"Four words describe this album best - Adrian Smith's Finest Hour": Iron Maiden successfully embrace guitar synthesisers on Somewhere In Time

Iron Maiden - Somewhere In Time cover art.

Iron Maiden - Somewhere In Time

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Caught Somewhere in Time
Wasted Years
Sea of Madness
Heaven Can Wait
The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner
Stranger in a Strange Land
Deja-Vu
Alexander the Great

The most underrated of Iron Maiden’s ‘80s albums, Somewhere In Time came between two major milestones – 1984's Powerslave and Seventh Son of a Seventh Son, released four years later – and, as a result, seldom gets the props it deserves. In fact, it still sounds fresh and vital 30 years later.