Woodstock vs Live Aid Poll

General music discussion.

Which do you prefer? I've included an "opt-out" answer.

Woodstock
14
74%
Live Aid
3
16%
My "imagined" KISS Meets the Phantom of the Park musical at the London Palladium
2
11%
 
Total votes: 19

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JennyB wrote:
18 Jan 2019, 10:56am
Dr. Medulla wrote:
18 Jan 2019, 10:42am
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18 Jan 2019, 10:36am
I voted for Live Aid, because in my universe, the Concorde crashed.
*snicker* Rather, it crashed sooner.
You know what I meant. THAT Concorde.
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101Walterton wrote:
18 Jan 2019, 9:37pm
revbob wrote:
18 Jan 2019, 6:28pm
I voted Woodstock too. Some good artists at both but Live Aid just seemed like an exercise in self indulgence by many of the artists involved.
Yeah I always felt several of artists used Live Aid for their own agenda. Was it Adam Ant that got slammed for promoting his new single?
Not exactly he got slammed for only performing his new single. One of those "is that it?" moments.
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Marky Dread wrote:
19 Jan 2019, 3:58am
101Walterton wrote:
18 Jan 2019, 9:37pm
revbob wrote:
18 Jan 2019, 6:28pm
I voted Woodstock too. Some good artists at both but Live Aid just seemed like an exercise in self indulgence by many of the artists involved.
Yeah I always felt several of artists used Live Aid for their own agenda. Was it Adam Ant that got slammed for promoting his new single?
Not exactly he got slammed for only performing his new single. One of those "is that it?" moments.
Thanks I knew it was something like that when everyone else playing greatest hits.

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101Walterton wrote:
19 Jan 2019, 6:24pm
Marky Dread wrote:
19 Jan 2019, 3:58am
101Walterton wrote:
18 Jan 2019, 9:37pm
revbob wrote:
18 Jan 2019, 6:28pm
I voted Woodstock too. Some good artists at both but Live Aid just seemed like an exercise in self indulgence by many of the artists involved.
Yeah I always felt several of artists used Live Aid for their own agenda. Was it Adam Ant that got slammed for promoting his new single?
Not exactly he got slammed for only performing his new single. One of those "is that it?" moments.
Thanks I knew it was something like that when everyone else playing greatest hits.
To be fair he only got one song and was in need of a hit, it made sense to play his new single. I thought it was a decent enough song.

The Boomtown Rats played the brilliant but quite obscure "Drag Me Down", and the Style Council threw a couple of non hits in their set. Both just had the advantage of a longer set. And didn't U2 play that dreadful ten minute version of "Bad", which was an album track.
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Heston wrote:
21 Jan 2019, 3:43pm
101Walterton wrote:
19 Jan 2019, 6:24pm
Marky Dread wrote:
19 Jan 2019, 3:58am
101Walterton wrote:
18 Jan 2019, 9:37pm
revbob wrote:
18 Jan 2019, 6:28pm
I voted Woodstock too. Some good artists at both but Live Aid just seemed like an exercise in self indulgence by many of the artists involved.
Yeah I always felt several of artists used Live Aid for their own agenda. Was it Adam Ant that got slammed for promoting his new single?
Not exactly he got slammed for only performing his new single. One of those "is that it?" moments.
Thanks I knew it was something like that when everyone else playing greatest hits.
To be fair he only got one song and was in need of a hit, it made sense to play his new single. I thought it was a decent enough song.

The Boomtown Rats played the brilliant but quite obscure "Drag Me Down", and the Style Council threw a couple of non hits in their set. Both just had the advantage of a longer set. And didn't U2 play that dreadful ten minute version of "Bad", which was an album track.
"Drag Me Down"was a single released the year before. I agree about it being brilliant. U2 had released an EP called "wide Awake in America" about two months before Live Aid and "Bad" was its lead off track.

With Adam I think the disappointment wasn't that single was any good but that he didn't get to play more. After all the hits he had previously.
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