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i agree that i like maiden more with dianno than dickinson although i have tons of respect for bruce, he's a very very intellingent person.
that said, my favorite maiden album is powerslave.
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new york loose - s/t
heavy as hell pop punk, un-riot grrrl 90's female punk; even ventured to slower, effects driven songs and always catchy. guitars like lawnmowers and simple, easy to identify lyrics. also the best cover of vu's "sunday morning" i've heard.
beirut - gulag orkestar
i love it, symphonic pop with just enough balkan influenced intervals to make it sound exotic, but mostly because the songs and arrangements kill. the second album is pretty boring and forgettable.
bikini kill - the singles
ok, i'm cheating; their best songs, their best version of their best song and their best produced shit. and totally fun.
poison the well - you come before you
the most forced hardcore band ever, forcing heavy, throat-scrapping parts with saccharine-filled stadium rock emo tunefulness done bad. for this record, they flew to sweden to record where refused did the shape of punk to come and actually pulled themselves together to write an album that blurs metal and punk into an original and deadly combination.
dillinger escape plan - calculating infinity
although their previous eps and irony is a dead scene are fantastic, their full lenght discog starts and ends here.
mr. bungle - disco volante
a masterpiece, a spazztic, genre hopping album that feels completely organic and it's quirky but at the same time scary, brutal and beautiful.
the clash - s/t
they were brilliant doing three chord ragers with slogans for choruses, but they gotten beaten by the genre-hopping bug and the multiple-disc-albums-that-could-be-great-in-a-single-disc bug.
ani difranco - dilate
she locked her toneless feminist propaganda shit to actually write good songs about her own life backed by the hardest riffs one can summon from a funked up, tuned down acoustic guitar.
the used - s/t
all the songs in this one are a winner; catchy, raging, sad, derivative enough but not too much. then their beginner's luck ran out.
dashboard confessional - the swiz army romance
the worst things someone could give chris carraba were professional studios and electric guitars. thankfully, he managed to record one proper album at least.
dream theater - awake
the only one where they wrote good (yet intricate) songs and used their virtuosic playing in the service of said songs. castratto vocals and cheesy keyboards notwithstanding.
wolf eyes (with anthony braxton) - black vomit
their noisiest, most intense and funniest release ever in a sea of mediocrity.
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