Welcome to Stay Music Week, ipromiseyoumedia’s prolonged celebration of some of the magical experiences life has to supply — you guessed it, dwell music. To kick issues off, we’ve compiled the definitive listing of the 100 Finest Excursions of All Time, updating our 2019 rating initially revealed in 2019. Keep tuned this week for extra lists, essays, interviews, and extra.
“Oh, yeah, I caught them on tour, really.”
The final word flex of a music fan. Past ultra-rare vinyl or signed memorabilia, prime listener awards or awkward selfies from probability encounters, no declare carries with it extra cultural cachet as a music fan than casually dropping the truth that you caught that artist on that tour. In reality, simply studying that sentence, your individual best dwell music brag nearly definitely popped into your head, didn’t it?
So, within the spirit of celebration and one-upmanship, we’ve pulled collectively the 100 finest excursions of all time. Why not?
Properly, for one, as a result of it’s almost an inconceivable activity. There may be fairly actually an unknowable quantity of excursions that numerous artists undertook simply this previous yr, not to mention within the historical past of fashionable music. A few of the best runs ever doubtless came about in basements and barrooms, that includes artists who’d by no means ‘make it’ past their native scenes enjoying to small however engaged audiences.
Then, there’s the extremely private relationship every particular person fan has with dwell music. What we search for in live shows varies, how we really feel in numerous areas varies, hell, which excursions we have been even round for varies. Each staffer at ipromiseyoumedia has their very own, very distinct listing, and every reader undoubtedly has their very own as properly. (In reality, we encourage you to share with us what may need made your listing.)
That being stated, let’s give it a shot. We love dwell music an excessive amount of to not.
So, with out additional ado, ipromiseyoumedia presents the 100 Finest Excursions of All Time. We thought of elements like setlist power, efficiency prowess, cultural affect, and extra. Above all, although, we appeared for excursions that both introduced again troughs of excellent reminiscences or emotions of seething jealousy. Regardless of how totally different every of our particular person lists could look, we are able to all agree that every of those 100 excursions completely, positively, unquestionably fucking rocks.
Editor’s Observe: You may relive all of those iconic excursions for your self by testing our suggestions of dwell albums, live performance movies, and extra memorabilia right here.
