Musicians Wearing Shirts from Bands That Sound Nothing Like Them

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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 (seventeen years ago) link

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

or maybe...

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

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 (seventeen years ago) link

FUCK YOU ILX, YOU FUCKING SUCK!!!!

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

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 (seventeen years ago) link

*find

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

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 (seventeen years ago) link

[b]test

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

> 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 (seventeen years ago) link

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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 (seventeen years ago) link

Three 6 Mafia do, in fact, worship Satan.

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

this thread is now a dream section from a Faulkner novel

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

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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

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

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 (seventeen years ago) link

"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 (seventeen years ago) link

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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

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

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

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

http://www.gobritney.com/albums/ag2/6/normal_2802423_10.jpg

― SRSco, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 03:39 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.angelfire.com/pop2/nicksncontrol4/nickvm13.jpg
http://www.angelfire.com/pop2/nicksncontrol4/nickvm5.jpg

― SRSco, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 03:42 (seventeen years ago) link

http://ukcgalleries.com/photos/events/Today%20Show%20-%20052305/images/090.jpg

― SRSco, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 03:43 (seventeen years ago) link

LOL RAELLY BIG!

http://img212.imageshack.us/img212/8062/phkellyclarksonseventeen010624.jpg

― SRSco, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 03:45 (seventeen years ago) link

FROM LINKIN PARK

http://www.lp_the_best.blogger.com.br/AMA4.jpg

― SRSco, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 03:47 (seventeen years ago) link

THIS ONE CAUSD SOME PRE TO FORM ON A WANGTIP lol

http://www.avrilbandaids.com/members/Galleries/data/media/289/126.JPG

― SRSco, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 03:48 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.avrilbandaids.com/members/Galleries/data/media/289/112.JPG

― SRSco, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 03:49 (seventeen years ago) link

bulletboys

http://www.trenty.org.uk/ShaniaForum/Vivosttt/22.jpg

― SRSco, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 03:51 (seventeen years ago) link

http://photos1.blogger.com/photoInclude/blogger2/643/1099/1600/csmack-jt11.jpg

― SRSco, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 03:52 (seventeen years ago) link

lol oops

http://photos1.blogger.com/photoInclude/blogger2/643/1099/1600/csmack-jt11.jpg

― SRSco, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 03:53 (seventeen years ago) link

o shit. best one evar!

http://photos1.blogger.com/photoInclude/blogger2/643/1099/1600/csmack-jt11.jpg

― SRSco, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 03:53 (seventeen years ago) link

Raekwon in a Pink Floyd tee

― The Reverend, Thursday, 19 April 2007 20:36 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm surprised no wag has yet posted ?uestlove in his Beatles t-shirt yet (unless maybe it's already there and I can't see it)

― James Redd and the Blecchs, Thursday, 19 April 2007 20:43 (seventeen years ago) link

two years pass...

*REVIVE*

Sugar Ray's Mark McGrath sporting Suffocation and Venom shirts:

http://www.metalinjection.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/mark-mcgrath-suffocation.jpg

http://www.metalinjection.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/l_226eff39f1494732a69f5e9e893ebb74.jpg

― NYCNative, Wednesday, 13 January 2010 20:43 (fourteen years ago) link

"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.

So Durst has sex like a Smiths fan and Duff loves like Motorhead.

Classic post.

― Cunga, Wednesday, 13 January 2010 20:47 (fourteen years ago) link

I can't seem to find a freeze frame anywhere, but my favorite mismatch is the Public Enemy t-shirt on Donnie Wahlberg in the New Kids on the Block "Step by Step" video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ziDtEPCFM0I

― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Wednesday, 13 January 2010 20:51 (fourteen years ago) link

http://earbuds.popdose.com/pykorry/Sting%20and%20The%20Beat.jpg

― We should have called Suzie and Bobby (NickB), Wednesday, 13 January 2010 20:53 (fourteen years ago) link

four months pass...

...what about noize laydees wearing Manics shirts? Does that count?

― Morley Timmons, Tuesday, 1 June 2010 07:15 (thirteen years ago) link

three weeks pass...

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3108/2656404984_31397e7cc6.jpg

― quick fast like Rommedahl (zvookster), Tuesday, 22 June 2010 17:43 (thirteen years ago) link

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