RollingStone Best Live Bands Playing Right NOw

daevil1 · 07-23-2007, 05:12 PM

Top 20 Live Bands Playing Right Now. No Pumpkins?

http://www.rollingstone.com/rockdail...ing-right-now/

1. White Stripes
2. Radiohead
3. Pearl Jam
4. Rage Against the Machine
5. U2
6. Metallica
7. Flaming Lips
8. My Morning Jacket
9. The Hold Steady
10. Arcade Fire
11. The Raconteurs
12. Wilco
13. Yeah Yeah Yeahs
14. Red Hot Chili Peppers
15. Gogol Bordello
16. Kings of Leon
17. Muse
18. Dave Matthews Band
19. Tool
20. LCD Soundsystem

Cool As Ice Cream · 07-23-2007, 05:13 PM

my morning jacket not on number 1?

RockLobster · 07-23-2007, 05:18 PM

of course not the pumpkins. they sound shit live.

schmokes · 07-23-2007, 05:20 PM

Yawn...White Stripes and Racontuers...jack white that good live? Doubtful.

Cool As Ice Cream · 07-23-2007, 05:21 PM

they're good.

sans anatomy · 07-23-2007, 05:35 PM

new white stripes album is awful

redbull · 07-23-2007, 05:37 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Cool As Ice Cream

arcade fire not on number 1?

fixed

aztec litany service · 07-23-2007, 05:38 PM

rs loves their jack white
whatever

Dogfighter28 · 07-23-2007, 05:38 PM

Out of that list, I've seen Flaming Lips, The Hold Steady, Tool, and Wilco. The Hold Steady were the best, though Tool was amazing as well.

Cherub Angel · 07-23-2007, 05:40 PM

Hold Steady album sucked ass and Flaming Lips were bad live when they came to Lollapalooza last year. The gimmicks were hiding the fact they played a sucky show.

Dogfighter28 · 07-23-2007, 05:42 PM

Flaming Lips definitely underwhelmed me at Bonnaroo, Wayne babbled about politics more than they actually played and they had no impact and played at flaccid tempos

redbull · 07-23-2007, 05:43 PM

out of this list i have seen

8. My Morning Jacket
10. Arcade Fire
14. Red Hot Chili Peppers

arcade fire beat the shit out of MMJ, and MMJ beat the shit out of RHCP.

Implosion · 07-23-2007, 05:57 PM

Top 10 Poetry Picks: The Best Books of 2004. No Blinking with Fists?

http://poetry.about.com/od/poetryboo...tbooks2004.htm

1. The Maverick Room, by Thomas Sayers Ellis
2. Metropolis XXX: The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, by Rob Fitterman
3. The Complete Elegies of Sextus Propertius, translated by Vincent Katz
4. Chronicles Volume One, by Bob Dylan
5. Steal Away: Selected and New Poems, by C.D. Wright
6. From the Beginning, by Alice Notley
7. Door in the Mountain: New and Collected Poems 1965-2003, by Jean Valentine
8. Turning To Fiction, by Donna Masini
9. Poems I Guess I Wrote, by Ron Padgett
10. America: A History in Verse 1962-1970, by Ed Sanders

Pheeew · 07-23-2007, 05:58 PM

Tool should rank much higher. I know they have their haters, but its undeniable that they put on an excellent show.

Pumpkins put on a great show, too, but only to the hardcore fans. I think the general public just doesn't get it, especially since most every music critic and reviewer is now on the hate SP bandwagon.

sans anatomy · 07-23-2007, 05:59 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by aztec litany service

rs loves their jack white
whatever

but they came down pretty hard int heir review of of the new white stripes... kinda makes me wonder. yeah jack white is a talented guy, but its basically just him. and a really shitty drummer with big bouncy tits. thats the live show. and their better than everyone else out there? and their new album blows? 2+2 = ?

redbull · 07-23-2007, 05:59 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Implosion

Top 10 Poetry Picks: The Best Books of 2004. No Blinking with Fists?

http://poetry.about.com/od/poetryboo...tbooks2004.htm

1. The Maverick Room, by Thomas Sayers Ellis
2. Metropolis XXX: The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, by Rob Fitterman
3. The Complete Elegies of Sextus Propertius, translated by Vincent Katz
4. Chronicles Volume One, by Bob Dylan
5. Steal Away: Selected and New Poems, by C.D. Wright
6. From the Beginning, by Alice Notley
7. Door in the Mountain: New and Collected Poems 1965-2003, by Jean Valentine
8. Turning To Fiction, by Donna Masini
9. Poems I Guess I Wrote, by Ron Padgett
10. America: A History in Verse 1962-1970, by Ed Sanders

Eulogy · 07-23-2007, 06:01 PM

Glad to see Muse get some respect where they deserve it. I don't care how much you hate them, they rock so hard and so well live. mmm.

