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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.
Tracklist
1 Intro (Churchill's Speech) [Live at Long Beach Arena] [1998 Remaster]
2 Aces High (Live) [1998 Remaster]
3 2 Minutes to Midnight (1998 Remaster)
4 The Trooper (1998 Remaster)
5 Wasted Years (1998 Remaster)
6 Children of the Damned (1998 Remaster)
7 The Number of the Beast (1998 Remaster)
8 Run to the Hills (1998 Remaster)
9 Phantom of the Opera (Live at the Hammersmith Odeon) [1998 Remaster]
10 The Evil That Men Do (1998 Remaster)
11 Wrathchild (Live at the Hammersmith Odeon) [1998 Remaster]
12 Can I Play with Madness (1998 Remaster)
13 Powerslave (1998 Remaster)
14 Hallowed Be Thy Name (1998 Remaster)
15 Iron Maiden (Live at Long Beach Arena) [1998 Remaster]