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With a little artistic license, here's what I feel would be the greatest four-day concert lineup in history. These artists would be in the prime of their careers (whenever you feel that may be) when they play the show.

VENUE: Central Park, New York City
DAY 1 (Thursday)
Main Stage
Oasis
- "Acquiesce"
- "Live Forever"
- "Wonderwall"
Cream
- "I Feel Free"
- "White Room"
- "Strange Brew"
- "Cocaine" (Eric Clapton cover)
- "Sunshine of Your Love"
Foo Fighters
- "All My Life"
- "Best of You"
- "Learn to Fly"
- "My Hero"
- "Times Like These"
- "Everlong"
Queen
- "We Will Rock You/We Are the Champions"
- "Under Pressure" (joined by David Bowie)
- "Keep Yourself Alive"
- "Fat Bottomed Girls"
- "Bicycle Race"
- "Radio Ga Ga"
- "Bohemian Rhapsody"
The Verve
- "Bittersweet Symphony"
- "Gravity Grave"
- "She's A Superstar"
- "A New Decade"
- "Love is Noise"
- "Space and Time"
- "A Man Called Sun"
- "Stormy Clouds"
- "Neon Wilderness"
- "Weeping Willow"
- "Come On"
Radiohead
- "Airbag"
- "Packt Like Sardines in a Crushd Tin Box"
- "High and Dry"
- "There There"
- "Idioteque"
- "Kid A"
- "Reckoner"
- "Karma Police"
- "Everything in its Right Place"
- "The National Anthem"
- "Just"
- "Paranoid Android"
The Who
- "Eminence Front"
- "Baba O'Riley"
- "Pinball Wizard"
- "The Kids Are Alright"
- "Magic Bus"
- "You Better You Bet"
- "I Can't Explain"
- "Who Are You"
- "Behind Blue Eyes"
- "I Can See For Miles"
- "My Generation"
- "Won't Get Fooled Again"
- "We're Not Going to Take it"
Led Zeppelin
- "Immigrant Song"
- "Black Dog"
- "Whole Lotta Love"
- "In My Time of Dying"
- "Dazed and Confused"
- "When the Levee Breaks"
- "Ramble On"
- "What is and What Should Never Be"
- "Since I've Been Loving You"
- "Bring it On Home"
- "No Quarter"
- "Over the Hills and Far Away"
- "Rock and Roll"
- "How Many More Times"
- "Stairway to Heaven"
- "Ten Years Gone"

Hip Hop Stage
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five
- "White Lines (Don't Don't Do It)"
- "New York, New York"
- "The Message"
The Juice Crew
- "Vapors" (Biz Markie, introducing other members)
- "Ain't No Half Steppin'" (Big Daddy Kane)
- "The Bridge" (MC Shan)
- "Nobody Beats the Biz"
- "The Symphony"
Big L
- "M.V.P."
- "Da Graveyard"
- "Put it On"
- "Platinum Plus"
- "Ebonics"
Pete Rock and CL Smooth
- "The Creator"
- "All Souled Out"
- "Anger in the Nation"
- "Take You There"
- "They Reminisce Over You (T.R.O.Y.)"
Black Star
- "Definition"
- "Hater Players"
- "Mathematics" (Mos Def cover)
- "What's Beef"
- "Get By" (Talib Kweli cover)
- "Brooklyn" (Mos Def cover)
- "Respiration" (joined by Common)
Gang Starr
- "Speak Ya Clout"
- "Take it Personal"
- "Mass Appeal"
- "Words I Manifest"
- "Step in the Arena"
- "Full Clip"
- "DWYCK"
- "Just to Get a Rep"
Jay-Z
- "Izzo (H.O.V.A.)"
- "Excuse Me Miss" (joined by Pharrell)
- "Allure"
- "A Million and One Questions"
- "Big Pimpin'" (joined by UGK)
- "I Just Wanna Love You"
- "Dead Presidents II"
- "Lucifer"
- "Can't Knock the Hustle"
- "Brooklyn's Finest" (joined by Notorious B.I.G.)
Run DMC
- "Sucker MC's"
- "King of Rock"
- "My Adidas"
- "It's Tricky"
- "It's Like That"
- "Walk This Way" (joined by Aerosmith)
Public Enemy
- "Public Enemy #1"
- "Bring the Noise"
- "Welcome to the Terrordome"
- "Shut 'Em Down"
- "Rebel Without a Pause"
- "Don't Believe the Hype"
- "Black Steel in the Hour of Chaos"
- "Fight the Power"
The Notorious B.I.G.
- "Big Poppa"
- "Going Back to Cali"
- "Ten Crack Commandments"
- "Hypnotize"
- "Been Around the World"
- "Who Shot Ya?"
- "Victory"
- "One More Chance"
- "Everyday Struggle"
- "Mo Money Mo Problems"
- "Flava in Your Ear"
- "Juicy"

