RUN FOR YOUR LIVES - The setlist contest

[Diesel 11]

Even after Alexander?

If you were Iron Maiden, and you were going to play songs that hadn't been played in 30-40 years (or hadn't been played live at all), would you pick a track off of one of your least beloved albums that almost no one is clamoring for? Or would you pick a song from the '80s records that are way more popular and that more people would get excited over? Especially in the context of a 'greatest hits' tour where most of the slots will be filled by genuine classics. I really think NPFTD is a pipe dream, but we'll see for sure in a week I guess.

 

[redandtheblack92]

Man, just imagine this sequence: Infinite Dreams, Rime, Powerslave, Seventh Son and Phantom Of The Opera. Holy fuck!

Apart from Infinite and Powerslave, super chill for Bruce

 

[Kalata]

If you were Iron Maiden, and you were going to play songs that hadn't been played in 30-40 years (or hadn't been played live at all), would you pick a track off of one of your least beloved albums that almost no one is clamoring for? Or would you pick a song from the '80s records that are way more popular and that more people would get excited over? Especially in the context of a 'greatest hits' tour where most of the slots will be filled by genuine classics. I really think NPFTD is a pipe dream, but we'll see for sure in a week I guess.

All of that is true, but this is a special anniv tour (though only for half of their albums, still find this odd, unless they have plans for Part 2 as a 3rd leg), so I'd like to think there's room for one or two, like, obscure songs. More so in a 18 songs set, for example (the songs not played in a long time with a chance are only Infinite and Land). Priest played a song from their debut. It depends on whether the band wants to play them, now is their best chance for more than 1 90's song and it could be like a new song. The 90's albums have great and underrated gems, some could be popular enough live. And there are some 80's songs that are obscure for the casual fans, right. Like Alexander.

edit: hearing some songs on every tour (not the big classics) is what I'm not a fan of at all. Despite the odds, I have high hopes for the set and the stage.

 

[Prowler]

Honestly, who cares about the 90s albums? The only reason they're mentioned is one particular song. Give me Revelations and Wasted Years on every tour. I prefer that to hearing Daughter or tailgunner live .

 

[Ei siis hai]

Honestly, who cares about the 90s albums? The only reason they're mentioned is one particular song. Give me Revelations and Wasted Years on every tour. I prefer that to hearing Daughter or tailgunner live .

Hear hear!

 

[PhantomOfTheOpera]

I edited my initial setlist a bit yesterday (before the lock).
Anyways, this is what I predicted (surely not going to happen) but Im happy if they atleast at last give Infinite Dreams slot in the setlist:

Post in thread 'RUN FOR YOUR LIVES - The setlist contest'

Oct 8, 2024

1. Be Quick Or Be Dead
2. The Evil That Men Do
3. Killers
4. Infinite Dreams
5. The Trooper
6. Phantom Of The Opera
7. Still Life
8. Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son
9. The Clairvoyant
10. To Tame A Land
11. Run To The Hills
12. Fear Of The Dark
13. Hallowed Be Thy Name
14. Iron Maiden
----------------
15. The Number Of The Beast
16. Running Free
17. Die With Your Boots On

• PhantomOfTheOpera

• 

 

[Randalf]

RUN FOR YOUR LIVES - RESULTS!

A huge, heartfelt thanks to all who participated by submitting their guesses and taking part in the setlist speculation in general!

Congratulations to the winner(s) - yours is the glory!
But remember, death or glory - it's all the same!

