I’ve always had a soft spot for movies with the following formula: Endearing Everyteens have wacky yet meaningful misadventures that unfold over a single afternoon/night/weekend/summer. So when I first heard about the upcoming, indie-rock-drenched Nick & Norah’s Infinite Playlist—starring the ever-dependable Michael Cera and The House Bunny‘s Kat Dennings—I was all over it. Just one minor quibble: Even in those hazy, crazy days of youth, would you really traipse all over an unforgiving city in search of a band called…Where’s Fluffy? Ironically monikered or not, it sounds like the pallid descendent of the ’90s act Letters to Cleo. (Cera’s queercore band in the film, on the other hand, is the Jerk Offs. Slightly better.)
I prefer my fake-band names to have a certain zing, even if their musical output is less than transcendent: the erstwhile Sonic Death Monkey—on the verge of becoming Kathleen Turner Overdrive—in High Fidelity. Hey, That’s My Bike in Reality Bites. Wyld Stallyns in both Bill and Teds. (Yes, I am dating myself.) So I ask of you, dear PopWatchers, which fictitious band name makes you want to get up and rawk? The best suggestions of the batch could pop up in the next issue of Entertainment Weekly.
Spinal Tap!
Spinal Tap
Dingoes Ate My Baby
Skitty Kitty
Flacid Steel
Dis-chord
Chocolate Easter Bunnies From Hell
(opps last one’s real – my bad)
Mystik Spiral (but we might change the name).
Ceedus Lapidus!
Totally Microbe and Cosmic Blush from the venerable Zenon trilogy.
Citizen Dick (from SINGLES)
The Oneders (hey, that’s Ah-NED-der)
How can you mention The Oneders and not the fictitious group within the fictitious group? Cap’n Geech and the Shrimp Shack Shooters!
“Stillwater” from ALMOST FAMOUS!
“Steel Dragon” from ROCK STAR!
Dingoes Ate My Baby (of course), and Follow Them To The Edge of the Desert (FTTTEOTD for short)–even if they did, ultimately, decide to go with Hep Alien instead.
The Jerk-Offs have a different, less PG-13-teen-movie appropriate, in the book. Several of them, actually.
The Lone Rangers – “Airheads”
Can we use comic strips? Deathtöngue/Billy and the Boingers – “Bloom County”
I still go for ol’ faithful: Zack Attack from Saved by the Bell.
The Be-Sharps – “initially witty, yet becomes less funny each time you hear it.” The best part is the inside joke that there is no such note as b-sharp!
I agree. The Oneders…or Wonders rocked! –”That Thing You Do!”
Stillwater from “Almost Famous”
Dr. Teeth & The Electric Mayhem from “The Muppet Show”
and of course The Rutles.
Camel Toe
from the movie Serial Mom
Since The Wonders have already been mentioned, I’ll add Rod Torfulson’s Armada featuring Herman Menderchuk (from Kids in the Hall – and it’s been a while, so I had to look up the entire name to make sure I got it right).
“Mark” from Empire Records (does it count though that we never got to see if Ethan Embry really started the band?)