The Future Past tour 2023

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Both albums have their highlights and I would love to hear only those highlights on this tour. If I could pick two albums as setlist focus, however, these two would be towards the bottom of my picks.
 
MrKnickerbocker said:
If I could pick two albums as setlist focus, however, these two would be towards the bottom of my picks.
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Other 2 albums as a setlist focus on one tour that I would like to see are:

1) BNW/VXI
2) BNW/Senjutsu, FOTD/NPFTD, Senjutsu/TBOS, Senjutsu/AMOLAD, TFF/SIT

You can make pairs of all of them really:
IM-Killers
TNOTB-BNW/POM
NPFTD-IM
FOTD-NPFTD
BNW-VXI/DOD/SIT
DOD-POM/VXI
AMOLAD-Powerslave/TXF
TFF-SIT
TBOS-SSOASS
Senjutsu-BNW/TXF
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I love both albums. While I wouldn't call SiT my favorite classic album Senjutsu is my favorite reunion album. This could end up being my favorite tour ever.
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I love both albums too. My favorite classic album is either SIT or Seventh Son. My favorite Reunion album is BNW, on close second is Senjutsu.

I completely agree with your last sentence.
 
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Kalata said:
Other 2 albums as a setlist focus on one tour that I would like to see are:

1) BNW/VXI
2) BNW/Senjutsu, FOTD/NPFTD, Senjutsu/TBOS, Senjutsu/AMOLAD, TFF/SIT

You can make pairs of all of them really:
IM-Killers
TNOTB-BNW/POM
NPFTD-IM
FOTD-NPFTD
BNW-VXI/DOD/SIT
DOD-POM/VXI
AMOLAD-Powerslave/TXF
TFF-SIT
TBOS-SSOASS
Senjutsu-BNW/TXF

I love both albums too. My favorite classic album is either SIT or Seventh Son. My favorite Reunion album is BNW, on close second is Senjutsu.

I completely agree with your last sentence.
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A Matter of Life and Death + The X Factor war themed history tour after this upcoming tour would be awesome. Just imagine the stage setup!
 
efekåseo_suomi said:
A Matter of Life and Death + The X Factor war themed history tour after this upcoming tour would be awesome. Just imagine the stage setup!
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AMOLAD is my second favourite album and I like TXF a lot, but damn, this tour would be bleak and depressing as hell lol.

I maintain that BNW and VXI are twin albums and probably the two albums that are most similar to one another (after the IM-Killers pair).
Let VXI songs be played by the reunion lineup, with much better sound than the album and let Bruce control the audience; most songs would work well in that context and a lot of folks who dislike the album might find a new appreciation for the songs. Ain't ever gonna happen unfortunately.
 
Vaenyr said:
AMOLAD is my second favourite album and I like TXF a lot, but damn, this tour would be bleak and depressing as hell lol.

I maintain that BNW and VXI are twin albums and probably the two albums that are most similar to one another (after the IM-Killers pair).
Let VXI songs be played by the reunion lineup, with much better sound than the album and let Bruce control the audience; most songs would work well in that context and a lot of folks who dislike the album might find a new appreciation for the songs. Ain't ever gonna happen unfortunately.
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The AMOLAD album tour was the best Maiden tour I ever saw. And I've seen all album tours since 92, all history tours, the Ed Huntour and the original Seventh Son tour! How about this setlist with a war themed stage:

  • Man on the Edge
  • Where Eagles Dare
  • These Colours Don't Run
  • Lord of the Flies
  • The Reincarnation of Benjamin Breeg
  • Blood on the World's Hands
  • Afraid to Shoot Strangers
  • The Evil That Men Do
  • Different World
  • Sign of the Cross
  • 2 Minutes to Midnight
  • The Edge of Darkness
  • For the Greater Good of God
  • Fear of the Dark
  • Iron Maiden
Encores:
  • Out of the Shadows (Acoustic in the style of Journeyman during Death on the Road tour)
  • Hallowed Be Thy Name
  • The Trooper
 
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Kalata said:
Other 2 albums as a setlist focus on one tour that I would like to see are:

1) BNW/VXI
2) BNW/Senjutsu, FOTD/NPFTD, Senjutsu/TBOS, Senjutsu/AMOLAD, TFF/SIT

You can make pairs of all of them really:
IM-Killers
TNOTB-BNW/POM
NPFTD-IM
FOTD-NPFTD
BNW-VXI/DOD/SIT
DOD-POM/VXI
AMOLAD-Powerslave/TXF
TFF-SIT
TBOS-SSOASS
Senjutsu-BNW/TXF

I love both albums too. My favorite classic album is either SIT or Seventh Son. My favorite Reunion album is BNW, on close second is Senjutsu.

I completely agree with your last sentence.
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With all due respect, some of those combinations are terrible.

If we could have Bruce singing like in 2008, I would probably go with a combo of Powerslave and AMOLAD, with 5 songs from each album and including The Longest Day among them.
 
Vaenyr said:
AMOLAD is my second favourite album and I like TXF a lot, but damn, this tour would be bleak and depressing as hell lol.

I maintain that BNW and VXI are twin albums and probably the two albums that are most similar to one another (after the IM-Killers pair).
Let VXI songs be played by the reunion lineup, with much better sound than the album and let Bruce control the audience; most songs would work well in that context and a lot of folks who dislike the album might find a new appreciation for the songs. Ain't ever gonna happen unfortunately.
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I need to listen to those two back-to-back. I, unlike 99% of the world, absolutely love Virtual XI, but it was also the first "new" Maiden album I got that I immediately liked. I became a fan shortly after Bruce left, The X Factor was my first "new" Maiden album, but it took time to get into. Virtual XI I dug from the get-go. Is it perfect? Hell no. Does it have a stupid title? Yep. Is the football/metal mash-up concept cringey? Oh yeah. Was it a weird-ass idea to record a nine-minute version of Angel and the Gambler--complete with crowd participation repetitiveness built-in as a studio track? Hell yes. Do I love it anyway? Yep.

Obviously BNW was a step up in pretty much every conceivable way, so it'll be interesting to relisten to those with an ear toward finding the similarities.
 
Interesting how favorite albums often coincide when fans get into Maiden. I have grown to like most of X Factor over the years but still only like a couple of songs off VXI, the Blaze era is mostly a "meh" for me. But I can see how someone whose first exposure was the Blaze era often view those two as favorites. Killers is an album a good number of people here don't rate very high but it was my first exposure to Maiden back in 1981 and I absolutely love it.
 
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