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List Price: $17.98 | | Label: Sony
Salesrank: 4314
Released: March 26, 2002 |
| Our Price: $10.88 |
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| Media: Audio CD |
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Piece of Mind Track Listing:
1. Where Eagles Dare
2. Revelations
3. Flight of Icarus
4. Die With Your Boots On
5. Trooper
6. Still Life
7. Quest for Fire
8. Sun and Steel
9. To Tame a Land
Editorial Review:
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Media Type: CD
Artist: IRON MAIDEN
Title: PIECE OF MIND
Street Release Date: 03/26/2002
Domestic
Genre: HEAVY METAL
Piece of Mind Reviews:
The perfect maiden album! 
2009-11-29 - the best of the bruce years. Was my favorite as a kid, and stands up nicely after all these years. I think maidens best was piece of mind, killers, powerslave and maybe the first album.
80's Heavy Metal, that's all!
2009-11-02 - In my opinion this is the album that best represents the band, heavy riffs, melodic and catching songs, appropriate lyrics and all the features that made Iron Maiden one of the greatest bands ever appeared in the musical scene.
Must-buy for all!
Piece of Mind
2009-08-24 - Piece of mind is in the top 5 best Iron Maiden albums. Steve Harris is responsible for the song "The Trooper" - good music. "The Trooper" is about the Charge of the Light Brigade. The best one I think, Powerslave. No wait, you don't wanna hear about that now... Anyway Piece of Mind has another good song which is called "Revelations".
Jack, aged 6
perfect maiden
2009-06-16 - let me just say that i even like the 2 least favorite songs on this cd
Classic Album
2009-06-03 - This album was a step in a more technical direction than Maiden's previous three albums. It contains probably their most popular single to date, "The Trooper," and is still included on every tour set list since its release.
Lyrically, most of the album feels as if the band was beginning to experiment more and trying different things with quite polarized results, in my opinion. Strong points include: "Where Eagles Dare," "The Trooper," "Still Life," "Flight Of Icarus" and "Revelations." Weak points would be "Quest For Fire" (the lyrics about dinosaurs and cave people just don't live up to the intellectual bar Maiden had previously set) and "To Tame A Land" (the song is about "Dune" but the words just aren't as clever as some of Maiden's other work). However odd some of the lyrics may seem, Maiden never fail to keep your attention melodically.
Historically, this is the first album to contain the line-up that really propelled them to the top. During the "Number of the Beast" tour, Iron Maiden replaced drummer Clive Burr with Nicko McBrain. To prove himself to the fans, McBrain starts the album off with a technical demonstration of his abilities. He begins the album with a memorable triplet roll, leading to an anticipating rest for "Where Eagles Dare." Throughout the song, Nicko plays a repeating syncopated triplet pattern on the bass drum at 150 beats a minute. While most drummers can do this with the aid of a double bass drum petal, Nicko chooses to play it with one foot on a single petal. Try that for even thirty seconds and your foot feels like it wants to fall off. Playing the entire song with this pattern is quite a feat and adds to the respect McBrain quickly earned and maintains to this day.
For me this album sits in a unique place. It definitely is a part of history and has stood the test of time. I love some of it, I hate some it, and some of it is just OK. However, it does convey a simple message that is the title: for peace of mind one needs to accomplish whatever they may dream and be willing to just take chances, even if it isn't popular or seems a little crazy. If it's important to you, then that is all that should matter.
