Iron Maiden Iron Maiden (1980) 12" VINYL RECORD LP 2014 Parlophone •• NEW ••
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Description
IRON MAIDEN
Iron Maiden
12"
VINYL
RECORD LP BRAND NEW FACTORY SEALED
Parlophone
2564625244
UPC | 825646252442
1980, 2014
TRACK LISTING
SIDE 1
1. Prowler
2. Remember Tomorrow
3. Running Free
4. Phantom Of The Opera
SIDE 2
1. Transylvania
2. Strange World
3. Charlotte The Harlot
4. Iron Maiden
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Recorded at Kingsway Studios in London, the songs on Maiden’s debut are essentially selected snapshots from the band’s early live shows: Album highlight Phantom Of The Opera, the instrumental Transylvania, Murray’s Charlotte The Harlot (with lyrics by Harris, possibly aided by previous singer Dennis Wilcock), and of course Iron Maiden. Special mention must be made of Strange World, a Hendrix-like ballad that sounds unlike anything the band has done since.
The tradition of great Iron Maiden album packaging, and the effort to tell stories with album and single artworks, was already being established with the band’s first record in 1980. From the very beginning, Iron Maiden would be a band that wrapped their excellent music in images that built a fantasy world.
The lyrics are a fun side note in light of what the band would later produce, with several of the songs discussing the pulling of birds, the driving of pick-up trucks, the doings of London prostitutes, or the showing off of private parts to unsuspecting girls while «crawling through the bushes»…
Then there’s an interesting contrast in more introspective and pondering lyrics for Remember Tomorrow and Strange World, and there is also the first of many overtly horror-themed Maiden tunes to come with Phantom Of The Opera, probably inspired by film adaptations of the 1909 Gaston Leroux novel. The horror motif also extends to the title of the instrumental Transylvania (home of Dracula, of course) and the lyrics to perennial set-closer Iron Maiden.
It’s certainly young and raw, exemplified by the mock moral indignation of Charlotte The Harlot, while also pointing to the much more serious lyrical directions Harris and his comrades would later pursue.
Before the year 1980 was out Maiden would be hard at work on the follow-up, continuing to plunder their early song catalog for vinyl treatment, and eagerly developing the sound that would come to characterize one of metal’s most loved and enduring bands.
But it was pretty much all there from the start.
For a debut album, the strength of the material is stunning. At this point, Iron Maiden were at the forefront of the emerging rock movement in Britain, the New Wave Of British Heavy Metal, or NWOBHM. But much more than that, they had successfully stamped out their own territory, despite the record’s flaws. As it stands, the Iron Maiden album is a sign of great things to come.
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