I can’t let this week’s episode guide entry go by without taking our own turn at the little game Joel and the bots play during one of the segments. For the record, as Joel said, we’re not actually pushing them off the lighthouse. “We’re just going to put the fear o’ God into ’em.” Let’s just assume the fall isn’t going to kill them, just scare ’em a bit. (Wink.)
My pick, without any hesitation, is Chris Brown, especially if he could land on a fist-shaped rock.
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Ben Gibbard. And I would like there to be a beached whale filled with soiled diapers at the bottom.
Every new recording artist after 1995. That was the year I officially gave up on music.
@ Warren (#91)
“Sweet Home Alabama” was performed by Lynrd Skynrd, and I have to disagree with you about pushing them off the lighthouse. My brother is a big fan of their’s (and was one before the plane crash), and one of my nephews is named after their late lead singer Ronnie Van Zandt. Hey, the performance of “Free Bird” from the “One More from the Road” live double-album alone pardons them from such a fate. And I don’t agree much about Peter Frampton, either.
However, you’ll note that I only disagree with those choices, not with your participation in this thread or anything else about you.
Now, on Kanye West, I can see that one…
@ 96, 98 and Neptune Man: Is this “hate” hate or “good-natured” hate? I’ll argue for the latter, since I doubt anyone here is seriously wanting to see anyone’s demise–I, for one, didn’t see any connection between this thread and the real-life demise of a singer whom I could appreciate as an immensely talented person whose life took a tragic turn, even if I wasn’t a big fan of her music. I do agree that political commentary is inappropriate, if only because the original skit was not concerned with political figures (and MST didn’t dabble a lot in political humour: even the skit in #617 was a dig at political comedy itself). For me, as I think for a lot of people, it’s more about deflating overblown pop stars who aren’t particularly original or even talented (I agree with the comment that the auto-tuner and its inventor should be tossed off the lighthouse, too)–but I can also say that I do like some contemporary music (won’t name names for fear of reprisal), and I’m also glad to see the back of a lot of music from the 70s, 80s and 90s that has sunk, justifiably, without a trace.
My main beef with this discussion is that it’s only tangentially related to MST. Here’s a thought: could anyone come up with a toss-off-the-lighthouse list of 10 names who were on the radio (+/- a year or so) when the episode first aired? Let’s make it even more challenging, and specifically omit the ones J & TB mention (list in Ward E, of course). Any takers? I’ll bet that most of us would have to scour the internet (or our siblings’ record/CD collections) to remember artists and songs that had us climbing the walls back in 1992.
I ment Bieber (It just sounds like bever, I guess)….and while we’re at it, Madonna (for that icky half-time show of her’s), Celine Dion (for “My Heart Will Go On” (Never liked that song)), and finally Kenny G (For everything he has ever done)……I have to say that this is a great stress reducer.
#104, Well said Blast, you nailed it.
As for music of 1992 that had me up the walls, I’ll give you three: The Spin Doctors, 4 Non Blondes, and Color Me Bad. Ugh.
Does anyone agree on Lou Reed?
If the question mentioned dead pop singers my list would have been different. Afterall, threatening to throw the body of Peter Allen off a lighthouse would only hurt his family and not show Mr. Allen himself how much I hated him when I was in my teens. His insipid perkiness! But perhaps I could just throw all copies of “I go to Rio” off the lighthouse and that would…. yeah yeah yeah, that would be much more satisfying!!! Yeah… I’d like to sooooo much even though I’m not in my teens anymore!!! I. Go. To. Ri…..ooooooooooooOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh….. (good…and a note… Allen died in 1992 says wiki)
The Shame-o-meter readings I’m getting from this thread are several Lawfords above the permitted level.
Steve Allen invented this thread back in the ’50’s.
Even then it was childish.
But, as Steve himself once said: “Never lose your child’s heart.”
Long live Alex-
Xander Phipps!
#110 ALexander Phipps? I’m getting squishy!
