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Episode Transcript
Here's a highlight from a recent episode of book Time Rock.
Iron Maiden at fifty is the book. The author is
Daniel Buck's band. Maiden's run continues with nineteen eighty four's
Power Sleeve that features two Minutes to Midnight and mentioned
that one Ace is High. That is followed by nineteen
eighty six is Somewhere in Time features Wasted Years and
Stranger in a Strange Land. The title of chapter seventeen
(00:21):
is It's no Turbo. Iron Maiden gets a lunch break now.
The titles refern to Judas priest controversial album from the
same year which I didn't even realize, which is Turbo,
which that had notable change commercial glam metal sound synthesizers
in it. For the first time on Somewhere in Time,
Maiden incorporates guitar synthesizers, so first for them as well.
(00:43):
And it's you say, the most slickly produced and ornately
arranged thing the band had ever done. What response did
the album get from fans and critics? And how did
afair compared to Priest Turbo.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
Priest Turbo is hated to this day. But a lot
of that, I must be blunt with you, is because
the songs are all terrible. It's not just the arrangement.
The arrangement that that's a problem, and all the synthesizers
were a problem, but the songs are awful. If the
songs had been good, maybe this would be a different discussion.
(01:16):
All the songs on Somewhere in Time are good. That's
that's really the difference. And also it wasn't as like
drenched in synthesizers as Turbo was Turbo. The title just
should have been we're using a lot of synthesizers on
this one, you know. Uh yeah, that would have been
funny for the album title. I mean, that's how everyone
(01:39):
talks about it. So maybe, you know, with Somewhere in Time,
I mean, it's still sounded like Iron Maiden. It's still
the songwriting, it still sounded like them, and the you know,
the keyboards are there, but they're not like, you know,
super obnoxious, like you know, who the hell are these
guys all of a sudden. I do remember people complaining
(02:00):
about it anyway, though,
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