What is your favorite fictional band or musician?

(The Fear rip-off from the CHIPs punk rock episode.)

"I diiig paaaain!"

(Of course you could make a case for Snow Pink, Pain's nemesis in the Battle of the Bands which Ponch caps off by singing "Celebrate good times, come on!")

The Shunned were a fictional band in my city during late seventies punk days. Posters use to appear for their shows that were to be at vague local locations (ex. - "at the Shoe Store"). Many locals believed them to be real for a while, and were intrigued. They even had fictional members (Dick Chocolate, Jet Yellow, Doomy Number).

Sprocc, master of the splingtwanger from Planet Blipp.

from the bunch, when greg was "discovered" and was going to be a rock star.

Well, there is now.

Sometimes...it's like Eddie's still alive.

Also: Kinnie Starr as the drummer for "The Dolls" in "Down And Out With The Dolls" - great movie.

Illuminatus band names seconded.

The Queen Haters!

but i do have a soft spot for their musical nemesis the misfits as well.

Citizen Dick (Singles) "Tonight we rock Portland!"

Ziggy Stardust.

and, p.s., i just looked up the imdb page on ron's brother clint, who starred in "cotton candy," and noticed that it fell in the middle of this consecutive streak of movies for clint:

"grand theft auto" (1977)
"i never promised you a rose garden" (1977)
"harper valley p.t.a." (1978)
"cotton candy" (1978)
"rock n roll high school" (1979)

i was initially impressed by #3 and #4 in that list, and wondered if he's the only actor in history who's had consecutive roles in movies named after the only major pop hit by a female country singer. (must remember to use that one in a trivia thread sometime.)

then i realized this was a full-on five-picture streak whose titles are a video game, two crossover country smashes, a fictional rock band, and a ramones classic.

in later years he has appeared in "an innocent man" (1989, unclear if billy joel is aware of this one), "ice cream man" (he had the title role in this 1995 pic, whose jonathan richman link may or may not have been coincidental), "that thing you do" (1996, fictional rock hit, yay) and, um, "beethoven's 5th" (2003).

i hereby declare clint howard most.awesome.actor.evah.

Fiends In Human Form (from the book Infinite Jest)

― larry, Tuesday, October 11, 2005 2:13 PM (4 years ago) Bookmark

Thought this was the Fiends In Human Shape. Also, the Bioavailable Five.

Sleez Sisters

My favouritey band is of course one which I made up- with my cranium!!!!! In the naughty nineties!!!! The beat combo's nomenclature was Vigilante Shipbuilders, and they were as Seventies type might sat, a power trio supergroup: of Missy Elliot (Lead vocals, beats, production), Danny MacNamara from Embrace (Vocals, guitars, and friend of Paul Weller- very important in the 90's!!!!!!), and Danbert Nobacon (Vocals, Political Strategist) from
Chumbawumba!!!!!!!

If they existed, they would have packed out stadiums!!!!!!

Brutha Fez (R.I.P.)

Jordan Catalano, and of course the Frozen Embryos. Oh, "Red"

Bob Stanley would be all over this gang:

The Honeybees

http://www.wtv-zone.com/dpjohnson/gingergrant/honeybees.jpg

Rick Rickenharp
Hotblack Desiato & Disaster Area
Rod Torfulson's Armada featuring Herman Menderchuck
the Ramones as portrayed in Rock & Roll High School

Has no one mentioned:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0BTtMe7bPTc

Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars.

The Archies
Bad News
Hard Core Logo
Video Rodney

Dynamic Calories (from the song of the same name by Stephen Malkmus)
Requiem (a drop-D metal band that the lead singer of Spoon allegedly used to play in, from the song "Sister Jack")
Battery Acid (Ramsey Street's local rock sensation)

Lancelot Link & the Evolution Revolution
the Impossibles

Kevin Smith's finest hour?

ugh christ I can't take 30 seconds of that awful dialogue/delivery

Rikki Nadir, Peter Hammill's alter ego on the Nadir's Big Chance album.

No love for the Banana Splits?

Los Punkitos

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5AClcybq5e0

I can't believe I forgot this one: The Takeaways!

David Reyne lipsync fail...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-6gn6ysYkM

love that clip

Sweet & Sour was one of my fave TV shows. Man, I loved that damn song!

Driveshaft, of Lost.

But not really. It's just the only one I can think of.

"The hero of Espadair Street"

ie. danny weir aka. weirD and his band frozen gold. not as funny and glib an answer as some of the above, but that's a good book by one of my favorite authors (iain banks) the whole mythos and minutiae of the fictional band is really fleshed out well

also third or fourthing wyld stallyns

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

Sacrifyx

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2mXAB3HO160

Goggly Gogol

http://www.bfi.org.uk/sites/bfi.org.uk/files/styles/full/public/image/clockwork-orange-a-1971-014-malcolm-mcdowell-record-store.jpg?itok=ecM-q9AZ

I had a Pavement tour EP that claimed they were touring with... *finds sleeve*

The Flotilla Chips
Parchmen
Temple's People
Slavegrinders
The Skin Music

Perhaps not 'favourites', but I've long assumed that they were all pretty bitchin', in a non-existent kind of way.

BIM