As in from a TV show or film
my votes are for daria's 'Mystik Spiral' or dethklok
yours?
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Dethklok are REAL
They had an album out.
DETHKLOK for the win tho
the members of dethklok
are not real, it's all (or mostly) brendan small. the smurfs have had albums out, are they real?
Dethklok TOUR!
I'd regard them as similar to Gorillaz....
i wouldn't really regard
touring as making them a band, but i'm not dismissing what your saying as incorrect, just my opinion.
in homestar runner limozeen are a fictional band who also tour, but i would never consider them to be a real band as the band members are fictional. When played live it's just the music not the band. Gorillaz can come closer to the whole idea of it all though when they performed with holograms. For me it's just a group of people playing music by a fictional band (which they also wrote for the fictional band ;D )
if Gorillaz count
i'm voting them.
You obviously haven't seen the cartoons
yeah, real people make the music but, it is all based upon and for the benefit of a fictional band called DETHKLOK. The is total serial plot development and vivid character personas that (as awesome as the music is) out weigh the music. You have to get the DVD if "Metalacolypse" isn't on TV in your area- then you'll see what we are talking about. Dethklok is nothing like Gorillaz (loose, half-back mythology).
I've been watching
Metalocalypse from the start....
Real People make the music.
Real People tour.
HOW is that different from Gorillaz?
the music is made
for the benefit of the tv show and for the fictional characters to play. Gorillaz make music for albums and to occasionally play live like a normal band.
It's a fine difference.
Wikipedia lists them both as a fictional and a real band.
So lets agree to disagree.
K, but
Gorillaz ain't got a killer cartoon show (probly the best cartoon show since the Simpsons) and the thread said "fictional". In order to be fictional shouldn't there needs be some fiction? I know what Nathan Explosion eats, I know his parents- I know shit about Gorillaz. I gather they are some kind of post apocalyptic raggamuffins.
They all have names and a back story
Plus there are some songs on the actual album not featured in the show.
and as good as Metalocalypse is (and it is great) it isn't as good as South Park.
Which is now as good as The Simpsons at its peak.
first sentence Gorillaz
second Dethklok
wyld stallyns
^
Can't be beaten
not even by Orange Organics
Winners
The Pinheads!
...
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=_cZ8FvjsbKE
CRUCIAL TAUNT
haha
Niggaz With Hats
---
Marry me.
:)
never seen this before
but i am very very very impressed
The Rutles!
Who can forget the classic Tragical History Tour LP?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1y9BIjTSVk
eewwww
worst band yet
?!
You don't know what you're missing out on. How about their classic 1965 single "Ouch!"?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEEfJGp6VLw
Hooray for The Rutles
Splendid, uproarious, triumphant Beatles Parody!
Hold on
Under the whole Dethklok farrago I'm not sure we can count the Rutles as they've played gigs and all that.
we are counting dethklok
and the rutles
Blueshammer!!
i've been PLLOOOUUGGGHHHIINNN
pickin cotton all day long
Spinal Tap
and Bad News
pussy
legalise murder > spinal tap ;D
LOL
the weird sisters
:D (despite them appearing in a shit film)
do The Monkees count?
If not, do The Debbie McGees count? :D
If not, i can only think of The Beets from forgotten early nineties cartoon Doug at the moment.
"Aaah eeeh ooooh, killer tofu".
oh man
my brother loved the beets, he used to sing that song ALL THE TIME!
he printed out a t-shirt on some transfer paper but i don't think he ever made it. shame
i'm trying to remember who they were based on
:D
Wiki knows all!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Doug_characters#The_Beets
"Beets Me..."
you bet me to it
but i am posting what i found regardless
The Beets : A rock band, comprised of Monroe Yoder; Wendy Nespott; Chap Lippman; and Flounder, clearly based on both The Beatles (in name and somewhat Scouse accents) and The Ramones (in appearance and sound), that Doug and Skeeter are big fans of, later breaks up, and go solo in the Disney version. The band's last album was titled "Let It Beet", with an album cover parodying both the Beatles' Let It Be and The Rolling Stones' Let It Bleed. Songs The Beets produced include: "Killer Tofu", "I Need Mo' Allowance", "Where's My Sock?", and "You Gotta Shout Your Lungs Out". Numerous episodes involve Doug and Skeeter pursuing tickets to the band's concerts, or the band members themselves. The band's original name was "The Pickled Beets", a possible reference to the Beatles originally being known as "The Silver Beetles". Their first #1 single was "I Sneezed On My Face". The band has developed a cult following with original viewers of the show. The band's popularity reached an all-time high with "Beet Mania" (clearly a reference to Beatlemania). In addition, Doug once won tickets to a Beets concert through a radio contest, after absent-mindedly naming (correctly) one of the Beets' albums, "Beets Me".
