Holiday Press Release for new Maiden release: Edward The Great

[Keyser Soze]

Incidentally... both Edward The Great and Eddie's Archive come out on Tuesday November 26th... the day of the Eddie's Girlfriends' Jam..

Greetings!

The world's most acclaimed and enduring heavy metal band IRON MAIDEN is offering a special Greatest Hits collection for the holiday season, entitled 'Edward The Great'.

IRON MAIDEN has become renowned for selling over 200,000 units of catalog annually, and has achieved incredible chart status - yielding some 200 gold and platinum records!_ Released on November 26th through Columbia Records, 'Edward The Great' features 16 of IRON MAIDEN's most beloved, all-time best cuts, including "Run To The Hills", "Can I Play With Madness", "2 Minutes To Midnight", "Bring Your Daughter…To The Slaughter", "The Wicker Man", and more!!!

All tracks are digitally remastered for ultimate sound, and the packaging contains a 24-page booklet featuring new IRON MAIDEN photos._ This album is aimed at those who need to be initiated into the world of IRON MAIDEN…or those MAIDEN purists who must have it all!

Full tracklisting consists of:

Run To The Hills_____ ________ ________ The Clairvoyant
The Number of The Beast____ ________ Infinite Dreams
Flight Of Icarus_________ ________ ________ Holy Smoke
The Trooper_______ ________ ________ ________ Bring Your Daughter…To The Slaughter
2 Minutes To Midnight__ ________ ________ Man On The Edge
Wasted Years____ ________ ________ ________ Futureal
Can I Play With Madness_____ ________ The Wicker Man
The Evil That Men Do___ ________ ________ Fear Of The Dark (live in Rio)

 

[Melisan]

ANOTHER best of? Not a good sign when a band lives off its best-of material like this.

 

[Lord S]

I think its more of a record company thing than anything else.Maiden sold a lot of their rights a couple of years ago on the stock market.

 

[smylex]

It's the record company plundering the old catalog. More than likely, if the band did agree to have it released, they're probably getting a better songwriting royalty rate for the songs being re-released in this compilation than what they get for the songs on their albums now.

 

[Mariner]

I may be wrong, but this line are on their first discs: 'the copyright in this sound recording is owned by EMI records ltd.'
and on the newer discs (starting with no prayer for the dying): 'the copyright in this sound recording is owned by Iron Maiden Holdings ltd under exlusive license to EMI records ltd.'

So I assume that starting from NPFTD they have all copyrights, and they choose what label may released the material.
So I guess they (Maiden themselves) decided to release another best-of. Wouldn't be bad with all those 'fake numetalfans' to have some promotion in this way...


BTW someone told me about this forum, I'm a maiden fan since i started listening to music... that is since 1995... hello all! Will check the iron maidens out as well Cheers!

 

[Dethroned]

I've wondered too why they have released second best of-compilation... Was there only 1-2 songs that doesn't exist on Best Of The Beast?

Well, I'm not gonna buy that one...

 

[Mariner]

at last there will be a picture disc released as well from Edward the Great... I'll go for that one instead of the box... because 110€ for the box is really way too much, how addicted am I to Maiden, it's insane

 

[Keyser Soze]

Originally posted by Dethroned
I've wondered too why they have released second best of-compilation... Was there only 1-2 songs that doesn't exist on Best Of The Beast?

Well, I'm not gonna buy that one...

well, best of the beast is no longer available... It was going to be reissued as the double disc version along with the last series of reissues, but it never happened... I'm hoping to get this one for free from my Chipster contact for review on my site, but if that doesn't happen, I will buy it... (I can't find my copy of BotB anywhere...)

also I think this is a proper greatest hits collection... I don't think all of the songs in Best of the Beast were singles... I think all of these are... (but then again, I may be talking out of my arse,.... wouldn't be the first time)

 

[Red Shirt]

The fact that there is not one single song from the Paul DiAnno era tells me something sticks about this best of. How could you not even put their trademark song "Iron Maiden" in it? You won't see me buying this best one.

Personally, and in all fairness, I don't think a "best of" could fit on a single cd.

 

[user no more]

I suppose we'll find out tomorrow, but as of today I was checking out the release dates in the system at Wherehouse Music and it's saying that "Eddie's Archive" is out this 26th, and "Edward the Great" won't be out until December 3rd. "Best ofs." Ah, who needs em? uke:

If you post on this board, I'd assume you have already acquired enough Maiden to fully pride yourself on. But collectors, hey, if you've got the money to blow - feel free.