I love 'Please Mr. Kennedy' so much.
Forgot all about that--loved it too.
― clemenza, Wednesday, 15 March 2023 13:25 (one year ago) link
From animated bands:
The Hex Girls from Scooby Doo and the Witch's Ghost. Not sure whether I'm a Hex Girl or Earth, Wind, Fire, and Air is the better song. They have had a few more songs throughout the years as well. They've enjoyed enough of a resurgence that there is copious Hot Topic merch devoted to them now.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=attfhQWmVNA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-K6YXa22owc
Would also recommend Everything's Gonna Be Alright by the Chipmunks & Chipettes, from Alvin and the Chipmunks Meet the Wolfman.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQMf3rVRAfE
Not sure if the Girls of Rock & Roll would count, because it was originally used in The Malibu Bikini Shop before ending up as another Chipmunks/Chipettes duet in the Chipmunk Adventure, but it's a classic too.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EB0x4ui5ANw
In the non-animated category, it is a truly guilty pleasure that I get Ming Tea's BBC stuck in my head every time someone mentions the BBC.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1w85qMqIjs
― peace, man, Wednesday, 15 March 2023 13:38 (one year ago) link
Not sure if the Girls of Rock & Roll would count, because it was originally used in The Malibu Bikini Shop
Mind ... blown
― عباس کیارستمی (Eric H.), Wednesday, 15 March 2023 13:41 (one year ago) link
Yeah, it was a pretty wtf moment when I found that out as well. I do think the Chipmunks took it to another level though.
― peace, man, Wednesday, 15 March 2023 13:46 (one year ago) link
It's Not Easy Being GreenDo The Bartman
― Siegbran, Wednesday, 15 March 2023 13:59 (one year ago) link
misbehavin' by aimee-leigh and baby billyhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-znj7Uf9Oo
― andrew m., Wednesday, 15 March 2023 14:03 (one year ago) link
Holy shit, that's amazing. "Runnin' through the house with a pickle in my mouth"? Also, crazy transformation there for Jennifer Nettles from Sugarland.
― peace, man, Wednesday, 15 March 2023 14:15 (one year ago) link
oh yeah, Aimee-Leigh Gemstone is a great one
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OowljuWOaac
― INDEPENDENTS DAY BY STEVEN SPILBERG (President Keyes), Wednesday, 15 March 2023 14:20 (one year ago) link
Don’t forget this Canadian content from Degrassi https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AAlQ9whq8Hs
― Kim, Wednesday, 15 March 2023 14:43 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9f8ol_fm7-o
― INDEPENDENTS DAY BY STEVEN SPILBERG (President Keyes), Wednesday, 15 March 2023 14:47 (one year ago) link
And that time Joanie Loved Chachi on Happy Days and it turned into a whole spinoff show https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oq6VMEEabW8
― Kim, Wednesday, 15 March 2023 14:47 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4I6P0g7HUM
The Dregs of Humanity- "Sweaty Betty"
― INDEPENDENTS DAY BY STEVEN SPILBERG (President Keyes), Wednesday, 15 March 2023 14:51 (one year ago) link
Light of Day by the Barbusters was a big song for me when I was a kid, because the video got a lot of play on Nick Rocks. I never saw the movie, but owned the soundtrack.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ksrYQhFCOpg
Only recently learned that Trent Reznor has a brief scene in the movie, as part of the band The Problems, who are ridiculed by both Michael McKean and Michael J. Fox. The Problems were portrayed by the actual band he was in at the time, except that their real name was Exotic Birds.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gM0MmNjy97s
― peace, man, Wednesday, 15 March 2023 16:50 (one year ago) link
Megahertz - "She's Mean"
From the Weird Science TV show
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yqq1zOyXvZI
― hootenanny-soundtracking clusterfucks about milking cows (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 15 March 2023 16:55 (one year ago) link
Human Pudding - "Human Pudding" from Full House, who sound like a Van Halen wannabe
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SfHmctamVEA
― hootenanny-soundtracking clusterfucks about milking cows (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 15 March 2023 16:56 (one year ago) link
Wow, the Megahertz embody a certain 1990s energy that I remember and loathed at the time. I didn't even know that show existed.
― peace, man, Wednesday, 15 March 2023 17:05 (one year ago) link
My brother and I were two of the five people who watched it
― hootenanny-soundtracking clusterfucks about milking cows (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 15 March 2023 17:15 (one year ago) link
So glad someone mentioned The Dregs of Humanity. One of the all-time greatest American sitcom episodes
― beamish13, Wednesday, 15 March 2023 20:02 (one year ago) link
List fail: I submit Black Death!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LSXHidwz2Ws
No idea what the song title is, but does it matter when you have Richard Pryor coming into American living rooms in 1977 dressed in proto-corpsepaint, giving drugs to the mostly white audience (including a young Sandra Bernhard who writer for the show), and then literally killing them all?
Hell yeah!
