Numbers from the Beast: An All-Star Tribute to Iron Maiden

1. Run To The Hills

2. Wasted Years

3. Wrathchild

4. Flight Of Icarus

5. Fear Of The Dark

6. The Trooper

7. Aces High

8. 2 Minutes To Midnight

9. Can I Play With Madness?

10. The Evil That Men Do

11. The Wickerman

Editorial Reviews

Product Description
CLASSIC MAIDEN TUNES REVAMPED BY PAST AND PRESENT MEMBERS OF:

Iron Maiden • KISS • AC/DC • Motörhead • Anthrax • Dio • Judas Priest * Ozzy’s band • Testament • Twisted Sister • Extreme • Slaughter * Whitesnake • Led Zeppelin • Mr. Big • Poison • MSG • Helmet • Styx * UFO • Lynch Mob • Suicidal Tendencies • Dokken • Rob Zombie Band * Rainbow • The Firm • WWE Wrestler Chris Jericho and many, many more!

Numbers from the Beast: An All-Star Tribute to Iron Maiden,Various Artists,Restless Records,Hard Rock,Heavy Metal,Pop,Rock,Rock/Pop,Tribute Albums,V/a Compilations

Numbers from the Beast: An All-Star Tribute to Iron Maiden

Average customer rating:

Most fans will like it
What the...?
Where's Iced Earth's covers?
One of the best if not THE best tribute albums ever.
Thirty-foot pole? Not even!

Numbers from the Beast: An All-Star Tribute to Iron Maiden
Various Artists
Manufacturer: Restless Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music

General | Rock | Styles | Music

General | Hard Rock & Metal | Styles | Music

Hard Rock | Hard Rock & Metal | Styles | Music

Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music

Tributes | Pop | Styles | Music
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ASIN: B000B6TR20
Release Date: 2005-10-11

Tracks:

Run To The Hills
Wasted Years
Wrathchild
Flight Of Icarus
Fear Of The Dark
The Trooper
Aces High
2 Minutes To Midnight
Can I Play With Madness?
The Evil That Men Do
The Wickerman

Album Description

CLASSIC MAIDEN TUNES REVAMPED BY PAST AND PRESENT MEMBERS OF:

Iron Maiden • KISS • AC/DC • Motörhead • Anthrax • Dio • Judas Priest * Ozzy's band • Testament • Twisted Sister • Extreme • Slaughter * Whitesnake • Led Zeppelin • Mr. Big • Poison • MSG • Helmet • Styx * UFO • Lynch Mob • Suicidal Tendencies • Dokken • Rob Zombie Band * Rainbow • The Firm • WWE Wrestler Chris Jericho and many, many more!

Customer Reviews:

Most fans will like it.......2006-06-07

Excellent song choices, vocals range from ho hum (Mark Slaughter, Chris Jerico)to great (Lemmy, Chuck Billy, Robin McAcAuley), drumming and bass all very good, some of the guitar playing is so good that I was blown away (Bruce Krulick, Craig Goldy, Nino Bettencourt, George Lynch). However if you are on a budget and don't have Live after Death, GET IT instead

What the...?.......2006-05-30

I will refrain from going down the list of songs on this heap. They are all bad. What makes them bad is really sad too...some of the vocal performances are outstanding, but all of the intrumental parts are just badly produced, sounding incredibly thin, having been performed by studio artists. I own every Maiden album and every Maiden "tribute" album and this is by far the worst. Do not let some of the big names on vocals rope you into buying this one. I really want to know how they feel about this- did they hear the background band at all- I would venture to guess not. To compare, listen to Di'Anno's other versions of Wrathchild since his exile from Maiden- even the his live version on "The Beast...Live" is better!

Where's Iced Earth's covers?.......2006-05-18

Back in 2002, the progressive metal band 'Iced Earth', who gets a lot of their influence from Maiden, did a Tribute cover album called "Tribute to the Gods" of some of their favorites and two of the tracks on that album were Maiden's "The Number of the Beast" and "Hallowed Be Thy Name". Both of which were IMO probably better in both musical arrangement and vocals than the originals. The vocals were sung by the now former Iced Earth vocalist Matt Barlow and sound extremely close to, but also IMO Bruce Dickinson's vocals on the original versions from '82. The music tracks are also stronger. Both use the same basic arrangement, but with updated production and guitar riffing styles. Quite frankly, it's a shame that the entire Maiden catalog couldn't have been redone by Iced Earth.

With regards to this album, I previewed a lot of the tracks and quite frankly, they're missing the vocal range of Matt Barlow from Iced Earth. In fact, they make you wanna go back and listen to the original Maiden version, while the Iced Earth versions sound so similar to the originals that you'd be hard pressed to notice the difference.

One of the best if not THE best tribute albums ever........2006-05-11

I have lots of tribute albums, and this is one of thye best ever. Right up there with Nativity in Black.

Thirty-foot pole? Not even!.......2006-02-27

Generally speaking, this tribute album's covers are poorly done. They're watered down, the vocals are only nailed in a couple songs- and you'd better be able to, Paul, after recording 50 different versions of Wrathchild since you were given the boot 25 years ago- the guitars end up sounding out-of-tune or off-note, and, well... some of the people on here who aren't currently enlisted in a band probably have a reason for it and it shows in this album. I guess the only way this album could really serve as a tribute is that it underscores the notion that Iron Maiden is too high-caliber for anyone else to get right. The only cover track on here that I would ever consider actually listening to is Flight of Icarus. The instruments weren't particularly spot-on but it's the only song (other than Wrathchild) that doesn't induce vomiting from the vocals alone. Tim Owens comes very close to sounding like Dickinson.

The gesture is nice and all, but it does reek of commercialism and, more often than not, the tunes are dumbed down.