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Maiden Voyage

Ed Coleman

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A chronological journey through the band's discography, Ed and Stu discuss, critique and celebrate the work of Iron Maiden.

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40 - Episode 34 - Senjutsu (Side B)
Well, dear listeners, we've reached the end of our Maiden Voyage. Ed and Stu discuss the second half of Iron Maiden's 17th studio album, Senjutsu. There is a significant and nearly catastrophic drop-off in quality with the second half of this album and the guys are not happy about it! The guys discuss how Billboard's change in how they track album performance to account for the rise in streaming adversely affected Iron Maiden's chart success with Senjutsu. They reached #3, but if Billboard used its old measurement of pure album sales, Maiden would have had their first #1 album! Wowsers! Ed and Stu talk about some other stuff, but really they mostly just suffer through the back half of this very uneven album. Way to end on a high note!
Thanks for listening along with us. It was a long journey made longer by our own ineptitude, but if you've continued to listen, we appreciate you. Keep the show in your feed because Ed and Stu are making plans for more content!
Hugs and kisses! XOXOXOXOX
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If you are enjoying the show, join us on the Maiden Voyage Patreon to support what we're doing! Patrons are our best friends! Like, Rate, Subscribe and Review the Maiden Voyage Podcast. We're desperate for your approval! Send questions, comments and praise to MaidenVoyagePodcast@gmail.com Follow Stu and Ed on Bluesky. Visit the Vintage RPG website to check out Stu's other podcast, Vintage RPG, and sign up for the newsletter for an in-depth dive into the art & history of tabletop roleplaying games, and check out unwinnable.com for the best cultural commentary around. Check out Stu's book, Monsters, Aliens and Holes in the Ground, from MIT Press. Pick up a copy directly from MIT Press, from your local bookstore, or from an online book seller that doesn't suck, like Bookshop.org. The Maiden Voyage illustration is by Shafer Brown. Follow him on Bluesky and Instagram. Maiden Voyage is recorded, edited, mixed and mastered by Ed Coleman. The show is produced by Ed Coleman and Stu Horvath. Theme music composed by Sam Retzer, under license from SmartSound. This podcast is a labor of love based on decades of devoted fandom. We strongly encourage listeners to buy Iron Maiden's albums or listen to them using your favorite streaming music service to support these heavy metal legends. To check out the cover art for the band's albums and singles, visit the band's excellent website.
Fri, 25 Apr 2025 - 1h 03min
39 - Episode 33 - Senjutsu (Side A)
THIS IS IT! We have reached the final (so far?) Iron Maiden album with Senjutsu! Their 17th studio album was released in September 2021, just one day shy of 6 years after their last album, beating the record set by The Book of Souls for the longest stretch between studio album releases. The album gets off to a strong start and Ed and Stu discuss the album's positive commercial and critical reception, and how Senjutsu marked the band's highest ever charting position on the Billboard 200, reaching #3.
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If you are enjoying the show, join us on the Maiden Voyage Patreon to support what we're doing! Patrons are our best friends! Like, Rate, Subscribe and Review the Maiden Voyage Podcast. We're desperate for your approval! Send questions, comments and praise to MaidenVoyagePodcast@gmail.com Follow Stu and Ed on Bluesky. Visit the Vintage RPG website to check out Stu's other podcast, Vintage RPG, and sign up for the newsletter for an in-depth dive into the art & history of tabletop roleplaying games, and check out unwinnable.com for the best cultural commentary around. Check out Stu's book, Monsters, Aliens and Holes in the Ground, from MIT Press. Pick up a copy directly from MIT Press, from your local bookstore, or from an online book seller that doesn't suck, like Bookshop.org. The Maiden Voyage illustration is by Shafer Brown. Follow him on Bluesky and Instagram. Maiden Voyage is recorded, edited, mixed and mastered by Ed Coleman. The show is produced by Ed Coleman and Stu Horvath. Theme music composed by Sam Retzer, under license from SmartSound. This podcast is a labor of love based on decades of devoted fandom. We strongly encourage listeners to buy Iron Maiden's albums or listen to them using your favorite streaming music service to support these heavy metal legends. To check out the cover art for the band's albums and singles, visit the band's excellent website.
Fri, 18 Apr 2025 - 50min
38 - Episode 32 - The Book of Souls (Side B)
We're back for the second half of Iron Maiden's first double-album, The Book of Souls. Ed and Stu discuss Bruce's health, the length of this album and the band's longest ever song (Empire of the Clouds at over 18 minutes), and the commercial and critical success of this album. We're so close to the end, beloved listeners! One more album to go!!!
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If you are enjoying the show, join us on the Maiden Voyage Patreon to support what we're doing! Patrons are our best friends! Like, Rate, Subscribe and Review the Maiden Voyage Podcast. We're desperate for your approval! Send questions, comments and praise to MaidenVoyagePodcast@gmail.com Follow Stu and Ed on Bluesky. Visit the Vintage RPG website to check out Stu's other podcast, Vintage RPG, and sign up for the newsletter for an in-depth dive into the art & history of tabletop roleplaying games, and check out unwinnable.com for the best cultural commentary around. Check out Stu's book, Monsters, Aliens and Holes in the Ground, from MIT Press. Pick up a copy directly from MIT Press, from your local bookstore, or from an online book seller that doesn't suck, like Bookshop.org. The Maiden Voyage illustration is by Shafer Brown. Follow him on Bluesky and Instagram. Maiden Voyage is recorded, edited, mixed and mastered by Ed Coleman. The show is produced by Ed Coleman and Stu Horvath. Theme music composed by Sam Retzer, under license from SmartSound. This podcast is a labor of love based on decades of devoted fandom. We strongly encourage listeners to buy Iron Maiden's albums or listen to them using your favorite streaming music service to support these heavy metal legends. To check out the cover art for the band's albums and singles, visit the band's excellent website.
Fri, 11 Apr 2025 - 56min
37 - Episode 31 - The Book of Souls (Side A)
We're nearing the end of our work as Ed and Stu discuss Iron Maiden's 16th studio album, The Book of Souls. The band's first ever double album was released in September 2015, over five years after their last album release, marking the longest stretch between two Maiden albums to this point. The guys follow-up on some grammy controversy talk, the band's impressive tour schedule and the corporate shuffling of deck chairs that seemingly ended a 30-year relationship with EMI but nothing really changed. Mega corporations are stupid!
