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Boourns · 11-06-2009, 10:04 PM

Last year I saw Radiohead 5 times, Portishead, Prince, Roger Waters, The Verve, and that free Cure show at the Troubadour. I don't think I can ever top that. But this year I got to go Glasto and that's the ultimate musical adventure.

Cdubby · 11-06-2009, 10:06 PM

2008 was superb

EastLos01 · 11-06-2009, 10:07 PM

Macca-Coachella
Depeche Mode-Hollywood Bowl
PE-Coachella
Ozomatli-Belly Up Tavern

*** hon mention because it's not a musical act. Kevin Smith at the Orpheum

betao · 11-06-2009, 10:24 PM

hmmm

1) My Bloody Valentine @ The National
2) Nine Inch Nails @ Merriweather
3) The Orb @ Coachella
4) The Prodigy @ 9:30 Club
5) Throbbing Grislte @ Coachella
6) Plump DJs @ Coachella
7) A Place To Bury Strangers @ Rock n Roll Hotel

honorable mentions go to

The Flaming Lips @ Merriweather
Sonic Youth @ the National
My Bloody Valentine @ Coachella
Primal Scream @ 9:30 club
The Prodigy @ The Palladium
Brian Jonestown Massacre @ Coachella
Public Enemy @ V-fest

mountmccabe · 11-06-2009, 10:50 PM

My favorite festival shows, as of yet only ordered within their festival

ATP
Boredoms
No Age w/Bob Mould
Boris
Shellac

Coachella
Superchunk
A Place To Bury Strangers

pancakespancakes · 11-06-2009, 10:56 PM

My Top 3 so far is very much set in stone and will not change.

1. Animal Collective at the Henry Miller Library in Big Sur
2. Deerhunter at the Eagle Rock Center for the Arts
3. My Bloody Valentine at the El Rey Theatre and Coachella (they're tied)

Everything else... not sure yet... and I still have several pretty great shows coming up.

Boourns · 11-06-2009, 11:00 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by redsurf

fever ray - fonda, glass house
animal collective - house of blues in vegas
m83 - glasshouse
warpaint, exitmusic, voicesvoices - the smell

M83 at the Glasshouse...that was the "Teen Angst" and "Sitting" night, yes? Very jealous.

bmack86 · 11-06-2009, 11:36 PM

Nothing even close:
Boredoms at ATP. Anyone who was there knows how fucking special that set was.
THE RETURN OF SEICHII!

TommyboyUNM · 11-07-2009, 12:17 AM

I don't have any shows planned for the rest of the year. So...

Festival

1. Nine Inch Nails (Bonnaroo)
2. My Bloody Valentine (Coachella)
3. M83 (Sasquatch)
4. Yeah Yeah Yeahs (Monolith)
5. The Dead Weather (Street Scene)

Non Festival

1. Tool (Phoenix, AZ)
2. Nine Inch Nails (Phoenix, AZ)
3. Grizzly Bear (Solana Beach, CA)
4. Thom Yorke (Los Angeles, CA)
5. Portugal. The Man (Santa Fe, NM)

sonofhal · 11-07-2009, 02:20 AM

I have another festival and probably at least another 20 shows this year, so I'll wait a few weeks.

Abe Lincoln · 11-07-2009, 03:54 AM

Wilco @ New Orleans Jazz Fest was my highlight...

mahhhc · 11-07-2009, 09:01 AM

1. Fever Ray (Webster Hall)
2. Grizzly Bear (Town Hall)
3. The Get Up Kids (Gramercy Theater)
4. Department of Eagles (Bowery Ballroom)
5. Dinosaur Jr. (Music Hall of Williamsburg)
6. Japandroids (Mercury Lounge)
7. Hop Along (Apt in Brooklyn)
8. Lightning Bolt (Above the Auto Parts Store)
9. The xx (The Apple Store)

still waiting on the Pixies and maybe the Pains of Being Pure at Heart

NicoDread · 11-07-2009, 10:26 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by mahhhc

1. The Knife (Webster Hall)

....

amyzzz · 11-07-2009, 10:32 AM

This will sound dumb, but

Dungen at the Rhythm Room in Phoenix August 24th
was one of the most amazing shows I've seen. Beautiful music, the band members had great camaraderie.

