The ACTUAL Best Coachella Performance EVER

[rage patton]

I wish i saw the Gorgol show - i was ofcourse at Bjork. when someone asked me if i saw the Gorgol show and I said "no, i was at Bjork" they laughed in my face...i saw Gorgol at Vegoose 2007 to make up for it though.

Gogol Bordello @ Coachella is the best show I have ever seen. I have seen Gogol twice since then. Vegoose was one of them. They certainly did kick ass at Vegoose, but nowhere near the extent they did at Coachella. Sorry you missed it.

Headlining performances where half the crowd walks away during the show aren't really candidates for the best performance.

In all fairness, most Depeche Mode fans think that really wasn't thier best performance. As well... the mystery behind Daft Punk pulled a lot of people away from Depeche Mode.

[Boourns]

It's funny because Depeche Mode was way higher on my "bands to see" list than Daft Punk.

[rage patton]

If I had went to Coachella 06... I probably would have stayed for all of Depeche Mode, then casually walked over to Daft Punk. Only to have my mind blown...
Goddamn do I wish I had gone to 06.

[Boourns]

Yeah dude, it was an amazing year. That was actually my original plan, but I got bored and impatient. For the last 20 minutes or so I was really just sticking around to hear "Enjoy the Silence" but apparently it was played about 5 minutes after I gave up to get a spot for Daft Punk.

[familyguy420]

TOOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Cancersticks1]

Apparently I'm all alone with Bauhaus. I thought they were incredible!

[amyzzz]

Bauhaus was great. Some of the Coldplay fans in the audience were annoying though, and I really like Coldplay.

[mvanwinkle]

I wish i saw the Gorgol show - i was ofcourse at Bjork. when someone asked me if i saw the Gorgol show and I said "no, i was at Bjork" they laughed in my face...i saw Gorgol at Vegoose 2007 to make up for it though.

Im so glad I left bjork after three songs. I tried to see what all the fuss was about but cound nt get into it. Gogol fucking blew my mind.

[TeamCoachellaHellYeah]

Apparently I'm all alone with Bauhaus. I thought they were incredible!

I thought the same but alot of Coldplay's fans were downright asses to them...
I have always thought that GV should have put them on before NIN that year...

[TeamCoachellaHellYeah]

Yeah dude, it was an amazing year. That was actually my original plan, but I got bored and impatient. For the last 20 minutes or so I was really just sticking around to hear "Enjoy the Silence" but apparently it was played about 5 minutes after I gave up to get a spot for Daft Punk.

Depeche Mode was the only headliner we waited all day to see just to leave to watch from the back after a few songs...

[Suffacated]

Thus making '99, as a whole, the greatest Coachella ever.

99 was the first.... perhaps the best.
It's what got me hooked.
But 06 was a great year also.
Haven't missed one since.
Maybe Prodigy should have been added to the poll?

[Botrocker]

If I had went to Coachella 06... I probably would have stayed for all of Depeche Mode, then casually walked over to Daft Punk. Only to have my mind blown...
Goddamn do I wish I had gone to 06.

Exactly what I did. I went from Enjoy the Silence to Around the World!!

[TheWatcher]

I can't really vote for this poll--Rage against the Machine is the only band on the list that I actually saw.

[Botrocker]

Rage scared me cause I was so tripped out on mushrooms and ecstacy. I was like goddamnit why is this mutherfucker talking about political stuff. I just wanna rave! Then I walked over to Infected Mushroom.

[Britton420]

I saw The Arcade Fire in 2007 and they blew my mind. They diffentily win my vote.

[uniform72]

99 was the first.... perhaps the best.
It's what got me hooked.
But 06 was a great year also.
Haven't missed one since.
Maybe Prodigy should have been added to the poll?

I concur that 99 was and will always be the best year. I look at that lineup today and it still blows my mind that it actually happened.

[TeamCoachellaHellYeah]

I can't really vote for this poll--Rage against the Machine is the only band on the list that I actually saw.

For shame!

[algunz]

Exactly what I did. I went from Enjoy the Silence to Around the World!!

We were probably walking across the field at just about the same pace.

