I hate to rain on any parades, but explorers of the Ramones-Abba continuum may like to cast their eyes this way: http://www.gabba.co.uk/
(They got some press a while ago, I think Peel played some of their stuff)
― a passing spacecadet, Friday, 1 February 2008 16:21 (sixteen years ago) link
1) A male, effeminate modern synthpop duo, replete with heart-on-sleeve romantic lyrics, called Sucralose.
2) A fake-German one-man glitchy laptop techno project called Mausklicker. First single to be called "Doppelklicker"
― naus, Monday, 11 February 2008 07:26 (sixteen years ago) link
I was thinking about creating a cartoon rap persona called Flex Lovely for about one day, then I decided against it...
― Colin_C., Monday, 11 February 2008 19:59 (sixteen years ago) link
so what I've been recording for the RPM challenge has turned into a fantasy live record of a duo of clones of myself, set in a distant subterranean future.
It seemed more appropirate to post that in this thread than in the RPM one.
― nickalicious, Monday, 11 February 2008 22:51 (sixteen years ago) link
haha omg approPIRATE
N.I. vs N.I.C.
― Jordan, Monday, 11 February 2008 22:59 (sixteen years ago) link
O I FORGOT:
TREKKIN' - a Grateful Dead cover band with lyrics rewritten to involve the Star Trek universe ("what a long strange trip it's been" -> "what a long strange trip through the delta quadrant it's been for Voyager")
― nickalicious, Monday, 11 February 2008 23:22 (sixteen years ago) link
DANGER MAN by HOTWIRE
I'm a one man racetrack baybeh!/Faster than a naked eye! Goin the wrong way/Down a one way street With mah helmet on backwards and the lights off...
The lights off...
THE LIGHTS OFF!
THE LIGHTS OFFFFFFFF!!!!!!!!
HEY!
[Widdly guitar solo that goes on for six minutes while images of people driving rhino-sized American musclecars straight into each other are superimposed onto the stadium walls, driving half the audience into galloping convulsions]
Baybeh if you like dan-ger/You don't have to look too far...... Baybeh if you like dan-ger/Get inside my fucking car!
All my friends think I drive like a dick/I go too fast and it makes them feel sick I wanna wanna wanna go really really quick/But they're just jealous about my car!!!!
[The stage is invaded by robot ninjas in a pirate ship piloted by she-bitches from the darkest bowels of heck. They fire spaghetti out of their eyes and into the crowd while security run scared]
[Alastair Stewart from Police! Camera! Action intones over a quintiple-guitar attack solo]: Look at this bozo - 'e thinks 'e's smart, but the police are smarter. What a berk!
[Movie footage of Alastair Stewart's head being run over several times and then exploding like a rotten old Halloween pumpkin what's got caught on fire]
CHORUS:
I'M A DANGER MAN/THAT'S WHO I AM I'M A-SPEEDING FAR ACROSS THE LAND I'M A CHEETAH ON A MOTORBIKE
COS I'M A DANGER MAN... DANGER MAN...
DANGER MAN!!!!!!!!!!!!
― the next grozart, Sunday, 13 April 2008 15:50 (sixteen years ago) link
had an idea for a stoner metal band w/a theremin player
all lyrics based on pulpy "it came from OUTER SPACE" sci-fi
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Sunday, 13 April 2008 16:09 (sixteen years ago) link
loosely psych obv
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Sunday, 13 April 2008 16:10 (sixteen years ago) link
an Oi! band named Michelle Malkin Hatefuck
When I was 16 I thought there totally needed to be a shoegazer band that went everywhere in robes and cloaks. Like shoegazing monks. With hoods.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/03/Infern0-1152720270_i_1784_full-1-.jpg
― milo z, Sunday, 13 April 2008 16:32 (sixteen years ago) link
-- BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Sunday, April 13, 2008 4:09 PM (53 minutes ago) Bookmark Link
-- BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Sunday, April 13, 2008 4:10 PM (53 minutes ago) Bookmark Link
who will form this band with me
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Sunday, 13 April 2008 17:06 (sixteen years ago) link
Screensaver: a pop duo, sort of a cross between Dollar and Kraftwerk during their Man-Machine dummies phase. The audience would never really be sure who the singers were, or even if they were real people. I would be the sinister svengali controlling it all.
― snoball, Sunday, 13 April 2008 20:31 (sixteen years ago) link
black sABBAth.
nuff said.
― andrew m., Wednesday, 16 April 2008 20:55 (sixteen years ago) link
I would LOVE to be in this band. But my theremin is borked.
― emil.y, Wednesday, 23 April 2008 21:56 (sixteen years ago) link
About 10 years ago I had an idea for a Nazi disco band. All the band members would have Hitler moustaches and wear jackets with swastikas made of sequins. We would play covers of disco hits with offensive re-worked lyrics (e.g. "I Won't Survive") in thick German accents. I almost convinced some drunk friends to do this at a house party in Santa Cruz. Probably for the best that we chickened out.
It might have gone over better in Russia: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbuTV86ZXe0
― augustgarage, Saturday, 10 May 2008 08:41 (sixteen years ago) link
Suddenly - Nikki Sudden tribute band
Weedwhacker - sXe landscape architects rock out
Britney's Peers - shady Florida promoter assembles pre-fab band of young boys & writes songs for them in the style of Incapacitants
― Snop Snitchin, Wednesday, 25 June 2008 21:13 (sixteen years ago) link
I never got around to actually implementing my terrible band concept - probably due to lack of anyone who remotely knew how to play instruments as well as no venue.
