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01-13-23, 09:56 AM

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"The Carrie Nations" in Beyond the Valley of the Dolls! Three Playboy bunnies badly lip-synching cheesy rock tunes in a Russ Meyer movie! Pure camp greatness.

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01-13-23, 10:59 AM

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Surprised no one's mentioned Otis Day and the Knights in Animal House

"Wait 'til Otis sees us ... he loves us!!"

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01-13-23, 11:07 AM

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They cut off before Reggie's line... "We're hot as love, you know."

As much as I love that clip, Jody's lead part toward the end, stunk.

Thanks for the heads-up. Because if it doesn't include "We're hot as love", I don't even wanna waste my time watching it. I still have no idea what happens in the subsequent minute or two of Phantasm after that line, because I'm too busy roaring with laughter

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01-13-23, 11:12 AM

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The 5.6.7.8's in Kill Bill.

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01-13-23, 12:20 PM

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The Linda Lindas in Moxie

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01-14-23, 06:21 AM

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A couple of TV shows...

The Seeds on the Mothers-In-Law:

And Pain with lead singer William Forsythe on CHIPS. Rest assured everyone, Erik Estrada sings "Celebration" at the end of the episode to get the bad taste out of your mouth left by punk music.

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01-14-23, 10:38 AM

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Hell yeah, bring the TV shows in too!

Square Pegs had a notable episode or two if I recall correctly.

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01-14-23, 10:48 AM

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ZZ Top in Back To The Future III

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01-14-23, 10:58 AM

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The Mothers-In-Law clip reminded me of the time The Mosquitoes buzzed around Gilligan's Island ...

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01-14-23, 02:24 PM

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Re: Favorite band performance in a non-concert movie

Rick Moranis, Eugene Levy, and John Candy performing My Girl (Gone, Gone, Gone) by Chilliwack as the Recess Monkeys during the Pre-Teen World telethon on SCTV ...

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01-14-23, 02:38 PM

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Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Wings of Desire (1987)
The 5.6.7.8's - Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003)

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01-14-23, 03:34 PM

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Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Wings of Desire (1987)
The 5.6.7.8's - Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003)

Thanks for reminding me. I saw them at The Roxy and they were, shall we say, seasoned.

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01-14-23, 03:38 PM

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Re: Favorite band performance in a non-concert movie

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Circle Jerks in Repo Man, performing the acoustic version of When The Shit Hits The Fan. "Doobiddy doobiddy do wop say yeah"

Wearing lounge-music suits. I was going to suggest this.

It may be the only time a band played in a movie and then added one of the actors as a permanent member the band.

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01-14-23, 04:06 PM

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Playboy After Dark had some memorable musical performances. Grand Funk Railroad was on in 1969 (lip-synched, unfortunately, but very cool nonetheless). Bonus points for identifying the young woman at the beginning sitting in front of the drum kit ...

And Deep Purple from 1968 ...

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01-14-23, 04:17 PM

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Variation of the topic.
Artist records song for movie and has a cameo. Example: Huey Lewis records "Power of Love" for BTTF and has cameo as teacher.
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Artist records song(s) for a movie and has major role. Example: Jerry Reed/Smokey And The Bandit, Dolly Parton/9 To 5.

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To further twist that, there's the Huey Lewis/Gwyneth Paltrow karaoke duet version of Cruisin' from the movie Duets, which is at least as good as the Smokey Robinson original.

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01-14-23, 08:40 PM

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Re: Favorite band performance in a non-concert movie

Letters to Cleo - 10 Thing I Hate About You
Eve's Plum - Higher Learning

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01-14-23, 11:49 PM

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Maybe, Cheetah Chrome as a cab driver in CBGB, which features his old band The Dead Boys on the soundtrack?

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Hell, just add in Moonpools and Caterpillars in the made-for-Disney Channel movie Wish Upon a Star, and you have more than half of my 90's playlist right there.

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01-15-23, 12:52 AM

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Alice in Chains and Soundgarden in Singles. The guys in Pearl Jam appeared as a cameo in a fake band "Citizen Dick", which had Matt Dillion's character as the singer.

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01-15-23, 12:58 AM

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Justine Bateman portraying a singer in a rock band at a resort, in the movie Satisfaction.

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01-15-23, 01:07 AM

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Susanna Hoffs and Matthew Sweet playing in a fake band "Ming Tea" in Austin Powers.

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01-15-23, 07:56 AM

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Rick Moranis, Eugene Levy, and John Candy performing My Girl (Gone, Gone, Gone) by Chilliwack as the Recess Monkeys during the Pre-Teen World telethon on SCTV ...

Pre-Teen Telethon: The Recess Monkeys - YouTube

This is my favorite SCTV band performance:

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01-16-23, 12:00 AM

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The Mothers-In-Law clip reminded me of the time The Mosquitoes buzzed around Gilligan's Island ...

The Mosquitoes : "Don't Bug Me" : "He's A Loser" - YouTube

I personally prefer the Mosquitoes performance of "I Don't Wanna Go to Pago Pago Pago."

And let 's not forget the Sacred Cows hypnotic performance of "Kill Kill Kill" from Get Smart: