Tattooed Millionaire 4. Balls To Picasso 3. Accident of Birth 2. Tyranny of Souls 1. Chemical Wedding

There were 2 new KILLER songs on The Best Of Bruce Dickinson album, "Broken" and "Silver Wings."

1. Chemical Wedding 2. Accident of Birth 3. Tyranny of Souls 4. Skunkworks 5. Balls To Picasso 6. Tattooed Millionaire To me The Alchemist is absolutely the best song out of his solo career.

Yeah, I'm not a big fan of Blaze Bayley's voice, but his latest solo album is AWESOME. War Within Me.

big fan for the solo cds !!!!!

Chris Alo Fan Club T-shirts,please!

I was at the Tattooed Millionaire show here in Toronto at Rock 'n Roll Heaven. What a great show!

I was at that Toads Place show in New Haven. Adrian was there with Bruce. They played 2 Minutes and Powerslave along with most of the Accident record. Amazing show.

Pete, I think it would be cool to do a tour of some of your contributors music collections. Of course, I just want to see how many extra copies of stuff Chris Alo has and how he stores his stuff. One day, he's going to have a HELLACIOUS garage sale, lol.

6. Skunkworks 5. Tattooed Millionaire 4. Tyranny Of Souls 3. Balls To Picasso 2. The Chemical Wedding 1. Accident Of Birth I still listen to The Chemical Wedding, Accident Of Birth, and Balls To Picasso often. The other three do have some songs that I love. Songs like Son Of A Gun, Back From Edge, Inertia, and Abduction are some of my favorites. The Chemical Wedding and Accident Of Birth are MASTERPIECES in my eyes.

I don't think we will see many people voting differently on positions #1 and #2. The rest of them are a jumble though, anything can happen. I would also include the "Best of" in the rankings as it has two good songs that are only found there, "Silver Wings" and "Broken", plus a bunch of B-side type stuff only found there. Actually "Broken" is one of Bruce's best songs.

Cyclops is a classic track

They toured for Chemical Wedding in Europe and South America. Scream for me Brazil...

Hey Pete you should check out the 2 new tracks ‘Broken’ and ‘Silver Wings’ that are on the best of that Chris showed. Would both probably be in Bruce’s top 10 solo songs.

tattooed millionaire will always be my no 1!!!!

The Bruce/Roy Z trilogy plus the two Halford solo albums kept traditional heavy metal alive during a very dark period for that genre.

My favorite trio... would love a weekly show with them just shooting the shit for a couple hours

The Chemical Wedding Masterpiece!!

I first saw Dickinson when he was fronting a band called Samson. I thought wow, what a voice, he's going to be a big star some day.

Chemical Wedding is a great album. I still play it quite often.

1) Accident of Birth 2) Chemical Wedding 3) Skunkworks 4) Tyranny of Souls 5) Balls to Picasso 6) Tattooed Millionaire

Good insight by Rich and Pete about Skunkworks. The guy who produced it(Jack Endino) also was the producer for Soundgarden and Nirvana.

His live album "Scream For Me Brazil",..A classic not to be overlooked!

For me chemical wedding is miles ahead all the rest. That album is a metal masterpiece. One of my favorite metal albums of all time.

Went to the Bruce solo show for Tattooed Millionaire at the Bacchanal in San Diego. Both me and my friend were too young to get in so we just hung out by the back door and tried to listen. Couldn’t hear much but got to meet Bruce after.

Love son of a gun and tears of the dragon....acoustic version of tears was always my favorite

Another great and fun show. 1 - Chemical Wedding 2 - Accident of Birth 3 - Tyranny of Souls

You guys don't have the 2005 "expanded versions" of his solo albums, because there were a ton of AMAZING songs on the expanded versions, such as "Fire Child", "The Breeding House", "No Way Out... To Be Continued" on Balls to Picasso, etc.

Yes Chris!!!! 'Fire the ballerina dancer!!' I totally fuxkin agree, wholeheartedly.

31:45 I was at the July 16th show at the Hammerstein Ballroom, my first time seeing Maiden and Bruce’s first U.S. show returning to the band. Crazy because I live in Delaware but they didn’t play Philly that tour....and yes, one of the very few shows where they played “Stranger in a Strange Land” post 1986. Great show.

