Your top 5 performances from 2012 (weekend one edition)

[Garbarator]

1. Jeff Mangum


2. Refused



3. Madness
4. James
5a. Girls
5b. Godspeed You! Black Emperor

[Alchemy]

1. Radiohead
2. Pulp
3. Jeff Magnum
4. SBTRKT
5. Kaiser Chiefs

[electrocute]

The Rapture
Arctic Monkeys
Amon Tobin
Neon Indian
Metronomy

Honorable mentions: Miike Snow, Breakbot, Justice (fix ur shit, bros.), Madeon (only saw 15 mins), m83
Cool surprises: Feist (she rocked!!! with basically a full orchestra, like 20+ people.), Sub Focus (amazing visuals... dnb + dubstep mix didn't do it for me so much though)

[orbit]

1. Buzzcocks
2. Refused
3. First Aid Kit
4. Pulp
5. Godspeed

[IlliniQ]

1A - Snoop & Dre - for sheer event power
1B - Bon Iver for most impact on a sheer musical, emotional level
3. Buzzcocks
4. Refused
5. The Rapture.

High Honorable Mentions (other excellent sets with great to spectacular moments) - Sheepdogs, EMA, James, Gary Clark Jr, Jimmy Cliff, Death Grips, WU LYF, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, Suedehead, Spector, Squeeze, St. Vincent, Radiohead, First Aid Kit, Thundercat, The Hives.

[spence]

1. Jeff Mangum
2. Modeselektor
3. Radiohead
4. The Horrors
5a. Pulp
5b. The Black Keys

[FEELS]

1. Jeff Mangum
2. Pulp
3. Buzzcocks
4. Girls
5. Wild Flag

[ialvarado2]

Really hard to pick just 5 but...

At the Drive-in
Radiohead
Madness
Dr. Dre & Snoop
Refused

Special mentions to:

The Rapture
GIRLS
The Big Pink
Buzzcocks
Black Lips

[Mcoppel]

1. Bon Iver
2. Radiohead
3. Pulp
4. Dj Shadow
5. Refused / Buzzcocks

[Aikopua3]

1. Bon Iver
2. Azwalia Banks
3. Dre & Snoop
4. Girl Talk
5. Feed Me

[edigs]

1. Dre, Snoop and guests (way ahead of #2)
2. Arctic Monkeys (wasnt a big fan of, until we saw their set)
3. Sebastian Ingrosso (made fun of shm before the set and ended up "making noise" followed by "fuck, he got me!")
4. Justice
5. Childish Gambino (never heard of him before, was awesome)

Honorable mentions: Radiohead (well, because theyre Radiohead), The Hives (sat down to relax, ended up enjoying Pelle Almqvist's attitude), Santigold (the lady enjoyed her), the guy who started the clapping chant on the way back to camp on sunday night (around 2000 people were chanting at one time "if youre happy and you know it"), showers for having short lines every time I was there, and Coachella for being an unforgettable event.

[zircona1]

1. Refused (I will never forget the crowd's reaction to the 'CAN I SCREAM?!?!?!' in 'New Noise')
2. Pulp (Jarvis does the whole frontman thing correctly)
3. Godspeed You! Black Emperor (Mesmerizing, no sound bleed from where I was standing)
4. Le Butcherettes (Had never heard anything by them, left a fan)
5. Azealea Banks (Killed it in 35 minutes)

HMs:
Jeff Mangum (his voice and guitars sounded clear and strong)
Death Grips (crazy energy in the tent)
The Buzzcocks (just a really good crowd-pleasing set, was happy to see a mosh pit and crowd surfers for these guys)
Dre and Snoop (do you like singing along with several thousand people to some rap songs?)

[bobert]

1) Radiohead
2) Pulp
3) Bon Iver
4) Modeselektor
5) Dre and Snoop


Rest of the best: Tune-Yards, M83, Gary Clarke Jr., Jeff Mangum, Breakbot, Madness, Mazzy Star

[lt.roast.a.botch]

Dr Dre and Snoop
Radiohead
Bon Iver
M83
Jeff Magnum

[Cass_McMurphy]

1. Jeff Mangum
2. Dre/Snoop
3. Godspeed
4. Radiohead
5. Justice

[Vic Viper]

dj shadow
death grips
gotye
sub focus
noisia

honorable mentions:
dragonette
machinedrum
miike snow (pretty underwhelming but still sounded great)

