New question for the class: what are your favorite appearances by a musical artist in a film or TV show? Playing live, acting role, whatever. Whaddya got?
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This really blew up in an unexpected manner. But so far I have not seen anyone mention some of my faves: The Rave-Ups in PRETTY IN PINK and BEVERLY HILLS 90210 Powermad in WILD AT HEART Young MC and Cut Chemist in UP IN THE AIR Bobby Short and The 39 Steps in HANNAH AND HER SISTERS
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did anybody say Yo La Tengo as Bobby Knight Ranger on Parks & Rec
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Blue Rodeo in Postcards from the Edge
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Fukuyama Masaharu may not count since he's basically had parallel careers in music and acting, but the film The Third Murder is powerful and haunting (as is his performance) and the TV series Galileo is good fun
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He's got so many good ones. Love his Nikola Tesla in The Prestige
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He was brilliant as Andy Warhol in Basquiat
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Umm... Bowie as Goblin King Jareth in Labyrinth.
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It is the David Bowie Rule of movies. If David Bowie is in the movie, the movie is worth watching.
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Also good in Into the Night
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Yes.
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The long lost Philip Jeffries in Fire Walk With Me
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If I had to pick one, Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence. It's a lead role that demands real acting chops, and he has to play a guy who can't sing, terrible, voice like animals dying.
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Tremendous role. And his antagonist is played by Ryuichi Sakamoto, who also did the soundtrack
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The extremely sinister agent in Into the Night. "Oh, you are good."
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Perfect casting
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This is the one. He just stood there looking amazing with that shark fin.
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Wait. What? WOW💜💫
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In 2010, thepublished an article about Nikola Tesla and how tech firms were idolizing him. In the article they discuss The Prestige as an example of his cultural relevancy, and so they used the David Bowie portrayal for the article hedcut. Instead of Tesla himself. archive.ph/pu5ed
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Yes! That's a good one!
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Yes!
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Alice Cooper Group - Diary of a Mad Housewife Doug MacMillian (Connells) - Bandwagon Robyn Hitchcock - The Manchurian Candidate Joe Strummer - Straight to Hell
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How bout Rollins as a computer nerd named fucking SPIDER in Johnny Mnemonic
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Aimee Mann in The Big Lebowski
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The Doobie Brothers on What’s Happening. I’m old enough to have seen it when it aired.
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I’ll just talk to whichever Doobie do be there
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Dee, to Tiran Porter: You must be a half-brother.
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Which Doobie you be?
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RIP, Dee.
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I think a lot about how wrong the "don't tape shows" message of that episode was. From so many different angles, even the interests of the record companies themselves!
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Me too. I still use Dwayne’s line…which nobody understands.
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SAME! Loved that show.
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James Darren on Deep Space Nine.
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Tom Waits, Down By Law youtu.be/xxGO3952aqI?...
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Either between Bowie in Labyrinth or Bernadette Peters in Animaniacs.
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Easily Flea from Red Hot Chili Peppers as one of nihilists in The Big Lebowski the breaks into The Dude’s apartment at the beginning of the film
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How did I not know that was Flea?! Now I can't unsee it. Thank you! 👍
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Or Flea and Kiedis as the Monster Truck vigilantes in "The Chase"
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Or Flea as "Needles" in Back to the Future 2 and 3?
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Bowie in fire walk with me, flaming lips in charmed, Rza in ghost dog, TI in American gangster.
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Tom waits in anything, Iggy pop in Pete and Pete.
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Sam Phillips as Katya in "Die Hard With A Vengeance". She also did a cameo in Wim Wender's "The End of Violence" but I can't find any screenshots.
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Dwight Yoakim in like everything he's done. Logan Lucky for sure.
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Yoakam damnit.
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*swoon* youtu.be/eijz1hSj9u0?...
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Sting in Quadrophenia
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has anyone said BOTH Cypress Hill and Naughty by Nature in the 1993 superhero movie The Meteor Man?
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Marshall Crenshaw showing up as a meter reader in The Adventures of Pete & Pete. That show also features appearances from Michael Stipe and Iggy Pop.
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Sling Blade - Vic Chesnutt / Dwight Yoakam Mystery Train - Joe Strummer / Tom Waits / Screamin' Jay Hawkins
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Cohen/Zappa in Miami Vice
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STEWART DRIVES A COMFORTABLE CAR
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The dots are where I say they are.
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Bob Dylan on Dharma and Greg.
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Tom Petty in The Postman.
