On what I think/hope is the third-to-last episode of The Next Great Fox Ratings Disaster American Band, the four remaining acts took on the catalog of Queen. Would the staunchly Christian Denver and the Mile High Orchestra scrub the “gay” from Freddie Mercury’s compositions? Would teenage metallers Light Of Doom predictably cover “We Will Rock You”? Would I actually hope for a Dot Dot Dot performance? Would this episode’s ratings get trounced by the ones pulled in by a Don’t Forget The Lyrics repeat? The answer to all four of those questions is yes! MORE »
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“The Next Great American Band” Is No Longer Tres Bien In Our Book
Last Friday, the five remaining bands took on the catalog of Rod Stewart, a choice which raised many questions. Would the noxious Denver and the Mile High Orchestra somehow make Rod’s cover of Tom Waits’ “Downtown Train” even worse? Would the teen metallers Light Of Doom play a “funny” version of “Forever Young”? Would something happen on this week’s episode to make me even less enthused to keep tuning in? One of those questions can be answered with a definitive “yes!” MORE »
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The Six Remaining American Bands Roll Around The Stones’ Catalog
Its ratings are lower than WWE SmackDown! and just barely ahead of the Law & Order: CI reruns that New York’s myNetworkTV affiliate shows on Friday nights, but The Next Great American Band continues to soldier on, boosted no doubt by the writers’ strike turning TV into even more of a wasteland than it normally is. With seven bands to go, the latest episode had the bands tackle the Rolling Stones’ catalog, and the results were–unsurprisingly–mixed. MORE »
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Only One Band Was The Lunatic We Were Looking For
This week, The Next Great American Band not only cut its airing time down to an hour, it devoted said hour to the works of Billy Joel, an American singer-songwriter who has a longstanding, complicated relationship with my psyche. I was all set to tune into my TiVoed version of the show on Saturday, only to find that between 8 and 9 p.m. Friday, my DVR been recorded reruns of The Daily Show With Jon Stewart and The Colbert Report, thanks in part to a) the writers’ strike screwing up the program guide and b) the fact that Band is kind of low on my season-pass priority list. (Hey, at least it’s there, which is more than I can say for the rest of America.) Happily, though, the copyright infringers and spoilers who populate the Internet came to my rescue! MORE »
