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Iron Maiden - Edward the Great

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Free Music Notes for Edward the Great

Free Music Review: Eddie should be ashamed of himself.
Hit: 2 Stars

Aside from maybe Black Sabbath, no one in the history of metal can touch Iron Maiden. Some people say Judas Priest are a better band. I spit on these people's graves.

Which is why it's so disappointing seeing somenone try to summarise the 'Maiden's back catalogue in such a shoddy compilation. Never mind that all this does is distract people from their back catalogue (Iron Maiden, Killers, Number of the Beast, Powerslave, Piece of Mind, Seventh Son....., Brave New World, Dance of Death.......) which is full of classics. Never mind that it isn't even as good as 'The Best of the Beast'. Never mind that it leaves out the entire Paul Di'Anno period but manages to include 1/2 of "Seventh son...". The worst part of this is that it is so completely unnecessary. 'The Best of the Beast" already does a decent job as a career-encompassing compilation, why release another one? It's not like this is going to win them many new fans. Their classic albums are all good enough so that they don't need to be boiled down to just 'the hits', practically every song on almost every album is worth listening to. All this does is make people think that their careers are over, which the excellent 'Dance of Death' proves is completely untrue.

This compilation seems a lot like a cash-in from the record label, meant to co-incide with the excellent 'Eddie's Archive' b-sides box set. It serves no purpose. If you're new to metal and are thinking of buying this to sample Iron Maiden, it's just a waste of time, buy one of their recently-reissued albums instead.

Free Music Review: "The Greatest Hits"? Not exactly...
Hit: 2 Stars

I consider Iron Maiden to be the absolute greatest band in metal history, hands down. With that being said, this botched attempt at boiling their career down to a single disc has a number of serious flaws:

1. The Paul Dianno era, which includes some of Maiden's best-loved classics, is completely ignored.

2. Several of the band's best songs are missing (most notably "Aces High" and "Hallowed Be Thy Name"), while fully half of the Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son album is included.

3. The disc includes two of Maiden's worst songs, "Holy Smoke" and "Bring Your Daughter To The Slaughter".

With two best-of compilations already out there, Edward The Great is completely unnecessary...with no new or unreleased material there's no reason for established fans to buy it, and for newcomers looking for a quick overview, Best Of The Beast and Ed Hunter are both much better choices. Do yourself a favour...skip this one and just buy all the albums instead!

Free Music Review: buy all the albums
Hit: 2 Stars

while i agree this disc is pretty lame, there are just too many hit's and well known songs to try and do a best of or greatest hit's. to do that you would need a box set and if your gonna do that, you might as well go out and buy all the albums. because as far as i'm concerned, most of the songs off of each and every album would be on there. so go figure. by the way mr. keast, i happen to like "holy smoke" & "bring your daughter to the slaughter". nuff said.

Free Music Review: A Real Dud Dne.
Hit: 2 Stars

Unless you are a collector there is no reason to buy this.
You will be much happier with ED Hunter; which comes with a pretty good game as well. I have every american released CD from Maiden, which includes earlier compilations. But I probably will wait untill this one's on sale to buy it just to have it. The Brave New World album was great. Something along this standard should have been released instead. Up the Irons!