I keep hoping he will do one more solo album before he retires.

1) The Chemical Wedding 2) Tyranny of Souls 3) Accident of Birth 4) Balls to Picasso 5) Tattooed Millionaire 6) Skunkworks

Bruce Dickinson puts his pants on one leg at a time, but then he makes Gold records.

Chemical Wedding and Accident of birth are the best. I saw them on both tours. AoD Support for Lynyrd Skynyrd. CW headliner. Great Show! Way better than Iron Maiden a month before...

Hey Pete, I know you've done this before but I'm interested in a part two of guilty pleasure songs/albums with the Hudson Valley Squares (maybe with a slight line up change) and I'm also interested in what everyone's top ten all time favorite songs are. Anyways, love your channel!

1. Accident of Birth 2. Balls To Picasso 3. Chemical Wedding 4. Tattooed Millionaire 5. Tyranny of Souls 6. Skunkworks

Maybe you guys are not as familiar with his solo work but a blaze bayley album ranking would be awesome his first 6 albums are awesome and his latter albums have some great tunes on to.

Looking forward to your review of Bruce's new solo album The Mandrake Project. It's fantastic!

I feel deprived that I never saw Bruce solo and never got to hear all of these great songs live

On the subject of Blaze Bayley recording two albums with Iron Maiden, who is better Tim "Ripper" Owens or Blaze Bayley?

Chemical Wedding is one of the best metal albums in history, definitely among top 10

bruce Dickinson had solo albums wow.

Bring Your Daughter was a number one hit single in the UK.

My number one is Tyranny of souls. Would be cool to see a dream setlist show where you create a live setlist for a Bruce Dickinson concert with his solo songs.Maybe Ridin with the angels and two unplayed Maiden songs as encores.

Question: Which one takes the number on spot, "Accident of Birth" or "A Chemical Wedding"? Answer: Yes.

I couldn't believe how terrible those Blaze shows were. i saw Bruce solo for Accident of Birth, in Virginia at a place called Jaxx. He beat up a guy who was being a douche and then berated security, all while the solo was playing. It was a stunning show.

6.Tattooed Millionaire 5.Tyranny of Souls 4.Balls to Picasso 3.Skunkworks 2.Accident of Birth 1. Chemical Wedding.Absolutely love the variety of his solo career.Great players on each album

I would love to see ranking the albums of Running Wild love the channel

Saw Bruce and Adrian on accident of birth tour at the strand in Providence and what an amazing show (and at a small theater was even better). And when they returned to maiden saw them at the orpheum theater in Boston

Accident of Birth is the best one and best produced as well.

How about ranking the non-priest albums from Rob Halford (Fight, Two, Halford etc)?

Hey Guys- where would you rank The Mandrake Project?

FYI Janick is till there because Adrian said he wouldn't return to Maiden if it cost Janick his job so they decided to go with three guitarists

Got my ticket this morning for manchester in may 2024👍👍

is a kreator ranking the albums in the works for this year !

1. The Chemical Wedding 2. Accident of Birth 3. Tyranny of Souls 4. Skunkworks 5. Balls To Picasso 6. Tattoed Millionaire

Personally, I think Skunkworks is highly underrated. Sure, theres a bit more "filler" than some others, but still a solid album with some killer tracks 🤘

I instantly fell in love with Tattoed Millionaire back in the days : )

1 ACCIDENT OF BIRTH 2 CHEMICAL WEDDING 3 TATTOOED MILLIONAIRE 4 BALLS TO PICASSO 5 TYRANNY OF SOULS

1. Chemical Wedding 2. Skunkworks 3. Accident of Birth 4. Tattooed Millionaire 5. Tyranny of Souls 6. Balls to Picasso

Chemical Wedding is the only one I've ever owned. I love the concept and love Blake's Jerusalem & The Marriage Of Heaven And Hell & Adrian Smith. It doesn't come near my favorite Maiden albums, but it's probably better than anything Maiden's done since the classic 80's heyday.

