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(New Musical Express)   The best British album of the past 60 years, according to Brits? Iron Maiden's The Number of the Beast   (nme.com) divider line 159
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2012-05-28 09:43:37 AM
Hardly a fail. A lot of metalheads here really like that album.
 
2012-05-28 09:46:45 AM
walterhiggins.net
 
2012-05-28 10:06:03 AM
Agree or not, this isn't fail
 
2012-05-28 10:13:06 AM
I'm kind of partial to Powerslave but it's all good.
 
2012-05-28 11:07:52 AM
How is this the reception of the Fail tag?
 
2012-05-28 11:23:00 AM
I'll probably be stoned for saying this, but my favorite album of theirs is "A Matter of Life and Death".
 
2012-05-28 11:24:16 AM
I just NetFlixed "The Making of" that record. Pretty cool. Also seen "Making of" for Rush 2112/Moving Pictures, Pink Floyd Dark Side of the Moon, Queen A Night at the Opera, The Who Who's Next, Black Sabbath Paranoid. Pretty cool series.

/csb
 
2012-05-28 11:37:02 AM
Best in the last 60 years? Hell if I know. Good album? Hell yeah.
 
2012-05-28 04:40:10 PM
While I'd think a Beatles record such as Abbey Road would have gotten the #1 spot, I have no problem with this selection.
 
2012-05-28 05:05:14 PM
Cold Meat Pie's debut album

FTFY
 
2012-05-28 05:06:00 PM
meow said the dog: How is this the reception of the Fail tag?

Because it's a fail? In a world where since 1952 we've had Beatles, Rolling Stones, The Who, Stone Roses and about 1,000 other bands...a 3rd-rate band like Iron Maiden being on the list is a fail.
 
2012-05-28 05:11:16 PM
Fail? That's a farking iconic album. What did you want subby, something stereotypically British? Herman's Hermits belting out "Henry the 8th I am I am!" ??
 
2012-05-28 05:11:17 PM
Who is HVM? Or NME or that matter.
 
2012-05-28 05:13:10 PM
Fail? Go F*ck yourself, subby.
 
2012-05-28 05:13:27 PM
JosephFinn: meow said the dog: How is this the reception of the Fail tag?

Because it's a fail? In a world where since 1952 we've had Beatles, Rolling Stones, The Who, Stone Roses and about 1,000 other bands...a 3rd-rate band like Iron Maiden being on the list is a fail.



The only one of those bands not better than Iron Maiden is the Who, so no, it's not a fail. Subby is the one who failed.
 
2012-05-28 05:13:59 PM
I think Piece of Mind is a better album but I'm ok with this.

/Up The Irons
 
2012-05-28 05:14:05 PM
mongbiohazard: JosephFinn: meow said the dog: How is this the reception of the Fail tag?

Because it's a fail? In a world where since 1952 we've had Beatles, Rolling Stones, The Who, Stone Roses and about 1,000 other bands...a 3rd-rate band like Iron Maiden being on the list is a fail.


The only one of those bands who is better than Iron Maiden is the Who, so no, it's not a fail. Subby is the one who failed.



FTFM

Damn, now I'm the one who failed.
 
2012-05-28 05:26:25 PM
There's an Oasis album on there but no Blur??

The Who, Sex Pistols, Blur, Stone Roses, The Cure, Joy Division, Arctic Monkeys, Pulp and The Rolling Stones all failed to make the Top 20.

And not even a mention of New Order?
 
2012-05-28 05:27:51 PM
SilentStrider: I'll probably be stoned for saying this, but my favorite album of theirs is "A Matter of Life and Death".

I'd get you stoned, but you'd probably like it.
 
2012-05-28 05:28:20 PM
Refudiated Strategerist: Who is HVM? Or NME or that matter.

HMV = His Master's Voice. It's a chain of record stores.

brandtao.files.wordpress.com

NME = New Music Express. Music magazine.
 
