Iron Maiden's Best of the Beast: a 30 year retrospective
The greatest hits/best of album: If there was ever a product of a bygone era, it's this. For those of you born in, say, the mid 90s and onward, the greatest hits album was what people bought if a) they were new to a band and wanted to know which songs to start with, or b) only wanted the "hits" from a band. Said hits were curated by the band, the band's leader, record company execs who think they know what's best, or some combination thereof. It should go without saying that this was pre-internet, nevermind streaming. Insert your own 1800s joke here. Said collection could be a boost that provides new interest in a waning band. It could turn out to be the product that provides a musician with the most consistent and largest pay cheque they can receive. There was a long period of time where The Eagles first such compilation, titled Their Greatest Hits (1971-1975) was the highest selling r...