DAY 2 (Friday)
Main Stage
Jeff Buckley
- "Eternal Life"
- "Everybody Here Wants You"
- "Grace"
Rage Against the Machine
- "Sleep Now in the Fire"
- "Guerrilla Radio"
- "Renegades of Funk"
- "Bulls on Parade"
- "Killing in the Name"
Guns N Roses
- "Welcome to the Jungle"
- "Paradise City"
- "Patience"
- "Sweet Child O' Mine"
- "November Rain"
Curtis Mayfield
- "Move On Up"
- "Superfly"
- "Right On for the Darkness"
David Bowie
- "Suffragette City"
- "Let's Dance"
- "Changes"
- "Rebel Rebel"
- "Ziggy Stardust"
- "Space Oddity"
Nirvana
- "Smells Like Teen Spirit"
- "The Man Who Sold the World" (David Bowie cover)
- "Lithium"
- "Sliver"
- "All Apologies"
- "Come As You Are"
- "In Bloom"
- "Heart Shaped Box"
Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers
- "American Girl"
- "Learning to Fly"
- "I Won't Back Down"
- "Refugee"
- "You Don't Know How it Feels"
- "Running Down a Dream"
- "Mary Jane's Last Dance"
- "Free Falling"
The Band
- "Up on Cripple Creek"
- "Chest Fever"
- "The Night they Drove Old Dixie Down"
- "Ophelia"
- "Don't Do it"
- "Acadian Driftwood"
- "Tears of Rage"
- "The Shape I'm In"
- "Stage Fright"
- "The Weight"
- "I Shall Be Released"
U2
- "Zoo Station"
- "The Fly"
- "Mysterious Ways"
- "Vertigo"
- "Beautiful Day"
- "I Will Follow"
- "Sunday Bloody Sunday"
- "Lemon"
- "Pride (In the Name of Love)"
- "New Year's Day"
- "Until the End of the World"
- "With or Without You"
- "Please"
- "Bad"
- "Running to Stand Still"
- "Where the Streets Have No Name"
- "40"
Neil Young & Crazy Horse (joined by David Crosby, Stephen Stills, and Graham Nash)
- "Carry On"
- "Down By the River"
- "Rockin' in the Free World"
- "Ohio"
- "Southern Man"
- "Suite: Judy Blue Eyes"
- "Woodstock"
- "Like a Hurricane"
- "Helpless"
- "Old Man"
- "Harvest Moon"
- "Hey Hey My My"
- "Cowgirl in the Sand"
- "Impeach the President"
- "Find the Cost of Freedom"
The Rolling Stones
- "Start Me Up"
- "Paint it, Black"
- "It's Only Rock and Roll"
- "Monkey Man"
- "Bitch"
- "Satisfaction"
- "Tumbling Dice"
- "Let's Spend the Night Together"
- "Mother's Little Helper"
- "Brown Sugar"
- "Miss You"
- "Under My Thumb"
- "Honky Tonk Women"
- "Midnight Rambler"
- "Can't You Hear Me Knocking"
- "Wild Horses"
- "Jumping Jack Flash"
- "Beast of Burden"
- "Sympathy For the Devil"
- "Gimme Shelter"
- "You Can't Always Get What You Want"