Obligatory Thom Yorke. It started off slow but kept building and building into beautiful insanity.

NIN/JA at Cricket Pavilion was fun, good times, good friends.

Everything else was festival stuff. We've already been over Paul McCartney and MBV at coach and NIN at Bonnaroo.

Coachella Bound · 11-07-2009, 11:00 AM

Ghostland @ COACHELLA

well... yeah basically all of COACHELLA 09.

but besides that,

NOFX @ the Grove
Sleepy Sun/Entrance Band @ the Eagle Rock Arts Center
the Flaming Lips @ the Fox Theatre

JustSteve · 11-07-2009, 11:03 AM

you going to see NOFX at the fox pomona?

Coachella Bound · 11-07-2009, 11:11 AM

i was thinkin about it.... I saw them twice this year, at the G in Feb and then again in August at Warp Tour. The Warp Tour set was fucking awful. Worst ive ever seen them play. It was the last day of the tour and they were shitfaced... but still. i think ive had enough NOFX this year.

and we need to hit up a show.... u live so damn close.

amyzzz · 11-07-2009, 11:14 AM

WHoa there, Steve. You're on the cusp of 5000.

juloxx · 11-07-2009, 11:27 AM

The shows this year that are standing out the most were seeing

The Prodigy back home in LA
Pendulum liveset in LA
Tech N9ne in Denver
And Infected Mushroom at Boulder Colorado.

summerkid · 11-07-2009, 11:31 AM

1. The Cure-Coachella
2. Leonard Cohen-Coachella
3. Animal Collective-henry fonda theatre
4. My Bloody Valentine-Coachella
5. Dead Weather-Street Scene
6. Flaming Lips-Del Mar Racetrack
7. Thom Yorke
8. Echo and the Bunnymen-Nokia
9. Bat for Lahes-Fonda
10. Grizzly Bear-Belly Up Tavern

gaypalmsprings · 11-07-2009, 11:31 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by juloxx

Infected Mushroom

I hope you sought treatment.

Derekx · 11-07-2009, 11:31 AM

Thursday (War All the Time Show) - Knitting Factory
Depeche Mode (Both nights) - Hollywood Bowl
Thom Yorke - Echoplex
Fever Ray - The Glass House
The Flaming Lips - Fox Theater
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Fox Theater
Prince - Club Nokia

I can't even remember half the shows I've seen this year.

Boourns · 11-07-2009, 11:35 AM

Holy shit, I forgot about Prince playing LA this year. How was that?

Aurgasm · 11-07-2009, 11:41 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by mahhhc

1. The Knife (Webster Hall)

ummm i must have missed this tour

Boourns · 11-07-2009, 11:44 AM

Oh, it was the best. David Bowie was a guest vocalist and Boards of Canada opened.

kreutz2112 · 11-07-2009, 11:44 AM

Why would Thursday play a War All The Time show in 2009?

Best show of the year for me is Boredoms at ATP NY. It may be the best show I've ever seen period

Gonshman · 11-07-2009, 11:47 AM

Festival Shows

1. Nine Inch Nails - Bonnaroo

The perfect send-off. I didn't get to go to any of the final shows, but this was all I needed.

2. David Byrne - Bonnaroo

Seeing one of my all-time favorite artists from less than ten feet away

3. Paul McCartney- Coachella

A legend giving me every Beatles song I could have hoped to hear

4. Phish Night 2 - Bonnaroo

First time up close after seeing them on that Friday. Great setlist and amazing guest spot from Bruce Springsteen

5. TV On The Radio - Bonnaroo

Digging deep into their catalogue for a set that had fantastic, wide sound. Young Liars, Halfway Home, Shout Me Out, and an absolutely filthy Wolf Like Me

6. Portugal The Man - Bonnaroo

I had been up for forty hours straight at this point, and shortly after the set I saw a lion roaring at me in the crowd of people. These conditions resulted in a perfectly calibrated set, no missed notes, all fire and brimstone.

7. No Age w/ Bob Mould - ATP

One of my favorite current bands, who had put me on the guestlist for the show, playing the songs of theirs that I love with some Husker Du classics.