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Vic Chesnutt in small role...
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10/10
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This gorgeous specimen - Kris Kristofferson in “Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore” (and everything else he was in in the 70’s).
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Fuck yeah...😘
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Kristofferson was really good. He was terrifying in LONE STAR (1996)!
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Queen Latifah in Chicago
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Does Steve van Zandt count? 🤔 I mean, he got the lead role in a TV series.
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The lead?
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Yes, as ex mafia boss Frank Tagliano en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lilyham...
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I somehow was not aware of that. I thought you might have been referring to his role as Silvio on The Sopranos.
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Similar roles, but different series. I saw a couple of episodes from Lilyhammer on French / German TV arte. But with subtitles - I hate them.
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Wu Tang on Larry Sanders
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dipshit with a 9-toed woman...
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I liked her Buffy cameo better
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Man, I hate playing vampire towns
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Pretty much everybody who played at the Roadhouse in Twin Peaks but especially the Chromatics, Eddie Vedder and “The” Nine Inch Nails.
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Huey Lewis and the news in the blacklist, Season 8, Episode 6, titled "The Wellstone Agency,"
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Tom Waits in "The Imaginarium Of Doctor Parnassus." He's brilliant as the devil.
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Has to be Dexter Gordon in Round Midnight
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Meatloaf in The Rocky Horror Picture Show.
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and in The Pick of Destiny
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Everybody in Woodstock.
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Elvis Costello filling in for David Letterman when he had his heart surgery.
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Tom Petty on The Larry Sanders Show. (Ditto Elvis Costello)
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Art Garfunkel in Carnal Knowledge. Paul Simon in Annie Hall.
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Roger Daltrey vacuuming in The Mighty Boosh.
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Steve Earle was great in The Wire.
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Well, so Bowie had a big acting career, but I loved him in Zoolander.
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Elvis Costello in Spice World.
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The singer Sam Phillips as a German killing machine in Die Hard with a Vengeance. Incredible. www.instagram.com/reel/C5JxtZO...
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Janelle Monáe in Moonlight holds up against all the others I can think of
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ngl I cracked a BIG smile when she appeared on screen in Knives Out 2! We loved the first one so we went into 2 sight unseen: no trailers, no ads, no idea who was in it or what it was about. She ROCKED! 👍💙🦋💙💪
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Janelle Monae in anything.
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Somebody probably already said this but John Doe from X is a really good character actor.
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Tom Petty as Tom Petty, the mayor of a band of survivors in The Postman
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Prince in New Girl
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Underrated episode!
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Neek Reevers!
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I always enjoyed it when Mel Tormé showed up on Night Court. What? I'm old.
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How about Cyndi Lauper in Mad About You? "Wanna wear my tiara? It's bejeweled!" (Shout out to @joeartguy.bsky.social )
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I just watched that
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Does it count if the the singer was already also an actor (and they're playing a singer)? If so, don't know about favorite, but James Darren comes to mind playing Vic Fontaine on Deep Space Nice, especially the episode "It's Only a Paper Moon".
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You got that right, Pallie
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ALL NIGHT LONG coming to a complete halt so Dave Brubeck and friends can cook for five minutes.
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now I have to find this movie
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on Criterion and Tubi that I’m aware of
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Brubeck jamming with Mingus no less.
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Sting in Stormy Monday… maybe his best performance until The Only Murders in the Building
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Can Calloway in the Blues Brothers, with his Minnie the Moocher at the climax
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Yes, and Aretha Franklin, and John Lee Hooker, and Ray Charles, and hell, THE BAND that included Matt "Guitar" Murphy, Steve Crocker, and Lou Morini. I got another: Chuck Mangione (RIP, quite recently) in the original run of 'King of the Hill.'
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All of the Seattle bands featured in Singles
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I was going to say that too, an absolutely cracking film
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God I miss him.
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Hyde in Last Quarter. https://youtu.be/jXhXXrTgndM?si=n0a-6wn4QO9PSqT6
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Jack White in Cold Mountain
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All my favourites have been mentioned but a special mention of a funny, out of character cameo by Marilyn Manson in Wrong Cops.
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Or frikkin "Runaway"! He was so creepy.
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Lyle Lovett was great in Robert Altman's "Short Cuts." Huey Lewis and Tom Waits were quite good in the film too.
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Sting in The Adventures of Baron Munchausen Phil Collins in Hook
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And Buddy Rich on The Muppet Show
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=Creh... London Wainwright III was in a few episodes of M*A*S*H
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meow... that's the kind of deep cut that makes me want to nap in a sunbeam and dream of tuna sushi
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And Gwen Verdon!