6. Skunkworks 5. Tattooed millionaire 4. Balls to Picasso 3. Accident of birth 2. Tyranny of souls 1. The chemical wedding (MASTERPIECE!!!)

BTW love the video, keep it rolling guys!!! 6- Balls To Picasso (I always thought that album to be unfocus. Like most of the songs he didn't know what to do with them) 5- Tattoed Millionaire (Like they said, a stupid fun album, not very good, but not horrific by any mean) 4- Skunkwork (I actually really enjoy it, I think he really pulled the Grunge thing pretty good. I understand if you don't like those bands like Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, etc, but I do and I thought he did pretty neat job) 3- Tyranny Of Souls (Great record, only real tragedy about it, is if you have read Bruce's autobiograpgy, the title track was supposed to feat both Rob Halford and Ronnie James Dio, but because Ronnie wasn't on the same record label, Rod Smallwood didn't wanted it to happen, which is a BIG missed opportunity) 2- Accident Of Birth (Also a great record that I slightly like over TOS, because it simply longer ahah. But like Rich said, you can tell who wrotes whats songs in this album. It is a straight foward, song after song album that didn't try to make it feel like an experience, which is fine) 1- Chemical Wedding (Confession time: this is my 3rd favorite record of all time, that album feels like an experience, the melting of heavy modern metal that was happening in the 90's, with the old school glory of the early wave. Also, probaly Bruce stongest lyrics work all over it. A true masterpiece)

1. Chemical Wedding (1998) 2. Accident of Birth (1997) 3. Balls To Picasso (1994) - The expanded version 4. Tyranny of Souls (2005) - The last time Bruce sounded great 5. Skunkworks (1996) 6. Tattooed Millionaire (1990)

Skunkworks was Bruce's Tin Machine.

Chris, that Best Of has at least one new Song on it, "Silver Wings". I wanna say there were two but I don't really recall.

1. Chemical Wedding 2. Accident of Birth 3. Tyranny of Souls 4. Balls to Picasso 5. Skunkworks 6. Tattooed Millionaire * that Best of comp of Bruce is excellent - lots of rare stuff on it

For me there's 3 I love and can take or leave the others so my top 3 are 1. The Chemical Wedding 2. Accident of Birth 3. Balls to Picasso

Accident Of Birth and The Chemical Wedding are Bruce Dickinson's MASTERPIECES in my opinion, but his greatest song ever is Tears Of The Dragon also in my opinion. Their is a live version with a band called Tribuzy that has Bruce Dickinson and Roy Z which is the greatest version ever.

Loved Maiden/Anthrax show in Toronto January 1991. Had such a good time!!! Tattooed Millionaire has not aged well at all lol BUT it’s still better than Adrian’s first solo album “Silver & Gold” lol 😂😂😂😂

I've only got Chem Wedding(the best maiden record since somewhere in time). I'm tempted to either get the box set, or pic up the couple I've heard are really good(Balls to Picasso and Accodent at Birth).

Great video, my friends !!

I absolutely LOVE Tattooed Millionaire! I know it's an unpopular opinion, don't care. Masterpiece of eclectic music from Bruce.

Massive fan of all of these albums, really hard to rank them but here's my 2 cents worth with some comments: 6- Tattooed Millionaire - Some great songs on here Son of a Gun, Born in 58 but some clunkers too Zulu Lulu, Lickin' the Gun. A mixed bag. 5- Tyranny of Souls - A good album but just a bit underwhelming, lacks the edge that would make it great compared to the previous 2 releases. Safe? 4- Balls to Picasso - Interesting early raw production from Roy Z which hits you hard, combined with the dark lyrics this strikes me as bleak in a good way. Edgy. 3- Skunkworks - Hangs together really well as an album, lots of energy and some rawer production make tracks like Solar Confinement and Dream State shine. Smooth. 2- The Chemical Wedding - What can I say... cover, theme, production, songs, all awesome and probably more consistent than AOB but I don't feel it has as many stand-out tracks. Epic. 1- Accident of Birth - So many stand-out songs Omega, Starchildren are just 2. Stellar production overall and the bass and drums reminds me of classic Sabbath. Ultimate. Also just a note to say Roy Z's band A Tribe of Gypsies contribute so much to the albums they played on, they're not typical metal players and add and incredible feel and groove to the music.

