As Stereogum noted earlier this week, Zooey Deschanel has a “fake synth pop project from the forthcoming major motion picture Yes Man” (otherwise known as that annoying new Jim Carrey movie where he says the word “yes” at least 45 times in the trailer); the faux band is called Munchausen By Proxy, and aside from Deschanel it’s made up of members of San Francisco’s Von Iva.
Maybe we were just hypnotized by her permanently amazing bangs, but we find ourselves liking MBP. You can watch a video of them performing “Sweet Ballad” from the film’s soundtrack — don’t be surprised if you find yourself singing along with the “whore no more/I’m not your late night booty call” chorus, too. After the jump, we countdown 10 fictional bands that we wish were real (oddly, most of them come from the ’90s…); drop any honorable mentions in the comments.
And please don’t tell us we forgot Zack Attack from Saved by the Bell — we just couldn’t find any footage on YouTube that didn’t dub their performance of “Friends Forever” with a scary Gwar song.
1. Sonic Death Monkey/Barry Jive and the Uptown 5 from High Fidelity
3. Frozen Embryos from My So-Called Life
4. The Paranoids from The Crying of Lot 49
6. Loveburger from Can’t Hardly Wait
7. Autobahn from The Big Lebowski
8. The Folksmen from A Mighty Wind
Comments (24)
wyld stallyns from bill and ted
josie and the pussycats!
Snap. How did we forget that one? They're gonna save the planet someday.
Fever Dog from Almost Famous
Wait… I'm an idiot – "Fever Dog" is the SONG. STILLWATER is the band!
Carrie Nations from Beyond the Valley of the Dolls
I think the real Girl Talk is better than Steph and Gina (Gina?)'s band. Regardless, what about Citizen Dick from Singles?
Oh. Gia.
Scrantonicity…Kevin's band from "The Office"
um how could you miss Otis Day and the Knights from Animal House!? Their performance of Shout is one of the best on-screen fake musical performances of all time. It really captures the amazing energy of that song.
I think I've permanently blocked him since VH-1 did a "where are they now?" segment that was truly frightening.
Good fake band list from movies, but if you want to check out some great user generated ones go to http://www.figment.cc.
You forgot "Polaris" from the Nickelodeon TV show "Pete and Pete"!
The Wonders!
Spinal Tap! Sure, they put out “real” albums, but are they a “real” band?
The Gorillas aren’t on here?? Fail
STRANGE FRUIT!
Driveshaft from Lost!
leningrad cowboys!!!!
THE BEETSSSSS YESS!!!!
The Zit Remedy from Degrassi Junior High, Hard Core Logo from Hard Core Logo, and Rod Torfelson’s Armada Featuring Herman Menderchek from Kids in the Hall
Citizen Dick from the movie “Singles”…Matt Dillon with the members of Pearl Jam.
what about mystik spiral from daria?
WHERE’S FLUFFY? from Nick & Norah’s Infinite Playlist
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