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Rage Against The Machine's guitarist Tom Morello in pretty much EVERY Jon Favreau movie!
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Live singer Ed Kowalczyk as the waiter in Fight Club! “…I would advise against the lady eating the clam chowder,” youtu.be/aja6kH4G1Us?...
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I thought he looked familiar!
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Levon Helm as Loretta Lynn's father in Coal Miner's Daughter
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This is a good one !
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Yes!!!
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🩷🩷🩷🩷
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Love anytime David Bowie shows up in cinema
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Justin Hawkins of The Darkness made a pretty good Screaming Lord Sutch in Nick Moran's 2009 Joe Meek biopic 'Telstar'.
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👏👏👏👏👏
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Alanis Morrisette as god
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I can't stand her singing but yes, that was brilliant.
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Eddie Vedder in Singles
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Eddie Vedder in Walk Hard.
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not a great movie, but a superb cameo
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It’s literally the only thing I can even remember from it.
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Donna Lewis performing “I Love You Always Forever” at the Peach Pit After Dark
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I vaguely remember The Flaming Lips being involved in 90210 Peach Pit activity (or maybe it was just the song "She Don't Use Jelly"), and also the kidvid show 'Yo Gabba Gabba.'
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Dwight Yoakam any time Dwight Yoakam pops up. Couldn’t name a single Dwight Yoakam song, but I love it whenever Dwight Yoakam pops up on the screen. Dwight Yoakam
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He was great in Sling Blade.
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The Men at Work guy playing ‘Overkill’ while he follows the Scrubs guy like a fever dream.
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Colin Hay. This is one of mine.
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I loved this. I was looking and thought, is that Colin Hay? Nah, can’t be. Wait, yeah it is!!
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@alyankovic.bsky.social in all the Naked Gun movies
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Frank Sinatra in Manchurian Candidate
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This is my pick 100%
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How did I never know this??
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Come on, Tom Waits in Down By Law! And given Jarmusch, add Screaming Jay Hawkins in Mystery Train.
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I’m sure you remember The Blues Brothers
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And as that gold digger in Bister Scruggs
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Dean Martin and Sammy Davis Jr in Cannonball Run. “They're doing the work of the Lord. In a Ferrari, they can just do it faster.”
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I can't believe nobody has Ice T in Friday.
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Completely overshadowed by Ice T's performance in Tank Girl.
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I can think of one big reason why.
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Jagger in "Performance": he creates a more sinister, dark charismatic version of his performing self (and then felt compelled to try to live as this character for a few years after the movie)
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLt0...
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Bonus points for Kenny Wayne Shepard mowing the lawn.
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Who is this?
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One of the Spice Girls I believe.
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The first thing i thought of.
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This is the only correct answer!
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Screamin' Jay Hawkins in Perdita Durango and it isn't even close
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You mention Screamin' Jay you have to show Mystery Train and that red suit coat and tie.
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Aretha in the Blues Brothers
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She taught me that you can add syllables for emphasis: “ SHEEEIT they still owe you money, fool!”
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Came here to say this
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Got a giggle out of Kylie Minogue in Doctor Who.
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When Anthrax rocked out on Married w children lmao youtu.be/RQty0OEsptM?...
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Surprise Bowie as Tesla in The Prestige
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both the movie and the cameo blew me away in the theater 👍👍
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The Jon Stewart Show, in the 90's. Cancelation had already been announced. Show was chaos. A guest cuts his hand on a smashed mug (similar to how Stewart would do years later on TDS). Marilyn Manson comes out, plays Lunchbox, starts a fire on stage. I was 18 and stoned. It was glorious.
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If you'd have included video games, it would have to be Wayne Newton as Mr. New Vegas.
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No love for Henry Rollins?
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Oh man completely forgot, he was a cop!
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exactly!
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We have a winner!
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I really don’t know how this isn’t everyone’s pick tbh
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And choreographed by Gates McFadden, aka Dr Crusher in Star Trek. An actor not appearing in a movie but doing musical shit for it.
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How did I not know that?!
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Fishbone’s appearance in the movie “Tapeheads”
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I think you mean "Ranchbone" Love that soundtrack
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Don't forget the Swanky Modes themselves, Sam Moore and Junior Walker
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John Densmore in Square Pegs m.youtube.com/watch?v=zq4J...