2012-05-28 05:29:00 PM
Relatively Obscure: Best in the last 60 years? Hell if I know. Good album? Hell yeah.

That thing what he just said.
 
2012-05-28 05:29:57 PM
I LOOOOOVE Iron Maiden, and I love Number of the Beast. But Piece of Mind is better. Hello, Nicko...!

But more to the point, 60 years of British rock?? That's a lot of great music. I'm not gonna argue the point, but as much as I love quality metal, I don't wear blinders - the Beatles are the best rock band ever, and the correct answer is Revolver. At least freaking Depeche Mode didn't win.... :/
 
2012-05-28 05:31:13 PM
I'da picked Who's Next, but a fine selection. Could also win "best cover."

/At least it wasn't Sgt. Pepper, a mediocre album, at least for the Beatles.
 
2012-05-28 05:34:10 PM
More of an Aces High kind of guy, but I'll give em all the slack in the world for coming close!
 
2012-05-28 05:37:03 PM
fusillade762: Refudiated Strategerist: Who is HVM? Or NME or that matter.

HMV = His Master's Voice. It's a chain of record stores.

[brandtao.files.wordpress.com image 468x374]

NME = New Music Express. Music magazine.


Thanks...now to figure their demographics.

My wife just told me I had been in one of the HMV stores in London a few years ago. It must have made a big impression
 
2012-05-28 05:37:15 PM
Oh well wherever where you are
Iron Maiden's gonna get you no matter far

Honestly, it might barely make the top 4 of best Maiden albums, but it was certainly the most popular. That album was a revolution, you couldn't say the same for hacks like the Beatles or Rolling Stones.


IMO Powerslave was the best Bruce era album, but the S/T and Killers were both better.
 
2012-05-28 05:37:41 PM
Apparently, they are still holding the grudge against Roger Waters. You get in one lawsuit over a rubber pig, and it's downhill from there.

static.pplaylist.com
 
2012-05-28 05:44:31 PM
Subby img1.fark.nets
 
2012-05-28 05:55:40 PM
Spinal Tap were one of those bands I didn't know people actually listened to until like 5 years ago. I just thought they were a real life Spinal Tap-type band. I'm not really surprised they're on the list, though #1 is definitely questionable.
 
2012-05-28 05:56:14 PM
What no Henry Cow?!
 
2012-05-28 05:56:58 PM
I'm cool with it, that album was revolutionary. Kinda surprised they didn't ask Steve Harris what he thought though, since he farking wrote most of it.

img822.imageshack.us

/got my tickets
 
2012-05-28 05:59:04 PM
Violator is #2? Music for the Masses was a better album.

Oh, and this:

DammitIForgotMyLogin: [walterhiggins.net image 600x600]

All 9 minutes and 55 seconds of trippy goodness.
 
2012-05-28 05:59:26 PM
Seems like this is a list of the most commonly enjoyed albums, not the best per say. I would have a couple higher in my list, including Powerslave, Masters of Reality, and a bunch others. There would have been no Beatles in it. To each their own, and if it so happens this sampling had that album consistently mentioned somewhere then so be it.

In other news, your favorite band sucks.
 
2012-05-28 06:04:53 PM
If I've said it once, I've said it a million times. Democracy doesn't work.

/Up the Irons anyway
 
2012-05-28 06:07:41 PM
FeedTheCollapse: Spinal Tap were one of those bands I didn't know people actually listened to until like 5 years ago. I just thought they were a real life Spinal Tap-type band. I'm not really surprised they're on the list, though #1 is definitely questionable.

Say what now?
 
2012-05-28 06:10:31 PM
First they vote a dog as winner of Britain's Got Talent and now this.

I think the Brits are finally sick of reality TV and 'best' lists and have decided to troll by the millions.
 
