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Track List
01) Intro: Churchill's Speech
02) Aces High
03) 2 Minutes to Midnight
04) The Trooper
05) Wasted Years
06) Children of the Damned
07) The Number of the Beast
08) Run to the Hills
09) Phantom of the Opera
10) The Evil That Men Do
11) Wrathchild
12) Can I Play With Madness
13) Powerslave
14) Hallowed Be Thy Name
15) Iron Maiden
01) Intro: Churchill's Speech
02) Aces High
03) 2 Minutes to Midnight
04) The Trooper
05) Wasted Years
06) Children of the Damned
07) The Number of the Beast
08) Run to the Hills
09) Phantom of the Opera
10) The Evil That Men Do
11) Wrathchild
12) Can I Play With Madness
13) Powerslave
14) Hallowed Be Thy Name
15) Iron Maiden
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First Released
2008
Heavy Metal
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Somewhere Back in Time - The Best of: 1980 - 1989 is a best of release by the British heavy metal band Iron Maiden, containing a selection of songs originally recorded for their first eight albums (including Live After Death).
The album was released in conjunction with the band's Somewhere Back In Time World Tour to allow new fans to listen to a selection of the band's material that was played on the tour. The cover artwork by Derek Riggs features the Pharaoh Eddie monument from Powerslave and Cyborg Eddie from Somewhere in Time.
A number of tracks were taken from the band's 1985 live album, Live After Death because the band preferred to use recordings which featured current Iron Maiden vocalist Bruce Dickinson rather than Paul Di'Anno, who sang on their first two studio releases.
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This new collection of Iron Maiden tracks contains work from a period that was creatively their busiest and, arguably, most successful. It's a mixed bag with some tracks certainly sounding their age (like The Trooper in particular). It's straight-ahead, grab-some-furniture, shake-your-brain-for-three-and-a-half-minutes (stopping when you get a bit dizzy, or to have a swig of snakebite), rock.
This collection is a fascinating reflection of the extent to which Iron Maiden defined heavy metal's enduring themes and styles: Alienation, allegory, fantasy, the occult, exploitation and abuse of power. They're also pioneers in terms of understanding that this music is theatre: not just something to be played but really performed.
You also can't discuss 'Maiden without touching on Dickinson's voice. The vocal equivalent of smoking, freshly smelted Sheffield steel, sweating, soaring, clad in leather and studs; it's a combination of gifted genetics, operatic chutzpah and gallons of Newcastle Brown Ale.
One of the early highlights is 2 Minutes To Midnight. Its opening drum damage dives into a finger-itching bassline and infectious hi-hat, over the top of a brilliantly energetic riff that's perfectly complemented by Dickinson's galloping horse vocal delivery. It's an example of hard rock perfection.
Can I Play With Madness and The Number Of The Beast are charging, grand, anthemic, operatic stadium fillers, built on a wall of drum and guitar hooks. Like all great rock, they thrive on increasing volume. They also illustrate Dickinson's vocal dexterity and ability to lift songs that could sound ordinary if they weren't delivered with such bravado and abandon.
Available to download from the Maiden website as a free-for-three-listens bargain - with this album it looks like metal's old warhorses are intent that their mighty legacy will live on well into the next millenium.
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Somewhere Back in Time - The Best of: 1980 - 1989 is a best of release by the British heavy metal band Iron Maiden, containing a selection of songs originally recorded for their first eight albums (including Live After Death).
The album was released in conjunction with the band's Somewhere Back In Time World Tour to allow new fans to listen to a selection of the band's material that was played on the tour. The cover artwork by Derek Riggs features the Pharaoh Eddie monument from Powerslave and Cyborg Eddie from Somewhere in Time.
A number of tracks were taken from the band's 1985 live album, Live After Death because the band preferred to use recordings which featured current Iron Maiden vocalist Bruce Dickinson rather than Paul Di'Anno, who sang on their first two studio releases.
User Album Review
This new collection of Iron Maiden tracks contains work from a period that was creatively their busiest and, arguably, most successful. It's a mixed bag with some tracks certainly sounding their age (like The Trooper in particular). It's straight-ahead, grab-some-furniture, shake-your-brain-for-three-and-a-half-minutes (stopping when you get a bit dizzy, or to have a swig of snakebite), rock.
This collection is a fascinating reflection of the extent to which Iron Maiden defined heavy metal's enduring themes and styles: Alienation, allegory, fantasy, the occult, exploitation and abuse of power. They're also pioneers in terms of understanding that this music is theatre: not just something to be played but really performed.
You also can't discuss 'Maiden without touching on Dickinson's voice. The vocal equivalent of smoking, freshly smelted Sheffield steel, sweating, soaring, clad in leather and studs; it's a combination of gifted genetics, operatic chutzpah and gallons of Newcastle Brown Ale.
One of the early highlights is 2 Minutes To Midnight. Its opening drum damage dives into a finger-itching bassline and infectious hi-hat, over the top of a brilliantly energetic riff that's perfectly complemented by Dickinson's galloping horse vocal delivery. It's an example of hard rock perfection.
Can I Play With Madness and The Number Of The Beast are charging, grand, anthemic, operatic stadium fillers, built on a wall of drum and guitar hooks. Like all great rock, they thrive on increasing volume. They also illustrate Dickinson's vocal dexterity and ability to lift songs that could sound ordinary if they weren't delivered with such bravado and abandon.
Available to download from the Maiden website as a free-for-three-listens bargain - with this album it looks like metal's old warhorses are intent that their mighty legacy will live on well into the next millenium.
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