Me too. 1982 was my first Maiden album, as I said. The thing about the Di'Anno albums is that, well, the material really suited him. The more harsh, punky, shorter (mostly) songs. I mean, is there anyone who can do that unhinged, maniacal laugh at the end of "Killers"? I heard Bruce do it live and it just ain't the same. I definitely prefer Bruce, but I can appreciate the way Paul was so much a different vocalist. I love both the first two albums, though the debut suffers from a lot of weaker material. By Killers they had almost perfected their sound, plus of course you get the twin guitar attack as Adrian came on board.
It's pretty clear though that there was little to no commercial single material on either of those two albums, and it took someone like Dickinson to help them realise their true potential and become a world-famous band, bringing metal, pretty much I think for the first time, to the mainstream, and into the charts.
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