# Favourite Fake Bands **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 17, 2005, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-fake-bands/308745 "2005-06-17T19:56:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![buns3000](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c89c15/32.png) [@buns3000](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buns3000)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2005, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-fake-bands/308745/81 "2005-06-21T02:00:29Z")
OMG. 80 posts and no mention of **The Carrie Nations** from _Beyond the Valley of the Dolls_?? Surely they win. Every song of there’s in the movie rules, especially “Find It” which is the first one you hear in the movie. I love their album title “Look On Up At The Bottom”. Also, they’re incredibly hot. Has anybody else seen a shitty made-for-teev movie called _Rock-A-Die, Baby_? It featured a band - name escapes me. They had some good songs. I’m hanging out for this movie to appear on TV again. The movie itself was atrocious. ---
**Author:** ![buns3000](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c89c15/32.png) [@buns3000](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buns3000)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2005, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-fake-bands/308745/82 "2005-06-21T02:01:52Z")
_theirs_, even ---
**Author:** ![supervenusfreak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@supervenusfreak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/supervenusfreak)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2005, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-fake-bands/308745/83 "2005-06-21T02:05:18Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > **The Commitments**. I second that shite! ---
**Author:** ![waits](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/df788c/32.png) [@waits](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/waits)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2005, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-fake-bands/308745/84 "2005-06-21T02:31:14Z")
**The Masked Marauders.** Never heard of them? They were a late sixties supergroup consisting of John Lennon, Mick Jagger, Paul McCartney, and Bob Dylan. At least according to _Rolling Stone_ magazine, who featured a review of the Marauders self-titled album in late 1969. Greil Marcus, then RS records review editor, came up with the bogus review that lauded their double-LP featuring such cuts as an 18-minute version of Donovan’s “Season Of The Witch” (with Dylan’s lead vocal doing a “superb imitation of early Donovan”) and the “instant classic” of Jagger’s “I Can’t Get No Nookie.” The story was that the band had to conceal their identities for contractual reasons (naturally). However, they might not count as a fake band since Marcus then went out and found a real band to cut the songs that were mentioned in the review, doing their best to imitate the implicated performers. Rhino recently reissued the original recordings with the following song list: I Can’t Get No Nookie Duke Of Earl Cow Pie I Am The Japanese Sandman (Rang Tang Ding Dong) The Book Of Love Later More Or Less Hudson’s Bay Again Season Of The Witch Saturday Night At The Cow Palace Cow Pie (MONO Single Version) I Can’t Get No Nookie (MONO Single Version) ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2005, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-fake-bands/308745/85 "2005-06-21T02:37:26Z")
> [@waits](#): > > **The Masked Marauders.** I have that album, in glorious vinyl! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Ender\_Will](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/eb9ed0/32.png) [@Ender\_Will](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ender_Will)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2005, 6:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-fake-bands/308745/86 "2005-06-21T06:38:51Z")
The Lone Rangers from _Airheads_ Fuck Your Yankee Blue Jeans, the band that Silent Bob’s cousin Olaf sings for in _Clerks_ Autobahn, which Uli the nihlist was a member of in _The Big Lebowski_ And just because I want to brag about this, and it’s sorta kinda on topic: I was just given a Spinal Tap On Tour with Sure T-Shirt. A friend of my mom’s actually saw them perform and got the shirt, which he then traded to my mom in exchange for web design work. ---
**Author:** ![sturmhauke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e47c2d/32.png) [@sturmhauke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sturmhauke)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2005, 7:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-fake-bands/308745/87 "2005-06-21T07:28:07Z")
> [@Ender\_Will](#): > > Fuck Your Yankee Blue Jeans, the band that Silent Bob’s cousin Olaf sings for in _Clerks_ Would you like some making fuck, BERZERKER! Heh. I got you all beat though. In the card game Chez Geek, there’s a band called the Fnords. ---
**Author:** ![PookahMacPhellimey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pookahmacphellimey/32/3175_2.png) [@PookahMacPhellimey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PookahMacPhellimey)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2005, 8:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-fake-bands/308745/88 "2005-06-21T08:41:19Z")
Oh, and a really obscure one from a book: Eddie and the Fey. ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2005, 8:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-fake-bands/308745/89 "2005-06-21T08:52:43Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > [nitpick]_Armageddon Rag_ is the book. _Music to Wake the Dead_ is the album.[/nitpick] 😃 I stand corrected - although the Rag took up the entire second side of the album, which explains my confusion. ---
**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2005, 9:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-fake-bands/308745/90 "2005-06-21T09:11:50Z")
> [@DarkSideoftheFloyd](#): > > Hm… Well, it’s still work in progress. I dislike showing people things that haven’t been finished yet. > (Anybody who knows from where I got the name “Battersea Powerstation” will earn extra cool points) What with the name and all, I assumed _Animals_. ---