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Not a musician, but an honorable mention for Xavier McDaniel in Singles. 😂
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Roy Clark on The Odd Couple.
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Huey Lewis in Back to the Future, as well as ZZ Top in Back to the Future 3
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OMG I never knew that was Huey Lewis!
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Oh, also in the BttF trilogy, Flea.
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Huey Lewis as Hailey's father on One Tree Hill
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Cosmo Jarvis sells the Soulful But Shouting 1600s Englishman Abroad role so so hard in Shogun
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Can we count the Wonders (aka the One-ders) as Cap'n Geech and the Shrimp Shack Shooters?
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Another favourite: Tom Waits in Mystery Men
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Bowie in The Linguini Incident See also: Elton John in the second Kingsmen movie
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And Jeff Tweedy. And Ginuwine. And The Decembrists. And Letters the Cleo. Best episode of the series.
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Ginuwine is your cousin?!?!
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“Girl don’t know who Ginuwine is. That’s one of my ‘Oh No-Nos.’ Jerry’s 16th birthday. Another great episode.
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oh hell yeah, that was a PERFORMANCE
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Tom Waits in Licorice Pizza as well
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Tom Waits in anything, really
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Michael Stipe as Captain Scrummy in The Adventures of Pete and Pete. Final answer
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Pete and Pete has so many to choose from. Iggy Pop, Debbie Harry, Kate Pierson, and Gordon Gano off the top of my head
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youtu.be/OvMW3U-VYE0?...
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I love the little handclap at the end
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There so many music people in that show. Probably watching that as a kid helped craft my love for that music sound and artists.
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Yus!
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I think Kate Pierson (B-52s) was in that episode too.
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Syd Straw leading Little Pete's band.
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Scrolled down hoping to find this. Syd Straw should be bigger than Taylor Swift
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Pete and Pete cameos are legendary!
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Roger Daltrey in CSI.
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Who?
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The Who.
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Sigh
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There’s two things you need to know. I’m the king, and number two is lookoutman!
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Huey Lewis in Back To The Future Twisted Sister in Pee Wee's Big Adventure
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Sting is often entertaining.
aug 30, 2025, 5:26 am • 4 0 • view
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Warning: this movie is EXTREMELY disturbing.
aug 30, 2025, 5:32 am • 4 0 • view
Sting’s prayer before supper is still with me decades later
aug 30, 2025, 7:37 am • 0 0 • view
I love Dennis Potter’s ‘Brimstone and Treacle’! It was originally a television play, still staring Denholm Elliott, though I’ve only ever seen the movie version. Definitely disturbing, and absolutely haunting. 👍
aug 30, 2025, 7:30 am • 0 0 • view
Willie Nelson in Thief.
aug 30, 2025, 2:57 am • 8 0 • view
Ain't nothing wrong with his performances in Honeysuckle Rose and Songwriter either.
aug 30, 2025, 3:03 am • 5 0 • view
A big, brand new one is the late Eddie Palmieri in HIGHEST 2 LOWEST. Long, glorious sequence that shows off his chops, his showmanship, in the ideal setting.
aug 30, 2025, 4:18 am • 1 0 • view
David Bowie in THE LAST TEMPTATION OF CHRIST youtu.be/pXGsio9H1xs?...
aug 30, 2025, 2:06 am • 12 0 • view
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Levon Helm in a few roles but i’ll take Mr Rate in Shooter. www.youtube.com/watch?v=QxlN...
aug 30, 2025, 2:38 am • 5 0 • view
Not to mention Marky-Mark in Shooter. youtu.be/_kctwd4w7R0?...
aug 30, 2025, 9:34 am • 0 0 • view
youtu.be/JuctR8UYTyg?...
aug 30, 2025, 2:45 am • 7 0 • view
The BusBoys in 48 Hours
aug 30, 2025, 2:09 am • 4 0 • view
Sinatra as Angelo Maggio in ‘From Here to Eternity’.
aug 30, 2025, 1:08 am • 6 0 • view
Tie between Tommy Keene playing live in the Anthony Micheal Hall movie "Out of Bounds". Can't find a video or still of that, so here's the soundtrack listing and a clip of Siouxsie The Banshees playing. youtu.be/E5KPUGuGr6Y?... ...and...
aug 30, 2025, 4:07 am • 1 0 • view
Goddamn I miss Tommy Keene
aug 30, 2025, 1:23 pm • 1 0 • view
...The Plimsouls playing in Valley Girl. Featuring a young Nicolas Cage) youtu.be/gfCMJ_VFbhM?...
