5 bands you've seen live that blew you away

[cloudscapes]

A Silver Mt. Zion
Gang Gang Dance
GY!BE
Radiohead
Acid Mothers Temple

[jarder]

Coalesce
Wilco
NIN
Shadow's Fall

thats about it, for the moment

[Aquafina]

Anthony Green w/ Good Old War - First concert I came out of feeling just absurdly smiley
The National - Right next to the stage in my favorite venue
Lamb of God - First time I went into a pit, first time I saw a metal band in a smaller club, the openers were also great
The Black Dahlia Murder - Me and a friend were standing a ways into the crowd, what we thought would be close enough that the area that had been unofficially designated as the pit wouldn't reach us. First song begins and the already huge area from before expands pretty much up to the stage. Wonderful.

Otherwise I can't really think of any...maybe Mastodon playing all of Crack the Skye and the encore...

[Big Mon]

Here's a few others:
Swervedriver
Hum
Guided By Voices
the Flaming Lips
the Breeders

[devnulljp]

Rory Gallagher each and every time
Hawkwind too
First time I saw REM in 1982/3ish they were amazing, not so the next time
Elvis Costello
Iron Maiden as support band for Judas Priest, must have been 1980/81 something like that. I sure wouldn't have wanted to follow that.

[WWRRSS]

Neptune
Boredoms
Ultralyd
Nina Nastasia
Bilge Pump

[Companda]

I want a second turn too!
The Boxhead Ensemble were awesome
Tortoise was awesome
Lungfish was awesome
The Microphones were awesome
Les Savy Fav was beardful

[thelonelyweeblo]

Fugazi (April 4th, 2002 Little Rock, AR) I didn't really know who they were, but I got invited by some lady friends, so I went. Blew my little mind and opened me up to a whole new world.

Days of The New/Weezer (June 12th, 2002 in Little Rock, AR and August of 2002 in Austin, TX)-These were two separate shows. They're on the list because they were two of the first shows where I knew every word of every song.

The Pixies (Sept. 2004 in Austin, TX)-They played for over two hours and it was just amazing.

The Brian Jonestown Massacre (summer of 2005 in Dallas, TX)-This was the last show I saw in Trees before they shut it down. The band started out with a 45 minute jam since Anton had already blown his voice during the tour (probably screaming at someone). After the jam, he got on the mic and told us how it was going to be. He was going to have members of the audience come onstage and sing a song a pop, but if you messed up one of his songs, you're out of the venue. Anyway, when they got to my favorite song, Nevertheless, instead of getting up there (I was upfront), I passed. I was too scared of that dude. Was an incredible experience though.

Neurosis (November 2007 in Austin, TX)-They played the Fun Fun Fun Fest, which is funny cause they're the last band you would associate with the word, fun. They were amazing though. I saw them a second time at the Scion Fest in Atlanta and they were great then too.

[echobaseone]

Slayer, touring Reign in Blood, Halloween of 86...upside down cross flash pots bruned into my retinas and freaked me OUT!
Spiritualized, touring for Pure Phase...one of my favorite ever bands and the rhythm section of Sean Cook and Damon Reece (though they caused some pain for the Spaceman) were INCREDIBLE and locked on.
British Sea Power, touring Decline of...if you get a chance to see this band, do yourself a favor and do it.
The Church, just a few months ago, actually...my wife on my left and my best friend of 20+ years on my right and one of the greatest guitar bands in the world in front of me, playing a song from every one of their 23 records. Some night.
I have to say Spiritualized AGAIN. this time for the Acoustic Mainlines tour a couple of years ago. My very pregnant wife and I drove down to Santa Barbara to see Jason, Doggen, a string quartet and a 3 piece gospel choir take the songs down to their very core. I wasn't on ANYTHING at it took me right out of my skin.

[hazelwould]

BORIS

[PanicProne]

Cult Of Luna
Enter Shikari
36crazyfists
Ben Ottewell (Gomez)
The Perishers

[spacelordmother]

Mogwai (twice)

Nine Inch Nails (woulda been twice cept Trent was sick for that show during the final run... )

Sigur Ros

Ween (six times)

Isis (three times)

[gururyan]

Ween (six times)

Right on, I'll be catching my 8th Ween show in about a month. One of those times was in my wedding tuxedo with my bride of about 3 hours. We took the limo from our wedding straight to the venue to see Ween.

[spacelordmother]

Ween (six times)

Right on, I'll be catching my 8th Ween show in about a month. One of those times was in my wedding tuxedo with my bride of about 3 hours. We took the limo from our wedding straight to the venue to see Ween.

Amazing!

[floating opera]

Sunburned Hand of the Man
Make Believe
Grupo Fantasma
Shannon Wright
Plate Six