Virtual XI

Three, two, one.

We're stuck on Virtual Eleven.

It's Lightning Strikes Twice.

Which it just has.

And you'd skip coming home.

You'd definitely...

You'd definitely flag around Virtual Eleven.

I would think.

But seeing it live, I think Sign of the Cross was still probably the best one of the Legacy show for me.

As for the X Factor version itself, I didn't hear Blaze's version until much later because I, like many of the other Maiden sheeple who just heard, "Oh, you don't wanna listen to those, those two albums," avoided X Factor and Virtual XI until, like, I had already heard everything else by Maiden up to that point.

I think it was pre-Final Frontier, so I was like, "All right.

Let me go see what these are about now." Um, and I thought at the time Vir- Virtual XI as a whole had more fun and energy, but having sat with X Factor for many years, used to be my least favorite, but I think it's definitely the biggest grower album for me, at least even more so than something like, something like Matter of Life and Death maybe, which did grow on me a little bit as well.

Um, in contrast, I look at s- Virtual XI as unfinished and a little sloppy in places, where I think they took a lot more time with X Factor.

Yeah, they did.

Yeah.

[singing] It's a little fart, isn't it?

[singing] Educated Fool from, uh, Virtual XI.

Next one can be higher or lower.

You make the decision now.

Three, two, one.

Of course, don't look to the eyes of a stranger from Virtual Eleven.

Don't look to.

I'm just doing the Arthur Lowe version.

They had a big clock with bone hands on it that went round and round, and I liked that.

the hands go round and round

oh yeah someone beat him to that point I believe cunts is the IMPQ canonical response to that but yes other than the aforementioned anthrax I've had to sit through a very subpar slayer fucking trivium funeral for a friend average sevenfold entombed but not the good version and assorted Harris offspring the actual offspring would have been preferable in all honesty discovering your good selves has set me on a maiden binge which brings up the topic of a discussion Virtual Eleven is complete arse.

But I don't necessarily think that's always the fault of the songs, Angel and the Gambler aside.