Gallery of unfortunate band photos

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It's a German site called "Die schlimmsten Bandfotos aller Zeiten" but the language of ill-advised music promotion is international.

http://www.immerrocknroll.de/bandfoto6.html is the link

Chris Barrus, Wednesday, 24 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

"Most disturbing."

Curt, Wednesday, 24 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

This is INDEED a disturbing universe.

Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 24 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Why didn't they just call it the Website of Bug-Eyed German Musicians?

Dan Perry, Wednesday, 24 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Christ on a REALLY BIG bike.....

There's a band on there called Sandwich. SANDWICH? I mean, presumably one of the band members said "Hey, guys! Let's call the band Sandwich!" And I can only assume that his colleagues, rather than say "No, that is truly the most toweringly shit band name we've ever heard, you fool", actually concurred.

It's a sick world.

Microkomputer, Wednesday, 24 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

This looks like something out of the Tenacious D cd cover.

Chris, Wednesday, 24 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Some of the comments are pretty cute, too: "The Sennheiser House Band -- No facial hair? No audition!!"

Colin Meeder, Wednesday, 24 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

EIGENLOB STINKT!!

briania, Wednesday, 24 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

...although the idea of a Guru Guru all-day lolly is REALLY disturbing.

Colin Meeder, Wednesday, 24 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

They aren't all German, there's some wonderful Irish bands from the 70's in there.

Its rumoured that one of them, Big Tom & The Mainliners, would get a punk audience when playing in the US as people thought the name was a smack reference even though they paly country. Though I don't believe that.

Winkelmann, Thursday, 25 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Hey Chris - did you pick this up from the Isi list?

Where I was made fun of when i posted it.

Winkelmann, Thursday, 25 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

this band really are shit - check inside the gatefold, too. quite amusing...

michael, Thursday, 25 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Funny, I'm on Isi and somehow missed it. I found it via Kung Fu Grippe and Sharpeworld

Chris Barrus, Thursday, 25 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

"Frisurenwunder" == german for Velvet Underarms.
Hey, when will Pooh's greatest hits be out on SACD?

Lord Custos III, Thursday, 25 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Holy shietze! Dig Todd Rundgrens band! Check out the feeble Ozzy impersonations.

Lord Custos III, Thursday, 25 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

no matter how you slice it, sandwich is great name for a band.

lawrence kansas, Thursday, 25 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Another site of regrettable band photos. The link was mailed to me under the header "Our Band Could Be Your Busboys."

j.lu, Friday, 26 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Mea culpa; this should be the correct link.

j.lu, Friday, 26 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

seven years pass...

REVIVE!

http://cdn.pitchfork.com/media/jonsi452kardos.jpg

I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Monday, 19 April 2010 17:12 (fifteen years ago)

What puppet show is that?

kingkongvsgodzilla, Monday, 19 April 2010 17:13 (fifteen years ago)

This one's not doing Grizzly Bear any favors, given my already low estimation of their coddly, indie-comfort-food music:

http://cdn.pitchfork.com/media/grizzlybearportrait452sanchez.jpg

I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Monday, 26 April 2010 18:02 (fifteen years ago)

OMG:

http://cdn.pitchfork.com/media/baths452__.jpg

I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Friday, 30 April 2010 14:20 (fifteen years ago)

http://imgur.com/ugII0.jpg

Captain Ahab, Friday, 30 April 2010 16:06 (fifteen years ago)

The guy on the right looks like Booger from Revenge of the Nerds.

EZ Snappin, Friday, 30 April 2010 16:07 (fifteen years ago)

three months pass...

"Last month, Perfume Genius (otherwise known as Seattle songwriter Mike Hadreas) released Learning, an album full of shaken, wounded reveries."

― Pfork

http://cdn.pitchfork.com/media/perfumegenius.jpg

ilxor has truly been got at and become an ILXor (ilxor), Tuesday, 3 August 2010 22:37 (fourteen years ago)

He doesn't look nearly shaken or wounded enough.