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If you are enjoying the show, join us on the Maiden Voyage Patreon to support what we're doing! Patrons are our best friends! Like, Rate, Subscribe and Review the Maiden Voyage Podcast. We're desperate for your approval! Send questions, comments and praise to MaidenVoyagePodcast@gmail.com Follow Stu and Ed on Bluesky. Visit the Vintage RPG website to check out Stu's other podcast, Vintage RPG, and sign up for the newsletter for an in-depth dive into the art & history of tabletop roleplaying games, and check out unwinnable.com for the best cultural commentary around. Check out Stu's book, Monsters, Aliens and Holes in the Ground, from MIT Press. Pick up a copy directly from MIT Press, from your local bookstore, or from an online book seller that doesn't suck, like Bookshop.org. The Maiden Voyage illustration is by Shafer Brown. Follow him on Bluesky and Instagram. Maiden Voyage is recorded, edited, mixed and mastered by Ed Coleman. The show is produced by Ed Coleman and Stu Horvath. Theme music composed by Sam Retzer, under license from SmartSound. This podcast is a labor of love based on decades of devoted fandom. We strongly encourage listeners to buy Iron Maiden's albums or listen to them using your favorite streaming music service to support these heavy metal legends. To check out the cover art for the band's albums and singles, visit the band's excellent website.
Fri, 04 Apr 2025 - 57min
36 - Episode 30 - The Final Frontier (Side B)
Ed and Stu are back to discuss the second half of The Final Frontier. This was the band's longest album when it was released and Ed challenges Stu to guess the second and third longest albums. The fellas talk about some of the artwork released in connection with the album and barely survive the worst two back-to-back tracks to appear on any Iron Maiden album! It's getting rough out here for your intrepid hosts!
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If you are enjoying the show, join us on the Maiden Voyage Patreon to support what we're doing! Patrons are our best friends! Like, Rate, Subscribe and Review the Maiden Voyage Podcast. We're desperate for your approval! Send questions, comments and praise to MaidenVoyagePodcast@gmail.com Follow Stu and Ed on Bluesky. Visit the Vintage RPG website to check out Stu's other podcast, Vintage RPG, and sign up for the newsletter for an in-depth dive into the art & history of tabletop roleplaying games, and check out unwinnable.com for the best cultural commentary around. Check out Stu's book, Monsters, Aliens and Holes in the Ground, from MIT Press. Pick up a copy directly from MIT Press, from your local bookstore, or from an online book seller that doesn't suck, like Bookshop.org. The Maiden Voyage illustration is by Shafer Brown. Follow him on Bluesky and Instagram. Maiden Voyage is recorded, edited, mixed and mastered by Ed Coleman. The show is produced by Ed Coleman and Stu Horvath. Theme music composed by Sam Retzer, under license from SmartSound. This podcast is a labor of love based on decades of devoted fandom. We strongly encourage listeners to buy Iron Maiden's albums or listen to them using your favorite streaming music service to support these heavy metal legends. To check out the cover art for the band's albums and singles, visit the band's excellent website.
Fri, 28 Mar 2025 - 46min
35 - Episode 29 - The Final Frontier (Side A)
We're heading into outer space to cover Iron Maiden's fifteenth studio album, The Final Frontier! Ed and Stu discuss the end of the band's 30-year relationship with EMI records (sort of), the half live action, half animated video for the album's title track, the band's non-stop work schedule since the last album and how insane it is that the band's first Grammy for Best Metal Performance comes from this album!
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If you are enjoying the show, join us on the Maiden Voyage Patreon to support what we're doing! Patrons are our best friends! Like, Rate, Subscribe and Review the Maiden Voyage Podcast. We're desperate for your approval! Send questions, comments and praise to MaidenVoyagePodcast@gmail.com Follow Stu and Ed on Bluesky. Visit the Vintage RPG website to check out Stu's other podcast, Vintage RPG, and sign up for the newsletter for an in-depth dive into the art & history of tabletop roleplaying games, and check out unwinnable.com for the best cultural commentary around. Check out Stu's book, Monsters, Aliens and Holes in the Ground, from MIT Press. Pick up a copy directly from MIT Press, from your local bookstore, or from an online book seller that doesn't suck, like Bookshop.org. The Maiden Voyage illustration is by Shafer Brown. Follow him on Bluesky and Instagram. Maiden Voyage is recorded, edited, mixed and mastered by Ed Coleman. The show is produced by Ed Coleman and Stu Horvath. Theme music composed by Sam Retzer, under license from SmartSound. This podcast is a labor of love based on decades of devoted fandom. We strongly encourage listeners to buy Iron Maiden's albums or listen to them using your favorite streaming music service to support these heavy metal legends. To check out the cover art for the band's albums and singles, visit the band's excellent website.
Fri, 21 Mar 2025 - 49min
34 - Episode 28 - A Matter Of Life And Death (Side B)
As we continue talking about the band's fourteenth studio album, we discuss the "easy" recording process, how Steve Harris and co-producer Kevin Shirley decided not to master the tracks to achieve a more live sound, and the story of how the band's 2005 tour preceding this album devolved into animosity with their co-headliner in North America, Ozzy Osborne, leading to Sharon Osborne sabotaging Iron Maiden's final show of the US part of the tour!
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If you are enjoying the show, join us on the Maiden Voyage Patreon to support what we're doing! Patrons are our best friends! Like, Rate, Subscribe and Review the Maiden Voyage Podcast. We're desperate for your approval! Send questions, comments and praise to MaidenVoyagePodcast@gmail.com Follow Stu and Ed on Bluesky. Visit the Vintage RPG website to check out Stu's other podcast, Vintage RPG, and sign up for the newsletter for an in-depth dive into the art & history of tabletop roleplaying games, and check out unwinnable.com for the best cultural commentary around. Check out Stu's book, Monsters, Aliens and Holes in the Ground, from MIT Press. Pick up a copy directly from MIT Press, from your local bookstore, or from an online book seller that doesn't suck, like Bookshop.org. The Maiden Voyage illustration is by Shafer Brown. Follow him on Bluesky and Instagram. Maiden Voyage is recorded, edited, mixed and mastered by Ed Coleman. The show is produced by Ed Coleman and Stu Horvath. Theme music composed by Sam Retzer, under license from SmartSound. This podcast is a labor of love based on decades of devoted fandom. We strongly encourage listeners to buy Iron Maiden's albums or listen to them using your favorite streaming music service to support these heavy metal legends. To check out the cover art for the band's albums and singles, visit the band's excellent website.
Fri, 14 Mar 2025 - 56min
33 - Episode 27 - A Matter Of Life And Death (Side A)
We're covering Iron Maiden's 14th studio album, A Matter Of Life And Death, released in late August and early September of 2006. The album has a loose theme around war and religion and also being a real slog to get through! AMoLaD received generally good reviews and was named best metal album of the year by multiple magazines. Rolling Stone gave it 3 out of 5 stars, saying the band was aging gracefully but adding they now march where they once galloped. Do our intrepid hosts agree? Find out!