aug 30, 2025, 4:07 am • 6 0 • view
I liked it when Aimee Mann was on Buffy
aug 30, 2025, 5:52 pm • 7 0 • view
Steve Earle The Wire youtu.be/qAakzl6s7QI?...
aug 30, 2025, 1:34 pm • 13 0 • view
Spinal Tap in, you know.
aug 30, 2025, 5:11 am • 2 0 • view
My choice as well. He was so good it was almost if he wandered in from another movie.
aug 30, 2025, 5:25 pm • 1 0 • view
👏👏👏
aug 30, 2025, 4:19 pm • 0 0 • view
The Blues Brothers introduced me to a lot of legendary artists when I was very young. Gotta give the movie credit for that. How else was I going to learn about Cab Calloway?
aug 29, 2025, 9:25 pm • 75 1 • view
From when he was on Sesame Street? Pretty sure that's where I saw him first! youtu.be/esnDnIK2v1g?...
aug 30, 2025, 3:00 am • 42 3 • view
This was very much after the Blues Brothers and because of it
aug 30, 2025, 8:30 pm • 3 0 • view
Iggy Pop in the DS9 episode “The Magnificent Ferengi”
aug 30, 2025, 5:48 am • 4 0 • view
aug 30, 2025, 2:24 am • 54 1 • view
This! SVZ turned out to be such a good actor that no one watching The Sopranos said "wait isn't that Springsteen's guitar player"
aug 30, 2025, 2:41 am • 14 0 • view
i have such a hard time remembering that that's little steven
aug 30, 2025, 3:09 am • 3 0 • view
I was today years old when I realized this.
aug 30, 2025, 3:25 am • 2 0 • view
And then, his real wife played his wife on the show!
aug 31, 2025, 3:08 pm • 0 0 • view
I thought this would be the one almost by acclamation.
aug 30, 2025, 3:14 am • 0 0 • view
The Yardbirds in Blowout.
aug 30, 2025, 2:50 am • 2 0 • view
Alice Cooper in “Diary of a Mad Housewife”
aug 30, 2025, 2:06 am • 3 0 • view
I just watched that recently, insane scene
aug 31, 2025, 1:05 am • 1 0 • view
Kid 'n Play are in the criterion collection
aug 30, 2025, 5:34 pm • 0 0 • view
That legendary Chris Farley/Paul McCartney “interview” on SNL. ❤️
aug 30, 2025, 7:05 am • 5 1 • view
Crime & The City Solution in Wings Of Desire; Danny Elfman as the devil in The Forbidden Zone; Rowland S. Howard in the vampire band in Queen Of The Damned (ok, I've only seen the part he was in, not the rest of that movie). So many others!
aug 30, 2025, 4:54 am • 7 1 • view
Oh, Arto Lindsay playing a DMV employee in Desperately Seeking Susan!
aug 30, 2025, 4:55 am • 7 1 • view
Jerry Cantrell as the copy shop employee at the beginning of Jerry Maguire was unexpected
aug 30, 2025, 3:11 pm • 4 1 • view
TIL about the Howard, thank you, now I guess I need to see at least part of that movie
aug 30, 2025, 7:42 am • 1 0 • view
There's an extended deleted scene on YouTube.
aug 30, 2025, 12:02 pm • 1 0 • view
Not necessarily my favorite, but I’m still amazed that Micheal Mann got Miles Davis to play a drug dealer on Miami Vice.
aug 30, 2025, 2:01 am • 45 0 • view
Fun to have Rollins in ‘Heat’, too, I always forget he’s in it
aug 30, 2025, 1:07 pm • 1 0 • view
MV had AMAZING cameos. Leonard Cohen, Sheena Easton, Miles, Glenn Fry, Little Richard, Barbra Streisand, James Brown ... & those are just the musicians.
aug 30, 2025, 3:03 pm • 5 0 • view
Phil Collins with bonus Emo Philips!
aug 30, 2025, 3:12 pm • 3 0 • view
*pimp, not drug dealer
aug 30, 2025, 1:11 pm • 2 0 • view
even spicier
aug 31, 2025, 5:06 am • 0 0 • view
They got Leonard cohen and Frank Zappa too
aug 30, 2025, 2:06 am • 25 0 • view
Frey, Nugent, Collins... The MTV Era, folks.