VegemiteGrrrl, Tuesday, 3 August 2010 23:40 (fourteen years ago)

http://beyondrace.com/images/stories/AnimalPeta.jpg

The worst.

chromecassettes, Wednesday, 4 August 2010 00:11 (fourteen years ago)

I <3 those guys' music but motherfuckers need to take a fucking shower.

ilxor has truly been got at and become an ILXor (ilxor), Wednesday, 4 August 2010 06:14 (fourteen years ago)

I like to imagine some really droopy boobs are below the bottom of that perfume genius photo

reallysmoothmusic (Jamie_ATP), Wednesday, 4 August 2010 07:45 (fourteen years ago)

I feel truly sorry for Robin Gibb here. Poor kid.

http://i38.tinypic.com/27y8gn7.jpg

Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 10 August 2010 05:39 (fourteen years ago)

I <3 those guys' music but motherfuckers need to take a fucking shower.

I have to give them credit for being three of the most anonymous looking dudes out there. Good way to avoid stalkers.

Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 10 August 2010 06:11 (fourteen years ago)

xpost

natural selection mayne

fuck ya law! (Spinspin Sugah), Tuesday, 10 August 2010 06:12 (fourteen years ago)

Whats wrong with the Jonsi pic? :/

Gumbercules (Trayce), Tuesday, 10 August 2010 06:41 (fourteen years ago)

http://www.thewire.co.uk/images/artists/clouddead/COVER241.jpg

margana (anagram), Tuesday, 10 August 2010 07:47 (fourteen years ago)

xxxxp from Simon Napier-Bell's book 'You Don't Have To Say You Love Me':

The lead singer had protruding teeth and a high warbly voice. He was generally known around the music business as the singing goat and one TV producer went to enormous lengths to send the whole thing up. Under instructions from Robert (Stigwood, the group's manager) to produce a beautiful artistic image of the group, the director placed his cameras on the singer in close-up profile, then he shot the rest of the group in miniature, in a pool of light in the distance. They were framed by the singer's open mouth, with the goaty teeth protruding over the small background figure like an awning over the tables of a French street cafe.

Les centimètres énigmatiques (snoball), Tuesday, 10 August 2010 07:53 (fourteen years ago)

http://c1.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images02/130/l_9ca91baf3d36410fa583050e7e6142d8.jpg

I DON'T 'RAP' (Pillbox), Tuesday, 10 August 2010 08:24 (fourteen years ago)

http://i38.tinypic.com/167ts47.jpg

wilter, Tuesday, 10 August 2010 08:28 (fourteen years ago)

Animal Collective: The Movie...

Starring Zach Galifianakis as Geologist....Winona Ryder as Panda Bear...and the guy who plays Osacr on The Office as Avey Tare...

If Assholes Could Fly This Place Would Be An Airport, Tuesday, 10 August 2010 19:58 (fourteen years ago)

anjelica huston is in a metal band now

goole, Tuesday, 10 August 2010 20:03 (fourteen years ago)

local rag is trying to convince me to listen to these jokers:

http://www.portlandmercury.com/imager/b/magnum/2658980/fa86/music2-570x300.jpg

Darin, Tuesday, 10 August 2010 20:24 (fourteen years ago)

Oh hey, your country has it's equivalent of Mumford & Sons:
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Lmbijs2fZwI/S6UaJP38GrI/AAAAAAAAEe0/uZLuWGki04A/s640/mumford-and-sons-otw.jpg

Les centimètres énigmatiques (snoball), Tuesday, 10 August 2010 20:26 (fourteen years ago)

They could get together and swap mandolin tips!

Les centimètres énigmatiques (snoball), Tuesday, 10 August 2010 20:28 (fourteen years ago)

need to open a lute/old timey hat store asap

Darin, Tuesday, 10 August 2010 20:32 (fourteen years ago)

two weeks pass...

Frightened Rabbit:

http://cdn.pitchfork.com/media/frabbitphoto452.jpg

ilxor has truly been got at and become an ILXor (ilxor), Thursday, 26 August 2010 22:34 (fourteen years ago)

Man, that band looks like it needs some exercise.

Ground Zero Mostel (Hurting 2), Friday, 27 August 2010 00:26 (fourteen years ago)

are there any indie bands who've forgone the oblig staging of (completely unremarkable singer) foremost, other members aligned due to some coefficient of instrument played/stature/idiosyncracy?

nakhchivan, Friday, 27 August 2010 01:08 (fourteen years ago)

I thought it had long been standard to deemphasize the charismatic singer/frontman in the photo as a kind of fuck you to celebrity. Maybe that was more true in my college days though.

Ground Zero Mostel (Hurting 2), Friday, 27 August 2010 01:33 (fourteen years ago)

Like Fugazi photos often have Joe Lally, the most introverted band member, in front or at least sharing the front.

