best concerts you ever been to

[holeinthewall]

Xiu Xiu last night @ eyedrum

[Wala]

the hold steady. KILLER!

[stayhandsome]

Morrissey in Detroit last November was great. Got to shake his hand twice.

American Nightmare/Panic at posi numbers fest in 2002 or 2003.

Kraftwerk in Detroit was also amazing. leaders of techno in techno city.

[sean_]

xiu xiu live was definately an experience

tom petty sept. 06

[@work]

Black Moon @ Dowtime back in 98. Bloc Party in BK last July. Excellent concert!

[anquan bUUgle_BOY]

The Shins @ Brisbane - The Tivoli

TV on the Radio @ Byron Bay - Splendour in the grasss Festival

EDAN @ Gold Coast - Big Day Out

Cut Copy @ Gold Coast - Big Day Out

De La Soul @ Brisbane - The Arena

and

Mos Def - @ Byron Bay - Splendour in the grass festival

[MJNevin]

Radiohead at the Greek Theater in Berkeley CA. I went to both nights, both were amazing, although I thought the second night was better.

[mcflip]

My favorite shows:

- Slint in Philly and Chicago last year

- going on tour with Melt Banana and Breather Resist 2 years ago

- Touring Japan with Envy and City of Caterpillar (holy fuck) in 2002, particularly the Tokyo shows and the shows with Nice View and Idol Punch

- Mastodon in NYC in 2001 (they played to 20 people and absolutely destroyed)

- Crimson Curse, Reversal of Man, Assuck, and I think Brutal Truth in Chicago in like '96 or '97

- His Hero Is Gone in Chicago in '96

- The VSS in Chicago in '96

- Shellac in NYC in '95

- Fugazi always delivered every time I saw them

I can go on all night

[naturaljax]

definitely A Tribe Called Quest.

fuckin amazing.

AWWWW SHIET

I was so close to the stage too. Awesome experience.

[lagoni]

LUPE FIASCO @ COPENHAGEN, SATURDAY

best shit ever

[notesee]

Saw The Long Winters, What Made Milwaukee Famous and Menomena at the Bowery Ballroom last week. Was a real dope show, glad I went to it.

I'm pissed about not getting tickets to the Kooks at the Bowery or Northsix, those sold out with the quickness.

[mike lowrey]

jay, wembley arena. hell of a show, crowd was nuts, saw lupe, nas and beyonce along the way

[RedHeadedStranger]

haveent been to many but three of my favourites are

Neko Case July 2 2006

Bob Dylan October 11 2006

Bob Dylan July 19 2005

[corbu]

Bob Dylan in Bologna, Italy November 2005

Paul Simon

Even though they are legends, my favorite has to be Ben Folds last month.

[diewhitegirls]

Metallica S&M tour @ MSG

Sigur Ros @ The Orpheum

NIN @ MSG

Zwan @ some place in Ill.

[NESK]

atmosphere consistently wreck stages.

i would say the same for the roots but the last time i saw them they dissapointed LARGE. which is saying alot because the time i saw them before that i would have said they were the best thing since vagina.

NERD is fucking incredible live as well. pharrel cant skate worth jizz, but his voice is incredible live. i didnt buy the $100 BBC shirt though, so maybe i wasnt at that show.

[koolaid]

the roots were groovy, such goodness live,

also imogen heap with kid beyond was sweeeet

[bnj]

my best show memory is atari teenage riot at the glasshouse, when i was in high school.

i wonder what happened to the surviving members.

