Random Track of the Day
Sunday, September 18 2011
Ah, like I said with Queen a few days before, you can't keep true class down! Our last RTOTD for this week comes from just the sort of band you want to listen to on a quiet, peaceful Sunday afternoon. Yeah, it's what Sundays are made for! Iron Maiden, from their second album, “Killers”, with “Wrathchild”.
Wrathchild --- Iron Maiden --- from "Killers" on EMI
The only thing about it is that it's Paul Di'Anno on vocals, and while he's good, he's nowhere as good as Bruce Dickinson. But this is from “Killers”, the second Iron Maiden album and the last to feature Di'Anno, and one which really put them on the metal map during the eighties. Songs like “Murders in the Rue Morgue”, “Drifter” and of course the title track all helped earn Maiden a whole legion of fans, and lift them to superstardom among heavy metal acts. “Wrathchild” is typical of the Maiden songs of that period, before they extended themselves into more progressive areas with deeper and more thoughtful themes on albums like "Number of the Beast", "Piece of mind" and "Powerslave", but this is a good, heads-down, out-and-out rocker.
Watch for an in-depth feature on Maiden soon...