Musicians Wearing Shirts from Bands That Sound Nothing Like Them

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I can't find it now, but I remember having a old shot of Napalm Death pinned to the bulletin board at an old office wherein one of them was wearing a LUSH (as is Miki Berenyi/90's shoegaze) t-shirt.

Alex in NYC, Tuesday, 25 February 2014 22:03 (ten years ago) link

Going back approx 15 years I remember being amused by Jim O'Rourke's Spice Girls t shirt.

not so much Gibby Haynes' Hanson shirt (kind of half expected it at that point)

Master of Treacle, Wednesday, 26 February 2014 00:14 (ten years ago) link

what about a guy buying a donna summer bootleg wearing an emperor cap

brimstead, Wednesday, 26 February 2014 00:21 (ten years ago) link

Shirt bands form musicians that sound nothing like them swearing.

start making ₵€nt$ (rattled), Wednesday, 26 February 2014 01:06 (ten years ago) link

The only thing I got out of this new shitshow is apparently a dude from Trans Am is in Baroness?? Holy shit

lol otm

mookieproof, Wednesday, 26 February 2014 01:22 (ten years ago) link

Bruno Mars' band sporting Misfits patch, Black Flag, Richard Hell & the Voidoids, CBGBs and one unidentified shirt:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dv4LS8cEXu8#aid=P7Yc2C87BIg

Fastnbulbous, Wednesday, 26 February 2014 07:17 (ten years ago) link

http://oi58.tinypic.com/2rr6nph.jpg

At a quick glance I thought this was a Sandman t-shirt! Did the band copy the comic, or the other way around? (Yeah, I know Cure existed long before Sandman, but in this particular image the singer dude looks almost exactly like the protagonist of the comic.)

Tuomas, Wednesday, 26 February 2014 07:30 (ten years ago) link

Except he's fat and Morpheus wasn't.

Ian Glasper's trapped in a scone (aldo), Wednesday, 26 February 2014 08:28 (ten years ago) link

To actually answer your question, Fat Bob has looked like that since about 1983.

Ian Glasper's trapped in a scone (aldo), Wednesday, 26 February 2014 08:30 (ten years ago) link

urine sample looks a bit cloudy

night boat to mega therion (NickB), Wednesday, 26 February 2014 08:36 (ten years ago) link

tbh Bob looks like Jaz Coleman in a wig on that shirt

the immortal jellyfish will never die (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 26 February 2014 08:39 (ten years ago) link

I was thinking Denis Healey.

Ian Glasper's trapped in a scone (aldo), Wednesday, 26 February 2014 08:41 (ten years ago) link

bernard cribbins as john cooper clark

night boat to mega therion (NickB), Wednesday, 26 February 2014 09:00 (ten years ago) link

To actually answer your question, Fat Bob has looked like that since about 1983.

Well yeah, I know what he looks like, but I meant that particular image in the t-shirt. A drawn image with black eyes + completely white skin + blue robes makes him look exactly like Morpheus. What year is the t-shirt from?

Tuomas, Wednesday, 26 February 2014 09:31 (ten years ago) link

1375

Ian Glasper's trapped in a scone (aldo), Wednesday, 26 February 2014 09:55 (ten years ago) link

2015.

the drummer is a monster (Scik Mouthy), Wednesday, 26 February 2014 10:03 (ten years ago) link

69

thuggish ruggish brony (contenderizer), Wednesday, 26 February 2014 10:09 (ten years ago) link

It's super easy to trade up towards ever-more-rocking and authentic stuff like punk and metal. I would also like to see some punk or metal dude wearing a 80s Madonna tour shirt or something.

Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 26 February 2014 19:04 (ten years ago) link

There's a photo above (or there was at one time) of the band Death where one of the guys is wearing a Blondie shirt.

And a video of that noted death metaller Bob Weir wearing a Madonna shirt.

Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Wednesday, 26 February 2014 19:06 (ten years ago) link

Blondie is a punk band, doesn't count.

Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 26 February 2014 19:07 (ten years ago) link

Lots of punk people like Madonna. That's a fairly easy target to aim for - someone like Tiffany or Sonia would be 'weirder'.

emil.y, Wednesday, 26 February 2014 19:12 (ten years ago) link

kylie vs sputnik :

http://s3.amazonaws.com/imgly_production/3897869/large.jpg

and i can easily see any of the sputnik boys wearing a kylie t-shirt

mark e, Wednesday, 26 February 2014 19:42 (ten years ago) link

who're they?

how's life, Tuesday, 11 March 2014 11:00 (ten years ago) link

Evan Ross and Ashlee Simpson!

krankenhausen, Tuesday, 11 March 2014 11:48 (ten years ago) link

whoa!

how's life, Tuesday, 11 March 2014 11:52 (ten years ago) link

He got Ashlee to wear that Smiths t-shirt cos Evan knows they're fashionable now.

eardrum buzz aldrin (NickB), Tuesday, 11 March 2014 12:13 (ten years ago) link

http://i62.tinypic.com/2u5s1hy.jpg

krankenhausen, Tuesday, 11 March 2014 13:09 (ten years ago) link

cos Evan knows they're fashionable now

A+

Tim Heckler (willem), Tuesday, 11 March 2014 13:29 (ten years ago) link

ashlee is totally trying to be the next supreme.

clouds, Tuesday, 11 March 2014 13:39 (ten years ago) link

Shane Embury from Napalm Death in a Cardiacs shirt. He never seemed to be without it for nearly every photo-shoot from this period.

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-F--AhRu11TY/TTIYLlHkGdI/AAAAAAAAAEE/j56AMDTd1MA/s1600/873854.jpg

ringworm, Tuesday, 11 March 2014 19:08 (ten years ago) link

good spot. that's a still from the interview for bbc2's snub-tv iirc

eardrum buzz aldrin (NickB), Tuesday, 11 March 2014 19:49 (ten years ago) link

Is it not from Arena: Thrashed To Death? Bill and Shane laugh at Day Of The Dead later, and Bill draws a mind map from Venom to Napalm Death on a napkin.

Ian Glasper's trapped in a scone (aldo), Tuesday, 11 March 2014 21:18 (ten years ago) link

It's from the Arena Heavy Metal doc. Loved that. Mick Harris: "You can't play Motorhead at 100mph? Course ye can!"

ringworm, Tuesday, 11 March 2014 21:37 (ten years ago) link

three weeks pass...

http://www.redeyerecords.co.uk/imagery/82036-1.jpg

aware that this doesn't literally conform to the specifics of the thread title but w/e. <3 HMD

From Tha Crouuuch To Da Palacios (DJ Mencap), Wednesday, 9 April 2014 14:40 (ten years ago) link

Re Napalm Death/Cardiacs t-shirt, Napalm Death just released a charity download Cardiacs cover (To Go Off And Things)

Just noise and screaming and no musical value at all. (Colonel Poo), Wednesday, 9 April 2014 16:34 (ten years ago) link

Of course, Corin was wearing it because 'Marshall' is also her son's name.

Damnit Janet Weiss & The Riot Grrriel (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 9 April 2014 16:53 (ten years ago) link

yeah, not actually so surprised Napalm Death would be into Cardiacs -- a lot of "extreme" musicians love em

Dominique, Wednesday, 9 April 2014 16:57 (ten years ago) link

So apparently this is Joe Jonas?!?!?!?!?

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BlcUORJCEAABopX.jpg

Branwell Bell, Thursday, 17 April 2014 18:37 (ten years ago) link

four months pass...

R&B singer Kiki Rowe wearing what I am pretty sure is a Misfits skull on her top...

http://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/496704283027333121/TXvru-Rh.jpeg

Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Wednesday, 3 September 2014 20:14 (nine years ago) link

seven months pass...

I'm not sure who that is in the middle, but Ian McKaye and Ryan Adams is a strong candidate for Photos taken of famous people together that you would never have expected to be together but make you happy all the same.

pplains, Monday, 13 April 2015 20:32 (nine years ago) link

Except for the part about being happy about it or anything.

pplains, Monday, 13 April 2015 20:33 (nine years ago) link

Hope Ryan gets that job at Hot Topic.

©Oz Quiz© (Adam Bruneau), Monday, 13 April 2015 20:51 (nine years ago) link

pp, it's keith morris

louie louie whoa baby imago (how's life), Monday, 13 April 2015 20:55 (nine years ago) link

keith wearing a very in character t-shirt

kurt kobaïan (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 13 April 2015 21:11 (nine years ago) link

two famous middle-aged American musicians with punk rock backgrounds meeting each other doesn't strike me as hugely surprising

maybe if it was a photo of Ryan doing a load of coke off a glass table while Ian looked on. or indeed vice versa

pissbaby nobody in the corner (DJ Mencap), Monday, 13 April 2015 21:11 (nine years ago) link


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