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Fake Band

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134 feature instances
162 referencing feature instances

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Fake Band	label	Fake Band
Fake Band	page	FakeBand
Fake Band	comment	When the production team making a show can't afford a real band to act as a collective Celebrity Star or Special Guest, they just build one out of whatever actors Central Casting has handy, and pretend that they are the hot new thing in the world of the program. "Evidence" of their talent is either non-existent, or provided by anonymous studio musicians to whose performance the actors lipsync. (Rarely does the Fake Band actually have real musicians in it, save for the truly postmodern moments when a real band is masquerading as a Fake Band — which has been known to happen.) In a few examples, the Fake Band actually releases real music, usually as a shameless media tie-in. For a really shameless tie-in, or if a developer wants to throw in a Shout-Out, get the music into Guitar Hero or Rock Band. Fake Band music is either a soulless imitation of the latest trends, or (more frequently) mindless bubblegum pop. Sometimes it tries to be both. Even if the fake band has some actual talent, expect Suspiciously Apropos Music. The Rocklopedia Fakebandica has a truly exhaustive listing of fake bands from television and movies. Compare Band Toon, where an animated series is based around a band that may or may not exist in real life. Not to be confused with an Anonymous Band. When the fake band is made of the main character and their pals, it's a Five-Man Band Concert. Examples
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Fake Band / int_10550610	type	Fake Band
Fake Band / int_10550610	comment	An early Happy Days episode concerned the rock band Johnny Fish and the Fins (Richie knew the keyboard player back in grade school), played by 50s Tribute Band Flash Cadillac and the Continental Kids (now just known as Flash Cadillac). They also appeared in American Graffiti as Herbie and the Heartbreakers.
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Happy Days	hasFeature	Fake Band / int_10550610
Fake Band / int_1253f289	type	Fake Band
Fake Band / int_1253f289	comment	Progressive rock band Dream Theater used to occasionally switch instruments with each other during live shows and perform a cover version of Deep Purple's "Perfect Strangers" (except in one case where they did "Suicide Solution" by Ozzy Osbourne instead) under the pseudonym "Nightmare Cinema". They stopped after Derek Sherinian left the band. The only member who didn't switch was James La Brie (or "Abdul Matahari"), who remained on vocals.
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Dream Theater (Music)	hasFeature	Fake Band / int_1253f289
Fake Band / int_12dff0c8	type	Fake Band
Fake Band / int_12dff0c8	comment	Let's Go Luna!: "House Music" features an Australian band titled Syd and the Sydneys. They made Andy's favorite song, "Andy My Boy", and have an old-fashioned vibe to them.
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Fake Band / int_12dff0c8	featureConfidence	1.0
Let's Go Luna!	hasFeature	Fake Band / int_12dff0c8
Fake Band / int_13840543	type	Fake Band
Fake Band / int_13840543	comment	The all-cartoon canine band Dog Gone regularly performs short songs on Nature Cat, with themes about natural wonders, playing outdoors, and Eco-friendly activities such as gardening.
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Nature Cat	hasFeature	Fake Band / int_13840543
Fake Band / int_1ca82882	type	Fake Band
Fake Band / int_1ca82882	comment	They also appeared in American Graffiti as Herbie and the Heartbreakers.
Fake Band / int_1ca82882	featureApplicability	1.0
Fake Band / int_1ca82882	featureConfidence	1.0
American Graffiti	hasFeature	Fake Band / int_1ca82882
Fake Band / int_1fc3ec4d	type	Fake Band
Fake Band / int_1fc3ec4d	comment	"One Bad Man" and "Midnight Ride" are also available as Rock Band DLC.
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Rock Band (Video Game)	hasFeature	Fake Band / int_1fc3ec4d
Fake Band / int_2162a284	type	Fake Band
Fake Band / int_2162a284	comment	MS Paint Adventures has introduced one of these, Midnight Crew, with an entire album of dark jazz music. The creator has suggested that there will be other fake bands in the future. The Midnight Crew's nemeses, the Felt, have apparently formed an electric-orchestral band with temporal effects, or "temporelechrestal", in the words of the author.
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MS Paint Adventures / Web Comic	hasFeature	Fake Band / int_2162a284
Fake Band / int_218590b0	type	Fake Band
Fake Band / int_218590b0	comment	Particularly mind-blowing example: In Blues Brothers 2000, the Blues Brothers Band enters the "Battle of the Bands", and has to go head to head with 'The Louisiana Gator Boys'... which is basically a collection of all the most legendary blues musicians alive at the time of filming, including B.B. King, Eric Clapton, Bo Diddley, Isaac Hayes and Dr. John... The Blues Brothers themselves began as a comedy sketch on Saturday Night Live, when Dan Aykroyd wanted to do something with Blues music on the show, and became a smash hit and released several real albums.
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Blues Brothers 2000	hasFeature	Fake Band / int_218590b0
Fake Band / int_222c2051	type	Fake Band
Fake Band / int_222c2051	comment	Chuck has Jeffster, with show's resident Cloudcuckoolander Jeff & Small Name, Big Ego Lester performing a variety of covers. Whilst Scott Krinsky (Jeff) is miming on instruments, Vik Sahay (Lester) records the vocals & then lip syncs whilst filming.
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Fake Band / int_222c2051	featureConfidence	1.0
Chuck	hasFeature	Fake Band / int_222c2051
Fake Band / int_27831967	type	Fake Band
Fake Band / int_27831967	comment	In 2021, well after Parks and Recreation concluded, character Andy Dwyer's band Mouse Rat released The Awesome Album, featuring originals as heard in the show as well as some Cover Versions note One episode had a subplot where Mouse Rat were booked as entertainment for a party at the Pawnee Senior Center, so instead of their own rock songs, they were heard performing pop standards like "The Way You Look Tonight". The album also features other fictional musicians from the show - Duke Silver, the smooth jazz alter-ego of Ron Swanson, is credited with saxophone on two of the Mouse Rat songs, and the last two tracks are credited to the band Land Ho! and their vocalist Scott Tanner (actually Wilco and their vocalist Jeff Tweedy respectively)
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Parks and Recreation	hasFeature	Fake Band / int_27831967
Fake Band / int_28fe1376	type	Fake Band
Fake Band / int_28fe1376	comment	A few songs by Walter's favourite 70s band Violet Sedan Chair show up in Fringe and eventually an album titled Seven Suns was released to promote the show.
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Fringe	hasFeature	Fake Band / int_28fe1376
Fake Band / int_2abd5315	type	Fake Band
Fake Band / int_2abd5315	comment	The comedy-improv show Whose Line Is It Anyway? had a regular sketch Greatest Hits where a "theme album" CD is being hawked: Ryan Stiles and Colin Mochrie would give Wayne Brady (who was sometimes accompanied by the 4th chair guest comedian) a made-up song title and a (real) band/singer, and Wayne would have to improvise a song in that person's style. One time, Colin also made up the musician: a Scottish blues singer named "Wet Biscuit" McGlee, who is so old and grizzled you can't actually understand anything he says. Wayne came through, and the character still gets mentioned in joking "histories" on the Internet.
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Whose Line Is It Anyway?	hasFeature	Fake Band / int_2abd5315
Fake Band / int_34e0e9fc	type	Fake Band
Fake Band / int_34e0e9fc	comment	The characters of the cartoon themselves have formed their own bands: Marzipan, The Cheat, and Strong Mad perform in a folk-rock trio known as "Cool Tapes"; Coach Z and Bubs apparently jam together as the Two-O Duo on occasion; and in the Strong Bad Email "senior prom", the Poopsmith and the rest of the King of Town's servants performed at the "Entrapment All Up On The Moon" Dance as "All The King's Men". In Baddest of the Bands, Pom Pom and Homestar form Pomstar, while Strong Bad, the King of Town, and Homsar start DOI.
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Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People (Video Game)	hasFeature	Fake Band / int_34e0e9fc
Fake Band / int_37f68071	type	Fake Band
Fake Band / int_37f68071	comment	The Legend of Black Heaven is about a band called Black Heaven getting back together years after they split up. The band was supposedly extremely popular and famous before their career ended. They only ever play variations of one song, and it's been shown that other songs are just not good enough for the ultimate weapon.
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The Legend of Black Heaven	hasFeature	Fake Band / int_37f68071
Fake Band / int_3a8296e9	type	Fake Band
Fake Band / int_3a8296e9	comment	The Wonderfour, the Finnish act in Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga were played by the (English) group Anteros.
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Fake Band / int_3e5de40b	type	Fake Band
Fake Band / int_3e5de40b	comment	In Scrubs, Ted's band "The Worthless Peons" is the actual a cappella band The Blanks, who have released a CD with several catchy tunes.
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Scrubs	hasFeature	Fake Band / int_3e5de40b
Fake Band / int_3fe0e333	type	Fake Band
Fake Band / int_3fe0e333	comment	The Turtles Present the Battle of the Bands has The Turtles masquerading as ten different bands, each playing a different style of music.
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The Turtles Present the Battle of the Bands (Music)	hasFeature	Fake Band / int_3fe0e333
Fake Band / int_41c13dd7	type	Fake Band
Fake Band / int_41c13dd7	comment	The Replacements occasionally played as "Jefferson's Cock" in dresses. Paul Westerberg can be heard saying the name during the outro of the song "Androgynous".
