# ATTN: Nerdy White Guy bands **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [February 23, 2005, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attn-nerdy-white-guy-bands/291586 "2005-02-23T21:21:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![woodstockbirdybird](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/woodstockbirdybird/32/7905_2.png) [@woodstockbirdybird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/woodstockbirdybird)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2005, 8:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attn-nerdy-white-guy-bands/291586/41 "2005-02-24T08:47:01Z")
> [@Freejooky](#): > > Well, I wouldn’t list _those_ artists, but at least they’re better than whatever mainstream hip-pop Derleth has probably encountered. Exactly. Neither is played on Top 40 radio, at least around here, and I’m assuming **Derleth** has probably only heard the mega-selling hip hop acts. ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2005, 9:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attn-nerdy-white-guy-bands/291586/42 "2005-02-24T09:02:48Z")
Oh, for crying out loud. Did you two miss the sentence where I compared it to folk music? I’m not saying the genre is a fad, I’m saying it’s going through a phase where the trendoids have latched on to it. It had a period of time before this phase (the Sugar Hill Gang’s first album springs to mind) and, hopefully, it will have another period of obscurity after this one. Just like folk music. ---
**Author:** ![matt\_mcl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2005, 9:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attn-nerdy-white-guy-bands/291586/43 "2005-02-24T09:12:41Z")
> [@woodstockbirdybird](#): > > If it is a fad, it’s the longest-lasting fad I’ve ever seen - been going on since the late '70s. I dunno, I once heard people refer to tattoos as a fad, when people have been wearing them for at least [5,300 years](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tattoo#History). ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2005, 9:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attn-nerdy-white-guy-bands/291586/44 "2005-02-24T09:33:01Z")
> [@Mr2001](#): > > TMBG did a rap cover? Details! Hmmm. I have a recording of them doing “Smells Like Teen Spirit” on the accordian, but I can’t find any rap covers in my collection. ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2005, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attn-nerdy-white-guy-bands/291586/45 "2005-02-24T13:17:15Z")
Just so nobody reads more into what I OPed than what I meant, I have nothing against white rappers, black rappers, yellow, green or blue rappers. It’s the nerdy white guys who do covers of Boyz in Da Hood type material that comprise slappin’ the hos, Hoodlums in Da Hit Parade, Sine Yo Piddy on a Rine Sepadine, etc as a joke to demonstrate how far removed from the streets they can possibly be. It’s like Weird Al Yankovic covering Slayer on his accordion. Yes, it’s funny at first, but the joke gets old after the first 500 times, so it’s time to jump off the one-trick pony and do something new to establish your identity. ---
**Author:** ![tnetennba](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7993a0/32.png) [@tnetennba](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tnetennba)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2005, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attn-nerdy-white-guy-bands/291586/46 "2005-02-24T13:19:54Z")
I’m sick of nerdy white guy bands and tired of rap as independent variables. ---
**Author:** ![Slacker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6bbea6/32.png) [@Slacker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slacker)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2005, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attn-nerdy-white-guy-bands/291586/47 "2005-02-24T13:45:48Z")
_ **I’m def!** _ (early TMBG) ---
**Author:** ![Casey1505](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dc4da7/32.png) [@Casey1505](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Casey1505)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2005, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attn-nerdy-white-guy-bands/291586/48 "2005-02-24T14:05:51Z")
> [@UrbanChic](#): > > Thanks again, Casey1505. Wow, that was a long time ago. ::swoon:: She loves me! ::faints:: 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Casey1505](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dc4da7/32.png) [@Casey1505](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Casey1505)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2005, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attn-nerdy-white-guy-bands/291586/49 "2005-02-24T14:24:49Z")
And how dare TMBG teach anything. > [@](#): > > [Why Does The Sun Shine?](http://www.mudslide.net/TMBG/Albums/tmbg-ws.html) > The sun is a mass of incandescent gas/ A gigantic nuclear furnace > where hydrogen is built into helium/at a temperature of millions of degrees They’re singers, not edumacators! :mad: ---
**Author:** ![tnetennba](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7993a0/32.png) [@tnetennba](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tnetennba)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2005, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attn-nerdy-white-guy-bands/291586/50 "2005-02-24T14:41:49Z")
I do enjoy TMBG lyrics. Some of them are brilliant, in league with David Byrnes and Elvis Costello (the ubernerds of alt pop). However, their singing style and instrumentation get old fast. They are much better than the other nerd bands, like Bare Naked Ladies, who are not even interesting lyrically. ---
**Author:** ![Indygrrl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/58f4c7/32.png) [@Indygrrl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Indygrrl)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2005, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attn-nerdy-white-guy-bands/291586/51 "2005-02-24T17:31:57Z")
Don’t these boys realize the way to get laid is to learn to play heavy riffs??? Come on, bring metal back into the mainstream. Kids, grow your hair long, smoke some weed, and listen to Black Sabbath. Screw this emo bullshit. Lemmy should be your hero. 😃 And then your dad can say this to you: > [@](#): > > You get a goddamn job before sundown, or we’re shipping you off to military school with the goddamn Finkelstein-shit kid! Son of a bitch! Haha. ---
**Author:** ![Ms2001](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ms2001/32/18463_2.png) [@Ms2001](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ms2001)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2005, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attn-nerdy-white-guy-bands/291586/52 "2005-02-24T23:10:57Z")
> [@Knowed Out](#): > > It’s like Weird Al Yankovic covering Slayer on his accordion. Yes, it’s funny at first, but the joke gets old after the first 500 times, so it’s time to jump off the one-trick pony and do something new to establish your identity. Speaking of rap covers that get old… how about those rap “covers” of rock and oldies songs that keep nothing intact but the chorus? Either get it right or make up your own damn song, morons. ---
**Author:** ![Indygrrl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/58f4c7/32.png) [@Indygrrl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Indygrrl)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2005, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attn-nerdy-white-guy-bands/291586/53 "2005-02-25T14:54:27Z")
> [@Indygrrl](#): > > Don’t these boys realize the way to get laid is to learn to play heavy riffs??? Come on, bring metal back into the mainstream. Kids, grow your hair long, smoke some weed, and listen to Black Sabbath. Screw this emo bullshit. Lemmy should be your hero. 😃 > > And then your dad can say this to you: > > > [@](#): > > > > You get a goddamn job before sundown, or we’re shipping you off to military school with the goddamn Finkelstein-shit kid! Son of a bitch! > > Haha. I love it when everyone fucking agrees with me. 😃 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attn-nerdy-white-guy-bands/291586.md?page=2)