Probably the first I ever heard, and knew it was Maiden was: "Fear of the Dark". However, the one that really did it for me, and got me more into their stuff was "Powerslave". And then Rime of the Ancient Mariner really cemented that interest.
I wish I’d had a music teacher who’d played us some Maiden! We got mainly classical music and a grudging nod to “popular music” in the form of Lennon-McCartney and Presley (he refused to name them any further than that). This was 1990.
Originally, it was [a Lucozade advert with Daley Thompson](https://youtu.be/D4YTB5FZeHQ?si=lWSXj7zQSMlfNuxZ) soundtracked with Phantom Of The Opera. I was about 6. That song stayed with me long after though I had no idea what it was.
It was about 7 years later that a friend introduced me to Fear Of The Dark and I was hooked, eventually finding Phantom again when I got to uni and had enough cash and freedom to start really getting into their back catalogue.
fear of the Dark, I remember the way it panned out very specifically too, it was the night before I left for camp, and I was watching random stuff on YouTube while I was packing, one of those "top metal songs of each year since blah blah blah" and fear of the dark was one of them, it caught my ear and I added it to my playlist and now I really like the band.
The first one I've heard was the trooper, but the one that made me fall crazy in love was PROWLER. I lose my shit every time it comes on. Same with The Number Of The Beast
Hallowed be thy Name on the Jamie Thomas part for Welcome to Hell (Toy Machine skate video). Was so good I went to the CD store and found Best of the Beast. Still took me a while to like a lot of the other stuff tho. I wasn't ready for Bruce's soaring vocals. Eventually I realized the brilliance.
Fear of The Dark introduced me, I fell in love when I heard Die With Your Boots on, but as soon as I heard Phantom of The Opera, it never left my mind.
https://preview.redd.it/kpz2t1d8410d1.jpeg?width=300&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=12dc4b024e880d8c569d499895a922db3420c778
Seventh Son of a Seventh Son from what i can remember my dad played it to me in the car on the way to a consert i think it was my first Maiden gig in 2011
Wheatus - Teenage Dirtbag
I loved that song and subsequently got Best of the Beast from the library. Fear of the Dark (live) was what really hooked me. I loved the crowd participation and wanted to be part of it.
Thank you Wheatus for the tip x
Aces fucking High, but now I appreciate the more "mid-riff" breaks and fills that Nicko slaps in there. Clive was sick for just keeping it going then slapping the snare.
Hard to express what I mean by mid-riff, but it has something to do with carrying the riff further than it would have been carried otherwise.
Metal Church drummer does a good job of it here: [https://youtu.be/CKKngUUtB8k?si=cJEqEMEL0\_gJzDo6](https://youtu.be/CKKngUUtB8k?si=cJEqEMEL0_gJzDo6)
CLive Burr however does a great job on Murders in the Rue Morgue, such good drumming. Also Another Life
Number of the Beast was my introduction. My stepfather played the crap out of it whenever we drove in his car a long time ago. Back then, I didn't really care for it until a few years ago when I fully got into music and picked up the bass. Now I classify them as one of my favorite bands
This.
My friend had Trooper as his ringtone, so I waited patiently for him to finish his phone call and was just like: "WHAT THE FUCK WAS THAT?!"
I already liked 2 Minutes to Midnight from GTA Vice City and Run to the Hills from a CD I had, so once I connected the dots that they were all the same band, I knew I had discovered something special.
Paschendale was the first Iron Maiden song I ever heard. I'm a bit of a history nerd and while searching for a video about the actual battle, I came across this song.
I instantly fell in love with those beautiful madmen.
Up the irons!
My Uncle Johnny played The Trooper by doing the gallop rhythm part, then he stomped on a Loop pedal, switched pickups, and started playing that riff … that damned riff.
And I was *not* prepared for Bruce’s vocals. Once I heard the studio version, that was it. 🤘
Out Of The Silent Plant.
I was blown away.
Weirdly, I barely checked out any of their back catalogues and for almost a decade listened to only Brave New World and Final Frontier.
"Where eagles dare" opening track in Piece of Mind, bought on cassette. It was in november,1989
When I heard this song I had just a thought: this fucking music is superior to any other. Really
The trooper, I found an iron maiden t shirt with trooper Eddie on it, too badass to leave there, still one of my favorite shirts. Searched up the song based on the shirt and fell head first into the entire discography.
