Guess who got tickets to see Maiden on June 11?! Scream for me, Rosemont!! I don’t remember the last time I was this excited about seeing a show…honestly.
There’s a new “Best Of” album called Somewhere Back In Time that’s coming out in May. I could pick it apart and piss and moan about how it totally misses the point, but I’m not going to. The story below explains the band’s intentions with the release and their aim seems to be true. They could’ve completely ignored the Di’Anno material, but they included a few songs…I guess that’s better than nothing, right?!
From a Maiden Myspace Bulletin: Iron Maiden have prevailed over the world of heavy metal for almost thirty years, yet are also without doubt one of the most contemporary and exciting bands of the 21st century. And in their defiant spirit of overturning convention — from flying their own plane around the world on a record-breaking tour to selling over 70 million albums Worldwide without mainstream radio or TV support — today Iron Maiden announce a revolutionary new way of delivering music to their fans.
With the overwhelming success of the current ’Somewhere Back In Time World Tour ’08’, and the recent No 1 selling DVD ’Live After Death’, EMI Records are proud to release a very special album on CD and double picture disc vinyl on 12th May to chart the first decade of the band’s extraordinary career. The album celebrates the essence of the current tour by featuring most of the essential tracks from the band’s first seven studio albums and one live album, recorded between 1980 and 1989, and is aptly also entitled ’SOMEWHERE BACK IN TIME’ (full tracklisting below).
In an unprecedented move to let younger fans hear, understand and appreciate the quality of these recordings EMI launch the unique SOMEWHERE BEST IN SOUND whereby the curious/adventurous can download the entire album without charge from 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).
Tracklisting:
1. Churchill Speech
2. Aces High
3. 2 Minutes To Midnight
4. The Trooper
5. Wasted Years
6. Children Of The Damned
7. The Number of The Beast
8. Run To The Hills
9. 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
MP3: Iron Maiden - “Iron Maiden”
MP3: Iron Maiden - “Wrathchild”
March 24th, 2008 at 6:18 pm
Maiden has always cool basslines - Steve Harris wasn’t it?
March 24th, 2008 at 6:41 pm
Indeed.