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The Replacements (Music)	hasFeature	Fake Band / int_41c13dd7
Fake Band / int_47c7e5f7	type	Fake Band
Fake Band / int_47c7e5f7	comment	An interesting variant came with late-1980s country band Billy Hill, composed of songwriters Bob DiPiero and John Scott Sherrill, former Detroit Wheels member Dennis Robbins, former Steve Earle bassist Reno Kling, and session drummer Martin Parker. They created a character named Billy Hill who was said to be the "lead singer", although that post actually went to both Sherrill and Robbins.
Fake Band / int_47c7e5f7	featureApplicability	1.0
Fake Band / int_47c7e5f7	featureConfidence	1.0
Steve Earle (Music)	hasFeature	Fake Band / int_47c7e5f7
Fake Band / int_47f0eac3	type	Fake Band
Fake Band / int_47f0eac3	comment	Also from Metalocalypse, "Snakes 'n Barrels", the 80s era hair metal band that Dethklok's drummer, Pickles, used to front.
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Metalocalypse	hasFeature	Fake Band / int_47f0eac3
Fake Band / int_48acec98	type	Fake Band
Fake Band / int_48acec98	comment	The Strain (TV series) has Gabriel Bolivar, a Marilyn Manson Expy who is one of the survivors of the outbreak on the plane. It's later revealed that even the survivors are infected by the outbreak and turning into vampires, including Bolivar. In season two, Bolivar becomes the new host for the Master.
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The Strain (TV series)	hasFeature	Fake Band / int_48acec98
Fake Band / int_49a0a477	type	Fake Band
Fake Band / int_49a0a477	comment	Snow Crash has Vitaly Chernobyl and the Meltdowns, who start their own genre of music called "nuclear glow-fuzz". Their number one hit is "My Love is a Smoking Hole in the Ground".
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Snow Crash	hasFeature	Fake Band / int_49a0a477
Fake Band / int_4a6ee571	type	Fake Band
Fake Band / int_4a6ee571	comment	A Mighty Wind features a whole slew of fictional folk bands and features a number of folk songs. One of the bands, the Folksmen, consists of the reunited performers of Spinal Tap. The Folksmen had previously appeared as Spinal Tap's opening act during their Break Like The Wind tour in the early 1990s. At least one audience booed them off the stage, apparently not recognizing the performers.
Fake Band / int_4a6ee571	featureApplicability	1.0
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A Mighty Wind	hasFeature	Fake Band / int_4a6ee571
Fake Band / int_4c99197e	type	Fake Band
Fake Band / int_4c99197e	comment	Dr Teeth and the Electric Mayhem from The Muppet Show. One great What Could Have Been was to use animatronics and the real band My Morning Jacket to create an Electric Mayhem live tour.
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Fake Band / int_4c99197e	featureConfidence	1.0
The Muppet Show	hasFeature	Fake Band / int_4c99197e
Fake Band / int_4da7528e	type	Fake Band
Fake Band / int_4da7528e	comment	The Berenstain Bears series from the early 2000s had at least one reference to a band called The Backstreet Bears.
Fake Band / int_4da7528e	featureApplicability	1.0
Fake Band / int_4da7528e	featureConfidence	1.0
The Berenstain Bears	hasFeature	Fake Band / int_4da7528e
Fake Band / int_4dd1da27	type	Fake Band
Fake Band / int_4dd1da27	comment	Clifford the Big Red Dog had an episode in which Clifford, Cleo, T-Bone and Mac formed one of these called The Pack Street Dogs.
Fake Band / int_4dd1da27	featureApplicability	1.0
Fake Band / int_4dd1da27	featureConfidence	1.0
CliffordTheBigRedDog	hasFeature	Fake Band / int_4dd1da27
Fake Band / int_50b9086a	type	Fake Band
Fake Band / int_50b9086a	comment	Ready Jet Go!: The kids have their own band. Jet is the lead singer, Sean plays the drums, Sydney plays the piano, Mindy plays the flugelhorn, and Sunspot plays the electric guitar. However, it only appeared in "Potatoes on Mars".
Fake Band / int_50b9086a	featureApplicability	1.0
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Ready Jet Go!	hasFeature	Fake Band / int_50b9086a
Fake Band / int_519583bd	type	Fake Band
Fake Band / int_519583bd	comment	The title song from That Thing You Do! became a chart-topping one-hit wonder, which utterly disrupts the lives of the formerly completely obscure band of protagonists (named, appropriately, the Wonders, originally the "Oneders"). The song, composed by Fountains of Wayne bassist Adam Schlesinger, actually did become fairly popular on Top 40 radio following the movie's release.
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That Thing You Do!	hasFeature	Fake Band / int_519583bd
Fake Band / int_52382563	type	Fake Band
Fake Band / int_52382563	comment	The titular band of Detroit Metal City is the most popular heavy metal band in Japan and one of the most popular musical acts, beating out rival bands Kintama Girls and Tetra-pot Melon Tea, and rapper MC Kiva. For The Movie, all four released singles (DMC's two singles also featured the light-hearted J-Pop songs by lead singer's alterego Soichi Negishi) and DMC released a full-length 10-track album.
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Detroit Metal City (Manga)	hasFeature	Fake Band / int_52382563
Fake Band / int_5425ce75	type	Fake Band
Fake Band / int_5425ce75	comment	Grand Theft Auto: The earlier games' radio stations predominantly featured fictional bands on their playlists. Grand Theft Auto III was the last main series installment, and the spinoff Liberty City Stories the last game in the series overall, to have original songs recorded for the soundtrack in large numbers, with the pop-rock/adult contemporary station Head Radio and the Top 40 pop station Lips 106 comprised entirely of such in both games. Grand Theft Auto: Vice City was the first game to predominantly use licensed tracks, in this case a collection of '80s pop and rock hits. It does, however, introduce Love Fist, an '80s Hair Metal band who perform songs like "Dangerous Bastard" and "Fist Fury" on the in-game station V-Rock and wind up being carted through various missions by the player. What we see of them is a parody of the Sex, Drugs, and Rock & Roll lifestyle: lyrics filled with innuendos, androgynous fashion sense, large amounts of drugs and groupies, their own custom limousine, hiring an outlaw biker gang (and Tommy Vercetti) to provide security, the works. Later games reveal that they went on a downward spiral in The '90s, mirroring the trajectory of many real-life hair metal bands during that time. Later installments in the franchise have featured actual musicians as fake ones, such as rapper Ice-T playing Madd Dogg in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas.
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Grand Theft Auto (Video Game)	hasFeature	Fake Band / int_5425ce75
Fake Band / int_54291151	type	Fake Band
Fake Band / int_54291151	comment	The Soul Patches is a boy band in Littlest Pet Shop (2012) that's the heartthrob of every young woman in Downtown City. Except for their debut episode, the Soul Patches have had a musical sequence in each episode they're featured in. The episode "It's the Pet Fest! - Part 1" would later introduce three more fake bands as background characters: The Doll Smilies, Adam and the Spider Monkeys, and Polar Vortex.
Fake Band / int_54291151	featureApplicability	1.0
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Littlest Pet Shop (2012)	hasFeature	Fake Band / int_54291151
Fake Band / int_58f9634	type	Fake Band
Fake Band / int_58f9634	comment	This is Spın̈al Tap is a mockumentary about the eponymous fictional band. Many viewers at the time of its release didn't realize that the whole thing is fake and thought that Spinal Tap is a real band. The film features several original songs, and the performers have subsequently gone on tour as Spinal Tap with more original music.
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This is Spın̈al Tap	hasFeature	Fake Band / int_58f9634
Fake Band / int_5af707ee	type	Fake Band
Fake Band / int_5af707ee	comment	There's an episode of Home Movies in which a pair of camp counsellors named Mike and Miguel write a bunch of songs. The songs are played, and the characters voiced, by Johns Flansburgh and Linnell of They Might Be Giants.
Fake Band / int_5af707ee	featureApplicability	1.0
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Home Movies	hasFeature	Fake Band / int_5af707ee
Fake Band / int_5b1f4cb	type	Fake Band
Fake Band / int_5b1f4cb	comment	The short-lived cartoon Generation O! had as its short-lived, somewhat creepy and frightening premise that an eight-year-old girl known to the media as "Molly-O" is the world's most popular rock star. The titular band was portrayed by the real-life band Letters to Cleo, whose lead vocalist, Kay Hanley, apparently really can sound eight years old if she tries.
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Generation O!	hasFeature	Fake Band / int_5b1f4cb
Fake Band / int_5b3356f8	type	Fake Band
Fake Band / int_5b3356f8	comment	Turning Red has 4Town, a Boy Band voiced by actual singers including Jordan Fisher and Finneas O'Connell the latter of which, along with his sister, Billie Eilish, wrote three songs for the film.*
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Turning Red	hasFeature	Fake Band / int_5b3356f8
Fake Band / int_5c783167	type	Fake Band
Fake Band / int_5c783167	comment	Crisis Of Conformity were an Affectionate Parody of 80's Hardcore Punk that appeared in a single Saturday Night Live skit, where they were played by Fred Armisen, Dave Grohl, and Ashton Kutcher. Not too long after that, the indie label Drag City quietly released "Fist Fight", a seven inch single supposedly by the band, but actually written and performed entirely by Armisen himself. Both Dave Grohl and Fred Armisen have been in real hardcore bands - the collage on the cover of the single includes a picture of a young Fred Armisen singing for his old band, as well as one of a young Dave Grohl in a crowd shot (presumably in the audience for a different hardcore band's show). To top it off, their record was produced by Brendan Canty of Fugazi.
