Somewhere Back In Time The Best Of: 1980-1989

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domunited

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hey!
the new best of album is available for free download from the maiden site.. listened to the first five songs.. the quality is quite amazing!! especially of the live version of Aces High!

I think I might buy it and add it to my maiden collection  :bigsmile:

what do you guys think abt it?
 
I think that it is, unfortantely, just another money grab by the management.  The only new stuff here is artwork.

I mean how many times will they give us the same live/studio tracks over and over?  Best of the Beast was good in that it contained 5 tracks previously unavailable.  If you want to make a compilation CD worth getting, do that.
 
Sorry, mate.  I already own pretty much all the albums.  Nice art, but that's about it.  I may buy a Somewhere Back In Time poster or flag if I get the chance, but not the album.  Not when I already have Best of the Beast and Edward The Great.
 
Well i'm gonna get it just for completion purposes.......


plus i still need to get Best Of The Beast (Fucking rare CDs  :mad: )
 
GuineaPig said:
I think that it is, unfortantely, just another money grab by the management.  The only new stuff here is artwork.

I mean how many times will they give us the same live/studio tracks over and over?  Best of the Beast was good in that it contained 5 tracks previously unavailable.  If you want to make a compilation CD worth getting, do that.
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Agree totally. Best of the Beast was how to do a compilation album. Ever since Bruce and Adrian came back Maiden have been much more about the money. Just look at ticket prices, merch prices, number of live albums, number of best of's, number of DVD's. Some of its cool but if you're one of those people who has to own absolutely everything then its a real kick in the teeth.
 
Real World said:
Agree totally. Best of the Beast was how to do a compilation album. Ever since Bruce and Adrian came back Maiden have been much more about the money. Just look at ticket prices, merch prices, number of live albums, number of best of's, number of DVD's. Some of its cool but if you're one of those people who has to own absolutely everything then its a real kick in the teeth.
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I don't think it's Maiden itself per se, but more the management.  The commercial viability of Maiden has certainly gone up since Bruce and Adrian have come back.
 
Maybe I'm in the minority, but I don't see anything wrong with Iron Maiden trying to make as much money as humanly possible on their catalog.  It's is not as if they have "sold out" musically -- A Matter of Life and Death was a great album, and their decision to perform it in its entirety on their world tour was a brave and counterintuitive move -- so what's the bother?  If they ever release an album consisting largely of radio-friendly power ballads, like Metallica did, then I'll accuse them of selling out, too.  (Sorry for that jab, Black Album fans.)  But for now, more power to them. 

I also am confused as to how this hurts people who enjoy collecting Iron Maiden's discography -- if you're one of those people, why wouldn't you be delighted to have something else to collect?  Moreover, as someone who likes to make "mix" CDs and playlists for my car stereo and iPod, respectively, I appreciate the live "single" versions of Churchill's Speech + Aces High, as well as Phantom of the Opera, and I may download those tracks even though I already own Live After Death.  (I did the same thing with Fear of the Dark from Edward the Great, even though I already owned Rock in Rio.)  I probably won't buy the entire album, but that's me -- others might. 

I think it is fair to say that Iron Maiden are as popular now as they have been in the last 15-20 years, and a new release targeted at younger fans who are showing interest in the band is just good business.  This is true even if the same arguments were made for Edward the Great six years ago -- some of the fans I saw at the concert last February were probably still listening to The Wiggles when EtG was released.  Why not try to hook in new fans with a new "Best Of" release, some of whom will then buy up the rest of Iron Maiden's catalog?  Iron Maiden is "hip" now -- they weren't hip when they were touring club dates with Blaze Bayley ten years ago, and they may not be hip again in 2-3 years' time.  In some respects, it would be moronic not to release something to coincide with this year's tour, other than simply the Live After Death DVD.  Go get 'em, fellas.  And get that Maiden England DVD on store shelves soon, too. 
 
I'm not saying it's a bad move. Just that, for me, it's not a product I'm interested in.  I'd continue to recommend Best of the Beast + Brave New World to new Maiden fans, however, I hope the new compilation album brings in lots of fans.
 
cornfedhick said:
Maybe I'm in the minority, but I don't see anything wrong with Iron Maiden trying to make as much money as humanly possible on their catalog.
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I agree with this. However, it's the motivation, the reasons on the website which I hardly understand (see several comments by different people in the "What do you reckon the last thing we need from Maiden next year is..."-topic, starting from page 3), and the utter disappointing-tracklist.

cornfedhick said:
It's is not as if they have "sold out" musically.
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That depends on how you explain this sentence, since they've done so many compilations with the same songs in a very short time, but I know what you mean.

cornfedhick said:
-- A Matter of Life and Death was a great album, and their decision to perform it in its entirety on their world tour was a brave and counterintuitive move -- so what's the bother?
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That's another issue (already brought into balance with the 2008 tour!), but it was indeed a brave move.

cornfedhick said:
Moreover, as someone who likes to make "mix" CDs and playlists for my car stereo and iPod, respectively, I appreciate the live "single" versions of Churchill's Speech + Aces High, as well as Phantom of the Opera, and I may download those tracks even though I already own Live After Death.  (I did the same thing with Fear of the Dark from Edward the Great, even though I already owned Rock in Rio.)
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I am someone who enjoys to make "mix" albums since I can spell the word "record". I know how nice it can be to compile a band overview, myself. But what's cool to receive a "mix" CD, which contains a tracklist which leaves nothing to the imagination.

