I'm trying to find out where you stand on the age-old argument of who's better, Judas Priest or Iron Maiden? My vote goes to Iron Maiden. Up The Irons!
I love Priest, but I'm much more into Iron Maiden than Judas Priest. One of my all time favorites. All the way down to the artwork for the albums.
My preference is Priest. Both are great bands, but I grew up on Priest walking down the street with my boom box cranked up.
i voted maiden but only based on the first two albums with dianno. if its dickinson's maiden then i go with priest
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Like both bands, Priest Live! Was the music I listened to before leaving for H School...or not leaving for H School in the morning... But Maiden...powerslave...
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It's not even close. They should not even be compared. Maiden is awesome and Priest is absolute cheese. IMO.
I just KNEW somebody was going to say something about Di'Anno... People who think that Maiden was better with Di'anno than Dickinson are basically saying, "A car with a 4-cylinder 75 horsepower engine is more powerful than a car with an 8-cylinder 250 horsepower engine." It just ain't so. There is a reason why Maiden took off immediately after Dickinson joined. Dickinson is one of the greatest metal singers ever to live. Di'Anno was mediocre at best.
I love Maiden with Di'Anno or Dickinson. I never got into Priest though. [nomedia="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Sam5omG0v0"]YouTube - aces high[/nomedia] [nomedia="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jgqxQmAbTBc&feature=related"]YouTube - Iron Maiden-The trooper videoclip[/nomedia]
Priest. I heard the Screaming For Vengeance LP and was hooked. No more run of the mill everyday music for me. I went out and bought up their entire life's work after that. I got into Maiden shortly after Priest, love the **** outta those guys too, but Priest has the edge in my heart.
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Are you kidding me? Bruce OWNS that song now. I have dozens of live versions of him kicking that song's ***. Plus I've been lucky enough to see them live a few times, and he just rips that song up.
Has to be Maiden, didnt actually think there were that many Priest fans out there any more. The gigs over here are usually pretty low key whereas with maiden its ****in mental
dickinson is aptly named. if you like posers as your front men he's your guy. dianno was unpolished and more street which is what metal is supposed to be IMO. To me Dianno is a 68 Dodge Charger R/T with a 426 hemi while Dickinson is like a 1997 Mitsubishi Eclipse Spyder. You just secretly want to swordfight with Dickinson Maiden had cred with the hardcore crowd when Dianno was with the band. Not so with Dickinson.
I love it when people who have NO INTEREST in the subject matter of a thread come in and post, adding NOTHING to the discussion.
I'm sure when Halford came out of the closet the band lost a certain amount of fans. Sad, it has no bearing on their music (except maybe Ram it Down and Turbo Lover), but you know how we metal fans are!
Calling Dickinson a poseur is so ludicrous I can't believe it was actually said. Metal isn't supposed to be street and unpolished, that's punk and grunge. Like the people who think Pink Floyd was better with Syd Barrett, you're just fooling yourself so you can be part of your perceived elitist "hardcore" crowd.
like i said ....poser! lol not to say the band isnt good nowadays but they were much better with Di'Anno BTW Motorhead, Slayer, Anvil, Metallica are all metal last I checked while Poison, Motley Crue, etc are all well whatever they are