James wrote:Thought the setlist was pretty boring. The new album tracks are pretty terrible so that didn't help, but they could have at least chosen some less predictable tracks off The Number Of The Beast, for it's 25th anniversary.

TOTAL ECLIPSE! 22 ACACIA AVENUE!

Total Eclipse is;
A) Rubbish
B) Not on the original album.

I've always liked 22 Acacia Avenue though.

ribbons69 wrote:B) Not on the original album.

Technically correct, they didn't have space on the vinyl to include Total Eclipse, so had to put it as a B-Side on one of the singles instead, but it made it onto the CD version of the album, so it counts for me

Craig wrote:

ribbons69 wrote:B) Not on the original album.

Technically correct, they didn't have space on the vinyl to include Total Eclipse, so had to put it as a B-Side on one of the singles instead, but it made it onto the CD version of the album, so it counts for me

Early maiden (and a lot of later ones TBH) had too many fillers!!!!

ribbons69 wrote:

James wrote:Thought the setlist was pretty boring. The new album tracks are pretty terrible so that didn't help, but they could have at least chosen some less predictable tracks off The Number Of The Beast, for it's 25th anniversary.

TOTAL ECLIPSE! 22 ACACIA AVENUE!

Total Eclipse is;
A) Rubbish
B) Not on the original album.

I've always liked 22 Acacia Avenue though.

Total Eclipse is most certainly NOT rubbish. It would have made more sense to have that on the album than Gangland.

Also, boring setlist? I was there and it was in no way boring. They were always going to play a lot off the latest album as it's the last show on that tour and was to be expected. But how can you say Children of the Damned, Wrathchild, Two minutes to midnight, Run to the hills, Number of the Beast and The Evil That Men Do and The Trooper are "pretty boring"?!

^ I didn't really mean it was boring, I just meant it was a more predictable than it could have been. Personally I would not care if they never played Run to the Hills live ever again, and I could easily do without The Number of the Beast as well.

Herzeleid wrote:[They played Children of the Damned, that totally eclipses 22 Acacia Avanue, geddit?

Anyway, how pissed off would the majority of the people there have been if they decided that once not to play Fear of the Dark? Can't be done.

Acacia Avenue shits over Children of the Damned, and Fear of the Dark is a pretty tiresome track for Maiden noobs!

Personally I would not care if they never played Run to the Hills live ever again, and I could easily do without The Number of the Beast as well.

They're classics. That's why they play them. The problem is with TV/radio overplay and the fact that they're arguably the most famous Maiden songs so are generally used first as examples in any conversation involving metal. That kind of over-exposure just makes you take the songs for granted.
Trust me, if they hadn't have played those two tracks last night, the rumblings of discontent from Donington would have been heard down at the Ruskin Arms.

If you just don't like the songs, however, then that's just down to personal taste and that's perfectly fine. Musical opinion has no right or wrong answer.








But you'd be wrong.

I don't care about rumblings of discontent, I was purely talking on a selfish personal level. Having seen Maiden live 5 or 6 times now, I would much rather they dropped those tracks for many of their other "classics" that never get a look in as a result.

That was my 6th Maiden show and they have dropped those songs before (twice) but this was Donington. Certain songs are expected and like it or not, those two fall squarely into that category.
The surprises came with Children of the Damned and Wrathchild, neither of which they've played for years.

Darkweasel wrote:That was my 6th Maiden show and they have dropped those songs before (twice) but this was Donington. Certain songs are expected and like it or not, those two fall squarely into that category.
The surprises came with Children of the Damned and Wrathchild, neither of which they've played for years.

Wrathchild is always played It's Running Free that isn't heard live very often

\m/Steve\m/ wrote:

Darkweasel wrote:That was my 6th Maiden show and they have dropped those songs before (twice) but this was Donington. Certain songs are expected and like it or not, those two fall squarely into that category.
The surprises came with Children of the Damned and Wrathchild, neither of which they've played for years.

Wrathchild is always played It's Running Free that isn't heard live very often

They should drop run to the hills as it is not that good a song in all honesty. Instead they should play either murders in the rue morgue, women in uniform, prowler or twlight zone

As for boring and overplayed songs, isnt it about time metallica put seek and destroy to bed??? The worst song from KEA and their most played song ever!!!!!! Boooorrrrriiiiinnnnnnggggggg!!!!!!!!! Bring back Phantom lord

Immortalicide wrote:Bring back Phantom lord

He shoots, he scores!

\m/Steve\m/ wrote:

Darkweasel wrote:That was my 6th Maiden show and they have dropped those songs before (twice) but this was Donington. Certain songs are expected and like it or not, those two fall squarely into that category.
The surprises came with Children of the Damned and Wrathchild, neither of which they've played for years.

Wrathchild is always played It's Running Free that isn't heard live very often

Err... no actually. As I said, I've seen Maiden 6 times and I've only heard them play Wrathchild three times, the last time being back in 1993.
I didn't see them on the Brave New World Tour so I can't say whether they did or not then but I didn't hear them play it on The X-Factour, Dance of Death or the more recent tour.
So there.

They played Wrathchild on the DoD tour date i saw them on...

I saw them at Birmingham. Absent from the set list there.

Wrathchild always ends up on the Maiden setlist (I've seen them 6 times too!). There have been a couple of times where they've started a tour without playing it and then added it after a couple of gigs - they did this on the DOD tour, and as far as I remember it's on the Death on the Road live album, so there's your proof. The one single time I've seen them and they haven't played it was on the AMOLAD tour where they played the whole of that bloody album. Whilst they may not have played that song at every single gig, they've defintinitely played it on every single tour ever apart from the first AMOLAD tour. I don't know why. It's a good song, but it's really not worthy of an every-tour-song, unlike Hallowed Be Thy Name for example.