Posted by Amanda | Posted in Amanda's Lists | Posted on 10:16 PM
Popular/mainstream music concerts I have attended in my lifetime: NSYNC, Backstreet Boys, Philly Chili Cookoff (Pinmonkey, Martina McBride, Tim McGraw, etc.), Dixie Chicks, Warped Tour (The Starting Line, The All-American Rejects, Brand New, Less Than Jake, etc.), Coldplay, and Imogen Heap.
This playlist kinda cracks me up; however, in no way is it representative of all my concert going experiences. I grew up attending concerts by the Philadelphia Orchestra (it was sort of my family's version of Family Home Evening--we had season tickets to a lot of cool stuff back then). Once I got to BYU, I went to tons of free recitals and inexpensive concerts. One of my favorite memories of my BYU years involve a big group of us driving down to MOAB for the annual music festival there. We trekked up to the top of a mesa overlooking the Colorado River, gathered under a white tent, and--as the sun set--listened to a piano quintet perform classics by Russian masters like Prokofiev and Rachmaninoff. I spent most of my free time on a London study abroad watching plays and musicals, but I got to see a few concerts there, too. Then during the year I lived in D.C. I was lucky enough to catch a lot of concerts at the Kennedy Center for free, as well as a few others for pretty cheap. Anyway, I offer these details as a stand-in for a more legit, comprehensive playlist...
And then there's the readings I've attended. Sure, they're not musical concerts, but they're arguably similar, right? Eh, I'll spare you that, at least. :)
- (God Must Have Spent) A Little More Time on You - NSYNC
- Larger Than Life - Backstreet Boys
- Barbed Wire and Roses - Pinmonkey
- Independence Day - Martina McBride
- Where the Green Grass Grows - Tim McGraw
- Some Days You Gotta Dance - Dixie Chicks
- Best of Me - The Starting Line
- Swing, Swing - The All-American Rejects
- The Boy Who Blocked His Own Shot - Brand New
- Look What Happened - Less Than Jake
- Till Kingdom Come - Coldplay*
- Just For Now - Imogen Heap
*This song is actually a tribute to Johnny Cash. Coldplay first wrote it with the idea in mind of one day performing it with Cash, but he died before they could do it. At the concert, they performed a killer cover of "Ring of Fire" before playing "Till Kingdom Come."