Best Maiden song..

Ok whats your top 5 Maiden songs...for me

1. Prowler <- just a great pre Bruce song
2. To Tame a Land <- was actually first Maiden song ever heard
3. Hallowed Be Thy Name <- great guitar work, "life down here is just a strange illusion"..just overall great theme for the song
4. Fear of the Dark <- one of the weakest album (No Prayer being the worst, I prefer to forget they ever released that) releases but the song pretty much makes up for it
5. The Longest Day <- post Bruce return, flat out one of their best songs ever, epic

Alot of other songs could make it and other then Hallowed my top 5 has shifted alot over the years and will probably continued to be.

I really like Hallowed Be Thy Name and Fear of The Dark. They are one of their best. I also love Wasted Years and Running Free. I love the refrain of Man On The Egde but otherwise I think its rather weak

1. Alexander the great
2. Rime of the ancient Mariner
3. Stranger in a strange land
4. Deja vu
5. Flight of Icarus

the trooper, it just is.

Not so much into Iron Maiden, more a Metallica guy.
So no top 5 here, but I'll say Number of the Beast ofc.

Edit: Like Ghost of Navigator too.

For me like Gary88
The Trooper
Hallowed be thy name
Seventh son of a seventh son - I like it, epic
Number of the beast
Children of the damned

They've done so many good songs damn it, that said i'm more a Judas Priest man than anything.

RotAM.

Damn, that's a tough one. Just throwing some out there:

Hallowed be Thy Name
The Nomad (such an underrated beauty from "Brave New World")
Flight of Icarus
Genghis Khan (another lesser known one)
Revelations
Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Alexander the Great
Mother Russia
Dance of Death
No More Lies

Well the responses just highlight Maiden's greatness since there are very few songs people agree on since they have produced so many great ones Looks like Rhyme and Hallowed are the only reoccurring one...if only I could convince wife that a 14 min epic song about Coleridge's poem is a good thing....

1. Aces High. short, but incredible
2. Alexander the Great. epic
3. The Clairvoyant. Tight
4. Afraid to Shoot Strangers. the best chorus ever
5. The Number Of The Beast. classic

Originally Posted by Your Lame Sister

3. The Clairvoyant. Tight

"Just by looking through your eyes
He could see the future penetrating right in through your mind
See the truth and see your lies
But for all his power, couldn't foresee his own demise"

Some of my favorite Iron Maiden lyrics.

and the music is even better.

Aces High
Paschendale
Hallowed Be Thy Name
Prowler
The Trooper

Aces High
The Trooper
Wasted Years
Run to the Hills
Dance of Death
Fear of the Dark
Powerslave
Hallowed by the Name

There are to many, going to see them in a month

So many to choose

I will give it a go

1.Journeyman
2.Phantom of the Opera
3.Prowler
4.Blood Brothers
5.The Sign of the cross

Glad to see Prowler and pre Dickerson Maiden get some respect. I mean Maiden will always be Bruce but the more raw/rough vocals with DiAnno were great in their own right.

Originally Posted by Boeing

Paschendale

Such a great song about war and the Ypres battle a great companion song to The Longest Day. Its probably the best quality of Maiden always tapping into history and turning out fantastic songs.

Aces High
The Trooper
The Evil That Men Do
Can I Play With Madness
Rime of the Ancient Mariner

no particular order...just the order I saw them in as I went through my list.

Wasn't "To tame a Land" based on Dune by Frank Herbert? Great subject matter, shame about the song. I've always seen it as a bit of a filler track.

"Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner" would get my vote, as it pretty much encapsulates everything thats good about Maiden in one song.

Originally Posted by Rhah

Wasn't "To tame a Land" based on Dune by Frank Herbert? Great subject matter, shame about the song. I've always seen it as a bit of a filler track.

Yep supposedly they wanted to name it Dune and asked permission but Herbert rejected it because he hated "rock bands especially bands like Iron Maiden"...dunno if that is true and sounds more like an urban myth but still funny.

Yep supposedly they wanted to name it Dune and asked permission but Herbert rejected it because he hated "rock bands especially bands like Iron Maiden"...dunno if that is true and sounds more like an urban myth but still funny.

Probably true Iron Maiden wasn't that big back in those days besides the guy acted like a prick for nothing