# \[del\]Can't\[/del\]PLEASE Stop The Music! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 9, 2013, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/del-cant-del-please-stop-the-music/663058 "2013-07-09T17:02:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2013, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/del-cant-del-please-stop-the-music/663058/1 "2013-07-09T17:02:43Z")
Inspired by [this post,](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=16456092&postcount=6) what is your nomination for the worst movie musical of all time? Mine would be _Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band_(1978). This star-studded monstrosity was filled with “acting” that wouldn’t have passed on The Electric Company, and the storyline was Frankensteinian. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2013, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/del-cant-del-please-stop-the-music/663058/2 "2013-07-09T17:05:16Z")
Sgt. Pepper’s is very, very bad. [The Apple](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Apple_%281980_film%29) and [Rhinestone](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhinestone_%28film%29) aren’t exactly classics either. I don’t know which of them is less worse. Rhinestone does have Dolly Parton, a real country singer, but then again it has Sly Stallone as a cab driver who becomes a country musician and he sings a song called “Drunkenstein.” ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2013, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/del-cant-del-please-stop-the-music/663058/3 "2013-07-09T17:08:38Z")
No, I’m still gonna go with _You Can’t Stop The Music_, not just for the terrible, terrible acting, but because it depicts the Village People in their biography movie as being straight. Though _Sgt. Pepper_ is an egregious pile of cinematic pestilence. ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2013, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/del-cant-del-please-stop-the-music/663058/4 "2013-07-09T17:09:22Z")
Actually, _Can’t Stop the Music_ was right up (down?) there, too. Also _Xanadu_. For that matter, the late 70’s/early 80’s was pretty much the nadir of the movie musical, except for _Grease_. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2013, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/del-cant-del-please-stop-the-music/663058/5 "2013-07-09T17:14:57Z")
What about _The Pirate Movie_(aka _The Rape Of Gilbert And Sullivan As Performed By Mrs. Poole’s 4th Grade Class Of 1982_)? ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2013, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/del-cant-del-please-stop-the-music/663058/6 "2013-07-09T17:19:41Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > What about _The Pirate Movie_(aka _The Rape Of Gilbert And Sullivan As Performed By Mrs. Poole’s 4th Grade Class Of 1982_)? I, myself, am a slave to the duty of NEVER WATCHING THAT TURGID TURD OF TRIPE again. (Now, where’s my DVD with Kevin Kline and Linda Ronstadt? Ah, that’s better.) ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2013, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/del-cant-del-please-stop-the-music/663058/7 "2013-07-09T20:18:59Z")
The Burt Bacharach-Hal David version of _Lost Horizon_ was a big budget horrendous mess of a movie that put me off reading the book for years. ---
**Author:** ![Greg\_Charles](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/839c29/32.png) [@Greg\_Charles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Greg_Charles)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2013, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/del-cant-del-please-stop-the-music/663058/8 "2013-07-09T20:59:57Z")
_Love’s Labour’s Lost_, the Kenneth Branagh version that turned Shakespeare’s play into a musical featuring classic songs from the 1930s. A noble experiment, but the transitions just didn’t work at all. It was painfully awkward and awkwardly painful. On the other hand, yeah, _Sgt. Pepper_. I saw that in the theater as an eleven year-old huge Beatles fan, and came out thinking, WTF was that? ---
**Author:** ![koeeoaddi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/koeeoaddi/32/408_2.png) [@koeeoaddi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/koeeoaddi)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2013, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/del-cant-del-please-stop-the-music/663058/9 "2013-07-09T21:02:25Z")
Cats! ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2013, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/del-cant-del-please-stop-the-music/663058/10 "2013-07-09T21:05:57Z")
> [@koeeoaddi](#): > > Cats! I don’t think recordings of stage musicals count. ---
**Author:** ![koeeoaddi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/koeeoaddi/32/408_2.png) [@koeeoaddi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/koeeoaddi)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2013, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/del-cant-del-please-stop-the-music/663058/11 "2013-07-09T21:07:01Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > I don’t think recordings of stage musicals count. If you had to sit through it, it should. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Kobalt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/41988e/32.png) [@Kobalt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kobalt)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2013, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/del-cant-del-please-stop-the-music/663058/12 "2013-07-09T22:22:25Z")
No musical could be worse than [Can\_Heironymus\_Merkin\_Ever\_Forget\_Mercy\_Humppe\_and\_Find\_True\_Happiness](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Can_Heironymus_Merkin_Ever_Forget_Mercy_Humppe_and_Find_True_Happiness%3F). Just trust me on this one. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2013, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/del-cant-del-please-stop-the-music/663058/13 "2013-07-09T23:52:02Z")
