Joey788
Refugee
What are the best concerts you've been to this year? List a ranking of the shows you've seen. Along the way, write your favorite specific memories from each show. I usually find that most of the concert fades after time, but a few standout memories stay with you. What are those standout moments for you?
1. U2 at New Meadowlands Stadium (07/20)
2. St. Vincent at Webster Hall (11/03)
3. LCD Soundsystem at Terminal 5 (03/28)
4. Elbow at Terminal 5 (09/25)
5. The National at Beacon Theatre (12/14)
6. Astronautalis at Santos Party House (03/05 and 11/04)
7. Linkin Park at Madison Square Garden (02/04)
8. Foo Fighters at IZOD Center (09/26)
9. Metallica, Slayer, Megadeth, Anthrax at Yankee Stadium (09/14)
10. Los Campesinos! at Bowery Ballroom (11/16)
11. Distant Worlds: Music From Final Fantasy at Brooklyn Academy of Music (04/01)
12. Governor’s Ball at Governor’s Island (06/18)
13. Dum Dum Girls at Bowery Ballroom (03/04)
- The Achtung Baby opening of “EBTTRT”, “The Fly”, “Mysterious Ways”, and “UTEOTW”. Hearing “Zooropa” and “Hold Me Thrill Me” live. Getting “Out of Control” as the last song. Plus, by the time I had walked out of the stadium, it passed midnight and officially became my birthday. No better way to start that day!
- St. Vincent’s scream at the end of “Actor Out of Work”, the insane light show, and her stage dive during “Your Lips Are Red”.
- Shouting along to “All My Friends” and crazily dancing to “Yeah” during LCD’s three-hour extravaganza.
- Hearing the audience on the balcony harmonize with the GA crowd during “One Day Like This” and watching Elbow play “Weather to Fly” to each other towards the back of the stage.
- Matt Berninger’s scream during “Squalor Victoria” and “Available”, the chilled-out video footage of “Little Faith”, the National screwing up the beginning of “Fake Empire” and having a good laugh about it, the unplugged singalong for “Vanderlyle Crybaby Geeks”
- Astronautalis freestyling on everything from Doctor Who to Thor to Stalking Whitney Houston’s pets and accidentally hitting my friend gently with the microphone wire in his excitement.
- Mike Shinoda rapping a bit of “A Place for My Head” during “Bleed It Out”, Linkin Park playing “Blackout” off A Thousand Suns.
- Krist Novoselic coming out to play accordion with the Foo Fighters during “These Days”, reuniting the two surviving members of Nirvana.
- The one-two punch of the Big Four together on stage playing a Motorhead song, followed by Metallica’s crazy laser show for “Battery”.
- The moment where the orchestra began playing “One-Winged Angel” and Sephiroth appeared on the backing screens.
1. U2 at New Meadowlands Stadium (07/20)
2. St. Vincent at Webster Hall (11/03)
3. LCD Soundsystem at Terminal 5 (03/28)
4. Elbow at Terminal 5 (09/25)
5. The National at Beacon Theatre (12/14)
6. Astronautalis at Santos Party House (03/05 and 11/04)
7. Linkin Park at Madison Square Garden (02/04)
8. Foo Fighters at IZOD Center (09/26)
9. Metallica, Slayer, Megadeth, Anthrax at Yankee Stadium (09/14)
10. Los Campesinos! at Bowery Ballroom (11/16)
11. Distant Worlds: Music From Final Fantasy at Brooklyn Academy of Music (04/01)
12. Governor’s Ball at Governor’s Island (06/18)
13. Dum Dum Girls at Bowery Ballroom (03/04)
- The Achtung Baby opening of “EBTTRT”, “The Fly”, “Mysterious Ways”, and “UTEOTW”. Hearing “Zooropa” and “Hold Me Thrill Me” live. Getting “Out of Control” as the last song. Plus, by the time I had walked out of the stadium, it passed midnight and officially became my birthday. No better way to start that day!
- St. Vincent’s scream at the end of “Actor Out of Work”, the insane light show, and her stage dive during “Your Lips Are Red”.
- Shouting along to “All My Friends” and crazily dancing to “Yeah” during LCD’s three-hour extravaganza.
- Hearing the audience on the balcony harmonize with the GA crowd during “One Day Like This” and watching Elbow play “Weather to Fly” to each other towards the back of the stage.
- Matt Berninger’s scream during “Squalor Victoria” and “Available”, the chilled-out video footage of “Little Faith”, the National screwing up the beginning of “Fake Empire” and having a good laugh about it, the unplugged singalong for “Vanderlyle Crybaby Geeks”
- Astronautalis freestyling on everything from Doctor Who to Thor to Stalking Whitney Houston’s pets and accidentally hitting my friend gently with the microphone wire in his excitement.
- Mike Shinoda rapping a bit of “A Place for My Head” during “Bleed It Out”, Linkin Park playing “Blackout” off A Thousand Suns.
- Krist Novoselic coming out to play accordion with the Foo Fighters during “These Days”, reuniting the two surviving members of Nirvana.
- The one-two punch of the Big Four together on stage playing a Motorhead song, followed by Metallica’s crazy laser show for “Battery”.
- The moment where the orchestra began playing “One-Winged Angel” and Sephiroth appeared on the backing screens.