OH ffs I've called out the bullshit that is "Patti Smith is a punk poetess, a brilliant lyricist!" before but even I was shocked to see that when her star turn as the new music world order known as punk rock from only blocks away in downtown NYC came she played...a glorified cover of Van Morrison's Gloria? AND The Who's classic My Generation? Dafuck?
The Sinead O'Conner thing was handled surprisingly well, it was really well done & shot cinematically & you came away feeling like you had a better sense of what happened.
Whether you actually do or not.
But fuck Lorne Michaels for being full of shit now like he didn’t flip out at the time oh please. 🙄
THERE WAS WAAAAAAAAAAAAY too much comedy!! 😡 I mean thank you for Dick in a Box but we only need you to allude to it; do I fucking meed 20 minutes on it and the Beyonce All the Single Ladies sketch? YOU'RE A COMEDY SHOW!! ANY OF THE 60 KAZILLION DOCUMENTARIES ABOUT YOU ARE ALLLLLLLLLL ABOUT THE COMEDY BUT THIS SPECIFIC ONE IS SUPPOSED TO BE ABOUT THE MUSIC ACTS!!! No matter what, anytime the show really got rolling they'd feel compelled to drag you back into more comedy bits, and it was really fucking annoying.
Why do they only seem to have the same three cast members dong all the commenting? Maya Rudolph, Bill Hader and like someone else...that's it?
They WAY overestimated how much I'd give a shit about all the instances of "OH MY GOD WE WERE SO SCARED THE SURPRISE GUEST WOULDN'T SHOW UP ON TIME!!" they kept going back to; hey guess what idiot I already know they made it on and if they didn't I can't say I'd really give a shit.
Paul Simon always seems to be a stuffy insufferable bore but that mofo did dress up like a goddam turkey so 🫡
I've never been a real Elvis Costello guy (altho if you recall I love love love his cover of Femme Fatale!) but for years I wore out some history of punk rock tape that had a scratchy recording his famous Radio Radio moment so years later when he showed up for a surprise performance of it with the Beastie Boys I remember being thrilled that I understood the reference, which jusssst pre-Internet wasn't always easy.
QUESTION: why was everybody ever so upset about the Ashlee Simpson lip-syncing thing? Dafuck was everybody expecting? Who cares, was this Pavoratti? Or the more untalented one of the Simpson sisters who were most famous for the talented one mistaking tuna fish for chicken?
Why so much 9/11? Again, there's plenty of time for that in overall docs about the show but this was supposed to be about the music!!!!!
Anyways. I guess that's it for now.
And of course they never mentioned the single greatest performances of all time (and of which I'll always call bullshit on the "controversial swearing" bullshit nonsensical bullshit.)
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