Friday Coffee Break: Fictional Musicians
Posted at 8:46 AM on January 15, 2010
by Steve Seel
(49 Comments)
Filed under: 9:30 Coffee Break
(updated below)
Since we were talking this morning with MPR's Movie Maven Stephanie Curtis about Crazy Heart, the new film starring Jeff Bridges as a country music star who's career is nearing its end, we got to thinking about fictional musicians - artists or bands depicted in movies or TV shows who aren't real. You know, like Stillwater, or Crucial Taunt. We bet you can think of a couple additional examples. Get creative and help us put together a set for today's 9:30 Coffee Break.
Update: This was a tough assignment we set up for ourselves (regarding how easily we'd be able to track things down, that is), but here's what we came up with from your requests:
1) The Sleaze Sisters (from Times Square), "Damn Dog"
2) Spinal Tap, "Stonehenge"
3) The Monkees, "Mary Mary"
4) The Carrie Nations (from Beyond the Valley of the Dolls) "Sweet Talkin' Candy Man"
5) The Partridge Family, "I Think I Love You"
Comments (49)
Please, please, please...
Hedwig and the Angry Inch - The Origin of Love
Perhaps a bit unlikely, but how about Hedwig and the Angry Inch?
How about Bowie (or Ziggy Stardust) doing Five Years
That Thing You Do - The Wonders (That Thing You Do)
Would love to hear Fever Dog - Stillwater (Almost Famous)
Well, Spinal Tap, of course (Stonehenge would be great) but everyone will probably request them.
How about The Stains (from Ladies and Gentlemen The Fabulous Stains) starring a Teenage Diane Lane and Laura Dern along with members of the Clash and the Sex Pistols...
or the band from Heathers that did the big hit song in the movie (i think it was called Teenage Suicide (not the Unrest song)...
Two words-Ziggy Stardust. Greatest fictional musician EVER. PERIOD. "Star" perfectly encapsulates everything that Ziggy is about...PLAY IT!
"That Thing You Do" - The Wonders
"A Kiss At the End of the Rainbow" - Mitch and Mickey (from A Mighty Wind)
marvin berry and the starlighters - earth angel
I don't wanna mess with no reefer addicts...
Fun theme!
Any of the songs from the groups in A Mighty Wind (Mitch and Mickey, The New Main Street Singers or the Folksmen)
"Somebody Kill me Please" - Robbie Hart from the Wedding Singer
Sugar High from Empire Records
Steel Dragon (Rock Star) -- if it helps, the song "We All Die Young" is originally/actually performed by the band Steelheart.
The Rutles (great fake-Beatles band/mockumentary starring Monty Python and SNL folk) -- I recommend "Cheese and Onions" or "Let's Be Natural."
Love the Hedwig suggestions. What about Clam Dandy? You say, "I've never heard of Clam Dandy." It was Gina Gershon's band in Prey for Rock & Roll.
The Gorillaz - Every Planet We Reach is Dead
Spinal Tap - Stonehenge
The Lone Rangers "Degenerated"
But of course, how silly could I be?
That Thing You Do - The Wonders, or from the same movie, Captain Geech and the Shrimp Shack Shooters.
Steel Dragon from Rockstar.
Wild Stallions from Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure.
Killer Tofu - The Beets, from the cartoon Doug.
http://www.fakebands.com/
Is a GREAT resource.
My request was Jet Screamer's "Eep Opp Ork Ah-Ah" (Jetsons).
Dr. Teeth and the Electric Mahem (Mupper Show)
The Way-Outs (Flintstones)
The Monkees- and if there's an obscure song from the movie "Head".. Yeah, don't play it. ;)
The One-ders (Oh-needers)... but The Wonders are already played on the radio by the local sacharine rock station.
Jesse and the Rippers?
The Gorillaz - Every Planet we reach is dead
OR
Spinal Tap - Stonehenge
Thanks.
Degenerated by The Lone Rangers (Brandon Fraiser, Steve Buscemi, and Adam Sandler) from the movie Airheads.
OH THE RUTLES!! Great call on that. Play anything from them.
Dukes of the Stratosphear, "Vanishing Girl." Best choice imaginable for this because the song only occupies, what, 75 seconds?
Mark Wahlberg 'sings' "Colorful" in the execrable movie "Rock Star," but it's really a tune by Brian Vander Ark of The Verve Pipe, who appears in the flick as well. Play that please, if you can find it!
The Partridge Family ??
Barry Jive and the Uptown Five (Sonic Death Monkey) - which is of course, Jack Black in High Fidelity
"Let's Get it On"
It made it onto the soundtrack
The California Raisins
Captain Bart and the Tequila Mockingbirds....when Bart Simpson covered Jimmy Buffet songs.
CB4 the Chris Rock movie about a fictional rap group or Stillwater from Almost Famous
Degenerated by The Lone Rangers (Brandon Fraiser, Steve Buscemi, and Adam Sandler) from the movie Airheads.
Brady Bunch's band?
Dr Noah Drake from General Hospital
Not that anyone actually wants to hear this, but what about "U+Me=Us (Calculus)" from 2gether (the made for MTV movie starring Chris Farley's brother)
How about some Dewey Cox?
I was just about to request 2gether.. But I had already sent a request through the direct link. wouldn't be fair to bombard them more than they have been.
If you like math songs, do a search fo "Finite Simple Group (of Order Two)"
I forgot Limozeen! from Homestar Runner...
The Partridge Family - I think I love you
SpinalTap!
'Steel Dragon' from the movie Rock Star and who could forget Spinal Tap???
From one of my top 5 fave movies of all time:
"Fever Dog" as performed by Stillwater (Jason Lee, Billy Crudup, etc) in the movie Almost Famous.
The Archies - Sugar
The Mosquitos - Loser
Billy Shears
"Nowhere Fast" by Fire, Inc. for the best movie EVER, Streets of Fire. Truly a Meatloaf style rock & roll epic song!!!
hows about a little Guy Terrifico, perhaps the duet with Kris Kristoferson?(New Mr. Me I believe)
The Folksmen or Mitch & Mickey from a Mighty Wind
The Commitments?
DETHKLOK
DETHKLOK
DETHKLOK
Let's Duet - Dewey Cox and Darlene Madison (from Walk Hard)
:)
How about Eddie and the Cruisers - On the Dark Side.
Ahh.. I forgot about les claypool electric apricot!
It's a Long Way to the Top (If You Wanna Rock 'n' Roll) - School of Rock
I suppose it's too late, but Lords of the New Church appeared as The Blender Children performing their song "Mr MX7".
I suppose it's too late, but Lords of the New Church appeared as The Blender Children performing their song "Mr MX7".
What, no Blues Brothers??
Flight of the Conchords - Business Time
I thought it was funny even before I saw the cable TV show!
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