Tie 8. Boredoms - ATP, Boris - ATP

Both sets hit me in the gut, a physical and sonic force

Non-Festival

1. Nine Inch Nails/Janes Addiction - Cricket Pavilion, AZ

My first time seeing what had slowly become one of my favorite bands (NIN that is)

2. Moby - Fillmore NY at Irving Plaza, NY

A little top-heavy on recent sleepy songs, but energetic and fun enough to live up to my admittedly high expectations

3. Fever Ray - Webster Hall, NY

Curious, distant, entrancing

4. No Age - Le Poisson Rouge, NY

I had interviewed them before this show and had been obsessively listening to the new EP for the last few days. They played 3/4 from the new EP, a new song, and closed with Sleeper Hold and Boy Void. Awesome

5. Saul Williams - Gramercy Theater, NY

His poetry and songs glued my feet to the floor and through the entire audience into a trance-like state, afraid to move for risk of breaking the spell

zenidogx · 11-07-2009, 11:52 AM

Just throwing down what comes to mind:

Throbbing Gristle - Coachella
Los Campesinos - Street Scene
Mogwai - Field Day
Portugal. The Man - Freebutt, Brighton
Animal Collective - Wiltern, L.A.
David Byrne - Guildhall, Southampton
Arctic Monkeys - Way Out West Festival

still have Pixies . . .

Derekx · 11-07-2009, 12:01 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Boourns

Holy shit, I forgot about Prince playing LA this year. How was that?

It was quite the show! Definitely a different experience seeing him in a small venue compared to the Polo grounds. I'd definitely see him again if I had the chance.

Quote:

Originally Posted by kreutz2112

Why would Thursday play a War All The Time show in 2009?

They also played Full Collapse in its entirety a few weeks ago in New York. I think they just wanted to change things up and do something special.

JustSteve · 11-07-2009, 12:05 PM

best show, people...not shows. singular.

11-06-2009, 10:06 PM	#32
Cdubby old school Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Hanford, CA Posts: 2,773	Re: Best show of 2009 2008 was superb __________________ Dec 5- The Cranberries- Regency Ballroom

11-06-2009, 10:07 PM	#33
EastLos01 Member Join Date: Nov 2009 Posts: 59	Re: Best show of 2009 Macca-Coachella Depeche Mode-Hollywood Bowl PE-Coachella Ozomatli-Belly Up Tavern *** hon mention because it's not a musical act. Kevin Smith at the Orpheum

11-06-2009, 10:24 PM	#34
betao Coachella Junkie Join Date: Feb 2007 Posts: 7,215	Re: Best show of 2009 hmmm 1) My Bloody Valentine @ The National 2) Nine Inch Nails @ Merriweather 3) The Orb @ Coachella 4) The Prodigy @ 9:30 Club 5) Throbbing Grislte @ Coachella 6) Plump DJs @ Coachella 7) A Place To Bury Strangers @ Rock n Roll Hotel honorable mentions go to The Flaming Lips @ Merriweather Sonic Youth @ the National My Bloody Valentine @ Coachella Primal Scream @ 9:30 club The Prodigy @ The Palladium Brian Jonestown Massacre @ Coachella Public Enemy @ V-fest

11-06-2009, 10:50 PM	#35
mountmccabe Dark Lord Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Arizona Posts: 7,532	Re: Best show of 2009 My favorite festival shows, as of yet only ordered within their festival ATP Boredoms No Age w/Bob Mould Boris Shellac Coachella Superchunk A Place To Bury Strangers __________________ if I had to survive, I would eat each and every one of you

11-06-2009, 10:56 PM	#36
pancakespancakes old school Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: San Diego Posts: 4,714	Re: Best show of 2009 My Top 3 so far is very much set in stone and will not change. 1. Animal Collective at the Henry Miller Library in Big Sur 2. Deerhunter at the Eagle Rock Center for the Arts 3. My Bloody Valentine at the El Rey Theatre and Coachella (they're tied) Everything else... not sure yet... and I still have several pretty great shows coming up. __________________ last.fm Arcade Fire, High Places, Autechre, Joanna Newsom, Om, Do Make Say Think, The Strokes, Black Dice, Underworld, QOTSA, Fuck Buttons, Broken Social Scene, Panda Bear, and Spacemen 3 for Coachella 2010!

