TV’s Most Surreal Music Performances

Trent Reznor can laugh about it all he wants these days, but there must have been at least a part of him that was thrilled for the chance to parade his Nine Inch Nails in front of a national television audience on 'Dance Party USA' in the months following the release of their debut album, 'Pretty Hate Machine.'

The year was 1990, and No Doubt was a band hardly living up to its name.

In the annals of 'Saturday Night Live' history, Elvis Costello's infamous 1977 performance of 'Radio Radio' will go down as one of the most memorable of all time.

Michael Jackson never needed any help putting on some of the most supremely bizarre spectacles in pop-music history, but at the 1996 Brit Awards he got some help anyway when Pulp singer Jarvis Cocker briefly sabotaged MJ's performance.

It was the Tear Heard Around the World -- and it may have pretty much destroyed Sinead O'Connor's career.

The Flaming Lips are an amazing cover band.

It's been said that you never get a second chance to make a first impression.

Nothing screamed "summertime sadness" back in the '90s quite like kicking it at the MTV Beach House.

When Nirvana were booked to appear on the Nov. 28, 1991, broadcast of 'Top of the Pops,' they were informed that they wouldn't be allowed to actually perform live on the British music show

Beck was just 23 and still two months away from busting into the Top 10 with 'Loser' when he popped up on '120 Minutes' for a totally bizarre appearance with guest host Thurston Moore on Feb. 20, 1994.