@@matthewkieswetter4376 Damn, Roy Z producing Maiden would be sweet! (or just someone else than Caveman, for a change) I can't help feeling that Kevin Shirley has become a bit of a resident yes-man for Harris, and getting someone else at the producer's chair could be a welcome breath of fresh air. You know, a producer to put the foot down a bit, trim the fat and help get out a nice & concise record without the needless bloat that's been on the last few albums. Someone to say they don't have to fill out the entire capacity of a CD just for the sake of filling it, and to step in with constructive criticism when long songs turn out that way due to meandering and repetition.
I may agree with you. It's hard for me to get past my love of Number of the Beast, but that is probably just nostalgia taking over. Chemical Wedding is his fiercest and most bold statement.
1. Chemical Wedding 2. Accident of Birth 3. Tyranny of Souls 4. Skunkworks 5. Balls To Picasso 6. Tattooed Millionaire To me The Alchemist is absolutely the best song out of his solo career.
1. Chemical Wedding 2. Accident of Birth 3. Tyranny of Souls 4. Balls to Picasso 5. Tattooed Millionaire 6. Skunkworks The first three are stone classics.
6. Skunkworks 5. Tattooed Millionaire 4. Tyranny Of Souls 3. Balls To Picasso 2. The Chemical Wedding 1. Accident Of Birth I still listen to The Chemical Wedding, Accident Of Birth, and Balls To Picasso often. The other three do have some songs that I love. Songs like Son Of A Gun, Back From Edge, Inertia, and Abduction are some of my favorites. The Chemical Wedding and Accident Of Birth are MASTERPIECES in my eyes.
@@garyjoyce2160 I originally had The Chemical Wedding as number one, but I changed it because Accident Of Birth really had a huge impact on me when it first came out. I was a teenager at 17 years old when Accident Of Birth came out , and it was my favorite album of 1997 easily.
@@garyjoyce2160 Absolutely!!! The Chemical Wedding is also a MASTERPIECE. I love the whole album big time, but my favorite has to be The Tower. At that time I also loved Iron Maiden's The X Factor and Virtual 11, but I loved Bruce's two solo albums Accident Of Birth and The Chemical Wedding way more. Bruce's solo albums were more Iron Maiden than Iron Maiden was back then. Yeah I was a young buck when these albums came out back in the 90's. It all started with Quiet Riot's Metal Health album back in 1983 for me at five years old. 38 years later I am still a Heavy Metal fan more than ever. Lol
I really enjoy Rich’s insight on ranking shows. He clearly takes the time to dive into each album and gives the listener a well thought out review of each album in the catalog. Nice job 👍
@@helgaratbone1691 yes ...if you dont have the japan bonus song "Eternal" you can get it on that 2018 best of cd Scream For Me Sarajevo_ Music From The Motion Picture.........great slow song ......sounds like he is talking about his old days in maiden !!!!!
I was at that Toads Place show in New Haven. Adrian was there with Bruce. They played 2 Minutes and Powerslave along with most of the Accident record. Amazing show.
Cool episode. My list: 1 Accident of birth 2 Chemical wedding 3 The mandrake project 4 Tyranny of souls 5 Balls to Picasso 6 Tattooed millionaire 7 Skunk works
Personally, I think Skunkworks is highly underrated. Sure, theres a bit more "filler" than some others, but still a solid album with some killer tracks 🤘
I don't think we will see many people voting differently on positions #1 and #2. The rest of them are a jumble though, anything can happen. I would also include the "Best of" in the rankings as it has two good songs that are only found there, "Silver Wings" and "Broken", plus a bunch of B-side type stuff only found there. Actually "Broken" is one of Bruce's best songs.
Pete, I think it would be cool to do a tour of some of your contributors music collections. Of course, I just want to see how many extra copies of stuff Chris Alo has and how he stores his stuff. One day, he's going to have a HELLACIOUS garage sale, lol.
Haha, I was thinking the same thing, about putting all the stuff on shelves, in boxes, under the bed. Three copies of Scream for me Brazil, one unopened, he's hilarious. Only topped by his 5 copies of Sabbath's Live at Last which he hates.
Hey Pete you should check out the 2 new tracks ‘Broken’ and ‘Silver Wings’ that are on the best of that Chris showed. Would both probably be in Bruce’s top 10 solo songs.
Maybe you guys are not as familiar with his solo work but a blaze bayley album ranking would be awesome his first 6 albums are awesome and his latter albums have some great tunes on to.