#107 – I’ll agree with Lou Reed, but I have to throw Metallica in too for their ill-advised team-up of last year. However, I’d like to put them on bungees to save them at the last second for all of their earlier works.
And without trying to fan the flames or anything, I really just don’t get all the bitter comments around this topic. Poor timing? I don’t see ANY connection between MST3k and Whitney Houston if that’s your beef. If you are a fan of hers, sorry for your loss. I am not, and I feel the music world lost far more when Joey Ramone died. To each their own.If you think the topic is too low brow, I dunno. It seemed to work for Joel and the rest of the Brains. I’ve always liked that the humor on MST3k was pretty all-inclusive. A lot of very smart humor, but some pretty good dumb jokes too. As far as I’m concerened, funny’s funny.
I’m still mad at Crow for taking my choice, Ann Murray (she of the Ann Murray national Forest on Prince Edward Island). Not as hate, but as homage. And as MST already mentioned instead of Killingbeck, Paula Cole would be a good choice to see dropped off a lighthouse. Others lined up to drop could be Richard Marx, the Cranberries, Shania Twain, and please take Usher with you too. (insert Fall of the Lighthouse of Usher joke here.)
#112 Bitter comments? You are the ones sayin: “This guy sucks I hope he dies”. Tell me if that isn’t petty and childish.
I would nominate the members of C + C Music Factory, mostly for not putting the actual female singer of the song in their music video. I would also nominate Lindsay Lohan (remember, she had that one album).
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Neptune Man – Sorry, I don’t think it is petty and childish. It’s getting in the spirit of the Weekend Discussion topic as it was posed. Like I said, I don’t want to fan the flames, but I see you are determined in your opinion. So I’m going to ask: have you bothered to watch this episode to get some kind of reference? They were tiny puppets falling from a tiny lighthouse. It’s an “If you had your drothers, what crappy pop singer would you never have to listen to again” scenerio. Pretty simple idea, as far as I’m concerned. If you don’t think it’s a funny concept and think it’s petty and childish, isn’t your problem with the Brains and not with those of us that don’t have a problem with it?
Not gonna do it. You push one lame musician off a lighthouse and soon the floating heads start popping up and the haunting begins….no thank you.
How about Jefferson Starship? You’ve got their song “We Built This City” having been named as one of the worst songs ever made by many publications. In addition, don’t forget “Light the Sky on Fire”, heard in that 1978 TV special abomination, “The Star Wars Holiday Special”. Enough said.
Of course, I’m the only one being silly here. I should really just relax…But for some reason I can only think of Carrot Top falling down the lighthouse.
Menudo, Milli Vanilli (Everyone involved in this mistake), MC Hammer, Vanilla Ice, Britney Spears, Kylie Minogue, Ricky Martin, J Lo, Paris Hilton (I think she dabbled in recording), Wham, Whitesnake, Backstreet Boys, ‘N Sync…
I think bad music is a lot worse than bad movies. You can just not watch bad movies/TV. But when bad music gets popular you can’t go into a public place without being assaulted by it.
And if you think this thread is harsh consult Bill Hicks’ “Let’s Hunt Down and Kill Billy Ray Cyris” routine, or his comments about New Kids on the Block and Tiffany/Debbie Gibson.
Also consult Weird Al’s “Achy Brakey Song”.
Any body who lip syncs their concerts goes over immediately. HMMM, we may need a 2nd light house. The singers are piling up.
first, #21, while some polticians need to be neither seen or heard from (and i’m thinking of someone else) this is not the format so ease off the unwanted hate.
second, this is a tough one to call. i mean you have the obvious choices of Gaga and Bieber simply because life is too short to have to put up with them. then you have the woefully irrelevent like george michaels, elton john, steve perry and the like. honestly if the thompson twins were heaved off a lighthouse by a deranged jazz man, who would really care? oh, well. it IS fun to think about..oo there goes “wham!” ‘pick me up after i go splat’
I can handle the flames I’ll get but I must say: I want Bon Iver’s whiny, annoying falsetto, hipstery, over processed, painfully boring voice tossed off the highest lighthouse near Eau Claire possible. As Joel said, just enough to put fear of God into them.
