Customer Reviews

Behind the Music That Sucks, Vol. 1 - Pure Energy! Pure Rock!

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I'm not particularly fond of profanity, but in this case I can overlook it for the most part. The "victims" here are some of the WORST mega-popular acts in recent memory; from the obnoxious [...] rappers Kid Rock & Limp Bizkit (or however you spell that stupid name) to the pretentious, screeching noise made by Bald Billy & his Smashing Pumpkins (now mercifully disbanded) and Garbage (an appropriate moniker, indeed), they all get the stuffing beat out of them for their collective worthlessness. Great tape to play at a party; just hope no one actually likes any of these. Even if they do, they just might change their mind after seeing this video. After all, how much of that screeching caterwauling from Billy Pumpkin can anyone take?

To those who call this pure garbage --lighten up. The production values of this DVD may not be high, but it is very funny. Reminds me what would happen if South Park took over VH1's behind the music. The only problem I noticed with this DVD is after about 20 minutes it gets boring. This DVD is best taken in small doses.

It consists of about 12 - 5 or less minute segments on various rock bands. Most are funny and completely trashed the bands we love. Unfortunately watching these back to back just does not work. Even when Beavis and Butthead aired, they needed to take a break between episodes to show something slightly different, and unfortunately this show suffers from the same fate. Hence why this DVD only gets 3 stars.

I've seen behind the music that sucks on heavy.com for a while now as well as on Much Music TV. Do we really need to buy the DVD? Well if it's only [money] used, fine, but even at that low price, it seems a bit of a waste. Stupid humor is actually tough to create, there is a fine line between the subtle genius of say "Dumb and Dumber" and a total idiot making lots of poop jokes because he sees that they're in better made material. And this is my point. This video has hopped itself on the sophmoric bandwagon but hasn't added anything to the party other than bad animation. The last episode 'Behind the Local Band' (a made up one) is the funniest thing on the DVD -- which goes to show you that they're trying too hard to be funny by making fun of Britney Spears, but when left to their own devices, they actually do have good imaginations. Two stars just for the fake band segment. No stars for bad voice acting and poor menu's.

I say that this DVD rulez with a capital Z...I use a Z because it is crazy much like the jokes in the DVD series. I loved it and I want the world to know so they can be part of this.