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Title: Somewhere Lame
Review: The best thing about this album is the artwork on the cover. I remember way back in high school, I couldn't wait for this album to come out. I had been reared on Number of the Beast, Piece of Mind, and Powerslave, and I thought this album would have to be awesome. Instead, I got this synthesizer laden recording with only the faintest hints of the Maiden I had come to know and love.The lyrics are hackneyed at best (witness the clumsy "Heaven Can Wait" and the tortuous "Alexander the Great") All the songs here are smothered in synthesizer, which just doesn't fit Maiden's metal style. It's like they found a new toy and didn't know when to stop using it.To this day, I don't understand why there are no Dickinson songs included here. He started using his song-writing skills on Piece of Mind, but he penned nothing here. Perhaps he heard the direction the band was going and decided not to waste his talents.
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