No question in my mind: 5/11/1972 Rotterdam Civic Hall, Rotterdam, Netherlands Setlist is incredible. Dark Star, Dark Star, Dark Star.

Setlist:
Playing in the Band
Sugaree
Mr. Charlie
Black Throated Wind
Deal
Chinatown Shuffle
Mexicali Blues
China Cat Sunflower
I Know You Rider
Hurts Me Too
Beat it on Down the Line
Brown Eyed Women
Jack Straw
Big Railroad Blues
Casey Jones
Good Lovin'

Morning Dew
Me and My Uncle
Two Souls In Communion
El Paso
Tennessee Jed
Next Time You See Me
Dark Star
drums
Dark Star
Sugar Magnolia
Caution
Who Do You Love
Caution
Truckin'
Uncle John's Band
One More Saturday Night

No embed, but this will allow a listen:
http://www.archive.org/details/gd72-05-11.sbd.ashley-bertha.7364.sbefail.shnf

You really can't go wrong with any of the Europe '72 shows. Any of them.

Close second:
May 8, 1977, Barton Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY

New Minglewood Blues
Loser
El Paso
They Love Each Other
Jack Straw
Deal
Lazy Lightnin'
Supplication
Brown Eyed Women
Mama Tried
Row Jimmy
Dancin' in the Streets

Scarlet Begonias
Fire on the Mountain
Estimated Prophet
St. Stephen
Not Fade Away
St. Stephen
Morning Dew
One More Saturday Night

For a listen:
http://www.archive.org/details/gd1977-05-08.sbd.cantor.sacks.266.shnf

I would also like to throw in my own personal favorite, as you know we all have them: my first Dead show. March 27, 1989, Atlanta, Georgia (The Omni). The first, but definitely not the last. That whole spring was magical.

http://www.dead.net/show/march-27-1989

Mississippi Half-Step
Walkin' Blues
Built to Last
We Can Run But We Can't Hide
Queen Jane Approximately
Candyman
Cassidy
Touch of Grey

Scarlet Begonias
Fire on the Mountain
Estimated Prophet
Eyes of the World
drums
The Wheel
I Need a Miracle
Standing on the Moon
Turn on Your Love Light
U.S. Blues

Had to slip that in. Good times (and great question).

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