Top Five Bands You Want To See Live

[dlb]

Oh this is an old thread, but a nice topic!

My top 5 bands or artists that I've been dying to see live and that I'm playing very frequently:

1. Run the Jewels
2. Beck
3. Ween
4. Primus
5. Old Man Gloom

[Toadflax]

Oh this is an old thread, but a nice topic!

It's so old that when I saw it resurrected recently and went back to the beginning of the thread, I was surprised to find that I started it!

[Self.Destructive.Pattern]

I've been to soooo many shows over the years, these still seemed to slip through the cracks.

Phantogram
Muse
Coheed and Cambria
The Avalanches
Eminem
Team Sleep

[ryanmcfly]

Of artists I haven’t seen yet, I’d probably say the five I still really want to see are:
rage against the machine
greg puciato
System of a Down
HEALTH
kendrick Lamar

[the duder]

1.) Slipknot - Have wanted to see them ever since my sophomore year of high school when they dropped the self titled album but have never seen em. Want to before they hang up the masks.
2.) Muse - I spun the HAARP Live at Wembley DVD on repeat for about two years straight.
3.) Arcade Fire - revisited Funeral today and that album still slaps. l'd really love to take my girls to if they ever go back on the road.
4.) Beach House - another album that I've recently revisited was Bloom, and it has aged extremely well. Would love see them live
5.) The National - they've been on this list since I first heard Boxer in 2008. Massively influential and necessary music that found my ears during a very tumultuous time of my life.

[ryanmcfly]

1.) Slipknot - Have wanted to see them ever since my sophomore year of high school when they dropped the self titled album but have never seen em. Want to before they hang up the masks.
2.) Muse - I spun the HAARP Live at Wembley DVD on repeat for about two years straight.

two incredibly good live bands. Highly recommend

[Toadflax]

I've had the opportunity to see a lot of my favorite bands for the first time over the past few years, and I was thinking about how many are left that I'd really love to see. I can barely come up with five anymore, which is kind of amazing, but I thought it would be fun to see what's on all of your lists.

NOTE: I'm limiting this to bands who are currently active (or on hiatus with an expected return). It might be interesting to start a separate thread about top five bands we wish we could have seen when they were still around.

1. David Gilmour
2. Caligula's Horse
3. Radiohead
4. Skunk Anansie
5. System of a Down

Let's hear yours!

EDIT: Updated my list 6/30/22

Resurrecting this thread to say how good 2024 has been for me. I got to see Caligula's Horse at a small venue walking distance from my house, David Gilmour just announced a show in LA in October, and if I had any idea seeing Joni Mitchell was possible, she would have been at the top of my list, so lets just say my tickets to see her in September make me extremely happy.

[virushopper]

For me it's mainly the European bands that never or hardly tour the States.

1. Satyricon
2. Alcest
3. The Kovenant
4. Arcturus
5. Fields of Nephilim

[thefragile_jake]

Revisting this a few years later, my top two are still the same.

1. my bloody valentine
2. Aphex Twin
3. Godflesh
4. Iglooghost
5. Burial

[richardp]

Legacy acts:

1. O-FUCKING-ASIS
2. Rage Against The Machine
3. Metallica
4. Rammstein
5. Pearl Jam


Current bands:

1. Spiritbox
2. Gojira
3. GEL
4. Greg Puciato (Solo)
5. Sleep Token

[the duder]

Better Lovers x 5

[Jinsai]

This sort of discussion makes me glad I’ve seen some artists while they were still here, like Bowie, Sparklehorse, Ray Charles, Elliott Smith, Low, Motörhead… reminds me of the opportunities I had to see Leonard Cohen, Nirvana, Lou Reed, or Prince and missed out.

I guess I’d really like to see Paul McCartney, Stevie Wonder, Joni Mitchell, and Willie Nelson.

[Toadflax]

This sort of discussion makes me glad I’ve seen some artists while they were still here, like Bowie, Sparklehorse, Ray Charles, Elliott Smith, Low, Motörhead… reminds me of the opportunities I had to see Leonard Cohen, Nirvana, Lou Reed, or Prince and missed out.

I guess I’d really like to see Paul McCartney, Stevie Wonder, Joni Mitchell, and Willie Nelson.

Well, okay, now I'm going to start the "bands you wish you could have seen live" thread that I'd been thinking about starting since making this one.