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nescience:
Hey y'all,

Seeing the news yesterday that Depeche Mode was slated to headline the first night of the 2006 Coachella Valley Music Festival is bringing back memories of Coachellas past, and with them the rampant speculations on who would play the festival this year.  No matter who ends up on the lineup, it seems there are always a few types you can count on showing up: one or two Returns From Hiatus / Crazy Fantasy Reunions (Kraftwerk, Pixies, New Order, Gang of Four, Bauhaus, Iggy & The Stooges), a few (for better or for worse) Established Legends (Radiohead, Weezer, Coldplay), some (for better or for worse) Rising Stars (Keane, the Faint, the Arcade Fire), some Big Breaks (Dresden Dolls, Polyphonic Spree), and the Stuff Hipsters Flock To During Radiohead(Matmos, Wolf Eyes, Q and Not U, Erase Errata, Mogwai).  Don't forget that some great music comes from the DJ tent!

So here's my question: you've got a stage, a fuckload of ticketholders, unlimited resources, and your pick of groups.  Who would be in your two-day fantasy Coachella line-up, and who would headline??  Pick twelve bands a day for your ten hours of musical edification (Coachella has four or five stages/tents, but we'll assume you're jumping around during the day).  One limitation: I'm going to stick to bands that I think can help sell out a 50,000-ticket-a-day event; as much as I'd like to see Os Mutantes and Fennesz headline, I don't really think it'll sell too many tickets.  I'm also trying to be reasonable about the lower-tier groups, but I honestly couldn't care if Paul McCartney opened the festival.  I'll probably be in the little tent watching Montag though.

I think my lineup would be as such (headliners in BOLD):

Day 1:
DAVID BOWIE
Daft Punk
Sonic Youth
My Bloody Valentine (sundown show!)
XTC
Boredoms
M83
Animal Collective
Lightning Bolt
Out Hud
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah!
Montag

Day 2:
DAVID BYRNE
Kanye West
Wilco
Yellow Magic Orchestra (Late show in the DJ tent, no less)
The Arcade Fire
Aphex Twin
Antony & The Johnsons
Tortoise
Caribou
The Go! Team
The Mae Shi
Vitalic

Dara:
here is my festival, I call it JAPANOCHELLA:

The Pillows
Boredoms
Deerhoof
Melt-Banana
Afrirampo
Boris & Merzbow
Koenjihyakkei
Tujiko Noriko
Acid Mothers Temple
Quruli
Shugo Tokumaru
Zazen Boys
Tokyo Jihen/Ringo Shiina
The Aprils
August Born (w/ special guest whiteboy Ben Chasny)

Thrillho:
You do realise that Pixies, New Order, Gang of Four, Iggy and the Stooges and Kraftwerk are all currently playing gigs, making albums, have albums out or more than one of the above?

BTW, saying you like Coldply is gonna get you raped on here. >_>

Oh, and here's mine, headliner in bold:

Day 1:
Radiohead
Joy Division/New Order
Weezer
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
Wilco
Cave-In
Rage Against The Machine
The Mad Capsule Markets
Nine Inch Nails
Graham Coxon
Billy Talent
Arcade Fire

Day 2:
Pink Floyd
The Beatles
Blur
Sigur Ros
Pixies
Queen
David Bowie
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
Oasis
Eminem
Public Enemy
Lucky Nine/Hundred Reasons

nescience:
1) The bands you mentioned all came out of periods of inactivity (in some cases, major hiatuses of multiple years) to play tours that each included (and in some cases, began with) a performance at the Coachella music festival.  I agree that they are all indeed active well after their respective Coachella stints.
2) I hate Coldplay, but they (for better or for worse) fit into the category I mentioned and actually headlined the first day (which I did not attend) of the festival last year.  Can't win 'em all.

nescience:
Dara, I find it interesting (no less awesome) that you chose the Pillows to headline.  I actually have this rather disquieting urge to see B'z live, but they would be overrun and murdered by the other performers at Japanochella.  Yasuko O. would stab them with her cellphone antenna.

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