Best Live Act at coachella 08: Final Round

[bender]

These are the top 2 from each of the previous 5 heats

[satori777]

Datarock...hands down

[paulb]

Who was the BEST live act? or who was my favourite? Cause... Portishead was probably the best....but I had more fun during Gogol Bordello....

[rage patton]

Kraftwerk, Portishead and Gogol were my top 3 of the weekend.

[superfiction]

portishead annihilates anything else

[zenidogx]

prince was the best act.
waters was the best show.
gogol was the craziest.
barcelona was the most fun.
hot chip was the best to dance to.
battles was the most interesting.
man man was weirdest.
stars was most impressive.
mmj was trippiest.

didn't see portishead, but to almost everyone who did, that was the most special show of the weekend.

[leo01g]

Portishead #1

[thestripe]

Datarock...hands down

:rolleyes

[musicfan66]

Portishead for sure, though Kraftwerk, Prince, The Verve and Roger Waters were excellent as well.

[kitt kat]

I still don't get why everyong is so obssessed with Prince and the MerryMakers Wedding Time Band.

[RickeyinLA]

MODESELEKTOR.

[TeamCoachellaHellYeah]

Portishead was the best Performance of the festival...

[gaypalmsprings]

Kraftwerk isn't really live. It's Memorex.

[TeamCoachellaHellYeah]

Kraftwerk isn't really live. It's Memorex.

<------insert Ed McMahon sound bit here

[bender]

well, at least the top three is easy to see. No clear winner yet though

[JSam67]

The fact that Waters is now ahead of Prince is an atrocity. Prince was the only show that really came close to Portishead.

[sbessiso]

my vote (for Prince) just tied them

[frozen pilgrim]

I finally voted
I cried three times during portishead.
it was the most moving musical experience of my life.
also, IMHO, the most carefully, meticulously, perfectly played set I've ever seen.
I've seen world class symphony orchestras with less co-ordination.
I loved gogol, as I always do, aphex twin was mind blowing and perspective changing, and roger waters was the most spectacular concert I've ever seen, as well as being one of the best in terms of the scale of the sound engineering (twelve fucking hung line arrarys! FUCKING TWELVE!), but portishead was just so incredibly perfect. the only way it could have possibly been better would have been if it was longer. and hey- I wouldn't have minded prince ending at three, and I don't think he would've either.

[cansei de ser sexme]

I finally voted
I cried three times during portishead.
it was the most moving musical experience of my life.
also, IMHO, the most carefully, meticulously, perfectly played set I've ever seen.
I've seen world class symphony orchestras with less co-ordination.
I loved gogol, as I always do, aphex twin was mind blowing and perspective changing, and roger waters was the most spectacular concert I've ever seen, as well as being one of the best in terms of the scale of the sound engineering (twelve fucking hung line arrarys! FUCKING TWELVE!), but portishead was just so incredibly perfect. the only way it could have possibly been better would have been if it was longer. and hey- I wouldn't have minded prince ending at three, and I don't think he would've either.

would you have gone more portishead, as previously planned, and no prince?

[Pixiessp]

I cried too Pilgrim as i am sure many did. Portishead was truly the greatest performance of all my Coachella experiences.

[rage patton]

I have to vote for Kraftwerk. They were just too outstanding.

[PassiveTheory]

Woah... this poll was a lot closer like 2 weeks ago...

[superfiction]

Woah... this poll was a lot closer like 2 weeks ago...

people finally got the idea that portishead is the obvious choice

[Pixiessp]

people finally got the idea that portishead is the obvious choice

your anus is bleeding!!

[frozen pilgrim]

would you have gone more portishead, as previously planned, and no prince?

I don't know- it's all speculation, right? what happened happened, and it was amazing.
I think just for me personally the night could have ended happily with three hours of portishead. but prince was so... prince-like that I couldn't wish the denial of that experience on anyone.

kraftwerk was amazing, too.
the end of radioactivity was one of the most profound shared-reaction moments I've ever experienced. everyone suddenly realizing what day it was and how important that was.

