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Taverner Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-28-09 04:35 PM
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Can I still call myself a metalhead if I only like Iron Maiden's first two albums?
Edited on Wed Oct-28-09 04:36 PM by Taverner
They both have that raw I-can't-believe-it's-not-punk! sound
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Taverner Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-28-09 04:37 PM
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1. For the uninitiated: the "kill" that is out of view on "Killers" is Maggie Thatcher
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Tobin S. Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-28-09 05:09 PM
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2. You must also like 2 Slayer songs and Metallica's "Master of Puppets"
as well as "Holy Wars" by Megadeth. Then you can forever call yourself a metalhead even if you don't like any metal made after 1989.
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vadawg Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-29-09 11:07 AM
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13. eek, south of heaven and angel of death and it is as you say
i love the early maiden as well, d'annos voice on i believe a sont about tomorrow or something on the first album rocks...
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backwoodsbob Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-28-09 05:14 PM
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3. no early metal Judas Priest?
sacrelige...back to the woodshed with you
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MrSlayer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-28-09 05:23 PM
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4. No, you're only a Metalhead if Metal is your main genre.
You're allowed to like other things but Metal has to be the main course of your music diet.
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Iggo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-28-09 05:30 PM
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5. Wait just a durned minute.
Edited on Wed Oct-28-09 05:47 PM by Iggo
Do you mean you only like the first two Iron Maiden albums and the rest of IM's albums suck, but you also like a whole bunch of other metal? Or do you mean the only two metal albums you like are the first two IM albums?

This is important.
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Taverner Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-28-09 05:49 PM
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6. They don't "suck"
They're OK albums, I guess. But Bruce Dickinson, tho he may be of the golden throated air raid siren, just never fit for me.
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Iggo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-29-09 10:19 AM
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11. Actually, the first option is a common and well respected stand.
"Suck" was probably too strong a word. But there's people who don't like later Maiden albums just like there are those of us who recognize no Metallica albums after ...And Justice For All.
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vadawg Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-29-09 11:07 AM
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14. +1000
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rcrush Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-28-09 05:51 PM
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7. I like most of Iron Maidens albums
Even the ones with Blaze Baley in the band. Even though The Clansmen is way better sung by Bruce. I also like the later albums like Dance of Death and even A Matter of Life and Death.
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conscious evolution Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-28-09 06:10 PM
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8. No
If you had said first four I would cut you some slack.
Piece of Mind is the greatest metal ever.Number of the Beast is a close second.
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Taverner Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-28-09 06:38 PM
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9. (The First Four) They're OK...
Edited on Wed Oct-28-09 06:38 PM by Taverner
Do they measure up to anything LZ did? No.

Do they measure up to Black Sabbath - the Ozzy years? No.

But those first two albums did, and more - they went into a punk direction that the later changed.
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Initech Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-28-09 06:41 PM
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10. Depends on what your other tastes are.
Bruce's heavily operatic style isn't for everybody. I'd need to see some proof before I can discredit your metalness or not.
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Throd Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-29-09 10:59 AM
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12. Absolutely. I never cared for Bruce.
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Taverner Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-29-09 05:10 PM
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15. So it's not just me!
I mean, I like Bruce - but he's just kind of an Operatic Singer. Something that would be in a Sandler Video

I prefer the more Punk sensibilities of Paul DiAnno - he had a voice that just fit Maiden better. The crazy guitar solos with the raw energy of his voice.

Nothing else in either of their careers worked out either
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Throd Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-29-09 06:46 PM
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17. Couldn't agree with you more on that!
Paul brought a raw edge that I really enjoyed. Bruce brought too much of a sissified Dungeons and Dragons flavor for my taste. I still listened to them a lot because I dug the guitar work despite Bruce's vocals.
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Amerigo Vespucci Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-29-09 06:07 PM
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16. "Women In Uniforms"...the best Maiden song EVER...
...and not a trace of Bruce Dickinson in SIGHT.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3YiR13bmFfc

:toast:
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