Wall of Mouths

Well,

Fresh packaging - fresh approach, make it look modern to appeal to the kiddies. Never heard of Marketing, eh? ;)

One thing I can certainly confirm is that this band never stops winning over new fans, some of them people who initially even bashed the band.

Up the Irons!!!

Well, in fairness, the sound quality of the tracks is probably better than my “Best of the Beast” CD which I bought about 8 years ago. And the tracklisting is geared specifically at this tour. How many times have I been to a gig with a newcomer only to get asked for a copy of all the tracks that they just played in the set - zillions. I myself wouldn’t have minded something like that also for bands that I had just witnessed live, yet never heard of prior ot that.

I know where you guys are coming from, but hey, if you don’t like it, don’t buy it.

At least they are not selling Maiden Credit Cards, bottles of wine etc.

I have heard that argument many times, but I quite honestly don’t recognize much difference in the music which I transferred to my MP3 player via CD or file to be honest. You would need to be listening to the music at a crazy volume to even notice.

If you look at the recent new NIN download, it was offerred at CD quality - so the times are changing.

At least the band stands behind this compilation which despite comments above can not be viewed as a full “best of” retrospective of Maiden’s career - it only supports the current tour which makes perfect sense to me. Available as download coz guess what? Kids download more than they buy nowadays. The reason for all of the “Best of” compilations also in many cases had to do with the bands record labels - I remember a compilation for their American label where the band even stated that they were not really interested in it.

Up the Irons :)

OK, well sound quality is not better to my ears - that too is a fact.

I meant all things being equal ;)

I am not arguing that the quality of an MP3 is better than CD (please point out where I wrote that) - I wrote the sound quality on this new compilation is probably an improvement over a CD compilation which is 8 years old - regardless of source. I do not notice a real difference in sound quality when listening to a CD or MP3 of the same song from the same album ;)

Well, I find that in cases like these that the new CDs are usually louder.

Up the Irons indeed!

cheers to my mate, iron maiden are getting on my fucking nerves

good band, seen em twice, but fuck…they annoy the hell outta me now!

Don’t love Maiden as much as I used too , mainly because I rarely listen to metal anymore , grown out of it. But they will always have a special part of my childhood and i’ll always love em. Gotta admit though I thought they were quite poor on the last tour , playing the whole new album I found really boring. I’d be lying if I said I don’t want to see them in twhicenham though.

As for another best of i’m not too fussed , I won’t buy it unless I can get it in a sale in a year or so :P.

Anyone got the Live After Death dvd yet ? Hows the documentary thing? The last one was great.

I have the maiden best of already

its called The X Factor

:p

all joking aside its not as bad as an album as people make out

Im not a huge maiden fan but i have alot of their albums, dont listen to them much but when I do i find i really like what I hear.

i’ve always said i’m not a massive maiden fan but they’re a band i’d rather go and see live than alot of my favorite bands.

every recording ive seen of a maiden show looks fucking amazing.

ok thats pretty varietised, i take it back.

whats scary is, that i wrote my last post 3 mins ago and in that space of time you came up with all that in one post, a copy and paste job surely . hehe

hehe

Gimme Back My Brainsaw wrote:

Im going to paste in my most played on last.fm
then tell me I dont have a varied taste

You win just for mentioning SYL and Carcass in the same post…

That is varied! Wow! Almost Every single one of them a rock band, what a free mind you have! : )

I’m not quite sure what you’re all talking about with maiden but the fact is they have always been careerists in it for the money so fair play to them.

The Live After Death DVD is ace.

However, the fact that they’re releaseing a comp album of their 80’s output stinks somewhat. But, if its got rare tracks on (b sides and what have you), I’ll change my mind, but not to fussed on it.