Five musical artists you must see live before you die!

[ChrisSteeleAteMyHamster]

So we have one life to live (or more if you're a Buddhist, but living as a worm or rat doesn't count) and there's plenty of music to go round.

Which musical artists would you put on that lifelong list of "Things to do"?

Personally I'd go for:

Aphex Twin

Bjork

Sigur Ros

Kraftwerk

Goldfrapp

Man that sucks that I haven't seen any of 'em!

[Liam]

Tool

Pearl Jam

Frankly, after them two, none of the others are must sees. But, the other three would be:

In Flames

Emperor

Muse

Edited March 14, 2006 by HGwannabe

[Bigal]

AC/DC

Bob Dylan

The Who

Page-Plant

Pink Floyd

I'm running out of time for them all, sadly

[Rashid]

Gorillaz, just to see what it would be like.

But mostly Sum 41 and Green Day.

[Summers]

Iron Maiden.

[ADG]

Jurassic 5

The Who

Counting Crows

Jack Johnson

AC/DC

Sigur Ros

Goldfrapp

[SeanDMan]

Radiohead and Pink Floyd.

If Pink Floyd ever tour again, I will kill entire cities for tickets.

[tristy]

1. Nine Inch Nails

2. Tool

3. Dillinger Escape Plan

4. The Mars Volta

5. GWAR

Saul Williams, From A Second Story Window, Mindless Self Indulgence and a re-united Smashing Pumpkins are on my 6 through 10, though.

Edited March 14, 2006 by The Man They Call Tristy

[Skummy]

Most of the people I'd like to see live I'd never ever get a chance to, like Tom Waits, who only gigs every once in a blue moon and it'll never be near me, or Syd Barrett, who'll never gig again unless Hell freezes over during his lifetime.

Aside from that...An Albatross (who I should be seeing in the next couple of months anyway), My Bloody Valentine, The Cure, Sonic Youth. I missed out on the chance to see the last two at Route Du Rock last year, so I was gutted about that.

For the most part, though, I don't rate live music that highly. I don't care if a band can play their songs live as well as they sound on the CD because...well...I may as well just listen to the CD, then, eh? I'm only really bothered about live bands if they play differently live than on the album, or throw in a few surprises or some crowd interaction. Hence why Art Brut are one of my favourite live bands.

Also, any Mike Patton project.

EDIT: And I saw two of Tristy's top ten on one night. Ripped

Edited March 14, 2006 by Skumfrog

[Liam]

1. Nine Inch Nails

2. Tool

3. Dillinger Escape Plan

4. The Mars Volta

5. GWAR

Saul Williams, From A Second Story Window, Mindless Self Indulgence and a re-united Smashing Pumpkins are on my 6 through 9, though.

Fixed

But yeah, add DEP to my list.

[tristy]

I can't think of a #10

[Toe]

I must see CKY at least one more time...

[Guest HardKore06]

Tool

Metallica

Black Sabbath

Audioslave (Believe it or not)

The Rolling Stones

[PkmnTrainerJ]

Why must these lists be so negative? BEFORE YOU DIE! Not whilst you're still alive, but BEFORE YOU DIE![/billBailey]

[Dingle]

Audioslave (Believe it or not)? How dare you

Audioslave

Coheed

The Mars Volta (Microphone antics alone >_>)

Mudvayne

System of a Down

Foo's are sidelining, but I've not heard anything about how their live shows are. Grohl did a good acoustic session on Radio 1 a while back, but I dont know about the entire band.

Wish I could have seen RAGE live

[Liam]

I'd see Audioslave just because I'd love to see Cornell.

And apparently the Foo's are great live.

[Dingle]

Awesome, they can stay on the borderline then >_>

[RPS]

1. The Mars Volta

2. Le Tigre

3. The Locust

4. Gorillaz

5. Elton John

[SeanDMan]

Foos are badass live indeed.

[VerbalPuke]

A lot of bands I'd have loved to have seen are either missing members due to death or are simply never going to tour again. With that said...

1. Nomeansno

2. Dead Kennedys

3. The Mummies

4. Any band Billy Childish is touring with

5. Feederz