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Keith Relf looks absolutely diabolical with the Yardbirds in Blow Up. The whole band is amazing.I cant think of any better

― girl scout heroin (iamamonkey), Saturday, 22 March 2003 14:18 (twenty-three years ago)

That's just the performance I was thinking of when I saw this thread's title.

― Jazzbo (jmcgaw), Saturday, 22 March 2003 14:56 (twenty-three years ago)

greg and the lads in 'beautiful girls'
got me into the afghan whigs
for a few months big time that.
f*ckin ace. and he looked great.

― piscesboy, Saturday, 22 March 2003 15:07 (twenty-three years ago)

'Gimme Shelter' - Mick Jagger getting more and more pissed off at having to follow Ike and Tina. "That's it, no more chick bands!"

― dave q, Saturday, 22 March 2003 15:30 (twenty-three years ago)

Oingo Boingo in "Back to School"

― o. nate (onate), Saturday, 22 March 2003 15:42 (twenty-three years ago)

That insane queen doing Patti Labelle after the end credits in Paris Is Burning.

― Arthur (Arthur), Saturday, 22 March 2003 16:55 (twenty-three years ago)

Nick Cave in "Wings Of Desire." 1987.

― maria b (maria b), Saturday, 22 March 2003 17:12 (twenty-three years ago)

Fear in Decline 1.

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 22 March 2003 17:17 (twenty-three years ago)

Yardbirds in Blowup.

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Saturday, 22 March 2003 17:47 (twenty-three years ago)

Fishbone playing "do the ska" in Back to the Beach.

― Bobby D Gray (bedhead), Saturday, 22 March 2003 17:58 (twenty-three years ago)

Fuck, loads....The Yardbirds might indeed own this thread for that manic cameo, but also.....

- Bauhaus playing "Bela Lugosi's Dead" in "The Hunger"
- The Vandals playing "Legend of Pat Brown" in "Suburbia"
- The Cirlce Jerks playing the lounge version of "When the Shit Hits the Fans" in "Repo Man."

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 22 March 2003 20:56 (twenty-three years ago)

I always liked the sense where the Thrill Kill Kult are playing at that club in The Crow.

― bob, Sunday, 23 March 2003 08:44 (twenty-three years ago)

Spinal Tap - "Rock n' Roll Creation"

― paul cox (paul cox), Sunday, 23 March 2003 08:53 (twenty-three years ago)

Mick Jagger doing "Come On in My Kitchen" on acoustic guitar in Performance.

― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Sunday, 23 March 2003 09:21 (twenty-three years ago)

Cannibal Corpse in Ace Ventura Pet Detective. Oh, and 7 Year Bitch in Mad Love (god-awful movie...)

― Jeanne Fury (Jeanne Fury), Sunday, 23 March 2003 22:20 (twenty-three years ago)

The Tubes/Olivia Newton John - that song in Xanadu

― Joe (Joe), Sunday, 23 March 2003 22:23 (twenty-three years ago)

go ninja go ninja go!

― dave k, Sunday, 23 March 2003 23:42 (twenty-three years ago)

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― Ian SPACK (Ian SPACK), Monday, 24 March 2003 00:12 (twenty-three years ago)

Mixmaster Mike cutting up Robert Johnson in Scratch.

― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Monday, 24 March 2003 00:31 (twenty-three years ago)

all the performances in Bandwagon

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Monday, 24 March 2003 01:39 (twenty-three years ago)

clint eastwood singing i talk to the trees in paint your wagon.

― Boss Pooper, Monday, 24 March 2003 07:08 (twenty-three years ago)

Sparks in 'Rollercoaster'.

― James Ball (James Ball), Monday, 24 March 2003 15:11 (twenty-three years ago)

The Fontanelles in Hobgoblins -- it will make you realize that you can do better than them musically without even trying.

Alternately, the nameless psuedo-metal AOR band fronted by the Steve Perry fashion disaster in Vampire on Bikini Beach.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 24 March 2003 15:20 (twenty-three years ago)

Bette Midler in "The Rose" - corny but grrrrrrreat.

― Jacob (Jacob), Monday, 24 March 2003 16:05 (twenty-three years ago)

Kiss, playing evil robot versions of themselves, singing "Rip, Rip, Rip & Destroy" to the tune of "Hotter than Hell" in the über-classic, "Kiss Meets the Phantom of the Park."

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 24 March 2003 16:27 (twenty-three years ago)

Fishbone playing as Ranchbone in Tapeheads.