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Affectionate Parody	hasFeature	Fake Band / int_5c783167
Fake Band / int_5ccce5a8	type	Fake Band
Fake Band / int_5ccce5a8	comment	Tech Infantry has Volkskrieg Overdrive and Gun Metal Grey. The first is mainly mentioned in passing as being a popular act of the era, the second is a major part of the plot in Miro Creed's arc.
Fake Band / int_5ccce5a8	featureApplicability	1.0
Fake Band / int_5ccce5a8	featureConfidence	1.0
Tech Infantry (Tabletop Game)	hasFeature	Fake Band / int_5ccce5a8
Fake Band / int_60381be1	type	Fake Band
Fake Band / int_60381be1	comment	The Soggy Bottom Boys from O Brother, Where Art Thou? is a mishmash of either bluegrass musicians or musicians who could copy the style well, including Ralph Stanley, John Hartford, Alison Krauss, Emmylou Harris, Gillian Welch, and Dan Tyminski. The exception is Tim Blake Nelson, the actor for Delmar O'Donnell, who sang his own lines for "In the Jailhouse Now," in case you couldn't tell.
Fake Band / int_60381be1	featureApplicability	1.0
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O Brother, Where Art Thou?	hasFeature	Fake Band / int_60381be1
Fake Band / int_60e46d26	type	Fake Band
Fake Band / int_60e46d26	comment	In 1959, MAD released a 45 containing two songs ostensibly performed by its mascot, Alfred E. Neuman, "and his Furshlugginer Five". The A-side was a novelty song called "What, Me Worry?" featuring an uncredited man singing in the role of Alfred, and the B-side was an instrumental piece called "Potrzebie".
Fake Band / int_60e46d26	featureApplicability	1.0
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MAD (Magazine)	hasFeature	Fake Band / int_60e46d26
Fake Band / int_6244139e	type	Fake Band
Fake Band / int_6244139e	comment	Kira☆Kira is all about a band formed by the main characters. Various songs are played during the story, and the developer sells actual d2b (the name of the band) CDs containing the music played by the band in the game. As the game is about a band, there are also plenty of other bands in the game, of which two (Star Generation and Happy Cycle Mania) also have songs that are actually played in the game.
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Kira-Kira (Visual Novel)	hasFeature	Fake Band / int_6244139e
Fake Band / int_6274e926	type	Fake Band
Fake Band / int_6274e926	comment	A three band show: Jem with Jem And The Holograms (80's pop), The Misfits (80's new wave) and 'The Stingers'' (80's hard metal.)
Fake Band / int_6274e926	featureApplicability	1.0
Fake Band / int_6274e926	featureConfidence	1.0
Jem	hasFeature	Fake Band / int_6274e926
Fake Band / int_64a047ac	type	Fake Band
Fake Band / int_64a047ac	comment	The earlier games' radio stations predominantly featured fictional bands on their playlists. Grand Theft Auto III was the last main series installment, and the spinoff Liberty City Stories the last game in the series overall, to have original songs recorded for the soundtrack in large numbers, with the pop-rock/adult contemporary station Head Radio and the Top 40 pop station Lips 106 comprised entirely of such in both games.
Fake Band / int_64a047ac	featureApplicability	1.0
Fake Band / int_64a047ac	featureConfidence	1.0
GTA Radio (Radio)	hasFeature	Fake Band / int_64a047ac
Fake Band / int_65e145af	type	Fake Band
Fake Band / int_65e145af	comment	Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars. The Spiders From Mars actually was the name of David Bowie's backing band, but the album features a fictionalized version of them.
Fake Band / int_65e145af	featureApplicability	1.0
Fake Band / int_65e145af	featureConfidence	1.0
The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars (Music)	hasFeature	Fake Band / int_65e145af
Fake Band / int_6669adb5	type	Fake Band
Fake Band / int_6669adb5	comment	The film Velvet Goldmine, which centres around transparent No Celebrities Were Harmed versions of David Bowie and Iggy Pop, featured two fictional backing bands on its soundtrack album. The Venus In Furs was made up of British musicians, including members of Radiohead, Suede, and Roxy Music, and solo artist David Gray. Wylde Ratttz was made up of American musicians, including members of The Stooges, Minutemen, Sonic Youth, and Mudhoney. Wylde Ratttz had somewhat of a life beyond the movie, recording a self-titled album that stayed on the shelf of album languishment until the musicians were able to secure a self-release in 2020, along with various digital singles released that same year.
Fake Band / int_6669adb5	featureApplicability	1.0
Fake Band / int_6669adb5	featureConfidence	1.0
Velvet Goldmine	hasFeature	Fake Band / int_6669adb5
Fake Band / int_67afc2e4	type	Fake Band
Fake Band / int_67afc2e4	comment	Johnny Crawfish, a fictional singer in The Noddy Shop, actually got his own music video made for an investor in the series.
Fake Band / int_67afc2e4	featureApplicability	1.0
Fake Band / int_67afc2e4	featureConfidence	1.0
The Noddy Shop	hasFeature	Fake Band / int_67afc2e4
Fake Band / int_67db138a	type	Fake Band
Fake Band / int_67db138a	comment	A key component in the Love Live! franchise is that the fictional idol groups in the shows often hold real concerts and release many albums featuring songs sung by the groups.
Fake Band / int_67db138a	featureApplicability	1.0
Fake Band / int_67db138a	featureConfidence	1.0
Love Live!	hasFeature	Fake Band / int_67db138a
Fake Band / int_698fef57	type	Fake Band
Fake Band / int_698fef57	comment	Confession Executive Committee introduces LIPÃ—LIP, a popular teen idol duo who have also been turned into Virtual Celebrities, into their continuity. They have made multiple songs for various projects and even pushed out music out of universe.
Fake Band / int_698fef57	featureApplicability	1.0
Fake Band / int_698fef57	featureConfidence	1.0
Confession Executive Committee (Music)	hasFeature	Fake Band / int_698fef57
Fake Band / int_6abf16c2	type	Fake Band
Fake Band / int_6abf16c2	comment	The titular band in the Big Finish Doctor Who audio story 1963: Fanfare for the Common Men, who in an alternate timeline took the Beatles' place in history, can be heard performing a few of their hits in the story. It's actually pretty good Beatley psychadelic pop sung by the actual actors. (Who include Mitch Benn as the John-expy.)
Fake Band / int_6abf16c2	featureApplicability	1.0
Fake Band / int_6abf16c2	featureConfidence	1.0
Big Finish Doctor Who (Audio Play)	hasFeature	Fake Band / int_6abf16c2
Fake Band / int_74398a8e	type	Fake Band
Fake Band / int_74398a8e	comment	BeTween, from the Avalon: Web of Magic series, was a fake band whose songs were later performed by Debra Davis and released on the website.*
Fake Band / int_74398a8e	featureApplicability	1.0
Fake Band / int_74398a8e	featureConfidence	1.0
Avalon: Web of Magic	hasFeature	Fake Band / int_74398a8e
Fake Band / int_746814ae	type	Fake Band
Fake Band / int_746814ae	comment	Arthur had "Binky", a foreign band which had become very popular out of nowhere thanks to their guerrilla marketing (and got Binky falsely accused of vandalizing the school). It was later revealed that the band was literally fake; the producers were using vocal synthesizers and hologram generators. And then we have "The Squabs" (Who performed "Boogie Woogie Christmas" in "Arthur's Perfect Christmas"). "Arthur, It's Only Rock 'n' Roll" gave us U-Stink and We Stink, formed within the special's premise. It should be noted, however, that Jodie Resther and and Holly Gauthier-Frankel, the VAs of Francine and Fern respectively, are accomplished musicians in real life.
Fake Band / int_746814ae	featureApplicability	1.0
Fake Band / int_746814ae	featureConfidence	1.0
Arthur	hasFeature	Fake Band / int_746814ae
Fake Band / int_755fadab	type	Fake Band
Fake Band / int_755fadab	comment	In an episode of The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya, Haruhi and Yuki stand in for members of a fake band called ENOZ — a Sdrawkcab Name Shout-Out to a real-life band named ZONE. Meanwhile Haruhi's voice actress is a real singer, who released her songs from this episode as singles. Many Japanese seiyuu double as singers, singing theme songs for the characters they portray.
Fake Band / int_755fadab	featureApplicability	1.0
Fake Band / int_755fadab	featureConfidence	1.0
Haruhi Suzumiya	hasFeature	Fake Band / int_755fadab
Fake Band / int_7832b74c	type	Fake Band
Fake Band / int_7832b74c	comment	Steven Universe: In season five, Sadie Miller gets fed up with having to work at the Big Donut by herself after Lars gets stranded in space, and quits to form a rock band with Jenny Pizza, Sour Cream, and Buck Dewey, "Sadie Killer and the Suspects".