I was thinking that one too
The Beets were the best.
I need more allowance
Yoodelayee
Josie & The Pussycats
He said best
not hotttttest
Creme Brulee
--
Niche but I like it!
You bastard, I was about to post that!
"It's a shit business! Glad I'm out of it."
hahahahahaha
yes!
I'm afraid that as predictable as it may be
I'll have to go with the lovely Josie And The Pussycats as they rock the house but can also tug at the heart strings with top ballad "You don't see me".
J L Bait.
Or Fur Q.
COCK! BITCH! COCK BITCH MOTHERFUCKER!!
Yes - wasn't 'Fur Q' on the Day Today
or Brasseye? I was going to post that!
"Uzi lover...
..he's an uzi lover"
The Shitty Beatles
The Shitty Beatles?
Are they any good?
no, they suck
but i heard good things about the jolly green giants.
Not just a clever name name then!
gwah...
Faith +1
Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Bamd
and DETHKLOK is definetely a fictional band and they are the BEST fictional band ever in the history of fictional bands, OMG yes!
Some others
New Kids On The Block
Boyz 2 Men
Backstreet Boys
Menudo
Spice Girls
The Monkees
The Archies
The Partridge Family
all-girl 60s band...
The Carrie Nations (from Beyond the Valley Of The Dolls with kinda grooving soul pop)
Kipper (Glam rockers from Confessions Of A Pop Performer who do a song about violence called 'Do The Clapham')
Steven Shorter (from Privilege - which is Paul Jones being used by the government to control teenagers with pop and religion!)
Mumblin Jim (i THINK that's what they're called....Jack Nicholson in a psych-rock band in 60s groovy movie Psych Out!)
The Wombles
Pinky And Perky
Tingha And Tucker
The Dilly Sisters (from Banana Splits)
Banana Splits
i better go t work now...
d
I like the one of Peep Show...
...COMING UP FOR BLAIR!
pinky and perky
and the banana splits!
good calls!
Executioner's Bong
Sonic Death Monkey
lol High Fidelity
^^
The Havana Kings
Reece & Gilly's favourite band
it is a travesty
that no-one has yet mentioned Stillwater from ALmost Famous. Cameron Crowe did actually name them after a real band of the time but they were essentially a hybrid of The Eagles and Skynyrd.
Best. Film. Ever.
^^
A genuinely decent fictinoal band.
Espcially as Peter Frampton wrote their songs.
Citizens Dick?
with the hit singles "Touch Me I'm Dick"?
*single
obviously
what were the
racist folk band on Phoenix nights called?
# Send the bugger's back! #
^^^Ha ha ha I had totally forgotten about them...
not seen singles in years.
Everyone on here is mental.
It's obviously The Cantina Band from Star Wars.
Electric Dream Machine
from Its Always Sunny In Philadelphia
what's
the name of the band that Lister did vocals for in Red Dwarf who wrote The Om Song?
haha
i scrolled all the way down the thread to see if anyone had mentioned them. they clearly win
hard core logo
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0116488/
hard core logo
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0116488/
THE JOLLY GREEN GIANTS
not really, it's CRUCIAL TAUNT, but jolly green giants are the only band from wayne's world not yet posted.
other fictional bands of note are:
driveshaft (from lost)
the abject negatives (from nothing nice to say)
the worst is the dad's band from gossip girl. very disappointing.
Kirsty's Metal Hands in Peep Show
or The Oneders, later to become the Wonders in That Thing You Do, Film - terrible, Liv Tyler - Lurrvely.
The Paranoids
from Pynchons 'The Crying of Lot 49'.
From wikipedia -
The Paranoids all speak with American accents but sing in English ones; at one point, a guitar player is forced to relinquish control of a car to his girlfriend because he cannot see through his hair.
aw darn
i just mentioned them above before reading this far. i fail.
How about Rex Manning?
Say no more...mon amour.
It has to be
California Dreaming.
They were really...really...really...Cooooool!
Foals
The 'Pudlians
Ace mock fab gear band in 'The President's Analyst'.
Or What about Pugwall's band
I can't remember what they were called...might actually be Pugwall.
Smash My Brother's Face In