Which Riot Fest "Classics in Full" Performance Would You Be Most Keen to Watch?

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The multi-city Riot Fest has announced a new component to this September's festivals in Chicago and Denver. To celebrate the festival's 10th anniversary, ten bands will play classic albums in full.

I definitely loved a couple of these albums at different points in my youth, but something about seeing all of them next to each other like this, and pondering the line-ups of a few of these bands at this stage, is kind of gruesome.

Poll Results

OptionVotes
Weezer - "The Blue Album" 7
Jane's Addiction - "Nothing's Shocking" 5
Naked Raygun - "Throb Throb" 4
Samhain - "Initium" 3
NOFX - "Punk in Drublic" 3
Slayer - "Reign in Blood" 3
Gamble on the 10th "Mystery" LP 2
Descendents - "Milo Goes to College 1
The Get Up Kids - "Something to Write Home About" 1
The Offspring - "Smash" 0


Walter Galt, Friday, 16 May 2014 08:22 (ten years ago) link

These days, I'd probably want to see Get Up Kids over Jane's Addiction and the Descendents, both of whom I've caught on their 90s reunion tours. Might be different for me if it were Ritual de lo Habitual. Milo Goes To College is probbaly my favorite of these albums, but I kinda feel like both the band and I are too old for a lot of it.

What the fuck even at Slayer still playing. I've never really been a Slayer guy, but they should hang it up.

Oh, and if it were Weezer playing The Green Album, this would obviously be different for me.

how's life, Friday, 16 May 2014 11:12 (ten years ago) link

None of them.

Tuomas, Friday, 16 May 2014 12:05 (ten years ago) link

mean-spirited zings are liable to damage the Tuomas brand

From Tha Crouuuch To Da Palacios (DJ Mencap), Friday, 16 May 2014 12:10 (ten years ago) link

Tuomas OTM

smhphony orchestra (crüt), Friday, 16 May 2014 21:39 (ten years ago) link

Slayer first, Descendents second, GUKs third, Naked Raygun fourth. Already saw Weezer do theirs a few years back.

I guess the Offspring one could be funny.

djenter the dragon? (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 16 May 2014 21:44 (ten years ago) link

Gamble on the 10th "Mystery" LP

^i don't even know this one

dollar rave club (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 16 May 2014 21:50 (ten years ago) link

Anything to keep Jane's Addiction from playing new stuff is fine by me

grindie cindy (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 16 May 2014 22:04 (ten years ago) link

Throb Throb by a million miles.

Khamma chameleon (Jon Lewis), Friday, 16 May 2014 23:04 (ten years ago) link

"Gamble on the 10th" totally should be a band name. But it's the one they haven't revealed yet.

StanM, Friday, 16 May 2014 23:16 (ten years ago) link

Slayer

relentlessly pecking at peace (President Keyes), Friday, 16 May 2014 23:58 (ten years ago) link

Punk in Drublic

Jeff, Saturday, 17 May 2014 01:50 (ten years ago) link

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

System, Thursday, 22 May 2014 00:01 (ten years ago) link

so weird

Naked Raygun probably the best of these bands in the modern era, Milo is my fave of the orig LPs, but my dominant feeling is Do Not Want

in conclusion,

check out this Kodak Instamatic picture I took of Samhain back in the day:

http://api.ning.com/files/S*grL6uXoC2yfVbEyrs980crnpSklI9hegI36P3dxc68mfvMhweULWiirJIP3go8VRaAN5ycqyqb9hQcFFx52trqOmCA2z6G/samhain2.jpg?width=434&height=348

KrafTwerk (sleeve), Thursday, 22 May 2014 00:11 (ten years ago) link

voting for mystery tenth album because at least i'd get a laugh in before i'd get depressed

da croupier, Thursday, 22 May 2014 00:21 (ten years ago) link

janes, though when i saw them late 90s? they did most of nothings shocking anyway (was terrific)

۩, Thursday, 22 May 2014 00:24 (ten years ago) link

man who the fuck rates above the already promoted acts as a mystery headliner? Green Day? Husker Du?

da croupier, Thursday, 22 May 2014 00:29 (ten years ago) link

Samhain with or without Damien

Now I Am Become Dracula (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Thursday, 22 May 2014 00:49 (ten years ago) link

Samhain, Descendents, Naked Raygun, Slayer

all pretty tempting to me (i am old)

mystery 10th person could get real gnarly

the tune was space, Thursday, 22 May 2014 01:43 (ten years ago) link

this unknown band, at the time, named Weezer was opening up for Lush at a club that Prince owned in Los Angeles. it was all purple and had naked women statues everywhere. Weezer played and they were sort of great in a real geeky kind of way. well Lush's Uhaul broke down going from San Francisco to Los Angeles. the show got postponed until the next night. got to see Weezer again the next night. a few months later KROQ started to play them all the time. because of those shows i'm voting Weezer.

Bee OK, Thursday, 22 May 2014 01:49 (ten years ago) link

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

System, Friday, 23 May 2014 00:01 (ten years ago) link

six years pass...

I just realized I've never actually heard Nothing's Shocking

anyway the lineup for Riot Fest 2021 is sick, let's all buy tickets. at least a 75% chance you get a refund.

k*r*n koltrane (Simon H.), Wednesday, 17 June 2020 04:54 (four years ago) link

maybe it'll be a drive-in festival, like the drive-in show Doro Pesch did in Germany

Dig Dug the police (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 17 June 2020 05:39 (four years ago) link


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