Iron Maiden's Reviews

Somewhere In Time

(Average Rating: 8.94 out of 10)

My first Maiden album.

(Rated this album with 10 out of 10)
Reviewed by Louis Gascoigne from Redwood City, CA United States

This was the first Maiden album I got and it is definately one of my desert island disks. In fact, I have purchased this album 4 times. Once on casette, once on the original CD run, once when the second run w/singles came out, and finally in it's current version. Each time I have liked it just as much as when I first got it.

For me, this album really defined what Maiden could do with guitars. Dave and Adrian play very tightly on this album and they lightened up their distorted sound with some chorus to kind of give a spacey sound to it (which fits in with the album theme nicely). It also has my second favorite (although under-appreciated by most) Maiden song, The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner.

Bruce's singing on this album is excellent and is really the last time that he could handle the high notes cleanly.

This album is one of the 3 from Maiden's glory years (Powerslave, Somewhere in Time, and Seventh Son of a Seventh Son). If you are missing any of these, remedy the situation immediately.

The popular live songs are: Wasted Years, and Stranger in a Strange Land.

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