I can also vouch for Radiohead, Tool, and Dave Matthews Band (they do what they do very well.)

jjbjjbjjb · 07-23-2007, 06:02 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Pheeew

most every music critic and reviewer is now on the hate SP bandwagon.

So not true.

djm5101 · 07-23-2007, 06:08 PM

wow dave shold be higher on that list.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqxL1CCucHc

teamneedle · 07-23-2007, 06:16 PM

radiohead isn't even on tour right now.

manders4001 · 07-23-2007, 06:19 PM

I've only seen Wilco, but I'll be seeing Pearl Jam, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Kings of Leon, and LCD Soundsystem at Lollapalooza, My Morning Jacket, The Arcade Fire, and Muse at Austin City Limits, and The White Stripes in October. I might be seeing the Flaming Lips in September, too. I hope I get a chance to see Radiohead at some point in the near future.

ordinary apathy · 07-23-2007, 06:33 PM

I've seen six of those bands and would prefer the Pumpkins over every one of them. But that's because I'm a fangirl. At least I've come to terms with it, right?

Corgan Rules · 07-23-2007, 06:45 PM

Pumpkins should be on that list if Pearl Jam is....that's a bunch of crap! White Stripes suck!!!

The Trashbirds · 07-23-2007, 06:54 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by sans anatomy

new white stripes album is awful

You are awful. And wrong.

mpp · 07-23-2007, 06:54 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by daevil1

1. White Stripes
2. Radiohead
7. Flaming Lips
10. Arcade Fire
12. Wilco

I've seen these bands.

2. I saw Radiohead in 2001 at the Stone Mountain Meadow in Georgia. I was at that show with my ex-girlfriend (we'd only recently broken up, I had done some dumb shit). We had bought the tickets in May and broken up in June. The show was at the end of July. It was an amazing experience. The show fucking ruled, and I don't even care for Radiohead that much. They were her favorite band. I had to admit to her that they were much better live than the Pumpkins, who we'd gone to see in Columbia in 2000. Yeah, we fucked that night, so what? The show was really good.

7. Flaming Lips - I've seen them 3 times, twice in Athens (40 Watt Club and Classic Center) and once in Atlanta (The Tabernacle). The first two rocked my socks, the third was good but not great b/c I'd seen almost the exact same set several months earlier at the second show. They were much better than Radiohead. Not even in the same league. "Race For the Prize" took my virginity.

10. Arcade Fire - Better than Radiohead, not better than Flaming Lips. But damn close. The first time I saw them, at Variety Playhouse in 2005, they were a mite better than when I saw them a few months back at the Civic Center.

12. Wilco - Damn good. Not as good as Radiohead, I guess, but the show was great. Saw them in Cincinnati at Bogart's.

andrewface · 07-23-2007, 06:55 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Cool As Ice Cream

my morning jacket not on number 1?

haha..all the big 90's bands but the smashing pumpkins...my morning jacket wtf?? i saw them open for foo fighters they were shittttt

The Trashbirds · 07:05 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Dogfighter28

Flaming Lips definitely underwhelmed me at Bonnaroo, Wayne babbled about politics more than they actually played and they had no impact and played at flaccid tempos

Dude, their shows are usually AWESOME!

I saw them last summer twice with Sonic Youth (also VERY good live) and it was the tour for their much disliked "At War with the Mystics" album. Their show was CRAZY. The entire thing was one huge, crazy, psychedelic multimedia display. I mean, even the songs from the album sounded great (they should've made it a live album, because the studio versions are comparatively quite lame). I mean, they were both amazing shows.

Downside: The multimedia shit was so specific that their set (save the encore) was identical at both shows. Not a band worth following around.

The Trashbirds · 07-23-2007, 07:01 PM

The following bands are older than dirt:
2. Radiohead
3. Pearl Jam
4. Rage Against the Machine
5. U2
6. Metallica
7. Flaming Lips
14. Red Hot Chili Peppers
18. Dave Matthews Band
19. Tool

Amazing that this list doesn't contain many new bands, and two of those bands belong to Jack White. Are there really no bands good enough to push a bunch of these dinosaurs down the list?

Dogfighter28 · 07-23-2007, 07:10 PM

Man Man should be on that list. Fucking amazing. Its like the music from Aladdin on crack being played by a bunch of surly men with strange instruments.

