Best fake band: Spinal Tap or The Rutles?

[Bossy Monkey]

Poll question: Best fake band: Spinal Tap or The Rutles?

A lot of them: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fictional_music_groups

[Fire Walk With Me]

1. Damn good question...

...I don't know!

[taterguy]

2. Spinal Tap because their manager called UNC-Chapel Hill "just a cracker university"

But since I haven't seen all the fake bands perform live I'm really not certain.

[Fire Walk With Me]

3. "Sir Dennis Eaton-Hogg"...

:rofl:

[taterguy]

6. Actual rocker Stevie Ray Vaughan's amps caused a power outage at UNC

Those were some damn amps that really went up to 11.

Bet it annoyed the hell out of people in math building next to Memorial Hall.

[Alexander]

4. And said Boston was "not a big college town"

[Archae]

5. Turn it up to 11!

:-)

[Demoiselle]

7. I love Spinal Tap.

But I didn't know until today when I did the NYTimes crossword puzzle that they spelled their name with an umlaut over the n.
I'm not sure exactly what an umlaut is, but i always thought it went over vowels.

[melman]

24. It does go over vowels

That's the joke.

[Demoiselle]

41. I KNEW that. No, really, I did!.

[Ron Green]

8. Oasis. n/t

[Red State Rebel]

9. The Oneders :)

[CBGLuthier]

10. Strange Fruit blew them all away

From the film Still Crazy

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2SJbhVbPsA

[Captain Hilts]

11. Tough call among the Rutles, Spinal Tap and the Banana Splits....nt

[TZ]

12. Not.even.close.

Spinal Tap is teh awesome. PAGING DR.STRANGE!!!

[Dr. Strange]

19. Your post would have been better in DOBLY.

:hi:

[alfredo]

13. Kiss

[MilesColtrane]

14. Other: Oasis

[Tikki]

15. Correct...

[SoxFan]

16. As the Lounge's token BritPop fan, I say PPFFFTT to you!

[MilesColtrane]

21. I wear your PPFFFIT as a badge of honor.

[dana_b]

17. The bigger the cushion

the sweeter the pushin' - that's what I say

I mean - who else could write such meaningful lyrics?? Definitely Spinal Tap!

[Dr. Strange]

20. I like how they took a sophisticated view of sex...

and put it on a farm.

[MrSlayer]

18. N.W.H.

[VenusRising]

22. Dethklok

[Sebastian Doyle]

23. CB4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QbzQRft7zGA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2ZWhNxHMQg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFY2kJ96jNY

[AllenVanAllen]

25. I voted for "The Tap"

but have to mention the genius that is Gorillaz.

[Drunken Irishman]

26. Spinal Tap. I mean, they even made an appearance on The Simpsons!

[Drunken Irishman]

27. BUT...what about The Wonders?

They actually had a fairly decent song...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fzllVlzzeuo

[ElboRuum]

28. Other: Munchausen By Proxy

[ElboRuum]

29. GWAR

Oh, wait... they're real, aren't they? Nevermind.

[ElboRuum]

30. Can't believe no one's mentioned Steel Dragon...

Could be because we're going for "goofiest" here...

[Amerigo Vespucci]

37. Yeah, I'd say S.D. was more "cheesy" than "goofy"...

...but that "audition moment" had its own form of greatness, eh?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gEMs41vAjnw

[HopeHoops]

31. What about The Monkies?

I'd rank them pretty high because they were an ENTIRELY fake band, created from people who didn't know each other prior to the completion of casting for the show. Still, they managed to get some hits because they were actually pretty damn good.

[HughBeaumont]

32. 30-some posts and NO mention of BAD NEWS??? SHAME.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wM58YXp2x0

I voted "Spinal Tap", but COME on. The "Young Ones" crew did almost as well.

Considering who was involved, The Rutles disappointed me. A few scattered LOL moments in a sea of "meh".

[Decoy of Fenris]

33. OTHER: Gorillaz.

Murdoc is my homie.

[KG]

34. Cadillac Blue

[rurallib]

35. Monkees

[AmandaRuth]

40. definitely

Stepping Store, Valerie, Pleasant Valley Sunday, Last Train to Clarksville?

They are not on the list at the wiki site, so maybe all the hits makes them real...

[Amerigo Vespucci]

36. I'd vote for Spinal Tap, but the Rutles really established the template

The strength of both projects was the fact that no matter how absurd the satire, it remained grounded in reality and relied HEAVILY on viewers being able to connect fictional moments with real-life personalities.

One of my favorite aspects of "This Is Spinal Tap" is the number of musicians who have stepped up to claim their spot as the "inspiration" for various bits.

Don't Look Back

DA Pennebaker's seminal rockumentary of Bob Dylan's UK tour of 1965. One of the declared inspirations for This Is Spinal Tap, the film offers a searingly candid view of the young, supremely confident Dylan on tour. We see him granting an audience to his nervous acolyte Donovan who sings To Sing For You in a nearly embarrassing homage to his idol. Dylan is shown suffering from the everyday niggles of touring, such as singing The Times They Are A-Changin' with an initially dysfunctional mike - it isn't plugged in. The most obvious reference in This Is Spinal Tap is the getting-lost-backstage scene. After the Manchester gig, Dylan and his entourage are seen scurrying around backstage desperately trying to find their way out, and Dylan enquires urgently: "Where's the door?"

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2000/sep/22/film.film

[melman]

39. Another thing about The Rutles

is that the music is actually really good.

[JCMach1]

38. Flight of the Conchords