Description
First edition with blue casket tray and numbered family tree
Metal fans appreciate merchandise thats as extravagant as the music is heavy. And Iron Maiden’s metal tin box, with a bas-relief, red-eyed Eddie mascot on its lid and a gothic, pewter-based shot glass with a glowering Eddie on the bottom, is indeed a nice bit of heavy metal. Nestled inside are three two-cd sets, comprising 77 live songs, as well as a family tree scroll secured with a metal Eddie ring. As usual with Maidens prolific live output, Eddie’s Archive contains uniformly excellent recordings. The first set, The BBC Archives, chronicles four concerts conducted between 1979 and 1988; it serves up the expected hits, including Run to the Hills with the first four songs of disc one featuring original singer Paul Di’Anno. The gem of Eddie’s Archive is Best of the B-Sides, which features 31 tunes (mostly studio recordings), including awesome covers of Jethro Tull’s Cross-Eyed Mary, Golden Earring’s Kill Me ce Soir, two Montrose songs, and cuts originally done by Chuck Berry and Led Zeppelin–as well as covers of such obscure bands as Nektar and Beckett. B-Sides is almost worth the price of admission, though the package’s stash box and shot glass are musts for militant Maiden devotees.
Track list:
Disc 1 and 2: BBC Archives
1. Iron Maiden
2. Running Free
3. Transylvania
4. Sanctuary
5. Wrathchild
6. Run To The Hills
7. Children Of The Damned
8. The Number Of The Beast
9. 22 Acacia Avenue
10. Transylvania
11. The Prisoner
12. Hallowed Be Thy Name
13. Phantom Of The Opera
14. Iron Maiden
15. Prowler
16. Remember Tomorrow
17. Killers
18. Running Free
19. Transylvania
20. Iron Maiden
21. Moonchild
22. Wrathchild
23. Infinite Dreams
24. The Trooper
25. Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son
26. The Number Of The Beast
27. Hallowed Be Thy Name
28. Iron Maiden
Disc 3 and 4: Beast Over Hammersmith
29. Murders In The Rue Morgue
30. Wrathchild
31. Run To The Hills
32. Children Of The Damned
33. The Number Of The Beast
34. Another Life
35. Killers
36. 22 Acacia Avenue
37. Total Eclipse
38. Transylvania
39. The Prisoner
40. Hallowed Be Thy Name
41. Phantom Of The Opera
42. Iron Maiden
43. Sanctuary
44. Drifter
45. Running Free
46. Prowler
Disc 5 and 6: Best Of The B Sides
47. Burning Ambition
48. Drifter-live
49. Invasion
50. Remember Tomorrow-live
51. Ive Got The Fire
52. Cross-Eyed Mary
53. Rainbows Gold
54. King Of Twilight
55. Reach Out
56. That Girl
57. Juanita
58. The Sheriff Of Huddersfield
59. Black Bart Blues
60. Prowler 88
61. Charlotte The Harlot 88
62. All In Your Mind
63. Kill Me Ce Soir
64. Im A Mover
65. Communication Breakdown
66. Nodding Donkey Blues
67. Space Station No. 5
68. I Cant See My Feelings
69. Roll Over Vic Vella
70. Justice Of The Peace
71. Judgement Day
72. My Generation
73. Doctor Doctor
74. Blood On The Worlds Hands-live
75. The Aftermath-live
76. Futureal-live
77. Wasted Years 99-live