11-07-2009, 12:17 AM	#39
TommyboyUNM Coachella Junkie Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Albuquerque, NM Posts: 8,607	Re: Best show of 2009 I don't have any shows planned for the rest of the year. So... Festival 1. Nine Inch Nails (Bonnaroo) 2. My Bloody Valentine (Coachella) 3. M83 (Sasquatch) 4. Yeah Yeah Yeahs (Monolith) 5. The Dead Weather (Street Scene) Non Festival 1. Tool (Phoenix, AZ) 2. Nine Inch Nails (Phoenix, AZ) 3. Grizzly Bear (Solana Beach, CA) 4. Thom Yorke (Los Angeles, CA) 5. Portugal. The Man (Santa Fe, NM)

11-07-2009, 03:54 AM	#41
Abe Lincoln Member Join Date: Mar 2007 Posts: 579	Re: Best show of 2009 Wilco @ New Orleans Jazz Fest was my highlight... __________________ America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.

11-07-2009, 09:01 AM	#42
mahhhc Lurker Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: new york city Posts: 24	Re: Best show of 2009 1. Fever Ray (Webster Hall) 2. Grizzly Bear (Town Hall) 3. The Get Up Kids (Gramercy Theater) 4. Department of Eagles (Bowery Ballroom) 5. Dinosaur Jr. (Music Hall of Williamsburg) 6. Japandroids (Mercury Lounge) 7. Hop Along (Apt in Brooklyn) 8. Lightning Bolt (Above the Auto Parts Store) 9. The xx (The Apple Store) still waiting on the Pixies and maybe the Pains of Being Pure at Heart Last edited by mahhhc; 11-07-2009 at 06:19 PM.

11-07-2009, 10:32 AM	#44
amyzzz ungrateful bitch Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: somewhere I'm not s-c-a-t-t-e-r-b-r-a-i-n Posts: 23,184	Re: Best show of 2009 This will sound dumb, but Dungen at the Rhythm Room in Phoenix August 24th was one of the most amazing shows I've seen. Beautiful music, the band members had great camaraderie. Obligatory Thom Yorke. It started off slow but kept building and building into beautiful insanity. NIN/JA at Cricket Pavilion was fun, good times, good friends. Everything else was festival stuff. We've already been over Paul McCartney and MBV at coach and NIN at Bonnaroo. Last edited by amyzzz; 11-07-2009 at 10:33 AM. Reason: whoops, Thom Yorke!

11-07-2009, 11:00 AM	#45
Coachella Bound old school Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: City of Wasted Dreams, CA Posts: 1,516	Re: Best show of 2009 Ghostland @ COACHELLA well... yeah basically all of COACHELLA 09. but besides that, NOFX @ the Grove Sleepy Sun/Entrance Band @ the Eagle Rock Arts Center the Flaming Lips @ the Fox Theatre __________________ Coachella 07, 08, 09 - 2010 WISHLIST - the ENTRANCE BAND SLEEPY SUN FOOL'S GOLD EDWARD SHARPE AND THE MAGNETIC ZEROS the GROWLERS

11-07-2009, 11:03 AM	#46
JustSteve Pedley Rocks Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: the Beach of Newport Posts: 5,135	Re: Best show of 2009 you going to see NOFX at the fox pomona? __________________ Shows, you say? 11.17 Them Crooked Vultures 12.04 NOFX 01.08 Sonic Youth

11-07-2009, 11:11 AM	#47
Coachella Bound old school Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: City of Wasted Dreams, CA Posts: 1,516	Re: Best show of 2009 i was thinkin about it.... I saw them twice this year, at the G in Feb and then again in August at Warp Tour. The Warp Tour set was fucking awful. Worst ive ever seen them play. It was the last day of the tour and they were shitfaced... but still. i think ive had enough NOFX this year. and we need to hit up a show.... u live so damn close. __________________ Coachella 07, 08, 09 - 2010 WISHLIST - the ENTRANCE BAND SLEEPY SUN FOOL'S GOLD EDWARD SHARPE AND THE MAGNETIC ZEROS the GROWLERS

11-07-2009, 11:14 AM	#48
amyzzz ungrateful bitch Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: somewhere I'm not s-c-a-t-t-e-r-b-r-a-i-n Posts: 23,184	Re: Best show of 2009 WHoa there, Steve. You're on the cusp of 5000.