[WhatLies]

1) radiohead (wow, i was impressed by how they catered their classics to their new sound. Very cool to hear new versions of everything and ideoteque)
2) Dre & Snoop (i had zero expectations for this which made it even better)
3) Modeselektor (holy shit did he bring it)
4) Bon Iver (enchanting...)
5) Madeon (can't believe he's 17)


HM: Kasabian, Alesso, Nero, Amon Tobin, The rapture, Calvin Harris

[kucky21]

Modeselektor
Dre & Snoop
M83
Fiest
The Hives

[summersnow]

1. Refused (So fun, Dennis really did those songs justice)
2. The Rapture (Never thought I would enjoy sax as much as I did)
3. Dre + Snoop (have to watch if you grew up in SoCal)
4. araabMUZIK (just compelling to hear music done that way)
5. St. Vincent (played the songs a bit slower live, made them feel a lot heavier)

[RodFed1993]

1. Radiohead
2. Dre & Snoop
3. Justice
4. Black Lips
5. Beirut/St. Vincent

Also very impressed by SebastiAn, Yuck, Metronomy, and the Real Estate

[RodFed1993]

Fuck I forgot the Rapture! Definitely in the top 3.

[RickeyinLA]

1. Modeselektor (took Best In Show)
2. Gary Clark Jr.
3. Azealia Banks
4. NOISIA
5. Snoopy and Dre and Friends

Also - EVERYTIME I caught an act at the Do Lab, it was bangity banging. EVERYTIME.

[cheesehead004]

watched azealia banks for a few mins online... christ that was obnoxious as fuck, and not to mention she dropped "*****" like 17 times in the first 10 seconds... no clue how so many people were diggin that set

[artisticcreator]

#1 - Girl Talk ( no contest ), by far the most energized show and seeing him for the second time has proven to me he puts on a amazingly high energy mashup! Wish I could get it recored!

#2 David Guetta
#3 Beats Antiques
#4 Amon Tobin
#5 PULP

#6 All the great stuff I heard from a distance.

[artisticcreator]

I can't wait to watch all I missed, over the net for weekend#2!

[mountmccabe]

I'm going to put this here; I figure since it is all of them it transcends the 5 requirement.

1. Jeff Mangum
2. EMA
3. Pulp
4. At the Drive-In
5. James
6. Wild Flag
7. Fanfarlo
8. We Were Promised Jetpacks
9. Buzzcocks
10. Company Flow
11. Florence + the Machine
12. Bon Iver
13. Jimmy Cliff & Tim Armstrong
14. The Shins
15. Azealia Banks
16. The Big Pink
17. We Are Augustines
18. the Growlers
19. House de Racket
20. First Aid Kit
21. Andrew Bird
22. Suedehead
23. GIVERS
24. Oberhofer
25. First Aid Kit
26. Keep Shelley in Athens
27. Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
28. Greg Ginn and the Royal We
29. Radiohead
30. Artic Monkeys

Not rated (didn't see enough)
Dr Dre & Snoop Dog
fIREHOSE
Mazzy Star
Real Estate

[virtualrunner]

1. Dre and Snoop
2. Jimmy Cliff
3. Godspeed You! Black Emperor
4. At the Drive-In
5. Swedish House Mafia

[bluemamba]

1. Dr Dre and Snoop D-O-Double-G
2. Bon Iver
3. M83
4. Radiohead
5. Pulp

[Branham32]

HA!!! Seriously??

[sok186]

Updated leaderboard:

1. Dr. Dre & Snoop Dogg (66 1/2)
2. Radiohead (47)
3. Pulp (32.5)
4. Jeff Mangum (26)
5. Refused (25 1/2)
6. Bon Iver (17)
7. Modeselektor (15)
8. At the Drive-In (14)
9. Flying Lotus (13 1/2)
10. M83 (13)
11. The Buzzcocks (11 1/2)
12. Death Grips (11)
13. Godspeed You! Black Emperor (10 1/2)
14. The Rapture (10)
15. (tie) Azealia Banks, DJ Shadow, Gotye (9)

Methodology: Each of the top five get a whole point, except in cases of a tie, in which case 1/2 points issued for up to three entries, more than 3 dismisses bottom spot. In cases of unordered lists with more than 8, the final spot is disregarded.