Fake Band / int_7832b74c	featureApplicability	1.0
Fake Band / int_7832b74c	featureConfidence	1.0
Steven Universe	hasFeature	Fake Band / int_7832b74c
Fake Band / int_7950b30f	type	Fake Band
Fake Band / int_7950b30f	comment	From The Colbert Report: Stephen and the Colberts with their 80s-styled hit "Charlene", which is about Colbert stalking a love interest with that name, and found its way onto the Rock Band platform. Of course, it's actually rather good. Gotta love that solo.
Fake Band / int_7950b30f	featureApplicability	1.0
Fake Band / int_7950b30f	featureConfidence	1.0
The Colbert Report	hasFeature	Fake Band / int_7950b30f
Fake Band / int_7a7102f5	type	Fake Band
Fake Band / int_7a7102f5	comment	Grand Theft Auto: Vice City was the first game to predominantly use licensed tracks, in this case a collection of '80s pop and rock hits. It does, however, introduce Love Fist, an '80s Hair Metal band who perform songs like "Dangerous Bastard" and "Fist Fury" on the in-game station V-Rock and wind up being carted through various missions by the player. What we see of them is a parody of the Sex, Drugs, and Rock & Roll lifestyle: lyrics filled with innuendos, androgynous fashion sense, large amounts of drugs and groupies, their own custom limousine, hiring an outlaw biker gang (and Tommy Vercetti) to provide security, the works. Later games reveal that they went on a downward spiral in The '90s, mirroring the trajectory of many real-life hair metal bands during that time.
Fake Band / int_7a7102f5	featureApplicability	1.0
Fake Band / int_7a7102f5	featureConfidence	1.0
Grand Theft Auto: Vice City (Video Game)	hasFeature	Fake Band / int_7a7102f5
Fake Band / int_7c038c18	type	Fake Band
Fake Band / int_7c038c18	comment	Phineas and Ferb has an entire episode focusing on getting a Fake Band from The '80s named "Love Handel" back together for the titular characters' parents' anniversary. Other than that episode, they're only present in cameos. Another episode featured Candace and Stacy winning a contest to spend a day with their favorite girl-rock band, The Bettys. Besides Love Handel and the Bettys there's also been Tiny Cowboy, Jeremy and the Incidentals, Lindana, Phineas and the Ferbtones and 2 Guys N the Parque. Notable in that, this being Phineas and Ferb, these bands are actually pretty good, as the standing cast has some great singers, and Danny of Love Handel is even voiced by the lead singer of Bowling for Soup. In another episode, the boys decide that they're going to retroactively make their dad into the star of an 80s band that never existed, playing with this in-universe.
Fake Band / int_7c038c18	featureApplicability	1.0
Fake Band / int_7c038c18	featureConfidence	1.0
Phineas and Ferb	hasFeature	Fake Band / int_7c038c18
Fake Band / int_7d20ef2c	type	Fake Band
Fake Band / int_7d20ef2c	comment	Literary twist: The comic strip Bloom County had several of its main characters as members of the group Billy and the Boingers (originally named DeathtÃ¶ngue). The book "Billy and the Boingers Bootleg" actually included a floppy vinyl "45" containing two songs, "U Stink But I â™¥ U"note the Heart Symbol pronounced as "love" and "I'm A Boinger", supposedly recorded by the band. (They were actually recorded by bands who were fans of the strip.)
Fake Band / int_7d20ef2c	featureApplicability	1.0
Fake Band / int_7d20ef2c	featureConfidence	1.0
Bloom County (Comic Strip)	hasFeature	Fake Band / int_7d20ef2c
Fake Band / int_7ec0cdab	type	Fake Band
Fake Band / int_7ec0cdab	comment	The Mighty Boosh has featured the members of electro-punk group Robots In Disguise on several occasions, once in a band called Kraftwerk Orange, along with Vince and "Johnny Two Hats." The Horrors also appear in the third series as the Black Tubes.
Fake Band / int_7ec0cdab	featureApplicability	1.0
Fake Band / int_7ec0cdab	featureConfidence	1.0
The Mighty Boosh	hasFeature	Fake Band / int_7ec0cdab
Fake Band / int_7f83060c	type	Fake Band
Fake Band / int_7f83060c	comment	The half of the bands in Show by Rock!! that aren't entirely made upnote Dropout Sensei (based on Asstellus), Gaugastrikes (KFK), Shinimonogurui (Marie Ueda), Demons Venom (Silhouette from the Skylit), Labomunch (clammbon), Rapezziauto (yksb ft. MiLO & 31style), Chammy Chaplets (kiki*), 04Tobizbits (04 Limited Sazabys), Tekebakitsusou (Usotsuki), Shirorakurosuka? (A Crow Is White), Fukashi Gimmick (Band Gokko), and Spectrenotes (BIGMAMA) are this type of fake band, with characters based on the band's actual members. The bands' actual music is used as in-game songs, and though most of the characters are left unvoiced, the real-life band members' counterparts provide voices for the ones that have voiced cards.
Fake Band / int_7f83060c	featureApplicability	1.0
Fake Band / int_7f83060c	featureConfidence	1.0
Show by Rock!! (Video Game)	hasFeature	Fake Band / int_7f83060c
Fake Band / int_7fbf9019	type	Fake Band
Fake Band / int_7fbf9019	comment	And they recently released their fourth single, titled as Unmei no Farfalla, this time was the single with the ending theme of the game Steins;Gate from nitro+, the same company that developed the game Chaos;Head.
Fake Band / int_7fbf9019	featureApplicability	1.0
Fake Band / int_7fbf9019	featureConfidence	1.0
Steins;Gate (Visual Novel)	hasFeature	Fake Band / int_7fbf9019
Fake Band / int_873dd64	type	Fake Band
Fake Band / int_873dd64	comment	Infant Sorrow, the band fronted by Aldous Snow in Forgetting Sarah Marshall and its sort-of spinoff Get Him to the Greek: The Sarah Marshall soundtrack included two of their songs, while in lieu of a traditional various artists soundtrack, Greek had a tie-in album consisting almost entirely of Infant Sorrow songs, including songs that weren't in the movie. The remaining tracks are also fake musicians - two songs are by Jacki Q, Aldous' pop-singer ex, and a bonus track from the deluxe edition is by Chocolate Daddy, apparently an in-universe One-Hit Wonder note the name is briefly mentioned in dialog as an example of an artist on Aldous' label who flopped - later there's a callback where an eponymous song is briefly heard as source music. Russell Brand does in fact sing all of the Infant Sorrow songs, although the music was performed and (mostly) written by others: A majority of the songwriting on the Get Him To The Greek soundtrack was done by Jason Segel and guitarist/session musician Lyle Workman, with contributions from some well-known rock musicians like Carl BarÃ¢t and Jarvis Cocker.
Fake Band / int_873dd64	featureApplicability	1.0
Fake Band / int_873dd64	featureConfidence	1.0
Forgetting Sarah Marshall	hasFeature	Fake Band / int_873dd64
Fake Band / int_88222c71	type	Fake Band
Fake Band / int_88222c71	comment	Interesting case in the movie Singles. Real-life bands Alice in Chains and Soundgarden play themselves, but three members of Pearl Jam play Matt Dillon's backing band members of the fictitious Citizen Dick, although for some reason they use their real names. A full version of Citizen Dick's "Touch Me I'm Dick" note a cover / parody of Mudhoney's "Touch Me I'm Sick" performed by the same members of Pearl Jam and Matt Dillon was released as a 7" single in 2015 for Record Store Day, and would also appear on a deluxe edition of the soundtrack album.
Fake Band / int_88222c71	featureApplicability	1.0
Fake Band / int_88222c71	featureConfidence	1.0
Singles	hasFeature	Fake Band / int_88222c71
Fake Band / int_8906d354	type	Fake Band
Fake Band / int_8906d354	comment	Brazilian heavy metal band Massacration is composed by the Five-Man Band that forms the comedy group Hermes & Renato. The band appeared as a skit back in their own eponymous MTV program, in 2002. They are a downright stereotype of every heavy metal clichÃ© in the book, from being dressed in denim and leather (they adopted a more Hair Metal look later on) to singing in Engrish to being devil worshipers (one of their videos even has the devil chasing them around... only to ask for their autographs), but the joke made so much of a success among viewers, they have two albums out, which are pretty good, as long as you don't take it all too seriously. Oh, and they also helped make heavy metal more popular among Brazilian teens, along with Guitar Hero. To understand what their backstory is about, check the article on Wikipedia. Think Dethklok, mix it with Spinal Tap, add some black humor-laden slapstick and a blatantly overblown backstory and the end result is Massacration. Their second album, Good Blood Headbanguers (intentional misspelling) was produced by none other than Roy Z. How's that for status in the metal community?
Fake Band / int_8906d354	featureApplicability	1.0
Fake Band / int_8906d354	featureConfidence	1.0
Massacration (Music)	hasFeature	Fake Band / int_8906d354
Fake Band / int_8aa7c509	type	Fake Band
Fake Band / int_8aa7c509	comment	Star vs. the Forces of Evil has the pop-rock boy band Love Sentence. Star is a big fan of them, and in "Friendenemies" it turns out Marco and Tom (Star's demonic ex-boyfriend) are fans as well.
Fake Band / int_8aa7c509	featureApplicability	1.0
Fake Band / int_8aa7c509	featureConfidence	1.0
Star vs. the Forces of Evil	hasFeature	Fake Band / int_8aa7c509
Fake Band / int_8baa6b4d	type	Fake Band
Fake Band / int_8baa6b4d	comment	Double Dragon Neon's soundtrack, produced by Jake Kaufman, features several fake bands such as Mango Tango and Billy & The Breakers.