I'm actually currently listening to the awesome flac bootleg (thanks again whoever made it- I can't remember who it was), and it's amazing how dancy kraftwerk was compared to their records. awesome stuff.
oh- to whoever made the bootleg- I really want to use the rip of 'the robots' in a mashup. if it's okay with you.

[faxman75]

The fact that Waters is now ahead of Prince is an atrocity. Prince was the only show that really came close to Portishead.

Prince puts on a show, Waters puts on an experience, Portishead somehow managed to go from playing small clubs in the late 90's to damn near headlining a night a of Coachella in 2008 after taking a break for a whole lot of years.

All were impressive. I think Portishead and Waters were the top 2 of the weekend but Prince was a god damn fun time! Those were your three headliners and everyone of them lived up to the hype or exceded it.

Datarock was great, fuck the haters. :) MGMT, Black Kids and Dan Le Sac vs Scroobius Pip were also tons of fun. Best weekend evaaa.

[thatfinkleygirl]

Gogol hands down for me.

[MarkO]

Kraftwerk, Portishead and Stephen Malkmus were my top 3 of the weekend.


Tweaked.

[MarkO]

would you have gone more portishead, as previously planned, and no prince?

I would have, yes.

[woogie846]

Roger Waters really blew my mind. Him playing with the surround sound was incredible.

[msklvr]

I went with Portishead. Waters a close second.

Holy Fuck would come in third. Holy Fuck blew my mind.

[Boourns]

Roger Waters really blew my mind. Him playing with the surround sound was incredible.

Word. That was sooo trippy.

Portishead, Prince, and Roger Waters were three completely different types of epic awesomeness.

LOL at your sig. I remember posting that wayyyy back in the day.

[hendrixfan143]

portishead

[patsfan5454]

Roger Waters. No argument, the sound, visuals, and just all around greatness of seeing a legend perform on the biggest stage on the US was the most epic of 08

[BlackSwan]

:bump

[digitaldragon03]

Portishead wont do another show in the US until they make another album, who knows when that will be.

Makes the Coachella performance even better.

[Memorial_07]

Prince, Portishead and Roger Waters are all in three different categories.

But Prince won it for me

[sbessiso]

still has, is and may always be Prince for me

[TeamCoachellaHellYeah]

there is a reason why Portishead is winning guys....

[Memorial_07]

there is a reason why Portishead is winning guys....

And that is...

[indietron]

because they were clearly the best act of the weekend =)

[thewindowliquor]

radiohead.

[Backwater]

For me it's a tossup between Prince, Portishead, and The Verve. The conflict between Pendulum and the Verve killed me, same goes for Raconteurs, Aphex Twin. Sunday really sucked this year. Yeah those three were the best. Kraftwerk gets the fourth place vote. Boyz Noize was also fucking sweet.

[sbessiso]

radiohead.

i love you scott

[TeamCoachellaHellYeah]

actually, the more I listen to the Prince cover of Creep, the more I realize how epic it was....Still Portishead was the whole package..

[sbessiso]

Prince wins in my book, and as you all know, my book is the only important one

[Memorial_07]

actually, the more I listen to the Prince cover of Creep, the more I realize how epic it was....Still Portishead was the whole package..

you and me both.
my favorite part of the song has to be when he says the line "you don't care if it hurts"

have you got the purple rain mp3 from coachella?

[TeamCoachellaHellYeah]

you and me both.
my favorite part of the song has to be when he says the line "you don't care if it hurts"

have you got the purple rain mp3 from coachella?

Can you PM me a link of the Mp3? I would like a MP3 of the whole performance if you have it.

[Quadromarshia]

I voted Hot Chip. But Datarock worked that crowd into a fever! So good!

I would have also voted for Midnight Juggernauts.

Kraftwerk, much as I love them, could listen to Minimum-Maximum and feel like I was there.

[unknown]

Can you PM me a link of the Mp3? I would like a MP3 of the whole performance if you have it.

did you get this? i have it all if you need it,,,,, just pm me if you are in need of it