6.Tattooed Millionaire 5.Tyranny of Souls 4.Balls to Picasso 3.Skunkworks 2.Accident of Birth 1. Chemical Wedding.Absolutely love the variety of his solo career.Great players on each album
You guys don't have the 2005 "expanded versions" of his solo albums, because there were a ton of AMAZING songs on the expanded versions, such as "Fire Child", "The Breeding House", "No Way Out... To Be Continued" on Balls to Picasso, etc.
I've only got Chem Wedding(the best maiden record since somewhere in time). I'm tempted to either get the box set, or pic up the couple I've heard are really good(Balls to Picasso and Accodent at Birth).
Went to the Bruce solo show for Tattooed Millionaire at the Bacchanal in San Diego. Both me and my friend were too young to get in so we just hung out by the back door and tried to listen. Couldn’t hear much but got to meet Bruce after.
Chemical Wedding and Accident of birth are the best. I saw them on both tours. AoD Support for Lynyrd Skynyrd. CW headliner. Great Show! Way better than Iron Maiden a month before...
1. Chemical Wedding (1998) 2. Accident of Birth (1997) 3. Balls To Picasso (1994) - The expanded version 4. Tyranny of Souls (2005) - The last time Bruce sounded great 5. Skunkworks (1996) 6. Tattooed Millionaire (1990)
My number one is Tyranny of souls. Would be cool to see a dream setlist show where you create a live setlist for a Bruce Dickinson concert with his solo songs.Maybe Ridin with the angels and two unplayed Maiden songs as encores.
BTW love the video, keep it rolling guys!!! 6- Balls To Picasso (I always thought that album to be unfocus. Like most of the songs he didn't know what to do with them) 5- Tattoed Millionaire (Like they said, a stupid fun album, not very good, but not horrific by any mean) 4- Skunkwork (I actually really enjoy it, I think he really pulled the Grunge thing pretty good. I understand if you don't like those bands like Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, etc, but I do and I thought he did pretty neat job) 3- Tyranny Of Souls (Great record, only real tragedy about it, is if you have read Bruce's autobiograpgy, the title track was supposed to feat both Rob Halford and Ronnie James Dio, but because Ronnie wasn't on the same record label, Rod Smallwood didn't wanted it to happen, which is a BIG missed opportunity) 2- Accident Of Birth (Also a great record that I slightly like over TOS, because it simply longer ahah. But like Rich said, you can tell who wrotes whats songs in this album. It is a straight foward, song after song album that didn't try to make it feel like an experience, which is fine) 1- Chemical Wedding (Confession time: this is my 3rd favorite record of all time, that album feels like an experience, the melting of heavy modern metal that was happening in the 90's, with the old school glory of the early wave. Also, probaly Bruce stongest lyrics work all over it. A true masterpiece)
I'm speaking as someone who has only heard his cover of 'All the Young Dudes', but I was chatting to a person I met in a pub in Watford UK 2009; he told me he had seen Maiden in the Very early days in London (and I mean very early days) I said that I loved 'Somewhere in Time' as an absolute masterpiece, and he said that he rated Bruce's solo work more highly than Maiden's. I've never had the inclination to check this out, but I've enjoyed this SOT episode regardless.
Saw Bruce and Adrian on accident of birth tour at the strand in Providence and what an amazing show (and at a small theater was even better). And when they returned to maiden saw them at the orpheum theater in Boston
31:45 I was at the July 16th show at the Hammerstein Ballroom, my first time seeing Maiden and Bruce’s first U.S. show returning to the band. Crazy because I live in Delaware but they didn’t play Philly that tour....and yes, one of the very few shows where they played “Stranger in a Strange Land” post 1986. Great show.
1. Chemical Wedding 2. Accident of Birth 3. Tyranny of Souls 4. Balls to Picasso 5. Skunkworks 6. Tattooed Millionaire * that Best of comp of Bruce is excellent - lots of rare stuff on it
Chemical Wedding is the only one I've ever owned. I love the concept and love Blake's Jerusalem & The Marriage Of Heaven And Hell & Adrian Smith. It doesn't come near my favorite Maiden albums, but it's probably better than anything Maiden's done since the classic 80's heyday.
Accident of Birth and Chemical Wedding are about as good as any Maiden album. Perhaps I just graduated from high school before the former came out has some influence, but either way, two brilliant albums. I enjoy the others too. I didn’t like Skunkworks in the 90’s but have grown into that album since.
