As we all know, some of the best things in life are entirely untrue. This holds no less to be actually the fact with music as well – I think you’ll find.
If I’m honest with myself – and I am not – I must admit that many of my favorite musical ensembles are entirely fictional.
Neal Romanek’s Top 10 Favorite Fictional Bands
- Armada (aka Rod Torfulsen’s Armada) (of “The Kids In The Hall”)
- Buckaroo Banzai and the Hong Kong Cavaliers (of “The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension”)
- Buddha Stalin (of “Strangers With Candy”)
- Dr. Teeth & The Electric Mayhem (of “The Muppet Show”)
- The Heaven Seventeen (of “A Clockwork Orange”)
- The Monkees (of “The Monkees”)
- Mos Eisley Cantina Band (of “Star Wars, Episode IV”)
- Spinal Tap (of “This Is Spinal Tap”)
- Tenacious D (of they who are The D)
- Ziggy Stardust & The Spiders From Mars (of “The Rise & Fall of Ziggy Stardust & The Spiders From Mars”)
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The Wayouts – from the Flintstones.
Isn’t “Sergeant Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Band” one of your favorite non-bands?
I couldn’t decide between The Rutles and Sgt. Pepper.
And what was the name of the pop star in “The Jetsons” who sang “Eep Orp Oop Ah Ah”??
-Don’t have a clue: never watched TV cartoons, except – Ah! Ha! -Speed Racer!
What do you mean by this comment?
.. watch the spit sizzle??
I do not understand this ..
Hmm, first the “Swiftboaters”. Now the…Dresdeners?
“That Vonnegut! He was anti-American. Why, he didn’t even spit on the German corpses when we was in Dresden. But me? I like to watch the spit sizzle.”