Musicians Wearing Shirts from Bands That Sound Nothing Like Them

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Also, Missy Elliott wearing a bedazzled Motorhead shirt in the "Get Ur Freak On" video was the highlight of my life.

― Whiney G. Weingarten, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 05:47 (nineteen years ago)

..my Birchville Cat Motel post was very much a "Hey, isn't this neat" post, FWIW.

― Drooone, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 06:02 (nineteen years ago)

(meta criticism of whiney g)

― JW, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 06:11 (nineteen years ago)

america demands weenie horror biggie shirts

― A B C, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 06:14 (nineteen years ago)

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 06:26 (nineteen years ago)

Also, Missy Elliott wearing a bedazzled Motorhead shirt in the "Get Ur Freak On" video was the highlight of my life.

-- Whiney G. Weingarten, Monday, April 16, 2007 7:47 PM (39 minutes ago)

pretty sucky life, bro.

― g®▲Ðұ, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 06:28 (nineteen years ago)

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Who was the guy who had a Boards Of Canada sticker on his guitar? (It was Dave Grohl or Brian Molko, I think)

― StanM, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 06:35 (nineteen years ago)

can I just turn this off?

― StanM, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 06:36 (nineteen years ago)

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doh.

― StanM, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 06:36 (nineteen years ago)

pretty sucky life, bro.

Yeah.

― Whiney G. Weingarten, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 06:39 (nineteen years ago)

Also, I wasn't really responding to any one poster, just a general tone of threads like these. So sorry if I sound like a crank.

― Whiney G. Weingarten, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 06:41 (nineteen years ago)

I think this article by our very own Phil Freeman covers the "why metalheads get annoyed when pop stars wear metal shirts" question fairly well, Hans:

http://runningthevoodoodown.blogspot.com/2005/04/what-i-said.html

annoying people like that for those very reasons is what's GREAT about paris/ashlee &c &c wearing these t-shirts!

do people have any awareness at all of when they turn into grizzling grandads?

i was going to post that picture of holly valance in a ramones t-shirt but i can't find it :(

― lex pretend, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 06:44 (nineteen years ago)

Ramones t-shirts on actress-model-whatevers is a fashion statement I started noticing around 2004. I've been assuming it was a "my publicist dresses me that way" sort of thing. In the last year, tho', I've seen a lot of metal t-shirts on dance music people, and more avant and eletro references to metal motifs.

― bendy, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 17:02 (nineteen years ago)

There you go Saxby.

Sorry, i didn't have my sarcasm tags in place when i wrote that stuff about kurt in the daniel t-shirt. Thanks for the image just the same :-)

― Saxby D. Elder, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 17:07 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.scallen.com/images/eye.gif

― sexyDancer, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 17:11 (nineteen years ago)

What shirt is that NKOTB guy wearing? I can't tell.

― Mr. Snrub, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 17:19 (nineteen years ago)

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― unperson, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 17:20 (nineteen years ago)

I never get this - are people supposed to be so genre-bound that they only rep for bands/musicians from their own stylistic niche? this is like a militantly catholic position to take I think

-- Hans Rott, Monday, April 16, 2007 11:22 PM (Yesterday)

you got it backwards

― s1ocki, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 17:21 (nineteen years ago)

Pop kids these days wear Motorhead or Ramones t-shirts the same way that pop kids wore Bauhaus or Siouxsie and the Banshees t-shirts in the 80s - sometimes, when I'd confront people on it, they'd admit that they weren't even aware that these images/logos were for bands - they just thought that they were logos in the same way as wearing an Ocean Pacific t-shirt was in the 80s (hey, look at me, I'm a cool surfer chick, even though I live 1000 miles from the nearest ocean).

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 17:33 (nineteen years ago)

Though, the other half of me would say... don't be so quick to judge everyone you see wearing a shirt that you think expresses a kind of music you don't associate with them.

I can't help but wonder what someone would think who didn't know me, if they saw *me* wear a Motorhead or a Stooges shirt onstage at an indiepop club? (I do always wear a Stooges shirt to soundcheck as a good luck charm. I wonder if people think it's ironic.)