USER	SCORE	NOTES
1. @Prowler	17	Setlist spots for Phantom of the Opera, Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Hallowed be Thy Name guessed correctly; also +1 point for a correct total amount of songs!
1. @Trevoire	17	Wrathchild-Killers-Phantom sequence was spot on and a correctly guessed spot for 2 Minutes to Midnight secured the (shared) high score of 17! Set submitted technically late, hence placed as a "second" of the winners.
2. @mepatrik1	16
2. @PieceofMind89	16
2. @Poto	16	Almost up there to share the 1st place with 17 if they sticked with their previous entry; correctly guessed positions for Wrathchild, Phantom of the Opera & Rime of the Ancient Mariner would have scored a bunch! Aces High was also included. Good effort nonetheless!
2. @Ben Beast	16
2. @Wickerman1204	16	Having 1-2 songs more on the correct spot would've secured a victory for them! This entry had correct amount of songs, but only Wrathchild + Iron Maiden ended up on a correct position.
2. @Austrogoth	16
3. @WickerMan03	15
3. @Starblind	15
3. @Arrakis	15
3. @NAriel	15	(EDIT: fixed their score)
@redandtheblack92	14
@Kalata	14
@vinic00kie	14
@Nomadd	14
@Christopher Baines	14
@karljant	14
@PhantomOfTheOpera	14
@Diesel 11	13
@Spambot	13
@reimdaase	13
@Azas	13
@Smither	13	Their first guess ended up being a slightly more high-scoring one; it would've been 16 points! E.g Murders in the Rue Morgue was correctly placed as the opener there.
@Ei siis hai	13
@Abas	13
@TheTalisman	13
@damage_case	13
@Flaming Blimp Crash	13
@Álvaro	13
@Ascendingthethrone	13
@efekåseo_suomi	13
@InfiniteDreamer544	13
@sea_of_madness_667	12
@Ledges Bitten In Dust	12
@Brazilian Benjamin Breeg	12
@Phantom of My Own Opera	12
@The_7th_one	12
@ferryman	12
@Alenjandro	12
@runsilentrundeep	11
@koponto	11
@Blood On The World´s Hand	11
@Patrick92	11
@Mosh	11
@antonio273	10	Should probably have sticked with their previous entry, as it would've got 15 points!
@Eddie's Uncle	10
@Black Bart	10
@TheMercenary	10
@Diplomat	9
@Dick Brucinson	8	A very optimistic set submitted - bold!

Some notes:

- significant amount of entries almost hit a jackpot with the following songs: The Clairvoyant, Powerslave, 2 Minutes to Midnight & Rime of the Ancient Mariner; all of the mentioned were often included in the setlist guess and placed somewhat correctly to the middle of the set, but usually their order was guessed slightly wrong, hence only 1p per song, excluding Rime of the Ancient Mariner which was correctly submitted as 9th song of the set rather often
- Wratchild-Killers sequence was quite a popular guess! However, Wratchild as a second song of the set wasn't quite as popular as you'd probably think
- Phantom of the Opera was relatively often guessed correctly as the fourth song!
- Overall, people were able to figure out the thematic flow of the set rather well: a lot of fast-paced, old numbers first, three Powerslave tracks played as a bunch, some huge epic(s) before Iron Maiden...
- A lot of people lost an easy 2p by placing "Iron Maiden" somewhere else than at the end of the main set; bold move and could've had a huge pay-off, but... Maiden is Maiden!
- Alexander the Great was a very popular guess for the Legacy of the Beast set and this time the role for the (eventually) unfulfilled dream was placed on Infinite Dreams, Only the Good Die Young & To Tame a Land which popped up fairly often given that it hasn't been played since 1983 and is quite a mouthful for Bruce
- Be Quick or be Dead was surprisingly upfront as a guess for the opening track, where as Murders in the Rue Morgue apparently wasn't very popular candidate for the opening spot!
- *nobody* suggested Flight of Icarus! I consider that a surprise since it's a very popular song that has been "dusted off" quite recently

Most commonly chosen songs that didn't end up in the setlist:
*52 setlist entries in total*

Bring Your Daughter... to the Slaughter 37/52
Infinite Dreams - 30/52
Running Free 28/52
Be Quick or be Dead 27/52
The Evil That Men Do 23/52
Die With Your Boots On - 22/52
Only the Good Die Young 16/52
Sanctuary 12/52
Prowler - 12/52
Moonchild 10/52
--
To Tame a Land 9/52
Stranger in a Strange Land 9/52

Where as Seventh Son of a Seventh Son, that ended up in the set, was only included in six (6) entries! Murders in the Rue Morgue got submitted in seven (7) entries... so Be Quick or be Dead got +20, wow.

