# What's with pissed-off looking band photos? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 1, 2005, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-with-pissed-off-looking-band-photos/310763 "2005-07-01T21:27:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![I\_can\_t\_believe\_that\_s\_butter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/8edcca/32.png) [@I\_can\_t\_believe\_that\_s\_butter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/I_can_t_believe_that_s_butter)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2005, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-with-pissed-off-looking-band-photos/310763/1 "2005-07-01T21:27:27Z")
I don’t want to link to any in particular, but hopefully you’ll know what I mean: 3 to 7 people, arms crossed, leaning against a wall or standing in a forest, all scowling with vengeful glares. Occasionally, one of them is smiling, but not usually. What gives? ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2005, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-with-pissed-off-looking-band-photos/310763/2 "2005-07-01T21:31:31Z")
Because they’re bad-ass rockers. Smiling is for pussies. ---
**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2005, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-with-pissed-off-looking-band-photos/310763/3 "2005-07-01T21:45:46Z")
'Cause chicks dig assholes, man…everyone knows that. ---
**Author:** ![cabdude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/58956e/32.png) [@cabdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cabdude)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2005, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-with-pissed-off-looking-band-photos/310763/4 "2005-07-02T00:04:02Z")
What’s the correlation to pissed-off looking catwalk models? ---
**Author:** ![Harborwolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@Harborwolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harborwolf)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2005, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-with-pissed-off-looking-band-photos/310763/5 "2005-07-02T01:06:57Z")
But dood, they’re totally hard core. It’s wicked harsh. They’re x-treme to the maxxxxxxx. Um…intense…did I say extreme? ---
**Author:** ![AskNott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asknott/32/5790_2.png) [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2005, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-with-pissed-off-looking-band-photos/310763/6 "2005-07-02T18:05:05Z")
Tradition. Even when the Rolling Stones were using steam-powered amps, they looked pisto in their tintypes. The last happy-looking band was the Partridge Family. Who wants to look like the PF? ---
**Author:** ![Snooooopy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee7513/32.png) [@Snooooopy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snooooopy)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2005, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-with-pissed-off-looking-band-photos/310763/7 "2005-07-02T18:15:45Z")
Sometimes, one of the members will have his big yap wide open, thus identifying himself as the lead singer. Seemingly, he’s so passionate about hearing the sound of his own voice that he won’t cut it out long enough to take a band photo! ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2005, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-with-pissed-off-looking-band-photos/310763/8 "2005-07-02T18:17:59Z")
> [@AskNott](#): > > The last happy-looking band was the Partridge Family. Who wants to look like the PF? [These people?](http://www.vh1.com/shows/dyn/in_search_of_the_partridge_family/series.jhtml) ---
**Author:** ![ouryL](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ouryl/32/6067_2.png) [@ouryL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ouryL)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2005, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-with-pissed-off-looking-band-photos/310763/9 "2005-07-02T19:05:57Z")
There were just told they look like poufs! 😛😛😛 ---
**Author:** ![neofishboy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/neofishboy/32/444_2.png) [@neofishboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/neofishboy)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2005, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-with-pissed-off-looking-band-photos/310763/10 "2005-07-02T19:23:15Z")
So which is more cheezy: bands looking at the camera with that “Grrrrr…I’m Hard!” look or bands _not_ looking at the camera but instead looking soulfully at something far off in the distance? Personally, I always wanted to have a band photo where everyone is looking at something off-camera with expressions that say “Holy Christ that’s my _mother_ on that autopsy table!”