Top 10 Concerts of the Year

1. Sixteen Horsepower - Gothic Theatre Denver, CO
2. New Model Army - Black Cat
3. Drive By Truckers - Black Cat, 9:30
4. David Eugene Edwards - Purple Door Festival, PA
5. Clutch - 9:30
6. Rollins Band (w/ guests) as Black Flag - 9:30
7. Jim White - Iota
8. Hidden Hand - Velvet Lounge
9. Paul Weller - 9:30
10. Luther Wright and the Wrongs - Fletchers

since I don't think I made 10 this year, ill give my shortlist

in no real order:
The Waterboys - Ram's Head
Guided By Voices - The Recher
Radiohead - MPP
The Flaming Lips - Recher
Tim Easton - Ram's Head

Placebo is not making this list. God, that show was painful. Band=Good, Audience=Bad.

Stellastarr was good though. And of course, being a teenybopper at heart, I was quite taken with the singer.

I thought the set almost mirrored this past summer's show, and I think I enjoyed the latter better. What was so bad about the audience Laura? The peeps around me were singing the lyrics and pogoing their heads off. As for Stellastarr*, the first song, my fave In the Walls, was a great start and then it was downhill from there.

I'm not a huge fan of the whole physical contact, crushing forward thing. Lots of hair in my mouth. And I never want to smell hair wax ever again. I wasn't really expecting it, I guess, so I didn't really enjoy it as much.

I don't have a top 10, per se… But here's a few that really stick out in my mind.

Bob Mould - Ft. Reno
Sonic Youth/Liars - Recher
Wrens - Black Cat Backstage
Earlimart - Black Cat Backstage
Television - 9:30
Mission of Burma - 9:30
Flaming Lips - 9:30
X - 9:30
Trail of Dead - Black Cat

Camper Van Beethoven
Sigur Ros
Death Cab for Cutie/Mates of State
Dada
Duran Duran
Grandaddy/SFA
Calexico/Frames

1) Ministry - 9:30
2) Anthrax - JAXX
3) Sex Pistols - 9:30
4) Yeah Yeah Yeah's - 9:30
5) Donnas/Ok Go - 9:30
6) Psychodelic Furs - 9:30
7) B-52's - 9:30
8) George Clinton/P Funk All Stars - 9:30
9) Blur - 9:30
10) Human League - 9:30

Radiohead at Red Rocks
Sigur Ros at 9:30
Porcupine Tree at 9:30
Daniel Lanois at 9:30
The Delgados at Black Cat
A Perfect Circle in Memphis
Mogwai at 9:30
Seal at 9:30
Peter Gabriel at Nissan
The Notwist at Black Cat

If I weren't stuck in PA due to the flood, I probably would have gone to BRMC and it would have made the list. oh well, next time :)

Are you banned from clubs other than 9:30?

Originally posted by Guiny:
1) Ministry - 9:30
2) Anthrax - JAXX
3) Sex Pistols - 9:30
4) Yeah Yeah Yeah's - 9:30
5) Donnas/Ok Go - 9:30
6) Psychodelic Furs - 9:30
7) B-52's - 9:30
8) George Clinton/P Funk All Stars - 9:30
9) Blur - 9:30
10) Human League - 9:30

I have more than 10. I know, that's cheating, but anyway—in chronological order:

The Rolling Stones 1/16, MSG, NYC
The Rolling Stones, 1/18, MSG, NYC
Joe Jackson, 4/7, 930 club
Cheap Trick 4/29, 930 club
Foo Fighters, 4/30, Patriot Center
Foo Fighters, 5/1, BC
The Rolling Stones, AC/DC, The Pretenders 6/20, Leipzig, Germany
Bruce Springsteen, 6/28, Milan, Italy
Carlsonics, sometime in July, Ft.Reno
Journey, REO Speedwagon, Styx, 7/23, MCI Center (surprised Bags left this off the list!)
Iron Maiden/Dio/Motorhead, 7/29, Merriweather Post (front row!)
Soul Asylum, on/about 8/2, Live on Penn
Sex Pistols, 8/24, 930 club
Deathray Davies, 8/24, Velvet Lounge
Cheap Trick 9/4, 930 Club
Bruce Springsteen, 9/13, FedEx
Carlsonics/Washington Social Club, BC (in Sept., i think)
Superchunk, 10/18, BC
Duran Duran, 11/9, Warner Theater
Washington Social Club, 11/22, VL

There were some others i saw that were good too–Yo La Tengo, George Clinton, Wrens, Pretenders–but i had to cut this list off somewhere…

Originally posted by Embarrassed Laura:
I'm not a huge fan of the whole physical contact, crushing forward thing. Lots of hair in my mouth. And I never want to smell hair wax ever again. I wasn't really expecting it, I guess, so I didn't really enjoy it as much.