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If you are enjoying the show, join us on the Maiden Voyage Patreon to support what we're doing! Patrons are our best friends! Like, Rate, Subscribe and Review the Maiden Voyage Podcast. We're desperate for your approval! Send questions, comments and praise to MaidenVoyagePodcast@gmail.com Follow Stu and Ed on Bluesky. Visit the Vintage RPG website to check out Stu's other podcast, Vintage RPG, and sign up for the newsletter for an in-depth dive into the art & history of tabletop roleplaying games, and check out unwinnable.com for the best cultural commentary around. Check out Stu's book, Monsters, Aliens and Holes in the Ground, from MIT Press. Pick up a copy directly from MIT Press, from your local bookstore, or from an online book seller that doesn't suck, like Bookshop.org. The Maiden Voyage illustration is by Shafer Brown. Follow him on Bluesky and Instagram. Maiden Voyage is recorded, edited, mixed and mastered by Ed Coleman. The show is produced by Ed Coleman and Stu Horvath. Theme music composed by Sam Retzer, under license from SmartSound. This podcast is a labor of love based on decades of devoted fandom. We strongly encourage listeners to buy Iron Maiden's albums or listen to them using your favorite streaming music service to support these heavy metal legends. To check out the cover art for the band's albums and singles, visit the band's excellent website.
Fri, 07 Mar 2025 - 43min
32 - Episode 26 - Dance of Death (Side B)
Ed and Stu continue their coverage of Iron Maiden's thriteenth studio album, Dance of Death. This half of the album features the band's first fully acoustic track, "Journeyman," and the first song co-written by drummer Nicko McBrain, "New Frontier," which is, of course, about the dangers of human cloning. Everyone was talking about human cloning in 2003! This side of the album also features another classic war-based epic, "Paschendale."
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If you are enjoying the show, join us on the Maiden Voyage Patreon to support what we're doing! Patrons are our best friends! Like, Rate, Subscribe and Review the Maiden Voyage Podcast. We're desperate for your approval! Send questions, comments and praise to MaidenVoyagePodcast@gmail.com Follow Stu and Ed on Bluesky. Visit the Vintage RPG website to check out Stu's other podcast, Vintage RPG, and sign up for the newsletter for an in-depth dive into the art & history of tabletop roleplaying games, and check out unwinnable.com for the best cultural commentary around. Check out Stu's book, Monsters, Aliens and Holes in the Ground, from MIT Press. Pick up a copy directly from MIT Press, from your local bookstore, or from an online book seller that doesn't suck, like Bookshop.org. The Maiden Voyage illustration is by Shafer Brown. Follow him on Bluesky and Instagram. Maiden Voyage is recorded, edited, mixed and mastered by Ed Coleman. The show is produced by Ed Coleman and Stu Horvath. Theme music composed by Sam Retzer, under license from SmartSound. This podcast is a labor of love based on decades of devoted fandom. We strongly encourage listeners to buy Iron Maiden's albums or listen to them using your favorite streaming music service to support these heavy metal legends. To check out the cover art for the band's albums and singles, visit the band's excellent website.
Fri, 28 Feb 2025 - 52min
31 - Episode 25 - Dance of Death (Side A)
This week we discuss Iron Maiden's thirteenth studio album, Dance of Death, which was released in 2003. We talk at length about the album art, which may be one of the worst album covers of all time, and provide a history lesson about the Cathars in connection with "Montsegur," one of the band's greatest late-era songs.
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If you are enjoying the show, join us on the Maiden Voyage Patreon to support what we're doing! Patrons are our best friends! Like, Rate, Subscribe and Review the Maiden Voyage Podcast. We're desperate for your approval! Send questions, comments and praise to MaidenVoyagePodcast@gmail.com Follow Stu and Ed on Bluesky. Visit the Vintage RPG website to check out Stu's other podcast, Vintage RPG, and sign up for the newsletter for an in-depth dive into the art & history of tabletop roleplaying games, and check out unwinnable.com for the best cultural commentary around. Check out Stu's book, Monsters, Aliens and Holes in the Ground, from MIT Press. Pick up a copy directly from MIT Press, from your local bookstore, or from an online book seller that doesn't suck, like Bookshop.org. The Maiden Voyage illustration is by Shafer Brown. Follow him on Bluesky and Instagram. Maiden Voyage is recorded, edited, mixed and mastered by Ed Coleman. The show is produced by Ed Coleman and Stu Horvath. Theme music composed by Sam Retzer, under license from SmartSound. This podcast is a labor of love based on decades of devoted fandom. We strongly encourage listeners to buy Iron Maiden's albums or listen to them using your favorite streaming music service to support these heavy metal legends. To check out the cover art for the band's albums and singles, visit the band's excellent website.
Fri, 21 Feb 2025 - 1h 18min
30 - Episode 24 - Brave New World (Side B)
We continue with the second side of Brave New World and discuss the album's mostly very positive reviews, the band's return to chart success around the world and the widely anticipated tour that followed the album's release!
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If you are enjoying the show, join us on the Maiden Voyage Patreon to support what we're doing! Patrons are our best friends! Like, Rate, Subscribe and Review the Maiden Voyage Podcast. We're desperate for your approval! Send questions, comments and praise to MaidenVoyagePodcast@gmail.com Follow Stu and Ed on Bluesky. Visit the Vintage RPG website to check out Stu's other podcast, Vintage RPG, and sign up for the newsletter for an in-depth dive into the art & history of tabletop roleplaying games, and check out unwinnable.com for the best cultural commentary around. Check out Stu's book, Monsters, Aliens and Holes in the Ground, from MIT Press. Pick up a copy directly from MIT Press, from your local bookstore, or from an online book seller that doesn't suck, like Bookshop.org. The Maiden Voyage illustration is by Shafer Brown. Follow him on Bluesky and Instagram. Maiden Voyage is recorded, edited, mixed and mastered by Ed Coleman. The show is produced by Ed Coleman and Stu Horvath. Theme music composed by Sam Retzer, under license from SmartSound. This podcast is a labor of love based on decades of devoted fandom. We strongly encourage listeners to buy Iron Maiden's albums or listen to them using your favorite streaming music service to support these heavy metal legends. To check out the cover art for the band's albums and singles, visit the band's excellent website.
Fri, 14 Feb 2025 - 52min
29 - Episode 23 - Brave New World (Side A)
The Blaze era has come to an end and Bruce Dickinson rejoins the band with the release of Iron Maiden's twelfth studio album, Brave New World. After a no longer applicable welcome to the new season (remember what we said in the Season 2 Intro about ignoring references to the Blaze albums being behind a paywall?), Stu and Ed enjoy the band's return to form!
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If you are enjoying the show, join us on the Maiden Voyage Patreon to support what we're doing! Patrons are our best friends! Like, Rate, Subscribe and Review the Maiden Voyage Podcast. We're desperate for your approval! Send questions, comments and praise to MaidenVoyagePodcast@gmail.com Follow Stu and Ed on Bluesky. Visit the Vintage RPG website to check out Stu's other podcast, Vintage RPG, and sign up for the newsletter for an in-depth dive into the art & history of tabletop roleplaying games, and check out unwinnable.com for the best cultural commentary around. Check out Stu's book, Monsters, Aliens and Holes in the Ground, from MIT Press. Pick up a copy directly from MIT Press, from your local bookstore, or from an online book seller that doesn't suck, like Bookshop.org. The Maiden Voyage illustration is by Shafer Brown. Follow him on Bluesky and Instagram. Maiden Voyage is recorded, edited, mixed and mastered by Ed Coleman. The show is produced by Ed Coleman and Stu Horvath. Theme music composed by Sam Retzer, under license from SmartSound. This podcast is a labor of love based on decades of devoted fandom. We strongly encourage listeners to buy Iron Maiden's albums or listen to them using your favorite streaming music service to support these heavy metal legends. To check out the cover art for the band's albums and singles, visit the band's excellent website.
