Best & Worst Super Bowl Music
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Jay-Z performing "Run This Town" for the CBS broadcast kickoff
With the feel-good storyline of the underdog New Orleans Saints winning Sunday night's big game 31-17 and taking a championship home to their once-ravaged city, it was easy to overlook the usual Super Bowl sideshows: the commercials and the halftime extravaganza. Here, we breakdown the best and worst of Super Bowl XLIV's musical moments.
17 Comments
Click here to comment- Posted By fay
02.11.10 6:16 AM
Nice post..
I agreed that you're going a little overboard. I definitely wouldn't prefer any of those pop singers, but this kind of act is just plain stale to watch. It's basically the who trying to pretend it's back in the time when they wrote the songs.
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- Posted By kyosti
02.09.10 4:23 AM
You do realize that it was all prerecorded. Basically everyone that performs at the superbowl has it already prerecorded...except prince that is. I think you're going a little overboard. I definitely wouldn't prefer any of those pop singers, but this kind of act is just plain stale to watch. It's basically the who trying to pretend it's back in the time when they wrote the songs, failing to try to move forward at all, not to mention embarrassingly pretending to play. It just looked a little awkward.
- Posted By ART WANKER
02.09.10 1:07 AM
Never thought I'd live to see the day that young people DON'T KNOW what THE WHO is, and that so many would join in on slagging so hard on THE WHO for playing 11 minutes of old fashioned, perfectly imperfect LIVE rock. These guys virtually invented 'stadium rock', and to MY extremely picky ear, they sounded just like they usually do...GREAT. This huge lack of respect is puzzling. This is what one gets for surviving the glory years of rock and roll...slagged off! The last thing we need is more Gaga,Blige,Beyonce or Swift...please....I have to agree that your writer is a retarded little monkey, with no taste and no future...so who's/ what's next haters? The Rolling Stones? Iggy Pop? No wonder David Bowie has so artfully ducked out of sight the last few years.
- Posted By Anonymous
02.09.10 12:30 AM
Honestly? Why would you expect the Who to be super polished? Their brilliance and beauty lies within their roughness. Townsend was always a hack and I love him for it. Sure, a newer band in there for once would be great (not any of the **** from the grammys though please). Compromise, Phoenix should play the half time show. They won a grammy last week and are an awesome new band.. but to be realistic, we know that wouldnt have gone down well with the demographic at all. :P Muse maybe?
- Posted By Blah
02.08.10 6:17 PM
Swift, Gaga, Mary J, etc....they're the biggest stars of the moment, the kind of talent the Super Bowl USED to attract before Nipplegate.
We're talking about relevance, at this very moment. The Who have zero relevance. Oh, so they're putting out a Greatest Hits...great. Super.
- Posted By Jack Bauer
02.08.10 5:49 PM
"The Heavy" only worthy of the Best Super Bowl music mention.
And that Jay-Z/Rihanna rendition for CBS was awful!!!! SOooooo OVERRATED NOW!!! Get over it!!!
- Posted By Frank from MusicNerdClub.com
02.08.10 5:07 PM
Totally disagree about your picks for the worst. The Who was great though they were a little rusty at points. At least Cheap Trick chose to re-record, though it was for a dumb commercial. No, the worst was will.i.am's completely offensive "re-mix" of The Who's "My Generation", changing the song's classic lyric "Hope I die before I get old" to "Don't wanna die/hope to get old". That totally altered the attitude of the song in such a way it makes me sick just thinking about it. I hate will.i.am (and the Black Eyed Peas) with a passion, now more than ever - I'd hate to think what he would do with The Clash, The Rolling Stones, and The Sex Pistols.
- Posted By Nathan
02.08.10 2:53 PM
While I agree with your picks for "The Best" I don't think you can call The Who's performance a bad one, I thought they rocked pretty hard, and honestly I think we've all had enough Blige for a while. Also Taylor Swift would have been a terrible choice, I mean come on, it was a LIVE performance, her achilles heel.
- Posted By David Marchese
02.08.10 2:08 PM
- Also, did anyone notice that during some of the pre-game lead-up, the words in "My Generation" were changed to something like, "Don't wanna die / Before I get old?" I swear I didn't aurally hallucinate that.
02.11.10 12:06 PM
PLAY MATALLACA!!!!!!OR FOO FIGHTERS!!!!WHY AM I SCREAMING!?!?!?!?!!?!?