Sometimes you wake up on a weekend morning (or, um, afternoon) and all you can bear to do is watch Beverly Hills, 90210 re-runs on SoapNet. Or, at least, that’s all we could manage this Sunday, when one of the episodes we caught featured a live performance at the hip Peach Pit After Dark nightclub. And that got us thinking about our favorite band cameos, from cheesy to unironically awesome, on TV shows. After the jump, we count down 10 of the best we could find video evidence of (sadly, The Flaming Lips on 90210 and Devo on Square Pegs were both impossible to track down), from Punky Brewster to Ab Fab.
Motörhead on The Young Ones (1984)
As long as you can understand the characters’ heavy British accents, The Young Ones is one of the funniest shows about young adults on their own in the history of television. Best of all, each episode featured a musical guest that the writers didn’t bother to work into the story line. Our favorite, of course, is Motörhead performing “The Ace of Spades.”
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What about Yo La Tengo as wanna be troubadours of Stars Hollow on Gilmore Girls? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pe-4W_xhHT8 The same episode, “Partings” has Kim and Thurston and their kid as other wanna be troubadours in Stars Hollow. Here’s some compliation that someone put up from that episode on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cYBupWeVbew.
Or Buffalo Tom on My So-Called Life?
gary numan on the mighty boosh episode, “the power of the crimp” = love.
I found the 90210 one in like ten seconds. Yay me!
http://vimeo.com/7980115
no mention of cher or madonna on ‘will & grace’?
Seriously the only thing I can think of to win this is the Micheal Jackson episode of The Simpsons!!
I liked Olivia Newton John on Glee. Sue’s character makes my world go round.
yo yo ma on the colbert report
Color Me Badd on 90210 too
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