Fri, 07 Feb 2025 - 44min
28 - BONUS - Blaze Bayley (Part 3)
BONUS ALERT! THIS IS GETTING TO BE A HABIT! We've reached the end of our bloviating Blaze-based bonus content. After focusing our first two Blaze bonus eps on songs by Wolfsbane, the final in our series moves to listening to a few of his most recent releases. Ed listens to a single released in September 2024, "Ghost in The Bottle," and the title track from Blaze's most recent studio album, "Circle of Stone." But wait there's more! As a bonus to the bonus, Ed sneaks in some belated holiday cheer when he realizes Blaze released a Christmas song in 2016, "Crazy Christmas." --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- If you are enjoying the show, join us on the Maiden Voyage Patreon to support what we're doing! Patrons are our best friends! Like, Rate, Subscribe and Review the Maiden Voyage Podcast. We're desperate for your approval! Send questions, comments and praise to MaidenVoyagePodcast@gmail.com Follow Stu and Ed on Bluesky. Visit the Vintage RPG website to check out Stu's other podcast, Vintage RPG, and sign up for the newsletter for an in-depth dive into the art & history of tabletop roleplaying games, and check out unwinnable.com for the best cultural commentary around. Check out Stu's book, Monsters, Aliens and Holes in the Ground, from MIT Press. Pick up a copy directly from MIT Press, from your local bookstore, or from an online book seller that doesn't suck, like Bookshop.org. The Maiden Voyage illustration is by Shafer Brown. Follow him on Bluesky and Instagram. Maiden Voyage is recorded, edited, mixed and mastered by Ed Coleman. The show is produced by Ed Coleman and Stu Horvath. Theme music composed by Sam Retzer, under license from SmartSound. This podcast is a labor of love based on decades of devoted fandom. We strongly encourage listeners to buy Iron Maiden's albums or listen to them using your favorite streaming music service to support these heavy metal legends. To check out the cover art for the band's albums and singles, visit the band's excellent website.
Tue, 04 Feb 2025 - 22min
27 - Episode 22 - Virtual XI (Side B)
We've reached the end of Blaze Bayley's time as singer of Iron Maiden, as the show covers the second side of Virtual XI. Ed and Stu talk about Bruce Dickinson's solo work overshadowing Iron Maiden's output, but still not selling as strongly as the band's mediocre work with Blaze.
The guys also discuss how Virtual XI may be the most Steve Harris dominated album Iron Maiden has ever released. Half the songs are by Harris alone and he contributed heavily to three songs by Dave Murray. The album was also recorded in Harris' barnyard home-studio and Harris mixed the album and co-produced it. So we know who to blame!
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If you are enjoying the show, join us on the Maiden Voyage Patreon to support what we're doing! Patrons are our best friends! Like, Rate, Subscribe and Review the Maiden Voyage Podcast. We're desperate for your approval! Send questions, comments and praise to MaidenVoyagePodcast@gmail.com Follow Stu and Ed on Bluesky. Visit the Vintage RPG website to check out Stu's other podcast, Vintage RPG, and sign up for the newsletter for an in-depth dive into the art & history of tabletop roleplaying games, and check out unwinnable.com for the best cultural commentary around. Check out Stu's book, Monsters, Aliens and Holes in the Ground, from MIT Press. Pick up a copy directly from MIT Press, from your local bookstore, or from an online book seller that doesn't suck, like Bookshop.org. The Maiden Voyage illustration is by Shafer Brown. Follow him on Bluesky and Instagram. Maiden Voyage is recorded, edited, mixed and mastered by Ed Coleman. The show is produced by Ed Coleman and Stu Horvath. Theme music composed by Sam Retzer, under license from SmartSound. This podcast is a labor of love based on decades of devoted fandom. We strongly encourage listeners to buy Iron Maiden's albums or listen to them using your favorite streaming music service to support these heavy metal legends. To check out the cover art for the band's albums and singles, visit the band's excellent website.
Fri, 31 Jan 2025 - 50min
26 - BONUS - Blaze Bayley (Part 2)
BONUS ALERT! AGAIN! We're back with the second in a series of Blaze-based bonus content. Here, Ed listens to two tracks off Wolfsbane's second studio album, Down Fall The Good Guys, released in 1991. The two singles from the album, "Ezy" and "After Midnight," sound better (production-wise) than the songs from the first album, but did the songs wind up too polished? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- If you are enjoying the show, join us on the Maiden Voyage Patreon to support what we're doing! Patrons are our best friends! Like, Rate, Subscribe and Review the Maiden Voyage Podcast. We're desperate for your approval! Send questions, comments and praise to MaidenVoyagePodcast@gmail.com Follow Stu and Ed on Bluesky. Visit the Vintage RPG website to check out Stu's other podcast, Vintage RPG, and sign up for the newsletter for an in-depth dive into the art & history of tabletop roleplaying games, and check out unwinnable.com for the best cultural commentary around. Check out Stu's book, Monsters, Aliens and Holes in the Ground, from MIT Press. Pick up a copy directly from MIT Press, from your local bookstore, or from an online book seller that doesn't suck, like Bookshop.org. The Maiden Voyage illustration is by Shafer Brown. Follow him on Bluesky and Instagram. Maiden Voyage is recorded, edited, mixed and mastered by Ed Coleman. The show is produced by Ed Coleman and Stu Horvath. Theme music composed by Sam Retzer, under license from SmartSound. This podcast is a labor of love based on decades of devoted fandom. We strongly encourage listeners to buy Iron Maiden's albums or listen to them using your favorite streaming music service to support these heavy metal legends. To check out the cover art for the band's albums and singles, visit the band's excellent website.
Tue, 28 Jan 2025 - 17min
25 - Episode 21 - Virtual XI (Side A)
Ed and Stu dive headfirst into the second, and final, album of the Blaze Bayley era, Virtual XI. They discuss how Iron Maiden's 11th studio album feels like the ebb of this whole podcast process!
Released in March 1998, the album was apparently titled Virtual XI to tie-in to both Iron Maiden's computer game, "Ed Hunter," and, naturally, the fact that the FIFA World Cup was happening that year. Makes total sense!
