Bands who really need a "Behind the Music"

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Most fucked up band story, basically.

― David Allen (David Allen), Tuesday, 30 March 2004 16:10 (twenty-two years ago)

Well, I can't believe they haven't done Mayhem yet.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 30 March 2004 16:12 (twenty-two years ago)

I've only seen two or three of those programs, but methinks a history on Bad Brains would be quite watchable.

― christoff (christoff), Tuesday, 30 March 2004 16:19 (twenty-two years ago)

How about Frankie Goes To Hollywood?

― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Tuesday, 30 March 2004 16:21 (twenty-two years ago)

The Pogues would be fun.

I would also love to see a Behind the Scenes featuring a perfectly un-fucked-up band, that was generally unaffected by their impressive but modest success, maybe drank a little and smoked a joint now and then, but had no real drug problems. Maybe a couple of them hooked up with a fan here or there, but had no "groupies" per se. Certainly no underaged ones. But I guess that's a different thread.

― Salmon Pink (Salmon Pink), Tuesday, 30 March 2004 16:51 (twenty-two years ago)

Wasn't that the Weird Al one?

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 30 March 2004 16:52 (twenty-two years ago)

Faith No More
Kraftwerk
NWA
Jeff Buckley
Van Morrison
Scott Walker

― Lord Custos Omicron (Lord Custos Omicron), Tuesday, 30 March 2004 16:53 (twenty-two years ago)

Phil Ochs
Husker Du

― Baked Bean Teeth (Baked Bean Teeth), Tuesday, 30 March 2004 17:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Fishbone. From their getting jumped by white supremacists while opening for Black Flag days to their appearances in a shit ton of movies to their lead guitarist going insane and joining a cult and then the bassist kidnaps him and (this was about the time of the Waco incident so cults = scary to .gov) then the FBI questioning him on live TV to their not ever getting very big days etc etc.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 30 March 2004 17:09 (twenty-two years ago)

Joy Division/New Order would be a good, formulaic story, but I wouldn't watch it. When that damn narrator says, "But on the eve of what was to be their big break in America.. Tragedy struck.." and then the Phoenix-like rise from the ashes to turn into a staple of the dance club scene... God, it would be awful...

I'd like to see one on the Fall though. It would be so fucking boring, and most of the viewers would be saying, "what the fuck is this? who are these guys? what? they have 195 records? do they all sound like that shit that's playing now? (Repetition repetition repetitionah). Now I'd pay for that one.

― dave225 (Dave225), Tuesday, 30 March 2004 17:19 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm for that. The more irritating a band to average viewers or specific fans, the more I'd want to see a special.

GG Allin -- "Tragedy struck when Allin died...and their would be no resurrection for the Texas Nazis."

Mentors -- "Tragedy struck when Eldon "Duce" Hoke was run over by a freight train; now there could be no more investigation into his conspiratorial claims that Courtney had asked him to scrag her husband."

The Angry Samoans. "Tragedy struck when Rodney Bingenheimer, the Mayor of Sunset Blvd., organized an LA blacklisting of the band and lawsuit to stifle their first EP, containing 'Get Off the Air,' containing lyrics which called him 'a fucking piece of shit' and accusing him of having 'lamebrain teeth.'

― George Smith, Tuesday, 30 March 2004 17:34 (twenty-two years ago)

primus! ...i'm kidding, of course.

― Grell (Grell), Tuesday, 30 March 2004 18:04 (twenty-two years ago)

Wayne/ Jayne County.
Minutemen
Julian Cope. Head On the documentary.
Negativland
the KLF

― badgerminor (badgerminor), Tuesday, 30 March 2004 18:29 (twenty-two years ago)

Manic Street Preachers. Or that Norwegian death-metal band where one of them killed the one who'd eaten someone else.

They already did ABBA, right?

― Joseph McCombs, Tuesday, 30 March 2004 18:32 (twenty-two years ago)

Actually I think Primus would be a very good one. They've got a pretty interesting history, and just for the fact that such a weird band of fisherman goofballs managed to crack the pop culture surface would make for a more interesting story than another singer-ODs-on-drugs thingamajig.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 30 March 2004 18:42 (twenty-two years ago)

Social Distortion -- Mike Ness has a few good stories up his sleeve, I bet.

Van Halen -- But maybe not, because we all know what happened there and we're probably all pretty sick of it.

Hanoi Rocks -- Their tragic moments were only briefly mentioned in the Motley Crue BTM.

― Ben St. Jacques (Ben St. Jacques), Tuesday, 30 March 2004 18:49 (twenty-two years ago)

My picks...

Killing Joke (fuckin' obviously!)
Devo
Television

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 30 March 2004 20:52 (twenty-two years ago)

The Replacements, by god!

― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Tuesday, 30 March 2004 20:54 (twenty-two years ago)

Black Flag!!!

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 30 March 2004 20:55 (twenty-two years ago)

The Germs

― nickn (nickn), Tuesday, 30 March 2004 20:56 (twenty-two years ago)

I can imagine the dramatic music and sombre voiceover explaining how TRAGEDY STRUCK when Jaz decided the APOCALYPSE WAS NIGH and went to live in a CAVE in ICE-LAND. For a bit.

