Worst Televised Performances

[Carl]

Just came across this doozy from New Order on Top Of The Pops. Through the magic of YouTube, was can see most of the great live TV music performance disasters of all time. Through some combination of alcohol, indifference, incopentence and technical problems, what are the best of the worst?

Blue Monday on Top of The Pops

[Tenacious_Peaches]

Guns n Roses at the 2002 VMAs

Ugh. I get indigestion every time I think of this debacle.

[Levis]

Is the New Order performance not good? Or am I missing something?

My favourite is the Stone Roses' first TV appearance

Amateurs! Amateurs!

[Ombre Vivante]

NewOrder is well-known for being bad live - no movement, they show no brotherhood with the audience. The music is good, but they just stand still the whole time.

[Ombre Vivante]

ashley simpson? milli vanilli?

[c_s_1987]

Silverchair performed Straight Lines of The Tonight Show when Daniel Johns had a throat infection. Oddly enough, that video isn't on YouTube. However, there is a performance that I think was recorded a day later, with vocals not quite so bad but still pretty crap.

Straight Lines - Silverchair (The Late Late Show)

[c_s_1987]

Is the New Order performance not good? Or am I missing something?

My favourite is the Stone Roses' first TV appearance

Amateurs! Amateurs!

[daslied]

It's not televised, but it was in a documentary. The Brian Jonestown Massacre performing at a RECORD SHOWCASE:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9admQrK9Bzs

[Udo]

Guns n Roses at the 2002 VMAs

Straight Lines - Silverchair (The Late Late Show)

These two are fairly bad, but the others are so much worse! LOL

"We're gonna get the biggest record deal in the industry... because we're smart."

[MindCrime]

I can't find the video anywhere, but one of the worst was when Prince appeared on the Letterman Show and passed out in the middle of his set and had to be carried off stage by Letterman's security. Then Dave and Paul made jokes about him afterwards.

[Shawna]

would lip-synched performances where the artist forgot some words qualify? I can think of two off the top of my head...

[Batman]

I love MGMT's song "Time to Pretend," so I was really excited when I saw that they were going to perform it on David Letterman. Their performace was really lackluster though. The studio version is way better.

[skybluesky]

It's not televised, but it was in a documentary. The Brian Jonestown Massacre performing at a RECORD SHOWCASE:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9admQrK9Bzs

Amy Sherman Palladino recreated that fiasco for the Gilmore girls episode "He's Slippin’ ‘Em Bread... Dig?" and Joel Gion from BJM plays Joel the tambourine player in the episode.

[Farin]

here's one by an unknown band/singer

[MindCrime]

^^ That one did suck, the lead singer looks pretty embarrassed too