If you are enjoying the show, join us on the Maiden Voyage Patreon to support what we're doing! Patrons are our best friends! Like, Rate, Subscribe and Review the Maiden Voyage Podcast. We're desperate for your approval! Send questions, comments and praise to MaidenVoyagePodcast@gmail.com Follow Stu and Ed on Bluesky. Visit the Vintage RPG website to check out Stu's other podcast, Vintage RPG, and sign up for the newsletter for an in-depth dive into the art & history of tabletop roleplaying games, and check out unwinnable.com for the best cultural commentary around. Check out Stu's book, Monsters, Aliens and Holes in the Ground, from MIT Press. Pick up a copy directly from MIT Press, from your local bookstore, or from an online book seller that doesn't suck, like Bookshop.org. The Maiden Voyage illustration is by Shafer Brown. Follow him on Bluesky and Instagram. Maiden Voyage is recorded, edited, mixed and mastered by Ed Coleman. The show is produced by Ed Coleman and Stu Horvath. Theme music composed by Sam Retzer, under license from SmartSound. This podcast is a labor of love based on decades of devoted fandom. We strongly encourage listeners to buy Iron Maiden's albums or listen to them using your favorite streaming music service to support these heavy metal legends. To check out the cover art for the band's albums and singles, visit the band's excellent website.
Fri, 24 Jan 2025 - 43min
24 - BONUS - Blaze Bayley (Part 1)
BONUS ALERT! Ed is bringing you the first of a series of bonus episodes listening to some of Blaze's non-Maiden related music. In this first installment, Ed listens to two tracks off Live Fast, Die Fast: Wicked Tales of Booze, Birds and Bad Language, the 1989 debut album from Wolfsbane, the band Blaze left to join Maiden.
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If you are enjoying the show, join us on the Maiden Voyage Patreon to support what we're doing! Patrons are our best friends! Like, Rate, Subscribe and Review the Maiden Voyage Podcast. We're desperate for your approval! Send questions, comments and praise to MaidenVoyagePodcast@gmail.com Follow Stu and Ed on Bluesky. Visit the Vintage RPG website to check out Stu's other podcast, Vintage RPG, and sign up for the newsletter for an in-depth dive into the art & history of tabletop roleplaying games, and check out unwinnable.com for the best cultural commentary around. Check out Stu's book, Monsters, Aliens and Holes in the Ground, from MIT Press. Pick up a copy directly from MIT Press, from your local bookstore, or from an online book seller that doesn't suck, like Bookshop.org. The Maiden Voyage illustration is by Shafer Brown. Follow him on Bluesky and Instagram. Maiden Voyage is recorded, edited, mixed and mastered by Ed Coleman. The show is produced by Ed Coleman and Stu Horvath. Theme music composed by Sam Retzer, under license from SmartSound. This podcast is a labor of love based on decades of devoted fandom. We strongly encourage listeners to buy Iron Maiden's albums or listen to them using your favorite streaming music service to support these heavy metal legends. To check out the cover art for the band's albums and singles, visit the band's excellent website.
Tue, 21 Jan 2025 - 14min
23 - Episode 20 - The X-Factor (Side B)
We're only two episodes in to the second season and Ed and Stu are already not enjoying themselves. They discuss how this album took the longest to produce of any Iron Maiden album to date, with 18 months of writing, rehearsing, recording and mixing. Blaze reportedly did not enjoy the lengthy process, which aptly describes how Ed and Stu feel about listening to this album!
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Like, Rate, Subscribe and Review the Maiden Voyage Podcast. We're desperate for your approval! Send questions, comments and praise to MaidenVoyagePodcast@gmail.com Follow Stu and Ed on Bluesky. Visit the Vintage RPG website to check out Stu's other podcast, Vintage RPG, and sign up for the newsletter for an in-depth dive into the art & history of tabletop roleplaying games, and check out unwinnable.com for the best cultural commentary around. Check out Stu's book, Monsters, Aliens and Holes in the Ground, from MIT Press. Pick up a copy directly from MIT Press, from your local bookstore, or from an online book seller that doesn't suck, like Bookshop.org. The Maiden Voyage illustration is by Shafer Brown. Follow him on Bluesky and Instagram. Maiden Voyage is recorded, edited, mixed and mastered by Ed Coleman. The show is produced by Ed Coleman and Stu Horvath. Theme music composed by Sam Retzer, under license from SmartSound. This podcast is a labor of love based on decades of devoted fandom. We strongly encourage listeners to buy Iron Maiden's albums or listen to them using your favorite streaming music service to support these heavy metal legends. To check out the cover art for the band's albums and singles, visit the band's excellent website.
Fri, 17 Jan 2025 - 48min
22 - Episode 19 - The X-Factor (Side A)
It's official! We're back or the start of Season 2 of Maiden Voyage, where Ed and Stu cover the first side of Iron Maiden's 10th studio album, The X-Factor!
Released in October 1995, this marks the first album with the band's third singer, Blaze Bayley. Ed and Stu jump right into the thick of it, discussing the wonderfully absurd lyrics of the album's opening track, "Man on the Edge" about the Joel Schumacher movie, Falling Down.
How will Blaze fit in with the band? Will singing bland, overly-long songs prove detrimental to Blaze's chances to succeed as Maiden's new singer? Will Ed ever stop pronouncing a hard "J" when saying Janick Gers' name? All this and more on this episode of Maiden Voyage.
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Fri, 10 Jan 2025 - 1h 02min
21 - Season 2 is coming...
That's right, friends! After a lengthy hiatus, Maiden Voyage is returning to continue the chronological journey through Iron Maiden's studio albums. Stu and Ed will pick up where they left off, beginning with the band's 10th studio album, The X-Factor.
In this brief Season 2 intro, Ed offers "reasons" for the lengthy delay in releasing new episodes, looks back at the album rankings from Season 1, sets the stage for where things stood for the band after Fear of the Dark, and explains that all episodes will be released for free!
New episodes will start releasing Friday, January 10! What a time to be alive!
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Mon, 06 Jan 2025 - 07min
20 - Episode 18 - Fear of the Dark (Side B)
Well, dearest listeners, we've come to the end of our first season and Stu and Ed go out with a bang in this too long epic episode covering Side B of Fear of the Dark. It's the end of an era for Iron Maiden as Bruce Dickinson departs the band for the next 8 years and 2 studio albums, but while this album side is, at best, not great, it closes on a high note with the iconic titular song.
The episode ends with a shocking reconfiguration of the absolutely definitive album rankings to date, as Stu and Ed realize they've made a grievous mistake. Where will things wind up? What are you waiting for? Start the episode already!
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Fri, 01 Jan 2021 - 1h 18min
19 - Episode 17 - Fear of the Dark (Side A)
Ho, ho, ho! What could be better than a new episode of Maiden Voyage for Christmas?!? What's that? You had a whole list of things you asked for and a new Maiden Voyage episode wasn't one of them? Well, consider this a fun, unexpected stocking stuffer!
Ed and Stu are talking Side A of Fear of the Dark, which starts off with the ripping single "Be Quick or Be Dead" and . . . . continues from there. The guys discuss everything from the many, um, "controversies" of the Maxwell family, to the numerous underwhelming B-Sides off the album's singles, to the surprising discovery of Bruce at the bottom of one of Ed's many adventures down a research rabbit hole.
