Favorite Sets of 2014

[Julian, Bespoke SEXPERT]

Screw it... Every show and festival that I went to and every band that I saw at each up to 12/17.  It definitely was a light year for me.

1/8 - perfect pussy/big mouth/multicult/hive bent at metro gallery
1/24 - Pixies in Philly
1/25 - Weekends, Small Apartments, Wing Dam, Goblin Mold at Ottobar
1/31 - Neutral Milk Hotel at DAR
2/20 - Chester Endersby Gwazda Mobtown Microshow
2/28 - Roomrunner, Multicult, One Watt Sun, Two Inch Astronaut- Stem Graphics
3/7 - Baltimore Popfest with:THE PAINS OF BEING PURE AT HEART, ETERNAL SUMMERS, WILDHONEY, LITERATURE, SAPPHIRE MANSIONS, THE ARTDEPARTMENT, EXPERT ALTERATIONS
3/13 - Smoke Bellow at Mobtown Microshow
3/21 - Krill at the Dunes
3/21 - Janel and Anthony, Cigarette at Comet
4/2 - Bayside and Four Year Strong at SoundStage
4/15 - Good Throb, Priests, Big Mouth at Barclay House
4/16 - Keller Williams at Rams Head on Stage
4/18 - Loop, Jowe Head, the Flying Eyes at Metro Gallery
4/19 - Cloud Cult (acoustic and electric sets) at Sixth and I
4/23 - BLACK DICE, WOLF EYES, NAUTICAL ALMANAC, ODWALLA 88 at Current Gallery Lot
4/24 - Riff Raff at Fillmore
5/2 - THE SKULL DEFEKTS, ZOMES, HORSE LORDS, MICROKINGDOM, MULTICULT at Gold Bar
5/6 - Wye Oak at 930 Club
5/14 - Swans at Black Cat
5/16 - matmos, dan deacon, horse lords at Fifth Dimension
5/31 - Wildhoney (Seventeen Forever record release), Big Mouth, Smoke Bellow, Gold-Bears, and Literature at the Crown
6/12 - SWEARIN, POTTY MOUTH, WING DAM, DUNGEON KIDS at the Ottobar
6/26 - Dope Body, Guerilla Toss, Horse Lords at Metro Gallery
7/5 - DARK BLUE, Expert Alterations, CP/M at METRO GALLERY
7/10 - NOUN, MODERN HUT, SAL BANDO, BLACKWOLF BEACH at the Ottobar
7/17 - roomrunner, kowloon walled city, fight amp, hive bent at Metro Gallery
7/25 - Neutral Milk Hotel at MPP
8/7 - Charanjit Singh at Kennedy Center
8/7 - Charanjit Singh and Protect U at Tropacalia
8/23 - Fields Festival: Needle Gun, Weyes Blood, Eola, Nuggs, Odwalla88, Rod Hamilton, Smoke Bellow, Ghost Life, Horse Lords, Humanbeast, Dan Deacon
8/30 - Perfect Pussy/Joanna Gruesome/Potty mouth at RNRH
9/4 - clipping, Piss Anywhere, Clear Channel at Metro Gallery
9/23 - Deafheaven and No Joy at Ottobar
10/3 - UN Fest at Ottobar with Big Mouth, Give, Ausmuteants, Screaming Females, Nothing
10/9 - Placebo at Fillmore
10/12 - Limp Bizkit and MGK at Fillmore
10/21 - Twin Peaks and Tweens at Metro Gallery
10/22 - Slowdive and Low at 930 Club
10/24 - Roomrunner, Dope Body (both playing release show sets), Big Mouth at Metro Gallery
10/27 - Yusuf at Tiny Desk
10/28 - Waka Flocka and Riff Raff at Soundstage
11/20 - Kristeen Young and Wet Brain at Metro Gallery
11/22 - Bleachers at Soundstage
11/26 - gotobeds, leggy, Boy Spit at WindUp Space
12/11 - Vadya Mobtown Microshow

So what is left?  Well, Friends Records Anniversary show is a potential of 40 sets to add to this (I will probably see more like 20 of them) on the 19th and 20th at the Ottobar; Emily Rabbit & Bad Blood Records Present AIR X-MAS!!  with Loud Boyz, Ami Dang, The Sneaks, Ponyo at Metro Gallery; and finally UN XMAS with REAL2REAL, POST PINK, NEONATES, and EXPERT ALTERATIONS at the Ottobar.

And then onward to 2015!

Please tell me you have this in an excel spreadsheet or access database? I will love you forever.

