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. As for the scumbag, if you know who you are, and if I ever catch you, you will wish you had never chosen your path in life. 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. 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. The biggest strong point this album has is the fact this was released before Iron Maiden released those frequently panned remasters.

This is where Best of the Beast differentiates itself from more recent releases, still holding it's crown to this very day. 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. 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.

Each song sounds very natural, there's hardly any compression, clipping and really sounds wonderful blaring out of the stereo or headphones.

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. There was Edward The Great with it's awkward inconsistent track list or the obvious cash grab Somewhere Back In Time. 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. It kicks off the The Number of the Beast and blasts its way through Can I Play With Madness and Fear of the Dark from Donington 1992, one of the band's best live performances.

To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. It is generally accepted that most printed-tee-wearing non-metalhead subordinate people are best served by a greatest-hits album since it can sustain their very limited attention, therefore by targeting audiences new and old with a collection works varying according to different tastes, sales are maximised, and with all editions of "Best of the Beast" weighted towards the iconic Bruce Dickinson hard-rocking era - symphonic live renditions and highlights from Blaze Blayley and Paul Di'Anno's respective periods at the helm notwithstanding - as well as some tasteful remastering and cogent sequencing applied throughout, the compilers have succeeded where many have failed, covering all the bases and pretty much pleasing everyone in the process, including Iron Maiden's own very finicky fanbase! Best of the Beast was Iron Maiden's first "best of" album, [4] released in 1996 in three formats: a 34 track (four disc) vinyl, a 27 track (two disc) CD, a 16 track (single disc) CD and MiniDisc. Nonetheless Iron Maiden have acquired a new fan and I shall definitely be purchasing more of their material from now on.