Hip Hop Stage
Arrested Development
- "People Everyday"
- "Mr. Wendal"
- "Tennessee"
Kanye West
- "Jesus Walks"
- "Stronger"
- "Homecoming"
- "Touch the Sky" (joined by Lupe Fiasco)
The Roots
- "The Seed 2.0"
- "Rhymes & Ammo" (joined by Talib Kweli)
- "Don't Say Nothin'"
- "You Got Me" (joined by Eve & Erykah Badu)
- "What They Do"
The Fugees
- "Cowboys"
- "Zealots"
- "The Score"
- "Fu-Gee-La"
- "Killing Me Softly" (Roberta Flack cover)
- "Doo Wop (That Thing)" (Lauryn Hill cover)
- "Gone Til November" (Wyclef Jean cover)
- "Rumble in the Jungle" (joined by Busta Rhymes)
Common
- "The 6th Sense (Something U Feel)"
- "Southside" (joined by Kanye West)
- "Resurrection"
- "Go!" (joined by John Mayer)
- "The People"
- "Be"
- "Chi City"
- "I Used to Love H.E.R."
KRS-One
- "Step Into A World (Rapture's Delight)"
- "The Bridge is Over"
- "South Bronx"
- "My Philosophy"
- "Rappaz R N Dainja"
- "Classic (Better Than I've Ever Been)" (joined by Kanye West, Nas, Rakim & DJ Premier)
A Tribe Called Quest
- "Excursions"
- "Award Tour"
- "Clap Your Hands"
- "Vibes and Stuff"
- "Oh My God"
- "Mr. Incognito"
- "Scenario" (joined by Busta Rhymes)
- "Check the Rhime"
- "Verses from the Abstract"
- "Electric Relaxation"
- "Can I Kick It?"
Eric B. & Rakim
- "Know the Ledge"
- "Eric B. is President"
- "Microphone Fiend"
- "When I B On Tha Mic"
- "Follow the Leader"
- "Lyrics of Fury"
- "Don't Sweat the Technique"
- "Let the Rhythm Hit 'Em"
- "I Know You Got Soul"
- "My Melody"
Nas
- "N.Y. State of Mind"
- "Nas is Like"
- "Ether/Takeover" (joined by Jay-Z)
- "Got Ur Self A..."
- "The World is Yours"
- "Halftime"
- "If I Ruled the World (Imagine That)" (joined by Lauryn Hill)
- "Play on Playa" (joined by Snoop Dogg)
- "Hip Hop is Dead"
- "Life's a Bitch" (joined by AZ)
- "One Mic"
- "It Ain't Hard to Tell"
Wu-Tang Clan
- "Wu Tang Clan Ain't Nothin to Fuck With"
- "Protect Ya Neck"
- "Got Your Money" (Ol Dirty Bastard)
- "Da Mystery of Chessboxin'"
- "Fame" (GZA)
- "Release Your Delf" (Method Man)
- "Can It Be All So Simple" (Raekwon)
- "Ghost Showers" (Ghostface Killah)
- "Damage" (Ol Dirty Bastard & GZA)
- "Gravel Pit"
- "Brooklyn Zoo" (Ol Dirty Bastard)
- "All That I Got is You" (Ghostface Killah)
- "Bring Da Ruckus"
- "Knock, Knock" (GZA)
- "Shimmy Shimmy Ya" (Ol Dirty Bastard)
- "Shame on a Nigga"
- "How High (Blackout version)" (Method Man joined by Redman)
- "C.R.E.A.M."
- "Method Man"
- "Triumph"

