History YMMV / Woodstock

** The ''New York Times'' initially planned to publish an article called "Nightmare in the Catskills," calling the festival a complete disaster, a filthy, mud-soaked "social catastrophe in the making," and the participants having "little more sanity than lemmings", featuring injuries, illnesses, drug overdoses, blah blah. The on-the-scene ''Times'' reporters, impressed by the friendly courtesy and cooperation among attendees, performers and staff, had sent in much more positive, even glowing reports. When they realized that their paper was going to go all gloomy and cynical on them, they marched ''en masse'' into the office of managing editor Arthur Sulzberger and announced, "We quit!" When they explained, the article was quickly smoothed over and rewritten with a more upbeat tone. It is called "[[https://www.nytimes.com/1969/08/19/archives/morning-after-at-bethel.html Morning After at Bethel]]".

** Critics only praised Woodstock '99's less aggressive/non-metal acts, but all of these performances were both less remembered than 1994's and were completely overshadowed by the violence at the end of the festival. The more fondly remembered sets included [[Music/ParliamentFunkadelic George Clinton]], Music/TheTragicallyHip, Music/{{Jamiroquai}}, Los Lobos, G. Love & Special Sauce and one of Music/JamesBrown's last great performances. The '99 festival was also notable as the first major American concert by Music/{{Muse}}...who played on the "Emerging Artists Stage" to almost no attention.

''From you I get the story...''\\

''Right behind you I see the millions''

** In a meta sense, how the 1969 concert turned out. Due to every bad thing that could go wrong - the unexpected turnout of ''500000 people'' overwhelming the gate, lack of food, lack of shelter for the bad weather, acts not showing up, half of everything getting covered in mud, the traffic jam that literally shut down most of the state, bad drugs, what have you - there was every likelihood this could have turned into a riot... and indeed Governor Nelson Rockefeller was thisclose to declaring an emergency and calling in the National Guard. Instead, cooler heads on the ground prevailed[[note]]The local police decided to not enforce drug laws, knowing full well they'd be overwhelmed and cause a riot if they did[[/note]], a lot of locals pitched in to help, a lot of concert attendees helped where they could, and the festival ended with few deaths (most of them accidental) and with a general sense from all involved that they had survived an incredible, uplifting event. In hindsight, the "Woodstock Nation" moment was considered - happening at the end of [[TheSixties a very chaotic decade]] - one of the few shining moments in modern American history.

** The couple hugging each other wrapped in a blanket on the official album cover of the 1969 festival? [[https://nationalpost.com/news/world/couple-on-iconic-woodstock-album-cover-still-rocking-decades-later-its-us-thats-who-we-are-still As of 2016]] they are ''still'' HappilyMarried.

* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: Look at this [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_performances_and_events_at_Woodstock_Festival list.]]* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: Music/ShaNaNa. Not just because they were an obscure campy cover band amid all the rock heavyweights, but they didn't even have a recording contract at the time.

* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: Music/ShaNaNa. Not just because they were an obscure campy cover band amid all the rock heavyweights, but they didn't even have a recording contract at the time.
* CrowningMomentOfAwesome: Music/TheWho's "See Me, Feel Me" ''[[CueTheSun scoring the sunrise!]]''
-->''Listening to you I get the music''
-->''Gazing at you I get the heat''
-->''Following you I climb the mountain''
-->''I get excitement at your feet''
-->''Right behind you I see the millions''
* CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming: Any scene in the movie where people are enjoying themselves, really.

* CrowningMusicOfAwesome: Look at this [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_performances_and_events_at_Woodstock_Festival list.]]
* FirstInstallmentWins: While Woodstock '94 had great sets such as Music/{{Metallica}}, Music/{{Aerosmith}}, Music/BobDylan (a huge get for the festival, since he had famously shunned the original), Music/GreenDay, Music/{{Primus}}, and a career making performance by Music/NineInchNails, it's usually considered to be far inferior to the original, and as for Woodstock '99, [[FranchiseKiller well...]]
** Critics only praised Woodstock '99's less aggressive/non-metal acts, but all of these performances were both less remembered than 1994's and were completely overshadowed by the violence at the end of the festival. The more fondly remembered sets included [[Music/ParliamentFunkadelic George Clinton]], Music/TheTragicallyHip, Music/{{Jamiroquai}}, Los Lobos, G. Love & Special Sauce and one of Music/JamesBrown's last great performances. The '99 festival was also notable as the first major American concert by Music/{{Muse}}...who played on the "Emerging Artists Stage" to almost no attention.