There is only one more episode to go in Maiden Voyage's first season. To hear the episodes covering the two Blaze Bayley albums as they are released, sign up for our patreon! But don't fret, the show will be back soon with season 2, covering the rest of Iron Maiden's studio albums from Brave New World through Book of Souls.
Side A
Album Personnel
Bruce Dickinson - vox
Dave Murray - guitars
Janick Gers - guitars
Steve Harris - bass guitar
Nicko McBrain - drums
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Fri, 25 Dec 2020 - 1h 00min
18 - Episode 16 - No Prayer for the Dying (Side B)
Moving on to Side B of NPftD, Stu and Ed discuss killers-for-hire, the existential dread of submarines and the ocean, being suspended from the ceiling by hooks in your flesh, Nightmare on Elm Street and Russia, Russia, Russia! You know, normal stuff!
Side B includes what is, remarkably, Iron Maiden's only single to reach #1 on the UK charts with "Bring Your Daughter to the Slaughter." Stu and Ed also talk about the album art and how it resets the depiction of the band's mascot, Eddie. Gone are the cyborg enhancements and lobotomy scar. We're back to OG zombie Eddie with whisps of white hair and sporting a ripped t-shirt as he bursts from a grave. Everything old is new again!
Side B
Album Personnel
Bruce Dickinson - vox
Dave Murray - guitars
Janick Gers - guitars
Steve Harris - bass guitar
Nick McBrain - drums
Additional Musicians: Michael Kenney - keyboards
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Fri, 18 Dec 2020 - 37min
17 - Episode 15 - No Prayer for the Dying (Side A)
Coming off the highs of Seventh Son of a Seventh Son ("7Soa7S"), the band has its first lineup change in 8 years, since the album Piece of Mind. Guitarist extraordinaire Adrian Smith left the band and was replaced by Jancik Gers. Ed and Stu struggle to pronounce his name properly because they are stupid Americans, and they have way too much information about the Rolling Stones Mobile Recording Studio which was used to record the album in a barn on Steve Harris' property.
The album received mixed reviews, but the momentum of 7Soa7S still propelled the album to hit #2 in the UK, spending 14 weeks on the charts. It also managed to hit #17 in the US.
Side A
Album Personnel
Bruce Dickinson - vox
Dave Murray - guitars
Janick Gers - guitars
Steve Harris - bass guitar
Nick McBrain - drums
Michael Kenney - keyboards
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Fri, 11 Dec 2020 - 51min
16 - Episode 14 - Seventh Son of a Seventh Son (Side B)
It's time for Side B of Iron Maiden's epic album, 7th Son, etc. Stu and Ed continue having a grand ol' time with the album. They discuss celebrities that are rumored to be 7th sons of 7th sons, and Ed gets real, explaining that his wife is not a fan of Maiden which will inevitably lead to the dissolution of his marriage. Sad.
Side B is chock full of more great tunes. Enjoy it while you can, dear listeners! Where will this album rank? Will it take the top spot from Powerslave? The suspense is surely killing you, so listen now!
Side B
Album Personnel
Bruce Dickinson - vox
Dave Murray - guitars
Adrian Smith - guitars
Steve Harris - bass guitar
Nicko McBrain - drums
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Fri, 04 Dec 2020 - 53min
15 - Episode 13 - Seventh Son of a Seventh Son (Side A)
Our voyage continues as we discuss Side A of Iron Maiden's epic concept album, Seventh Son of a Seventh Son (hereinafter "7th Son" for brevity's sake). Ed and Stu wind up having a lot to say about this album and its tale of a boy born with special powers because he had a bunch of brothers and uncles!
Maiden's back on top with this album, both creatively and in terms of record sales. 7th Son debuted at #1 in the UK, spending 18 weeks on the charts. The fellas can see why as they enjoy listening along, trying to decipher the album's narrative as they go.
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This podcast is a labor of love based on decades of devoted fandom. We strongly encourage listeners to buy Iron Maiden's albums or listen to them using your favorite streaming music service to support these heavy metal legends. To check out the cover art for the band's albums and singles, visit the band's excellent website.
Fri, 27 Nov 2020 - 52min
14 - Episode 12 - Somewhere in Time (Side B)
We're back to endure Side B of Somewhere in Time and Stu and Ed wind up experiencing serious "Deja Vu" as they dislike this side of the album as much, if not more, than the first! We start with a long song about cross-country and end with an even longer song that can be used as Cliffs Notes to learn everything Alexander the Great ever did (though we like that song).
Where will this one fall in our on-going list ranking Iron Maiden's albums? I think you can guess....
Side B
Album Personnel
Bruce Dickinson - vox
Dave Murray - guitars
Adrian Smith - guitars
Steve Harris - bass
Nicko McBrain - drums
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This podcast is a labor of love based on decades of devoted fandom. We strongly encourage listeners to buy Iron Maiden's albums or listen to them using your favorite streaming music service to support these heavy metal legends. To check out the cover art for the band's albums and singles, visit the band's excellent website.
Fri, 20 Nov 2020 - 33min
13 - Episode 11 - Somewhere In Time (Side A)
The show moves on to cover Somewhere In Time, because that is the next album chronologically! Ed is less than enthused. Stu is despondent. But it doesn't mean they can't have a good time while discussing Side A of Iron Maiden's 1986 album. Stu gets a lot of mileage reviewing the album art!
Side A
1. Caught Somewhere in Time
2. Wasted Years
3. Sea of Madness
4. Heaven Can Wait
Album Personnel
Bruce Dickinson - vox
Dave Murray - guitars
Adrian Smith - guitars
Steve Harris - bass guitar
Nicko McBrain - drums
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This podcast is a labor of love based on decades of devoted fandom. We strongly encourage listeners to buy Iron Maiden's albums or listen to them using your favorite streaming music service to support these heavy metal legends. To check out the cover art for the band's albums and singles, visit the band's excellent website.
Fri, 13 Nov 2020 - 39min
12 - Episode 10 - Powerslave (Side B)
Your intrepid hosts return to discuss Side B of Iron Maiden's fifth studio album, Powerslave. Stu and Ed cover the epic and grueling tour the band endured in support of the album, which entailed 189 gigs over the course of 331 days across 28 countries. During the tour, Iron Maiden became the first rock act to bring a full stage show behind the iron curtain, playing shows in Poland, Hungary and Yugoslavia. The band also played to the largest crowds in their career to date, playing in South America for the first time in front of 350,000 people in Brazil at the first ever Rock in Rio festival.
The fellas also play a game while listening to Rime of the Ancient Mariner, as Ed quizzes Stu in a game called, "Guess Which Song Is Longer!"
Side Two
6. Back in the Village 7. Powerslave 8. Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Album Personnel
Bruce Dickinson - vox Dave Murray - guitars Adrian Smith - guitars Steve Harris - bass guitar Nicko McBrain - drums
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This podcast is a labor of love based on decades of devoted fandom. We strongly encourage listeners to buy Iron Maiden's albums or listen to them using your favorite streaming music service to support these heavy metal legends. To check out the cover art for the band's albums and singles, visit the band's excellent website.
