docrobster, i was there at that Ride gig and yes it was up with the best, or when I saw them at the Leadmill a little later.....
Went to many a gig in Sheffield around that time, many who I had never heard of... one of the best was Dr Phibes and the House of Wax Equations at Sheff 2 in old Sheff Poly Union.... or Levellers with Murphys at 50p a pint!!
In date order:
Buzzcocks/Subway Sect (Love Bites tour '78) - they say the first time always stays with you...
The Smiths (around the time of the first album)
Win (85 or 86)
Elvin Jones (80-sometime)
Dinosaur Jr ('88)
Lampchop
Bonnie 'Prince' Billy ('05)
(and that's not including The Jam, Sonic Youth, Pixies, Rapeman, Killdozer, The Cure, My Bloody Valentine, etc. 
)
Chemical Brothers Glastonbury 20000.
I think everyone in Glastonbury was there at the mainstage that night....
The Chameleons - Manchester Academy June 3rd 2000
James Brown, Toulouse.
If only for the utterly delectable young lady I was with at the time. Hmmmm.
Little Angels - Any of their gigs, but that last one at the Albert Hall? 
Beautiful. "I ain't gonna cry..."
Oh, and I went to a simply stunning private recital at Coutts by Sir Thomas Allen. Simply beautiful voice, and when he broke in to some traditional songs from the North East, it was sublime. Great to hear a baritone like that.
Quicksand - borderline '94ish
Kyuss - Astoria 2 '94/95
RATM - Camden underworld
Slayer - every time i see them
Ministry / Helmet - Brixton acadamy
God Machine - pheonix festival
Faith no more - Windsor old trout and every other time i saw them.
Seaweed / bivouac - Gloucester town hall
Rancid - big day out Sydney '95
Frankie Stubbs solo show supporting snuff - New cross venue
Corrosion of conformity / soundgarden - Bristol bierkellar
Clutch - some tiny pub in Salisbury
Seafood - Joiners southampton
Mudhoney / hole - astoria 91
Too many more that i can barely remember
Metallica..O2 last year one off gig to launch their new album Death Magnetic...Awesome!!!!
Faith No More at the International in Manchester (first tour with Patton as singer).
Bad Brains (also at the International in the same year)
Sisters of Mercy (Black October tour Hanley) my first ever live gig.
Alien Sex Fiend (Tin Can Club Birmingham)a truly mad night.
Hüsker Dü (Powerhouse Birmingham)
The Young Gods (Birmingham but forgot the name of the venue)
The Cardiacs (Oxford)
Gaye Bykers on Acid (Telford)
New Model Army+Red Lorry Yellow Lorry+Ghost Dance (Telford)
Motorhead (Brixton Academy)
Fields of the Nephilim (Town and Country Club Kentish Town)
Massive Attack (Dresden) mainly because got to hang out backstage and empty their bar. 
Biffy Clyro - Last Monday in Birmingham Never Felt so much energy from a band ever Great atmosphere.
The Cure 16th Dec 1996
Finsbury Park 1991, Wedding Present, Henry Rollins Band, New Model Army, The Mission.
Oh I forgot.
Primal Scream (Finsbury Park). Didn't go to the gig but the after show party was something else! 
Van Morrison - Knebworth Festival 1974.
A truly moving, emotional, angst-ridden performance from a talented young man 
One of the defining events of my life.
Mogwai playing Young Team - Barcelona 2009
Six by Seven - King Tuts, Glasgow 2001
LCD Soundsystem - Academy, Manchester 2007
Verve and Spiritualized back to back - Phoenix Festival 1994
Pearl Jam - Brixton Academy 1993
Best unsigned band I've seen live are Galchen, by a country mile.
failedengineer - MemberBloody 'eck, Mr Whoppit - you must be older than me! IOW must have been amazing!
58. Strange to relate - I found myself feeling kind of "semi-detached" from the whole thing at the time...
"Message to Love" is a film about the event. It just looks kind of sad and tatty, in retrospect. The "music should be free" movement, and so on 
Hothouse Flowers / The Fat Lady Sings at Wolverhampton Civic Hall circa 1990.
mr woppit - while i'm way too young for the IOW
the anti nazi league victoria park is a blast from the past for me too
went down on the coach from grassroots books in manchester with a motley collection of ageing hippies and radical punks - good times
Pink Floyd pulse tour
Faith no More - Anywhere i've seen them
Ben Harper at the Jazz Cafe Camden in about 1995ish.
Frank Sidebottom at Glastonbury 1995.
I was walking past the cabaret tent late one night and looked in and I could SWEAR that through the cider bus haze, there was a bloke with a huge papiermache head singing versions of Queen songs.
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