DAY 3 (Saturday)
Main Stage
The Tragically Hip
- "Grace, Too"
- "At the Hundredth Meridian"
- "Courage (for Hugh Maclennan)"
John Mayer Trio
- "Who Did You Think I Was?"
- "Wait Until Tomorrow" (Jimi Hendrix cover)
- "Vultures"
Incubus
- "Megalomaniac"
- "Drive"
- "Stellar"
- "Nice to Know You"
Stevie Ray Vaughan
- "Pride and Joy"
- "Look at Little Sister"
- "Crossfire"
- "Texas Flood"
- "Voodoo Child (Slight Return)" (Jimi Hendrix cover)
Black Sabbath
- "Paranoid"
- "War Pigs"
- "Crazy Train" (Ozzy Osbourne)
- "Bark at the Moon" (Ozzy Osbourne)
- "Sweet Leaf"
- "Iron Man"
Pearl Jam
- "Even Flow"
- "Life Wasted"
- "Dissident"
- "Black"
- "Do the Evolution"
- "Jeremy"
- "I Am Mine"
- "Betterman"
- "Alive"
- "Yellow Ledbetter"
Red Hot Chili Peppers
- "Give it Away"
- "Scar Tissue"
- "Aeroplane"
- "Suck My Kiss"
- "Can't Stop"
- "Californication"
- "Otherside"
- "Snow ((Hey Oh))"
- "Around the World"
- "Under the Bridge"
The Doors
- "Roadhouse Blues"
- "Break on Through (To the Other Side)"
- "Light My Fire"
- "Touch Me"
- "Soul Kitchen"
- "LA Woman"
- "Riders on the Storm"
- "When the Music's Over"
- "Five to One"
- "Peace Frog"
- "The End"
The Eagles
- "Rocky Mountain Way" (Joe Walsh)
- "In the City"
- "Witchy Woman"
- "Boys of Summer" (Don Henley)
- "Desperado"
- "Get Over it"
- "Tequila Sunrise"
- "Peaceful Easy Feeling"
- "Take it Easy"
- "The Last Resort"
- "I Can't Tell You Why"
- "Hotel California"
James Brown
- "I Got You (I Feel Good)"
- "Funky President (People it's Bad)"
- "It's a Man's Man's Man's World"
- "Papa's Got a Brand New Bag"
- "Living in America"
- "Get Up Offa that Thing"
- "I Got the Feelin'"
- "Get Up (I Feel Like Being a) Sex Machine"
- "Please, Please, Please"
- "Funky Drummer"
- "Say it Loud - I'm Black and I'm Proud"
Pink Floyd
- "Shine on You Crazy Diamond (Pt. I-V)"
- "Run Like Hell"
- "Astronomy Domine"
- "Breathe"
- "Time/Breathe (reprise)"
- "Echoes"
- "Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun"
- "Careful With That Axe, Eugene"
- "One of These Days"
- "The Great Gig in the Sky"
- "Money"
- "Dogs"
- "Sheep"
- "Wish You Were Here"
- "Another Brick in the Wall (Pt. II)"
- "Brain Damage/Eclipse"
(encore)
- "Hey You"
- "Comfortably Numb"
- "High Hopes"
- "Shine on You Crazy Diamond (Pt. IV-IX)"

Hip Hop Stage
The Game
- "The Documentary"
- "Runnin'"
- "One Blood"
EPMD
- "You're a Customer"
- "Strictly Business"
- "So Whatcha Sayin'"
Doug E. Fresh & Slick Rick
- "The Show"
- "Children's Story"
- "La Di Da Di"
LL Cool J
- "Mama Said Knock You Out"
- "I Need Love"
- "Phenomenon"
Eminem
- "My Name Is"
- "The Real Slim Shady"
- "Guilty Conscience" (joined by Dr. Dre)
- "Lose Yourself"
- "Without Me"
- "Mosh"
The Beastie Boys
- "No Sleep Till Brooklyn"
- "High Plains Drifter"
- "(You Gotta) Fight for Your Right (to Party!)"
- "Brass Monkey"
- "So What'cha Want"
- "Ch-Check it Out"
- "Three MC's and One DJ"
- "Hey Ladies"
- "Intergalactic"
- "An Open Letter to NYC"
- "Paul Revere"
- "Sabotage"
Snoop Dogg
- "Sexual Eruption"
- "Beautiful" (joined by Pharrell)
- "Drop it Like It's Hot"
- "Gin and Juice"
- "Still a G Thang"
- "I Wanna Fuck You" (joined by Akon)
- "Who am I (What's My Name)?"
- "Murder Was the Case"
- "Nuthin But a G Thang" (joined by Dr. Dre)
- "Deep Cover"
- "Fuck Wit Dre Day (And Everybody's Celebratin')"
NWA
- "Straight Outta Compton"
- "Boyz-n-tha-Hood"
- "Fuck tha Police"
- "Gangsta Gangsta"
- "It Was a Good Day" (Ice Cube)
- "Real Muthaphukkin' G'z" (Eazy-E)
- "Still D.R.E." (Dr. Dre)
- "Check Yo Self" (Ice Cube)
- "Niggaz4life"
- "100 Miles and Runnin"
- "Appetite for Destruction"
- "Express Yourself"
Tupac Shakur
- "California Love" (joined by Dr. Dre)
- "All Eyez on Me"
- "Troublesome '96"
- "Keep Ya Head Up"
- "To Live and Die in LA"
- "All About U"
- "Homeboyz"
- "Hit 'Em Up"
- "Pac's Life"
- "Only God Can Judge Me"
- "Me Against the World"
- "Dear Mama"
- "Krazy"
- "Starin' Through My Rear View"
- "Hail Mary"
- "Changes"

DAY 4 (Sunday - Main Stage Only)
The Velvet Underground
- "Sweet Jane"
- "Pale Blue Eyes"
- "I'm Waiting for the Man"
Jefferson Airplane
- "Somebody to Love"
- "Crown of Creation"
- "White Rabbit"
Santana
- "Black Magic Woman"
- "Oye Como Va"
- "Samba Pa Ti"
- "Soul Sacrifice"
Bob Marley
- "Redemption Song"
- "Jammin'"
- "Get Up, Stand Up"
- "Exodus"
- "No Woman No Cry"
The Grateful Dead
- "Sunshine Daydream"
- "Hell in a Bucket"
- "Box of Rain"
- "Friend of the Devil"
- "Fire on the Mountain"
- "Touch of Grey"
- "Truckin'"
- "Dark Star"
Fleetwood Mac
- "Edge of Seventeen" (Stevie Nicks)
- "You Make Loving Fun"
- "The Chain"
- "Rhiannon"
- "Dreams"
- "Go Your Own Way"
The Allman Brothers Band
- "Ramblin' Man"
- "Revival"
- "Jessica"
- "Midnight Rider"
- "Statesboro Blues"
- "Pegasus"
- "Whipping Post"
- "In Memory of Elizabeth Reed"
Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band
- "Born in the USA"
- "Dancing in the Dark"
- "Badlands"
- "Thunder Road"
- "Hungry Heart"
- "Radio Nowhere"
- "Tunnel of Love"
- "Glory Days"
- "Cover Me"
- "Born to Run"
Bob Dylan
- "Highway 61 Revisited"
- "Rainy Day Women #12 & 35"
- "Maggie's Farm"
- "Don't Think Twice, It's Alright"
- "Tangled Up in Blue"
- "Blowin' in the Wind"
- "Mr. Tambourine Man" (The Byrds cover)
- "Subterranean Homesick Blues"
- "Stuck Inside of Mobile With the Memphis Blues Again"
- "It's Alright Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)"
- "Hurricane"
- "Like a Rolling Stone"
Sigur Ros
- "Untitled #1 (Vaka)"
- "Svefn-g-Englar"
- "Leit Að L�fi"
- "Glósóli"
- "Við Spilum Endalaust"
- "Sæglópur"
- "Með Suð � Eyrum"
- "Hopp�polla"
- "Viðrar Vel Til Loftárása"
- "Untitled #8 (Popplagið)"
Johnny Cash
- "Folsom Prison Blues"
- "I Walk the Line"
- "Oh Lonesome Me"
- "A Boy Named Sue"
- "I've Been Everywhere"
- "God's Gonna Cut You Down"
- "Cocaine Blues"
- "Ring of Fire"
- "Man in Black"
- "Don't Take Your Guns to Town"
- "It Ain't Me, Babe" (joined by June Carter Cash)
- "The Man Comes Around"
- "Hurt"
The Jimi Hendrix Experience
- "Voodoo Chile (Slight Return)"
- "1983...(A Merman I Should Turn to Be)"
- "Hear My Train A-Comin'"
- "Purple Haze"
- "Hey Joe"
- "Spanish Castle Magic"
- "If 6 Was 9"
- "Foxy Lady"
- "The Wind Cries Mary"
- "Little Wing"
- "Bold as Love"
- "All Along the Watchtower" (Bob Dylan cover)
- "Third Stone From the Sun"
- "Machine Gun"
- "Fire"
The Beatles
- "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band"
- "Across the Universe"
- "Come Together"
- "I Want You (She's So Heavy)"
- "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" (joined by Eric Clapton)
- "I Want to Hold Your Hand"
- "I Saw Her Standing There"
- "Please Please Me"
- "Here Comes the Sun"
- "A Hard Day's Night"
- "Can't Buy Me Love"
- "Let it Be"
- "Get Back"
- "Day Tripper"
- "It Don't Come Easy" (Ringo Starr)
- "My Sweet Lord" (George Harrison)
- "Power to the People" (John Lennon)
- "Band on the Run" (Paul McCartney)
- "Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds"
- "Helter Skelter"
- "Strawberry Fields Forever"
- "A Day in the Life"
- "Hey Jude"

