Fake Pop Music In Comics

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OK so there's Zenith - did he ever have any actual song titles?

Ice Ten (I think) - "Missing Planet", which got as far as LYRICS!

Marvel had LILA CHENEY!! I think she probably sounded like a really bad Lita Ford but with more realness. Her rubbish heavy rock was the most popular music on an entire DYSON SPHERE as I recall.

All the punker bands in Love and Rockets, we know what they sounded like.

That band in Hernandez/Bagge's shortlived DC series 'for kids' who sounded I'm sure like a version of Busted but with alien gurlz.

MORE PLEASE!

― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Sunday, 15 February 2004 12:13 (twenty-two years ago)

Wasn't the Dazzler (or whatever her name was) meant to be a pop star?

There was that pop group in Halo Jones that her flatmate was in.

And Pale Horse from Watchmen.

― DV (dirtyvicar), Sunday, 15 February 2004 12:49 (twenty-two years ago)

The Riot Grrrrrls. They would have sounded like some appalling nu-metal/Spice Girls mixture. Or Bebe And The Children Of The Night. Who would have sounded so much worse than you feared in your worst nightmare.

― Vic Fluro, Sunday, 15 February 2004 14:04 (twenty-two years ago)

I always thought Lila Cheney sounded more like 80s Heart.

A lot of the America's Best Comics stuff (written by Alan Moore & others) features song lyrics, but (I think) they're usually sung by an anonymous band / singer, or invoked in a Broadway way (an example of the latter being in a Greyshirt story, where everyone's singing about Indigo, Greyshirt's base of operations).

― David R. (popshots75`), Sunday, 15 February 2004 15:08 (twenty-two years ago)

Grant Morrison loooves to put lyrics in his comics, or used to. I can't remember what King Mob's old band was called.

― Jordan (Jordan), Sunday, 15 February 2004 17:16 (twenty-two years ago)

The Five.

God, how do I know that?

― Vic Fluro, Sunday, 15 February 2004 17:35 (twenty-two years ago)

Boyz R Us in the wacky (Milligan-scripted) X-Force. They were good for getting killed.

― Leee Majors (Leee), Sunday, 15 February 2004 18:27 (twenty-two years ago)

There is another thread to be started about the music taste displayed by comics characters but that really is a minefield of horror.

― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Sunday, 15 February 2004 18:34 (twenty-two years ago)

Love that use of "Asleep" in his final Doom Patrol. Sentimental bastard.

― Chuck Tatum (Chuck Tatum), Sunday, 15 February 2004 22:02 (twenty-two years ago)

Moore also wrote a song for the middle of V for Vendetta. Perhaps he should just write an album with Elvis Costello and get it out of his system.

There's a great quote from Girls & Boys in The Invisbles.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 13:31 (twenty-two years ago)

The song in V was called "This Vicious Cabaret", or something like that... Apparently the notation in the comic is a real one, since I heard some unknown Brit band has actually recorded the song. Has anyone ever tried to play it on the piano?

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 15:01 (twenty-two years ago)

Promethea seems to be full of fake pop lyrics lately... much as I worship Alan Moore and throw myself at his smelly sandalled feet, I do wish he wouldn't put songs in his stories, as they are always a bit rubbish.

― MJ Hibbett, Wednesday, 18 February 2004 16:13 (twenty-two years ago)

The song in V was called "This Vicious Cabaret", or something like that... Apparently the notation in the comic is a real one, since I heard some unknown Brit band has actually recorded the song.

it was released as a single by David J, formerly of Bauhus. Warrior magazine was always carrying ads for it.

― DV (dirtyvicar), Wednesday, 18 February 2004 18:43 (twenty-two years ago)

That makes sense, as David J is also present on a few of the spoken-word-with-backing-music CDs that Moore has put out since.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Thursday, 19 February 2004 10:20 (twenty-two years ago)

could it be that DAVID J IS ALAN MOORE????

― DV (dirtyvicar), Thursday, 19 February 2004 16:20 (twenty-two years ago)

This reminds me to put "Mutants In Mega City One" on my Soulseek wishlist.

I would like to start a separate thread laughing at the MEGA PLAN.

― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Thursday, 19 February 2004 23:43 (twenty-two years ago)

http://alantrewartha.tripod.com/2000AD/small/dj1.jpg

― Jaunty Alan (Alan), Friday, 20 February 2004 10:04 (twenty-two years ago)

it won't let me see your link.

― DV (dirtyvicar), Friday, 20 February 2004 12:23 (twenty-two years ago)

(grr bluddy tripod innit)

― Jaunty Alan (Alan), Friday, 20 February 2004 13:19 (twenty-two years ago)

one month passes...

David J sings This Vicious Cabaret:

http://tip.emusic.com/request/AQEAQ5EvoACFEYOGlIAIggKMN4RRRIjW1j8ZqmqkuS28E31gWPZdzzbE/This_Vicious_Cabaret.m3u

Sorry, I'm no good at HTML.

― Magnus (Magnus), Sunday, 28 March 2004 23:28 (twenty-two years ago)

two weeks pass...

I have an old issue of Transformers featuring "Brick Springhorn" who sings "Born In America". I could not find any of Brick's albums in HMV in Manchester. Perhaps they are out of print.

Dazzler was a DISCO SUPERSTAR ON ROLLERSKATES! I always imagined her music as Giorio Moroder-esque.

― John Allison, Saturday, 17 April 2004 10:28 (twenty-one years ago)

six months pass...

Buried in this thread is the information that King Mob was in Five!

― Tom (Groke), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 09:11 (twenty-one years ago)

So 5ive were really an Invisibles cell? That's a pretty good cover.

Another one from The Invisibles - The Root Doctaz.

― Wooden (Wooden), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 17:41 (twenty-one years ago)

Another black mark against Strangers in Paradise.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 18:20 (twenty-one years ago)

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