11-07-2009, 11:27 AM	#49
juloxx Member Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Santa Monica Posts: 153	Re: Best show of 2009 The shows this year that are standing out the most were seeing The Prodigy back home in LA Pendulum liveset in LA Tech N9ne in Denver And Infected Mushroom at Boulder Colorado. __________________ Is pretty down to get some Westcoast G-funk and some Drum n Bass into Coachella. "I know jealousy is the devils greed, but your worse than a devil when you turn yo back on the little homies." -WC (Dub-C)

11-07-2009, 11:31 AM	#50
summerkid old school Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: San Diego Posts: 4,778	Re: Best show of 2009 1. The Cure-Coachella 2. Leonard Cohen-Coachella 3. Animal Collective-henry fonda theatre 4. My Bloody Valentine-Coachella 5. Dead Weather-Street Scene 6. Flaming Lips-Del Mar Racetrack 7. Thom Yorke 8. Echo and the Bunnymen-Nokia 9. Bat for Lahes-Fonda 10. Grizzly Bear-Belly Up Tavern __________________ The White Stripes 9/18

11-07-2009, 11:31 AM	#52
Derekx Member Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Colton, CA Posts: 910	Re: Best show of 2009 Thursday (War All the Time Show) - Knitting Factory Depeche Mode (Both nights) - Hollywood Bowl Thom Yorke - Echoplex Fever Ray - The Glass House The Flaming Lips - Fox Theater Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Fox Theater Prince - Club Nokia I can't even remember half the shows I've seen this year. __________________ Underworld for 2010!

11-07-2009, 11:44 AM	#56
kreutz2112 Dick Nicewonger Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: SL UT Posts: 8,234	Re: Best show of 2009 Why would Thursday play a War All The Time show in 2009? Best show of the year for me is Boredoms at ATP NY. It may be the best show I've ever seen period __________________ RAPE STOVE white power!?

11-07-2009, 11:47 AM	#57
Gonshman old school Join Date: Oct 2007 Posts: 3,361	Re: Best show of 2009 Festival Shows 1. Nine Inch Nails - Bonnaroo The perfect send-off. I didn't get to go to any of the final shows, but this was all I needed. 2. David Byrne - Bonnaroo Seeing one of my all-time favorite artists from less than ten feet away 3. Paul McCartney- Coachella A legend giving me every Beatles song I could have hoped to hear 4. Phish Night 2 - Bonnaroo First time up close after seeing them on that Friday. Great setlist and amazing guest spot from Bruce Springsteen 5. TV On The Radio - Bonnaroo Digging deep into their catalogue for a set that had fantastic, wide sound. Young Liars, Halfway Home, Shout Me Out, and an absolutely filthy Wolf Like Me 6. Portugal The Man - Bonnaroo I had been up for forty hours straight at this point, and shortly after the set I saw a lion roaring at me in the crowd of people. These conditions resulted in a perfectly calibrated set, no missed notes, all fire and brimstone. 7. No Age w/ Bob Mould - ATP One of my favorite current bands, who had put me on the guestlist for the show, playing the songs of theirs that I love with some Husker Du classics. Tie 8. Boredoms - ATP, Boris - ATP Both sets hit me in the gut, a physical and sonic force Non-Festival 1. Nine Inch Nails/Janes Addiction - Cricket Pavilion, AZ My first time seeing what had slowly become one of my favorite bands (NIN that is) 2. Moby - Fillmore NY at Irving Plaza, NY A little top-heavy on recent sleepy songs, but energetic and fun enough to live up to my admittedly high expectations 3. Fever Ray - Webster Hall, NY Curious, distant, entrancing 4. No Age - Le Poisson Rouge, NY I had interviewed them before this show and had been obsessively listening to the new EP for the last few days. They played 3/4 from the new EP, a new song, and closed with Sleeper Hold and Boy Void. Awesome 5. Saul Williams - Gramercy Theater, NY His poetry and songs glued my feet to the floor and through the entire audience into a trance-like state, afraid to move for risk of breaking the spell

11-07-2009, 12:05 PM	#60
JustSteve Pedley Rocks Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: the Beach of Newport Posts: 5,135	Re: Best show of 2009 best show, people...not shows. singular. __________________ Shows, you say? 11.17 Them Crooked Vultures 12.04 NOFX 01.08 Sonic Youth

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