so hey ILM what's the best musical act I saw live during the summer of 1989

it's a miracle the butthole surfers aren't on this list tbh, seemed like they were coming through town on a quarterly basis

Crystallized Movements. They don't get enough love (and a good friend of mine was the drummer).

a lot of otherworldly & brilliant acts here but Diamanda Galas makes everybody else look like a total square.

Yeah, a lot of good stuff, but Diamanda was my vote.

the poll is your excuse to brag, right?

"and even tho I panned about 80% of them"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=klTSqUD0sn0

I <3 u tarfumes

saw em at the CBGBs record store, they used to do shows there

yeah not so humblebrag but all I did was show up

hate to say it but that diamanda gig was p terrible

THE FROGS!!!!!

they were great! it's only right & natural tour iirc

was Cube at the NWA show? if so, that

yeah it was straight outta compton tour so ice cube was still around

they were great too but I was a little distracted cuz select members of the audience began kicking the shit out of whiteboys shortly after they took the stage

i caught a few of these that year too: the tad/nirvana tour, sonic youth/mudhoney tour, my bloody valentine, giant sand... all pretty good tbh. might have to vote for the big guy cos he really tore it up. nirvana were fucking great too though

out of the ones i never saw, i always had a soft spot for death of samantha, but i could imagine them being a bit of a drag live

used to keep a list of all the stuff i'd seen back then, wish i hadn't thrown it away. trying to rack my brain as to who else i saw in 1989: spacemen 3, loop, young gods, fugazi, galaxie 500, the chills, bad brains, dinosaur jr, lunachicks, live skull, naked raygun, das damen, the ex, band of susans, the three johns, throwing muses, big dipper, tar babies, ac temple, ut, dub sex, head of david, thee hypnotics, probably forgetting a whole lot...

basically i'm trying to recall all the ugly t-shirts i used to wear

Crystallized Movements. They don't get enough love (and a good friend of mine was the drummer)

eric the 2nd guitarist is a friend of mine now. voting swans though (1989-era swans live shows were so great)

Not gwar

death of samantha actually pretty goofy live - drummer was in a bee costume

wish I'd gotten to see head of david, not sure if they ever made it to the states. I liked ac temple even tho they were kind of by the numbers, everybody else I knew kinda hated em.

http://youtu.be/jDrH2MmGJI4

As a Clevelander I should rep for Death of Samantha but I just can't.

man I saw gwar so many times back then thru no fault of my own, they were always playing. summer of '89 was with tad in philly. scott seward was at that show too iirc.

Death of Samantha more recently:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0EJqGh9vngs

Edward u know we gotta be close to the same age.. that year I also saw Giant Sand, Sonic Youth, Mudhoney, Volcano Suns, and Laughing Hyenas. I passed up a 30 minute drive to see Nirvana open for the Fluid, lol. Based on my personal experience I am voting for the Hyenas, they were just so goddamn unstoppable back then before the smack really kicked in and I can't imagine they were slackers when you saw 'em either.

I was 18 and prematurely jaded - thought the hyenas were kind of old hat tho I did love "gabriel" and plenty of right-thinking folks found them to be the shit at the time

the one unsung band on the list I'd rep for is fish & roses, so unloved then and even now I can only find one youtube vid by them, for a song that is not exactly representative of their powers

best set for me is a grudgematch between rhys chatham and public enemy, the former was one of the most intense sound experiences, the latter one of the intensest performances, at a stadium no less

best band overall would be swans, even disregarding their amazing improbable comeback. I was kind of bummed that I saw them while supporting one of their less interesting albums but they still killed..

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fuck.

if i had seen UO in 89 i would have so voted for them.

out of no other reason but cos hey had the best hair and suits.

[note : that fact that i never seen UO in concert is one of my all time regrets ... ]

The Stone Roses. No, I didn't see them, but it sounds like the correct answer to this thread.

Kinda wish Crystalized Movements got more than 2 votes, but I'm glad they got those 2 votes.

coulda sworn I voted, so take that as a write-in for the Hyenas.

i saw the stone roses in the summer of 90 at a midnight festival in finland.
it was rather special.

funny I was just talking with two friends who grew up in the 80s and had vague recollection of who the stone roses were, they really meant fuckall to ppl in the US, and I had to explain they were kind of a big deal in the UK

I almost forgot that John Petkovic of Death of Samantha has a weekly thing in the Plain Dealer Friday magazine now. His headshot looks like this:

http://www.cleveland.com/afterdark/images/petkovic_head.jpg

He's also still fronting Cobra Verde, which is a better band anyway. They opened up for GBV when they played in Cleveland last year.

They were GBV for a while there, no? Doug Gillard defected semi-permanently before this reunion business started too, iirc.
I remember Death of Samantha, but was too young at the time to have seen them.

Did not vote, but prob would have voted PE? Not sure. Who cares.

i think mag earwhig! is basically pollard & cobra verde?

I always liked Cobra Verde because their name works whether you get the reference or not. That's my kind of name.

The Stones Roses were also superior to at least 90% of U.S. groups at the time

pffft

i haven't seen any footage but i really have a hard time believing the Stone Roses were a smoking live band even in their prime

tarfunes: if i hadn't voted for the frogs, crystallized movements would have had my vote. though i never saw them live, just heard the rekkerds

Same goes for at least 90% of U.S. bands at the time

frankly, about 90% of ALL bands at ANY given moment in time suck.

all those bands and you missed out on the verve wtf

Exactly especially in the U.S.

oh man, let's not even get into this US vs UK nonsense, i think we can agree that it's all total bullshit on both sides of the pond.