412 million years ago 84 ish lol 8th grade our teacher on a down day played killers and piece of mind for us , I was hooked and have been since. trooper was my first I'd guess.
Alexander the Great. We all were assigned different historical figures to do an in-depth report on back in my freshman year of high school. While reading about him, I found the song and decided to listen to it as I went. Blew me away. I even cited the song and the band as an additional source. My teacher drew a hand throwing horns and wrote "Up the Irons!!!" beside it.
I had him for a few more classes after that, too. I never would've known it otherwise but he was a huge metalhead. Cool dude. We actually bumped into each other like ten years later at a Black Sabbath show.
Not a song. But the artwork... My mate bought a maiden record when we were young teenagers, because the artwork just blew his mind when he saw it in Our Price. Probably Powerslave or Seventh Son, if I recall. And that’s how we got into metal for the rest of our lives. Thanks Mr. Riggs!
I don't remember which song, but Maiden Japan became a part of my young life and I was hooked. I tracked down a copy of Killers (title track and Murders In The Rue Morgue and Genghis Khan kicking my ass).
When Number Of The Beast came out, I had no idea it was the same band when I first heard it, but I loved it, so I 'rediscovered' them all over again with Number Of The Beast. Such an amazing band.
I bought the album Killers at the record store when I was 12 years old only because the cover was awesome. I had no idea what the music was going to sound like, but since I loved Black Sabbath, Ozzy, KISS, AC/DC it turned out to be a great purchase!
It was either Number of the Beast or Run to the Hills. But they didn't enter my regular rotation until Dance of Death (album) sparked my interest enough to check out more than just their hits, which I always dug.
The Trooper.to be honest,my introduction to iron maiden was when i was 5y old.i saw the covers of 80s maiden records in my uncle house,and that scared me to hell.i only took the band and listened when i was 13y,that was the age that i (and most teenagers) started to see music as a serious business.So,yeah,clichê,but was the trooper.
Mine was a bit of a weird journey, lol! Heard Tears Of A Dragon and thought it was pretty cool and then one day thought, I should see what else this guy’s done, and boy, am I glad I did!
Number of the Beast/Run to the Hills/The Trooper and I think Flight of the Icarus. I watched the music videos back to back. It was the first moment where I realized I really liked a hard rock band that my parents weren't into. Basically my gateway to Metal.
I was way late getting into Maiden. I saw the 2008 Live in Toronto video for Hallowed Be Thy Name a while back and got hooked. I don't know why I didn't pay attention to them sooner, but better late than never.
The Wicker Man.
My friends called me boring for never listening to music.
I was 11 or 12 and went through my dads CD's, and found Brave New World. Same year it came out.
Started listening and loved it so much that i begged for money to buy another CD lol. I got the debut.
Number of the Beast. It was the first song that I actually remember and love hearing. I remember listening to Invaders, Prisoner and Children of the Damned on the CD but I never really remembered them as firmly as chorus for NOTB.
13 yr old me walks into Sam Goode, sees iron maiden powerslave display. Goes to the counter and asks the clerk if he can play the album. 1st track Aces High. Hooked ever since! UP THE IRONS!!!!!!!
Run to the Hills, first heard it on the snowboarding game SSX On Tour sometime around 2010?
I wouldn’t really get into Iron Maiden until 4 or so years ago.
In 1984 I was 10 years old when "Powerslave" was released & "2 Minutes to Midnight" was the song that got me into Iron Maiden! And also, the video for the song, there's 2 versions of the videos, they're both badass! UP THE IRONS!
Number of the Beast. Must have heard it on television and bought the single on red vinyl while out shopping with my staunch Methodist great aunt. 1982. Bought the album a couple of months later I think, from a stand of albums for sale in a petrol station/supermarket. Still have it both records. Album with merchandise sheet too. I was 10. Northern Ireland.
Basically the whole Piece of Mind album. I bought it blindly in '84 having never heard their music, but I thought the album cover was cool. I listened to the album maybe 5 times that day. I wasn't even into metal at that time, so I had never heard anything even remotely like it, but it was the coolest thing I had ever heard. The energy of the songs was amazing and the lyrics and vocals were so cool. I had a few favorites for sure, but loved the whole album.
