Maiden in "Top 500 Metal Songs of All Time" Book
Apparently there's 28 Iron Maiden songs featured in a book called 'The Top 500 Heavy Metal Songs of All Time' by Martin Popoff. It's not a new book, but nevertheless some people might find it interesting. Maiden ranked thus:6. The Number of the Beast
7. Hallowed Be Thy Name
24. The Trooper
28. Run to the Hills
55. Aces High
61. 2 Minutes to Midnight
74. Rime of the Ancient Mariner
79. Killers
82. Powerslave
95. Revelations
101. Fear of the Dark
105. Wasted Years
116. Wrathchild
124. Phantom of the Opera
147. Flight of Icarus
149. Where Eagles Dare
178. Murders in the Rue Morgue
226. Iron Maiden
263. Seventh Son of a Seventh Son
301. The Evil That Men Do
343. 22 Acacia Avenue
362. Running Free
386. The Prisoner
395. Be Quick or Be Dead
396. Stranger in a Strange Land
434. Can I Play With Madness
437. Children of the Damned
477. Still Life
A total of 28 songs, more than any other band apart from Black Sabbath (also 28).
Many thanks to Rainmaiden of the Maiden BB for posting the list
8 Comments
Hmm.....! Interesting yet if its all about metal it should have far more songs than that in...... Still Life? What a strange choice.
Looks like it was chosen from
Iron Maiden - Fear of The Dark in terms of albums
Strange choices indeed. Still Life, Powerslave and Revelations should have been far higher. And where's Infinite Dreams, Sign of the Cross and Wasting Love?
Very strange Choices.
But I would like to know which Song is #1
15 songs from the "golden era",i mean from "the number"/"piece" and "powerslave" albums.
226. Iron Maiden
386. The Prisoner
Those 3 choices really surprised me.
We truly live in an unjust world when someone can write a list where "Stranger In A Strange Land" is ranked almost 250 spots lower than "Flight Of Icarus". However, I try to believe in the innate goodness of all humanity, so I'll assume the author was drunk blind. And deaf. 
But I would like to know which Song is #1
The #1 song was Black Sabbath's Paranoid. I am avoiding all books by Martin Popoff because the Beatles came into the list too.
i haven't read this book, but ive heard that the writer is really rough on maiden and even though he includes them so many times, he bashes the hell out of them, makes them look like a bad produced Harris regime from day 1 and basicaly calls Aces High a "metal by numbers" song...
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