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 17:37 (nineteen years ago)

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― schwantz, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 17:39 (nineteen years ago)

or maybe...

― schwantz, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 17:40 (nineteen years ago)

OK, so from the HTML source, the following line...

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... is what started the italics crap.

So if I just type a whole bunch of ""s, it should work, right?

― Mr. Snrub, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 17:46 (nineteen years ago)

FUCK YOU ILX, YOU FUCKING SUCK!!!!

― Mr. Snrub, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 17:47 (nineteen years ago)

Ah! Now I get it! The ""s become:



Must fiund some way to hard code a less than and a greater than into the source.

― Mr. Snrub, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 17:49 (nineteen years ago)

*find

― Mr. Snrub, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 17:49 (nineteen years ago)

clearly, there's nothing wrong or annoying about wearing a t-shirt of a band you're not into, but I do find it odd that anyone would actually WANT to do so.

a t-shirt says 'I like this music', but if that's not true then it suggests that on some level you think maybe you should, which betrays a lack of confidence in your own judgement and a degree of acquiesence to what's considered 'cool' or 'edgy'. or alternatively, it becomes a pointless ironic gesture, like a goth kid in a boyzone T.

but then again, maybe it's just about fancy dress and shouldn't be taken as signifying anything. after all, I am not truly an amazon, but I occasionally dress like wonder woman.

"do people have any awareness at all of when they turn into grizzling grandads?"

nah. comes to us all. one day you're young and carefree and full of joy, the next you're moaning on and on about what's in the top 10 and what's in the music press, even if you haven't heard it, and finding yourself increasingly alienated from what the kids are listening to.

― m the g, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 17:55 (nineteen years ago)

[b]test

― StanM, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 17:57 (nineteen years ago)

> a t-shirt says 'I like this music'

Not really. It may say "I like this look." Look at it from the other side. You wouldn't wear a shirt you don't like from a band you dig, would you?

― Oilyrags, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 18:08 (nineteen years ago)

actually, I have done and may well do again. within reason.

but I'm an awkward, shabby man who frankly can't be arsed to go clothes shopping. therefore band t-shirts are a godsend for those like me. they enable us to select what we wear without actually having to endure the unpleasant ordeal of thinking about clothing instead of tunes.

― m the g, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 18:16 (nineteen years ago)

Just wanted to mention that I watched this Three 6 Mafia at MTV Spring Break special a couple weeks ago, and one of the 2 guys (I think Juicy J, but it might have been the other one) was wearing a different rock band shirt each time he changed clothes. I believe the shirts were for Guns N Roses, Metallica, Iron Maiden, and one other one which I can't remember now.

― stingy, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 18:32 (nineteen years ago)

Three 6 Mafia do, in fact, worship Satan.

― will, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 18:38 (nineteen years ago)

this thread is now a dream section from a Faulkner novel

― Hans Rott, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 18:43 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, the thin guy from Three Six Mafia was wearing an Avenged Sevenfold T-shirt on Mind of Mencia when I was flipping through the channels.

― Jeff Treppel, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 18:49 (nineteen years ago)

http://mccoy.lib.siu.edu/jmccall/otherafricas/img/bonjovi(detail).jpg

― sexyDancer, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 19:21 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.jukeb0x.com/wp-content/vibe-justin-timberlake.jpg

― jaymc, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 19:31 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.ilikemusic.com/images/article_images/full/bustedbusted.jpg

― Dom Passantino, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 19:35 (nineteen years ago)

Or maybe he's just a fan of Nic Yo.

― Dom Passantino, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 19:35 (nineteen years ago)

http://folk.uio.no/tronht/happening.JPG

― sexyDancer, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 19:37 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.magnetmagazine.com/photos/Melvins.jpg

― sexyDancer, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 19:39 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, that dude from Three 6 Mafia is always rocking a different black band t-shirt. I was watching an episode of HollyHood this weekend and he had on Nirvana, Green Day, and a Ramones tee at different points.

― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 19:46 (nineteen years ago)

Chuck Schuldiner from Death in a Blondie shirt. No doubt his stylist made him wear it.
http://www.emptywords.org/RHtourdiary2-92.htg/RHtourdiary2-92foto1.jpg

― everything, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 20:03 (nineteen years ago)

Did anyone catch that Blondie / Siege / Pestilence triple bill?

― NYCNative, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 23:08 (nineteen years ago)

i don't really get this thread...don't musicians all like music that doesn't necessarily sound like the music they play?

also, it's absolutely like not surprising at all that 3-5 mafia would dig metal

― M@tt He1ges0n, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 23:18 (nineteen years ago)

"don't musicians all like music that doesn't necessarily sound like the music they play?"

Possibly. But they don't all wear the shirts. I think we have established (with minor exceptions) that this thread is not being judgemental about this practise. We're just posting pictures okay?

― everything, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 23:40 (nineteen years ago)

Helen Love in an Atari Teenage Riot shirt
http://www.damagedgoods.co.uk/images/bands/bp-hele2.jpg

― everything, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 23:52 (nineteen years ago)

Another MC5 shirt

http://content.answers.com/main/content/img/amg/pop_albums/6/4/a/e64185cqrag.jpg

― everything, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 23:56 (nineteen years ago)

I think it's a sex code thing more than an overt statement of affiliation with any particular band/ genre. It's like they're saying, "Although my public/ performance personna is consistently this one thing, this t-shirt is indicative of what'd it be like to have sex with me." At least that's how I interpret that Durst photo, and the Duff one, too.

― slugbuggy, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 00:54 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.melomel.com/myblog/pics/anistonmc5.jpg

― SRSco, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 03:37 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.thetruepop.com/paparazzi/imlovinit/J_28.jpg

― SRSco, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 03:38 (nineteen years ago)

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Orville Peck

― Hans Holbein (Chinchilla Volapük), Saturday, 8 June 2024 07:05 (two years ago)

(xp) Trying to think if Can ever sounded like the Who and all I can think of is the bass playing in "Vernal Equinox".

― Poets Win Prizes (Tom D.), Saturday, 8 June 2024 09:18 (two years ago)

Bill Berry wears a Steel Pulse shirt in this (1982) performance:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9sBVX9kRmBE

― Energy wrong, I log off (morrisp), Friday, 14 June 2024 05:59 (two years ago)

xxxp tbf Orville Peck was in Nu Sensae so wearing a punk t-shirt is not surprising

― Colonel Poo, Friday, 14 June 2024 10:16 (two years ago)

tbf Orville Peck was in Nu Sensae so wearing a punk t-shirt is not surprising

I had no idea! That's a suprisingly interesting fact.

― emil.y, Friday, 14 June 2024 12:43 (two years ago)

two weeks pass...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntjqfmnG8Jc

― ufo, Monday, 1 July 2024 11:19 (one year ago)

guy on the BET Awards was singing and wearing a Misfits shirt. he did not sound like Misfits.

― scott seward, Monday, 1 July 2024 11:40 (one year ago)

doesn't Big Thief get kinda proggy? i thought i heard a couple of songs of theirs that sounded a little guitar-wonky.

― scott seward, Monday, 1 July 2024 11:41 (one year ago)

ten months pass...

"I have got to find the Bieber..."

https://preview.redd.it/justin-bieber-wearing-an-r-e-m-tee-prepare-for-a-surge-of-v0-9herwfctmcye1.jpeg?width=1080&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=8d1d74abed8a92eb7de7367743e9080631200620

― hypothetical rogue notary (morrisp), Friday, 2 May 2025 14:16 (one year ago)

https://i.redd.it/nn49l1eruta51.jpg

Chief Keef wearing a Grateful Dead shirt.

― better than ezra collective soul asylum (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 2 May 2025 14:39 (one year ago)

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/54500432031_25fa978144_z.jpg

Hoshino Hidehiko of Buck-Tick wearing a Spacemen 3 T-shirt

― Etherwave, Tuesday, 6 May 2025 07:10 (one year ago)

Not the correct title of the S3 record.

― Kim Kimberly, Tuesday, 6 May 2025 07:17 (one year ago)

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