Best Live Act at coachella 08: Final Round

[bender]

These are the top 2 from each of the previous 5 heats

[satori777]

Datarock...hands down

[paulb]

Who was the BEST live act? or who was my favourite? Cause... Portishead was probably the best....but I had more fun during Gogol Bordello....

[rage patton]

Kraftwerk, Portishead and Gogol were my top 3 of the weekend.

[superfiction]

portishead annihilates anything else

[zenidogx]

prince was the best act.
waters was the best show.
gogol was the craziest.
barcelona was the most fun.
hot chip was the best to dance to.
battles was the most interesting.
man man was weirdest.
stars was most impressive.
mmj was trippiest.

didn't see portishead, but to almost everyone who did, that was the most special show of the weekend.

[leo01g]

Portishead #1

[thestripe]

Datarock...hands down

[musicfan66]

Portishead for sure, though Kraftwerk, Prince, The Verve and Roger Waters were excellent as well.

[kitt kat]

I still don't get why everyong is so obssessed with Prince and the MerryMakers Wedding Time Band.

[RickeyinLA]

MODESELEKTOR.

[TeamCoachellaHellYeah]

Portishead was the best Performance of the festival...

[gaypalmsprings]

Kraftwerk isn't really live. It's Memorex.

[TeamCoachellaHellYeah]

Kraftwerk isn't really live. It's Memorex.

<------insert Ed McMahon sound bit here

[bender]

well, at least the top three is easy to see. No clear winner yet though

[JSam67]

The fact that Waters is now ahead of Prince is an atrocity. Prince was the only show that really came close to Portishead.

[sbessiso]

my vote (for Prince) just tied them

[frozen pilgrim]

I finally voted
I cried three times during portishead.
it was the most moving musical experience of my life.
also, IMHO, the most carefully, meticulously, perfectly played set I've ever seen.
I've seen world class symphony orchestras with less co-ordination.
I loved gogol, as I always do, aphex twin was mind blowing and perspective changing, and roger waters was the most spectacular concert I've ever seen, as well as being one of the best in terms of the scale of the sound engineering (twelve fucking hung line arrarys! FUCKING TWELVE!), but portishead was just so incredibly perfect. the only way it could have possibly been better would have been if it was longer. and hey- I wouldn't have minded prince ending at three, and I don't think he would've either.

[cansei de ser sexme]

I finally voted
I cried three times during portishead.
it was the most moving musical experience of my life.
also, IMHO, the most carefully, meticulously, perfectly played set I've ever seen.
I've seen world class symphony orchestras with less co-ordination.
I loved gogol, as I always do, aphex twin was mind blowing and perspective changing, and roger waters was the most spectacular concert I've ever seen, as well as being one of the best in terms of the scale of the sound engineering (twelve fucking hung line arrarys! FUCKING TWELVE!), but portishead was just so incredibly perfect. the only way it could have possibly been better would have been if it was longer. and hey- I wouldn't have minded prince ending at three, and I don't think he would've either.

would you have gone more portishead, as previously planned, and no prince?

[Pixiessp]

I cried too Pilgrim as i am sure many did. Portishead was truly the greatest performance of all my Coachella experiences.

[rage patton]

I have to vote for Kraftwerk. They were just too outstanding.

[PassiveTheory]

Woah... this poll was a lot closer like 2 weeks ago...

[superfiction]

Woah... this poll was a lot closer like 2 weeks ago...

people finally got the idea that portishead is the obvious choice

[Pixiessp]

people finally got the idea that portishead is the obvious choice

your anus is bleeding!!

[frozen pilgrim]

would you have gone more portishead, as previously planned, and no prince?

I don't know- it's all speculation, right? what happened happened, and it was amazing.
I think just for me personally the night could have ended happily with three hours of portishead. but prince was so... prince-like that I couldn't wish the denial of that experience on anyone.

kraftwerk was amazing, too.
the end of radioactivity was one of the most profound shared-reaction moments I've ever experienced. everyone suddenly realizing what day it was and how important that was.

I'm actually currently listening to the awesome flac bootleg (thanks again whoever made it- I can't remember who it was), and it's amazing how dancy kraftwerk was compared to their records. awesome stuff.
oh- to whoever made the bootleg- I really want to use the rip of 'the robots' in a mashup. if it's okay with you.

[faxman75]

The fact that Waters is now ahead of Prince is an atrocity. Prince was the only show that really came close to Portishead.

Prince puts on a show, Waters puts on an experience, Portishead somehow managed to go from playing small clubs in the late 90's to damn near headlining a night a of Coachella in 2008 after taking a break for a whole lot of years.

All were impressive. I think Portishead and Waters were the top 2 of the weekend but Prince was a god damn fun time! Those were your three headliners and everyone of them lived up to the hype or exceded it.

Datarock was great, fuck the haters. MGMT, Black Kids and Dan Le Sac vs Scroobius Pip were also tons of fun. Best weekend evaaa.

[thatfinkleygirl]

Gogol hands down for me.

[MarkO]

Kraftwerk, Portishead and Stephen Malkmus were my top 3 of the weekend.

Tweaked.

[MarkO]

would you have gone more portishead, as previously planned, and no prince?

I would have, yes.

[woogie846]

Roger Waters really blew my mind. Him playing with the surround sound was incredible.