I'd suggest viewing from upstairs then where peeps are more lax, for a more pleasant experience.

Originally posted by tooms:

The Rolling Stones, AC/DC, The Pretenders 6/20, Leipzig, Germany

bet that was a fun one!

Originally posted by eddie:
1. Sixteen Horsepower - Gothic Theatre Denver, CO
2. New Model Army - Black Cat
3. Drive By Truckers - Black Cat, 9:30
4. David Eugene Edwards - Purple Door Festival, PA
5. Clutch - 9:30
6. Rollins Band (w/ guests) as Black Flag - 9:30
7. Jim White - Iota
8. Hidden Hand - Velvet Lounge
9. Paul Weller - 9:30
10. Luther Wright and the Wrongs - Fletchers

Damn you, I wanted to see that Luther Wright and the Wrongs show, had the date confused by a week.

Only one 16 HP show on your list?

Originally posted by walkie hearts you all:

Originally posted by tooms:

The Rolling Stones, AC/DC, The Pretenders 6/20, Leipzig, Germany

bet that was a fun one!

Look at tooms, all braggin' and shit. Geez.
:p

And yeah, that Styx/REO Speedwagon show was amazing. Could have done without Journey (who of course was the headliner), but it was all good. Talk about revelling in nostalgia and schtick!

Originally posted by Sir HC:

Originally posted by eddie:
1. Sixteen Horsepower - Gothic Theatre Denver, CO
2. New Model Army - Black Cat
3. Drive By Truckers - Black Cat, 9:30
4. David Eugene Edwards - Purple Door Festival, PA
5. Clutch - 9:30
6. Rollins Band (w/ guests) as Black Flag - 9:30
7. Jim White - Iota
8. Hidden Hand - Velvet Lounge
9. Paul Weller - 9:30
10. Luther Wright and the Wrongs - Fletchers

Damn you, I wanted to see that Luther Wright and the Wrongs show, had the date confused by a week.

Only one 16 HP show on your list?

I really wanted to go to that New Model Army show but it was in that 2 weeks span of every fucking band in the world touring DC. Too much good and not enough time, not to mention way too many trips to DC.

I haven't seen many shows this year,

Rhett Miller, Radiohead, Libertine's, Interpol (which I think was really all about the Occidentals for me)….

everyshow I went to for a reason and enjoyed thoroughly for its own merits, but this weekend I was in Philly and I have say I saw one of the best shows I've seen in a long time. Placebo played at Theater of Living Arts. The sound is not always the best in that joint, but the crowd was more into it than I have seen in a long time at a show. This is the first time I'd seen Plecebo live, sad to say I missed stella star- heard they had a good set too.

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Only one 16 HP show on your list? [/QB]


They only did the one show in the states this year, the instore the day before was ok but no show with flourescent lights can make a top ten list.

Originally posted by Bagster:

Originally posted by walkie hearts you all:

Originally posted by tooms:

The Rolling Stones, AC/DC, The Pretenders 6/20, Leipzig, Germany

bet that was a fun one!

Look at tooms, all braggin' and shit. Geez.
:p

And yeah, that Styx/REO Speedwagon show was amazing. Could have done without Journey (who of course was the headliner), but it was all good. Talk about revelling in nostalgia and schtick!

That Stones-AC/DC-Pretenders show was great. About 1/3 to half the people were there for AC/DC and they rocked. the stones were good too, as were the Pretenders, although the Prentenders show at 9:30 was much better. Not that many people knew the Pretneders, although on e of their sappy ballads got the biggest response, surprisingly ("I'll Stand by You"). It was in a big field in a larger town in eastern Germany. I kind of just showed up and went