Ground Zero Mostel (Hurting 2), Friday, 27 August 2010 01:36 (fourteen years ago)

Frightened Rabbit, or Faith + 1?

Evan, Friday, 27 August 2010 01:38 (fourteen years ago)

http://www.brightestyoungthings.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/faith1eh3.jpg

Evan, Friday, 27 August 2010 01:40 (fourteen years ago)

https://s3.amazonaws.com/bit-photos/large/4694375.jpeg

schlep and back trio (anagram), Monday, 21 December 2015 08:29 (nine years ago)

three months pass...

I like that one.

human life won't become a cat (man alive), Tuesday, 19 April 2016 14:03 (nine years ago)

Does Jesse Pinkman know Jane is still alive?

the joke should be over once the kid is eaten. (chap), Tuesday, 19 April 2016 15:24 (nine years ago)

I think that's actually the best photo that particular band could possibly have taken.

human life won't become a cat (man alive), Tuesday, 19 April 2016 15:29 (nine years ago)

leg thing is odd

Evan, Tuesday, 19 April 2016 15:48 (nine years ago)

four months pass...

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v472/birdnestsoup/casse.jpg

Rae Kwoniff (NickB), Friday, 19 August 2016 12:59 (eight years ago)

six months pass...

http://www.gigslutz.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/2013FrankieandTheHeartstringsPress150513.jpg

I challenge ilx to find a promo photo featuring a more dejected, beaten-down-by-life looking indie band

soref, Wednesday, 22 February 2017 00:36 (eight years ago)

https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/640x360/p04kc47s.jpg

This pic of the Lemon Twigs with Mark Radcliffe and Stuart Maconie haunts me strangely

painfully alive in a drugged and dying culture (DavidM), Thursday, 2 March 2017 10:56 (eight years ago)

one year passes...

https://media2.fdncms.com/portmerc/imager/u/original/2429731/1264453205-indubious.jpg

Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Wednesday, 6 June 2018 03:29 (six years ago)

These guys are really crushing the band photo game

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/RH-ITKWMEe8/maxresdefault.jpg

Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Wednesday, 6 June 2018 03:31 (six years ago)

Just so no one else has to open the image in a new tab and read the URL and google the name: they're called Indubious and they are self-described "intergalactic reggae revolutionaries".

JRN, Wednesday, 6 June 2018 04:57 (six years ago)

I used to wear a pith helmet.

how's life, Wednesday, 6 June 2018 13:34 (six years ago)

three years pass...

I like that as a band photo. I like the coat of the one in the middle. And thoughtful guy on the left. And that three of them are looking at different bits of sky.

Eyeball Kicks, Sunday, 29 August 2021 01:31 (three years ago)

also a good candidate for that band photos where one member isn't playing along thread, via dude on left not wearing a jacket.

peace, man, Sunday, 29 August 2021 01:46 (three years ago)

It's just that thoughtful guy in the left is giving me Richard D. James vibes, and 2 other members have the same beard photoshopped in
https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTRRD63ACLzcNGKgMLdLawI_LhiJwcT00og-g&usqp=CAU

enochroot, Sunday, 29 August 2021 06:39 (three years ago)

This photo of a Traveling Wilburys tribute band is giving my life: pic.twitter.com/MNU4Vqa1nX

— Michael Glover Smith (@whitecitycinema) August 28, 2021

A viking of frowns, (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Sunday, 29 August 2021 09:22 (three years ago)

LOL @ Dylan

"Bobby Gillespie" (ft. Heroin) (Tom D.), Sunday, 29 August 2021 09:25 (three years ago)

Pretty sure that’s the Darkness

calstars, Sunday, 29 August 2021 12:41 (three years ago)

Do they just play Wilburys songs I wonder?

john landis as man being smashed into window (uncredited) (Matt #2), Sunday, 29 August 2021 12:44 (three years ago)

'Roy Orbison' looks like a Teddy Boy funeral director.

Being cheap is expensive (snoball), Sunday, 29 August 2021 13:12 (three years ago)

OMG!

Lo, snoball.

Is that Sean Penn as Dylan?

Hitsville Ukase (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 29 August 2021 13:57 (three years ago)

Sean Penn is exactly who I thought of when I first saw that photo!

