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Post by webm@ster on Apr 28, 2004 23:29:33 GMT -5
Radiohead Tops Gig Poll
Radiohead's 1997 Glastonbury performance has been voted the top concert of all time in a survey by Q magazine. The band had just released their critically and commercially acclaimed album OK Computer at the time.
Other gigs in the Top Ten list include Nirvana's performance at Reading in 1992, Oasis' 1996 Knebworth appearance and Queen's Live Aid appearance in 1985.
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Post by ListenUp on Apr 28, 2004 23:31:51 GMT -5
Oasis should have been #1.  |
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Post by webm@ster on Apr 29, 2004 8:24:36 GMT -5
A LIVE performance by Radiohead has been voted the greatest gig of all time.
The band's appearance at the 1997 Glastonbury festival was the surprise winner in a poll compiled by Q magazine. It was voted ahead of the Beatles' final rooftop concert at Apple HQ. The Sex Pistols' legendary Screen on the Green gig in 1976 also failed to beat Radiohead, as did Oasis at Knebworth and any of the acts from Live Aid.
Radiohead's Saturday night set in front of 40,000 mud-drenched fans was described by festival organiser Michael Eavis as the most inspiring festival gig in 30 years. The only Beatles show to make the top 20 was their impromptu free performance on the roof of Apple's Savile Row headquarters in 1969. Their first live concert for three years, it was also the last time they would play together in public. But it only made seventh in the list compiled by Q readers and contributors.
Nirvana's appearance at the Reading Festival in 1992, at the height of their fame, was voted into second place. Third were Oasis, who played to more than 250,000 fans at Knebworth in August 1996.
The Oasis gigs set the record for Britain's biggest rock concerts, broken by Robbie Williams last year when he played to a total audience of 375,000 at the same venue last year. But Robbie's concerts do not make the top 20.
Coldplay's "triumphant" set at Weston Park, Staffordshire, for V2993 were fourth, ahead of Brian Wilson's recent gig at the Royal Festival Hall in which he performed his lost masterpiece Smile for the first time in 40 years. The rest of the top 10 was made up of Madonna's Earls Court shows in 2001, her first in Britain for eight years; REM's appearance before Nelson Mandela at a free Trafalgar Square gig in 2001; Queen's memorable Live Aid performance in 1985; and Pink Floyd's spectacular Earls Court show in 1980.
source: icwales
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Post by chocolate st*rfish on Apr 29, 2004 13:14:33 GMT -5
Radiohead's 1997 Glastonbury performance has been voted the top concert of all time in a survey by Q magazine. rofl!! i have that gig...the best?? hilarious... |
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Post by Columbia on Apr 29, 2004 17:02:24 GMT -5
yeh ive got it to, its certainly not the best. Last years was better. You can always trust Q to put radiohead top of everything though
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Post by thebeerbaron1 on Apr 29, 2004 17:17:47 GMT -5
oasis at glastonbury IS my favourite ever live recorded gig by any band. i have oasis and radiohead taped from the glasto years they were recorded.
it was a great show radiohead put on but come on people! elvis 56, beatles, the who,stones,doors,sex pistols, the stooges,pistols,nirvana,dr feelgood, the ramones,hendrix, bowie(ziggy period), t-rex, the who,zeppelin,hendrix,the clash, the smiths, take that and the spice girls just for starters all did way much better.
radiohead are vastly overated musically. morrisey did teenage depression so much better dont you think?
get back to your bedrooms you depressed radiohead fans.
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Post by wamiq on May 18, 2004 8:34:32 GMT -5
teenage depression? are you sure you're listening to the same band as the rest of the world?  |
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Post by chocolate st*rfish on May 18, 2004 10:01:22 GMT -5
"i'll take the handshake of carbon monoxide" [...] "a job that slowly kills you, bruises that won't heal" (from No Surprises)
"i’ll swallow up flies " (2+2=5)
"I'll laugh until my head comes off I'll swallow till I burst" [...] "Ice age coming Ice age coming" (Idioteque)
"i slipped on a little white lie we've got heads on sticks...standing in the shadows at the end of my bed the rats and children follow me out of town" (Kid A)
"But I'm a creep, I'm a weirdo. What the hell am I doing here? I don't belong here." (Creep)
"we can slaughter with the gloom...we're gonna gonna crack your little soul" (Dollars and cents)
"i live in a town where you can't smell a thing you watch your feet for cracks in the pavement" (subterranean homesick alien)
"I'm walking out in a force ten gale Birds thrown around, bullets for hail The roof is pulling off by its fingernails Your voice is rattlin' on my window sill...Yesterday's people end up scatterbrain
Any fool can easy pick a hole I only wish I could fall in A moving target in a firing range
" (scatterbrain)
"Karma police arrest this girl her hitler hairdo is making me feel ill" (karma police)
"ambition makes you look very ugly kicking squeeling gucci little piggy you don't remember
you don't remember why don't you remember my name?
off with his head, off with his head......your're leaving the crackle of pig skin the dust and the screaming the yuppies networking
the panic, the vomit the panic, the vomit" (paranoid android)
ETC ETC....
....no offense w-iq but i must admit i've heard more opstimistic songs in me life..
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