---
- I should've taken part in this myself, as my Instagram setlist guess would've got 19 points... Admittedly I made that guess just before the first date of the tour, so if I participated here earlier on, I would've probably made a different, a lot more incorrect one. Anyway, here's my guess just for fun:

1. Murders in the Rue Morgue
2. Wrathchild
3. Die With Your Boots On
4. Killers
5. Phantom of the Opera
6. The Trooper
7. 2 Minutes to Midnight
8. Rime of the Ancient Mariner
9. Powerslave
10. Infinite Dreams
11. The Clairvoyant
12. Fear of the Dark
13. Hallowed be Thy Name
14. Iron Maiden

15. The Number of the Beast
16. Running Free
17. Run to the Hills

 

[Prowler]

Oh, I won! Didn't expect that tbh. It was nice to speculate with all of you! We will be here for the next one!

 

[Night Prowler]

@Randalf Can you do most commonly chosen songs that didn't end up in the setlist?

 

[Poto]

I would love a leaderboard for all tours so far.

 

[Randalf]

@Randalf Can you do most commonly chosen songs that didn't end up in the setlist?

Absolutely!

Added the following to the leaderboard post as well.

Most commonly chosen songs that didn't end up in the setlist:
*52 setlist entries in total*

Bring Your Daughter... to the Slaughter 37/52
Infinite Dreams - 30/52
Running Free 28/52
Be Quick or be Dead 27/52
The Evil That Men Do 23/52
Die With Your Boots On - 22/52
Only the Good Die Young 16/52
Sanctuary 12/52
Prowler - 12/52
Moonchild 10/52
--
To Tame a Land 9/52
Stranger in a Strange Land 9/52

Where as Seventh Son of a Seventh Son, that ended up in the set, was only included in six (6) entries! Murders in the Rue Morgue got submitted in seven (7) entries... so Be Quick or be Dead got +20, wow.


Notes:
*nobody* suggested Flight of Icarus! I consider that a surprise since it's a very popular song that has been "dusted off" quite recently.

I would love a leaderboard for all tours so far.

I'll do that too!

 

[Trevoire]

Hey I'll happily take joint 1st! I assumed it was going to be a pretty safe hits setlist and starting with early days stuff made sense. The rest was kinda pure luck!

 

[Austrogoth]

Thanks for the effort Randalf!

 

[redandtheblack92]

Oh, I won! Didn't expect that tbh. It was nice to speculate with all of you! We will be here for the next one!

Drinks on you bud!! The new Prophecy beer

 

[Randalf]

THE SETLIST CONTEST - ALL-TIME SCOREBOARD
Legacy of the Beast - Future Past - Run for Your Lives


Current all time leaders @mepatrik1 & @Poto have scored solid points in all three competitions with identical run of 16+18+16. @Ben Beast isn't far behind with 47 points and @PieceofMind89, @Smither (46 points each), @Flaming Blimp Crash and @Kalata (45 points each) are also within a striking distance; they also have performed very steadily thorough these three Setlist contest runs! @Mosh didn't quite succeed this year, but their previous runs were quite strong, hence securing them a spot near the top with 42 points!

Their speculation was, however, often quite spot on:

I would say Rime's return is a no brainer. -- I wouldn't surprised if both Rime and SSOASS end up in the set, especially with the band leaning heavily into pretty short/uptempo songs. -- I expect Phantom, Hallowed, Fear of the Dark as well of course, but I think that's it for songs above 6 minutes.

I am going to stand by my original early prediction, but knowing what we know now I would make a couple changes

-- Murders in the Rue Morgue feels like the intersection between an interesting pick and a safe bet, and if I had made my setlist a couple days later I probably would have picked that instead.

Close, close! But it was also cool to see the boldness of standing by their early prediction! As we witnessed from the RUN FOR YOUR LIVES results, the edits did not bring more points to everyone...


