Tribute To The Beast Vol.2, A (A Tribute To Iron Maiden) - Various Artists

Advantages: Nice thought, initially great --originals--
Disadvantages: Not the LP originals but cover versions, horrible voices and bad sound quality

...Dear Ciao members and Linkin Park fans, My first Ciao test report ever will be on >A tribute to Linkin Park<, a CD by various artists which you will find listed below in the track listings. [Please don't be too hard on my English, as my maternal language is German ^^° ...But let's get back to the report!] As said in the title, the CD is tributed to the American Nu Metal band Linkin Park which inspired the CD (as all of the tracks are simply cover versions of their own hits, in fact), whereas the band itself was not engaged in the process of CD making (and I'm not even sure whether they are informed about its existence at all...). ***** The CD - some brief info: ***** CD release date: September 23, 2002 Number of discs:1 Label: Anagram ASIN: B00006HCKM Price: £8.99 (you will find the CD @ www... Read review

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Advantages: Recognisable tunes
Disadvantages: Neither fish nor foul. Best stick to the original

..., as here, are reproductions of a single album track by track. Their output to date has been both prodigious, varied and at times esoteric with features on such names as Led Zeppelin, Bjork, David Bowie, Madonna and Yanni. At the last count Vitamin Records lists 198 titles!! So who are "The String Quartet Tribute"? Well, despite my best research efforts I'm still not too sure. I'm not even clear whether 'Tribute' is part of the group's name or whether it belongs in the title of each of their albums. They are led, at least in this instance, by Todd Mark Rubinstein who plays cello and bass. On the album under review the other performers are David Davison - 1st violin - and Paul Tobias - viola and 2nd violin (hey - doesn't that make a trio?!). They are joined on three tracks variously by Dominic Hradek (cello), Wesley Hredek (violin), Johnny... Read review

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Advantages: It has every Maiden classic you can think of!
Disadvantages: A few tracks which really shouldn't be on there.

...Back in the days I was just getting into metal, I desperately needed one big album which was more heavy metal than a lead elephant. The ablum that fulfilled my dreams was Iron Maiden's Best Of The Beast. Tracks have been ripped from the very albums they first appeared on, to this fantastic compilation of Maiden's best eddie tunes. I refer to Eddie of course as a half human, half underworld creature who has taken many forms as Iron Maiden's mascot. This includes a WW1 fighter pilot from the cover of "Aces High", a huge god like egyptian statue guarding the pyramids on "Powerslave" and Eddie can also been seen on Maiden's most famous Album "The Number Of The Beast" playing with Satan like a puppet. Virus: This is an unsual starter to the Album. This could be because it was never on any other albums. Blaze Bayley was around when... Read review

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