Somewhere Back in Time - The Best of: 1980-1989

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Somewhere Back in Time - The Best of: 1980 - 1989
Somewhere Back in Time - The Best of: 1980 - 1989 cover
Compilation album by Iron Maiden
Released May 12, 2008
Recorded 1980-1989
Genre Heavy Metal
Label EMI
Sony BMG (U.S.)
Producer Various
Professional reviews
Iron Maiden chronology
A Matter of Life and Death
(2006)		 Somewhere Back in Time - The Best of: 1980 - 1989
(2008)		 -

Somewhere Back in Time - The Best of: 1980 - 1989 is a best of album by the British heavy metal band Iron Maiden, containing a selection of songs from the first seven Iron Maiden albums. It was released in conjunction with the band's Somewhere Back In Time World Tour to allow new fans to listen to a selection of the band's material that was played on the tour.

The album cover features the Pharaoh Eddie monument from Powerslave and Cyborg Eddie from Somewhere in Time. In addition, the Iron Maiden logo is colored blue with a gold outline - the same colors used in Seventh Son of a Seventh Son.

[edit] Track Listing

  1. "Churchill's Speech" (Live) (Winston Churchill) - 0.49
  2. "Aces High" (Live) (Steve Harris) - 4.36
    • From Live After Death; Originally from Powerslave
  3. "2 Minutes to Midnight" (Bruce Dickinson, Adrian Smith) - 6.00
  4. "The Trooper" (Harris) - 4.11
  5. "Wasted Years" (Smith) - 5.06
  6. "Children of the Damned" (Harris) - 4.35
  7. "The Number of the Beast (Harris) - 4.53
    • From The Number of the Beast
  8. "Run to the Hills" (Harris) - 3.53
    • From The Number of the Beast
  9. "Phantom of the Opera" (Live) (Harris) - 7.21
  10. "The Evil That Men Do" (Dickinson, Smith, Harris) - 4.34
  11. "Wrathchild" (Live) (Harris) - 3.07
    • From Live After Death; Originally from Killers
  12. "Can I Play with Madness" (Dickinson, Smith, Harris) - 3.31
    • From Seventh Son of a Seventh Son
  13. "Powerslave" (Dickinson) - 6.47
    • From Powerslave
  14. "Hallowed Be Thy Name" (Harris) - 7.12
    • From The Number of the Beast
  15. "Iron Maiden" (Live) (Harris) - (4.50)
    • From Live After Death; Originally from Iron Maiden

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