* FirstInstallmentWins: While Woodstock '94 had great sets such as Music/{{Metallica}}, Music/{{Aerosmith}}, Music/BobDylan, Music/GreenDay, Music/{{Primus}}, and a career making performance by Music/NineInchNails, it's usually considered to be far inferior to the original, and as for Woodstock '99, [[FranchiseKiller well...]]

** Critics only praised Woodstock '99's less aggressive/non-metal acts, but all of these performances were both less remembered than 1994's and were completely overshadowed by the violence at the end of the festival. The more fondly remember sets included [[Music/ParliamentFunkadelic George Clinton]], Music/TheTragicallyHip, Music/{{Jamiroquai}}, Music/LosLobos, G. Love & Special Sauce and one of Music/JamesBrown's last great performances. The '99 festival was also notable as the first major American concert by Music/{{Muse}}...who played on the "Emerging Artists Stage" to almost no attention.

** Critics only praised Woodstock '99's less aggressive/non-metal acts, but all of these performances were both less remembered than 1994's and were completely overshadowed by the violence at the end of the festival. The more fondly remember sets included [[Music/ParliamentFunkadelic George Clinton]], Music/TheTragicallyHip, Music/{{Jamiroquai}} and one of Music/JamesBrown's last great performances. The '99 festival was also notable as the first major American concert by Music/{{Muse}}...who played on the "Emerging Artists Stage" to almost no attention.

** Critics only praised Woodstock '99's less aggressive/non-metal acts, but all of these performances were both less remembered than 1994's and were completely overshadowed by the violence at the end of the festival. The more fondly remember sets included [[Music/ParliamentFunkadelic George Clinton]], Music/TheTragicallyHip, Music/{{Jamiroquai}} and one of Music/JamesBrown's last great performances. The '99 festival was also notable as the first major American concert by Music/{{Muse}}...who played to almost no attention and were [[AmericansHateTingle widely disliked by the nu-metal fans in attendance]].

** Critics only praised Woodstock '99's less aggressive/non-metal acts, but all of these performances were both less remembered than 1994's and were completely overshadowed by the violence at the end of the festival. The more fondly remember sets included [[Music/ParliamentFunkadelic George Clinton]], Music/TheTragicallyHip, Music/Jamiroquai and one of Music/JamesBrown's last great performances. The '99 festival was also notable as the first major American concert by Music/{{Muse}}...who played to almost no attention and were [[AmericansHateTingle widely disliked by the nu-metal fans in attendance]].

* CrowningMomentOfAwesome: Music/TheWho's "See Me, Feel Me" ("listening to you I get the music")'' [[CueTheSun scoring the sunrise!]]''

* CrowningMomentOfAwesome: Music/TheWho's "See Me, Feel Me" ("listening to you I get the music")''[[CueTheSun scoring the sunrise!]]''

* CrowningMomentOfAwesome: Music/TheWho's "Listening To You" ''[[CueTheSun scoring the sunrise!]]''

* CrowningMomentOfAwesome: TheWho's "Listening To You" ''[[CueTheSun scoring the sunrise!]]''
* CrowningMusicOfAwesome: Look at this [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_performances_and_events_at_Woodstock_Festival list]].
* FirstInstallmentWins: While Woodstock '94 had great sets such as Music/{{Metallica}}, Music/{{Aerosmith}}, BobDylan, GreenDay, {{Primus}}, and a career making performance by NineInchNails, it's usually considered to be far inferior to the original, and as for Woodstock '99, [[FranchiseKiller well...]]

* CrowningMomentOfAwesome: TheWho's "Listening To You" ''scoring the sunrise!''

* CrowningMomentOfAwesome: The concert itself and many of the performances.
** There's the sight of a [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFpfureaCVs half a million people clapping the rhythm to a song.]].
** On the other hand, there's the scene with TheWho's performance where the building music of "We're Not Going to Take it" coincides with sunrise, which proves so awesome that The Who arranged special lighting for future concerts to recreate the effect.

** For there's the sight of a [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFpfureaCVs half a million people clapping the rhythm to a song.]].

* CrowningMomentOfAwesome: The concert itself and many of the performances. For [[Tropers/{{Gabel}} this troper]] it's [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFpfureaCVs half a million people clapping the rhythm to a song.]]

* FirstInstallmentWins: While Woodstock '94 had great sets such as {{Metallica}}, {{Aerosmith}}, BobDylan, GreenDay, {{Primus}}, and a career making performance by NineInchNails, it's usually considered to be far inferior to the original, and as for Woodstock '99, [[FranchiseKiller well...]]

* CrowningMusicOfAwesome: Look at this [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_performances_and_events_at_Woodstock_Festival list]].