Top Fictional Bands

The Ron & Fez Show (a satellite radio show) listed the Top 10 fictional bands that are better than real bands months ago. Here's the list:

http://theinterrobang.com/2012/03/thirteen-movie-bands-better-than-real-band/

The Wonders are on it twice, once as The Wonders, and once again as Captain Geech and the Shrimp Shack Shooters.

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Ten is a pretty slim sampling.

There's actually a book - The Rocklopedia Fakebandica - with a considerably longer list of fictional bands. I don't know how many entries there are, but the book is 241 pages long (in the 2004 edition; don't know if there's a newer one). Must be over a thousand.

I think the Monkees would have to be pretty high on the list.

Are they DQ'ed because they eventually learned to play their instruments and turned into an actual band??

The Archies would have to be up there too. A worldwide No. 1 hit and I believe 3 or 4 more Top 20 records.



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4) You ever seen Superman $#$# his pants? Case closed.

Definitely a good list, but it wouldn't be the Internet if I didn't critique it a bit.

First, as far as bands on the list, I LOVE that they included The Folksmen. I dare you to listen to their version of "Never Did No Wanderin'" ( far superior to that awful version by the New Main Street Singers) and not sing it for the rest of the day.

With regard to Stillwater, I think Cameron Crowe, Jason Lee, Billy Crudup, et al did a brilliant job creating the look and feel of a real 70s rock band (right down to the constant bickering and infighting). However, the music just wasn't all that catchy or memorable.

As far as glaring omissions, of course I have a few. First and foremost, I think Mitch and Mickey (from "A Mighty Wind") deserve to be there. "A Kiss At End of the Rainbow" is a delightful song and when they actually kiss at the end, I get tears in my eyes just like everybody in the movie. If a fake band can bring out real emotions, they belong on the list.

I also have a few obscure choices, too. The first one... well.... I am just going to come right out and say it. In the Lindsey Lohan version of "Freaky Friday", the song her band practices and then plays in the talent show is darn catchy. In fact, it is the best part of the movie. Second, there was an execrable movie in the late 80s starring Susannah Hoffs of the Bangles called "The Allnighter". I won't bore you with the awful and convoluted plot, but early in the movie Hoffs dances to a song called "shangri-la" by a fictional band called (I think) The Rhinos. It is far and away the best thing in that movie.

D'oh! I forgot the most important omission: The Lone Rangers! Their song.... with props to Brendan Fraser for actually singing.... is actually pretty darn good, too. I've actually found myself singing it after watching "Airheads", which is more than I can say about any song by Stillwater.

I am surprised that Ruttles is not on this list.

Along with some of the others named, I nominate Ellen Aim and the Attackers, and the Soggy Bottom Boys.

There have been some great fictional solo acts, too. Have to include those.



The Partridge Family

Aldous Snow and his backup group doing "The Clap" on the Today Show - still better than most any other real group.

The 5.6.7.8s from Kill Bill. (Woo Hoo, Woo Hoo Hoo)

Tommy Dee (Paul Land) and Ceasare (Peter Gallagher) in The Idolmaker.