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Originally Posted by The Batlord
Back when I was 13 or 14, I was just getting into Maiden, and I walked into a store to get Number of the Beast, but as this was around the turn of the millennium, any non-Metallica metal could be almost impossible to track down, and so the only thing I could find was Powerslave. So I "settled" for it.
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I'm surprised at that, I would have thought even in your neck of the woods Maiden albums would be easy to come by.
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Originally Posted by Urban Hat€monger ?
Although I'm a fan of Somewhere In Time I don't think Iron Maiden were ever the same after Powerslave. It's like they lost their edge.
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Somewhere in Time was like their compromise album to what was happening commercially at that time. Van Halen with Sammy Hagar were super radio friendly with all those synthesizers, so to a degree Iron Maiden jumped on the bandwagon. Luckily they made a far better job of it than Judas Priest did. Personally I really like Somewhere in Time but agree they had reached their peak on Powerslave.
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Originally Posted by EPOCH6
Just realized that all the dudes on the Powerslave album cover are walking right into Eddie's junk.
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I never noticed that until you mentioned it.