1. Chemical Wedding 2. Tyranny of Souls 3. Accident of Birth 4. Skunkworks 5. Balls to Picasso 6. Tattooed Millionaire AoB lost something . . Lot of fun, I do enjoy the lost Maiden album aspects as well. Love Skunkworks, but it gets a little long in spots with that production. They did 3/4 (6 tracks) off Virtual XI that night. Wow . . I like the album now, but damn good call Chris.
I couldn't believe how terrible those Blaze shows were. i saw Bruce solo for Accident of Birth, in Virginia at a place called Jaxx. He beat up a guy who was being a douche and then berated security, all while the solo was playing. It was a stunning show.
Massive fan of all of these albums, really hard to rank them but here's my 2 cents worth with some comments: 6- Tattooed Millionaire - Some great songs on here Son of a Gun, Born in 58 but some clunkers too Zulu Lulu, Lickin' the Gun. A mixed bag. 5- Tyranny of Souls - A good album but just a bit underwhelming, lacks the edge that would make it great compared to the previous 2 releases. Safe? 4- Balls to Picasso - Interesting early raw production from Roy Z which hits you hard, combined with the dark lyrics this strikes me as bleak in a good way. Edgy. 3- Skunkworks - Hangs together really well as an album, lots of energy and some rawer production make tracks like Solar Confinement and Dream State shine. Smooth. 2- The Chemical Wedding - What can I say... cover, theme, production, songs, all awesome and probably more consistent than AOB but I don't feel it has as many stand-out tracks. Epic. 1- Accident of Birth - So many stand-out songs Omega, Starchildren are just 2. Stellar production overall and the bass and drums reminds me of classic Sabbath. Ultimate. Also just a note to say Roy Z's band A Tribe of Gypsies contribute so much to the albums they played on, they're not typical metal players and add and incredible feel and groove to the music.
Accident Of Birth and The Chemical Wedding are Bruce Dickinson's MASTERPIECES in my opinion, but his greatest song ever is Tears Of The Dragon also in my opinion. Their is a live version with a band called Tribuzy that has Bruce Dickinson and Roy Z which is the greatest version ever.
My list is 6. Tattooed Millionaire 5. Balls to Picasso 4. Skunkworks 3. Accident of Birth 2. Tyranny of Souls 1. Chemical Wedding A fairly chronological order, but it is what it is. Not a big fan of the first two, but there's a huge gap in quality between Millionaire and Picasso. And Tears of the Dragon is, as you mentioned, one of his best songs. I do prefer the acoustic version though, which is on the bonus disc of the reissues. I don't mind Skunkworks, no matter what genre it belongs to. It's a solid album, I think. His best stuff is obviously his last three, the metal albums. I think CW is the most consistent throughout which is why I put it in first place. The other two are pretty good, but there's more of the average songs on those two.
Hey Pete, I know you've done this before but I'm interested in a part two of guilty pleasure songs/albums with the Hudson Valley Squares (maybe with a slight line up change) and I'm also interested in what everyone's top ten all time favorite songs are. Anyways, love your channel!
Loved Maiden/Anthrax show in Toronto January 1991. Had such a good time!!! Tattooed Millionaire has not aged well at all lol BUT it’s still better than Adrian’s first solo album “Silver & Gold” lol 😂😂😂😂
1. Accident Of Birth 2. Chemical Wedding 3. Tyranny Of Souls 4. Skunkworks 5. Balls To Picasso 6. Tattooed Millionaire Not only do I agree with everyone who said that AOB and CW can stand up against any Maiden Album, I think particularly the songs Darkside Of Aquarius and Book Of Thel can go toe to toe with any of IM’s best tracks.
I like tyranny the best. Fair play rich tyranny is a brilliant album i loved it as soon as i heard it not a week song on it. Heavy and moody devil on a hog is great.
Tattooeed Millionaire is a great album and the only Bruce soloalbum that I`ve owned and listened to. Outside this album Tears Of The Dragon is a great song.
I absolutely love all the Bruce Dickinson solo albums. The Chemical Wedding album is my favorite album out of my 7000 plus cd collection. The Chemical Wedding was new when i got into it. I wasn't really into Maiden yet and couldn't get into Bruce's vocals but with Accident of Birth and Chemical Wedding it really clicked with me. Then Brave New World came out and i became a huge Maiden fan. But i still prefer Bruce's solo albums over Maiden albums.
Awesome stuff as always and a very solid/consistent catalogue overall though I don't like tattooed millionaire at all (Chris is spot on with his assessment). Balls to Picasso is ok, the other albums are way better than these two. These are my picks 1. Chemical wedding 2. Skunkworks 3. Accident of birth 4. Tyranny of souls 5. Balls to Picasso 6. Tattooed millionaire
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1. Chemical Wedding (absolute masterpiece)
2. Accident of Birth
3. Tyranny Of Souls
4. Balls To Picasso
5. Tattooed Millionaire
6. Skunkworks
This is exactly how I would rank them too.
