Best of the Beast

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This is where Best of the Beast differentiates itself from more recent releases, still holding it's crown to this very day. Not only is this song just too long and dull on the Powerslave album, but this rendition is from Live After Death which sounds very thin. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. While fluid in the early years of the band, the lineup for most of the band's history has consisted of Harris, lead vocalist Bruce Dickinson, drummer Nicko McBrain, and guitarists Dave Murray, Adrian Smith and Janick Gers. Consequently, hidden gems such as "Total Eclipse", the B-side to "Run To The Hills", went largely unrecognized.

The track listing is comprise primarily of the band’s singles and other well-known songs from their 1980-1995 albums, but they also include a new single, “Virus,” and a previously unreleased live version of “Afraid to Shoot Strangers. If your going to turn it up to 11 get some ear phones, it wasn't sociable listened to loud music back then and nothings changed.Also included are a new single, entitled " Virus", [4] as well as previously unreleased live versions of "Afraid to Shoot Strangers" and "Revelations" (the latter exclusive to the vinyl edition).

As far as conventional career-spanning anthologies go, and there are few in the Iron Maiden catalogue, this one is hard to beat, especially the more inclusive and as such definitive two-disc version. It is an amalgamation of his most famous works with the band, featuring Eddies from the Piece of Mind, Powerslave, Somewhere in Time and No Prayer for the Dying eras, as well as those from " The Trooper", Live After Death and a redesign of the Killers album cover. The first will get a lot of hate but that is the inclusion of the overly long Rime of the Ancient Mariner. Maybe you would be able to grab stuff from cars with your teeth afterwards with having lost the use of your hands to a flashing scimitar ?A 2CD box set of of the The Best of the Beast was released as a limited edition of the 1996 compilation album. Irrespective of the source, all of our collectables meet our strict grading and are 100% guaranteed. It starts off with the wonderful Virus and continues to go back in time from X-Factor all the way back to the Soundhouse Tapes. Some user-contributed text on this page is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License; additional terms may apply. Indeed, this series of 10 CDs was infinitely more valuable than a greatest-hits compilation, especially for hardcore fans and collectors, but the demand for a single-disc career overview remained.

The cover art was designed by Derek Riggs, known for having created most of Iron Maiden's early album covers. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. Original CD and 12" vinyl versions of the virus single are now very expensive on the second hand market and whilst it is also included on the 'visions of the beast' dvd- the DVD version only has the sound available in Dolby Digital stereo that is inferior in quality to CD. Fans can argue till the cows come home about which tracks should or shouldn't have been included, yet to try and alert people to Iron Maidens music by way of a simple CD that only has a max 80 mins play time requires the compiler to make track selections that may or may not please a die hard maiden fan, this album was undoubtedly aimed at newcomers or casual fans at the time of release. It obviously features a lot of great music but I can't see it appealing to those seeking just the hits.

Language - Regardless of country of origin all tracks are sung in English, unless otherwise stated in our description. The 4-disc vinyl pressing, meanwhile, contains the entire Soundhouse Tapes EP on its final side, again with the addition of "Strange World" from the same sessions. I hope the minimal money you got for this second hand CD minus it's case and the other stuff you decided to take without my permission while damaging my vehicle pays toward your accidental heroin overdose ! If anyone else fancies a taster CD of the Iron, this one is for you, oooo and try also Live after Death !