It was an ambitious goal, especially following the massive amount of criticism he’d weathered over the festival’s previous few years.
The Good: After a six-year hiatus, Perry Farrell decided to resurrect Lollapalooza and hit the road once again for a 30-date tour. I’d say that’s a pretty solid silver lining. Interesting Fact: The failure of 2004 did bring some good in the sense that it landed Lollapalooza a permanent home here in Chicago. Even worse news is that had the festival gone as planned, the (then) newly reunited Pixies would have headlined the Chicago stop. Lollapalooza ’04 was to stop at 16 locations, with the ambitious goal of two dates of different music at each stop. The Bad: Obviously, the bad news here is that due to poor ticket sales, the festival was cancelled. It also would have seen the return of Lolla veterans Sonic Youth and Wilco. Acts who were slated to perform included Morrissey (who was probably angered the festival had been cancelled before he had the chance to bail), The Flaming Lips, The Killers, Broken Social Scene, and Modest Mouse, to name just a few. The Good: Considering 2004’s festival was cancelled, the good is more about what could have been. (Though, one could argue the fest’s touring spirit lives on through its international counterparts, which have sprung up in Chile, Brazil, Argentina, Germany, and Sweden.) Throughout its history, some of the most iconic acts in music have performed at the festival, from Paul McCartney to Kanye West to Arcade Fire, in addition to up-and-coming talent that have since become future can’t-miss attractions everywhere. Since then, Lollapalooza has settled down in the Windy City, gradually expanding from two to three to four days. In the US, Lolla has grown and evolved drastically from its touring festival roots, having survived a hibernation from 1997 until 2003, in addition to its canceled 2004 installment, and the virtual presentation in 2020 due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic (because it was online, that fest is outside the scope of this exercise). Of course, many things have changed since its initial heyday in the ’90s. It’s hard to believe that, in 1991, Perry Farrell created the festival as a showcase for Jane’s Addiction’s last hurrah. Can you guess where this year’s poster falls? It's true, it will remind us that we are, after all, not God.Editor’s Note: This ranking of every Lollapalooza lineup was originally published in 2019, and we’ll keep updating it as long as the biggest festival in Chicago keeps rocking. And your father's name will shine again like a beacon in the galaxy. Then, having reached the heights, this all-but-divine race perished in a single night, and nothing was preserved above ground.Īlta, about a million years from now the human race will have crawled up to where the Krell stood in their great moment of triumph and tragedy. Ethically and technologically they were a million years ahead of humankind, for in unlocking the mysteries of nature they had conquered even their baser selves, and when in the course of eons they had abolished sickness and insanity, crime and all injustice, they turned, still in high benevolence, upwards towards space. In times long past, this planet was the home of a mighty, noble race of beings who called themselves the Krell.
United Planets Cruiser C57D, now more than a year out from Earth Base on a special mission to the planetary system of the great main-sequence star Altair. And so, at last, mankind began the conquest and colonization of deep space. Almost at once there followed the discovery of hyperdrive through which the speed of light was first obtained and later greatly surpassed. By 2200 A.D., they had reached the other planets of our solar system. In the final decade of the 21st Century, men and women in rocket ships landed on the moon.
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