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Thursday, 16 March 2023 02:44 (one year ago) link
So glad someone mentioned The Dregs of Humanity. One of the all-time greatest American sitcom episodesI was not aware of this sitcom… it sounds like a must-see! Apparently it is streaming on fuboTV, a service “Starting at $74.99/mo.”
― chemtrails over the turkey club (morrisp), Thursday, 16 March 2023 04:14 (one year ago) link
(Oh snap – it’s free on “Crackle”)
― chemtrails over the turkey club (morrisp), Thursday, 16 March 2023 04:24 (one year ago) link
i voted Archies “Sugar Sugar” bc you cannot deny the perfection also Andy Kim!but man i almost voted Little Bit Alexis
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 16 March 2023 04:36 (one year ago) link
34. "Fever Dog," Stillwater (ALMOST FAMOUS)
The best Stillwater song is Piggy-Back Ride.
Also, cant' forget Explöded Diper by Löded Diper
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQD_fanPkns
― peace, man, Thursday, 16 March 2023 14:53 (one year ago) link
I still get these stuck in my head years later:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLlkGEyDug0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLyMjIccjL4
― joygoat, Thursday, 16 March 2023 18:30 (one year ago) link
it was mentioned upthread but this video should be here, a strong contender!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_NtcSrZoq5s
― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Thursday, 16 March 2023 18:45 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJ3cWWNXBHg
Riverbottom Nightmare Band
― INDEPENDENTS DAY BY STEVEN SPILBERG (President Keyes), Thursday, 16 March 2023 18:49 (one year ago) link
List should include tracks from Rock Follies and Jem and the Holograms as well.
― soref, Tuesday, March 14, 2023 3:47 PM (two days ago) bookmarkflaglink
And the Misfits!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMv4KJlWQb8
― peace, man, Thursday, 16 March 2023 20:18 (one year ago) link
This was my Jem pick:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQKs0eQHZRs
― عباس کیارستمی (Eric H.), Thursday, 16 March 2023 20:20 (one year ago) link
"I Hate the Bloody Queen" by the Queen Haters (from SCTV) seems like a major omission.
― nth, Thursday, 16 March 2023 22:26 (one year ago) link
xp YES I came here to Jempost.
My Jem pick (Jem goes neo-psych):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PN9CRfbwCQI
...and for the Misfits:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBZwMzLkHAk
Kimber and Stormer's side project might actually be my favorite of all:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iinCliptuFY
― J. Sam, Thursday, 16 March 2023 22:34 (one year ago) link
I forgot about "I Dig Pain"... that's a classic "fake punk" representation.
― chemtrails over the turkey club (morrisp), Friday, 17 March 2023 00:03 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fd3NG2JX6lc
― massaman gai (front tea for two), Friday, 17 March 2023 05:04 (one year ago) link
Somebody call Grapefruit Records--I think we've got a box set here!
― Hideous Lump, Friday, 17 March 2023 05:47 (one year ago) link
and not forgetting the immortal, unsurpassable sound of flipin
_____*BLUESHAMMER*______
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z97FaPFkkcc
― massaman gai (front tea for two), Friday, 17 March 2023 07:26 (one year ago) link
Kraftwerk Orange "I am electro boy" is a jamhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45piRm2-DV8
― massaman gai (front tea for two), Friday, 17 March 2023 07:31 (one year ago) link
todd rivers "one track lover": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OO-ZGP68-3w
― massaman gai (front tea for two), Friday, 17 March 2023 07:40 (one year ago) link
not sure this punk band is from alan bleasdale's "no surrender" have a name, but...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aN-h_K86_zA
― massaman gai (front tea for two), Friday, 17 March 2023 07:52 (one year ago) link
Let's not forget "The Clapham" by Kipper!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6_i-13KIZU
― Mark G, Friday, 17 March 2023 08:05 (one year ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Thursday, 30 March 2023 00:01 (one year ago) link
Scrolled down looking for this:
Don’t forget this Canadian content from Degrassi https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AAlQ9whq8Hs― Kim,
― Kim,
What was great about Zit Remedy is that they only actually had this one song
― touche pas ma planète (flamboyant goon tie included), Thursday, 30 March 2023 09:46 (one year ago) link
Love all these - had forgotten about You All Everybody lolOne Track Lover is my fave.
There are way better songs from Josie and The Pussycats, i.e. the DuJour ones
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwykvrwvWW4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRSkYTB_Lv0
I like Black Sheep from Scott Pilgrim too https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xcSDYy3Dl4
― kinder, Thursday, 30 March 2023 11:37 (one year ago) link
Oh yeah, "Back Door Lover" is great.
Coming from behind with the lights down low.
― she loves me like a rock lobster (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 30 March 2023 12:30 (one year ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Friday, 31 March 2023 00:01 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lyvkNDtW7Lw
mysterious overnight underground rave sensation CYBERSTORM from the film (video) vibrations!
― andrew m., Friday, 31 March 2023 14:21 (one year ago) link
good results. didn't vote for it but loved that song in ILD
― hootenanny-soundtracking clusterfucks about milking cows (Neanderthal), Friday, 31 March 2023 14:28 (one year ago) link