10) Phantom Of The Opera (Iron Maiden, 1980) The monster track on Iron Maiden’s self-titled debut album, Phantom Of The Opera is a titanic, seven-minute riff-fest lit up by brilliant twin-lead interplay between Dave Murray and Dennis Stratton. A vehicle for the twin guitars of Dave Murray and Dennis Stratton, Harris’ insistent bass, Clive Burr’s metronome beat and the interjections of Di’Anno, its lengthy instrumental sections are multi-paced yet rarely less then pummelling in their intensity – it’s enough to give Andrew Lloyd Webber nightmares. Stranger still, it ended up on a Lucozade advert starring decathlete Daley Thompson. “I first heard Phantom Of The Opera when that first Maiden album came out in 1980, and it was so different to anything else out there,” guitarist tells Metal Hammer.
“The riffs, the arrangement, the cycles it goes through I love it, man. It’s such a unique song, it’s my favourite by them.” 9) Run To The Hills (The Number Of The Beast, 1982) The story of European settlers’ travails in the so-called New World, Run To The Hills is told from the perspective of both the foreign invaders and the oppressed Native Americans (although Maiden use the non-PC expression ‘redskins’ in the lyric). Their debut release with vocal powerhouse Bruce Dickinson, Run To The Hills gave the band their first Top 10 hit, reaching No.7, in 1982. “It’s a song that I have sung many times! I can hit all of the notes in that one, but I’m not comparing myself to Bruce – I’d never do that,” Lacuna Coil’s tells Metal Hammer. “It’s just a fucking great song, an all-time classic. I don’t want people to think of me as a weirdo who picked some obscure B-side, so I’m going with one of the greatest songs ever made.” “Listening to this as a young man on headphones on my parents stereo felt a little bit awkward,” Blaze Bayley tells Classic Rock.
“I started to have the feeling that this music would break the stereo, because it was so different to the Satchmo my father listened to. Dickinson was the future voice of maiden. This song still gives me some of the excitement of the first few times I heard it even now.”. 8) 2 Minutes To Midnight (Powerslave, 1984) A furious anti-war protest song with a lyric that hits as hard as the music, 2 Minutes To Midnight is, in essence, Iron Maiden’s. No matter that the bludgeoning riff somewhat echoes Riot’s charging Swords & Tequila, this is classic Maiden through and through.
Iron Maiden, Best of the Beast, Vinyl, 4 LP, Box und Book, neuwertig, RAR. Box-Set & Sammlung. Musikgruppe, Iron Maiden. Geschwindigkeit, 33 U/min. Although Iron Maiden is known primarily in the U.S. As an album-oriented band, in their native England the band racked up many a hit single, most of which are featured on the 1996 greatest-hits collection, The Best of the Beast.It's available in two formats, either as a 16-track single disc (geared more toward the casual fan) or as a far more extensive 27-track double-disc set, complete with.
“It combines the very best of Maiden,” guitarist Tom Morello tells Metal Hammer. “There’s metal fury, technicality it’s a big metal banger! It became this huge MTV hit despite never going anywhere near a major key, and it has one of the best ever Maiden riffs and choruses.” 7) The Number Of The Beast (The Number Of The Beast, 1982) Offering chills and thrills in equal measure, The Number Of The Beast was inspired by a nightmare Steve Harris had after watching the film Damien: Omen II. And no, that’s not Vincent Price doing the sinister spoken-word intro (Maiden couldn’t afford his fee). In fact it’s Barry Clayton, who used to read ghost stories on Capital Radio. When Maiden play the title track live, it only takes a couple of seconds of this intro before the fans are bellowing with such enthusiasm that the rest of the speech disappears.
The Number Of The Beast is one of those songs that screams ‘heavy metal’. The fact that a lot of very dim religious folk got upset, wrongly assuming that Maiden were Satanists, just makes its legendary status in the band’s catalogue all the more enjoyable. 6) Aces High (Powerslave, 1984) The opening track from Powerslave marries tales of dogfighting derring-do with some of the most furious and aggressive music in Iron Maiden history.
Live Aces High is always preceded by Winston Churchill’s ageless ‘fight ’em on the beaches’ speech. “An impossible song. Prezentaciyu na temu pajka en. Too uplifting,”.
“Popular with Maiden tributes, but very rarely can any of those happy-hearted hopefuls ever get close to the precision required to get near to the original album recording. Angrez punjabi full movie. It has alway felt to me that Iron Maiden were proving something to themselves with this song. I’m probably wrong and I’ve never had a conversation with any of the guys in the band that would back up or justify my opinion.