Track title: “Twilight Zone”
Album: Killers*
Year: 1981
Written by: Dave Murray/Steve Harris
Subject: The dead trying to contact the living
Type: Fast rocker
Length: 2:32
Familiar? A little, yes
Rating: 6/10
Though it's something of a well-known song among fans, I'm not that totally familiar with this track as it wasn't on the original version of Killers that I bought, and I only heard it one or two times on I think the twelve-inch single of “Run to the Hills”. Nah, actually, I'm wrong: that was “Total Eclipse”. Oh well. Not sure where I've heard this, then. It's a typical song off Killers, which is to say it has that punky vibe with yet enough sophistication in the melody and lyric to mark it as so much more. Very short; I like the vocal from Di'Anno – really gets across the idea of the frustration of the dead guy trying to make himself heard. Great guitar riffs of course, reminds me of “Drifter” in the basic structure.
* Not on the original album released in the UK, though included on the American and Canadian versions, and was a bonus track on the Japanese release.
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