Create your own Iron Maiden setlist!

What would be your ideal Maiden setlist? Only 1 rule. It has to be shorter than a 2 hours. What would be your perfect Maiden gig?
My attempt:
1. Caught Somewhere in Time
2. Ghost of the Navigator
3. Futureal
4. 22 Acacia Ave
5. Purgatory
6. Dance of Death
7. Revelations
8. Powerslave
9. Flight of Icarus
10. The Reincarnation of Benjamin Breeg
11. The Trooper
12. The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner
13. Still Life
14. Seventh Son of a Seventh Son
15. Hallowed be thy Name
Encore
16. Moonchild
17. Hell on Earth
18. Wasted Years
 
What would be your ideal Maiden setlist? Only 1 rule. It has to be shorter than a 2 hours. What would be your perfect Maiden gig?
My attempt:
1. Caught Somewhere in Time
2. Ghost of the Navigator
3. Futureal
4. 22 Acacia Ave
5. Purgatory
6. Dance of Death
7. Revelations
8. Powerslave
9. Flight of Icarus
10. The Reincarnation of Benjamin Breeg
11. The Trooper
12. The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner
13. Still Life
14. Seventh Son of a Seventh Son
15. Hallowed be thy Name
Encore
16. Moonchild
17. Hell on Earth
18. Wasted Years
Unlike many times before, nowadays I simply can't pick 18 or 19 tracks without feeling bad for leaving out 18 or 19 more. As such, here are arguably my top 38 Maiden tracks. It would be something featuring roughly half of them (songs marked at bold are "must play").
  • Phantom Of The Opera
  • Sanctuary
  • Murders In The Rue Morgue
  • Killers
  • Genghis Khan
  • The Number Of The Beast
  • Revelations
  • To Tame A Land
  • The Trooper
  • Still Life
  • Aces High
  • Rime Of The Ancient Mariner
  • Powerslave
  • Caught Somewhere In Time
  • Wasted Years
  • Heaven Can Wait
  • The Loneliness Of The Long Distance Runner
  • Moonchild
  • Can I Play With Madness
  • Infinite Dreams
  • The Prophecy
  • Bring Your Daughter To The Slaughter
  • Be Quick Or Be Dead
  • Sign Of The Cross
  • Man On The Edge
  • Fortunes Of War
  • Judgement Day
  • Futureal
  • The Wicker Man
  • Montsegur
  • Face In The Sand
  • These Colors Don't Run
  • The Reincarnation Of Benjamin Breeg
  • For The Greater Good Of God
  • The Talisman
  • When The Wild Wind Blows
  • The Book Of Souls
  • Stratego
 
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Given that the Legacy of the Beast tour had one of the highest concentrations of POM songs of any tour, combined with the renewed cultural relevance of Dune around the same time (thanks to Villeneuve's re-adaptation), I figured a small tweak was in order:

A Piece of the Beast tour 2020

- Where Eagles Dare
- Die With Your Boots On
- 2 Minutes to Midnight
- The Clansman
- The Trooper
- Futureal
- Brave New World
- To Tame A Land
- Revelations
- Sign of the Cross
- Flight of Icarus
- Fear of the Dark
- Iron Maiden

Encore
- The Evil That Men Do
- Hallowed Be Thy Name
- Run to the Hills

Including TTAL was a no-brainer on this one. But given we're introducing a new theme (sci-fi) to a stage show all about themes, I needed a couple more equally sci-fi songs to round it out into a proper theme - hence BNW and Futureal. The war and mythology/religion themes stay largely intact, albeit shrunken.
 
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