Up the Irons!

I have a lot of random Iron Maiden stuff lying around my house. Here's a pile of it...Oh yea...That Trooper beer is pretty legit...Tastes like Newcastle Brown Ale or something (my palate might be a little off since all I drink is Bud Light mixed with Red Bull)... The Maiden GPK is still sort of mind-bending since my two of my biggest childhood hobbies were staring at Garbage Pail Kids and staring at Iron Maiden album covers (same goes for the M.U.S.C.L.E figures...Shameless nostalgia mash-up, God bless 'em)...

The record is the "Stranger in a Strange Land" picture disc. I'm a big fan of galloping, so this is a pretty good record...The title track is a hi-tech horse rider with that "Somewhere in Time" soft synth-y sheen they had going on at the time. The two B-Sides are cover songs(?!) that are utterly unfamiliar to me but apparently they're from some band featuring an ex-Samson memer (Bruce Dickinson's band prior to Maiden (who were pretty effin' dope too)). I have to give credit to Maiden for finding such gallop-y songs to cover). They're a little odd, just because musically, they sound just like you'd expect, but the lyrics are so straight-forward: "That Girl" appears to be a straight-forward...gulp...love song and Juanita appears to be about going down on some dank puss...Hardly, Maiden-worthy pursuits but an entertaining peek at some alternate universe were the Irons were less interested in WW2 airplanes and Alexander the Great and shit like that...

Let's listen to "That Girl" goddammit...Happy Labour Day to all y'all...