Maiden in "Top 500 Metal Songs of All Time" Book

Posted by Shadow on June 5, 2004 @ 07:42

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:

  1. The Number of the Beast
  2. Hallowed Be Thy Name
  3. The Trooper
  4. Run to the Hills
  5. Aces High
  6. 2 Minutes to Midnight
  7. Rime of the Ancient Mariner
  8. Killers
  9. Powerslave
  10. Revelations
  11. Fear of the Dark
  12. Wasted Years
  13. Wrathchild
  14. Phantom of the Opera
  15. Flight of Icarus
  16. Where Eagles Dare
  17. Murders in the Rue Morgue
  18. Iron Maiden
  19. Seventh Son of a Seventh Son
  20. The Evil That Men Do
  21. 22 Acacia Avenue
  22. Running Free
  23. The Prisoner
  24. Be Quick or Be Dead
  25. Stranger in a Strange Land
  26. Can I Play With Madness
  27. Children of the Damned
  28. 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

dogigniter said:

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

#7783, June 5, 2004 @ 09:15

Shadow said:

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?

#7784, June 5, 2004 @ 09:22

German Eddie said:

Very strange Choices.
But I would like to know which Song is #1

#7785, June 5, 2004 @ 09:28

Anonymous said:

15 songs from the "golden era",i mean from "the number"/"piece" and "powerslave" albums.

#7786, June 5, 2004 @ 13:07

StrangerInAStrangeLand said:

> 178. Murders in the Rue Morgue
226. Iron Maiden
386. The Prisoner

Those 3 choices really surprised me.

#7787, June 5, 2004 @ 17:28

SinisterMinisterX said:

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.

#7788, June 5, 2004 @ 21:45

Anonymous said:

> Very strange Choices.
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.

#7789, June 6, 2004 @ 14:48

gor said:

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...

#7790, June 6, 2004 @ 14:57