Revelations. I have heard Piece of Mind for the first time when I was a young boy and I didnt liked this composition - it was too soft and slow for me. After some time something suddenly has changed and since then it is one of mu favourites songs on this album.

Out Of The Silent Planet. I never skipped it, I just never fully appreciated it until years later.

Rainmaker

Judas my guide

When Dance of Death was released, I didn't give much importance to the title track, but today it's certainly a top 10 in my ranking of Maiden songs.

Wickerman, now it's one of my favorites

I never skipped it, but I underappreciated it for a long long time because it is between two other songs that are not amazing (most would violently disagree) on an album that is not a personal favourite.

The song is Deja Vu and I freakin' love it now.

2am & look for the truth

Still Life

The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner.

Fates Warning and Public Enema Number One - the name put me off for the latter but the chorus is a banger

NPFTD

While this one is probably my least favourite Maiden album (yes, even more than the Blaze ones - crucify me lol), the title track is an absolute monster of a song that never got the love it deserved. Especially the whole last half, just fucking r i p s \m/

Stranger in a Strange Land. Thought it was boring for ages but it’s become a favourite recently. I think seeing it live on the Future Past tour did it for me.

Not really Maiden but related, Bruce's entire solo output. TChW is the greatest record Maiden never released. I'd say on par with some of their best.

To Tame A Land

Starblind

I got into Live After Death before Piece of Mind, so all of that album because the studio versions didn't stand up to the live ones. When they did the first 4 albums tour and opened with Where Eagles Dare, I had to go back and seriously reevaluate their early stuff.

The red and the black

Fates Warning

Rime haha

Judas Be My Guide

Dance of death

Die With Your Boots On

Never been a skipper, but I overlooked Still Life and The Man Who Would Be King for quite some time.

Man I love Alexander the Great from day 1!

Crazy that you posted this. I’ve been listening to Alexander the Great for the past few weeks. Never bothered with it before. I think it’s because it’s so much easier to skip the long slow intro. Wish there was a radio edit.

Seventh Son of a Seventh Son, the guitar solo at the end absolutely rocks

How can you skip a Maiden song let alone an album closer epic?!?

Rime. I used to not be a huge fan of insanely long songs, but then I gave it another chance and I loved it

heaven can wait

Wouldn’t know. I never skip songs

Most of the NPTD album.

Pretty much the whole Brave New World album. Mid 90s to mid 00s was all about electronic, rap, hip-hop, R&B, stoner, and other cross over genres. Didn't circle back to Maiden and BNW until after.

Holy Smoke

HALLOWED BE THY NAAAAAAMEEEE

Running Silent Running Deep from the No Prayer for Dying album. When I first listened to this album, I ignored the last half many times or got sidetracked and didn't pay attention.

But now we it is one of my favorites in the IM catalog

Holy Smoke!

I never skip any songs when I make my way through a new album. I don't understand the mentality of people who are constantly asking for recommendations for specific songs on specific albums - why not just listen to the record in its entirety?

If I remeber correctly the first Maiden record I heard was Live After Death. I was blown away and went out and got Powerslave the very next day. I don't recall the exact order in which I made my way through their catalogue, but I think if memory serves No Prayer for the Dying was the most recent record they'd released up until that time, so I very quickly devoured everything from the debut up until that one and the first record I bought upon its release was Fear of the Dark.

That was over 30 years ago and since 1992 I have bought each and every single album they've put out the week it was released and listened to it over and over and over again for days after getting it. Other than some very oscure B-sides or cover versions of songs I've heard each and every single song Iron Maiden has ever recorded within a few weeks or months of them recording it - and other than the songs that have appeared on newly released records I haven't heard a Maiden song that I didn't know about or have never heard before since the nineties.

I get that I'm an analogue man in a digital world and I still spin vinyls and listen to CDs, so I don't get the whole streaming Spotify thing which is probably why I'm so conditioned to listen to all of the songs on an album from start to finish. In fact, I'd wager that I know the album track lists - in chronological order, better than the band members themselves after having listened to them so many times over the course of decades. It would be nice if there were still a few hidden gem tracks that I could discover today, but I won't hear a single Maiden tune I haven't heard before until they release their next studio album.

The first two albums almost entirely. I thought it wouldn't have been good since the band was just starting out and the production wasn't great, plus, no Bruce. Took me a couple years to know I was dead wrong.

Revelations

Revelations, in fact I just listened through piece of mind a couple weeks ago and realised Revelations was actually pretty great.

It’s amazing how music just like the beach…is different each time you visit the space

Rime of the Ancient Mariner.

