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
 
Prowler said:
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
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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 (preceded by Princess Irulan's opening monologue from the 1984 film)
- 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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Reading back though this, I was inspired by @Diesel 11 's idea for a 21st century companion to RFYL. As such, here's my take on . . .

Your Time Will Come tour 202X

- If Eternity Should Fail (without the necropolis outro)
- Speed of Light
- These Colours Don't Run
- Montsegur
- When the Wild Wind Blows
- The Fallen Angel
- Brave New World
- The Book of Souls (dust off Mayan Eddie)
- Rainmaker
- Passchendaele (preceded by Wilfred Owns' Anthem for Doomed Youth. Much pyro)
- Fear of the Dark
- Iron Maiden (ideally with some sort of hologram BNW eddie - really bring that cover art to life)

- The Wicker Man
- Blood Brothers
- Hallowed be thy Name

I was a little bit more liberal with my definition, including Hallowed and FOTD in addition to Iron Maiden as the staple tracks. For the era in question I tried to include at least one song off each album (apart from Senjutsu as the most recent*), but I'm not ashamed to say that I gave preferential treatment to BNW, DoD and TBoS. BNW, as the most iconic reunion era album, is most represented with four tracks, mostly the obvious ones (Wicker Man and Blood Brothers should make for a great encore) but I did throw in Fallen Angel as a personal favourite short rocker. Rainmaker is in there as a rare sub-4 minute track to help break up the epics, Montsegur is the quintessential reunion era unicorn track, while Passchendaele is a god-tier epic. I was surprised to find myself leaning toward TBOS for the opening tracks, but IESF and SoL represent a rare slam dunk 1-2 opening duo that is seldom found even in Maiden's discography. Finally, we were left with a track each from AMOLAD and TFF, and only enough runtime for one epic. By power of deduction, TFF got the epic slot with When the Wild Wind Blows, a strong and memorable track off a largely middling album, while that left us with the shorter fare on AMOLAD. In a toss-up between The Longest Day and These Colours Don't Run, I went for the shorter and more anthemic cut. In short, though heavily coloured by by own post-2000 Maiden preferences, I think this would be a rich setlist, but with enough recognisable cuts to not alienate the casuals.



*and worst
 
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