Iron Maiden - To Release New "Best Of" Compilation
As posted on the band's website, Iron Maiden will be releasing yet another "Best Of" CD:
"As you guys will have read from our press release, 'the best of' is to help introduce new friends into the world of Maiden. We are not trying to sell this to the legions of our well valued Maiden supporters who probably already have these 'tracks' (and no doubt the entire collection of albums!).
From the amount of tickets sold there are a lot of people coming to our shows this year who won't have seen us before, so this is intended for them as an introduction, similar to previous ones of this nature. As with 'Edward the Great' we will arrange for the front and back cd artwork to be available for you to print free nearer the release date so, if you want, you can have them for your collections."
New fans can download the entire album without charge from http://www.ironmaiden.com as a high-quality audio file (WMA) which is a typically powerful 320 kbps. Fans will then be able to listen to the entire album at their leisure three times before the download expires. The listener is then given a simple option to upgrade and purchase the album as a full traditional DRM-free download (so they can then copy or do as they like with the album)."
The compilation is entitled "Somewhere Back In Time" [cover] with the following tracklist:
01. Churchill 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 [live]
10. The Evil That Men Do
11. Wrathchild [live]
12. Can I Play With Madness
13. Powerslave
14. Hallowed Be Thy Name
15. Iron Maiden [live]
"As you guys will have read from our press release, 'the best of' is to help introduce new friends into the world of Maiden. We are not trying to sell this to the legions of our well valued Maiden supporters who probably already have these 'tracks' (and no doubt the entire collection of albums!).
From the amount of tickets sold there are a lot of people coming to our shows this year who won't have seen us before, so this is intended for them as an introduction, similar to previous ones of this nature. As with 'Edward the Great' we will arrange for the front and back cd artwork to be available for you to print free nearer the release date so, if you want, you can have them for your collections."
New fans can download the entire album without charge from http://www.ironmaiden.com as a high-quality audio file (WMA) which is a typically powerful 320 kbps. Fans will then be able to listen to the entire album at their leisure three times before the download expires. The listener is then given a simple option to upgrade and purchase the album as a full traditional DRM-free download (so they can then copy or do as they like with the album)."
The compilation is entitled "Somewhere Back In Time" [cover] with the following tracklist:
01. Churchill 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 [live]
10. The Evil That Men Do
11. Wrathchild [live]
12. Can I Play With Madness
13. Powerslave
14. Hallowed Be Thy Name
15. Iron Maiden [live]
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| Marcel Hubregtse Grumpy Old Fuck Posts: 40071 From: The Netherlands  |
CASH IN. ALL of these songs have been released on best of compilations before. Totally redundant release, only the coer art is nice.
---- Member of the true crusade against European Flower Metal Yesterday is dead and gone, tomorrow is out of sight Dawn Crosby (r.i.p.) 05.04.1963 - 15.12.1996 
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| DrunkenFuck Thrasher! Posts: 455 From: Denmark  |
Pretty clever move actually. Awesome cover!
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| LeChron James Helvetesfossen Posts: 3561 From: USA  |
redundant. though its fully downloadable and is actually sorta encouraged to be copied and distributed "illegally". unusual and redundant.
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| insanity.peppers Posts: 193 From: Australia  |
Not really worth getting unless youre an avid maiden collector, but one of the best CD covers they've used in a while
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| Talvi Posts: 825 From: Spain  |
Yet another 'best of'... yawn...
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| Syk myspace/bonerama Posts: 1504 From: New Zealand  |
Ew... I don't really like that art. But you can't really fuck them for the commercial stuff, they're publicly announcing free downloading. Good on them for that. Of course the WMA format won't allow them to be shared over WinMX, and probably other P2P progs...
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| Marcel Hubregtse Grumpy Old Fuck Posts: 40071 From: The Netherlands |
Written by Syk on 12.03.2008 at 09:54 Read closer, the download only works for three spins and then you'll have to pay after that.
---- Member of the true crusade against European Flower Metal Yesterday is dead and gone, tomorrow is out of sight Dawn Crosby (r.i.p.) 05.04.1963 - 15.12.1996
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| BurbotsRevenge Foetal Butchery Posts: 1602 From: Australia  |
^^^ meh is exactly the right word 
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| GT Coffee!! Posts: 5101 From: Denmark  |
Damn that cover is awesome!.. and I have no problem with yet another "best of" if you don't like it, then don't buy it. It's pretty cool that they sort of encourage copying too.
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| BloodTears ANA-thema Posts: 11835 From: Portugal  |
Well its a marketing move, they always did it nicely. It'll be good for new fans yes, I have nothing against it.
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| Marcel Hubregtse Grumpy Old Fuck Posts: 40071 From: The Netherlands |
Written by BloodTears on 12.03.2008 at 11:16 Did you actually see the orignal cds for A Real Live ONe & A Real Dead One, those were done atrociously nothing nice about those at all.