The Chemical Wedding is one of the best metal albums ever! It cranks and ranks with the best of Maiden. 🤘🏻
Agree, and I would say Accident of Birth and Tyranny of Souls are better than anything post Seventh Son of a Seventh Son
Came here to sing the Chemical Wedding's praises, too. I wish Maiden would bring in Roy Z to produce an album.
@@matthewkieswetter4376 Damn, Roy Z producing Maiden would be sweet! (or just someone else than Caveman, for a change)
I can't help feeling that Kevin Shirley has become a bit of a resident yes-man for Harris, and getting someone else at the producer's chair could be a welcome breath of fresh air. You know, a producer to put the foot down a bit, trim the fat and help get out a nice & concise record without the needless bloat that's been on the last few albums. Someone to say they don't have to fill out the entire capacity of a CD just for the sake of filling it, and to step in with constructive criticism when long songs turn out that way due to meandering and repetition.
Absolutely correct!🤘
It's better than any Maiden album. (And I love Maiden)
Hot take: Chemical Wedding is, in my opinion, the best thing Bruce has ever been involved with. INCLUDING Maiden. Just an absolute masterpiece.
My favorite Maiden is Piece of Mind and to me CW and AOB are both on the same level.
I may agree with you. It's hard for me to get past my love of Number of the Beast, but that is probably just nostalgia taking over. Chemical Wedding is his fiercest and most bold statement.
I realize I am kinda randomly asking but does anyone know a good website to stream newly released movies online ?
@Nathan Ares i watch on flixzone. You can find it by googling :)
Agreed! And I thought I was the only one who thought so!
"The Chemical Wedding" is one of my favorite albums of all time! Adrian Smith's guitar solo in "King In Crimson" is straight 🔥🔥
1. Chemical Wedding
2. Accident of Birth
3. Tyranny of Souls
4. Skunkworks
5. Balls To Picasso
6. Tattooed Millionaire
To me The Alchemist is absolutely the best song out of his solo career.
1. Chemical Wedding
2. Accident of Birth
3. Tyranny of Souls
4. Balls to Picasso
5. Tattooed Millionaire
6. Skunkworks
The first three are stone classics.
My Tops-
1.Chemical Wedding
2.Accident of Birth
3.Tyranny of Souls
4.Skunkworks
5.Balls to Picasso
6.Tattooed Millionaire
Accident of Birth is my favorite. It also has the best album cover by far. Win/Win
6. Skunkworks
5. Tattooed Millionaire
4. Tyranny Of Souls
3. Balls To Picasso
2. The Chemical Wedding
1. Accident Of Birth
I still listen to The Chemical Wedding, Accident Of Birth, and Balls To Picasso often. The other three do have some songs that I love. Songs like Son Of A Gun, Back From Edge, Inertia, and Abduction are some of my favorites. The Chemical Wedding and Accident Of Birth are MASTERPIECES in my eyes.
John. : my exact list 👍💯
@@garyjoyce2160 I originally had The Chemical Wedding as number one, but I changed it because Accident Of Birth really had a huge impact on me when it first came out. I was a teenager at 17 years old when Accident Of Birth came out , and it was my favorite album of 1997 easily.
@@johnkatsoudas4767 I mean CHEMICAL is unreal as well. Love it. That 1-2 punch 🤜 is tremendous. Good stuff 💯👍
@@johnkatsoudas4767 / in 9️⃣7️⃣ I was 35. Lol. Your a young EM. I got the “ OLDS”
@@garyjoyce2160 Absolutely!!! The Chemical Wedding is also a MASTERPIECE. I love the whole album big time, but my favorite has to be The Tower. At that time I also loved Iron Maiden's The X Factor and Virtual 11, but I loved Bruce's two solo albums Accident Of Birth and The Chemical Wedding way more. Bruce's solo albums were more Iron Maiden than Iron Maiden was back then. Yeah I was a young buck when these albums came out back in the 90's. It all started with Quiet Riot's Metal Health album back in 1983 for me at five years old. 38 years later I am still a Heavy Metal fan more than ever. Lol
I guess I am in the minority, but Skunkworks is my fave. Nice video!