[Botrocker]

I can't really vote for this poll--Rage against the Machine is the only band on the list that I actually saw.

haha

[SEEDYMIG420]

The Pixies!!! W/ RadioHead a very close 2nd. Come on people!!! The Pixies. Anyone else, doesn't even compare. With the Pixies, one hears the music comming from their souls, not from some electronic do-dads & keyboards & samples of other artists talent. The Pixies are RAW with it!!! Raunchy!!! And yes, SEXY!!! Want proof? Ask Radiohead, Blur, David Bowie, Kurt Cobain, PJ Harvey, etc, etc..

[Cpt. Funkaho]

The Pixies!!! W/ RadioHead a very close 2nd. Come on people!!! The Pixies. Anyone else, doesn't even compare. With the Pixies, one hears the music comming from their souls, not from some electronic do-dads & keyboards & samples of other artists talent. The Pixies are RAW with it!!! Raunchy!!! And yes, SEXY!!! Want proof? Ask Radiohead, Blur, David Bowie, Kurt Cobain, PJ Harvey, etc, etc..

Tone down the stream-of-consciousness, brah.

[TeamCoachellaHellYeah]

The Pixies!!! W/ RadioHead a very close 2nd. Come on people!!! The Pixies. Anyone else, doesn't even compare. With the Pixies, one hears the music comming from their souls, not from some electronic do-dads & keyboards & samples of other artists talent. The Pixies are RAW with it!!! Raunchy!!! And yes, SEXY!!! Want proof? Ask Radiohead, Blur, David Bowie, Kurt Cobain, PJ Harvey, etc, etc..

WTF?

[SupaCrazeeBoy]

It's kind of confusing to me that you could have this poll, yet not include Faithless, which was, by far and away, the best Coachella perfoemance ever...

[thedevious]

Yup 99 was a masterpiece, a legendary indulgence.

I simply was not able to watch a single act all the way through for having to run to another stage or tent to catch a part of some other amazing acts set.
Total synapse overload.

Having said that, the greatest act I have witnessed at Coachella (or ever really) has to be Daft Punk.

[Botrocker]

Jarvis!

[Amneeziac]

YES!! I can say I was there for their 1st US/North American gig ever!! I had no idea what I had walked into but saw them based on a review that Thom Yorke did on their second album...It was probably similar to what people experienced with Daft Punk's show...it hit me like a tons of bricks and life wasn't the same after that...it was also my 1st Coachella and first music festival ever...been going ever year since and will be until the day I die...

I feel EXACTLY the same way. Only 2007 was my first Coachella/music festival ever (I am 16), and instead of Sigur Ros I felt it with Arcade Fire. I had listened to Rebellion a couple times and that's it when I saw them, I can honestly say my life was changed by that performance. It was just like something inside me broke and I felt more alive than I ever had. My taste in music as well as personal shit just totally shifted after Coachella, for the better, and that Arcade Fire performance was the real turning point.

Don't know why I'm sharing this, lol.

[TeamCoachellaHellYeah]

I feel EXACTLY the same way. Only 2007 was my first Coachella/music festival ever (I am 16), and instead of Sigur Ros I felt it with Arcade Fire. I had listened to Rebellion a couple times and that's it when I saw them, I can honestly say my life was changed by that performance. It was just like something inside me broke and I felt more alive than I ever had. My taste in music as well as personal shit just totally shifted after Coachella, for the better, and that Arcade Fire performance was the real turning point.

Don't know why I'm sharing this, lol.

Ah well this is the place to share it! Despite all the inane crap that goes on here..most of us go to Coachella for this very thing...

[BillyCrystal]

I'm glad Golgol Bordello is in the poll, but it's missing The Hives and Sonic Youth.

[Girl On The Wing]

HAYSOOS what I would have given to see daft punk and arcade fire at coachella. I'm stuck with dvd clips and tales of the "life changing experience" that my friends had during daft punk. Someday.

[MantisMel]

Ya know... There's a lot of talk on these threads about how great Radiohead is...I am a huge fan as well...so why are they not ranked as high as they are praised? Just an observation...