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re: 50 Years of SNL Music Documentary
Posted on 1/31/25 at 12:07 am to jbraua
Posted on 1/31/25 at 12:07 am to jbraua
quote:I got to watch the first half tonight. It's amazing what an institution it's been.
50 Years of SNL Music Documentary
Although I appreciate the willingness to showcase the avant garde back in they day, man, I just do not see the appeal to those late 70s/early 80s avant garde and punk acts:
B52s
Sun Ra
Devo
etc.
Kind of shocking that they didn't open with Janis Ian. Do they end up talking about her?
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Posted on 1/31/25 at 8:55 am to Big Scrub TX
quote:
Kind of shocking that they didn't open with Janis Ian. Do they end up talking about her?
No, but they spent way too much time on a worthless punk band nobody liked back then and nobody remembers now.
Posted on 1/31/25 at 9:01 am to A12 Oxcart
quote:George Harrison's appearance on SNL in 1976 was a massive event. For them to get a Beatle was huge. Not a mention.
No, but they spent way too much time on a worthless punk band nobody liked back then and nobody remembers now.
Posted on 1/31/25 at 11:07 am to Fewer Kilometers
quote:You have to be kidding. No George?!?!
For them to get a Beatle was huge. Not a mention.
Posted on 1/31/25 at 11:17 am to Fewer Kilometers
That's sad. His duet with Paul Simon was stunning.
Posted on 1/31/25 at 11:30 am to Big Scrub TX
quote:
Although I appreciate the willingness to showcase the avant garde back in they day, man, I just do not see the appeal to those late 70s/early 80s avant garde and punk acts:
I need to see if I can find Fear’s performance circa 1982, in which their mosh pit started a minor riot which did tons of damage.
They were only there as a favor to John Belushi and that episode has since become one of the ones which never gets reshot, although that era didn’t have a ton of highlights anyway.
Posted on 1/31/25 at 12:56 pm to teke184
Posted on 1/31/25 at 1:02 pm to Havoc
TY.
Was wondering what the big deal about them was and I’m still not seeing it.
Was wondering what the big deal about them was and I’m still not seeing it.
Posted on 1/31/25 at 1:12 pm to jbraua
So I just put this on to watch and wanted to post this:
Whoever made the opening 6-8 or so minute montage deserves a fricking award. The way they seamlessly interwove all of the artists and made the songs combine with each other was incredible.
That was very, very well done. Wow.
Whoever made the opening 6-8 or so minute montage deserves a fricking award. The way they seamlessly interwove all of the artists and made the songs combine with each other was incredible.
That was very, very well done. Wow.
Posted on 1/31/25 at 2:56 pm to teke184
quote:
Was wondering what the big deal about them was and I’m still not seeing it.
1982, punk, broadcast tv mosh pit, I guess.
Posted on 1/31/25 at 5:11 pm to Havoc
Finishing up the doc in a few. I thought it was really good.
I agree with the thread that Tom Morello came off as a gigantic douche. Man, frick that guy. And he talks a lot of shite for being in a group that is 100% in with “the machine.”
I also thought it was cringey and eye-rolly to see the black chick (Ego?) and Kenan Thompson complain about Kanye West going off on his political rant about liberals and whatnot. They have no problem with the heavy-handed liberal shite spewed on that show but want Kanye to just “talk through his music” and didn’t want to be a part of that? “That hat was loud enough.” Oh, did that bother you, Kenan? frick off.
The covid stuff was also kinda funny with them talking about how “scary” it was and whatnot.
This was a really good doc on a topic that I’ve never really considered before.
I agree with the thread that Tom Morello came off as a gigantic douche. Man, frick that guy. And he talks a lot of shite for being in a group that is 100% in with “the machine.”
I also thought it was cringey and eye-rolly to see the black chick (Ego?) and Kenan Thompson complain about Kanye West going off on his political rant about liberals and whatnot. They have no problem with the heavy-handed liberal shite spewed on that show but want Kanye to just “talk through his music” and didn’t want to be a part of that? “That hat was loud enough.” Oh, did that bother you, Kenan? frick off.
The covid stuff was also kinda funny with them talking about how “scary” it was and whatnot.
This was a really good doc on a topic that I’ve never really considered before.
Posted on 1/31/25 at 8:03 pm to Handsome Pete
quote:
it was a very intensive labor of love for Questlove, and the Emmys committee should already have a verdict. Speaking with Deadline about the method behind his creative madness, the director said that the seven-minute mash-up — which deftly remixed about a hundred SNL performances — took nearly a year to complete in the editing room.
Thanks for sharing this. I honestly thought they had used AI to analyze every performance and meld that together. Glad to know it was actually created by questlove.
Posted on 1/31/25 at 8:24 pm to Fewer Kilometers
this one is a classic and the stories around this show are wild, big steve tells the tale
This post was edited on 1/31/25 at 8:25 pm
Posted on 1/31/25 at 10:26 pm to CocomoLSU
Agree on all that. Had to eye roll or phone frick my way through that and a couple other similar scenes.
Posted on 2/1/25 at 9:25 am to CocomoLSU
Man the transition from Under pressure to Ice Ice Baby was hilarious.
Posted on 2/2/25 at 3:58 pm to teke184
quote:
I need to see if I can find Fear’s performance circa 1982, in which their mosh pit started a minor riot which did tons of damage.
They were only there as a favor to John Belushi and that episode has since become one of the ones which never gets reshot, although that era didn’t have a ton of highlights anyway.
Just FYI- They discuss this in the SNL Music Documentary and they said basically zero damage was done. They actually noted that the fans were pretty nice before and after show. They acknowledged that the myth was a much better story for the show though.
Posted on 2/2/25 at 11:09 pm to Giantkiller
quote:
the time Beastie Boys start playing Sabotage
And it still pisses me off to this day. I was stoked to finally get to see the beastie boys on tv and they pulled the rug out from my feet. 15 year old me wanted no part of Elvis Costello.
Posted on 2/3/25 at 1:14 pm to CocomoLSU
quote:It was Questlove and it took a year.
So I just put this on to watch and wanted to post this:
Whoever made the opening 6-8 or so minute montage deserves a fricking award. The way they seamlessly interwove all of the artists and made the songs combine with each other was incredible.
That was very, very well done. Wow.
Posted on 2/3/25 at 2:05 pm to Big Scrub TX
This thing only on peacock
God damn you need so many streaming services to see what you want
God damn you need so many streaming services to see what you want
Posted on 2/3/25 at 2:08 pm to Trapped in time
quote:I DVRed it off on NBC via DirecTV. Watching it in non-streaming fashion is still a vastly superior option, no matter what people want to pretend to believe.
This thing only on peacock
God damn you need so many streaming services to see what you want
The streaming apps - even in their finest moments - simply are not as good as a local DVR.
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