Your top 5 performances from 2011

[GuyInTucson]

This is tough for me.

In no order -

- The Strokes
- Sasha
- The Black Keys
- Nas & Damian
- Kanye

Honorable mention - Arcade Fire, Lauryn Hill, The Twelves (they tore the Sahara Tent up), Shpongle (His stage setup was fucking awesome), Joy Formidable, OFF!, One Day As A Lion (could have been an easy top 5 if I could hear half the shit Zach said), The Chemical Brothers, Animal Collective ( I know some here didn't like it, but for me, at that moment, it was perfect).

I have so many honorable mentions because I had a really hard time picking a true top five and considered including all of these in there. So many good performances to choose from.

Who is in your top 5?

[thenoiboi]

-trentemoller
-arcade fire
-titus andronicus
-lightning bolt
-glasser/warpaint (because i'm indecisive and they wre both great)

a few honorable mentions:
-dfa1979 for being dfa1979
-rural alberta advantage/the love language/menomena for being great outdoor kickoff sets.
-one day as a lion/gogol bordello/the twelves/black joe and the honeybears for being fun as hell.
-jimmy eat world for nostalgia.
-city and colour for playing a new song that actually made me tear up a little (the lyrics, about a sister in need of help, were astonishingly touching for me)

[JAvina1283]

Death from above 1979
Interpol
The tallest man on earth
The national
Phantogram

[Nickmau5]

!) Kanye
2) Arcade Fire
3) Doesn't even matter nobody else was even close

[kvnty]

1. Cut Copy = 99.9% of huge Mojave crowd up and dancing the entire high-energy set
2. Arcade Fire = magic
3. Sleigh Bells = rocked it hard (and have grown into a great stage presence)

Didn't see most of the bands who went on before 5 pm because of the heat, so missed a few there. But most, even Ms. Lauren Hill, did a fine job.

[dyltr0n3030]

1. Cut Copy = 99.9% of huge Mojave crowd up and dancing the entire high-energy set
2. Arcade Fire = magic
3. Sleigh Bells = rocked it hard (and have grown into a great stage presence)

Didn't see most of the bands who went on before 5 pm because of the heat, so missed a few there. But most, even Ms. Lauren Hill, did a fine job.

CANT HANDLE DA HEAT BRO?!?!?!?!?

[livethechoice]

1. Mumford
2. PVD
3. Aquabats
4. Cage the elephant
5. Strokes

[kvnty]

CANT HANDLE DA HEAT BRO?!?!?!?!?

I got out of the proverbial kitchen during the blazing day heat - followed the shade around my Jeep usually, since my tent was a death trap. And just the walk from car camping 10 to the festival grounds almost killed. My pale Irish skin couldn't take the sun (I'm so white I couldn't walk to the showers with my shirt off without some random Coachellan commenting on how pale I was or "hope he lathered on the sunscreen.") Next year (if I go again), I would love to be closer to the grounds, car camp 5 or 8.

[shermanoaksyo]

1. Arcade Fire
2. Ms. Lauryn Hill
3. Foals
4. Robyn
5. Animal Collective

Hon. Mention: Broken Social Scene, Shpongle, Duran Duran, NEW PANTS

[brittany]

one day as a lion!!
arcade fire
magnetic man
kyle hall
lauren hill

(didn't attend on sunday otherwise my list would be 5 sunday acts)

[juddyboyo8o]

Tough call on just 5, but I really enjoyed

The National
Arcade Fire
The Black Keys
Kings of Leon
Cage the Elephant
Interpol
Phantogram
Delorean
Empire of the Sun
Elbow
Foals
The Morning Benders

[ethanriver7]

-Kanye West
-The Strokes
-Cut Copy
-Arcade Fire
-Bright Eyes

[TeamCoachellaHellYeah]

PJ Harvey
Arcade Fire
Animal Collective
Crystal Castles
Sleighbells

Biggest surprise? I sat through Chromeo to make sure I had s good spot for PJ, and I enjoyed it
Much more then I should have. Elbow was also quite good.