1. Skunkworks
2. Accident
3. Chemical
The Chemical Wedding & Accident Of Birth are my favorite Bruce Dickinson albums
Yeah, I'm not a big fan of Blaze Bayley's voice, but his latest solo album is AWESOME. War Within Me.
big fan for the solo cds !!!!!
There were 2 new KILLER songs on The Best Of Bruce Dickinson album, "Broken" and "Silver Wings."
I really enjoy Rich’s insight on ranking shows. He clearly takes the time to dive into each album and gives the listener a well thought out review of each album in the catalog. Nice job 👍
Thank you
6. Skunkworks
5. Tattooed Millionaire
4. Balls To Picasso
3. Accident of Birth
2. Tyranny of Souls
1. Chemical Wedding
For me chemical wedding is miles ahead all the rest. That album is a metal masterpiece. One of my favorite metal albums of all time.
Tyranny is right behind it. Gets better with each listen. Accident loses something over the years.
yes !!!......and Tyranny is the brother of that !!!!
@@helgaratbone1691 yes .........Believil....is a unbelievable song !!!!.....heavy !!!
@@helgaratbone1691 yes ...if you dont have the japan bonus song "Eternal" you can get it on that 2018 best of cd Scream For Me Sarajevo_ Music From The Motion Picture.........great slow song ......sounds like he is talking about his old days in maiden !!!!!
I’d argue Accident of Birth is by far his best solo album. It’s much more melodic than CW, which is a good thing.
I was at that Toads Place show in New Haven. Adrian was there with Bruce. They played 2 Minutes and Powerslave along with most of the Accident record. Amazing show.
The Bruce/Roy Z trilogy plus the two Halford solo albums kept traditional heavy metal alive during a very dark period for that genre.
Cool episode. My list:
1 Accident of birth
2 Chemical wedding
3 The mandrake project
4 Tyranny of souls
5 Balls to Picasso
6 Tattooed millionaire
7 Skunk works
Another great and fun show.
1 - Chemical Wedding
2 - Accident of Birth
3 - Tyranny of Souls
I absolutely LOVE Tattooed Millionaire! I know it's an unpopular opinion, don't care. Masterpiece of eclectic music from Bruce.
Me too. I thought it showed a more honest version of Bruce as far from Maiden as it could be. Son Of A Gun kills!
Agreed!
For some reason I love Zululu!
Yup, great album
Add me to the list too!
Personally, I think Skunkworks is highly underrated. Sure, theres a bit more "filler" than some others, but still a solid album with some killer tracks 🤘
I agree.
Looking forward to your review of Bruce's new solo album The Mandrake Project. It's fantastic!
They toured for Chemical Wedding in Europe and South America. Scream for me Brazil...
I don't think we will see many people voting differently on positions #1 and #2. The rest of them are a jumble though, anything can happen. I would also include the "Best of" in the rankings as it has two good songs that are only found there, "Silver Wings" and "Broken", plus a bunch of B-side type stuff only found there. Actually "Broken" is one of Bruce's best songs.
Pete, I think it would be cool to do a tour of some of your contributors music collections. Of course, I just want to see how many extra copies of stuff Chris Alo has and how he stores his stuff. One day, he's going to have a HELLACIOUS garage sale, lol.
Haha, I was thinking the same thing, about putting all the stuff on shelves, in boxes, under the bed. Three copies of Scream for me Brazil, one unopened, he's hilarious. Only topped by his 5 copies of Sabbath's Live at Last which he hates.
Good insight by Rich and Pete about Skunkworks. The guy who produced it(Jack Endino) also was the producer for Soundgarden and Nirvana.
Chemical Wedding is a great album. I still play it quite often.
Love son of a gun and tears of the dragon....acoustic version of tears was always my favorite
Hey Pete you should check out the 2 new tracks ‘Broken’ and ‘Silver Wings’ that are on the best of that Chris showed. Would both probably be in Bruce’s top 10 solo songs.
Broken is a great song.
Maybe you guys are not as familiar with his solo work but a blaze bayley album ranking would be awesome his first 6 albums are awesome and his latter albums have some great tunes on to.
6.Tattooed Millionaire 5.Tyranny of Souls 4.Balls to Picasso 3.Skunkworks 2.Accident of Birth 1. Chemical Wedding.Absolutely love the variety of his solo career.Great players on each album
You guys don't have the 2005 "expanded versions" of his solo albums, because there were a ton of AMAZING songs on the expanded versions, such as "Fire Child", "The Breeding House", "No Way Out... To Be Continued" on Balls to Picasso, etc.
Chris was just showing a few of them in the video lol.
Chris Alo Fan Club T-shirts,please!
