war in the east
war in the west welcome to watch mojo
and today we're counting down the
complete list of musicians that were
banned from
snl thank you and remember i'm reading
this off these cards underneath this
camera here
i'm sorry ladies and gentlemen there's
no reason to do this song here for this
list
we're looking at every band and musician
that's been blacklisted from performing
on saturday night live
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number seven the replacements this rock
band made their first
and last appearance on saturday night
live on january 18
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1986
serving as a major influence in the
alt-rock genre the replacements had
released their fourth studio album tim
the previous september
tim was the band's major label debut
having been released by warner's sire
records
the band performed a song called
bastards of young before making their
way backstage and doing what 80s
rockstars did
getting totally wasted we're on stage
we're ready but the percussion player is
not there and the percussion player
starts
this song when they returned to perform
kiss me on the bus
the audience was met with a complete
horror show
the replacements barely even played the
song resorting instead to
stumbling around the stage and bumping
into each other in a drunken frenzy
suffice it to say they were never asked
to return to snl
and they were even banned from nbc for
30 years
number 6 fear saturday night live owes a
lot to john belushi
but they were incensed with the comedian
at the end of 1981
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formed in the late 70s fear is a
hardcore punk band that greatly
influenced the likes of guns and roses
mega death and soundgarden belushi was a
huge fan of the band and he personally
recommended them for the 1981 halloween
episode of saturday night live
i don't care about you his intentions
were good
but that was a bad bad idea the band
used obscene language and intentionally
trolled the audience by stating
it's great to be in new jersey
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they also brought in slam dancers
including belushi
who reportedly cost twenty thousand
dollars worth of damage
while performing their final song let's
have a war director dave wilson
cut the transmission and faded to
commercial effectively ending fears
night
and their time on snl number 5.
cypress hill as one of the most
influential acts in west coast hip-hop
cypress hill was incredibly popular in
the early 90s
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four of their first five albums went
platinum with the first two going
multi-platinum
and they earned three straight grammy
nominations for best rap performance
the group appeared on saturday night
live at the height of their careers
serving as the musical guest on october
2nd 1993.
they had just released their number one
triple platinum album black sunday
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after performing the group trashed their
instruments while dj muggs lit a joint
on live tv
that's a big no-no today never mind back
in 1993
the band had just finished performing i
ain't going out like that
but they did indeed go out like that
number 4.
elvis costello sometimes lorne michaels
has been
a little ban happy case in point banning
the
otherwise inoffensive elvis costello
costello helped usher in the new wave
craze of the 80s
with albums like this year's model and
armed forces
his debut album my aim is true was
released in july of 1977.
five months later he served as the
musical guest on saturday night live
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costello was supposed to play less than
zero but
he stopped the performance 15 seconds in
and launched into a media critical song
called
radio radio i'm sorry ladies and
gentlemen there's no reason to do this
song here
the unexpected surprise and critical
message behind the song ticked off
michaels
and costello was banned from saturday
night live for the next 12 years
he eventually returned on march 25th
1989.
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number three frank zappa a hard musician
to categorize
frank zappa was an eclectic artist who
dabbled in experimental music
jazz orchestral and traditional rock and
roll just to name a few genres
just to raise me up a crop of
dental flaws while never a big
commercial success
zappa nevertheless generated strong
acclaim and
respect from his peers for his technical
complexity and originality
zappa hosted saturday night live on
october 21st 1978.
thank you and remember i'm reading this
off these cards underneath this camera
here
his 24th studio album studio tan
was released just one month prior
proved just as experimental in front of
a camera as he was
behind a microphone hey frank do you
need something to keep you awake i take
it i don't do drugs
zappa intentionally sabotaged his own
performance by making faces
at the camera reading his line slowly
and without much effort
and continuously referring to the cue
cards reportedly
everyone hated working with him and he
was never asked to return
number two rage against the machine
sometimes an artist decides to go off
script and sabotages an episode through
their own creative imagination
and sometimes the producers bring it on
themselves this
is exactly what happened on april 13th
1996
for some bizarre reason snl decided to
pair republican presidential nominee
steve forbes with musical guests
rage against the machine as many of you
may know i was campaigning for the
republican nomination for the presidency
of the united states
rage was widely known as a very
outspoken and political rock band with a
hard
left and revolutionary persuasion and
they weren't afraid to get active
and get active they did
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the band performed their hit song bulls
on parade and
to protest the political views of host
steve forbes
they decided to hang inverted american
flags from their amplifiers
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this really ticked off the producers and
the band
wasn't given a second chance the set was
cut short and the members were asked to
leave
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number one sinead o'connor you could say
that nothing compares to this legendary
saturday night live band
o'connor was best known for her cover of
princes nothing compares to you
with the song receiving heavy rotation
on mtv
and peaking at number one around the
world
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by the end of 1990 nothing compares to
you was the best performing song on the
eurochart hot 100
the second best on the uk singles chart
and the third
on the billboard hot 100.
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o'connor subsequently appeared as the
musical guest on the october 3rd 1992
episode of saturday night live however
o'connor planned much bigger things than
performing a popular song
everywhere is war
war in the east war
in the west in protest of the catholic
church
o'connor performed a cover of bob
marley's war and
ripped a photo of pope john paul ii into
pieces
we have confidence
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this generated an enormous amount of
controversy and o'connor
never returned to snl there was an
incident on the show
last week sinead o'connor tore up a
picture of the poll
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