[IlliniQ]

1. Foals
2. Elbow
3. PJ Harvey
4. Robyn/Cut Copy tie
5. Black Joe Lewis

Also loved Titus, Warpaint, Lauryn Hill, The Love Language, Freelance Whales, Thao with Get Down, Tallest Man, Erykah Badu, BSS, Arcade Fire, Phosphorescent, Delorean, Good Old War, OFF, High Contrast, parts of Kanye but thought other parts poor.

[Redundant567]

The Strokes
Jimmy Eat World
Two Door Cinema Club
Freelance Whales
Flogging Molly

It is really hard to narrow down a top five, every show was pretty damn good.
Honorable Mentions: Foals, Arcade Fire, The Killers surprise songs

[ialvarado2]

Arcade Fire
Trentemoller
Black Keys
Caifanes
DFA 1979

[Jman4321]

1. Arcade Fire
2. Cut Copy
3. Robyn
4. Death From Above 1979
5. Erykah Badu

[braundiggity]

1. Kanye. Mah god.
2. Arcade Fire
3. Bright Eyes
4. Strokes
5. Ms. Lauryn Hill

Kanye and Arcade Fire gave probably two of my all time top 5. Just amazing.

[grichsgang]

Love Language
Rural Alberta Advantage
Two Door Cinema Club
Black Keys
Black Joe

HM: Good Old War, Plan B, Foals, Tame Impala, Cold War Kids, Mumford, Fistful of Mercy

[socalguy100]

1. CSS
2. Sleigh Bells
3. Crystal Castles
4. Yacht
5. Duran Duran

[Sleeping Lion]

Crystal Castles - Alice deserves the fucking spirit award for even performing in her condition.
Leftfield pushed my shit in. I expected nothing and was served a holy mess.
Empire of the Sun, phenomenal.

[Memorial_07]

1. Lightning Bolt
2. Erykah Badu
3. Death From Above 1979
4. The Strokes
5. Big Audio Dynamite

[alpharuin]

1. Trentemøller
2. Arcade Fire
3. Wire
4. Lightning Bolt
5. Warpaint

[dan13l]

1. Arcade Fire
2. Kanye
3. Afrojack
4. Empire of the Sun
5. The Strokes

Honorable Mention: The Radio Dept

[ivankay]

Not properly evaluated, but here's 5:


Suede


Leftfield


Kanye


The Joy Formidable


The Aquabats!

So much great stuff. Some i can't put in there because incomplete sets or i was having issues. Example of the issues: i missed being close for Arcade Fire because of the greatness of Suede. i was mingling through the HUGE crowd and was getting bummed by the non fan chatter about little life crap. The band was great as always, but my head and body were out of it. Then i went into the Untitled project, got serenity and was ready to go for a few more hours.

[seanxpaul]

1. The Chemical Brothers (even with a shortened set)
2. Trentemøller
3. Arcade Fire
4. Sasha
5. Leftfield

[Dede' Arneaux]

• Lauren hill
• Plan b
• Suede
• The strokes
• The national

Honourable mentions also to tinie tempah, broken social scene, foals and the joy formidable

[cormaic]

5. Arcade Fire
4. Suede
3. DFA1979
2. PJ Harvey
1. Trentemoller


I had no idea I would enjoy Trentemoller as much as I did. Totally took me by surprise.

[GolfWang]

1. Arcade Fire
2. Animal Collective
3. Chemical Brothers
4. Leftfield
5. Lauryn Hill

[still_lurking]

Caveat -- (not on the Main Stage)

1. Two Door Cinema Club -- for those that were there, the Mohave was overflowed, and it was packed outside the tent...so much so that people were cramped outside of the tent.
2. Cut Copy -- Rocking and had good Mohave overflow
3. Empire of the Sun
4. Yele
5. The Twelves