30 Years of Sucking

It’s always driven me nuts whenever bands go on Saturday Night Live to play their big “hit", and then play the crappy plaintive ballad on Side 2 nobody cares about for their second song of the night. I mean you’re on SNL, this is a national audience, why not show your best?

The only person I’ve ever seen do this is Paul Westerberg, who after playing whatever song he needed to on his first (DULL AF) solo album said "fuck it” and for his second song played the Replacements’ classic Can't Hardly Wait, which even included a laugh break about Burt Reynolds. THAT's rock & roll, people. - XMASTIME

That happened 30 years ago this week, and I still haven't seen anyone else do such a thing since and so this is still one of the all-time great musical performances on the show.