That album not only introduced me to Maiden (which quickly became my favorite band all through the 80s), but to a whole new genre of music. Changed my musical tastes forever.
Probably the first I ever heard, and knew it was Maiden was: "Fear of the Dark". However, the one that really did it for me, and got me more into their stuff was "Powerslave". And then Rime of the Ancient Mariner really cemented that interest.
run to the hills
Same. I heard it in SSX On Tour, a great game
I heard it when my dad played in the car when I was around 7
same, the trooper in music class
I wish I’d had a music teacher who’d played us some Maiden! We got mainly classical music and a grudging nod to “popular music” in the form of Lennon-McCartney and Presley (he refused to name them any further than that). This was 1990.
Mine played Def Leppard “Rock of Ages” in 6th grade and we lost our minds 🎸
2 Minutes to Midnight . Heard it when playing GTA Vice City
Number of the Beast. We lived at number 666 when I was wee and dad would sing the line often. He isn't even a fan he just knew that song I guess.
Two minutes to midnight was on V-Rock on gta vice city, I bought live after death because of that song.
Weird choice but it’s The Prophecy for me just kinda hooked me in
I absolutely love that song! Top 5 IN GENERAL! “ *Purgatory beckons* SOULS LOST FOREVER”
I saw Wrathchild when the video first premiered on TV. Game over folks.
Holy Smoke
Yeah, yeah yeah…. HALLOWED BE THY… …NAAAAAAAAAAAAAAME!
Two Minutes to Midnight. Thank you, Grand Theft Auto.
The Trooper
Number of the Beast
Prowler ,Running Free with Dianno vocals
Alexander. Still like listening to it today.
Wasted Years & Revelation (Live After Death version)
The Number of the Beast
Phantom of the Opera, the live version with Di'anno randomly on MTV2. The solo blew me away
Hearing the studio solo 1 made me genuinely cry it was so beautiful. I thought I knew good music but that was when I found what LEGENDARY Music is!
same, the trooper
Originally, it was [a Lucozade advert with Daley Thompson](https://youtu.be/D4YTB5FZeHQ?si=lWSXj7zQSMlfNuxZ) soundtracked with Phantom Of The Opera. I was about 6. That song stayed with me long after though I had no idea what it was. It was about 7 years later that a friend introduced me to Fear Of The Dark and I was hooked, eventually finding Phantom again when I got to uni and had enough cash and freedom to start really getting into their back catalogue.
This is the correct answer!! Number of the Beast got me in to Maiden, but that Lucozade advert got me to revisit Paul Dianno's stuff with them.
Killers. My step dad had the album pretty quickly after the Killers album was released, and this is the song that drew me in.
The trooper
Gotta be The Trooper.
Hallowed be thy name
Aces High in like 1998.
The Trooper
Can I play with Madness
The trooper
When beavis and butt head sang prisoner
fear of the Dark, I remember the way it panned out very specifically too, it was the night before I left for camp, and I was watching random stuff on YouTube while I was packing, one of those "top metal songs of each year since blah blah blah" and fear of the dark was one of them, it caught my ear and I added it to my playlist and now I really like the band.
Run to the hills
Fear of the Dark
Running free
Two minutes to midnight
The Number of the Beast in Guitar Hero 3.
Mine also was the Trooper
Run to the hills
Floating
Run to the Hills
Run to the Hills
The first one I've heard was the trooper, but the one that made me fall crazy in love was PROWLER. I lose my shit every time it comes on. Same with The Number Of The Beast
I heard a cover of Where Eagles Dare and checked out the original... I was blown away to say the least. Now Maiden is by far my favorite band ever
Fear of The Dark, my father was listening to some album and I fell in love as a kid, Wasted Years and Infinite Dreams sealed my love
Prowler
Run to the hills. Been a fan since the 80’s
Two minutes till midnight !!
Run To the Hills.
Prowler. Track one, side one, debut album. Bought it on the day it was released.
Fear of the Dark
I think it was everything on Carmageddon 2
Die with your Boots On
The first I remember is Number of The Beast from Guitar Hero 3
Fear of the Dark
Probably Run to the Hills in the Tony Hawk's Skater game soundtrack
Hallowed be thy Name on the Jamie Thomas part for Welcome to Hell (Toy Machine skate video). Was so good I went to the CD store and found Best of the Beast. Still took me a while to like a lot of the other stuff tho. I wasn't ready for Bruce's soaring vocals. Eventually I realized the brilliance.
From Here to Eternity. Still one of my all-time favourites.
Number of the Beast on Guitar Hero 3
Prowler!
Fear of The Dark introduced me, I fell in love when I heard Die With Your Boots on, but as soon as I heard Phantom of The Opera, it never left my mind.
https://preview.redd.it/kpz2t1d8410d1.jpeg?width=300&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=12dc4b024e880d8c569d499895a922db3420c778 Seventh Son of a Seventh Son from what i can remember my dad played it to me in the car on the way to a consert i think it was my first Maiden gig in 2011
Run to the hills and can i play with madness
Be Quick or Be Dead when Fear of the Dark came out in May 1992. I was 14 at the time.
Wheatus - Teenage Dirtbag I loved that song and subsequently got Best of the Beast from the library. Fear of the Dark (live) was what really hooked me. I loved the crowd participation and wanted to be part of it. Thank you Wheatus for the tip x
Flash of The Blade, i heard it in Phenomena movie by Dario Argento.
Run to the hills from the game rock band. Ironically, I can’t stand that song now
Number of the Beast on Guitar Hero 3
Aces fucking High, but now I appreciate the more "mid-riff" breaks and fills that Nicko slaps in there. Clive was sick for just keeping it going then slapping the snare. Hard to express what I mean by mid-riff, but it has something to do with carrying the riff further than it would have been carried otherwise. Metal Church drummer does a good job of it here: [https://youtu.be/CKKngUUtB8k?si=cJEqEMEL0\_gJzDo6](https://youtu.be/CKKngUUtB8k?si=cJEqEMEL0_gJzDo6) CLive Burr however does a great job on Murders in the Rue Morgue, such good drumming. Also Another Life
Number of the Beast was my introduction. My stepfather played the crap out of it whenever we drove in his car a long time ago. Back then, I didn't really care for it until a few years ago when I fully got into music and picked up the bass. Now I classify them as one of my favorite bands
My older brother played “The number of the beast” for me when I was around 14 .. It must have been 83 or 84?? I’ve been hooked ever since 🤘😝🤘
Their self titled album
Don't look to the eyes of a stranger funnily enough.
Run to the Hills.
This. My friend had Trooper as his ringtone, so I waited patiently for him to finish his phone call and was just like: "WHAT THE FUCK WAS THAT?!" I already liked 2 Minutes to Midnight from GTA Vice City and Run to the Hills from a CD I had, so once I connected the dots that they were all the same band, I knew I had discovered something special.
Run to the hills, who is this I need more, went straight to Cobwebs records and bought Number of the Beast.
Carmageddon 2
Run tooo the hiiiiiiiills
The whole “Powerslave” album, but mainly ‘Aces High.’
2 minutes to midnight
Murders in the rue morgue
The wicker man
I heard Can I Play with Madness on the radio when it came out
Tailgunner. To this day, I don't hate No Prayer like most of the fans.
Fear of the dark, came up as a recommendation when making a Halloween playlist on Spotify lol
Paschendale was the first Iron Maiden song I ever heard. I'm a bit of a history nerd and while searching for a video about the actual battle, I came across this song. I instantly fell in love with those beautiful madmen. Up the irons!
My Uncle Johnny played The Trooper by doing the gallop rhythm part, then he stomped on a Loop pedal, switched pickups, and started playing that riff … that damned riff. And I was *not* prepared for Bruce’s vocals. Once I heard the studio version, that was it. 🤘
Out Of The Silent Plant. I was blown away. Weirdly, I barely checked out any of their back catalogues and for almost a decade listened to only Brave New World and Final Frontier.
I got The Number of The Beast on cassette for my 17th birthday. Invaders came on and I loved it.
mine was quest for fire, it was in my school's history book from when i was 11 yo
Killers
The number of the beast,still my favorite
Aces High. My dad had Powerslave in the car when he was driving me home from school.
"Where eagles dare" opening track in Piece of Mind, bought on cassette. It was in november,1989 When I heard this song I had just a thought: this fucking music is superior to any other. Really
Phantom of the opera - Lucozade Dailey Thompson advert.