Just make sure they print the big boy sizes, because I won't fit in a small one! :)
Hey Guys- where would you rank The Mandrake Project?
I first saw Dickinson when he was fronting a band called Samson. I thought wow, what a voice, he's going to be a big star some day.
Bruce Bruce 👍
I was at the Tattooed Millionaire show here in Toronto at Rock 'n Roll Heaven. What a great show!
My favorite trio... would love a weekly show with them just shooting the shit for a couple hours
For me there's 3 I love and can take or leave the others so my top 3 are
1. The Chemical Wedding
2. Accident of Birth
3. Balls to Picasso
I've only got Chem Wedding(the best maiden record since somewhere in time).
I'm tempted to either get the box set, or pic up the couple I've heard are really good(Balls to Picasso and Accodent at Birth).
Went to the Bruce solo show for Tattooed Millionaire at the Bacchanal in San Diego.
Both me and my friend were too young to get in so we just hung out by the back door and tried to listen.
Couldn’t hear much but got to meet Bruce after.
Chris, that Best Of has at least one new Song on it, "Silver Wings". I wanna say there were two but I don't really recall.
Chemical Wedding and Accident of birth are the best. I saw them on both tours. AoD Support for Lynyrd Skynyrd. CW headliner. Great Show! Way better than Iron Maiden a month before...
1) Accident of Birth
2) Chemical Wedding
3) Skunkworks
4) Tyranny of Souls
5) Balls to Picasso
6) Tattooed Millionaire
Cyclops is a classic track
His live album "Scream For Me Brazil",..A classic not to be overlooked!
Tears of the dragon on scream for me brazil,is just amazing
Bring Your Daughter was a number one hit single in the UK.
Because it was released on about six variations and
Was it maiden version or solo version?
The Chemical Wedding Masterpiece!!
1. Chemical Wedding
2. Accident of Birth
3. Tyranny of Souls
4. Skunkworks
5. Balls to Picasso
6. Tattooed Millionaire
1. Chemical Wedding (1998)
2. Accident of Birth (1997)
3. Balls To Picasso (1994) - The expanded version
4. Tyranny of Souls (2005) - The last time Bruce sounded great
5. Skunkworks (1996)
6. Tattooed Millionaire (1990)
Chemical Wedding is one of the best metal albums in history, definitely among top 10
My number one is Tyranny of souls. Would be cool to see a dream setlist show where you create a live setlist for a Bruce Dickinson concert with his solo songs.Maybe Ridin with the angels and two unplayed Maiden songs as encores.
BTW love the video, keep it rolling guys!!!
6- Balls To Picasso (I always thought that album to be unfocus. Like most of the songs he didn't know what to do with them)
5- Tattoed Millionaire (Like they said, a stupid fun album, not very good, but not horrific by any mean)
4- Skunkwork (I actually really enjoy it, I think he really pulled the Grunge thing pretty good. I understand if you don't like those bands like Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, etc, but I do and I thought he did pretty neat job)
3- Tyranny Of Souls (Great record, only real tragedy about it, is if you have read Bruce's autobiograpgy, the title track was supposed to feat both Rob Halford and Ronnie James Dio, but because Ronnie wasn't on the same record label, Rod Smallwood didn't wanted it to happen, which is a BIG missed opportunity)
2- Accident Of Birth (Also a great record that I slightly like over TOS, because it simply longer ahah. But like Rich said, you can tell who wrotes whats songs in this album. It is a straight foward, song after song album that didn't try to make it feel like an experience, which is fine)
1- Chemical Wedding (Confession time: this is my 3rd favorite record of all time, that album feels like an experience, the melting of heavy modern metal that was happening in the 90's, with the old school glory of the early wave. Also, probaly Bruce stongest lyrics work all over it. A true masterpiece)
I'm speaking as someone who has only heard his cover of 'All the Young Dudes', but I was chatting to a person I met in a pub in Watford UK 2009; he told me he had seen Maiden in the Very early days in London (and I mean very early days) I said that I loved 'Somewhere in Time' as an absolute masterpiece, and he said that he rated Bruce's solo work more highly than Maiden's. I've never had the inclination to check this out, but I've enjoyed this SOT episode regardless.
Saw Bruce and Adrian on accident of birth tour at the strand in Providence and what an amazing show (and at a small theater was even better). And when they returned to maiden saw them at the orpheum theater in Boston
Accident of Birth is the best one and best produced as well.
Yes Chris!!!!
'Fire the ballerina dancer!!'
I totally fuxkin agree, wholeheartedly.