Well there it is. I'm sure someone here wants to pillory me for making poor choices, but I think this would be the greatest possible concert festival of all time.

Feel free to comment or make one of your own below.
 
All things considered, this is a great lineup. However, there are a few conspicuous absences. You could fit any of the following sets in anywhere there:

Metallica:

Call Of The Khutlu
The Unforgiven
Thing That Should Not Be
For Whom The Bell Tolls
Battery
Wherever I May Roam
Until It Sleeps
Bleeding Me
Suicide & Redemption
Master Of Puppets
One
Orion
To Live Is To Die
Fade To Black

Depeche Mode:

I Feel You
People Are People
Just Can't Get Enough
Walking In My Shoes
Strangelove
Policy Of Truth
Enjoy The Silence
Personal Jesus
Everything Counts
One Caress

The Clash:

Should I Stay Or Should I Go
Tommy Gun
Somebody Got Murdered
I Fought The Law(And The Law Won)
Rock The Casbah
London Calling

The Ramones:

Blitzkrieg Bop
I Wanna Be Sedated
I Remember You
Poison Heart
I Believe In Miracles
Pet Sematary

Green Day:

Minority
Holiday
Welcome To Paradise
Brain Stew
Boulevard Of Broken Dreams
When I Come Around
Basket Case
Nice Guys Finish Last
Redundant
When September Ends
Macy's Day Parade
Good Riddance

Elton John:

Benny And The Jets
Crocodile Rock
Border Song
Daniel
Your Song
Candle In The Wind
Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
Don't Let The Sun Go Down On Me
Rocket Man
Tiny Dancer

Billy Joel:

Piano Man
The Stranger
Movin' Out(Anthony's Song)
See The Lights Go Out On Broadway
New York State Of Mind
The Longest Time
Only The Good Die Young
Uptown Girl
It's Still Rock And Roll To Me
We Didn't Start The Fire
Goodnight Saigon
Scenes From An Italian Restaurant
Famous Last Words

Smashing Pumpkins:

Bullet With Butterfly Wings
Cherub Rock
Disarm
Today
1979
Ava Adore
Stand Inside Your Love
Tonight, Tonight

Also, I thought your Bowie set was a little lacking...I'd go with:

Warszawa
Space Oddity
Rebel Rebel
Changes
Moonage Daydream
Starman
Life On Mars
1984
Suffragette City
Ziggy Stardust
Heroes
All The Young Dudes
 
Hah, I remember trying to do something like this a few years back. Looks like I'll have to make one again sometime soon.
 
I used to spend hours doing this in Physics class, and I still got an A. As I'm in the middle of studying for the GRE subject test in literature, applying to PhD programs, writing a paper on James Joyce, and expecting 45 final drafts from freshmen on Tuesday, it seems like the perfect time to revive an old tradition. More later.
 
All things considered, this is a great lineup. However, there are a few conspicuous absences. You could fit any of the following sets in anywhere there:

Metallica:
Depeche Mode:
The Clash
The Ramones:
Green Day:
Elton John:
Billy Joel:
Smashing Pumpkins:

I can't believe I missed Smashing Pumpkins. :der: I wrote this out on paper first, and they're on the list...:shrug:

I know very little Bowie, so I expected someone would set me straight sooner or later. I expect the same when it comes to Springsteen.
 
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