aug 30, 2025, 2:45 am • 8 0 • view
Collins killed it, just perfectly cast
aug 30, 2025, 3:24 am • 1 0 • view
Frey has a lot of acting credits
aug 30, 2025, 2:48 am • 2 0 • view
He’s still a dildo
aug 30, 2025, 8:49 am • 0 0 • view
He owned the Cardinals in “Jerry Maguire!”
aug 30, 2025, 3:49 am • 2 0 • view
Oh yes!!!
aug 30, 2025, 4:20 pm • 0 0 • view
This has what the new version was missing
aug 30, 2025, 10:27 pm • 0 0 • view
Iggy Pop in ds9's best episode
aug 30, 2025, 4:16 am • 3 0 • view
youtu.be/z5NztMWCaXw Chris Isaak -Twin Peaks
aug 30, 2025, 9:35 pm • 3 0 • view
And in Married to the Mob. https://youtu.be/uQpHx3lBGms?si=kklhyfqTnVBq08l_
aug 31, 2025, 6:22 am • 0 0 • view
aug 29, 2025, 7:47 pm • 274 5 • view
This but for her tiny bit in Star Trek 4:The Voyage Home.
aug 30, 2025, 11:51 am • 4 0 • view
Good one.
aug 30, 2025, 2:03 am • 0 0 • view
Lmao classic
aug 30, 2025, 2:00 am • 0 0 • view
This but for her role in Bill & Ted
aug 30, 2025, 3:03 am • 8 0 • view
Shit that's a good answer.
aug 30, 2025, 1:29 pm • 0 0 • view
I! Am! Your singing telegram--
aug 29, 2025, 8:24 pm • 58 1 • view
*BANG*
aug 30, 2025, 2:53 am • 29 1 • view
This exchange made my whole evening
aug 30, 2025, 3:35 am • 10 2 • view
Can never forget @janewiedlin.bsky.social as Jeanne d'Arc in 'Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure' either.
aug 30, 2025, 1:11 pm • 23 0 • view
Are you talking about Missy Of Arc? Common mistake.
aug 30, 2025, 4:22 pm • 6 0 • view
still play 'Rush Hour' from time to time
aug 30, 2025, 2:51 pm • 2 0 • view
aug 30, 2025, 2:27 pm • 13 0 • view
I can hear this picture.
aug 30, 2025, 2:24 am • 7 0 • view
Love picking her and not Lee Ving
aug 30, 2025, 2:05 am • 8 0 • view
I mean, you can pick Lee Ving for Streets of Fire since his actual voice is in that rather than whoever did the voice over for Clue.
aug 30, 2025, 2:26 am • 3 0 • view
youtu.be/esnDnIK2v1g?...
aug 30, 2025, 3:01 am • 2 0 • view
I have a soft spot for Courtney Love in The People vs. Larry Flynt.
aug 30, 2025, 3:21 am • 12 0 • view
She was so good!!!
aug 30, 2025, 3:05 pm • 1 0 • view
Lollipop Shoppe in Angels From Hell, Violent Femmes on Sabrina the Teenage Witch, Yardbirds in Blow-Up, Menudo on Silver Spoons, Sonic Youth on the Simpsons, Rip Rig & Panic on Young Ones, everything on Pete & Pete
aug 29, 2025, 5:55 pm • 23 0 • view
Homer Simpson, smiling politely.
aug 30, 2025, 3:05 am • 11 0 • view
Yaaardbirds
aug 30, 2025, 3:37 am • 2 0 • view
I loved that Plain White Ts had a recurring role in the TV show Greek after I had already been a fan of their music for a couple years by that point.
aug 30, 2025, 2:14 am • 1 0 • view
aug 30, 2025, 3:57 am • 12 0 • view
pretty much all of the cameos in Popstar
aug 30, 2025, 2:20 am • 1 0 • view
Iggy pop bathtub scene in Crybaby
aug 31, 2025, 4:47 pm • 0 0 • view
Bruce Springsteen's cameo in High Fidelity never fails to make me smile.
aug 30, 2025, 1:32 am • 42 0 • view
ooh good call, wish i thought of that. it's not like anybody else is misunderstanding the assignment, lotta good posts in these replies, but props for nailing the assignment
aug 30, 2025, 5:30 am • 1 0 • view
Thanks, Boss.
aug 30, 2025, 2:24 am • 7 0 • view
Carl Perkins and David Bowie die at each other's hand (and in each other's arms) in INTO THE NIGHT. I have long maintained that brief movie appearance by Perkins was as interesting as Elvis' entire filmography.
