Controversial Metal Opinions

[ldj]

WHAT!!!? You're absolutely mad 

[Ducky]

Hai, yeah never liked the bugger at all 

If we had a "worst second album" thread, this and Hell Awaits are cream/poop of the crop for me 

[Bürggermeister]

Blaze is doing a Maiden set at Keep It True in a couple of weeks, turns out he'll be doing all of The X Factor, so I've been doing some homework. Jaysus it's a fucking slog getting through that album. You can practically hear the wheels seize up on Harris' E-C-D-E wagon, he is flat out of ideas but just grinds out a poxy song regardless 😂

[Maggot Colony]

I have to say... Number of the Beast is fucjen amazeballs all the way through. Imagine the joy of hearing it in 1982

Listening to Beast now. It's a brilliant album but I still think Killers is superior.

[Maggot Colony]

I'd listen to The X Factor any day ahead of Killers. The latter is awful muck.

Shame on you. Leave the hall and take your Jamiroquai vinyl collection with you.

[Anvil]

I actually like quite a bit of the X Factor but that Priest from EastEnders did mess Steve up a bit by fucking his wife. 

[Ducky]

I'd listen to The X Factor any day ahead of Killers. The latter is awful muck.

Shame on you. Leave the hall and take your Jamiroquai vinyl collection with you.

My Jamiroquai collection is on the superior audio format, namelt compact disc 

[Carnage]

Killers is, of course excellent. My first Maiden album (chosen simply because it had the most songs, this was mid-'80s), never looked back. It's held up well, sounds great (I love the bass tone in particular). Some of their best sonhs are on there - Murders In The Rue Morgue alone is a serious statement of intent.

The X Factor is far from a great album - with the best will in the world, Bayley just didn't have the voice for it - but it is the best of the bad '90s bunch.

[Sworntothecans]

I actually like quite a bit of the X Factor but that Priest from EastEnders did mess Steve up a bit by fucking his wife. 

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

"SHE'S TURNED THE WEANS AGAINST US ROD"

[leatherface]

I'd listen to The X Factor any day ahead of Killers. The latter is awful muck.

Shame on you. Leave the hall and take your Jamiroquai vinyl collection with you.

Killers is a top 5 Maiden album easily. 'Muck' it certainly is not. Seems like you're being edgy for the sake of it,to each his own though.  One song on it that never gets any mention is 'Another Life', really good overlooked track. Paul Dianno RIP. If the X Factor had more songs on it like 'Man On The Edge' it would be brilliant but it's tepid at best imo. If you like it , respect.

[Cosmic_Equilibrium]

I wouldn't say Killers is a bad album but I can't give it more than 7.5/10 at best. There are some amazing highs on there - title track, Wrathchild, Purgatory, Murders in the Rue Morgue, Prodigal Son (which is total Jethro Tull worship) - but there are several songs on there which are blatantly B side material. I think Harris said that the first two Maiden albums encompassed their whole repertoire up to then, and that the strongest songs mostly went on the debut and the leftovers mostly went on Killers, and it's pretty obvious when you listen to them both.

The lack of a proper epic a la Phantom Of The Opera also is an issue, had one been included I think that would make it an 8/10 album at least.

[Eoin McLove]

I wouldn't say Killers is a bad album but I can't give it more than 7.5/10 at best. There are some amazing highs on there - title track, Wrathchild, Purgatory, Murders in the Rue Morgue, Prodigal Son (which is total Jethro Tull worship) - but there are several songs on there which are blatantly B side material. I think Harris said that the first two Maiden albums encompassed their whole repertoire up to then, and that the strongest songs mostly went on the debut and the leftovers mostly went on Killers, and it's pretty obvious when you listen to them both.

The lack of a proper epic a la Phantom Of The Opera also is an issue, had one been included I think that would make it an 8/10 album at least.

Not sure I would even give it 7.5,  particularly when you sit out alongside either the debut or Number of the Beast- both 10s.

[Pagan Saviour]

There's two clangers on Number of The Beast. Invaders is ridiculous and never cared for Gangland. Total Eclipse should've gone on there.

[Ducky]

There's two clangers on Number of The Beast. Invaders is ridiculous and never cared for Gangland. Total Eclipse should've gone on there.

Invaders is one of their worst songs from the 80s. Awful muck. Gangland is okay, but definitely the weakest of the rest of the album. 22 Acacia Avenue is another one I'm happy to skip.

Totally agree about Total Eclipse too,

[Thorn]

Invaders is getting to be famously divisive on here, Love it myself