RUN FOR YOUR LIVES 2025 Tour Thread *SPOILERS INSIDE*

With me not attending any show of this tour I'm glad I won't be missing out on anything they serve us this time whatsoever.

I would have preferred a new album over another cabaret tour like this.

I mean, how would they want to top the last two tours anyway? Surely not with just another classic hits tour.

Come on, I just can't stand listening to songs like The Number Of The Beast, Run To The Hills, 2 Minutes To Midnight, Hallowed Be Thy Name, Iron Maiden, Fear Of The Dark, Wasted Years, Aces High live anymore because they are simply overplayed and they can't do justice to them anymore, to boot. This simply bores me do death.

And look how cheesy the visuals look like such as in Powerslave. Is this really supposed to be their best show ever? Ah, give me a break.

Give me some fresh music instead of going back to doing the same old thing time after time.

It's really disappointing, almost frustrating.
 
Just gonna put a pic here and say: This should've been a great hint they didn't plan to spend much time on NPFTD and FOTD. And this was posted a month ago (April 24th)

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JudasMyGuide said:
Stepping outside the forum, though, wasn't Daughter technically a much bigger hit than Aces?
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It was a #1 single for a week in the UK, 35 years ago. Rest of the world it is a lesser entity. In today's world, Aces has over 131m streams on Spotify vs Daughter's 18m. So, I'd argue that even among the casual audience, Aces is the bigger song.

Iron Maiden - Spotify Top Songs

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Spaldy said:
It was a #1 single for a week in the UK, 35 years ago. Rest of the world it is a lesser entity. In today's world, Aces has over 131m streams on Spotify vs Daughter's 18m. So, I'd argue that even among the casual audience, Aces is the bigger song.

Iron Maiden - Spotify Top Songs

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Just to be clear, I was talking about the charts in general, it seems to have been doing somewhat better

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but I get the Spotify metrics and that they might be more useful. Still, I consider Maiden to be a bit of a boomer band in that regard and would expect them to primarily look at old-school charts, that's where my question came from. I don't know how the popularity of songs live is measured, though.
 
Vaenyr said:
As for under/overrepresentation of certain albums:

TNOTB sorta kinda got its spotlight in 2007, but even beyond that close to half the album has been more or less constantly in the setlists for ages.
Powerslave hat SBIT, SIT got its chance with TFP and SSOASS with Maiden England.
The 90s albums obviously aren't ever gonna get something like that.
LOTB in a sense was the tour for POM, being pretty heavy on songs from that album.
And we also had the Early Days tour of course.

This makes the current tour kinda interesting in that it chose to focus on Killers quite a bit, as well as Powerslave. Fits with the theme of the tour though, I suppose.
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If it wasn't for Aces it could be the most balanced 80s history tour by far. Not even touching No Prayer, let's say they swap Aces with Still Life or DWYBO, you would have: at least 2 songs from each 80s album except SIT, 5 songs from Paul's albums, epics from all 80s 'eras', deep cuts, etc. It would be almost as if they put the three history tours in a blender and got the best of all of them. Aces makes it a little Powerslave heavy unfortunately.
 
Flaming Blimp Crash said:
The whole "Can you guess what it is?" part ending up as Wasted Years for a second consecutive was something, lol.
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The thing is that wasted years screen was on for a long time after the song and they didn't turn on bright side for quite some time. I was 100% sure there will be a second encore because boots was the only song they rehearsed but didn't play.
 
A question I asked myself yesterday: why is there such a strikingly high level of rejection towards Aces high, while there is not such a rejection for songs like Trooper, RTTH, NOTB, FOTD, 2M2M, or WY? In my opinion, Aces high is by far the better song than many of them. In fact, I consider it one of the best metal songs ever, and it's far from a radio hit like Living after midnight, Smoke on the water etc. As for the average listener, I understand that the other songs are in the set; as a fan for decades, I'm rather bored by them. Aces high, on the other hand, is bombast, has energy and quality, and I should be much more pleased about it, but I was more disappointed to see it than I was with Trooper, for example.

Looking back on last night, I think my disappointment was partly due to the encores. Up until then, it had been an interesting set with interesting themes. If any NPFTD song had been played instead of Aces high, I would have gone to bed with a completely different feeling. That way, the encores would have covered the three albums, which understandably shouldn't have received as much attention, and I would have been fine with that. Aces high as the fourth Powerslave song seemed superfluous to me.
 
damage_case said:
A question I asked myself yesterday: why is there such a strikingly high level of rejection towards Aces high, while there is not such a rejection for songs like Trooper, RTTH, NOTB, FOTD, 2M2M, or WY? In my opinion, Aces high is by far the better song than many of them. In fact, I consider it one of the best metal songs ever, and it's far from a radio hit like Living after midnight, Smoke on the water etc. As for the average listener, I understand that the other songs are in the set; as a fan for decades, I'm rather bored by them. Aces high, on the other hand, is bombast, has energy and quality, and I should be much more pleased about it, but I was more disappointed to see it than I was with Trooper, for example.