I'm speaking as someone who has only heard his cover of 'All the Young Dudes', but I was chatting to a person I met in a pub in Watford UK 2009; he told me he had seen Maiden in the Very early days in London (and I mean very early days) I said that I loved 'Somewhere in Time' as an absolute masterpiece, and he said that he rated Bruce's solo work more highly than Maiden's. I've never had the inclination to check this out, but I've enjoyed this SOT episode regardless.

1. Chemical Wedding 2. Accident of Birth 3. Tyranny of Souls

1. Chemical Wedding 2. Accident of Birth 3. Tyranny of Souls 4. Skunkworks 5. Balls to Picasso 6. Tattooed Millionaire

My ranking: 1 Accident of Birth 2 The Chemical Wedding 3 Tyranny of Souls 4 Balls to Picasso 5 Tattooed Millionaire 6 Skunkworks

I like tyranny the best. Fair play rich tyranny is a brilliant album i loved it as soon as i heard it not a week song on it. Heavy and moody devil on a hog is great.

Chris cracks me up with his comments “Ballerina Guy” thanks for the laughs..

1. Chemical Wedding 2. Tyranny of Souls 3. Accident of Birth 4. Skunkworks 5. Balls to Picasso 6. Tattooed Millionaire AoB lost something . . Lot of fun, I do enjoy the lost Maiden album aspects as well. Love Skunkworks, but it gets a little long in spots with that production. They did 3/4 (6 tracks) off Virtual XI that night. Wow . . I like the album now, but damn good call Chris.

Tattooeed Millionaire is a great album and the only Bruce soloalbum that I`ve owned and listened to. Outside this album Tears Of The Dragon is a great song.

Great show guys You guys are the best I’ll check out your top picks. Aloha!!

Good epi. If you like BD solo, you may like the single 1989 A. Smith album ASAP-- Silver & Gold

Saw him on the accident of birth tour rock city Nottingham being from the same town born in 58 references to me and family

I absolutely love all the Bruce Dickinson solo albums. The Chemical Wedding album is my favorite album out of my 7000 plus cd collection. The Chemical Wedding was new when i got into it. I wasn't really into Maiden yet and couldn't get into Bruce's vocals but with Accident of Birth and Chemical Wedding it really clicked with me. Then Brave New World came out and i became a huge Maiden fan. But i still prefer Bruce's solo albums over Maiden albums.

1. Accident Of Birth 2. Chemical Wedding 3. Tyranny Of Souls 4. Skunkworks 5. Balls To Picasso 6. Tattooed Millionaire Not only do I agree with everyone who said that AOB and CW can stand up against any Maiden Album, I think particularly the songs Darkside Of Aquarius and Book Of Thel can go toe to toe with any of IM’s best tracks.

Awesome stuff as always and a very solid/consistent catalogue overall though I don't like tattooed millionaire at all (Chris is spot on with his assessment). Balls to Picasso is ok, the other albums are way better than these two. These are my picks 1. Chemical wedding 2. Skunkworks 3. Accident of birth 4. Tyranny of souls 5. Balls to Picasso 6. Tattooed millionaire

Yeah, the last 3 records are more traditional metal, true. But, I really thought it was cool what Bruce did with the first 3 records in that he was trying something different. More straightforward hard rock (yeah some of it is a little silly but he meant it to be that way. I think he intended to to do a parody of some of the popular bands at the time ) in Tattooed Millionaire, added some more alternative/groove rock sound for Balls To Picasso and then went for more of a Soundgarden/King's X alt/prog vibe for Skunkworks. For me, some of the Balls to Picasso tracks come off a little flat and are much more vibrant on the Live in Studio A record.

Accident of Birth and Chemical Wedding are about as good as any Maiden album. Perhaps I just graduated from high school before the former came out has some influence, but either way, two brilliant albums. I enjoy the others too. I didn’t like Skunkworks in the 90’s but have grown into that album since.