Album: Somewhere Back In Time (The Best Of: 1980-1989)
Release Date (U.S.): May 13th, 2008
Label: Iron Maiden Holdings / UMe / Sony BMG Music Entertainment
Info:
Somewhere Back In Time - The Best Of: 1980 - 1989 is a "best of" album by the British heavy metal band Iron Maiden, containing a selection of songs from Iron Maiden albums released in the 1980s. (The five studio albums with Bruce Dickinson on lead vocals and the one live album are represented. The first two albums with Paul Di'Anno on lead vocals are ignored for this compilation. The songs from those two albums on this compilation are live versions from Live After Death with Bruce Dickinson on lead vocals.) This best of album was released in conjunction with the band's Somewhere Back In Time World Tour to allow new fans to listen to a selection of the band's material that was played on the tour.
The album cover features the Pharaoh Eddie monument from Powerslave and Cyborg Eddie from Somewhere in Time. In addition, the Iron Maiden logo is colored blue with a gold outline - the same colors used in Seventh Son of a Seventh Son.
Credits:
Bruce Dickinson: Lead Vocals
Steve Harris: Bass guitar
Dave Murray: Guitars
Adrian Smith: Guitars
Nicko McBrain: Drums
Clive Burr: Drums on tracks 6, 7, 8, 14
Additional Musician:
Michael Kenney: Keyboards on tracks 10 and 12
Technical & Production Credits:
All tracks produced and mixed by Martin Birch
Tracks 2, 9, 11, and 15 recorded at Long Beach Arena, Los Angeles 1985. Tracks 3, 4, 5 and 13 recorded at Compass Point, Nassau, Bahamas. Tracks 6, 7, 8, and 14 recorded at Battery Studios, London. Tracks 10 and 12 recorded at Musicland Studios, Munich Germany
Tracks 2, 9, 11, and 15 from the album "Live After Death". Tracks 3 and 13 from the album "Powerslave". Track 4 from the album "Piece Of Mind". Track 5 from the album "Somewhere In Time". Tracks 6, 7, 8 and 14 from the album "The Number Of The Beast". Tracks 10 and 12 from the album "Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son".
All illustrations by Derek Riggs
Photographs by Ross Halfin
Design by Peacock
Managed by Rod Smallwood and Andy Taylor for Phantom-Music Management
Liner Notes by Rod Smallwood
Tracklist:
01. Churchill's Speech 0:49
02. Aces High (Live) 4:38
03. 2 Minutes To Midnight 6:01
04. The Trooper 4:12
05. Wasted Years 5:06
06. Children Of The Damned 4:36
07. The Number Of The Beast 4:52
08. Run To The Hills 3:54
09. Phantom Of The Opera (Live) 7:10
10. The Evil That Men Do 4:35
11. Wrathchild (Live) 3:05
12. Can I Play With Madness 3:32
13. Powerslave 6:49
14. Hallowed Be Thy Name 7:13
15. Iron Maiden (Live) 4:21
Reviews:
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 Dickinson's 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?
~ James Christopher Monger, All Music Guide
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Once upon a time – nay, somewhere back in time, I saw a young metal band at London’s Marquee. At the forefront of the NWOBHM (the anathema of the punk movement), Iron Maiden were exciting, vibrant, boys’ own metal... Fast forward nearly thirty years, and the monster that is Maiden has chomped its way round the globe countless times, armoured to the hilt, unyielding to the petty weapons of contemporary music... Timeless (frankly) HEAVY METAL.
It’s been fascinating to watch this monster grow. And maybe it’s being there all those years ago that’s tainted my objectivity, but it’s those earlier songs - 'Wrathchild', 'Phantom Of The Opera', 'Number Of The Beast', et al – that get my adrenaline surging most, because it was then, in the 80s, that Maiden had all the urgency of the ambitious young Cockerney band they were. So how do they, the band, claim that urgency back? Get in a time machine and rewind... for the benefit of the kids who weren’t there in the first place, of course. That’s the excuse anyway - I’m sure the idea was also to help regenerate the old boys’ creative cells. But the Maiden PR machine is unremittingly cunning. This is their fourth compilation and, as usual, the reason behind regurgitating the old songs can’t be disputed, so you have to respect their gall.
And so the 'Somewhere Back In Time' tour and album were devised (lucky they had such an apt album title to adapt!). And, like in the good old days when record shops had listening booths, the album is available for download, to listen to thrice before it disappears into the ether, "in their own time in an environment of their own choosing…to absorb the depth and worth of the music and lyrics that make Iron Maiden the phenomenon they are", as manager Rod Smallwood puts it. He may be a Yorkshire boy, but – bless him – he can effervesce as neatly as an East End barrow-boy (must be catching!). Still, there’s no question that – fourth, fifth, billionth album, whatever – this will explode straight in at number one, because anyone dedicated enough to download it will be dedicated enough to add it to their Maiden collection. Foregone conclusion.
After all, 'Somewhere Back In Time' is a fine testament to Maiden’s rise and rise in the 80s, from the quaintly produced early riffing of the first two (Di’Anno) albums, to Bruce’s resounding induction, and onwards and upwards through Nicko McBrain’s debut, 'Piece Of Mind', 'Powerslave', the phenomenal 'Live After Death', 'Somewhere In Time' and, my favourite, 'Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son'. But there is a discrepancy here. The old songs that Paul Di’Anno originally sang are here, but these versions of 'Phantom Of The Opera', 'Wrathchild' and 'Iron Maiden' are live and vocalised by Bruce Dickinson. Dennis Stratton is also missing. Thus, old school fans of Di’Anno and Stratton may be a tad disappointed to discover that 'Best Of: 1980-1989' actually means ‘Best Of...’ but performed post-Bruce.
Still – if we bounce back to the other side of the tennis court - the four tracks off 'Number Of The Beast', Bruce’s first album, will remind those hovering between Di’Anno and Dickinson camps that his debut deservedly rocketed to number 1, and took the young ex-Samson singer (‘Bruce Bruce’) from obscurity to global celebrity in one fell swoop. He must’ve done something right.
Anyway, I really can’t imagine that moralistic ranting is going to make much difference to album sales. Instead, let’s close on a much more down-to-earth note, which has nothing to do with band politics, and much more to do with – honestly – what being in a band is all about:
I remember watching Dave Murray’s lovely (sadly departed) mum ironing in the hallway in Gunton Road, Clapton, in July 1980 because there wasn’t room elsewhere for the ironing board. A few years later, Dave bought her a beautiful, much larger house in Essex.
That, I feel, is a fine parable for Maiden’s before and after, whoever was in the band then, and now. Doing it for the right reasons, somewhere back in time...
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