Fake Band / int_8baa6b4d	featureApplicability	1.0
Fake Band / int_8baa6b4d	featureConfidence	1.0
Double Dragon Neon (Video Game)	hasFeature	Fake Band / int_8baa6b4d
Fake Band / int_8d817ccb	type	Fake Band
Fake Band / int_8d817ccb	comment	Similarly, washed-up rock star Charlie Pace from Lost has a character background as the former bassist and songwriter for one-hit wonder alt rock band DriveSHAFT, who produced the song "You All Everybody", a song deliberately designed by the producers to be as lightweight, vapid and meaningless as possible. (The song's incomprehensible lyrics are taken from a rant many years ago on the Phil Donahue show.) The actual song we hear on the show was recorded by LA singer/songwriter Jude; the producers have joked that they hoped for it to become a hit on iTunes, which it has yet to do (though it did show up in a cameo on J.J. Abrams' other show, Alias).
Fake Band / int_8d817ccb	featureApplicability	1.0
Fake Band / int_8d817ccb	featureConfidence	1.0
Lost	hasFeature	Fake Band / int_8d817ccb
Fake Band / int_8d840259	type	Fake Band
Fake Band / int_8d840259	comment	SCTV had Yosh and Stan Schmenge (John Candy and Eugene Levy) and their polka band, "The Happy Wanderers". They performed their song "The Cabbage Rolls and Coffee Polka" live on Late Night with David Letterman, and even had a "mocumentary" TV movie about their "career", called The Last Polka. Candy and Levy could really play their instruments (clarinet and accordion, respectively).
Fake Band / int_8d840259	featureApplicability	1.0
Fake Band / int_8d840259	featureConfidence	1.0
SCTV	hasFeature	Fake Band / int_8d840259
Fake Band / int_8e193f0b	type	Fake Band
Fake Band / int_8e193f0b	comment	Alan Matthews, the Dad on Boy Meets World was a member of a band called "The Tongues" in his youth. Cory and Shawn also form a literal fake band (i.e. they hav no idea how to actually play) on one episode which they dub "The Exits."
Fake Band / int_8e193f0b	featureApplicability	1.0
Fake Band / int_8e193f0b	featureConfidence	1.0
Boy Meets World	hasFeature	Fake Band / int_8e193f0b
Fake Band / int_8e7e0721	type	Fake Band
Fake Band / int_8e7e0721	comment	Madness' Cover Album The Dangermen Sessions, Volume One casts them as a recently re-formed Cuban reggae group, The Dangermen.
Fake Band / int_8e7e0721	featureApplicability	1.0
Fake Band / int_8e7e0721	featureConfidence	1.0
Madness (Band) (Music)	hasFeature	Fake Band / int_8e7e0721
Fake Band / int_8f53b3b5	type	Fake Band
Fake Band / int_8f53b3b5	comment	The manga series Idol no Akahon is about a (fictional) Idol Singer group called Triple Booking, and the OP song from Seitokai Yakuindomo (by the same author) is credited to Triple Booking.
Fake Band / int_8f53b3b5	featureApplicability	1.0
Fake Band / int_8f53b3b5	featureConfidence	1.0
Idol No Akahon (Manga)	hasFeature	Fake Band / int_8f53b3b5
Fake Band / int_9029ed4d	type	Fake Band
Fake Band / int_9029ed4d	comment	The plot of Interstella 5555 revolves around the Crescendolls, a fake band who supposedly recorded Daft Punk's "One More Time." The band is fake on more than one level, because they don't exist in real life and they aren't really who they appear to be in the film either.
Fake Band / int_9029ed4d	featureApplicability	1.0
Fake Band / int_9029ed4d	featureConfidence	1.0
Interstella 5555	hasFeature	Fake Band / int_9029ed4d
Fake Band / int_9058ad7e	type	Fake Band
Fake Band / int_9058ad7e	comment	The Terminator has Tahnee Cain and The Tryanglz, a fictional New Wave Music group fronted by actress Tane Cain (nee McClure). In addition to the three songs in the film, the faux-band recorded several more demos for a planned album, which unfortunately never saw release.
Fake Band / int_9058ad7e	featureApplicability	1.0
Fake Band / int_9058ad7e	featureConfidence	1.0
The Terminator	hasFeature	Fake Band / int_9058ad7e
Fake Band / int_90a3a7f4	type	Fake Band
Fake Band / int_90a3a7f4	comment	Kim Possible features the boy-band group Oh Boyz.
Fake Band / int_90a3a7f4	featureApplicability	1.0
Fake Band / int_90a3a7f4	featureConfidence	1.0
Kim Possible	hasFeature	Fake Band / int_90a3a7f4
Fake Band / int_93c9c44b	type	Fake Band
Fake Band / int_93c9c44b	comment	Fountains of Wayne has basically made a career out of standing in as a Fake Band, and Kay Hanley has made a career out of standing in as a Fake Vocalist. They performed together to provide the music for Josie and the Pussycats. Fountains of Wayne also wrote and performed the titular Fake Song of That Thing You Do!, and Hanley provided the singing voice of Molly O from the cartoon Generation O! (her band was portrayed by Hanley's band at the time, Letters to Cleo). Fountains of Wayne appeared as animated versions of themselves in the cartoon Hey Joel, regularly contributing Suspiciously Apropos Music to the show. The lead vocals of "That Thing You Do" — and all the other singing by Johnathon Schaech's character — were performed by Adam Schlesinger's friend Mike Viola of The Candy Butchers.
Fake Band / int_93c9c44b	featureApplicability	1.0
Fake Band / int_93c9c44b	featureConfidence	1.0
Fountains of Wayne (Music)	hasFeature	Fake Band / int_93c9c44b
Fake Band / int_952594b3	type	Fake Band
Fake Band / int_952594b3	comment	In the climax of the 1986 film Crossroads (1986), the protagonist (Ralph Macchio) enters a guitar duel to save his soul. He faces off against the Devil's guitarist, Jack Butler, played by legendary guitar wizard Steve Vai (Vai played both parts of the duel; Macchio's parts in the rest of the film were played by legendary slide guitarist Ry Cooder).
Fake Band / int_952594b3	featureApplicability	1.0
Fake Band / int_952594b3	featureConfidence	1.0
Crossroads (1986)	hasFeature	Fake Band / int_952594b3
Fake Band / int_959dd815	type	Fake Band
Fake Band / int_959dd815	comment	The fake band/fake musician is a pretty standard character in Professional Wrestling, with The Honky Tonk Man, "Double J" Jeff Jarrett, the West Texas Rednecks, and 3 Count all laying claim to the title. Most of them will produce real music, either in a live performance on the wrestling federation's television program, or a "music video" aired on the show (if we're lucky, the song will be lip-synced, and sung by somebody who actually knows what they're doing rather than the wrestler himself). The Double J example is actually a triple subversion, as they ran a story admitting that Jarrett wasn't singing his tune... then claimed another wrestler (now known as B.G. James, at the time, playing Jarrett's roadie) actually sang it... which he had in real life, and not badly either! However, actual bands formed by wrestlers, namely Chris Jericho's metal band Fozzy, rarely appear on wrestling television shows so people don't think that these bands are fake.
Fake Band / int_959dd815	featureApplicability	1.0
Fake Band / int_959dd815	featureConfidence	1.0
Professional Wrestling	hasFeature	Fake Band / int_959dd815
Fake Band / int_97e7606f	type	Fake Band
Fake Band / int_97e7606f	comment	Radio host Pat Maine in the game Alan Wake can't quite put his finger on why Poets of the Fall remind him so much of Bright Falls' local rock legends, Heavy Mithril band Old Gods of Asgard.
Fake Band / int_97e7606f	featureApplicability	1.0
Fake Band / int_97e7606f	featureConfidence	1.0
Alan Wake (Video Game)	hasFeature	Fake Band / int_97e7606f
Fake Band / int_9888f901	type	Fake Band
Fake Band / int_9888f901	comment	Mystik Spiral from the MTV cartoon, Daria. But they might have changed their name...
Fake Band / int_9888f901	featureApplicability	1.0
Fake Band / int_9888f901	featureConfidence	1.0
Daria	hasFeature	Fake Band / int_9888f901
Fake Band / int_98bc436a	type	Fake Band
Fake Band / int_98bc436a	comment	Gumby, Pokey, Prickle and Goo had a band together in the episodes from The '80s, simply titled "The Gumbys," with Gumby on lead guitar, Pokey on drums, Goo on keyboard, and Prickle alternating on saxophone or bass guitar. Curiously, they never had any original vocal songs; save for an 80s rock rendition of "Mary Had a Little Lamb" with Goo singing lead vocals in the episode "Of Note", all of the band's performances and music videos were of instrumental compositions, though Gumby often made up for this by demonstrating his Voluntary Shapeshifting abilities while jamming on his guitar. 1995's Gumby: The Movie took this further, by retconning Gumby's band so that instead of his close pals making up the rest of the Gumbys, Gumby instead serves as the lead guitarist for a band called The Clayboys, also consisting of Thinbuckle on rhythm guitar, Fatbuckle on drums and Nobuckle on bass guitar. Gumby's shapeshifting during performances becomes a Plot Point when it causes Gumby's pet dog Nobelly to cry pearls. Then near the end, when shooting a music video, Gumby dances with a girl named Tara who has a crush on him, and sings lead vocals to the song "Take Me Away."