Anyway, here's the ALL TIME SCOREBOARD:

mepatrik1 Poto Ben Beast PieceofMind89 Smither Flaming Blimp Crash Kalata Mosh Álvaro Collin Diesel11 Stardust Black Bart matic22 MrKnickerbocker Lego Trevoire Azas efekåseo_suomi Prowler FTB Night Prowler Randalf kantri Phantom of My Own Opera reimdaase The Dissident Alenjandro Brazilian Benjamin Breeg PhantomOfTheOpera Patrick92 Ascendingthethrone bornless1 InfiniteDreamer544 TheTalisman Wickerman1204 karljant Spambot Abas dickinson1978 LooseCannon TheMercenary The_7th_one koponto blackie2380 Whooten Rocking Rolling Man its_ArchroniX chris b Iron Lurker mitch cugnet UpTheIrons Deadeye21 EDDIEVH Vaenyr vagalex Wogmidget Yoav Zvonimir Austrogoth Edington GhostofCain ifp Maiden95 permanenteddie Tailgunner88 Xennon Arrakis davidhrodriguez Demigod_Tyek Dissonant dubroy27 IronMaidenBRO99 KidInTheDark666 maideneer10 MAPEC NAriel POLISH EDDIE Shavasku THESEVENTHMARINER veddertown WickerMan03 Christopher Baines Cosmiceddie Lealman83 Napalm1907 NavigatorOfTheClouds Nomadd Perun redandtheblack92 vinic00kie Andoni Black Wizard btx109 damage_case Ei siis hai GiovaOfficial GroundZero lordpreto mihai riff The Mid-Distance Runner wojczi andreljbernardo Badrium Bombusbombus ferryman IronCarnage Ledges Bitten In Dust Littesutu66 Maiden4Ever NickoWho sea_of_madness_667 The Sentient agtsp16 BeThyJames Blood On The World´s Hand cnesbit CountryChurchyard Eddie620 Eli runsilentrundeep Ziggyplayedguitar AncientMariner_Essex antonio273 Eddie's Uncle jessmundur MindRuler Samantas5855 SirRobbins Diplomat NIИ_InthisTwilight MaidenFan666 Dick Brucinson rideon77 Forostar Jeffmetal Speed of Light Magnus

50 50 47 46 46 45 45 42 39 39 39 39 34 34 34 33 33 32 32 32 31 31 30 29 29 29 29 28 28 28 27 26 26 26 26 26 25 25 24 24 24 24 23 22 20 20 19 18.5 18 18 18 18 17 17 17 17 17 17 17 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 14 14 14 14 14 14 14 14 14 13 13 13 13 13 13 13 13 13 13 13 13 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 9 9 8.5 8 8 7 7 6 2

 

[Diesel 11]

It's really funny looking at how much I stressed myself out over even submitting a setlist for this thread. Like with Future Past, they told you straight up there's 5 Samurai, 5 Cyborg, and implied 5 classics. Coming up with a set for that, although wrong, was easy.

I took half a year coming up with a setlist that was ultimately wrong and over thought it to oblivion. Maybe it's a message to me to lighten up, lol. Half a year prior I had "Murders" in a fantasy set, half a year before that I had "Clairvoyant" in a different fantasy set. There was a next to none chance that "Still Life" would make it, but I still went for it just in case.

It's comical. Diesel overdoes it again lmao. But I love these threads and I really hope that in 2026 we get to start this speculation all over again. If not we'll all just have to agree to obsess over a similarly conservative band!

 

[Randalf]

Apparently the rows of the All Time Scoreboard don't align too well on the mobile view. Sorry about that!

 

[Spambot]

A big thank you to @Randalf for hosting setlist tournament again!
(same as Diesel, I've stressed too much and would fare better with my joke pick in other thread)

 

[FTB]

I completely forgot to submit a setlist. Bummer, still 32 points. I'll get in next time. Congr to the winner(s)

 

[MindRuler]

I completely forgot to submit a setlist. Bummer, still 32 points. I'll get in next time. Congr to the winner(s)

I thought I did the same day @Randalf posted this thread! Maybe next time!