Imaginary Records

Hee-La! Spy-Dor! etc.

Exhibit A: The prog rock band in Iain Banks "Espedair Street". Always struck me as being half Yes, half Tusk era Fleetwood Mac.

Exhibit B: Drumstrings Casey in Anne Tyler's Slipping Down Life.

Exhibit C: Marie DeSalle in Nick Hornby's High Fidelity

So what do all the above have in common? All were originally created in novels, which have subsequently been adapted. Espedair Street was later made into a Radio 4 serial - and Iain Bank co-wrote the bands songs (making them sound possibly a bit like Yes and Tusk era Fleetwood Mac). A Slipping Down Life has been filmed (but not much seen)Guy Pearce as Casey. And Marie DeSalle's role was thankfully reduced in High Fidelity the movie, as Lisa Bonet was really poor.

Oh, and Motherbanger anyone?

Those perimeters would decide whether "Motherbanger" should or should not be included.

SD: Give it a name, brothers and sisters! Sullivan Rhodes for puttin' the sounds into your head. Tonight, Indie Club brings you Colon. The most talked about new act since Kurt Cobain did some interior decorating with a gun an' 'is brain. Already the corporate whores of the mu-sick biz are on their backs with their legs wide open, praying for Colon to show them just how dangerous music can be. Like a one-hand grenade going off in a convent.

No-one's heard anything like this before. But by Christ, it's loud an' it's dangerous. See them tonight at the Dublin Castle, three pound fifty on the door, or three pounds concessions. Which is the only concession Colon will ever make, because they would rather die than compromise.

[slight pause]
SD Everything you know is wrong, because Colon are here. Give it up for Colon with "Kick - In - The - Sun".

[cut to the band. the lead singer is a spit for the Beautiful South man]

M1 "Nancy, I fancy, I'm fall in love with you-ou, I hope some people will understand, I just wanna hold your hand. The world is such a big, big place an' you make it a little big-ger, you've got such a nice face, and you've also got a nice fi-igure..."

[cut to quick shot of SD, who turns round to mouth...]

SD Wicked!

M1 "I saw it shinin', ba-by, ba-by, let's go an' have some fu-un..."

[is this the blandest band you've ever heard or what? now for some really enthusiastic backing vocals from the rest of the guys...]

*3 "Have some fun, ba-by"

M1 "I saw it shinin', ba-by, ba-by..."

As a commentary on indie chancer hagiography, it was absolutely perfect. RE: Twisterella. I was so pissed off with Ride for turning that into a song. Actually, the film of 'Billy Liar' did it first, didn't it? Or am I imagining that?

interesting thread

Lots of made up records in Spinal Tap discog.

TS: Denny Lethargy VS. Denny Vertigo

no mention of the stuff in DeLillo's "Great Jones Street"...? Bucky Wunderlick...

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One of the fictional songs in Joe Pernice's book It Feels So Good When I Stop is "Black Smoke (No Pope)" which which is available on this three-song Sub Pop single, by The Young Accuser, a band from the novel. In the book, the narrator, who is not Joe, is in The Young Accuser for a short time. After the fictional narrator leaves this fictional band, they fictionally record the fictional song "Black Smoke (No Pope)" and send it to the non-fictional Sub Pop. This is the non-fiction version of that fictional single. Of interest may be the fact that a cover of an even earlier, more fictional "Black Smoke (No Pope)" was recorded by the non-fictional Joe Pernice and appears on the non-fictional It Feels So Good When I Stop (Novel Soundtrack).