---- Member of the true crusade against European Flower Metal Yesterday is dead and gone, tomorrow is out of sight Dawn Crosby (r.i.p.) 05.04.1963 - 15.12.1996
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| BloodTears ANA-thema Posts: 11835 From: Portugal |
Written by Marcel Hubregtse on 12.03.2008 at 11:18 Why arent they nice? Well actually, I never listened to a Real Live Dead One.
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| Marcel Hubregtse Grumpy Old Fuck Posts: 40071 From: The Netherlands |
Written by BloodTears on 12.03.2008 at 11:27 Just a standard compilation with uninteresteing booklet and horrible artwork. PLus the live one sound quite dodgy
---- Member of the true crusade against European Flower Metal Yesterday is dead and gone, tomorrow is out of sight Dawn Crosby (r.i.p.) 05.04.1963 - 15.12.1996
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| BloodTears ANA-thema Posts: 11835 From: Portugal |
Written by Marcel Hubregtse on 12.03.2008 at 11:31 I noticed you have quite a long Iron Maiden collection, what live album would you recommend? I only have the Rock In Rio DVD, thats the only live experience I have from them. I forgot The history of Iron Maiden part 1, that also has some performances but from the older days. I might get part 2 it has pretty good songs besides the usual hits.
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| iaberis Advice Troll Posts: 1698 From: Greece  |
Again? Don't they have enough money already? Haven't those songs been released before again?
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| Marcel Hubregtse Grumpy Old Fuck Posts: 40071 From: The Netherlands |
Written by BloodTears on 12.03.2008 at 12:20 Get the Live After Death 2-disc dvd which has just been released, (that iincludes History part 2) that is THE definitive Live Iron Maiden registration. It was filmed in 1984 so when they were on the Powerslae tour and features ALL their old classics. And the band is really in its prime then.
---- Member of the true crusade against European Flower Metal Yesterday is dead and gone, tomorrow is out of sight Dawn Crosby (r.i.p.) 05.04.1963 - 15.12.1996
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| HELLilac Posts: 46 From: Australia  |
Written by Marcel Hubregtse on 12.03.2008 at 12:33 WRONG.. They're at their prime NOW. Their performance on LAD were great but it's nothing comepare to their live performance these days.
---- AS SOON AS YOU'RE BORN, YOU'RE DYING..
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| Marcel Hubregtse Grumpy Old Fuck Posts: 40071 From: The Netherlands |
Written by HELLilac on 12.03.2008 at 13:23  I have seen them last time around as well. But sorry to say back then they were MUCH MUCH better live plus they didn't play that many crappy songs.
---- Member of the true crusade against European Flower Metal Yesterday is dead and gone, tomorrow is out of sight Dawn Crosby (r.i.p.) 05.04.1963 - 15.12.1996
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| Spyroid Rosetta Stoned Posts: 1023 From: Sweden  |
Isn't this like... a tour when they will only play tracks from Powerslave, Somewhere in Time, 7th son and No prayer for the dying? Why couldn't they just make an album to promote the tour instead of featuring the most boring and watered song ever (Run to the hills)??
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| enumaelis Posts: 266 From: Spain  |
and the next thing they release ... one live album! ... ... then ... one DVD of the live... ... then ... one new release... and then.. back to the cycle... one "best of" 
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| Marcel Hubregtse Grumpy Old Fuck Posts: 40071 From: The Netherlands |
Written by Spyroid on 12.03.2008 at 14:07 They said it would be a tour where they would only play tracks from Powerslave, Somewhere In Time, and 7Th Son so of albums 5, 6, 7 But I saw the setlist somewhere and they even included songs from Number Of The Beast and even played Fear Of The Dark aarrggghhh, so this shows that also Iron Maiden are a bunch of l***s ;-)
---- Member of the true crusade against European Flower Metal Yesterday is dead and gone, tomorrow is out of sight Dawn Crosby (r.i.p.) 05.04.1963 - 15.12.1996
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| Bad English Tage Westerlund Posts: 60959 From: Sweden  |
OMG how manyBest Of thay will realise in future  I had all studio + 4 live albums why I need that album  only cover are good
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| Stalker Lone wanderer Posts: 2705 From: Serbia  |
Yeah... Nothing to say Except that cover is nice... Well, it cant be bad, since its just DR's work recycled.... And they used spiky letters in their logo again, YAAY for that! 
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| Smurfophagist Posts: 1069 From: Croatia  |
Most of metalheads have this stuff...or should I say all metalheads have it... But i never thought I would live to see Maiden giving something for free
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| Warman Erotic Stains Posts: 7695 From: Sweden  |
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| HELLilac Posts: 46 From: Australia |
Written by Marcel Hubregtse on 12.03.2008 at 13:44 I just saw them LAST MONTH though. The setlist was very similar to LAD but the were much MUCH better than what I'd seen from the vdo/dvd. IF LAD represents how the band performing live then I can only say they've come a long way from then. You shouldn't even argue with me here since you haven't even seen this tour. Just go and check some youtube vdos. Bruce's 2008 versions make Aces high from LAD sound like shit.
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