aug 30, 2025, 5:36 pm • 1 0 • view
Kenny Loggins showing up in one episode of Archer
aug 30, 2025, 2:40 am • 1 0 • view
Steve Earle in “The Wire.”
aug 30, 2025, 3:02 am • 2 0 • view
I don't know if I'd say favorite, but Coffee and Cigarettes had some weird ones
aug 30, 2025, 3:12 am • 12 0 • view
It surprised the hell out of me when Jon Bon Jovi showed up on Ally McBeal lol
aug 30, 2025, 3:37 am • 0 0 • view
He also showed up in West Wing
aug 30, 2025, 5:29 am • 1 0 • view
And Sex and the City
aug 30, 2025, 3:05 pm • 1 0 • view
Midsomer Murders. Suzi Quatro (who previously played Leather Tuscadero on Happy Days) moved to the UK in real life, and appears in a 2007 MM episode as part of an old rock group appearing at a festival (spoiler: she is murdered). They use a clip of her voice in the 200th ep
aug 30, 2025, 3:04 am • 7 0 • view
And of course, parts of late Split Enz doing an ad for Australian Coke in The Coca Cola Kid (Tim Finn, who goes by the name of Philip in this, was dating Greta Scaachi at the time) www.youtube.com/watch?v=ml0T...
aug 30, 2025, 3:07 am • 4 1 • view
Anytime Tom Waits shows up on screen.
aug 30, 2025, 2:37 pm • 4 0 • view
aug 30, 2025, 3:22 am • 3 0 • view
It’s a tie, and in the same “film,” HARDWARE LEMMY: youtu.be/ZmXC3N7-cFU?...
aug 30, 2025, 2:22 am • 13 0 • view
IGGY POP youtu.be/JYuj_QpklaE
aug 30, 2025, 2:22 am • 7 0 • view
OMG Iggy Pop in Dead Man is hilarious!
aug 30, 2025, 5:04 pm • 2 0 • view
Also! The Zone Walker is Carl McCoy from Fields of the Nephilim.
aug 30, 2025, 7:34 am • 2 0 • view
Doobie Brothers on “What’s Happening”. El Debarge on “The Facts of Life”. Frank Zappa in “Miami Vice”. Leon Redbone on the Alf talk show.
aug 30, 2025, 2:27 am • 8 0 • view
youtube.com/watch?v=ilm2...
aug 30, 2025, 3:01 pm • 8 2 • view
I LOVE that song, and ESPECIALLY his version of it.
aug 30, 2025, 9:24 pm • 0 0 • view
Motorhead on "The Young Ones".
aug 30, 2025, 3:24 am • 5 0 • view
And the Damned.
aug 30, 2025, 1:57 pm • 3 0 • view
He was great
aug 30, 2025, 3:53 am • 0 0 • view
I'm going Iggy Pop in Star Trek: Deep Space 9 episode 6x10 "The Magnificent Ferengi" as Yelgrun the Vorta.
aug 31, 2025, 8:16 am • 0 0 • view
I see that, and raise you Iggy Pop in John Waters' 'Cry-Baby'--a film that's a bit underrated in Waters' canon.
aug 30, 2025, 1:28 pm • 1 0 • view
aug 30, 2025, 2:30 am • 30 0 • view
David Bowie in the movie Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me.
aug 30, 2025, 3:22 am • 5 0 • view
Not sure who the guy on the left is but the guy on the right can really play a piano
aug 30, 2025, 8:00 pm • 6 0 • view
Suzi Quato?
aug 30, 2025, 3:06 pm • 2 0 • view
aug 30, 2025, 4:09 pm • 0 0 • view
Stumbled into this one.
aug 30, 2025, 4:18 pm • 0 0 • view
I heard this post in Simon Pegg's voice. IYKYK
aug 30, 2025, 3:16 pm • 1 0 • view
👍
aug 30, 2025, 2:39 pm • 3 0 • view
Roger Daltrey in Highlander: The Series
aug 30, 2025, 2:08 am • 16 0 • view
Obviously the correct answer, but I appreciated Roland Gift as Xavier St. Cloud, and a few others as well.
aug 30, 2025, 2:45 am • 11 0 • view
David Bowie in The Man Who Fell to Earth David Bowie in Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence Alice Cooper in Wayne’s World Eddie Vedder in Walk Hard Talking Heads in Stop Making Sense Rebekah Del Rio in Mulholland Drive Henry Rollins and Ice-T in Johnny Mnemonic Debbie Harry in Videodrome
aug 30, 2025, 3:17 am • 6 0 • view
Stevie Wonder with the *Huxtables”
aug 31, 2025, 2:36 am • 0 0 • view
Jammin' on the one!
