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Piece of Mind
: "Piece Of Mind" is a wonderful Maiden album filled with good music! Such songs as "The Trooper", "Flight Of Icarus", and "Die With Your Boots On" are well-known and classics. But such gems as "Where Eagles Dare" and "Quest For Fire" are lesser known yet still as awesome. Bruce Dickinson sounds really great here, especially on "Revelations" where he just wails. This album was the start of the classic line-up, which would follow for many years. Adrian Smith's solo on "Flight Of Icarus" is just awesome. The reason it didn't get 5 stars is because it gets a little slow later in the album. This album is very good and is very recommended. It's heavy metal essential and a rock classic.
 I saw that there were reviewers that didn't like this album or thought it wasn't there best. wtf were they thinking? this is maidens BEST ALBUM! it does take time to grow on you but once it does you won't stop listening to it. it's already got three well-known maiden classics on it (flight of icarus, die w/ your boots on, trooper) = the rest of the album material is awesome. i don't know why people dis "quest for fire" either, it is a amazing song despite the silly lyrics. i guess that this is the "ignored" iron maiden between NOTB and POWERSLAVE, but i argue that this is stonger then those two efforts. they have nevermade a song like "were eagles dare" again, with that kind of inspiration. "piece of mind" rules!
I was 10 years old in 1984 and went to go buy Blizzard of Ozz but the record store did not have it. I saw this cool monster picture on Piece of Mind and so I bought it and almost 19 years later I still think it is the GREATEST METAL ALBUM OF ALL TIME. To Tame A Land is certainly one of Harris' greatest epic songs ever. Every song is even very fun to sing along with.
This is a fun album to listen to -- even after twenty years. The only reason it misses the five star mark is "Quest for Fire." This song mars what would otherwise be a perfect album. "In a time when dinosaurs walked the earth, when the land was swamp and caves were home..." Nah, cavemen and dinosaurs just don't cut it. But beyond that, every other song is great.
Released the year after "Number of the Beast," there were doubts that the band could follow up the massive success of that album. If anything, this album proved to be even more successful than its predecessor, with the hits "The Flight of Icarus" and "The Trooper." This album made Iron Maiden a household name during 1983 and 1984. They also embarked on their biggest tour yet, the extremely successful 1983/1984 World Piece Tour. This also gave Bruce Dickinson a chance to contribute to the songwriting process.
Sadly, they lost ace drummer Clive Burr (a personal favorite of mine) over creative differences, but they gained the more versitile and fun loving Nicko McBrain, who has stuck with the band to the present day.
The album also showed Eddie's most recent incarnation -- a lobotomy patient confined to a mental asylum after hanging out with the devil during the Rapture. Derek Riggs's artwork kept getting better and better with every album.
With this album you get a band nearing their creative peak. With the exception of "Quest for Fire," you won't be disappointed.
this was my first iron maiden album. I did not know anything about maiden and i had no idea if would be good or bad. so i put it in and pressed play and i was blown away. The intro to the first song is so powerful that it put me in trance for the whole album. THis album is full of great songs like Where Eagles Dare, The Trooper, Flight of Icarus, etc. Unfortunaltey it also has two mediocre songs: quest for fire and sun and steel. I used to think that this was the greatest album ever and that nothing was better but now that i have heard other maiden albums i can only give this album 4 stars because there are other maiden albums that are superior. I highly reccomend that you buy this album since i can promise you that you wont be dissapointed.
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