Looking back on last night, I think my disappointment was partly due to the encores. Up until then, it had been an interesting set with interesting themes. If any NPFTD song had been played instead of Aces high, I would have gone to bed with a completely different feeling. That way, the encores would have covered the three albums, which understandably shouldn't have received as much attention, and I would have been fine with that. Aces high as the fourth Powerslave song seemed superfluous to me.
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My objection to Aces High is that Bruce can’t do it justice anymore. He was good singing it in 2018 (hit and miss), but has been poor ever since. It doesn’t help when they stick it in the encore and don’t downtune.
 
damage_case said:
A question I asked myself yesterday: why is there such a strikingly high level of rejection towards Aces high, while there is not such a rejection for songs like Trooper, RTTH, NOTB, FOTD, 2M2M, or WY? In my opinion, Aces high is by far the better song than many of them. In fact, I consider it one of the best metal songs ever, and it's far from a radio hit like Living after midnight, Smoke on the water etc. As for the average listener, I understand that the other songs are in the set; as a fan for decades, I'm rather bored by them. Aces high, on the other hand, is bombast, has energy and quality, and I should be much more pleased about it, but I was more disappointed to see it than I was with Trooper, for example.

Looking back on last night, I think my disappointment was partly due to the encores. Up until then, it had been an interesting set with interesting themes. If any NPFTD song had been played instead of Aces high, I would have gone to bed with a completely different feeling. That way, the encores would have covered the three albums, which understandably shouldn't have received as much attention, and I would have been fine with that. Aces high as the fourth Powerslave song seemed superfluous to me.
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I love Aces, it's probably my favorite out of the ones you mentioned. I'd be fine with it as the opener, even if it's a bit overplayed. That said, as an encore opener, it not only makes things a lot tougher for Bruce, but it also loses some of its bombastic impact.
 
damage_case said:
A question I asked myself yesterday: why is there such a strikingly high level of rejection towards Aces high, while there is not such a rejection for songs like Trooper, RTTH, NOTB, FOTD, 2M2M, or WY? In my opinion, Aces high is by far the better song than many of them. In fact, I consider it one of the best metal songs ever, and it's far from a radio hit like Living after midnight, Smoke on the water etc. As for the average listener, I understand that the other songs are in the set; as a fan for decades, I'm rather bored by them. Aces high, on the other hand, is bombast, has energy and quality, and I should be much more pleased about it, but I was more disappointed to see it than I was with Trooper, for example.

Looking back on last night, I think my disappointment was partly due to the encores. Up until then, it had been an interesting set with interesting themes. If any NPFTD song had been played instead of Aces high, I would have gone to bed with a completely different feeling. That way, the encores would have covered the three albums, which understandably shouldn't have received as much attention, and I would have been fine with that. Aces high as the fourth Powerslave song seemed superfluous to me.
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I think the main reason there's so much hate and negativity for Aces High is that Bruce has stated in multiple interviews that he struggles to sing the song nowadays and still they keep it in the setlist. And to make things worse, in a very awkward spot in the setlist as well. Had it been the opening song I think people would've appreciated it much more.

This and the fact that it hasn't been that long since Aces High was played for the last time (2022) has people upset. Instead of bringing out a somewhat rarer track they chose the "safe" route.
 
its_ArchroniX said:
I think the main reason there's so much hate and negativity for Aces High is that Bruce has stated in multiple interviews that he struggles to sing the song nowadays and still they keep it in the setlist. And to make things worse, in a very awkward spot in the setlist as well. Had it been the opening song I think people would've appreciated it much more.

This and the fact that it hasn't been that long since Aces High was played for the last time (2022) has people upset.
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I need to check again how they played the song.
 
Prepare your pitch forks, but I genuinely believe Aces High to be a borderline unsingable song, even back in the 80s. The chorus is anthemic and Bruce soars, but the verses have always been an utter disaster.

I'm listening to bootlegs from the World Slavery Tour and even early in the tour that song has always been rough. Bruce strains like hell and barks rather than sings the lines. Even on good days it sounds like Blaze did on Bruce songs.

It's a legendary song, but imo it has never sounded good live. Hell, they recorded overdubs for the LAD version and that still ended up sounding rough as hell. It's pretty interesting how everyone and everything gets scrutinized to hell and back, but for whatever reason the various Aces High versions seem to get a pass by the fandom.
 
Spambot said:
Just gonna put a pic here and say: This should've been a great hint they didn't plan to spend much time on NPFTD and FOTD. And this was posted a month ago (April 24th)

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Honestly, by booking at this image right now the whole setlist makes sense. They hinted at every song, except Fear. The only misleading one is the Stranger Eddie.
Killers and Iron Maiden songs on the left side, then 3 Number songs, then 1 POM poster, Aces high and Powerslave pretty obvious,Phantom. SSOASS and Clairvoyant also very very obvious.
 
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