It would basically be a super-heavy droney stoner metal type band that only played one huge loud riff over and over until something - anger from the audience, sore hands, power getting cut off - forced us to stop. We would be called Caveman Simulator and would hopefully be dressed like dirty-ass 70's Hells Angels.
― joygoat, Wednesday, 25 June 2008 21:25 (sixteen years ago) link
Ebenezer and the Scrooges -- a Christmas-themed Stooges tribute band
― latebloomer, Sunday, 27 July 2008 18:38 (sixteen years ago) link
"Say It Ain't Surf" the weezer surf cover band
http://www.mediafire.com/?ytyzddtos2m
― Philip Nunez, Wednesday, 30 July 2008 03:29 (sixteen years ago) link
Steed Lord's debut full-length record "Truth Serum" will be out worldwide in the coming weeks. I wanted to reach out and send you a link to an 11-minute continuous mega mix with teasers of all the new tracks that will be on the record:Their sound:This is a very unique live electronic act from Iceland that has huge cross-over appeal to many different audiences. Their sound has been described as "electro-crunk with a serving of legitimate disco."
Their sound:This is a very unique live electronic act from Iceland that has huge cross-over appeal to many different audiences. Their sound has been described as "electro-crunk with a serving of legitimate disco."
C'MON
― nabisco, Monday, 29 December 2008 23:22 (fifteen years ago) link
Man I hate the way PR people always say "reach out." Why do they have to do that?
― St3ve Go1db3rg, Tuesday, 30 December 2008 04:32 (fifteen years ago) link
I once tried to push a concept on people where it was a band that followed musical "rules". On every song, there would be simple rules for each instrument that allowed limited flexibility. For example, the drum part would have to hit the top tom once, the snare twice, and the low tom once, in that order, every 2 measures, although the timing of it would be up to the drummer.
I was reminded (correctly) that I was high, and that key signatures in themselves were already a form of limited flexibility, and that the band name Band of Rules was awful.
― 2 5 (Z S), Tuesday, 30 December 2008 04:38 (fifteen years ago) link
When I was drunk a couple of weeks ago I thought it would be hilarious to start a twee-as-fuck matching-cardigan group with my wife called The Whale Appliques.
― a better command of the mummy language (joygoat), Tuesday, 30 December 2008 06:05 (fifteen years ago) link
Guys I just started a cover band called MIXTAPE...we basically play whatever covers we want regardless of style or obscurity level that are possible w/ our instrumentation and are trying to incorporate tape related sfx into our live show.
We've also told our friends to make mixtapes for us to learn to play so when their birthdays come around we can play their MIXTAPE set.
― GLEEPGLOP BLOOPBLORP (nickalicious), Tuesday, 7 April 2009 03:20 (fifteen years ago) link
by tape related sfx I mean like sudden record button release tape squiggles, pause/stop cracks etc
― GLEEPGLOP BLOOPBLORP (nickalicious), Tuesday, 7 April 2009 03:21 (fifteen years ago) link
You have to also stop whatever song you are playing, 30 mins after starting your set, then start the next song, 20 secs later, minus the intro.
― Mark G, Tuesday, 7 April 2009 11:30 (fifteen years ago) link
The PA stacks should be painted silver, with loads of fake speakers that look like real ones, but are just grilles with nothing behind them...
― snoball, Tuesday, 7 April 2009 11:51 (fifteen years ago) link
thought i might start a metal band called OSMIUM
― corps of discovery (schlump), Tuesday, 7 April 2009 13:03 (fifteen years ago) link
^^^actually quite a good idea
― Super Cool Family Roots SEV-AAHN (country matters), Tuesday, 7 April 2009 13:04 (fifteen years ago) link
Bardcore - metal songs with Shakespeare as lyrics. Large codpieces. Problem is, someone's already done it.
― snoball, Wednesday, 8 April 2009 09:54 (fifteen years ago) link
The Heavy Hitlers
Pop-Metal played by overweight dictatorial look-a-likes
― I want your nose, your shoes and your unicycle (dog latin), Tuesday, 24 January 2012 11:57 (twelve years ago) link
MC Onion. First single: "Rap Scallion"
― Chewshabadoo, Tuesday, 24 January 2012 22:53 (twelve years ago) link
The American Smiths
― congratulations (n/a), Tuesday, 24 January 2012 22:55 (twelve years ago) link
man, if i could stand the music of grateful dead enough to re-work the lyrics TREKKIN would be a moneymakin' ass project in these parts.
hoos i will start this sci-fi theremin metal band with you!
― NZA, Wednesday, 25 January 2012 00:02 (twelve years ago) link
Suburban London rapper MC Esher.
― Van Halen dot Senate dot flashlight (Boring, Maryland), Sunday, 20 June 2021 17:20 (three years ago) link
Band that hurls bottles of urine into the audience, in particular at British festivals such as the Reading festival, for failing to appreciate band's art to an acceptable degree. T
― Deflatormouse, Saturday, 3 July 2021 14:21 (three years ago) link
They do not actually perform any music, mind you, just urinate into bottles and launch them at their congregation.
― Deflatormouse, Saturday, 3 July 2021 14:25 (three years ago) link