2012-05-28 06:21:32 PM
Dee Snarl: I LOOOOOVE Iron Maiden, and I love Number of the Beast. But Piece of Mind is better. Hello, Nicko...!/

Pretty sure I'm the only Maiden fan who doesn't care for Piece of Mind. It falls into a weird limbo between Number of the Beast's energy and Powerslaves's artistry. Its like an awkward 14 year old who's no longer a kid but lacks the perks of young adulthood.

Anyways, can't complain over the selection, not sure if I'd agree but damn its rare to see a music list that isn't godawful.
 
2012-05-28 06:27:49 PM
Flappyhead: Relatively Obscure: Best in the last 60 years? Hell if I know. Good album? Hell yeah.

That thing what he just said.


img46.imageshack.us
 
2012-05-28 06:28:02 PM
Good, I thought it was going to be some shiatty Oasis album
 
2012-05-28 06:28:46 PM
I don't agree with it, but it could be a lot worse.
 
2012-05-28 06:29:09 PM
DammitIForgotMyLogin: [walterhiggins.net image 600x600]

That is a great album, and I used to bang my girlfriend to it all the time when I was in high school. But I drank a lot of beer and smoked a lot of dope to Number of the Beast with my buddies back then too.
Decisions, decisions. I'm so torn. Can I have both?
 
2012-05-28 06:30:16 PM
SilentStrider: I'll probably be stoned for saying this, but my favorite album of theirs is "A Matter of Life and Death".

I'm a little late, but I thought I should say I think that's their best one out of the past twenty years.
 
2012-05-28 06:31:54 PM
WTF on the fail tag. Subby must be mad about Barry Manilo being snubbed.
 
2012-05-28 06:32:39 PM
JosephFinn: meow said the dog: How is this the reception of the Fail tag?

Because it's a fail? In a world where since 1952 we've had Beatles, Rolling Stones, The Who, Stone Roses and about 1,000 other bands...a 3rd-rate band like Iron Maiden being on the list is a fail.


And none of those bands you mentioned would have existed had it not been for Chuck Berry.

However thirty years after the influence of Maiden is still heard directly and out in front in bands breaking new ground. In that span of time every band you mentioned had spawned, at best, parodies of themselves.
 
2012-05-28 06:33:55 PM
Great LP, and yes I said LP, aong with Squeeze Singles 45 and Under.
 
2012-05-28 06:34:36 PM
Skarekrough: JosephFinn: meow said the dog: How is this the reception of the Fail tag?

Because it's a fail? In a world where since 1952 we've had Beatles, Rolling Stones, The Who, Stone Roses and about 1,000 other bands...a 3rd-rate band like Iron Maiden being on the list is a fail.

And none of those bands you mentioned would have existed had it not been for Chuck Berry.

However thirty years after the influence of Maiden is still heard directly and out in front in bands breaking new ground. In that span of time every band you mentioned had spawned, at best, parodies of themselves.


Agreed. Chuck wrote the book for them all.
 
2012-05-28 06:35:48 PM
i50.tinypic.com

/I know - Piece of Mind was the best, but i listen to this album just as often...
 
2012-05-28 06:35:57 PM
Beatles get way too much credit for making mindless pop music. With the exception of a couple songs John Lennon wrote.

For years i ignored Iron Maiden because i grouped them in with mediocre metal bands like AC/DC or whatever, and it was just in the last 5 years i gave them a good listen. Damn sure glad i did. They're so underrated, even with their sizable fanbase. They should be far more recognized, and this is a good start.
 
2012-05-28 06:39:39 PM
When did Piece of Mind become the best Maiden album? Noone thought that back in the 80s as I recall, Beast was best. Powerslave is fluff ffs.
 
2012-05-28 06:43:37 PM
fusillade762: There's an Oasis album on there but no Blur??

The Who, Sex Pistols, Blur, Stone Roses, The Cure, Joy Division, Arctic Monkeys, Pulp and The Rolling Stones all failed to make the Top 20.

And not even a mention of New Order?


New Order's best stuff was 12" singles.

Also, the only reason Maiden won is most of the other contenders had votes split between multiple albums.
 
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