I would love to see ranking the albums of Running Wild love the channel
tattooed millionaire will always be my no 1!!!!
I keep hoping he will do one more solo album before he retires.
You got your wish!! See you on March 1st with the Mandrake Project
31:45 I was at the July 16th show at the Hammerstein Ballroom, my first time seeing Maiden and Bruce’s first U.S. show returning to the band. Crazy because I live in Delaware but they didn’t play Philly that tour....and yes, one of the very few shows where they played “Stranger in a Strange Land” post 1986. Great show.
1. Chemical Wedding
2. Accident of Birth
3. Tyranny of Souls
4. Balls to Picasso
5. Skunkworks
6. Tattooed Millionaire
* that Best of comp of Bruce is excellent - lots of rare stuff on it
How about ranking the non-priest albums from Rob Halford (Fight, Two, Halford etc)?
Easy ranking- debut Halford, debut fight, k2 demos, second Halford, second fight, two
Chemical Wedding is the only one I've ever owned. I love the concept and love Blake's Jerusalem & The Marriage Of Heaven And Hell & Adrian Smith.
It doesn't come near my favorite Maiden albums, but it's probably better than anything Maiden's done since the classic 80's heyday.
Accident of Birth and Chemical Wedding are about as good as any Maiden album. Perhaps I just graduated from high school before the former came out has some influence, but either way, two brilliant albums. I enjoy the others too. I didn’t like Skunkworks in the 90’s but have grown into that album since.
Yeah , my favorite Maiden record is Piece of Mind and to me CW and AOB are as good.
I love Skunkworks too, solid record from start to finish.
bruce Dickinson had solo albums wow.
1. Chemical Wedding
2. Tyranny of Souls
3. Accident of Birth
4. Skunkworks
5. Balls to Picasso
6. Tattooed Millionaire
AoB lost something . . Lot of fun, I do enjoy the lost Maiden album aspects as well. Love Skunkworks, but it gets a little long in spots with that production.
They did 3/4 (6 tracks) off Virtual XI that night. Wow . . I like the album now, but damn good call Chris.
I couldn't believe how terrible those Blaze shows were. i saw Bruce solo for Accident of Birth, in Virginia at a place called Jaxx. He beat up a guy who was being a douche and then berated security, all while the solo was playing. It was a stunning show.
Jaxx used to be the place to go for metal shows. Woulda loved to see that one
Tremendous story. Today. Mega mega lawsuit/be retired with @ fake injury. Never saw him solo. 👍💯
@@garyjoyce2160 That guy had it coming. Law suit or no.
6. Skunkworks
5. Tattooed millionaire
4. Balls to Picasso
3. Accident of birth
2. Tyranny of souls
1. The chemical wedding (MASTERPIECE!!!)
1) The Chemical Wedding
2) Tyranny of Souls
3) Accident of Birth
4) Balls to Picasso
5) Tattooed Millionaire
6) Skunkworks
Question: Which one takes the number on spot, "Accident of Birth" or "A Chemical Wedding"?
Answer: Yes.
Massive fan of all of these albums, really hard to rank them but here's my 2 cents worth with some comments:
6- Tattooed Millionaire - Some great songs on here Son of a Gun, Born in 58 but some clunkers too Zulu Lulu, Lickin' the Gun. A mixed bag.
5- Tyranny of Souls - A good album but just a bit underwhelming, lacks the edge that would make it great compared to the previous 2 releases. Safe?
4- Balls to Picasso - Interesting early raw production from Roy Z which hits you hard, combined with the dark lyrics this strikes me as bleak in a good way. Edgy.
3- Skunkworks - Hangs together really well as an album, lots of energy and some rawer production make tracks like Solar Confinement and Dream State shine. Smooth.
2- The Chemical Wedding - What can I say... cover, theme, production, songs, all awesome and probably more consistent than AOB but I don't feel it has as many stand-out tracks. Epic.
1- Accident of Birth - So many stand-out songs Omega, Starchildren are just 2. Stellar production overall and the bass and drums reminds me of classic Sabbath. Ultimate.
Also just a note to say Roy Z's band A Tribe of Gypsies contribute so much to the albums they played on, they're not typical metal players and add and incredible feel and groove to the music.
FYI Janick is till there because Adrian said he wouldn't return to Maiden if it cost Janick his job so they decided to go with three guitarists
Accident Of Birth and The Chemical Wedding are Bruce Dickinson's MASTERPIECES in my opinion, but his greatest song ever is Tears Of The Dragon also in my opinion. Their is a live version with a band called Tribuzy that has Bruce Dickinson and Roy Z which is the greatest version ever.
