Memorable moments
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* The first British Network airing of Madonna's Justify My Love Music Video.
* Rod Hull and Emu appearing alongside Snoop Doggy Dogg, neither knowing who the other was. There was much tension for those viewers who knew that Hull's act consisted primarily of attacking his co-guests and presenters with his puppet, while Snoop placed considerable stock in his cool, somewhat threatening image.
* Riot grrrls Huggy Bear causing chaos when Terry Christian was chatting to the Barbi Twins. The band shouted at the presenter before being violently ejected from the studio.
* Nirvana's international television debut performance of Smells Like Teen Spirit, with Kurt Cobain declaring Courtney Love to be "The best fuck in the world".
* Mark Lamarr telling Shabba Ranks that he was "talking crap" after an interview where Ranks expressed homophobic views, and being applauded by co-guest Danni Minogue.
* A member of L7 removing her jeans and underwear during a performance, the full-frontal nudity being briefly broadcast.
* Faith No More's Mike Patton physically attacks a cameraman at the end of a performance of Everything's Ruined, commandeering his camera in the final moments of the show. When the band is asked back on the condition that Patton behaves, he throws water over presenter Terry Christian during his interview and later leads the band in performing a cover of the Bee Gees' I Started a Joke despite being specifically told to play their cover of Commodores' Easy.
* Presenter Alan Connor being held at gunpoint in a German sex club.
* The Posies smashing their instruments like The Who and then throwing them into the audience at the end of their performance of Definite Door.
* A performance by Sepultura for which the show placed the band's fans in an animal cage.
* A spoof of Blind Date for bisexual contestants called Bi Date.
* The sister show would feature video demos of new bands, with one hopeless song called Luke I Love You becoming a running joke in its torment of Mark Lamarr.
* Dinosaur Jr refusing to stop playing until the plugs were pulled.
* The TV debut of Oasis playing Supersonic.
* Rage Against the Machine playing Killing in the Name, resulting in a near riot with guitarist Tom Morello and singer Zack de la Rocha both being stopped from performing by the chaotic crowd.
* The Hopefuls - "I'll do anything to get on TV" moments such as one guy eating a block of lard, a woman who got into a bath full of watery cow manure, a young guy french kissing an old grandmother and a man who put a huge sheep's testicle in his mouth.
* Chris Eubank admonishing an audience member who taunted Eubank with a remark about Michael Watson. A clearly irritated Eubank described the person responsible as "weak".
* Oliver Reed appearing extremely drunk and joining the band Ned's Atomic Dustbin to sing a version of The Troggs's Wild Thing.
* Rolf Harris performing a cover version of Led Zeppelin's Stairway to Heaven in his own unique style.
* Madonna's Like a Prayer (song) and Justify My Love singles were played backwards and revealed the phrases I Love Satan & Satan Save Me.
* John Lydon suggesting his foul-mouthed, aggressively-toned interview with Terry Christian would bring about the end of Christian's career, at which point the camera cut to Richard Carpenter being given a lifetime achievement award.
* Barry White refusing to leave his dressing room and appear on set because he overheard someone call him 'The Walrus of Love'.

Sepultura were on The Word
no way!
I remember 90% of that!
They missed out the classic Mark Lamarr interview with MC Hammer in which Lamarr proceeded to interrupt the interview approximately every 20 seconds with the words 'STOP. Hammertime!' whilst an increasingly irate Hammer sat silently seething with rage!
Footage below:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8HRocU9WDo
and!
Blur's performance of GIRLS AND BOYS 2 nights before it went to Number 5 in the UK charts. Damon's wink at the camera at the song's intro 'kicked opened the doors of britpop' say some.
Suede's only performance of BRASS IN POCKET from the NME compilation tape
Ride doing Leave Them All Behind
...
THERE NEEDS TO BE A DVD.
I take it the party has now officially finished?
Yeh I went to that
but it was the one with Zsa Zsa Gabor - got guestlist to the Ministry afterwards - oh yeh, same not so goodness
Also good
The Lemonheads doing Mrs Robinson & Weezern doing Undone the Sweater Song
Mrs Robinson
was on TFI Friday.
That was
Jon Bon Jovi and Richie Sambora
no it wasn't
it was the word
erm
Bon Jovi on TFI:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KBWRm22mnFQ
Lemonheads on the Word:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JM15SifTgcw
Rod Hull vs. Snoop
i never saw it, but just reading that made me feel uneasy.
I wish there was something like this on now
I don't think this is just rose-tinted spectacles. All the "youth"/music programming on the mainstream channels is abysmal.
The Word was fucking awful.
Although I admit I did watch it pretty regularly.
^^^^Pretty much this for me.
This is AMAZING
http://youtube.com/watch?v=SsfA-7ot2k4
especially the incredibly casual stage diving
Stereolab
performing French Disco was ace.
Could do with something on the box showing decent bands, I had hopes for Sound on BBC3 but all i've seen on there is stuff like The Feeling & The Enemy.
I agree the word was awful
and that's saying something bearing in mind I watched every episode pissed. The bands were the saving grace but don't ever wish for it back.
L7 and Olly Reed
Was the same episode - additional music from Ned's Atomic Dustbin.
I remember the Manics on it
when they just got famous and did a riotously punk performance, though they may have been drunk. The pumpkins were on as well and did a ridiculously heavy version of Disarm that segued into Sunshine of your Love, you never knew what you would get with a band when they were on!
that's ace!
I always liked DEF II, Rapido and Dance Energy on BBC2
Although in hindsight, these too were probably pretty bad.
Dance Energy!
Normski!!! Is he still Mrs Janet Street Porter do we know? BBC2 was amazing for music for a while, did they have BuzzTV as well?
Liquid TV?
That had some good stuff on it. Was Ren & Stimpy first shown on that?
* Presenter Alan Connor being held at gunpoint in a German sex club.
^ This sort of stuff never happens on Jools Holland.
I wish someone would hold Jools Holland at gunpoint
than I wouldn't have to suffer the cock
amen
and applause.
One word:
Huffty
Two words: Truly abominable!
Live music aside, this was by-near unwatchable car-crash tv at worst! - Rest In Pieces.
From what I remember
and my brother's old taped episodes, this is the most accurate assessment. However, Oliver Reed singing Wild Thing was particularly special.
Also:
Amanda De Cadenet and her bellend brother Buster.
*Bruiser
That's...Bruiser.
I read that as BROTHER BELLEND BUSTER
A crime fighting monk with a penchant for busting people's bellends.
redd kross were on it too
don't ya know
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NFoxVofwVbs
I remember most of those
Because I think they were on a show called "Remember the word"
i'd do anything to get on tv
I love
The Word
dont listen to anyone who sniffs
and says it was peurile crap, i never missed it; the bands on there every week were class (except the weeks that they had Galliano or some other jazzfunk shite), Daisy Chainsaw on there in '91 was a total punk moment for me.
while im here, anyone else remember Snub TV?