aug 31, 2025, 2:37 am • 1 0 • view
Boss Hog in Joe's Apartment.
aug 30, 2025, 4:25 am • 2 0 • view
Thank you so much for bestowing this gift. I *love* this band :) See also: 5,6,7,8's in Kill Bill: youtu.be/8BzQ0ytaJtk?...
aug 30, 2025, 6:21 am • 5 0 • view
David Bowie in Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me
aug 30, 2025, 3:48 am • 9 0 • view
Dr John in Blues Brothers 2000
aug 30, 2025, 4:00 am • 4 0 • view
and Bette Midler in The Rose
aug 30, 2025, 4:13 am • 1 0 • view
I never knew she was a singer until after Hocus Poucus.
aug 30, 2025, 1:36 pm • 0 0 • view
Tom Waits in Down By Law Reba McEntire in Tremors Yo La Tengo in The Book of Life
aug 30, 2025, 7:50 am • 7 0 • view
Reba!
aug 30, 2025, 3:17 pm • 5 0 • view
The only South Park quote I regularly reference is “Disintegration is the best album ever!”
aug 30, 2025, 7:47 am • 10 0 • view
I remember when that episode first aired and I just about choked on my coffee - I absolutely loved the idea of these little kids not only knowing The Cure, and knowing Disintegration, but yelling that out. Chef's kiss. Just imagining them listening to Prayers For Rain on a Saturday afternoon :-)
aug 30, 2025, 9:51 am • 5 0 • view
youtu.be/3S0I-RNIIHw?...
aug 30, 2025, 2:43 am • 16 0 • view
"Chocolate cake"
aug 30, 2025, 3:18 pm • 0 0 • view
cypress hill in how high
aug 31, 2025, 7:22 am • 0 0 • view
debbie harry in spun
aug 31, 2025, 7:20 am • 0 0 • view
tom waits as renfield in bram stoker’s dracula
aug 31, 2025, 7:12 am • 0 0 • view
Also noteworthy (but not necessarily for good reasons): LL Cool J in TOYS
aug 30, 2025, 2:11 am • 8 0 • view
Sting in DUNE (1984)
aug 30, 2025, 2:10 am • 29 0 • view
Lyle Lovett in The Opposite of Sex.
aug 30, 2025, 1:05 pm • 4 0 • view
And The Player
aug 30, 2025, 3:15 pm • 0 0 • view
Just saw him in The Player & he's so fantastically weird in it.
aug 30, 2025, 10:33 pm • 2 0 • view
Mavis Staples & Tevin Campbell in Graffiti Bridge.
aug 30, 2025, 3:36 am • 0 0 • view
Has nobody said Billy Idol in The Wedding Singer yet?
aug 30, 2025, 2:49 am • 17 0 • view
“What are your favorite appearances by a musical artist in a film or TV show?” Not necessarily my favorite, but I appreciate seeing the flamenco guitarist Paco de Lucía (1947-2014) playing a flamenco guitarist named Paco in Carlos Saura’s backstage drama CARMEN (1983).
aug 29, 2025, 9:54 pm • 15 1 • view
Lots of good ones. I’ll add Gene Simmons as an evil inventor in the grade B scifi movie Runaway.
aug 30, 2025, 3:14 am • 3 0 • view
Was scrolling to see if anyone mentioned this, since Simmons turns in a truly insane performance! 👍
aug 30, 2025, 7:44 am • 1 0 • view
It was a VAST improvement over KISS Meets The Phantom Of The Park. Gene probably could have made a living being in B grade scifi movies.
aug 30, 2025, 12:22 pm • 3 0 • view
He’s a good bad guy for Rutger Hauer in WANTED: DEAD OR ALIVE too!
aug 30, 2025, 1:05 pm • 1 0 • view
Hauer is someone I was thinking of with “make a living in B Movies”
aug 30, 2025, 1:06 pm • 1 0 • view
Michael Stipe as the ice cream man on Pete & Pete. See also Iggy Pop as the suburban dad next door 🤣
aug 30, 2025, 1:49 pm • 12 2 • view
Pete and Pete and REM are intertwined. They wanted REM to do the opening song. They couldn't afford it. My theory is that Stipe did this to say sorry. The nostalgia in P&P is the same that REM taps into.
aug 30, 2025, 2:01 pm • 4 1 • view