Mayhem would just be a constant torrent of dramatic music and tragedy striking. S'true about the Fall ennit really, you always think a band that interesting must have an interesting biography but it ends up being a collossal list of personnel changes.

― ferg (Ferg), Tuesday, 30 March 2004 21:01 (twenty-two years ago)

Mott The Hoople

― John Fredland (jfredland), Tuesday, 30 March 2004 21:20 (twenty-two years ago)

Meat Puppets

― kickitcricket, Tuesday, 30 March 2004 21:54 (twenty-two years ago)

Geto Boys

― Ben Boyer (Ben Boyer), Tuesday, 30 March 2004 21:56 (twenty-two years ago)

Black Flag would be plausible as would Joy Division / New Order.

― Lil' Won Jilliams (ex machina), Tuesday, 30 March 2004 21:58 (twenty-two years ago)

S Club Juniors

― noodle vague (noodle vague), Tuesday, 30 March 2004 22:21 (twenty-two years ago)

Wu-Tang Clan

― Sym (shmuel), Wednesday, 31 March 2004 01:10 (twenty-two years ago)

Would ya believe they haven't done one on Al Green?

― My name is Kenny (My name is Kenny), Wednesday, 31 March 2004 03:46 (twenty-two years ago)

i would pay $50.00 to see a GG Allin Behing the Music.

― Dude (The Yellow Dart), Wednesday, 31 March 2004 03:52 (twenty-two years ago)

Brian Eno

― hector (hector), Wednesday, 31 March 2004 04:23 (twenty-two years ago)

I Bet Aphex Twin Would Have a Great Story

― Dude (The Yellow Dart), Wednesday, 31 March 2004 04:38 (twenty-two years ago)

For typical '...and then the problems started' episode: Happy Mondays

For hysterical audience shocking potential: Xiu Xiu

For most boring episode ever: The Postal Service

For best use of moody shots of trailer parks and logging towns since Nirvana BtM: Modest Mouse

For my own personal amusement: Mum

― minolta (minolta), Wednesday, 31 March 2004 04:43 (twenty-two years ago)

Cheap Trick
Big Black

― Kingfish Hypercolor (Kingfish), Wednesday, 31 March 2004 04:54 (twenty-two years ago)

BOREDOMS

― Lil' Won Jilliams (ex machina), Wednesday, 31 March 2004 05:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Fugazi.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Wednesday, 31 March 2004 05:03 (twenty-two years ago)

ACID MOTHERS TEMPLE

― cws (cws), Wednesday, 31 March 2004 05:36 (twenty-two years ago)

Jane's Addiction would have all the necessary ingredients.

― J-rock (Julien Sandiford), Wednesday, 31 March 2004 06:26 (twenty-two years ago)

Wu-Tang Clan would have to be like a 2 hour special, shit!

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 31 March 2004 13:44 (twenty-two years ago)

Big Star
Love
Moby Grape
Sparks
Pere Ubu

I can dream, can't I?

― eddie hurt (ddduncan), Wednesday, 31 March 2004 15:37 (twenty-two years ago)

i would pay $50.00 to see a GG Allin Behing the Music.

Save your money and rent Todd Phillips' documentary "Hated". It's basically the same thing.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 31 March 2004 16:54 (twenty-two years ago)

This thread is one great idea after another!
ARE YOU LISTENING OUT THERE VH1!? HUH!? HUHHH!?

― Lord Custos Omicron (Lord Custos Omicron), Wednesday, 31 March 2004 17:17 (twenty-two years ago)

ARE YOU LISTENING OUT THERE VH1!? HUH!? HUHHH!?

I wouldn't hold your breath because the president of VH-1 has stated multiple times that no other bands are worth a "Behind The Music" special and that they only repeat the same dozen episodes over and over again because "the viewers aren't interested in any of the others"

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Wednesday, 31 March 2004 21:19 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm a viewer. And I'm interested in other groups.
Ergo, the president of VH1 can climb up and down my erect schwantzen.

― Lord Custos Omicron (Lord Custos Omicron), Wednesday, 31 March 2004 21:44 (twenty-two years ago)

hey Kenny, you should check out the dvd "The Gospel According to Al Green." It does the trick.

― sexyDancer, Wednesday, 31 March 2004 21:45 (twenty-two years ago)

Ergo, the president of VH1 can climb up and down my erect schwantzen.

Hahahahahahahahaha

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 31 March 2004 21:52 (twenty-two years ago)

Does Bjork have one? That would be good.

― Sym (shmuel), Wednesday, 31 March 2004 23:40 (twenty-two years ago)

Caroliner

― gygax! (gygax!), Wednesday, 31 March 2004 23:43 (twenty-two years ago)

Other suitable nominees....

Motorhead
Bauhaus
the Cure
Sisters of Mercy
Smashing Pumpkins (I mean, I don't like them...but there's a lot of meaty acrimony in that story)

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 31 March 2004 23:53 (twenty-two years ago)

Sebadoh would make for half of an entertaining episode

― morris pavilion (samjeff), Thursday, 1 April 2004 00:12 (twenty-two years ago)

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