5. Metallica - Tushino Airfield (1991)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jyfiEq4urpY What do you do when you're full of youthful exuberance and you've just written an entire album chock-full of insanely infectious tunes that demand to be played to as many people as possible? You play to two and a half million of them at once of course! Metallica were writing history back in the early 90's through every little thing they did, either through taking heavy metal to stadiums, or being the first thrash metal band to release something so tonally different to what had gone before. However all but the most dedicated to their old sound got swept up by the relentlessly enjoyable nature of tracks like Enter Sandman and Wherever I May Roam, as is evidenced by the genuinely jaw-dropping footage available of the guys playing to what was about a sixth of the entire population of the country at the time. However due to the vast majority in the audience not having seen a gig before, let alone that of the resilient touring-machine Metallica had become back then, meant that the deployed police presence had to resort to increasingly violent measures to keep the masses in tow. Granted keeping two and a half million metalheads 'in tow' is not something done lightly, and being that this was one year before Rage Against The Machine would usher in the immortal line of "F**k you I won't do what you tell me!", the people present at Tushino back in '91 had already living that sentiment.