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2016 was a great year for live music Still got 3 more shows to attend however.... I got to knock off some bucket list musicians for me and saw many of my favorites multiple times. What shows were your favorite this year? Here are my top picks Iggy Pop-United Palace (first time seeing him! great fun show!) The Cure-Madison Square Garden (three shows! Night 1 was my favorite) The Stone Roses-Madison Square Garden (First time seeing them too! Great great show!) Wilco- Kings Theater(Two nights liked night 1 better) Radiohead- Madison Square Garden (Two nights like night 1 best) Bruce Springsteen

Strfkr! Anyone know or like them??

Thanks

Thanks I'll give them a listen

Thanks! Happy Thanksgiving to you and the board! I appreciate also your work also in the viachicago world!

I ought to check them out! I have seen mark eitzel with Peter Buck when he toured behind west loved that album.. do you have a favorite albumOf theirs?

Ha ok.. did you catch them on tour? Great show!

No the Wrong Thing To Do? Love that one

Ever attend one or hear one any highlights? I got to hear a bunch of soundchecks Favorite Radiohead Liberty State Park 2001 They played about 5 songs 2 not played that night one was In Limbo the only time I ever heard it live another was an unreleased song I never found out what it was Decemberists Stubbs 2011 Bunch of wacky covers and a track or two not played that night Guster Penn State 2002 I was working the show so I got to sit and watch the whole thing...fun Springsteen 2003 Giants Stadium Heard Streets of Fire first time played in several years was later played that night and

Duran Duran Is There Anybody Out There Friends of Mine I Take The Dice My Own Way To The Shore Depeche Mode Fly on the Windscreen Satellite The Landscape is Changing Useless Policy of Truth Bjork Possibly Maybe There is More To Life Than This Alarm Call Unison Army of Me

Yeah I had a hard time skipping Dog On Wheels, Mayfly and Fox in the Snow too

Good picks I'd put loneliness in the top 10 for sure

Belle & Sebastian If You're Feeling Sinister Ease Your Feet in the Sea There's Too Much Love I Could Be Dreaming A Summers Wasting

Air Surfing on a Rocket Le Voyage De Penelope Universal Traveler Radio #1 How Does it Make You Feel?

Loved Sandman! Fortunately got see Morphine three times and even met him I miss them a lot a true original!!

Here is a list of my contenders for top 10 albums of the year in no particular order Band of Horses-Why are you Ok? Hamilton Leithauser- I Had a Dream Jayhawks- Paging Mr. Proust Nada Surf-You Know Who You Are Parquet Courts-Human Performance Pet Shop Boys-Super Pete Yorn- Arranging Time Radiohead-A Moon Shaped Pool STRFKR-Being No One, Going No Where Wilco-Schmilco

I saw Ben kweller open for belle and Sebastian in 2003?? Seen Ben a dozen times since

Nice Mental jewelry was s great album that's neat

One of my favorite bands got their start at stone church thanks to gravity however they never took off

Chez in that vein I saw LCD on the Sound of Silver tour Webster hall does that count lol!

Take pictures back then of the shows??

Nice would have loved to see the Pumpkins and Lips early. Saw the lips on the Bulletin tour in 2000 at Fletchers in Baltimore which holds 200 or so. Wayne splatted fake blood on me and gave me a high five..I was in the front row and couldn't hear for days afterwords

Any bands that you saw on the first tour or maybe in an unusually small venue before they got big?? I guess for argument sake bands that could sell well for a 3,000 or more capacity venues these days Mine include Band of Horses-Maxwell's Hoboken 200 capacity on first tour Bloc Party-Bowery Ballroom first tour Coldplay- Saw their second ever NYC show Foals-Maxwell's first tour Franz Ferdinand- Instore Best Buy NYC first tour Guster- Saw their third ever show as Guster at my sleep away camp..maybe 50 kids there My Morning Jacket- 2003 The National-Maxwell's Pete Yorn-Saw first tour at small clu

Saw Sting in a club last night and tonight the Pet Shop Boys

Because it is never too late... I said it even weeks prior to election no matter who gets in they will be a one term president..I guess only time will tell.