Battle of the TITLE tracks!

[Zzzptm]

Also next please to Motorhead oh boy oh boy!

I'd ask for Deep Purple, but they had like 9 out of 22 albums with a title track, and that's counting Concerto for Group and Orchestra!

[Charger]

I was thinking about doing Purple next eventhough that's gonna be a short list.

I thought there'd be maybe bit more variance in Maiden than Sabbath for us...Quite surprised to see Number Of The Beast being #1...it's a great song for sure!

For me Iron Maiden has always rocked the most...that riff is just brilliant. I was also very much expecting to be the only one to rank Dance Of Death so high but that song is like the perfect example of the "other" side of Maiden as compared to IM. And it also has a great riff and some killer vocals. Also the fact that that album is the last good Maiden album makes a lot of difference as well.

Honestly though songs from 3 to 7 could change order any given day as those are all pretty darn good tracks and all have something very Maiden in them...that being said as previously mentioned out of them only Seventh Son and Fear are the best tracks of those albums. Powerslave is on the bottom half of the songs Alexander and Loneliness take the lead over Time and ofcourse Prisoner and Hallowed go over Beast.

Killers was the hardest one to rate here for me...it's a killer (pun intented) track but it's also very different in comparison to any other classic maiden title track...

[Zzzptm]

Deep Purple it is, then! With the understanding Motorhead's next!

1. Fireball
2. Burn
3. Stormbringer
4. Perfect Strangers
5. Bananas
6. Book of Taliesyn
7. The Rapture of the Deep
8. Concerto for Group and Orchestra
9. The Battle Rages On

Top-down approach on this one, first 3 slotted out of instincts honed over decades of listening to them. Even though Fireball is totally pinched off of Canadian band Warpig, Deep Purple ran with it and did a lot more with it than the original group. Burn and Stormbringer show the direction Blackmore's about to take with Dio in Rainbow, hold on to your hats, metalheads!

Perfect Strangers is the best of the rest, followed for me by what I consider my favorite track from an overall flawed album, Bananas. Book of Taliesyn is a fast-paced number from the first lineup and I like the way it rocks. It gives a hint that 3 of these guys will be doing Speed King in a few months' time...

The Rapture of the Deep isn't a strong track, but I like it somewhat. Concerto has a fun start, bogs in the middle, and gets fun again towards the end, but it's a HUGE investment of time to get through it all. Kind of like a long flight overseas: takeoff and landing are fun, but there's that middle bit where you are painfully aware of how small your seat is and that line for the bathroom seems like it's out to get you. TBRO is from an album that shouldn't have happened - Blackmore and Gillan were ready to kill each other, there should not have been a steel cage match equivalent with this album and the following tour. Once Satriani showed up to do guitar work, they were free to fly. 

[Charger]

Jumped the shark! I was gonna put this up tomorrow!


Also you missed one.


1. Perfect Strangers
2. Fireball
3. Burn
4. The Rapture Of The Deep (that riff is GOLD)
5. The Battle Rages On
6. Bananas
7. Purpendicular Waltz
8. Stormbringer
9. Concerto For Group And Orchestra
10. Book Of Taliesyn

[Vyn]

My IM list would pretty much be in line with the others, so I'll skip it. Deep Purple: Burn and Stormbringer are interchangeable as number one, and much of their material post PS I've never heard.

1. Burn
2. Stomrbringer
3. Fireball
4. Perfect Strangers
5. Book of Taliesyn

... that's as far as I can go. I still cannot believe they released an album called Bananas.

[KiloDeltaCharlie]

Not my area of expertise! But...

1. Fireball
2. Burn
3. Perfect Strangers
4. Stormbringer

... err, that's about all I know!

[Zzzptm]

Also you missed one.

Arguable, as it's not *matching* the album title. Be that as it is, I'd put it on my list between Burn and Stormbringer because I really love that tune, I do.

Shame on the rest of you for not being current on your Purple! 

[Charger]

Well no it's not matching...but neither was Caught Somewhere In Time and put that in too so this'll get that same exception.

And yes I second on the shame! You guys are missing a HELL of a lot of EXCELLENT music!

[Zzzptm]

Indeed, all y'all go out and give at least Purpendicular a spin and tell us how it was.

[Jack the Stripper]

1. Perfect Strangers
2. Burn
3. Fireball
4. Stormbringer
5. The Battle Rages On
6. Rapture of the Deep
7. Purpendicular Waltz
8. Bananas
9. Concerto For Group And Orchestra
10. Book Of Taliesyn

Title tracks are very spotty with Purple. First 4 are out and out classics and interchangeable for me but I’ll put Perfect Strangers on top as it represents more what I love/prefer in a title track, a moody and epic feel, but I’ve always wished it went longer. The rest from 5-10 are pretty forgettable but I do love the riff in The Battle Rages On. Don’t know how Z could have that one ranked on the bottom and likewise with Charger don’t know how he’s got Stormbringer so low.

[Zzzptm]

Don’t know how Z could have that one ranked on the bottom

Gonna have to agree to disagree. But we all put Concerto second to last, go figure, huh?

[Charger]

... and likewise with Charger don’t know how he’s got Stormbringer so low.

Well frankly I like all these tracks...well maybe not Book Of Taliesyn....and Concerto is a world of it's own as well...But songs 1-8 are all 7 to 10 point songs no doubt about it.

Stormbringer is a solid track but it's the vocals that bring that down. Frankly the version on The Cage album with Tony Martin and Dario Mollo is much better than the original due to the vocals.

Burn ofcourse suffers from the same thing but musically that track is just so brilliant that one can overlook the spotty vocals.

I agree with the Riff on The Battle Rages On being very good. And ofcourse Ian's vocals are top notch as well.

[Charger]

Now I guess we'll be going on then.


And because it was already talked about I think we'll do Bon Jovi next!


....just kidding...it's:

MOTÖRHEAD time!

1. Overkill
2. Ace Of Spades
3. Orgasmatron
4. Iron Fist
5. Bomber
6. Sacrifice
7. We Are Motörhead
8. March Or Die
9. Rock 'n Roll
10. Overnight Sensation
11. Another Perfect Day
12. Motörhead
13. 1916
14. Snake Bite Love

[Vyn]

1. Ace of Spades
2. Bomber
3. Iron Fist
3. Overkill
3. Rock n Roll
3. We Are Motorhead
3. Another Perfect Day
3. Overnight Sensation
3. Orgasmatron
3. 1916
3. Snake Bite Love
3. March or Die
3. Sacrifice
4. Motorhead

[Charger]

Hmmm...something's off with your numbering there bud... I guess you were using your phone...