I Don't Want to Know on SNL
 

There was a dumb skit on SNL tonight with Paul Rudd and Vanessa Bayer playing a couple who was meeting with their lawyers to sign their divorce papers, when a song, IDWK, starts playing, and they start jamming to it. They played a small part of it 3 or 4 times in the skit. The big question is why IDWK? Do you think Paul Rudd had anything to do with it?

Well, it IS on the greatest divorce album ever.

I Don't Want To Know is kind of an odd choice, it's probably the most obscure song on the album.

From Yahoo News:

http://news.yahoo.com/39-snl-39-mvp-...170700527.html

Look, this was a weak episode, so you shouldn't be surprised that the MVP is going not to a cast member, or even the host, but instead to Fleetwood Mac. Try to dispute me. The unquestioned best sketch of the night was the one with Rudd and Vanessa Bayer as a separated couple working out the details of their divorce, alongside their attorneys. In the middle of a series of accusations, most of which revolve around the ridiculous names and occupations of their current significant others, they're interrupted Fleetwood Mac's "I Don't Want to Know." At which point, Rudd and Bayer are overcome by the song, and their involuntary chair dancing is some of the finest ever produced by middle-aged white people. Of course, the scourge of music rights means this is the one sketch that can't stream on Hulu, because God forbid we deprive the rights-holders for Rumours any fraction of their billions in royalties. As if SNL didn't do enough for Lindsey Buckingham during all those "What Up With That?" sketches.

I think it's pretty funny they just include Lindsey Buckingham as a "guest" at all. SNL is not a very strong show throughout any episode (in the last several years,) but I like that they reference Fleetwood Mac.

Someone might have already posted this but
tonight I heard Never Going Back Again on a
commercial for Bank of America (I believe).

Entertainment Weekly

http://popwatch.ew.com/2013/12/08/sa...rection-recap/

Deep breaths, dear SNL-watching, squee-happy readers, because even though last night’s show paraded out surprise guests like Captain von Trapp did his children in The Sound of Music Live & Condensed, the strong sketches that opened the evening quickly led to lackluster ones with diminishing returns that didn’t effectively showcase host Paul Rudd nor had any particularly inspired ideas (there are exceptions, of course — more on those below).

None of this is Paul Rudd’s fault. The host, taking the reins for third time, lathered on his signature charm and gamely tackled every character the writers tossed at him: an unpaid Huffington Post contributor, the rabid Directioner dad Dan Charles, one half of the divorcing couple who just can’t help dancing to Fleetwood Mac, the humiliated male model for Michelangelo’s David, the star of White Christmas, the newly skinny Santa Claus, the unwelcome ghost of hook-up past from a pizza joint, and finally, one of the Bill Brasky Buddies.

They edited this skit out of the "on demand" version. :mad:

It pisses me off so much the way all the SNLs after 1979 are completely stripped of the music content that was part of what made the show so culturally influential (back in the day). Thank goodness for fan uploads of Stevie's and Lindsey's appearances on there in the 80s or we'd never see them.

It always bothers me that when you try to watch SNL videos on Netflix or on demand, even the musical guests get cut out of the episodes. So lame.

On this day in history, December 10:

http://www.wmmr.com/shows/weekends/b...tryID=10622734

•1983 Stevie Nicks performs "Stand Back" and "Nightbird" on Saturday Night Live.

And I watched it the night it originally aired. How many of you Ledgies can say that? Huh?

I watched back in the day also.

I capitulate on that one, what with being minus 7 years old at the time... Thank god for the internet and people uploading things is all I'm saying.

I was watching too Viv! :nod:

Do you remember being so amazed that she changed her outfit to another color other than black? And wasn't it cool sharing the mic with Lori?

My best friend came over to watch and spend the night. I remember thinking.. OMG! "Nightbird" and then my friend and I sat up rewatching it (we recorded it) and we we're both "Where's the official video?" We would both hear "Nightbird" every morning on the way to High School.

I certainly cannot because it aired past my bedtime as a 10 year old child :lol: But how awesome was that, Viv! :thumbsup:

I recorded it too and rewatched it a million and one times. Somewhere in here I still have the original video recording.

I was expecting a lip sync job from Stevie because all the acts who appeared on the show did just that. Was most surprised to get a live vocal. It was also the first time she appeared on TV with golden brown hair. Not blonde.

I did too! Seemed like I waited forever for it.

How so? Did we have advance notice at the time?

Just so anxious for her to come on before I fell asleep.

How could you remember that? It's not the same as remembering the long wait for albums to be released.

Does anyone know if there are plans to release the 1983 season of SNL on dvd? I think the last series to be issued was 1979-1980. I just wish Stevie's performance of "Nightbird" would get an official release - it's one of her best in my opinion.

I can! :] I found it fascinating that she performed Night Bird. It's strange because the song doesn't scream "single", yet it was released as such (I have the picture sleeve promo 45). She performed it once, and then it flew away, and she didn't even include it in her Wild Heart tour set.

I wish she would do a tour and just perform album tracks she's never done live, with a few staple songs at the end of the show...I know...only in my dreams. I also dream of a live anthology akin to Tom Petty's amazingly epic box set. I made a list of songs, and it amounts to about 64 songs.

I can, I can! :nod:

Don't you remember waiting up for Santa Claus and trying to make yourself go to sleep so the time would fly faster, but then being so excited that you couldn't sleep and the minutes felt like hours?

Remembering anticipation is easy.

Michele

This needs it's own thread.

If I wasn't a fan before, I was after this
television appearance. I'm not so jaded
that I can't say that this night changed
my life.

It was an odd choice for a single, but I think her label was pushing for something light and Fleetwood Mac-ish.

There was the Solid Gold performance too. She was totally stoned, but she looked and sounded amazing.

If I may jump back to the original subject of this post... I think the reason they used IDWK was because it has that lead up, the drum beat and then it really kicks in, just perfect for the way the couple would get all excited and start dancing right after the drum beat. I really liked it and my boyfriend and I do that now every time IDWK comes onto my ipod. LOL.

Yes! We need this! It would also include Lindsey's coked out performance of Bwana and Trouble. Still one of my favorite versions of Trouble!

I just saw that skit in a replay last night. It was a nice surprise. Someone at SNL is a real fan.