Iron Maiden Book of Souls...

[bloodycelt]

Power Slave has a special place for me. My English High School teacher told me to check it out.

Rime of the Ancient Mariner

I think now, 2 Minutes to Midnight is my fav. song by them. In terms of just listening to whole albums in one go: Seventh son.

Fuck, EG you've got maiden stuck in my head... between this and the Primal Fear recommendation.

Now if only Maiden did Yeats' Second Coming

Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.

Surely some revelation is at hand;
Surely the Second Coming is at hand.
The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out
When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi
Troubles my sight: a waste of desert sand;
A shape with lion body and the head of a man,
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,
Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it
Wind shadows of the indignant desert birds.

The darkness drops again but now I know
That twenty centuries of stony sleep
Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?

 

[famicommander]

I dig The Trooper. The opening always makes me put on my metal face

 

[norton9478]

I remember reading somewhere that Rime is Bruce's favorite song to play.

Makes sense being that it is such an epic.