"Bobby Gillespie" (ft. Heroin) (Tom D.), Sunday, 29 August 2021 14:09 (three years ago)

one month passes...

https://i.imgur.com/MPta5t5.png

corrs unplugged, Wednesday, 29 September 2021 15:00 (three years ago)

could also be picture of people who figured out how 2 live

corrs unplugged, Wednesday, 29 September 2021 15:00 (three years ago)

Not so much

calstars, Wednesday, 29 September 2021 15:29 (three years ago)

dude on far right pointing looks the most out of place, which is just as inexplicable as the photo itself.

gotta hand it to ice t though. he really genuinely loves attention.

things repeat forever and there never is a remedy (Austin), Wednesday, 29 September 2021 16:31 (three years ago)

I don't even understand that picture at all.

I'm a sovereign jazz citizen (the table is the table), Wednesday, 29 September 2021 17:10 (three years ago)

ALSO why is there always some weird guy with "eccentric" glasses that have transition lenses? What the fuck

I'm a sovereign jazz citizen (the table is the table), Wednesday, 29 September 2021 17:11 (three years ago)

Devo posing with Body Count at Riot Fest, iirc

a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 29 September 2021 17:12 (three years ago)

Ah, thanks. I could place Devo obviously b/c of the hats but didn't recognize Body Count because I don't think I've ever seen pics of them? Other than Ice-T

I'm a sovereign jazz citizen (the table is the table), Wednesday, 29 September 2021 17:13 (three years ago)

My transition lenses question still stands tho. What's with that.

I'm a sovereign jazz citizen (the table is the table), Wednesday, 29 September 2021 17:14 (three years ago)

I dunno, doctor probably told him he should wear transition lenses and still wants to be "eccentric" or "kooky" is my guess.

a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 29 September 2021 17:18 (three years ago)

I’m sorry but Devo always look like morons

calstars, Wednesday, 29 September 2021 18:10 (three years ago)

kind of the point, no?

things repeat forever and there never is a remedy (Austin), Wednesday, 29 September 2021 18:19 (three years ago)

https://www.discogs.com/Thompson-Twins-Queer/release/3611463/image/SW1hZ2U6Njg4NzgxNQ==

xzanfar, Wednesday, 29 September 2021 18:49 (three years ago)

Devo and Body Count photo rocks

licorice in the front, pizza in the rear (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 29 September 2021 19:16 (three years ago)

It’s a great photo and Devo fucking rule but they do look so worrisomely old.

And of course the worms! (Boring, Maryland), Wednesday, 29 September 2021 19:55 (three years ago)

Like I knew Mark had COVID but they all look like they're 80.

And of course the worms! (Boring, Maryland), Wednesday, 29 September 2021 19:55 (three years ago)

As opposed to 70?

Starmer: "Let the children boogie, let all the children boogie." (Tom D.), Wednesday, 29 September 2021 20:30 (three years ago)

Ha yes, but many 70 year olds don't look as old as they do.

And of course the worms! (Boring, Maryland), Wednesday, 29 September 2021 21:12 (three years ago)

Mothersbaugh is my dad's age, and I guess he looks comparable based on that photo. I don't think he or the other two older guys in the band look particularly elderly, but age obv affects folks differently.

juristic person (morrisp), Wednesday, 29 September 2021 21:27 (three years ago)

doctor probably told him he should wear transition lenses and still wants to be "eccentric" or "kooky" is my guess.

To be fair, one of his many activities is designing eyewear.

everything, Wednesday, 29 September 2021 21:57 (three years ago)

I absolutely love the Devo/Body Count photo and I don't understand the inclusion of it in this thread.

Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Thursday, 30 September 2021 09:29 (three years ago)

three years pass...

https://s1.ticketm.net/dam/a/f70/ebf9681f-d70f-443b-87d4-7367c10e6f70_RETINA_PORTRAIT_3_2.jpg
Didn't anyone tell the pixies that past a certain age, you're supposed to use your band photos to ooze wisdom and sobriety?

enochroot, Thursday, 22 May 2025 20:27 (yesterday)

I think they’re showing us they can still bend at the knee

I am the stranger, killing the Boer (Boring, Maryland), Thursday, 22 May 2025 22:11 (yesterday)

go team! let's get those six figures!

five six seven, eight nine ten, begin (map), Thursday, 22 May 2025 22:18 (yesterday)

Kim hasn’t changed a bit

calstars, Thursday, 22 May 2025 22:35 (yesterday)

thought this was the up-the-arse thread for a second

assert (matttkkkk), Thursday, 22 May 2025 22:59 (yesterday)


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