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Piece of Mind | 
| Artist: Iron Maiden
Label: EMI
Category: Music
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Rating:  24 reviews
Sales Rank: 3102
Format: Enhanced
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 4.7 x 0.4
UPC: 724349691902
EAN: 0724349691902
ASIN: B0000251VX
Release Date: September 14, 1998
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| Tracks:
| • | Where Eagles Dare | | • | Revelations | | • | Flight Of Icarus | | • | Die With Your Boots On | | • | Trooper | | • | Still Life | | • | Quest For Fire | | • | Sun And Steel | | • | To Tame A Land | | • | Flight Of Icarus | | • | Trooper |
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 Building the legend. April 12, 2000
diego_f_pivoz@hotmail.com (Buenos Aires, Argentina)
9 out of 10 found this review helpful
If the previous album The number of the beast was a an early indication of what was going to follow, then PIECE of MIND completely blew away everything. From the powerful detonation of the opening track (Where eagles dare is based on the novel and film of the same name) through to the epic imagery of its last song, this album is another classic Maiden moment. Two incredible singles (The Flight of Icarus and the incandescent all time favourite riff of The Trooper), a 7 minutes ouvre d'art based on the Frank Herbert classic Sci-Fi novel DUNE (Herbert was contacted at the time but refused permission to the band for using it as a title, that's why the song was called To Tame a Land), the beautiful delicacy of Still Life and the anti-nuclear war manifest of Die with your boots on, everything shines on this record. Even Sun and Steel and Quest for fire are good examples of 80's metal. I leave for the end my personal favourite of this incredible sound assault: Revelations. This Dickinson's original is one of the finest songs that Bruce have ever written. It's also the first song that he officially wrote for Maiden and sets the pace for a dozen of classics that eventually followed it. Piece of Mind enhanced the Maiden popularity around the world, and although they were arguably the best band the best was yet to come. Don't waste more time, metal doesn't get any better than this.
My Favourite Maiden album! February 7, 2005
6 out of 8 found this review helpful
Yeah, Number of the Beast is more famous; yeah, powerslave has some incredible moments and yeah, the self titled debut is probably more consistant - but for some reason this is, and has always been my favourite Iron Maiden album! If you ask me this album sums up what heavy metal is all about - galloping riffs, trademark solos (by the way Davey Murray is also my favourite guitarist of all time!) and Bruce's incredible vocal delivery...brThe way that new boy (as he was back in '83) Nicko pounds them skins on the intro to where eagles dare is just incredible - and when the riff kicks in - you just know youre listening to something special - Iron Maiden have always epitomised heavy metal to me - and where eagles dare is them doing what they do best! - Then Comes Revelations - an incredible arena metal anthem - (the version on live after death is also amazing) - written by Bruce and again summing up what Maiden is about - with the build up to that fast galloping riff which just makes the hairs on your neck stand up! Then comes Flight of Icarus, which is really good, more anthemic but not their best song by a long way - (how did this song end up on that terrible 'best of' called Edward the Great that was released last year? Especially as tracks such as Aces High and Hallowed be thy name were omitted?) then we're onto probably my favourite track - die with your boots on - a proper boys own, heads down metalishious assault! - Seriously dont drive while listening to this song - you may harm yourself and others!brOk, then we're onto the Trooper - what more can I say - this song is absolutely stunning - again one of my top 5 maiden songs - the twin guitars, the hammering bass, the pounding drums, and one of Bruces best vocals laid down on wax! - Incredible! - Still life comes next co-written by Davey Murray - great song, typical of 80s metal really, then to conclude the album you have Quest for Fire (what other band apart from Iron Maiden would write a track about Cavemen?) Sun and Steel (again, classic metal track including one of my favourite lyrics - 'well you killed your first man at 13, killer instinct animal supreme! - fantastic!) and the album concludes with the epic Dune influenced 'To tame a land' - I love when Steve Harris knocks out these epics - be sure to check out Alexander the Great and Rime of the Ancient Mariner as well - again what band except Maiden can write about such a range of subjects?? Anything from prostitution (Charlotte the Harlot), through to the Ancient Pharoes (Powerslave)pSeriously my metal brothers and sisters - get this album! - To be honest its probably my favourite maiden album cos its the first one I bought - if your new to Maiden get this first - and an incrediblr back catalogue awaits you once you fall in love with this band! Get this, get your (rivit) head down and mosh for England - as Nicko would say, you know it makes sense!!!
Brains trust May 9, 2009
Barney McGrew (UK)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
The Maiden's fourth studio album, this mighty effort was released in 1983 and was the first to feature drummer Nicko McBrain. With some of the bands' best tracks the album features 'The Trooper', 'Revelations', and 'Flight of Icarus'; probably the three strongest songs on the album.
br /Buy it, put it in the CD player, and turn it up to 11; awesome.
Metal praise. November 21, 2002
Dr Nick (Sheffield, S Yorks United Kingdom)
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
Beast is more famous, but I have to agree, this is perhaps Maiden's most consistent release ever. The second of the (IMHO) truly great Maiden albums (the last being Seventh Son...), this was my first ever Maiden album, and I still remember my Mom turning green on seeing the album (vinyl days) cover.pThe Trooper is a fantastic composition, standing out alongside Revelations, just above the rest of the songs. But none can really be considered a filler (?Quest For Fire maybe?). And the instrumental section on Where Eagles Dare broke new ground for the band on the complexity stakes too.pBrilliant.
Maiden's finest album April 14, 2005
Martin (England)
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
Having broken through with The Number of the Beast, aided by new vocalist Bruce Dickinson's roaring vocal style and the unusually sophisticated songs it allowed them to pursue, Maiden continued their evolution towards superstardom with this gem. Lyrically it moves towards serious fare, with the group's trademark fascination with ancient history, particularly the darker side of oppression and brutality, really coming to the fore.pIn those days Maiden only released 2 singles from each album, which continued until they bombarded the charts with 5 from Seventh Son of a Seventh Son (ironically the album which perhaps marked the beginning of their artistic decline). The choices here are fairly anthemic, with Flight of Icarus featuring a chanting chorus and touching on Greek mythology, and The Trooper having a pounding guitar riff and juddering bass along with some strong lyrics.pBetter still however is Revelations, Bruce Dickinson's first contribution and a gradually mounting 7-minute assault with slow contemplative verses and a pounding solo. Warfare is the theme of Die With your Boots on and opener Where Eagles dare, the latter of which is especially strong. Indeed the group was almost unique among metal bands of the time in adopting an anti-war stance. Steve Harris bravely took on a science-fiction theme with closer To Tame A Land, a track which I actually think stands up better for not being directly named after Dune.pThis was the second of Maiden's string of classic albums, but in my view it's the best, with a little bit of every aspect of metal, and some of their most stridently confident songwriting. I think it exhibits a lot of hunger; a desire to reshape the boundaries and redefine what people expect of heavy metal.
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