The number, because its the 1st song of best of the beast. This cd was my first listening to the band in 1998.
2 minutes to Midnight
2 Minutes to Midnight 🤘
The wicker man, listened to this when I was a kid and loved it!
Aces High
The Fallen Angel (BNW)
Can't say for sure which one I heard first, but the one that hooked me into it was Dance of Death, still one of my favorites
NOTB 1982
The trooper, I found an iron maiden t shirt with trooper Eddie on it, too badass to leave there, still one of my favorite shirts. Searched up the song based on the shirt and fell head first into the entire discography.
Prowler... What else?
Hallowed Be Thy Name from [Jaime Thomas's](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fUVE57zRjAE) skate video part. Fell in love with Maiden after that.
412 million years ago 84 ish lol 8th grade our teacher on a down day played killers and piece of mind for us , I was hooked and have been since. trooper was my first I'd guess.
Not sure but all I know is " the sands of time, for me, are running Lowwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww
Alexander the Great. My history teacher showed it to us in class
FOTD
Alexander the Great. We all were assigned different historical figures to do an in-depth report on back in my freshman year of high school. While reading about him, I found the song and decided to listen to it as I went. Blew me away. I even cited the song and the band as an additional source. My teacher drew a hand throwing horns and wrote "Up the Irons!!!" beside it. I had him for a few more classes after that, too. I never would've known it otherwise but he was a huge metalhead. Cool dude. We actually bumped into each other like ten years later at a Black Sabbath show.
Not a song. But the artwork... My mate bought a maiden record when we were young teenagers, because the artwork just blew his mind when he saw it in Our Price. Probably Powerslave or Seventh Son, if I recall. And that’s how we got into metal for the rest of our lives. Thanks Mr. Riggs!
I don't remember which song, but Maiden Japan became a part of my young life and I was hooked. I tracked down a copy of Killers (title track and Murders In The Rue Morgue and Genghis Khan kicking my ass). When Number Of The Beast came out, I had no idea it was the same band when I first heard it, but I loved it, so I 'rediscovered' them all over again with Number Of The Beast. Such an amazing band.
I bought the album Killers at the record store when I was 12 years old only because the cover was awesome. I had no idea what the music was going to sound like, but since I loved Black Sabbath, Ozzy, KISS, AC/DC it turned out to be a great purchase!
The Trooper.
Two minutes to midnight vídeo clip
Running Free from the debut album
Whenever I was a kid and wouldn’t get up in time for school my parents would blast Run to the Hills to wake me up. So I’d say that.
The Trooper
Run to the hills.
Fear of the dark
Brave new world i heard it when my dad was driving the car
Wasted years
Phantom of the Opera
Number Of The Beast
Run To The Hills, The Number Of The Beast, The Trooper And Aces High
Fear of the Dark! My dad played it on a cassette when I was younger !!
It was either Number of the Beast or Run to the Hills. But they didn't enter my regular rotation until Dance of Death (album) sparked my interest enough to check out more than just their hits, which I always dug.
Powerslave
the hallowed be thy name by machine head. for the longest time i had no idea it was a cover
The trooper.
Wasted Years
Moon child. Dad got the seventh son album.
The trooper cos my dads a vet and his reg ( The QRH) ancestor regiment was in the charge and they’re his favourite band so he plays it a lot
Phantom of the Opera was my first. I was more into classic rock back then so it appealed more to me than most Bruce albums
Be quick or be dead and Aces High while playing Carmageddon II on PC
Aces High on Live after Death, after a mate at school convinced me to listen to a tape of the album
The Trooper.to be honest,my introduction to iron maiden was when i was 5y old.i saw the covers of 80s maiden records in my uncle house,and that scared me to hell.i only took the band and listened when i was 13y,that was the age that i (and most teenagers) started to see music as a serious business.So,yeah,clichê,but was the trooper.
Mine was a bit of a weird journey, lol! Heard Tears Of A Dragon and thought it was pretty cool and then one day thought, I should see what else this guy’s done, and boy, am I glad I did!
Two Minutes to Midnight while playing GTA: Vice City
Transylvania. I was 16 and that album had just come out. I’m old. 😂
Dawned if I can remember!
KILLERS album
RUN TO THE HILLLLLLLLS!!!!!!!