> [@Kobalt](#): > > No musical could be worse than [Can\_Heironymus\_Merkin\_Ever\_Forget\_Mercy\_Humppe\_and\_Find\_True\_Happiness](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Can_Heironymus_Merkin_Ever_Forget_Mercy_Humppe_and_Find_True_Happiness%3F). > > Just trust me on this one. I forgot that thing was a musical. Damn you! ---
**Author:** ![Steophan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steophan/32/9595_2.png) [@Steophan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steophan)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2013, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/del-cant-del-please-stop-the-music/663058/14 "2013-07-10T00:01:35Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > No, I’m still gonna go with _You Can’t Stop The Music_, not just for the terrible, terrible acting, but because it depicts the Village People in their biography movie as being straight. Most of the original lineup were straight, if I remember my pointless trivia correctly. ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2013, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/del-cant-del-please-stop-the-music/663058/15 "2013-07-10T00:43:36Z")
From der Wiki: Village People is an American disco group that formed in the United States in 1977, well known for their on-stage costumes depicting American cultural stereotypes, as well as their catchy tunes and suggestive lyrics. **Originally created to target disco’s gay audience by featuring popular gay fantasy personas, the band’s popularity quickly brought them into the mainstream.** Whether or not the original members were straight, portraying them as such in this ultra-cheesy bad film was a slap in their fans’ faces that helped drop 'em off the Top 40 charts. ---
**Author:** ![Steophan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steophan/32/9595_2.png) [@Steophan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steophan)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2013, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/del-cant-del-please-stop-the-music/663058/16 "2013-07-10T01:02:40Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > Whether or not the original members were straight, portraying them as such in this ultra-cheesy bad film was a slap in their fans’ faces that helped drop 'em off the Top 40 charts. Fair enough, I’m not familiar with the film. Your description of it as a “biography film” is what made me think it was relevant. ---
**Author:** ![Infovore](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/infovore/32/420_2.png) [@Infovore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Infovore)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2013, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/del-cant-del-please-stop-the-music/663058/17 "2013-07-10T01:27:12Z")
> [@kunilou](#): > > Actually, _Can’t Stop the Music_ was right up (down?) there, too. Also _Xanadu_. …I liked _Xanadu_… \< **Infovore** slinks off in shame\> ---
**Author:** ![JohnGalt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johngalt/32/184_2.png) [@JohnGalt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnGalt)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2013, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/del-cant-del-please-stop-the-music/663058/18 "2013-07-10T03:24:41Z")
Worst musical of all time? _Mame_ or _Seven Brides for Seven Brothers_. See Howard Keel bellow! See Lucille Ball in disturbingly soft focus! There were some good songs in either of these, but overall they are really bad. ---
**Author:** ![Infovore](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/infovore/32/420_2.png) [@Infovore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Infovore)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2013, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/del-cant-del-please-stop-the-music/663058/19 "2013-07-10T04:04:16Z")
I haven’t actually seen it, but I’ve heard that **Paint Your Wagon** is pretty bad. Clint Eastwood…singing. \ ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2013, 4:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/del-cant-del-please-stop-the-music/663058/20 "2013-07-10T04:55:18Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > The Burt Bacharach-Hal David version of _Lost Horizon_ was a big budget horrendous mess of a movie that put me off reading the book for years. I saw the musical version of _Lost Horizon_, and thought it was good. Then, about a year later, I had to read the book for English class, and realized that the musical movie wasn’t that good. And some time after that, the original 1937 non-musical movie with Ronald Colman aired on late-night TV, and I realized just how abysmal the musical version really was. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/del-cant-del-please-stop-the-music/663058.md?page=2)