Somewhere Back in Time: The Best of 1980-1989 Iron Maiden

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Vinyl LP - Special Edition

  • Release Date: 07/01/2008
  • Sales Rank: 28,463
  • Label: SONY
  • UPC: 886973047811

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Somewhere Back in Time: The Best of 1980-1989

1LISTENChurchill's Speech 0:49
2LISTENAces High Live 4:38
3LISTEN2 Minutes to Midnight 6:01
4LISTENThe Trooper 4:12
5LISTENWasted Years 5:06
6LISTENChildren of the Damned 4:36
7LISTENThe Number of the Beast 4:52
8LISTENRun to the Hills 3:54
9LISTENPhantom of the Opera Live 7:10
10LISTENThe Evil That Men Do 4:35
11LISTENWrathchild Live 3:05
12LISTENCan I Play with Madness 3:32
13LISTENPowerslave 6:49
14LISTENHallowed Be Thy Name 7:13
15LISTENIron Maiden Live 4:21

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Heavy metal stalwarts Iron Maiden have yet to receive the "royal treatment" when it comes to the anthology section of their surprisingly consistent catalog (we'll just let the two records with Bruce Dickinsin' replacement Blaze Bayley disappear into the ether), but Sony's Somewhere Back in Time: The Best of 1980-1989 provides listeners with a semi-decent set of heavy metal crib notes from the group's most popular era. Like previous compilations, the inclusion of cuts like "Run to the Hills," "Number of the Beast," "2 Minutes to Midnight," and "The Trooper" is a no-brainer, and great album tracks like "Powerslave" and "Evil That Men Do" make for a fun listen, but one has to question the validity of populating a greatest-hits collection with four tracks culled from a live performance. Love them or hate them, when it comes to live albums, 1985's Live After Death is one of the better ones out there, and there's no denying the electricity that runs through "Aces High" and "Wrathchild," but why deny first-time listeners the fine studio versions of both, especially Paul Di'Anno's "Phantom of the Opera" and "Iron Maiden?" Also, where are all of the tracks from 1983's landmark Piece of Mind album? For such a beloved metal institution, there are precious few quality retrospectives and a whole bunch of merely adequate ones, guess which camp Somewhere Back in Time falls into? Reverend Lee Power, All Music Guide

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Up the irons as always...agree it should have Di'Annoby Anonymous

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May 12, 2008: 1. Maiden are now an institution and the classic era is covered here. 2. Agree with the AMG review that Di'Anno should be here (for many people including me, the first album and Killers are STILL the two best records they ever made). 3. Disagree with second guessing Live After Death inclusions per se -- again, I would have picked different tracks. 4. Unrelated to this record but in general, the Blaze albums are so absurdly maligned...they stand up better than half the stuff Bruce has done with the boys, and I thought then and think 10 yrs later that they went "back to the future" with Blaze sounding like a split between Paul and Bruce, with Harris et al going much more gothic. Those albums are great, though not as great as IM, Killers, Number, Piece or Seventh Son.

This review was written about the CD edition.