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Iron Maiden - Piece of Mind Audio CD

A fair review of the Iron Maiden "Piece of Mind" Audio CD. Please note that the below review is the views of the authors, and authors only. You can get a complete list of all Iron Maiden reviews here, or go back to the Iron Maiden tabs.

Iron Maiden Band: Iron Maiden
Title: Piece of Mind
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Release Date: 2002-03-26
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Where Eagles Dare 2: Revelations 3: Flight of Icarus 4: Die With Your Boots On 5: Trooper 6: Still Life 7: Quest for Fire 8: Sun and Steel 9: To Tame a Land

80's Heavy Metal, that's all!


Must-buy for all!. In my opinion this is the album that best represents the band, heavy riffs, melodic and catching songs, appropriate lyrics and all the features that made Iron Maiden one of the greatest bands ever appeared in the musical scene.


Piece of Mind
Steve Harris is responsible for the song "The Trooper" - good music. Piece of mind is in the top 5 best Iron Maiden albums. "The Trooper" is about the Charge of the Light Brigade. The best one I think, Powerslave. No wait, you don't wanna hear about that now. . . Anyway Piece of Mind has another good song which is called "Revelations".

Jack, aged 6.


perfect maiden
let me just say that i even like the 2 least favorite songs on this cd.


Classic Album
It contains probably their most popular single to date, "The Trooper," and is still included on every tour set list since its release. This album was a step in a more technical direction than Maiden's previous three albums.

Lyrically, most of the album feels as if the band was beginning to experiment more and trying different things with quite polarized results, in my opinion. Strong points include: "Where Eagles Dare," "The Trooper," "Still Life," "Flight Of Icarus" and "Revelations. " Weak points would be "Quest For Fire" (the lyrics about dinosaurs and cave people just don't live up to the intellectual bar Maiden had previously set) and "To Tame A Land" (the song is about "Dune" but the words just aren't as clever as some of Maiden's other work). However odd some of the lyrics may seem, Maiden never fail to keep your attention melodically.

Historically, this is the first album to contain the line-up that really propelled them to the top. During the "Number of the Beast" tour, Iron Maiden replaced drummer Clive Burr with Nicko McBrain. To prove himself to the fans, McBrain starts the album off with a technical demonstration of his abilities. He begins the album with a memorable triplet roll, leading to an anticipating rest for "Where Eagles Dare. " Throughout the song, Nicko plays a repeating syncopated triplet pattern on the bass drum at 150 beats a minute. While most drummers can do this with the aid of a double bass drum petal, Nicko chooses to play it with one foot on a single petal. Try that for even thirty seconds and your foot feels like it wants to fall off. Playing the entire song with this pattern is quite a feat and adds to the respect McBrain quickly earned and maintains to this day.

For me this album sits in a unique place. It definitely is a part of history and has stood the test of time. I love some of it, I hate some it, and some of it is just OK. However, it does convey a simple message that is the title: for peace of mind one needs to accomplish whatever they may dream and be willing to just take chances, even if it isn't popular or seems a little crazy. If it's important to you, then that is all that should matter.


Maiden at their best
This is another one. . . not sure how amazon found out I have it, but since they did. . . I love this cd, have ever since I first bought it years ago. . . . 'Still life' is probably one of my favorites of all time. I just hope they start making music like this again one of these days. Definitely not for the faint of heart.


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