Fri, 06 Nov 2020 - 40min
11 - Episode 9 - Powerslave (Side A)
Don't look now, but there are only two minutes to midnight! That's right, friends, we're talking Side A of Powerslave this week. Atomic bombs, dogfighting planes and a B-Side track capturing an argument between two band members!
Released September 3, 1984, Powerslave is the first release by the band to feature the same lineup as the previous album. The album debuted at #2 on the UK albums chart, spent three weeks in the top ten and was on the top albums charts for 10 weeks total. It also reached #21 on the US Billboard 200 after debuting at #62.
Powerslave has been certified platinum in the US (in June 1991) and gold in the UK (Dec. 1984, three months after its release).
Side One
1. Aces High 2. 2 Minutes to Midnight 3. Losfer Words (Big 'Orra) 4. Flash of the Blade 5. The Duelists
Album Personnel
Bruce Dickinson - vox Dave Murray - guitars Adrian Smith - guitars Steve Harris - bass guitar Nicko McBrain - drums
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This podcast is a labor of love based on decades of devoted fandom. We strongly encourage listeners to buy Iron Maiden's albums or listen to them using your favorite streaming music service to support these heavy metal legends. To check out the cover art for the band's albums and singles, visit the band's excellent website.
Fri, 30 Oct 2020 - 38min
10 - Episode 8 - Piece of Mind (Side B)
The show moves on to Side B of Piece of Mind, which is chock full of literature inspired songs based on novels, a poem, a short story and a samurai! From the band's classic, "The Trooper," to the bonkers lyrics of "Quest for Fire," to the book report about Dune that is "To Tame a Land," this album side is all killer, no filler.
Will Ed and Stu continue their streak of placing the band's latest release on the top of their album rankings? Does anyone care? Listen for an answer to the first question and answer the second for yourself!
Side Two
5. The Trooper 6. Still Life 7. Quest for Fire 8. Sun and Steel 9. To Tame a Land
Album Personnel
Bruce Dickinson - vox Dave Murray - guitars Adrian Smith - guitars Steve Harris - bass guitar Nicko McBrain - drums
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Theme music composed by Sam Retzer, under license from SmartSound.
This podcast is a labor of love based on decades of devoted fandom. We strongly encourage listeners to buy Iron Maiden's albums or listen to them using your favorite streaming music service to support these heavy metal legends. To check out the cover art for the band's albums and singles, visit the band's excellent website.
Fri, 23 Oct 2020 - 46min
9 - Bonus Episode 1
The first bonus episode is here! Ed is flying solo, giving a bit more info on The Soundhouse Tapes, the three song demo recording Iron Maiden made over New Year's 1978. He also does a little history lesson on iron maidens as torture devices. Plus, a little housekeeping on the show schedule and future bonus eps!
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Tue, 20 Oct 2020 - 26min
8 - Episode 7 - Piece of Mind (Side A)
Stu and Ed discuss Side A of Iron Maiden's fourth studio album, Piece of Mind. The classic Maiden lineup is finally together with Nicko McBrain joining on drums. This album marks the beginning of a narrative journey for the depiction of Eddie in the band's artwork, with the album cover showing him in a straight-jacket, with a visible lobotomy scar, which he will carry forward for many albums to come.
The guys also discuss the folly of Icarus and how Ed's views have changed regarding the guitar tones on this album.
The album was released on May 28, 1983, peaking at #3 and spending 18 weeks on the UK charts.
The was also the band's best selling album in North America so far peaking at #14 on the Billboard 200. It was certified gold in the US by July and platinum in 1986. It went platinum in the UK in 1995.
Side One
1. Where Eagles Dare
2. Revelations
3. Flight of Icarus
4. Die with Your Boots On
Album Personnel
Bruce Dickinson - vox
Dave Murray - guitars
Adrian Smith - guitars
Steve Harris - bass guitar
Nicko McBrain - drums
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This podcast is a labor of love based on decades of devoted fandom. We strongly encourage listeners to buy Iron Maiden's albums or listen to them using your favorite streaming music service to support these heavy metal legends. To check out the cover art for the band's albums and singles, visit the band's excellent website.
Fri, 16 Oct 2020 - 39min
7 - Episode 6 - The Number of the Beast (Side B)
Stu and Ed are back to talk Side B of the iconic Iron Maiden album, The Number of the Beast, discussing everything from Bruce's blood-curdling scream from the titular song to the epic chorus of Hallowed Be Thy Name!
It's easy to see why this album has been certified platinum in the UK and USA, but where will the album rank on Stu and Ed's definitive list of Iron Maiden albums? What will be their favorite and least favorite songs on the album? Who is the Vincent Price imitator that performs the spoken word intro for NotB and how much did Vincent Price want when he was approached to do it?
Side Two
5. The Number of the Beast
6. Run to the Hills
7. Gangland
8. Hallowed Be Thy Name
Album Personnel
Bruce Dickinson - vox
Dave Murray - guitars
Adrian Smith - guitars
Steve Harris - bass guitar
Clive Burr - drums
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Maiden Voyage is a Hamfisted Production and is researched and edited by Ed Coleman.
Theme music composed by Sam Retzer, under license from SmartSound.
This podcast is a labor of love based on decades of devoted fandom. We strongly encourage listeners to buy Iron Maiden's albums or listen to them using your favorite streaming music service to support these heavy metal legends. To check out the cover art for the band's albums and singles, visit the band's excellent website.
Fri, 09 Oct 2020 - 34min
6 - Episode 5 - The Number of the Beast (Side A)
This week marks the beginning of the Bruce Dickinson era for Iron Maiden, as Ed and Stu discuss Side A of the seminal album, The Number of the Beast (1982)!
The first single from this devilishly great album was Run to the Hills, released February 12, 1982. It debuted at #33 and spent 10 weeks on the UK charts, peaking at #7.
The album itself was released March 22, 1982 and it debuted at the top of the UK charts with a bullet, spending 2 weeks in the top spot. NotB would spend 35 weeks on the UK charts and reach #33 in the US. The album is certified platinum on both sides of the pond.
Side One
1. Invaders
2. Children of the Damned
3. The Prisoners
4. 22 Acacia Avenue
Album Personnel
Bruce Dickinson - vox
Dave Murray - guitars
Adrian Smith - guitars
Steve Harris - bass guitar
Clive Burr - drums
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Maiden Voyage is a Hamfisted Production and is researched and edited by Ed Coleman.
Theme music composed by Sam Retzer, under license from SmartSound.
This podcast is a labor of love based on decades of devoted fandom. We strongly encourage listeners to buy Iron Maiden's albums or listen to them using your favorite streaming music service to support these heavy metal legends. To check out the cover art for the band's albums and singles, visit the band's excellent website.
Fri, 02 Oct 2020 - 37min
5 - Episode 4 - Killers (Side B)
Ed and Stu discuss Side B of Iron Maiden's second studio album, Killers! They also discuss their favorite and least favorite songs on the album and where this album ranks in Iron Maiden's discography, as of 1981. (Hint: It's easily in the Top 5!)
