Your Terrible Band Concept Stockpile

My idea is a girl band sort of like the Spice Girls, where each member can easily be identified with some personality-defining label: the smart one, the outgoing one, the nice one, the bitch, etc. But they would play up their labels/personalities more than the Spice Girls did by singing songs that show this personality, e.g. the "bitch" might sing about how tough and mean she is, or she'd sing a duet with the "nice" girl and they'd have a moral debate in the song. In my head, there is more of a story line in the band, maybe there is an accompanying TV show, or maybe each new single they release tells more about the story, I don't know.

They would be marketed so that there is a lot of fuss about "Which ___ Girl is your favorite?" and paraphrenalia for teenage girls to buy and wear and show all their friends which Girl they are a fan of. Then the fans would get all excited when their favorite Girl is the one singing the band's latest single, etc.

They do exist, and have played shows, but there is no one in the band. They do have a label, though, and a long-promised EP (called "10") which will almost certainly never come out.

http://www.government.devisland.net/

go here and check out vinny miller's top 5 0f 2005. the hype has begun...

oops wrong link let's try again:

http://www.hmgovernment.net/

follow directions above ;)

1. corporate band. forget the name we came up with. uplifting power songs. gray suits and short 80s business pony tails. we'd play exclusively at high-paying corporate gigs like company parties, sharholder meetings, etc. the name might have been Payday. can't quite recall.

2. the most annoying band in town. not overtly so, but in subtler ways. like parts don't really fit together. song goes on a little long for comfort. our gear is of questionable quality and the tone is shitty. things like this. band name: Jar Jar Binks.

3. a band where we only play the big last note of a song where everyone just wails on E or A or whatever for a moment. and those are the song titles: G#, A, etc. band name: Grande Finale. or some such.

actually, i guess people would just think we're a normal, everyday, band about town. except with a worse name than most.

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-- latebloomer (posercore24...), July 2nd, 2006.

This describes at least five different shitty indie bands at my college when I was there.

-- Abbadavid Berman (Hurtingchie...), July 5th, 2006.

heh thats because you went to AWESOME UNIVERSITY

I've seen this band several times -- so long as the riff is in 7/12 time and six bars long, Don Cab fans will eat it up.

We're The Douchebags.

Take a sniff
Pull it out
The taste is gonna move you
when you pop it in your mouth...

To be sung with much imaginary cock-stroking, etc.

What happened to Darth Brooks?

And has anyone heard that one STEED song, "De Canter of Blood?" It's on the B side of "Gaits of Hell?"

Some ideas from back when I was at University:

- an anti-boyband called FU2. Songs about getting drunk, getting into fights, cheating on girlfriends, shoplifting, vandalism, etc. - album was to be called "Y*O*B*S", short for "Yer Original Bastard Sons".

- "Herman Hollerith's Blues Machine" - a band where the drummer is a stuffed gorilla with a drum machine slung around it's neck, the singer is a blow up doll, and the guitarist is a cardboard cutout of Eric Clapton propped up against a large reel-to-reel tape machine on a wooden dining room chair.

- The Vicar & The Warlord. A rip off of a Fry and Laurie sketch, album was to be called "The Personification of Raw Sex".

- The Sick Six - a band with five members, the sixth member being a drum machine, a bit like Lothar and the Hand People, but with regular instruments. I thought that it might be a supergroup made up of people from other student bands, as a way of using up all the crappy half finished songs.

- Tamag0tchi Sex Explosion - gigs would be improvised jams based off "At The Copa (Copacabana)" by Barry Manilow.

- NWA tribute band called "Nigels With Attitude". All white guys, each one playing the role of a stereotype: cockney, nerd, public school posh guy with a monocle, geezer, etc., with names like Dr. Nigel, Nigel Cube, and Easy Nigel. Album to be called "Straight Outta Croydon". Sample lyric: "Straight outta Croydon, a crazy motherfucker called Nigel Cube, from the gang called Nigels With Attitude...".