Best of the Beast

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In 1990, a box set titled "The First Ten Years" was issued, offering collectors an exhaustive coverage of their consistently majestic singles, B-sides and all, in the digital format. Each song sounds very natural, there's hardly any compression, clipping and really sounds wonderful blaring out of the stereo or headphones.The standard edition's value has not changed much although the Japanese pressings continue to rise in value. 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. Finally, in 1996, long after the band's imperial phase had ended, a round-up of all their best-known songs was released.

There was Edward The Great with it's awkward inconsistent track list or the obvious cash grab Somewhere Back In Time. Best of the Beast lacks tracks like Killers, Prowler and a other classics from the first two albums. 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. 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. X-Factor album and controversy latched itself to the band at every possible chance because of the departure of Bruce Dickinson (Blaze Bayley being the current singer at the time).Despite my gripes, I still think that Best of the Beast is the best Iron Maiden compilation album and I really can't see my opinion changing very soon. If anyone else fancies a taster CD of the Iron, this one is for you, oooo and try also Live after Death ! I know fans like Live After Death and it's cool to have two pre-Iron Maiden demo songs on here, but I would have preferred having more studio material from the debut and Killers.