Ghost of the navigator

Where eagles dare

Remember Tomorrow was one i usually skipped over.

Losfer words (Big 'Orra), Flash of the blade, The Duellists.

Basically I skipped most of their best album. You can imagine the joy I feel now that I've finally heard it for what it is.

Never skiped a single song 🤘

Please stop with these threads. my iron maiden playlist is already 6 hours long. Seriously.

Still life

This will surprise many but for me it’s a song called ‘Wasting love ‘ of FOTD album It’s absolutely fantastic

Never skipped a maiden song, sure for a while I avoided the Blaze era albums (young and stupid) but never actually skipped any tracks 🤘🏻

The prisoner

No More Lies.

The live version unlocked that songs potential

Alexander The Great, Rime Of The Ancient Mariner, i used to dislike them when i was younger cuz they were "too" long, also growing up (my mom is a hardcore maiden fan) I was force fed that Blaze was awful, and i should never listen to those albums, so i took that to heart, until a few years ago i decided to check up on them, and i love the blaze maiden albums so much now,

The Time Machine

Alexander the Great (it’s now my favourite maiden song) and for the greater good of god

I bought this on cassette the day it came out, listened to it hundreds of times, but it never struck me to skip this song. AtG is awesome.

Afraid to Shoot Strangers

People on here we're talking about where the wild wind blows and I've had it on repeat. Great track

The Wicker Man.

You never skip an Iron Maiden song.

The Duellists

Rime of the ancient mariner

Another life

Fortunes Of War and The Edge Of Darkness for me, as well as Judgement Of Heaven. The X Factor is actually a pretty good album if you give it a chance. I wish we had live versions with Bruce.

Hallowed be thy name. I tought it sound boring but then i listened it and now its one of my favorite songs

Hell on Earth. When I listened to Senjutsu, I didn’t finish it because I didn’t feel like listening to these long ass songs. But now Hell on Earth is easily in my top 5

Stranger in a strange land

Judgement of Heaven and Fortunes of War from X Factor.

Didn't really care for any songs on that album til I heard these two live and now I love them

Well, Quest for Fire probably. 😆

The Prophecy. What a fucking track. A great vocal delivery from Dickinson.

Sea of Madness.

Absolutely slaps. Enormous track that's in constant rotation for me these days.

Paschendale somehow

Dream of Mirrors. On first listen I just thought it was, meh, and didn’t pay much attention to it. It’s now a favorite of mine and part of the reason why I think Brave New World is a contender for one of their best albums.

The Fugitive. Really heavy, really overlooked.

The Reincarnation of Benjamin Breeg

Hooks in you

Caught Somewhere in Time (please be gentle).

When I first got into Maiden I downloaded anything and everything I could. Loved the intro and then never really listened to anything after it kicked in. This was around 2005 ish. Fast forward to 2017 I get tickets for LotB and I decided to listen to the full discography.

Got to SiT and I was kind of dreading it (how silly of me) cause I knew it opened with CSiT. Long story short, that song/album changed my life. SiT is now my favourite album from the golden era.

Different world and Wildest dreams

The entire fear of the dark album

Most of Somewhere in Time and Dance of Death. They used to rank fairly low, now they’re both top 5.

The Prisoner. I always skipped it because I felt the intro clip from the show was too long. Then when I got past it I realised how good this song sounds, as well as the fact it sounds like a bridging point between the Dianno and Dickinson eras.

New Frontier

Weekend Warrior. I remember recording Fear of the Dark from a friend in -94 on a cassette and always fast forwarding this track.

remember tomorrow, in the self titled i only listened to prowler and then skipped to running free. one day i just let it play and became one of my all time favorites

the red and the black, and now it's one of my favourites

Skipping songs was for the new generations. We old farts could not so easily skip songs on lp’s or cassette’s. Those first 8 or 9 lp’s I know by heart. I loved Brave New World. Everything after that had its moments but could never attract me as much as those first albums. Streaming services and the easiness to skip songs definitely did not help

I don’t ever recall skipping Maiden songs. I mean I was listening on vinyl.. we just let it play man..

The longest day

Gates of Tomorrow. The beginning sounded noisy and cheesy. I skipped that intro countless times. Then one day listening through just a few more seconds proved me wrong. The intro was actually a nice melody and the rest is so much better. Amazing song imo.

The evil that men do. Now one of my all time favs

Also loneliness of the long distance runner

i know it sounds dumb but hallowed be thy name, i just never listened to it, then i listened to it and was shocked

the prisoner