Agreed w/123 — keep your hate list of politicians out of this.
(That said, you could viably put Peter Garrett or “Calypso” Louie Farrakhan on there, I guess. If you had to.)
Petty and childish? I’ll tell my sister’s ex husband that sucking the fun out of the room isn’t an art he pwns. He might show up here making trouble, so just a warning.
Mariah Carey, no question.
The entire 70s disco era, and they all need to not fall, but be SHOVED HARD!
William Shatner for his awful rendition of “Rocket Man” on TV.
Barry Manilow and Michael Bolton.
While the interview with Don Sullivan (Chase Winstead) from “The Giant Gila Monster” DVD indicates he is a decent guy, his music, which may or may not be categorized as pop, might qualify him for a lighthouse toss. “I Sing Whenever I Sing” is of course the stuff of Mstie legend, and probably doesn’t qualify Don’s header into a coastal rock. However, “The Lord Said Laugh, Children Laugh” I firmly believe merits him a place UNDER the lighthouse.
And really, you don’t need to worry about Lady Gaga. Go ahead, shove her. She’ll just flap her dress and fly away…
I really liked Don Sullivan. I’d have a catcher thingie down there for him like they use for jumpers and save that big guy. Maybe he’d give my town a free “Sing whenever I sing whenever I sing” concert for that! so lets work together on this and get that concert!
Eddy Grant.
#133 – Just make sure you’ve got something for Don to put his knee up on. I think that’s in his list of dressing room demands. What a prima donna. I sing whenever I sing whenever I si-ing!!!!
Definitely Justin Bieber.
But I would have no problems with William Shatner being thrown off a cliff (wasn’t his priceline character on a bus when it happened?) for his crimes against music.
We could also add Jon Mikl Thor if I ever bothered to listen to his “music”…
If I had to pick one… Black Eyed Peas. All four of them. IMMA BE tossing them off of lighthouses left and right.
Mili Vanilli for being such frauds.
Well, all the most obvious ones have already been mentioned, and many others named for a laugh, but remember that there were/are people who actually LIKED the pop singers you wanted to see fall from the lighthouse (and not all of them are on Death Row or in the Psycho Ward). Could you possibly be implying that people who LIKED all these pop singers should also fall from said lighthouse? Hmmmmm?
Any emo band.
Bieber and Gaga, and the managers of every single Top 40 station in the US and Canada. (I’m from Detroit, so I have to deal with the Canadian Top 40 stations too.) In fact, let’s make this lighthouse on the shore of Lake Superior! Frigid ice-cold water, you know?
If we’re talking contemporary pop-singers, can I just go with “all of them”?
Kenny G, Air Supply (all of them) Celine Dion, Michael Bolton, Anyone who sings country music, Most anybody played on Radio Disney…but especially Willow Smith, shave her head and maybe she’ll shut up !!!!!!!
#111 – He’s a real cool Jonah and he has it. He’s in his shakti convertible, too, by the way.
#98 Yes, childish. On a puppet show. Heh.
Justin Bieber. Instead of pushing him over the railing I’ll knock him over by hitting him in the head with a water bottle.
The pop singer who did “Pop Muzik”: Robin Scott AKA “M”. I HATED that song when I was a kid!
To stay in the realm of the show’s run, I’d have a difficult time choosing between the Counting Crows, Creed (milk-toast vanilla, anyone ?), or the worst band in the world…the Spin Doctors ! Ummmm…thought about it…SPIN DOCTORS !
Neptune Man, I feel your pain..here’s a number you can call…1-800-CRY-BABY. If busy, call 1-866-BUH-WAAA !!!
@135. I forgot about that darn knee up fixation of his! I’ll bet he has 5 ottomans per room at his place!