Favourite setlists?

[Ziggyplayedguitar]

It will always be 7th son, the way it was filmed, the selection of songs and the pinnacle of the classic era.

 

[fekso]

Surprised Killers tour is at 0. Would love to see have a live album from those late 1981 shows where Bruce sung almost all of Killers and most of IM.

 

[SirRobbins]

Surprised Killers tour is at 0. Would love to see have a live album from those late 1981 shows where Bruce sung almost all of Killers and most of IM.

he did a stellar job at it too but the band I guess felt it wasn't right for him and they have gone forever into the grave

 

[Poto]

AMOLAD, TBOS and LOTB for me. SBIT was also fantastic.

 

[Collin]

I voted for Somewhere on Tour, Seventh Son, and Brave New World.

You can’t really go wrong with Brave New World. You got 6 songs from the album, plus Sign of the Cross and the Clansman. Yes please.

I really wanted to vote for the TFF

 

[stjerky]

Where is Early Days -tour?

Edit: ok it is the Eddie rips up... tour. That was the best.

 

[Randalf]

Where is Early Days -tour?

Edit: ok it is the Eddie rips up... tour. That was the best.

Structurewise, yes. A lot of great and pretty adventurous choices. But when it comes to individual songs and preferences, I'd say that some other sets came out stronger. But yes, when it comes to pure execution of the given theme, Eddie Rips Up... is definitely among the very best.

 

[Gk1]

I voted for Somewhere on Tour, Seventh Son, and Brave New World.

You can’t really go wrong with Brave New World. You got 6 songs from the album, plus Sign of the Cross and the Clansman. Yes please.

I really wanted to vote for the TFF

Funnily enough I thought that BNW was mainly a letdown.

 

[fekso]

Funnily enough I thought that BNW was mainly a letdown.

I agree. Rock in Rio is great, but not because of the BNW material. The first 3 songs were amazing but after that only Blood Brothers was good enough in a live situation.

 

[Kalata]

I agree. Rock in Rio is great, but not because of the BNW material. The first 3 songs were amazing but after that only Blood Brothers was good enough in a live situation.

Wow, Rock In Rio is a fantastic live and video album - the BNW tour was magical and it is my personal favorite concert of Maiden !

 

[fekso]

Wow, Rock In Rio is a fantastic live and video album - the BNW tour was magical and it is my personal favorite concert of Maiden !

I'm talking about the material of BNW played live, The Mercenary, Dream of Mirrors, The Fallen Angel and Out of the Silent Planet (last two not on RIR) didn't really work for me.

 

[Collin]

Funnily enough I thought that BNW was mainly a letdown.

Brave New World was a flawless setlist other than Wrathchild. Something like Man on the Edge or Lord of the Flies would have worked well there instead. Heck even The Fallen Angel would have been great there.

 

[Number 6]

Brave New World was a flawless setlist other than Wrathchild. Something like Man on the Edge or Lord of the Flies would have worked well there instead. Heck even The Fallen Angel would have been great there.

Respectfully disagree. Despite the overplayed status of the song, I think it worked tremendously well in that particular set, fitted right in. Plus, that performance is outstanding.

 

[Gk1]

Brave New World was a flawless setlist other than Wrathchild. Something like Man on the Edge or Lord of the Flies would have worked well there instead. Heck even The Fallen Angel would have been great there.

Well Collin, I am really happy for you that you enjoyed the set so much. I however was not impressed at all. Did not like the sound quality but mostly thought that the new material was poor....and especially songs like DOM and Blood Brothers were too long and boring. TWM was a joke, The mercenary was repetitive with awful drums etc.At least this is what I felt at the time...and unfortunatelly this is what I thought when liatening to it lately.

 

[Collin]

Well Collin, I am really happy for you that you enjoyed the set so much. I however was mot impressed at all. Did not like the soung quality but mostly thought that the new material was poor.

Well Brave New World is probably my 3rd favorite album. If you don't like the album, you definitely wouldn't have liked the tour.

 

[Gk1]

Well Brave New World is probably my 3rd favorite album. If you don't like the album, you definitely wouldn't have liked the tour.

Pretty much so.

 

[matic22]

The best set was probably the one from the beginning of Ed Hunter tour. SIASL, Killers, Clansman, MOTE, Futureal, Powerslave... Just a great, great set.

The Eddie Rips Up was amazing too, so many deep cuts. Probably the last tour a lot and I mean a lot of deep cuts. MITRM, Another Life, Prowler, Where Eagles Dare, Remember Tomorrow, POTO (at that time), Drifter. Half of the set was basically deep cuts.

My 3rd choice is GMETID. Return of DWYBO, 22AA, BYDTTS, Revelations. And of course a new song, Wildest Dreams.

The tours that just miss out:

TBOS tour, because of the 2017 leg. 2016 setlist was perfect.
SBIT tour, because of the strange omissions of FOI, SIASL, Killers, 22AA and the likes.
LOTB tour. No comment here.

 

[Number 6]

SBIT tour, because of the strange omissions of FOI, SIASL, Killers, 22AA and the likes.

That was anything but strange. Most of the set was based around the SBIT compilation album, and it (understandably) featured only the more popular stuff. It would go against the overall "theme" of the tour to include deep cuts. Somewhere Back In Time was, I believe, Maiden's only true "greatest hits" tour, and it was marketed as such from the beginning. If you expected deep cuts on that one, I'm sorry, but it wasn't the tour's fault.

 

[matic22]

That was anything but strange. Most of the set was based around the SBIT compilation album, and it (understandably) featured only the more popular stuff. It would go against the overall "theme" of the tour to include deep cuts. Somewhere Back In Time was, I believe, Maiden's only true "greatest hits" tour, and it was marketed as such from the beginning. If you expected deep cuts on that one, I'm sorry, but it wasn't the tour's fault.

Yup , true that. But they still played songs like HCW, Revelations, Clairvoyant... that weren't on the compilation. If they were a bit more imaginative with those, it could've been better. All those songs were performed during 2003 GMETID tour.

The only two real surprises were Rime (which was expected) and Moonchild.

 

[Perun]

Although it depends on how you define deep cut, doesn't it? SBIT featured Aces High, which was played for the first time since 1999 and had before that not been played since 1985; same for Powerslave. Rime hadn't been played since 1987. Moonchild was a complete surprise, it hadn't surfaced since 1989, and defined 'deep cut' for me back then. Heaven Can Wait and The Clairvoyant had an appearance in GMETID but hadn't been live staples in a long time either. Even Can I Play With Madness wasn't all that common and had been played only on one tour since 1992.
Maiden England significantly devalued the rarity status of a lot of those songs, but in 2008, the setlist was a sensation.