Or maybe possibly something from one of the Bill & Ted's movies.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 24 March 2003 16:45 (twenty-three years ago)

Twisted Sister in the first Pee Wee movie!

And Jim Martin's appearance in Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey is historically inaccurate. That guy got the boot like the next week after that movie came out!

― original bgm, Monday, 24 March 2003 16:50 (twenty-three years ago)

The Swanky Modes' "Ordinary Man" in Tapeheads, but the Blender Children's Mr. MX7 "video" in that movie is slammin' too ...

― Alicia, Thursday, 27 March 2003 01:40 (twenty-three years ago)

who's the band in "Beyond the Valley of the Dolls"...?

This is my scene and it's FREAKING ME OUT!

― Shakey Mo Collier, Thursday, 27 March 2003 01:45 (twenty-three years ago)

The Carrie Nations, Shakey Mo!

There was a great all girl band playing at the lesbian bar in The Killing of Sister George. They looked really sort of square for 1968, but perfect for the scene. I wish I knew what they were called.

― Arthur (Arthur), Thursday, 27 March 2003 02:23 (twenty-three years ago)

E.G. Dailey in Better Off Dead

(ok, maybe not THE best...)

― Kim (Kim), Thursday, 27 March 2003 03:15 (twenty-three years ago)

ethan hawke in reality bites
the oily sax player in lost boys

― keith (keithmcl), Thursday, 27 March 2003 04:50 (twenty-three years ago)

Ha, Timmy Capello! I forgot he was in that, Keith. I saw him once with Tina Turner, he did a terrible solo with his shirt off.

― Arthur (Arthur), Thursday, 27 March 2003 04:58 (twenty-three years ago)

four months pass...

Mick Jagger in Ned Kelly

(Goofy Western made in Australia, 1970)
http://www.blockbuster.com/bb/movie/details/0,7286,VID-V++++34717,00.html?

― John Heathrow, Thursday, 21 August 2003 22:05 (twenty-two years ago)

Ah C'mon. How about the Plimsouls in " Valley Girl"? Oldest story in the World. Million Miles Away. Or the Busboys in " 48 hours". The Boys are back in town. Willie Nelson in" Baja, Oklahoma"?

― Speedy Gonzalas (Speedy Gonzalas), Friday, 22 August 2003 05:19 (twenty-two years ago)

I think it's a toss-up between:

The Cirlce Jerks playing the lounge version of "When the Shit Hits the Fans" in "Repo Man."

and

Twisted Sister in the first Pee Wee movie!

― christoff (christoff), Friday, 22 August 2003 13:39 (twenty-two years ago)

Willie Nelson & Kris Kristofferson in Songwriter. Great Movie.

― Will (will), Friday, 22 August 2003 15:07 (twenty-two years ago)

yep, this is what I was looking for. Rent it now.

― Will (will), Friday, 22 August 2003 15:14 (twenty-two years ago)

yep, here is what I was looking for. Rent it now.

― Will (will), Friday, 22 August 2003 15:16 (twenty-two years ago)

Tommy Keene in "Out of Bounds," playing "Run Now" as Anthony Michael Hall does just that . . . across the stage and out the back.

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Saturday, 23 August 2003 10:03 (twenty-two years ago)

Has anyone seen the movie Magma appear in?
Surely that must rule!

I obviously need to see "Rollercoaster" now.

― Øystein Holm-Olsen (Øystein H-O), Saturday, 23 August 2003 10:17 (twenty-two years ago)

Seconds on Fear, Cannibal Corpse and the Circle Jerks.

Also, D.I. in Suburbia, the Blasters in Streets Of Fire, and the Time in Purple Rain.

― Phil Freeman (Phil Freeman), Saturday, 23 August 2003 22:48 (twenty-two years ago)

Little Richard "Girl Can't Help It" (in the film of the same name)

― bflaska, Sunday, 24 August 2003 00:12 (twenty-two years ago)

Nick Cave in Johnny Suede.

― David Merryweather (DavidM), Sunday, 24 August 2003 02:07 (twenty-two years ago)

ok not best, but funniest has got to be The Quadratics performing "Satisfaction" in Welcome to the Dollhouse

― Elliot (Elliot), Sunday, 24 August 2003 02:16 (twenty-two years ago)

the Damned doing Nasty on the Young Ones, ok, I get half credit since it was TV.
Motorhead doing Dr. Rock in Eat the Rich, Lemmy is very funny in this movie, nice shoes too.

― Brandon Welch (Brandon Welch), Sunday, 24 August 2003 14:01 (twenty-two years ago)

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