**Author:** ![YWalker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/6f9a4e/32.png) [@YWalker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YWalker)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2005, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-fake-bands/308745/91 "2005-06-21T14:42:57Z")
And if you’re really into fake bands, here’s your reference book: [The Rocklopedia Fakebandica](http://www.fakebands.com/) ---
**Author:** ![Ichbin\_Dubist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/51bf81/32.png) [@Ichbin\_Dubist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ichbin_Dubist)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2005, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-fake-bands/308745/92 "2005-06-21T14:48:29Z")
For evidence that my mind is not going, I remembered the name of the faux-British band from Thomas Pynchon’s _The Crying of Lot 49,_ The Paranoids. I can’t remember the name of Bucky Wunderlick’s band from Don DeLillo’s _Great Jones Street,_ so either my mind is partially going or the band isn’t named in the book. I do remember one of his songs: “Pee Pee Maw Maw.” And how about: The Soggy Bottom Boys Buckaroo Banzai and the Hong Kong Cavaliers The Jonah Levin Band (I think, from _One Trick Pony_) And, uh, I believe Jem and the Holograms to be real. ---
**Author:** ![Scott\_Plaid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/258eb7/32.png) [@Scott\_Plaid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scott_Plaid)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2005, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-fake-bands/308745/93 "2005-06-21T14:53:07Z")
> [@Ichbin Dubist](#): > > And, uh, I believe Jem and the Holograms to be real. Well, yeah. Eveyone knows [this.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=317249) ---
**Author:** ![furt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/439d5e/32.png) [@furt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/furt)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2005, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-fake-bands/308745/94 "2005-06-21T15:03:14Z")
> [@YWalker](#): > > And if you’re really into fake bands, here’s your reference book: > > [The Rocklopedia Fakebandica](http://www.fakebands.com/) Reading the OP before posting is usually a good idea… **Eddie and the Cruisers** “We’re \*not \*great, we’re just a couple of kids from Jersey” was my friends’ and my slogan all through high school. ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2005, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-fake-bands/308745/95 "2005-06-21T15:10:33Z")
Okay: who can tell me where those psychedelic popsters **Bruno and the Hermetic Tradition** came from? ---
**Author:** ![Dark\_Side\_of\_the\_Floyd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bb73d2/32.png) [@Dark\_Side\_of\_the\_Floyd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dark_Side_of_the_Floyd)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2005, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-fake-bands/308745/96 "2005-06-21T18:29:52Z")
> [@don't ask](#): > > What with the name and all, I assumed _Animals_. Aye. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Suburban\_Rythm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Suburban\_Rythm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Suburban_Rythm)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2005, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-fake-bands/308745/97 "2005-06-21T19:02:40Z")
> [@](#): > > Gotta second this – how many other bands end up bringing about world peace and a new direction for human development with their most excellent music? And don’t forget Keanu Reeves. _Woah._ I nominate **Chum Bukkit** from the Weekenders. ---
**Author:** ![Crandolph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7cd45c/32.png) [@Crandolph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crandolph)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2005, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-fake-bands/308745/98 "2005-06-21T19:34:31Z")
A lot to comment upon! There were at least 2 actual 80s punk bands called The Stains. One moved from Texas to San Francisco & became MDC. It’s funny that the _Quincy_ band was called Mayhem because they have nothing on the [actual black metal Norwegian band of the same name](http://www.mp3.com/mayhem/artists/35753/biography.html). Both The Archies and The Banana Splits appear to have released their first records in 1968, although one music site has a 1967 ‘founding’ date for the band. I don’t think either are ‘fake’ bands, though, just studio projects. You’d probably have to go back to the dawn of recorded music to name someone the first ‘fake’ band (complete with name of a band that never played live and perhaps even an illustration of fake band in advertising). The very real Beau Brummels ‘appeared’ on _The Flintstones_ as The Beau Brummelstones. ---
**Author:** ![Max\_Carnage](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/max_carnage/32/12775_2.png) [@Max\_Carnage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Carnage)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2005, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-fake-bands/308745/99 "2005-06-21T19:43:53Z")
> [@sturmhauke](#): > > Would you like some making fuck, BERZERKER! Heh. Did you say “making fuck”? ---
**Author:** ![sqweels](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f19dbf/32.png) [@sqweels](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sqweels)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2005, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-fake-bands/308745/100 "2005-06-21T20:14:33Z")
> [@](#): > > Back in the Sixties, every TV sitcom had somne kind of Beatle-esque band make an appearance. > > The Bedbugs appeared on “F Troop,” and Agarn quit the Army to become their manager. Speaking of Agarn, on a old episode of “Get Smart” he played “Groovy Guru” whose band “ **The Sacred Cows** ” were part of his plot to take over America by mesmerizing the young with their psychedelic music. “Dweedle-dweedle-dweedle…” And who can remember **The Mummies and the Puppies** and their rendition of Daddy Dewdrop’s “Chick-a-boom” from the Archies-affiliated cartoon show “Groovy Goolies”? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-fake-bands/308745.md?page=4)