Fake Band / int_98bc436a	featureApplicability	1.0
Fake Band / int_98bc436a	featureConfidence	1.0
Gumby	hasFeature	Fake Band / int_98bc436a
Fake Band / int_9b530c26	type	Fake Band
Fake Band / int_9b530c26	comment	And speaking of Archie and the Riverdale gang, they also formed a fictional band, the Archies. (Which, while generally less famous than Josie and the Pussycats in their shared milieu, released many real-world records, including the #1 hit "Sugar, Sugar".)
Fake Band / int_9b530c26	featureApplicability	1.0
Fake Band / int_9b530c26	featureConfidence	1.0
Archie Comics (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Fake Band / int_9b530c26
Fake Band / int_9f3561fe	type	Fake Band
Fake Band / int_9f3561fe	comment	Gravitation featured the rising success of fake J-pop group Bad Luck, suspiciously acronymized to BL. Naturally, once it got adapted from manga to anime, they needed to produce real music.
Fake Band / int_9f3561fe	featureApplicability	1.0
Fake Band / int_9f3561fe	featureConfidence	1.0
Gravitation (Manga)	hasFeature	Fake Band / int_9f3561fe
Fake Band / int_a0551eca	type	Fake Band
Fake Band / int_a0551eca	comment	"The Molly Phillips Band" in So Weird, itself the offspring of the backstory "Phillips-Kane Band", which may have been a Fictional Counterpart of Fleetwood Mac.
Fake Band / int_a0551eca	featureApplicability	1.0
Fake Band / int_a0551eca	featureConfidence	1.0
So Weird	hasFeature	Fake Band / int_a0551eca
Fake Band / int_a30ff4ed	type	Fake Band
Fake Band / int_a30ff4ed	comment	Yes-Man's Munchausen by Proxy, who had four of their songs on the official soundtrack, all of which were cowritten and sung by Zooey Deschanel. Taken a little bit further in the packaging - the other nine songs on the official soundtrack album are by Eels, so the liner notes have an essay about Munchausen by Proxy penned by Eels' Mark Oliver Everett and an essay about Eels supposedly written by Zooey's character Allison Monier.
Fake Band / int_a30ff4ed	featureApplicability	1.0
Fake Band / int_a30ff4ed	featureConfidence	1.0
Yes-Man	hasFeature	Fake Band / int_a30ff4ed
Fake Band / int_a39dcffa	type	Fake Band
Fake Band / int_a39dcffa	comment	"The Weird Sisters" in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire included Jarvis Cocker and Steve Mackey of Pulp, Phil Selway and Jonny Greenwood of Radiohead, Steve Claydon of Add N to (X), and electronica artist Jason Buckle, who has worked with Jarvis Cocker in their side-project Relaxed Muscle.
Fake Band / int_a39dcffa	featureApplicability	1.0
Fake Band / int_a39dcffa	featureConfidence	1.0
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire	hasFeature	Fake Band / int_a39dcffa
Fake Band / int_a47b725f	type	Fake Band
Fake Band / int_a47b725f	comment	Beck/Mongolian Chop Squad, from the series of the same name. They're a hit in the USA.
Fake Band / int_a47b725f	featureApplicability	1.0
Fake Band / int_a47b725f	featureConfidence	1.0
BECK (1999) (Manga)	hasFeature	Fake Band / int_a47b725f
Fake Band / int_a9f06cb6	type	Fake Band
Fake Band / int_a9f06cb6	comment	An entire album showcasing a fictional live concert held in Paducah, Kentucky for Boyz In The Sink from VeggieTales was released in 2006.
Fake Band / int_a9f06cb6	featureApplicability	1.0
Fake Band / int_a9f06cb6	featureConfidence	1.0
VeggieTales	hasFeature	Fake Band / int_a9f06cb6
Fake Band / int_ac235572	type	Fake Band
Fake Band / int_ac235572	comment	Two different J-Pop artists were pressed into service as the fake bands from Nana — and a different pair of artists portrayed those bands in The Movie. All four wound up releasing Top 10 singles.
Fake Band / int_ac235572	featureApplicability	1.0
Fake Band / int_ac235572	featureConfidence	1.0
Nana (Manga)	hasFeature	Fake Band / int_ac235572
Fake Band / int_ac4b6a62	type	Fake Band
Fake Band / int_ac4b6a62	comment	Questionable Content has DeathmÃ¸le, the male lead's band, with him as guitarist. They have released several albums of actual music, composed and played entirely by author Jeph Jacques.
Fake Band / int_ac4b6a62	featureApplicability	1.0
Fake Band / int_ac4b6a62	featureConfidence	1.0
Questionable Content (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Fake Band / int_ac4b6a62
Fake Band / int_aeb6ec24	type	Fake Band
Fake Band / int_aeb6ec24	comment	The Rainbow Magic series has The Angels, A-OK, The Groove Gang, and Frosty and his Gobolicious Band.
Fake Band / int_aeb6ec24	featureApplicability	1.0
Fake Band / int_aeb6ec24	featureConfidence	1.0
Rainbow Magic	hasFeature	Fake Band / int_aeb6ec24
Fake Band / int_b0e5cff4	type	Fake Band
Fake Band / int_b0e5cff4	comment	Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kids are rock stars-cum-crimefighters.
Fake Band / int_b0e5cff4	featureApplicability	1.0
Fake Band / int_b0e5cff4	featureConfidence	1.0
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kids	hasFeature	Fake Band / int_b0e5cff4
Fake Band / int_b0fc9724	type	Fake Band
Fake Band / int_b0fc9724	comment	The Blues Brothers themselves began as a comedy sketch on Saturday Night Live, when Dan Aykroyd wanted to do something with Blues music on the show, and became a smash hit and released several real albums.
Fake Band / int_b0fc9724	featureApplicability	1.0
Fake Band / int_b0fc9724	featureConfidence	1.0
Saturday Night Live	hasFeature	Fake Band / int_b0fc9724
Fake Band / int_b174f131	type	Fake Band
Fake Band / int_b174f131	comment	A LOT of characters on NoPixel record their own songs. Many of these songs are available In-Universe on a service called Pixify, which can be accessed in real life. Outto-Tune Tyrone is a pop star and gangbanger in-universe. Several of his songs are available on Spotify in real life.
Fake Band / int_b174f131	featureApplicability	1.0
Fake Band / int_b174f131	featureConfidence	1.0
NoPixel (Roleplay)	hasFeature	Fake Band / int_b174f131
Fake Band / int_b4501394	type	Fake Band
Fake Band / int_b4501394	comment	Left 4 Dead 2 brings us the Midnight Riders, whose cancelled concert is used by the survivors to alert the rescue helicopter in the second campaign. Two of their songs, One Bad Man and Midnight Ride are played during the finale (with lyrics- apparently, the Riders were planning to mime) and come up at random on the jukeboxes in other campaigns. A third song, All I Want For Christmas Is To Kick Your Ass was also published on YouTube, and The Passing DLC added Save Me Some Sugar (This Won't Take Long) to their repertoire. Check out their website! "One Bad Man" and "Midnight Ride" are also available as Rock Band DLC.
Fake Band / int_b4501394	featureApplicability	1.0
Fake Band / int_b4501394	featureConfidence	1.0
Left 4 Dead 2 (Video Game)	hasFeature	Fake Band / int_b4501394
Fake Band / int_b4549837	type	Fake Band
Fake Band / int_b4549837	comment	Aggressive Retsuko, the full series, featured OTMGirls, a struggling idol group briefly catapulted into stardom when Retsuko gets recruited. Sanrio produced a full, if brief, album for them.
Fake Band / int_b4549837	featureApplicability	1.0
Fake Band / int_b4549837	featureConfidence	1.0
Aggressive Retsuko	hasFeature	Fake Band / int_b4549837
Fake Band / int_b493baca	type	Fake Band
Fake Band / int_b493baca	comment	Otis Day and the Knights toured as a real band after appearing in Animal House.
Fake Band / int_b493baca	featureApplicability	1.0
Fake Band / int_b493baca	featureConfidence	1.0
Animal House	hasFeature	Fake Band / int_b493baca
Fake Band / int_b598e0f5	type	Fake Band
Fake Band / int_b598e0f5	comment	Frilly Shirt has barbershop trio The Three Swell Chaps, art-rockers The Commissioners of Lunacy, and electronic outfits Bourbon Versailles and Electro-Magnates.
Fake Band / int_b598e0f5	featureApplicability	1.0
Fake Band / int_b598e0f5	featureConfidence	1.0
FrillyShirt	hasFeature	Fake Band / int_b598e0f5
Fake Band / int_b8c8f953	type	Fake Band
Fake Band / int_b8c8f953	comment	PvP has an occasional running gag about a no-music fake band called DjÃ¶rk which was created when several of the regulars were feeling bored.