Side Two
7. Killers
8. Prodigal Son
9. Purgatory
10. Drifter
The guys also discuss the second single from the album, Purgatory, which was released on June 15, 1981. It debuted at #62 on the UK charts, appearing for only 3 weeks and peaking at #52.
The Top 5 songs on the UK charts at the time Purgatory debuted were:
1. One Day in Your Life - Michael Jackson
2. Being With You - Smokey Robinson
3. More Than In Love - Kate Robbins and Beyond
4. Teddy Bear - Red Sovine
5. Going Back to My Roots - Odyssey
Other notable songs on the charts at the time: Can't Happen Here - Rainbow (#29); The River - Bruce Springsteen (#35); Would I Lie To You - Whitesnake (#48); Too Drunk To F**k - Dead Kennedys (#57).
Album Personnel
Paul Di'Anno - vocals
Steve Harris - bass, backing vox
Dennis Stratton - guitar, backing vox
Dave Murray - guitar
Clive Burr - drums
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The Maiden Voyage illustration is by Shafer Brown. Follow him on Twitter and Instagram.
Maiden Voyage is a Hamfisted Production and is researched and edited by Ed Coleman.
Theme music composed by Sam Retzer, under license from SmartSound.
This podcast is a labor of love based on decades of devoted fandom. We strongly encourage listeners to buy Iron Maiden's albums or listen to them using your favorite streaming music service to support these heavy metal legends. To check out the cover art for the band's albums and singles, visit the band's excellent website.
Fri, 25 Sep 2020 - 36min
4 - Episode 3 - Killers (Side A)
Stu and Ed discuss Side A of Iron Maiden's second studio album, Killers!
First, they discuss Iron Maiden's cover of the song, "Women in Uniform," by Australia's Skyhooks. The song debuted on Nov. 1980 at #52, spending 4 weeks on the UK charts and peaking at #35. The band learned a valuable lesson about succumbing to record company pressures and maintaining control over their output. This song led to the band's first music video.
Killers was released on February 2, 1981, debuting at its peak position at #12 and spending a total of 12 weeks on the UK charts. (The album would also go on to reach #78 in the US after debuting in June 1981 at #179)
Killers was the band's first album with producer Martin Birch, who would produce the next 8 Iron Maiden albums (through Fear of the Dark). Killers was also the first album with long-time guitarist Adrian Smith, who had played with Dave Murray in another band, Stone Free. It was also the last album with singer Paul Di'Anno, who was fired due to stage performance issues.
Side One
1. The Ides of March (Instrumental)
2. Wrathchild
3. Murders in the Rue Morgue
4. Another Life
5. Genghis Khan (Instrumental)
6. Innocent Exile
Album Personnel
Paul Di'Anno - vox
Dave Murray - guitars
Adrian Smith - guitars
Steve Harris - bass guitar
Clive Burr - drums
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The Maiden Voyage illustration is by Shafer Brown. Follow him on Twitter and Instagram.
Maiden Voyage is a Hamfisted Production and is researched and edited by Ed Coleman.
Theme music composed by Sam Retzer, under license from SmartSound.
This podcast is a labor of love based on decades of devoted fandom. We strongly encourage listeners to buy Iron Maiden's albums or listen to them using your favorite streaming music service to support these heavy metal legends. To check out the cover art for the band's albums and singles, visit the band's excellent website.
Fri, 18 Sep 2020 - 30min
3 - Episode 2 - Iron Maiden (Side B)
We're back to discuss Side B of Iron Maiden's eponymous first studio album!! At the end, Stu and Ed reveal where this album ranks in Iron Maiden's discography, as of the time this album was released in 1980. (Hint: It's pretty high up in the rankings!)
We also discuss the second single from the album, Sanctuary, which did not appear on the original UK album, but was added to the US release. Sanctuary debuted at #34 and spent 5 weeks on the UK charts, peaking at #29.
Side Two
5. Transylvania
6. Strange World
7. Charlotte the Harlot
8. Iron Maiden
Album Personnel
Paul Di'Anno - vocals
Steve Harris - bass, backing vox
Dennis Stratton - guitar, backing vox
Dave Murray - guitar
Clive Burr - drums
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Check out Stu's other podcast, Vintage RPG, and follow Vintage RPG on Instagram for an in-depth dive into the art & history of tabletop roleplaying games, and check out unwinnable.com for the best cultural commentary around.
The Maiden Voyage illustration is by Shafer Brown. Follow him on Twitter and Instagram.
Maiden Voyage is a Hamfisted Production and is researched and edited by Ed Coleman.
Theme music composed by Sam Retzer, under license from SmartSound.
This podcast is a labor of love based on decades of devoted fandom. We strongly encourage listeners to buy Iron Maiden's albums or listen to them using your favorite streaming music service to support these heavy metal legends. To check out the cover art for the band's albums and singles, visit the band's excellent website.
Fri, 11 Sep 2020 - 26min
2 - Episode 1 - Iron Maiden (Side A)
The first official episode of the podcast is here and we're discussing Side A of Iron Maiden's eponymous first studio album!!
Released on April 14, 1980, the album debuted at #4 and spent 17 weeks on the UK charts. The album was preceded by the band's first single, Running Free, released on February 8, 1980.
Side One
1. Prowler
2. Remember Tomorrow
3. Running Free
4. Phantom of the Opera
Album Personnel
Paul Di'Anno - vocals
Steve Harris - bass, backing vox
Dennis Stratton - guitar, backing vox
Dave Murray - guitar
Clive Burr - drums
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The Maiden Voyage illustration is by Shafer Brown. Follow him on Twitter and Instagram.
Maiden Voyage is a Hamfisted Production and is researched and edited by Ed Coleman.
Theme music composed by Sam Retzer, under license from SmartSound.
This podcast is a labor of love based on decades of devoted fandom. We strongly encourage listeners to buy Iron Maiden's albums or listen to them using your favorite streaming music service to support these heavy metal legends. To check out the cover art for the band's albums and singles, visit the band's excellent website.
Fri, 11 Sep 2020 - 34min
1 - Episode 0 - The Pilot
Welcome to the first episode of Maiden Voyage! Before Stu and Ed begin their chronological journey through Iron Maiden's studio albums, they share a selection of songs from throughout the band's catalog to offer listeners a little sampling of what to expect.
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The Maiden Voyage illustration is by Shafer Brown. Follow him on Twitter and Instagram.
Maiden Voyage is a Hamfisted Production and is researched and edited by Ed Coleman.
Theme music composed by Sam Retzer, under license from SmartSound.
This podcast is a labor of love based on decades of devoted fandom. We strongly encourage listeners to buy Iron Maiden's albums or listen to them using your favorite streaming music service to support these heavy metal legends. To check out the cover art for the band's albums and singles, visit the band's excellent website.
Fri, 11 Sep 2020 - 36min

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