Is there a "band put-down" list?

Jul 20, 1994, 2:33 PM ET14 posts by 12 postersalt.tv.beavis-n-butthead
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DanAmrichalt.tv.beavis-n-butthead

Has anyone compiled a file of B&B's quips about bands they hate (and like, for that matter)? If so, is it part of an existing list/could someone post it? Thanks...

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Well, I know they hate Krokus. And they tore Accept up pretty good in their "Balls to the Wall" video (the best hatchet job B&B ever did on a video, IMHO, along with T'Pau's "Heart and Soul"):

BH:  Wait a minute...what is this...this sucks!
<lead singer comes out>
BH:  Uh huh huh huh...who's this?
B:   Can we see your backstage pass, sir?
BH:  Normally, demolition and destruction in a video are cool...but here, I
don't know, it just sort of falls flat.
B:   Yeah...eh heh heh...they could even have fire in this video and it
would still suck!
BH:  Well, he is saying "balls".
BH:  Look, it's Krokus, coming to kick their ass.  It's the Night of the
Living Bands That Suck.

Somebody put the ones up about T'Pau a while back.

And there was a really awful video by some band--Grim Reaper, maybe?--that gave us the famous line "Stop, in the name of all that which does not suck!"

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I agree with the fact that B&B totally ripped on "Balls To The Wall," but here come (huh huh, I said "come") a few more videos that suck :

1) Army of Lovers - "Crucified," though B&B came up with the classic line "If I had boobs like that, I'd never leave the house"

  • Anything by Vince Neil
  • Anything by wussy English bands that suck

BTW, I still can't believe that B&B didn't cut "Jive Talkin'" short, even though I think MJ is really ripping on the Black Crowes by comparing them with the Bee Gees.

B&B is better than ever (especially since they ran a KMFDM video)!

See ya!

Shamelessly stolen from Steve Martin's "LA Story". A great movie.

The line was something like "I could never be a woman, I would stay home all day and play with my breasts."

Bryce

Then there's another group of bands whose videos have been used, but B&B haven't passed judgment on the band's actual merits - R.E.M. comes to mind (at least 2 R.E.M. videos have been used - Pop Song '89 which led to the "black squares on the thingies" routine, and Nightswimming, which as I recall was sort of blah...

j

Speaking of Grim Reaper, one time when a friend of mine swung by so we could go out boozing, BnB was on the TV, and Grim Reaper was playing.

Well, this guy, who back in high school had every crappy pseudo-death/glam tape ever made, goes, "Grim Reaper! Awesome! And then he starts *singing* "See You In Hell," the song GR is singing.

Natch, I kicked his ass in the name of All That Which Does Not Suck.

(I KICKED it! Yeah! I KICKED it! Huh Huh Huh.)

  • DeadBoy

BH: "Is this Spinal Tap?" Bv: "Yeah.. heh heh 'Tap is cool"

Bv: "These guys got their clothes at that rock and roll store at the mall"

Bv: "Hey Butt-head, Didn't these guys play at the state fair last year?" BH: "Yeah, they won first place in the pig contest" Bv: "Yeah, because he's FAT. FAT FAT" Bv: "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHH! Shut up! Shut up! You suck Shut up!" BH: "Stop! In the name of all that which does not suck!!"

Does anybody remember when Mike Judge was on Letterman? Dave asked him if any of the bands ever got mad at him for making fun of them. He said not usually, but said he told a story about meeting a member of Grim Reaper. Mike said something like "We really made fun of it, but I mean, it was a REALLY bad video." He said that the guy from the band came up to him and he said "Hey, I'm sorry man..." But the guy from Grim Reaper was cool about it. He said "Oh, no problem man, we've got another video coming out in a few weeks and it's even worse!"

"Can I help you boys with something?" "No, sir, we're just here to break stuff."

IK>I don't know if there's a list but I loved their reaction to IK>Milli Vanilli (sp?) and Vanilla Ice!!!!!

IK>pk

I can not remember any specific videos, but Beavis and Butthead have this HILARIOUS thing they do with really bad videos.

The video comes on. Butthead looks at Beavis, then back at the T.V. No words, no laughing. This happens maybe twice. Then they just change it with no comment. The way it is edited is so goddamm funny. Nice subtlety that needs no words.

------------==>> [email] Is that like Hell? huh huh huh Yeah, yeah, Hell's cool!! heh heh heh /s/s /s/s /s/s

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like,

  • Billy Joel in "Uptown Girl".
  • Michael Bolton in "How Am I Supposed to Live Without You"
  • Journey in "Separate Ways"

like,

During "Safety Dance" ("We can dance if we want to . . .") by Men Without Hats, Beavis and Butthead say "They keep saying they can dance, but they can't.