[RobbertJan]

To young to have seen legendary stuff like Nirvana......to bad

my favorites so far:

Arctic Monkeys-- Amsterdam, Paradiso '06

Subways---Amsterdam, Melkweg '05

Bloc Party----Amsterdam, Paradiso '05

Coldplay--- Arnhem, Gelredome '04

[dk7m]

The Hives were fucking amazing when they played at the Wiltern in Los Angeles a year or two ago

[artificialsky]

The Faint + TV On The Radio at the Showbox

[b.peters]

i've been very lucky in having worked in the concert industry for the last ten

years or so, i've gotten to see some AMAZING shows, soundchecks, private

moments with bands, etc. i would guess i've seen 5000 concerts or more, many

from back stage or the sound booth.

some shows that stick out to me (you can clown some of them if you want. . .i aint

scared)

BS 2000 at the beehive theater in pittsburgh circa 2000

grateful dead 3/30/94 omni center atlanta last darkstar

beastie boys and tribe called quest rose garden in portland circa 99

William Parker Quartet at the fez ballroom in portland 2003 or so

Bobby Previte's Bump (feat. wayne horovitz on grand piano, steve swallow

on bass. . .damn)

Prince (musicoligy tour)

stone temple pilots soundcheck at rolling rock town fair summer 2001

the roots band with slum village (r.i.p. jay dee), dead prez, and others 2000

Rokia Traore at the fez ballroom circa 2002

I could go on and on

[poly800rock]

jon spencer blues explosion opening for beastie boys and the roots. sep 1996? at the philly convention center

Dinosaur Jr. w/ Love Spit Love 1995 WCU gym.

new bomb turks w/ the showcase showdown 1995 upstairs at nick's philly

curious as to if any native NY'ers went to the 1992 CMJ showcase of My Bloody Valentine with Superchunk and Pavement as openers. probably the most amazing bill I could ever imagine.

[parish]

wow so many...in no particular order:

radiohead @ piazza castello - ferrara 2004

radiohead @ arena di verona 2001 (i think)

pearl jam @ arena di verona 2006

the strokes @ turin traffic festival 2006

franz ferdinand @ paladozza - bologna 2005

archive @ rainbow club - milan 2006

chemical brothers+soulwax+moby @ flippaut festival bologna - 2005

chemical brothers @ assago forum - milan 2005

bloc party @ rolling stone club - milan 2005

can't wait for CSS this wednesday....

[Double D]

Buzzcocks, this year. Everyone was a bit weirded out by their newer material, then they came back on and did a half hour encore of all their hits. Cue a couple of hundred 40 year old men going absolutely batshit.

Of the other 80 odd bands I've seen this year, the long heralded return of My Vitriol at a one off gig in London was one hell of a show... not just because of the mammoth wall of sound coming from the band, but the absolute diehard nature of MV fans who came from all over Europe to cram into a 1650 head venue.

That's all I can be arsed to list right now.

[swisloc]

Dizzee Rascal, Volume, Williamsburg '04

damn, i forgot about this one... it was so good, they used a flatbed truck as a stage.

so many of my favorite shows do not necessarily correspond to my favorite music, so its hard.

Flaming Lips/Beck, Syracuse 2002. the tour where the flaming lips were his backup band.

Animal Collective, everytime i see them (almost).

Tenacious D/Galactic/Ween, Red Rocks 2001. this one's weird, cause i really can't stand two out of the three bands (the D and galactic) but it was red rocks, and everyone brought their a game, and the whole time Ween was playing, it seemed like they were thinking, "we're playing red rocks, and we still can't believe we own all these instruments!"...but much to my amazement, it was an amazing show.

The Unicorns, The Knitting Factory, NYC 2003. Nick Diamonds poured honey all over his guitar...they played forever.

Bob Dylan, Telluride town square, 2000. probably flame worthy on these boards, but this show was incredible.

[steven]

if lupe fiasco was your best concert ever...... you must have not been to any concerts

[simcoo]

We are Scientist KL' 06

Bangkok Rock Fest'06 - Snowpatrol,Oasis, Franz Ferdinand, Placebo, Ian Brown

what I would give now to catch RadioHead, Yeah Yeah Yeah, Killers, Stones

[sean_]

radiohead and the rolling stones were both rather boring live

[RobotRock]

A Perfect Circle by far.