Shapan · 07-23-2007, 07:19 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by teamneedle

radiohead isn't even on tour right now.

my anticipation for possibly seeing another radiohead show eventually tops my excitement for seeing pretty much any band currently on tour.

aside from that ive seen rage, muse, kings of leon, arcade fire, the flaming lips, and the chili peppers. muse and the arcade fire were amazing, rage were great, kings of leon were pretty good during the brief time i saw them, the flaming lips put on one hell of a show even though im not a huge fan, and the chili peppers sets have too much mediocrity in it these days. the yeah yeah yeahs are pretty much a priority for me as far as live acts go, i need to see them.

and cmon pitchfork reader brad bennigan, it's rolling stone. man man will have to make a serious mark to get on this list, though they are great.

aside from U2 and metallica that's a pretty solid set of live acts, though.

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Dogfighter28 P4k Reader Baron Burns Location: Tuscaloosa, AL Posts: 5,794	Out of that list, I've seen Flaming Lips, The Hold Steady, Tool, and Wilco. The Hold Steady were the best, though Tool was amazing as well.

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Cherub Angel Apocalyptic Poster Location: nowhere, IL Posts: 2,466	Hold Steady album sucked ass and Flaming Lips were bad live when they came to Lollapalooza last year. The gimmicks were hiding the fact they played a sucky show.

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Dogfighter28 P4k Reader Baron Burns Location: Tuscaloosa, AL Posts: 5,794	Flaming Lips definitely underwhelmed me at Bonnaroo, Wayne babbled about politics more than they actually played and they had no impact and played at flaccid tempos

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redbull Braindead Location: rims big, make the car look like it's two stories Posts: 16,357	out of this list i have seen 8. My Morning Jacket 10. Arcade Fire 14. Red Hot Chili Peppers arcade fire beat the shit out of MMJ, and MMJ beat the shit out of RHCP.

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Implosion Demi-God Posts: 344	Top 10 Poetry Picks: The Best Books of 2004. No Blinking with Fists? http://poetry.about.com/od/poetryboo...tbooks2004.htm 1. The Maverick Room, by Thomas Sayers Ellis 2. Metropolis XXX: The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, by Rob Fitterman 3. The Complete Elegies of Sextus Propertius, translated by Vincent Katz 4. Chronicles Volume One, by Bob Dylan 5. Steal Away: Selected and New Poems, by C.D. Wright 6. From the Beginning, by Alice Notley 7. Door in the Mountain: New and Collected Poems 1965-2003, by Jean Valentine 8. Turning To Fiction, by Donna Masini 9. Poems I Guess I Wrote, by Ron Padgett 10. America: A History in Verse 1962-1970, by Ed Sanders

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Pheeew Demi-God Posts: 476	Tool should rank much higher. I know they have their haters, but its undeniable that they put on an excellent show. Pumpkins put on a great show, too, but only to the hardcore fans. I think the general public just doesn't get it, especially since most every music critic and reviewer is now on the hate SP bandwagon.

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Eulogy huh Posts: 37,315	Glad to see Muse get some respect where they deserve it. I don't care how much you hate them, they rock so hard and so well live. mmm. I can also vouch for Radiohead, Tool, and Dave Matthews Band (they do what they do very well.)

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djm5101 Pledge Location: PA Posts: 62	wow dave shold be higher on that list. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqxL1CCucHc

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manders4001 Demi-God Posts: 258	I've only seen Wilco, but I'll be seeing Pearl Jam, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Kings of Leon, and LCD Soundsystem at Lollapalooza, My Morning Jacket, The Arcade Fire, and Muse at Austin City Limits, and The White Stripes in October. I might be seeing the Flaming Lips in September, too. I hope I get a chance to see Radiohead at some point in the near future.

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ordinary apathy Ownz Location: Austin, TX Posts: 789	I've seen six of those bands and would prefer the Pumpkins over every one of them. But that's because I'm a fangirl. At least I've come to terms with it, right?

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Corgan Rules Apocalyptic Poster Posts: 2,019	Pumpkins should be on that list if Pearl Jam is....that's a bunch of crap! White Stripes suck!!!

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The Trashbirds Ownz Posts: 537	The following bands are older than dirt: 2. Radiohead 3. Pearl Jam 4. Rage Against the Machine 5. U2 6. Metallica 7. Flaming Lips 14. Red Hot Chili Peppers 18. Dave Matthews Band 19. Tool Amazing that this list doesn't contain many new bands, and two of those bands belong to Jack White. Are there really no bands good enough to push a bunch of these dinosaurs down the list?

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Dogfighter28 P4k Reader Baron Burns Location: Tuscaloosa, AL Posts: 5,794	Man Man should be on that list. Fucking amazing. Its like the music from Aladdin on crack being played by a bunch of surly men with strange instruments.