Drifter is a great track. I love it. And what about Ghengis Khan? The speed and musicianship of this song is awesome! Clive Burr was killer on that tune. Purgatory should be a live favorite in my opinion as well as Murders in the Ru Morgue, Another Life, and Innocent Excile.

But, my absolute favorite, one of my all-time best Iron Maiden songs is Twilight Zone. I’ve only heard that song live once and Bruce was singing it. I have a show from 1981 or 82 before The Number of the Beast album came out. It’s a video of Bruce singing nothing but Di’Anno era songs. The picture is not so good but the sound is ok. It’s cool hearing Bruce sing all those old Maiden tracks.

I don’t know why the band seems to ignore Killers. The only thing that I can think of is that they just don’t want to play that material because it’s nothing like what they are playing now. It seems like songs like Powerslave, Stranger in a Strange Land, and Infinite dreams fit better along with Dream of Mirrors, Dance of Death, and Different World.

In my humble opinion, during the span of Iron Maiden’s first 4 albums, there was the element of the streets and how dangerous they could be at night. The songs dealt with more ghastly themes and rough times on those albums. When Piece of Mind came out in 1983, the band was changing but still held on to the old ways just a little longer until Powerslave was released. I feel that Powerslave was one of Maiden’s major changes in songwriting and themes and Eddie started to appear like a deity instead of an undead zombie that stalks the backstreets of England. As the music evoled, so did Eddie. Everything changes.

Maybe one day us fans will get lucky and they will throw us a bone like “Twilight Zone”. Who knows?