[Julian, Bespoke SEXPERT]

2 Waxahatchee @BlackCat

Glad to see this so high on your list. I remember Azaghal raving about that show too. Saw her/them the next night in Richmond; I went in only knowing one song and was completely blown away by the set.

[Rogue Riderhood]

Please tell me you have this in an excel spreadsheet or access database? I will love you forever.

No, but I should.  I just went back over my Google calendar.  I mark all of my maybes on it, and if I do not go to a show, I delete it from the calendar. 

I have been tempted to go back to my ticket stubs and posters and t shirts to try to figure out what else I saw in previous, non-tracked, years. 

[bearman🐻]

I have a written record of every show, the date, venue, who I went with, if I have them handy setlists, etc. It really helps to go through it periodically because I'm realizing I'm completely starting to forget some stuff.

[Julian, Bespoke SEXPERT]

I have a written record of every show, the date, venue, who I went with, if I have them handy setlists, etc. It really helps to go through it periodically because I'm realizing I'm completely starting to forget some stuff.

I don't have setlists or who attended with me, but I have pieced the rest of that together for myself in Excel. Wishing I'd done Access from the beginning.

[DeathFromAbove1979]

Death From Above 1979 is #1 [surprise!]

In no particular order:
Queens Of The Stone Age
Black Lips
Red Fang

[grateful]

I have a written record of every show, the date, venue, who I went with, if I have them handy setlists, etc. It really helps to go through it periodically because I'm realizing I'm completely starting to forget some stuff.

I don't have setlists or who attended with me, but I have pieced the rest of that together for myself in Excel. Wishing I'd done Access from the beginning.

Isn't there a website for this?

[Rogue Riderhood]

http://www.setlist.fm/ ?

[Julian, Bespoke SEXPERT]

I have a written record of every show, the date, venue, who I went with, if I have them handy setlists, etc. It really helps to go through it periodically because I'm realizing I'm completely starting to forget some stuff.

I don't have setlists or who attended with me, but I have pieced the rest of that together for myself in Excel. Wishing I'd done Access from the beginning.

Isn't there a website for this?

A website for a personalized listing of what shows I've seen and who the openers were? Is GuestOfAGuest following me around again? I sent them a cease and desist.

Someone get my lawyer on the phone.

[challenged]

2 Waxahatchee @BlackCat

Glad to see this so high on your list. I remember Azaghal raving about that show too. Saw her/them the next night in Richmond; I went in only knowing one song and was completely blown away by the set.

List was chronological....although some may be a little out of order...

I was so tired at the Waxahatchee show that I was falling asleep standing up, and i think the first few songs she played were slow/quiet. I remember it getting more interesting as it went on though...

[Julian, Bespoke SEXPERT]

List was chronological...

Oh. 

[challenged]

I have a written record of every show, the date, venue, who I went with, if I have them handy setlists, etc. It really helps to go through it periodically because I'm realizing I'm completely starting to forget some stuff.

I just keep a note in my "Notes" app on the iPhone of the show number, band(s), and venue.

[emmanuel]

I simply record the shows. 

[Yada]

Having a baby and all, probably saw the least amount of shows I've seen since I started going to shows, but in no particular order other than my favorite being Beck @ MPP.

Beck @ MPP
Bahamas @ DC9
Black Lips @ Black Cat
Phish @ MPP
QOTSA @ MPP
St. Vincent @ MPP
Freeman @ R+R Hotel
Dean Ween @ Ottobar
Tweedy @ The Lincoln Theatre

Honorable Let Downs

War on Drugs  @ 930 Club
Ryan Adams @ 930 Club
Trey Anastasio @ 930 Club
Dr. John @ The Hamilton
Malkmus @ The Black Cat

[Rogue Riderhood]

Bands I saw the most in 2014:
Big Mouth - 5 times
Horse Lords - 4 times
Expert Alterations (after tonight) - 4 times
Roomrunner - 3 times
Multicult - 3 times
Wing Dam - 3 times
Smoke Bellow - 3 times
Neutral Milk Hotel - 2 times
Microkingdom - 2 times
Riff Raff - 2 times
Dope Body - 2 times
Perfect Pussy - 2 times
Potty Mouth - 2 times
Weekends - 2 times
Wildhoney - 2 times
Literature - 2 times
Hive Bent - 2 times
Dan Deacon - 2 times

Artists I saw twice in one day:
Charanjit Singh (once at Kennedy Center, once at Tropicalia... Basically the same set in different settings)
Keller Williams  (both at the same venue, one was a solo loop pedal thing; the other, a jam band thing with two other people)
Cloud Cult (this tour they did one acoustic set and one electric set)