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Maiden's 'Somewhere In Time' vs Priest's 'Turbo' [Highlight From Episode 323] · Booked On Rock with Eric Senich

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  Speaker 1: Here's a highlight from a recent episode of book Time Rock.
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  Speaker 1: Iron Maiden at fifty is the book. The author is
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  Speaker 1: Daniel Buck's band. Maiden's run continues with nineteen eighty four's
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  Speaker 1: Power Sleeve that features two Minutes to Midnight and mentioned
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  Speaker 1: that one Ace is High. That is followed by nineteen
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  Speaker 1: eighty six is Somewhere in Time features Wasted Years and
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  Speaker 1: Stranger in a Strange Land. The title of chapter seventeen
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  Speaker 1: is It's no Turbo. Iron Maiden gets a lunch break now.
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  Speaker 1: The titles refern to Judas priest controversial album from the
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  Speaker 1: same year which I didn't even realize, which is Turbo,
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  Speaker 1: which that had notable change commercial glam metal sound synthesizers
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  Speaker 1: in it. For the first time on Somewhere in Time,
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  Speaker 1: Maiden incorporates guitar synthesizers, so first for them as well.
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  Speaker 1: And it's you say, the most slickly produced and ornately
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  Speaker 1: arranged thing the band had ever done. What response did
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  Speaker 1: the album get from fans and critics? And how did
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  Speaker 1: afair compared to Priest Turbo.
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  Speaker 2: Priest Turbo is hated to this day. But a lot
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  Speaker 2: of that, I must be blunt with you, is because
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  Speaker 2: the songs are all terrible. It's not just the arrangement.
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  Speaker 2: The arrangement that that's a problem, and all the synthesizers
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  Speaker 2: were a problem, but the songs are awful. If the
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  Speaker 2: songs had been good, maybe this would be a different discussion.
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  Speaker 2: All the songs on Somewhere in Time are good. That's
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  Speaker 2: that's really the difference. And also it wasn't as like
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  Speaker 2: drenched in synthesizers as Turbo was Turbo. The title just
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  Speaker 2: should have been we're using a lot of synthesizers on
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  Speaker 2: this one, you know. Uh yeah, that would have been
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  Speaker 2: funny for the album title. I mean, that's how everyone
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  Speaker 2: talks about it. So maybe, you know, with Somewhere in Time,
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  Speaker 2: I mean, it's still sounded like Iron Maiden. It's still
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  Speaker 2: the songwriting, it still sounded like them, and the you know,
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  Speaker 2: the keyboards are there, but they're not like, you know,
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  Speaker 2: super obnoxious, like you know, who the hell are these
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  Speaker 2: guys all of a sudden. I do remember people complaining
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  Speaker 2: about it anyway, though,