cornfedhick said:
I probably won't buy the entire album, but that's me -- others might. 
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I'll see what I do. If I'll ever see it for a very cheap price, I might buy it.

cornfedhick said:
I think it is fair to say that Iron Maiden are as popular now as they have been in the last 15-20 years, and a new release targeted at younger fans who are showing interest in the band is just good business.  This is true even if the same arguments were made for Edward the Great six years ago -- some of the fans I saw at the concert last February were probably still listening to The Wiggles when EtG was released.  Why not try to hook in new fans with a new "Best Of" release, some of whom will then buy up the rest of Iron Maiden's catalog?  Iron Maiden is "hip" now -- they weren't hip when they were touring club dates with Blaze Bayley ten years ago, and they may not be hip again in 2-3 years' time.  In some respects, it would be moronic not to release something to coincide with this year's tour, other than simply the Live After Death DVD.  Go get 'em, fellas.  And get that Maiden England DVD on store shelves soon, too. 
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In North America people also had "The Essential Iron Maiden", released in 2005. Maybe the real reason is just that Americans are behind.
 
I think it's very much about making money by putting out a product to serve a certain group of fans, however I think the management is smart enough to know that few fans will buy it just to have it, but may want the art for free, so putting it up won't affect the bottom line.
 
Forgive me for the following delayed response, but I've been fairly busy since this was posted 3 days ago and just noticed it...

Forostar said:
Maybe the real reason is just that Americans are behind.
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And maybe, just maybe, FOROSTAR IS A GAPING ASSHOLE.

Sure, the US government screwed something up, and now they're fixing it. But using that as an excuse to insult all Americans is reprehensible.

Then again, I'm not really surprised to see shit like this from a shriveled-up prick like Forostar.

A few days ago, I was defending Forostar against the other mods in the chatroom. I tried to point out that: yes, he is a GAPING ASSHOLE about half the time, but the other half he's a reasonable fellow, and if you just let him be then things work out all right.

No more. I will speak no more in his defense. I'm sick and fucking tired of worthless shitheads like Forostar insulting me with such generalizations. If you want to insult the US government, fine. But do not extend that insult to all Americans. If that putrid heap of dung says anything like this ever again, I'll see if I can get him banned. In recent weeks, that ignorant douchebag has pissed off all the moderators. He is on thin ice. If he has the capacity to learn anything - which I doubt - then he ought to learn to consider his words more carefully before posting.
 
Wow, wow! Hold your horses!

I see here a generalisation about the Americans on the part of Forostar, but in my view no insult -- or at least none intended. For fuck's sake, we're only discussing the release or yet another Maiden compilation on various markets around the globe, and not how advanced or backward some countries are.

I don't want to see any exacerbated nationalisms here, nor do I want to see respected members of this community having a dig at each other for nor valid reason -- and mostly not using this kind of vocabulary!

Forostar brings very important contributions to this board and has the courage to voice his opinion. You may agree or disagree (I know that my views are very often different to his), but a slanging match won't lead anywhere except to the loss of valued posters on the forum. Just remember the "Perun incident"...
 
Everyone can have a bad hair day but what I really did was trying to be funny, merely referring to Bruce and his not serious Skunkworks track. I am afraid that the (serious and perhaps somewhat out-of-place) link I provided, was the irritating part and caused the misunderstanding. I never saw that coming.

On the other hand it was still dead on-topic. America is the metal-market to reconquer, isn't it? I believe that's an important reason behind such a release.

Now I'm only left with the idea that Bruce could also do another compilation of his solo work.
 
On the thought of band members releasing more compilations, Adrian wouldn't suffer from releasing one for his material, especially if they marketed it this time rather than the music once again vanishing into thin air.
 
Forostar said:
Everyone can have a bad hair day but what I really did was trying to be funny, merely referring to Bruce and his not serious Skunkworks track. I am afraid that the (serious and perhaps somewhat out-of-place) link I provided, was the irritating part and caused the misunderstanding. I never saw that coming.
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That pretty much wraps it up for me here. Foro made a joke, SMX took it the wrong way.
 
Being an American in 2008 necessitates having a thick skin. We've been getting slammed so much since 2002 for so many things. I've put it out there that it saddens me, the world view of my country now; but personally, I really don't care. After all, all other nations are so near perfection, it's not worth worrying about. Sometimes, fixing other people's mistakes means you get picked on, no big deal.

Well i'm gonna get it just for completion purposes.......
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This is what they count on seely; but I'm sure it's not just Iron Maiden that participate in this kind of behavior.  ;)
 
Deano said:
Being an American in 2008 necessitates having a thick skin. We've been getting slammed so much since 2002 for so many things. I've put it out there that it saddens me, the world view of my country now; but personally, I really don't care. After all, all other nations are so near perfection, it's not worth worrying about. Sometimes, fixing other people's mistakes means you get picked on, no big deal.
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[sarcasm]

I HATE ALL U AMARIKANS!  U HAT THE WHOL WURLD!  GERGE BUSH IS A FUCKIN MORAN!  ALL AMERIGREAT MUSICIANS ARE THE SAME AS BABY-KILLING BUSH!

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Then I see this picture, and I die a little inside:

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