My list is
6. Tattooed Millionaire
5. Balls to Picasso
4. Skunkworks
3. Accident of Birth
2. Tyranny of Souls
1. Chemical Wedding
A fairly chronological order, but it is what it is. Not a big fan of the first two, but there's a huge gap in quality between Millionaire and Picasso. And Tears of the Dragon is, as you mentioned, one of his best songs. I do prefer the acoustic version though, which is on the bonus disc of the reissues. I don't mind Skunkworks, no matter what genre it belongs to. It's a solid album, I think. His best stuff is obviously his last three, the metal albums. I think CW is the most consistent throughout which is why I put it in first place. The other two are pretty good, but there's more of the average songs on those two.
On the subject of Blaze Bayley recording two albums with Iron Maiden, who is better Tim "Ripper" Owens or Blaze Bayley?
Oh "Ripper" for sure!!
Great show guys
You guys are the best I’ll check out your top picks.
Aloha!!
Got my ticket this morning for manchester in may 2024👍👍
6th - Tattooed Millionaire
5th - Tyranny of Souls
4th - Balls to Picasso
3rd - Skunkworks
2nd - Accident of Birth
1st - Chemical Wedding
Hey Pete, I know you've done this before but I'm interested in a part two of guilty pleasure songs/albums with the Hudson Valley Squares (maybe with a slight line up change) and I'm also interested in what everyone's top ten all time favorite songs are. Anyways, love your channel!
Loved Maiden/Anthrax show in Toronto January 1991. Had such a good time!!! Tattooed Millionaire has not aged well at all lol BUT it’s still better than Adrian’s first solo album “Silver & Gold” lol 😂😂😂😂
is a kreator ranking the albums in the works for this year !
1. Accident Of Birth
2. Chemical Wedding
3. Tyranny Of Souls
4. Skunkworks
5. Balls To Picasso
6. Tattooed Millionaire
Not only do I agree with everyone who said that AOB and CW can stand up against any Maiden Album, I think particularly the songs Darkside Of Aquarius and Book Of Thel can go toe to toe with any of IM’s best tracks.
I like tyranny the best. Fair play rich tyranny is a brilliant album i loved it as soon as i heard it not a week song on it. Heavy and moody devil on a hog is great.
Thank you
There's zero nu metal in CW, Rich. Cmon
I didn't say nu metal, I said modern newer metal.
1. Chemical Wedding
2. Accident of Birth
3. Tyranny of Souls
No Prayer is by Harris.
I feel deprived that I never saw Bruce solo and never got to hear all of these great songs live
Bruce Dickinson puts his pants on one leg at a time, but then he makes Gold records.
Skunkworks was Bruce's Tin Machine.
I instantly fell in love with Tattoed Millionaire back in the days : )
Tattooeed Millionaire is a great album and the only Bruce soloalbum that I`ve owned and listened to. Outside this album Tears Of The Dragon is a great song.
I absolutely love all the Bruce Dickinson solo albums. The Chemical Wedding album is my favorite album out of my 7000 plus cd collection. The Chemical Wedding was new when i got into it. I wasn't really into Maiden yet and couldn't get into Bruce's vocals but with Accident of Birth and Chemical Wedding it really clicked with me. Then Brave New World came out and i became a huge Maiden fan. But i still prefer Bruce's solo albums over Maiden albums.
Saw him on the accident of birth tour rock city Nottingham being from the same town born in 58 references to me and family
I think Skunkworks is fucking phenomenal. I personally loved the Soundgarden vibe throughout it. Strange Death In Paradise!!!
I agree on the masterpiece that is A Chemical Wedding, but really disagree on Skunkworks, that’s my second fave
Pete was dead on with the King’s X influence on Skunkworks though. That could be why I like it so much!
My list:
6. Skunkworks
5. Tyranny of Souls
4. Balls to Picasso
3. Tattooed Millionaire
2. Accident of Birth
1. Chemical Wedding
Awesome stuff as always and a very solid/consistent catalogue overall though I don't like tattooed millionaire at all (Chris is spot on with his assessment). Balls to Picasso is ok, the other albums are way better than these two. These are my picks
1. Chemical wedding
2. Skunkworks
3. Accident of birth
4. Tyranny of souls
5. Balls to Picasso
6. Tattooed millionaire
1 ACCIDENT OF BIRTH
2 CHEMICAL WEDDING
3 TATTOOED MILLIONAIRE
4 BALLS TO PICASSO
5 TYRANNY OF SOULS