Iron Maiden - Somewhere in Time
NME.COM feature on Iron Maiden - Somewhere in Time album including album review, artwork, tracks, listen now, tour dates, discography and more.
Release date: 29 June 1986
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- Caught Somewhere in Time
- Wasted Years
- Sea of Madness
- Heaven Can Wait
- The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner
- Stranger In A Strange Land
- Deja Vu
- Alexander the Great
- Alexander The Great (356-323 BC)
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Iron Maiden - Somewhere in Time: Wikipedia Album Entry
Somewhere in Time is the sixth studio album by British heavy metal band Iron Maiden, released on 29 September 1986 on EMI in Europe and its sister label Capitol Records in the US (it was re-released by Sanctuary/Columbia Records in the US in 2002). The studio follow-up to the hugely successful Powerslave/Live After Death pair, it was the first Iron Maiden album to feature guitar synthesizers. Bruce Dickinson's song material was refused in favour of the songs of guitarist Adrian Smith, who wrote the bulk of the songs identified with the album (including the singles "Wasted Years" and "Stranger in a Strange Land").
While many of the songs from Somewhere in Time have all but disappeared (and some like, "The Loneliness Of The Long Distance Runner" being only played once) from the band's live shows over the years, "Wasted Years" and "Heaven Can Wait" have been consistent mainstays of the band's live setlist. Performances of "Heaven Can Wait" have featured a group of local fans and celebrities invited onstage to sing along during the song's middle section.
The album also marked a change for Iron Maiden, as it was their first album to introduce synth, although this style was expanded upon in their next album, Seventh Son of a Seventh Son. This is also their first studio album not to be released a year after their previous one. The band has never released a studio album a year after the previous again as of 2008. The band began to put more time into writing and recording their albums as well as touring for an extensive time after the release of Powerslave.
The 2008 tribute CD Maiden Heaven: A Tribute to Iron Maiden released by Kerrang! magazine features covers of two songs from this album: "Wasted Years" by Devildriver and "Caught Somewhere in Time" by Madina Lake.
Somewhere On Tour was the tour supporting the album.
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Iron Maiden - Somewhere in Time Lyrics
Iron Maiden - Sea Of Madness Lyrics
Out in the street somebody's crying
Out in the night the fires burn
Maybe tonight somebody's crying
Reached the point of no return
Iron Maiden - Caught Somewhere In Time Lyrics
If you had the time to lose
An open mind and time to choose
Would you care to take a look
Or can you read me like a book?
Iron Maiden - Alexander The Great Lyrics
"My son ask for Thyself another Kingdom, for that which I leave
is too small for Thee"
Near to the East, in a part of Ancient Greece
Iron Maiden - Deja - Vu Lyrics
When you see familiar faces
But you don't remember where they're from
Could you be wrong?
When you've been particular places
Iron Maiden - Heaven Can Wait Lyrics
Can't understand what is happening to me
This isn't real this is only a dream
But I never have felt, no I never have felt this way before
Iron Maiden - The Loneliness of The Long Distance Runner Lyrics
Tough of the track
With the wind
And the rain that's beating down on your back
Your heart's beating loud
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