Ranking Iron Maiden

I agree, love Losfer Words too. If there's any song that I overlook it's The Duelists, but that's just because I don't remember exactly what it sounds like without listening to the album. For some reason when I do see people talk about a worst/weakest track though, it's often Back in the Village and Losfer Words just tends to be forgotten about.

If there's a track I overlook on Powerslave its Losfer Words, but that's really just because it's an instrumental. Back in the Village is a great track. But the standard is so high on that album that it is easy to just focus on the well known tracks. I don't see the term 'worst song' as being applicable to an album like Powerslave. 

2. Iron Maiden

3. Powerslave

4. Number of the Beast

5. Peace of Mind

6. Somewhere in Time

7. everything else... meh

tracks (in chronological order, not order of preference):

Prowler

Sanctuary

Killers

Twilight Zone

Gangland

2 Minutes to Midnight

Wasted Years

I think a lot of people who maybe only listen to them casually at most think of Maiden as one of those bands who have their own sound but sound the same across every album of their own, but that's just not true; I can hear so much difference between my top two, Powerslave and Seventh Son. And even with Somewhere in Time between them. Iron Maiden were so much at the top of their creative game in those days. 

1. The Number Of The Beast

2. 2 Minutes To Midnight

3. Rime Of The Ancient Mariner

4. Moonchild

5. Caught Somewhere In Time

6. Where Eagles Dare

7. Aces High

8. The Clairvoyant

9. Hallowed Be Thy Name

10. Flight Of Icarus

11. Sea Of Madness

12. Bring Your Daughter To The Slaughter

13. Speed Of Light

14. El Dorado

15. Losfer Words

- The Clansman

- Como estais amigos

Worst Maiden song EVER:

- The Angel and the Gambler (Seriously, it's just plain garbage )

15. Fear of the Dark

- Fear of the Dark 

- Childhood's End

- Wasting Love

14. No Prayer for the Dying

- Fates Warning

- Tailgunner

(It's more a kinda solid-ish album overall, with few real standouts, imo)

13. The X Factor

- Sign of the Cross

- The Unbeliever

- Man on the Edge

- The Edge of Darkness

12. Killers

- Killers 

- Murders in the Rue Morgue

- Wratchchild

11. Somewhere in Time

- Wasted Years

- Alexander the Great

- The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner (seriously underrated, imo.)

- Caught Somewhere in Time

10. Iron Maiden

- Iron Maiden

- Phantom of the Opera

- Remember Tomorrow

- Transylvania

9. The Final Frontier 

- Where the Wild Wind Blows

- Isle of Avalon

- The Talisman

- Coming Home

8. Dance of Death

- Journeyman

- Paschendale

- Age of Innocence

- Dance of Death

- Face in the Sand

7. Piece of Mind

- Revelations

- The Trooper

- Flight of Icarus

- To Tame A Land

- Die With Your Boots On

6. The Book of Souls

- Empire of the Clouds

- When the River Runs Deep

- The Book of Souls

- Shadows in the Valley

- Death or Glory

- If Eternity Should Fail

5. A Matter of Life and Death

- For the Greater Good of God

- The Legacy

- Brighter Than a Thousand Suns

- These Colors Don't Run

- The Longest Day

- The Pilgrim

4. The Number of the Beast

- Hallowed Be Thy Name (My all time favorite.)

- The Number of the Beast

- 22 Acacia Avenue

- Children of the Damned

- The Prisoner

- Run to The Hills

3. Brave New World

- Blood Brothers

- Dream of Mirrors

- The Wicker Man

- The Thin Line Between Love and Hate

- The Ghost and the Navigator

- Out of the Silent Planet

2. Seventh Son of a Seventh Son

- Only the Good Die Young

- The Clairvoyant

- Moonchild

- Seventh Son of a Seventh Son

- The Evil That Men Do

- Infinite Dreams

- The Prophecy

1. Powerslave

- Powerslave

- Rime of the Ancient Mariner

- Aces High

- The Dualists

- Flash of the Blade

- 2 Minutes to Midnight

- Back in the Village

- Losfer Words (Big Orra)