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Tonight's Musical Guest, Today
The Beatles on Ed Sullivan. Nirvana on Saturday Night Live. Warren Zevon on David Letterman. Sometimes, late-night TV musical performances live on forever. Most don’t. But we still want to talk about them.
Each week on “Tonight’s Musical Guest, Today”, long-time friends Alex Beaton and Jon Hillman dive in on the music and cultural memory of a band through the arc of their late-night TV performances. Watch along with Alex and Jon as they examine and react to these musical history moments preserved in the amber of time alongside two celebrity guests and a talk show host.
From Conan to Colbert, Letterman to Leno, or SNL to MadTV, there is no shortage of iconic late-night musical moments. And no end to the ones you don’t remember.
Tonight's Musical Guest, Today
Alanis Morissette with Courtney Denison & Sean Farrell
Do we stress you out? Our sweaters are on backwards and inside out this week to talk about an artist that took over the world in 1995. But what about before and after? It's ALANIS MORISSETTE week!
Joining the show is past guest Courtney Denison and her husband/musical partner Sean Farrell of Boston pop punk band Bad Idea USA! We begin this week discussing Alanis' often forgotten teenage dance pop days in Canada with a 1992 daytime talk show appearance in her native land. The Jagged Little Pill-era live band featuring Taylor Hawkins is ridiculously good with appearances on Letterman and SNL. A 1999 Grammy's performance off of the City of Angels soundtrack requires a sidebar on the fashion of AJ McLean of The Backstreet Boys. And we wrap up discussing the biggest selling albums of the 1990s.
Want to watch along with us? Check out the links below for the performances discussed this week!
Change is a Waste of Time, 11/24/1992 on The Dini Petty Show
You Oughta Know, 8/17/1995 on The Late Show with David Letterman
Hand in My Pocket/All I Really Want, 10/28/1995 on Saturday Night Live
Joining You, 12/17/1998 on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
Uninvited, 2/24/1999 on The Grammy Awards
Hands Clean/Your House, 2/27/2002 on Last Call with Carson Daly
Everything/Out is Through/Ironic, 5/14/2004 on Later...with Jools Holland