Fake Band / int_b8c8f953	featureApplicability	1.0
Fake Band / int_b8c8f953	featureConfidence	1.0
PvP (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Fake Band / int_b8c8f953
Fake Band / int_b9b307ee	type	Fake Band
Fake Band / int_b9b307ee	comment	Steel Panther are an odd variant of the trope. The band is a real band but they pose as a band from the heydey of Eighties Hair Metal who never became famous until "recently".
Fake Band / int_b9b307ee	featureApplicability	1.0
Fake Band / int_b9b307ee	featureConfidence	1.0
Steel Panther (Music)	hasFeature	Fake Band / int_b9b307ee
Fake Band / int_bb4d01de	type	Fake Band
Fake Band / int_bb4d01de	comment	The short-lived cartoon The Bremen Avenue Experience updates the medieval story "The Bremen Town Musicians" by starring a Garage Band made of Funny Animals.
Fake Band / int_bb4d01de	featureApplicability	1.0
Fake Band / int_bb4d01de	featureConfidence	1.0
The Bremen Avenue Experience	hasFeature	Fake Band / int_bb4d01de
Fake Band / int_bf54646e	type	Fake Band
Fake Band / int_bf54646e	comment	The Glenn Miller Band's two appearances on film were as Phil Corey's Orchestra in Sun Valley Serenade and Gene Morrison's Orchestra in Orchestra Wives.
Fake Band / int_bf54646e	featureApplicability	1.0
Fake Band / int_bf54646e	featureConfidence	1.0
Glenn Miller (Music)	hasFeature	Fake Band / int_bf54646e
Fake Band / int_bf6690ba	type	Fake Band
Fake Band / int_bf6690ba	comment	In My Little Pony: Equestria Girls â€“ Rainbow Rocks, this trope is a major plot point. The main characters have formed a band called the Rainbooms. This brings them into conflict with the evil Sirens, who are busy spreading a Hate Plague with the Magic Music of their band the Dazzlings, turning a talent show into a hostile Battle of the Bands in the process. About a dozen fake bands make appearances of varying lengths.
Fake Band / int_bf6690ba	featureApplicability	1.0
Fake Band / int_bf6690ba	featureConfidence	1.0
My Little Pony: Equestria Girls â€“ Rainbow Rocks	hasFeature	Fake Band / int_bf6690ba
Fake Band / int_c382c20a	type	Fake Band
Fake Band / int_c382c20a	comment	Although, the band has been defictionalized - to an extent - a la Hannah Montana, releasing two albums that aren't necessarily soundtracks, which feature writing from the band members and don't have some of the songs the band releases in the show, making separate music videos for songs which have different, completely filmed music videos in the show and going on tours with very little in reference to the show itself.
Fake Band / int_c382c20a	featureApplicability	1.0
Fake Band / int_c382c20a	featureConfidence	1.0
Big Time Rush (Music)	hasFeature	Fake Band / int_c382c20a
Fake Band / int_c593876f	type	Fake Band
Fake Band / int_c593876f	comment	That's So Raven had The Boyz 'N' Motion. They appear in two different episodes.
Fake Band / int_c593876f	featureApplicability	1.0
Fake Band / int_c593876f	featureConfidence	1.0
That's So Raven	hasFeature	Fake Band / int_c593876f
Fake Band / int_c69d9563	type	Fake Band
Fake Band / int_c69d9563	comment	Grey Star on The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron, Boy Genius made several appearances on the show, even once or twice as background characters.
Fake Band / int_c69d9563	featureApplicability	1.0
Fake Band / int_c69d9563	featureConfidence	1.0
The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron, Boy Genius	hasFeature	Fake Band / int_c69d9563
Fake Band / int_c861aa06	type	Fake Band
Fake Band / int_c861aa06	comment	Psionics: The Next Stage in Human Evolution has Tomorrow's Starlight, a band that doubles as a covert front for The Zodiac Order. All of the other bands referenced in the book are real. This includes a band called Bedpan Fight.
Fake Band / int_c861aa06	featureApplicability	1.0
Fake Band / int_c861aa06	featureConfidence	1.0
Psionics: The Next Stage in Human Evolution (Tabletop Game)	hasFeature	Fake Band / int_c861aa06
Fake Band / int_cb802e97	type	Fake Band
Fake Band / int_cb802e97	comment	The J-Rock band "Hummingbird" appeared as Macross 7's band "Fire Bomber," whose music and adventures (including live performances aboard Transforming Mecha controlled by guitars) were at the center of the series. The band released a number of real albums as "Fire Bomber", including an entire fake tribute album to another fictional singer in the Macross Myth Arc. There have been 13 "Fire Bomber" albums so far, many of which have songs that never were in the anime.
Fake Band / int_cb802e97	featureApplicability	1.0
Fake Band / int_cb802e97	featureConfidence	1.0
Macross 7	hasFeature	Fake Band / int_cb802e97
Fake Band / int_cbf8de79	type	Fake Band
Fake Band / int_cbf8de79	comment	The titular band from the cartoon Josie and the Pussycats. Note that Josie was not originally conceived as a Fake Band character — Josie was just an Everygirl high school student in the same vein (and universe) as Archie and Jughead, but her comic title, She's Josie, was clumsily retooled as a comic about a wildly popular pop band in order to boost sales enough to justify a TV series (while providing for shameless media tie-ins). The original Josie and the Pussycats Fake Band was a genuine fake band — i.e. a band that existed outside the show's universe, for whom they hired three real female musicians to provide the singing voices of the cartoon characters, appear in album art and actually cut an album. They probably would've gone on to tour in-character as "Josie" and her friends had the album actually made any money. Interestingly, there are countless disparities between the band as it actually appears in the show and the band we hear in the musical numbers. Josie, for instance, is presented as the band's lead singer, but most of the lead vocals on the songs actually come from Patrice Holloway, who played Valerie Brown. Moreover, the formula used for the band's songs was a heavily studio-produced R&B sound, while Josie's band in the comic is a three-piece band with two guitars and a drummer. Almost always, fans of the show were treated to scenes of Josie's band rehearsing at home, playing in concerts or giving impromptu live performances with mysterious orchestral string sections or flutes or synthesizers coming out of nowhere. The Josie and the Pussycats movie was better about this, at least in the sense that the kind of pop-punk music that the new Pussycats play is something that you can more realistically imagine three teenage girls coming up with in their garage. On a separate note, the movie was also eerily prescient, foreshadowing the replacement of boy bands and pop princesses with power pop (Good Charlotte, Paramore) and singer-songwriters (Kelly Clarkson, Avril Lavigne) following the Turn of the Millennium. (The movie was made in 2001. The following year, Avril Lavigne, Good Charlotte, and Simple Plan broke into the mainstream.) Maybe the producers recognized that people were getting tired of bubblegum pop?
Fake Band / int_cbf8de79	featureApplicability	1.0
Fake Band / int_cbf8de79	featureConfidence	1.0
Josie and the Pussycats	hasFeature	Fake Band / int_cbf8de79
Fake Band / int_cc2a7289	type	Fake Band
Fake Band / int_cc2a7289	comment	The League of Gentlemen had Glam Rockers Creme Brulee, who supposedly were second in the Song for UK heats for the 1981 Eurovision Song Contest.
Fake Band / int_cc2a7289	featureApplicability	1.0
Fake Band / int_cc2a7289	featureConfidence	1.0
The League of Gentlemen	hasFeature	Fake Band / int_cc2a7289
Fake Band / int_cdf300d9	type	Fake Band
Fake Band / int_cdf300d9	comment	PJ and Duncan spun off from children's soap Byker Grove, whose characters PJ and Duncan formed a band. They released three albums of light hip-hop under that name, and another more soulful (and less successful) one as Ant and Dec, the actors' real names. They did their own singing but didn't write the songs.
Fake Band / int_cdf300d9	featureApplicability	1.0
Fake Band / int_cdf300d9	featureConfidence	1.0
Byker Grove	hasFeature	Fake Band / int_cdf300d9
Fake Band / int_ce94ce33	type	Fake Band
Fake Band / int_ce94ce33	comment	Jellystone!: In "Yogi's Midlife Crisis", Yogi starts his own rock band with Doggie Daddy, Chopper, Captain Caveman, and Squiddly Diddly. Yogi is the lead singer and guitarist, Doggie Daddy plays the melodica, Captain Caveman plays the drums, Chopper is the bassist, and Squiddly is the backup singer. However, when Squiddly's singing talent outshines Yogi's, he quits the band. Meanwhile, the others form the group Squiddly and the Diddlys.
Fake Band / int_ce94ce33	featureApplicability	1.0
Fake Band / int_ce94ce33	featureConfidence	1.0
Jellystone!	hasFeature	Fake Band / int_ce94ce33
Fake Band / int_d120122a	type	Fake Band
Fake Band / int_d120122a	comment	The Ikemens in Kamen Rider Kiva, of which Kengo (master of The Power of Rock) and Wataru (withdrawn hero) are a part of. Since Wataru's actor sings as part of the real band TETRA-FANG to produce the show's insert battle songs, the line between the Ikemens and TETRA-FANG is a thin one indeed.
Fake Band / int_d120122a	featureApplicability	1.0
Fake Band / int_d120122a	featureConfidence	1.0
Kamen Rider Kiva	hasFeature	Fake Band / int_d120122a
Fake Band / int_d45837ba	type	Fake Band
Fake Band / int_d45837ba	comment	Subverted in Cities: Skylines: most bands played on the in-game radio are fake, with the exception of at least two of the artists featured in the "Concerts" DLC: NESTOR (who are an actual Swedish rock group) and MOTi. Jury is out when it comes to Lily LaRoux, who apparently showed up at the game's promotional event in person, but whose musical achievements cannot be traced elsewhere.