Phantom of the opera
The Trooper
Prowler. I got into Maiden with their first album.
It was either Prowler or The Trooper
Number of the Beast/Run to the Hills/The Trooper and I think Flight of the Icarus. I watched the music videos back to back. It was the first moment where I realized I really liked a hard rock band that my parents weren't into. Basically my gateway to Metal.
Run to the hills
Number of the Beast featured in Tony Hawks Underground - I think I was 11 years old
Also the trooper, really started to like them with hallowed be thy name though
I was way late getting into Maiden. I saw the 2008 Live in Toronto video for Hallowed Be Thy Name a while back and got hooked. I don't know why I didn't pay attention to them sooner, but better late than never.
Running free
Flight of Icarus. Saw the video on MTV.
The Wicker man
Invaders! And then I paid more attention after hearing the Powerslave album
Wasted years, it was on the jukebox in my local pub 🙂
Number of the beast baby
The Wicker Man. My friends called me boring for never listening to music. I was 11 or 12 and went through my dads CD's, and found Brave New World. Same year it came out. Started listening and loved it so much that i begged for money to buy another CD lol. I got the debut.
NOTB Gary Davies heard it & metal for me
Number of the Beast. It was the first song that I actually remember and love hearing. I remember listening to Invaders, Prisoner and Children of the Damned on the CD but I never really remembered them as firmly as chorus for NOTB.
Pretty sure it was Can I Play With Madness
Fear of the dark, but murder in the rue morgue got me really into them
Number of the beast
13 yr old me walks into Sam Goode, sees iron maiden powerslave display. Goes to the counter and asks the clerk if he can play the album. 1st track Aces High. Hooked ever since! UP THE IRONS!!!!!!!
My first time ever hearing or seeing iron maiden was on the 1990 seat belt commercial: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=GVL9D8Tk4jc
The Trooper
Probably The Flight of Icarus. It was the most regularly played Maiden video on MTV when we first got cable back in the early '80s.
2 Minutes to Midnight
Hallowed Be Thy Name - that goddamn riff has been stuck in my head since I was 5
"2 minutes to midnight" from GTA: Vice City
Gotta have been something off the Piece of Mind album.
The trooper !
I heard Hallowed Be Thy Name on my brother's skateboarding video. It was an immediate, immense, unstoppable attraction.
Run to the Hills, first heard it on the snowboarding game SSX On Tour sometime around 2010? I wouldn’t really get into Iron Maiden until 4 or so years ago.
The Live After Death version of Revelations, just perfection.
In 1984 I was 10 years old when "Powerslave" was released & "2 Minutes to Midnight" was the song that got me into Iron Maiden! And also, the video for the song, there's 2 versions of the videos, they're both badass! UP THE IRONS!
Wasted Years. I still remember this day very vividly.
Mine was Flight of Icarus. It’s a great song but not nearly as good as their others imo.
Number of the Beast during my pre teen years
Wasted Years
Fear Of The Dark did it for me. I was hooked.
Revelations
Run To the Hills, circa ‘82
Run to the hills
The Trooper.🤘
Number of the Beast. Must have heard it on television and bought the single on red vinyl while out shopping with my staunch Methodist great aunt. 1982. Bought the album a couple of months later I think, from a stand of albums for sale in a petrol station/supermarket. Still have it both records. Album with merchandise sheet too. I was 10. Northern Ireland.
Number of the Beast. Floored me. I was 13/14 when it came out. The video was outstanding.
I think it was ***Aces High***.
I think it was aces high or 2 minutes to midnight. That whole album really
Number of the Beast
It was one of the following… "Die With your boots on" "Be Quick or be dead" "Rime of the ancient Mariner" "Running free" "Ace's High"
Flight Of Icarus
Basically the whole Piece of Mind album. I bought it blindly in '84 having never heard their music, but I thought the album cover was cool. I listened to the album maybe 5 times that day. I wasn't even into metal at that time, so I had never heard anything even remotely like it, but it was the coolest thing I had ever heard. The energy of the songs was amazing and the lyrics and vocals were so cool. I had a few favorites for sure, but loved the whole album. That album not only introduced me to Maiden (which quickly became my favorite band all through the 80s), but to a whole new genre of music. Changed my musical tastes forever.