Fake Band / int_d45837ba	featureApplicability	-0.3
Fake Band / int_d45837ba	featureConfidence	1.0
Cities: Skylines (Video Game)	hasFeature	Fake Band / int_d45837ba
Fake Band / int_d7503952	type	Fake Band
Fake Band / int_d7503952	comment	"C-Drive" from GEAR Fighter Dendoh, which was a popular band in the show - at least, the protagonist, a loud-mouthed martial artist, loved them... even if they did play a lot of 'girlie' tunes. Though, they were quite good and their songs were sometimes used as alternate theme songs.
Fake Band / int_d7503952	featureApplicability	1.0
Fake Band / int_d7503952	featureConfidence	1.0
GEAR Fighter Dendoh	hasFeature	Fake Band / int_d7503952
Fake Band / int_db4fa1f7	type	Fake Band
Fake Band / int_db4fa1f7	comment	The Steve Harvey Show has Steve Hightower and the Hi-Tops. They reunite and perform during the show's early seasons. When the band breaks up for good, Steve and Cedric form another Fake Band called The Soul Teachers. Steve manages a girl group called Barely Legal, until Regina's feminist meddling causes the group to break up and pursue worthier goals.
Fake Band / int_db4fa1f7	featureApplicability	1.0
Fake Band / int_db4fa1f7	featureConfidence	1.0
The Steve Harvey Show	hasFeature	Fake Band / int_db4fa1f7
Fake Band / int_dcb07085	type	Fake Band
Fake Band / int_dcb07085	comment	The animated version of The Band With Rocks In produced some pretty decent rock'n'roll pastiches, which appeared in full on the soundtrack album.
Fake Band / int_dcb07085	featureApplicability	1.0
Fake Band / int_dcb07085	featureConfidence	1.0
Soul Music	hasFeature	Fake Band / int_dcb07085
Fake Band / int_deb36db8	type	Fake Band
Fake Band / int_deb36db8	comment	Kids Incorporated, in the series of the same name.
Fake Band / int_deb36db8	featureApplicability	1.0
Fake Band / int_deb36db8	featureConfidence	1.0
Kids Incorporated	hasFeature	Fake Band / int_deb36db8
Fake Band / int_df583598	type	Fake Band
Fake Band / int_df583598	comment	The Cheetah Girls were originally a book series, but it did have the same models on every book cover. In 2003 the series was made into a movie, which released original songs by The Cheetah Girls. Ultimately the band was defictionalized with Adrienne Bailon, Kiely Williams, and Sabrina Bryan from the movie. This crosses over with "Real bands masquerading as fake bands", since Kiely Williams and Adrienne Bailon were both from the real band 3LW.
Fake Band / int_df583598	featureApplicability	1.0
Fake Band / int_df583598	featureConfidence	1.0
The Cheetah Girls	hasFeature	Fake Band / int_df583598
Fake Band / int_e25322af	type	Fake Band
Fake Band / int_e25322af	comment	The creators of Homestar Runner have created at least two heavy-metal Fake Bands as a Running Gag for their website — hair-metal parody Limozeen and death-metal parody Taranchula. Both "bands" contributed songs to the website's soundtrack album, Strong Bad Sings and Other Type Hits, and both bands' names were coined by Strong Bad, following the band naming philosophy of taking a cool-sounding word and misspelling it. Limozeen performed a real live show in Atlanta, Georgia, and both Strong Bad and Limozeen's music have been featured in the Guitar Hero series ("Trogdor" in II and "Because, It's Midnite" in Rocks the 80s). Strong Sad's favorite band is the lo-fi alt-rock pastiche sloshy (spelled with the lowercase 's'), who have a hit song called "We Don't Even Really Care About You". They covered one of Limozeen's songs while Limozeen covered theirs. Peacey P appears to make a career largely out of appearing as guest rapper in other peoples' music; even appearing as a guest in one of his own albums! He even manages to accidentally record a rap song with Coach Z. Another frequently featured "guest artist" (usually collaborating with Peacey P) is R&B singer Tenerence Love. Here's one to wrap your head around. The garage band parody Brainkrieg (of the spinoff series Teen Girl Squad, which is a comic drawn and voiced by Strong Bad in-universe) originated as a one-off joke in the Strong Bad E-mails (much like TGS; actually, pretty much like every spin-off on the site; Sbemails themselves can arguably be called a spin-off feature from the main cartoons), which was a comment on words starting with "D-E" that do not belong in death metal (cut to the Battle of the Crappy High School bands, a reference to a previous TGS episode, where Brainkrieg shouts words like "Dentist!" and "Deli-style!" along with their future catchphrase "Jugga-jigga-wugga"). Flash forward a bit, and Brainkrieg is featured in two TGS-style "music videos", both holiday-related ("If I Don't Get Videogames (For Decemberween)" and "Decomposing Pumpkins"), with actual musical backing as opposed to a few shouted lines. So, to recap: a fake band which is a spinoff from a comic that is a spinoff of a (somewhat) spinoff fan mail series, originating as an off-hand reference in the fan mail series to an episode of the comic spinoff, which is now doing holiday-themed spinoff music videos. The characters of the cartoon themselves have formed their own bands: Marzipan, The Cheat, and Strong Mad perform in a folk-rock trio known as "Cool Tapes"; Coach Z and Bubs apparently jam together as the Two-O Duo on occasion; and in the Strong Bad Email "senior prom", the Poopsmith and the rest of the King of Town's servants performed at the "Entrapment All Up On The Moon" Dance as "All The King's Men". In Baddest of the Bands, Pom Pom and Homestar form Pomstar, while Strong Bad, the King of Town, and Homsar start DOI.
Fake Band / int_e25322af	featureApplicability	1.0
Fake Band / int_e25322af	featureConfidence	1.0
Homestar Runner (Web Animation)	hasFeature	Fake Band / int_e25322af
Fake Band / int_e293455a	type	Fake Band
Fake Band / int_e293455a	comment	Four Star Mary stood in for Oz's fictional band, Dingoes Ate My Baby, on Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
Fake Band / int_e293455a	featureApplicability	1.0
Fake Band / int_e293455a	featureConfidence	1.0
Buffy the Vampire Slayer	hasFeature	Fake Band / int_e293455a
Fake Band / int_e2aa3bec	type	Fake Band
Fake Band / int_e2aa3bec	comment	Sam B. from Dead Island may be a fake rapper (Josef "J7" Lord providing his rapping voice), but that didn't stop him from doing a collab with Chamillionaire.
Fake Band / int_e2aa3bec	featureApplicability	1.0
Fake Band / int_e2aa3bec	featureConfidence	1.0
Dead Island (Video Game)	hasFeature	Fake Band / int_e2aa3bec
Fake Band / int_e485375e	type	Fake Band
Fake Band / int_e485375e	comment	After-School Tea Time and Death Devil from K-On! can qualify. The voice actresses sing the lyrics for basically every vocalized song in the series, but the music is done by others. Albums of the openings, endings, and a number of the insert songs have topped Japanese sales charts at least once.
Fake Band / int_e485375e	featureApplicability	1.0
Fake Band / int_e485375e	featureConfidence	1.0
K-On! (Manga)	hasFeature	Fake Band / int_e485375e
Fake Band / int_e4ff867f	type	Fake Band
Fake Band / int_e4ff867f	comment	Growing Up Creepie: In Season 2, Episode 8: Going For Brogue, The 3 Goth Kids formed their own rockband calling themselves "Plaid Vapors", with Raven the guitarist, Misery the pianist, & Morpheus the drummer. Their chance to play at the school dance may have got canceled due to it's bagpipers gone batty, but believe it or not their 1st gig was a huge success. This was in large part in their friend Creepie Creecher & her mastery of the bagpipes, Raven Mcfadden herself was so proud of her that night. What she also told Creepie that the bagpipes itself contain the ghost of her great great great great great grandfather Angus Mcfadden, born in Scotland no doubt.
Fake Band / int_e4ff867f	featureApplicability	1.0
Fake Band / int_e4ff867f	featureConfidence	1.0
Growing Up Creepie	hasFeature	Fake Band / int_e4ff867f
Fake Band / int_e5a5a969	type	Fake Band
Fake Band / int_e5a5a969	comment	The Electrocutes, a fictional rock band from Drive Me Crazy, were portrayed by real group The Donnas. This was something of a Development Gag for the real band, who did play some shows under that name before settling on The Donnas.
Fake Band / int_e5a5a969	featureApplicability	1.0
Fake Band / int_e5a5a969	featureConfidence	1.0
Drive Me Crazy	hasFeature	Fake Band / int_e5a5a969
Fake Band / int_e75ff4cf	type	Fake Band
Fake Band / int_e75ff4cf	comment	California Dreams features a Fake Band of the same name that also doubled as your standard teen comedy clique.
Fake Band / int_e75ff4cf	featureApplicability	1.0
Fake Band / int_e75ff4cf	featureConfidence	1.0
California Dreams	hasFeature	Fake Band / int_e75ff4cf
Fake Band / int_ea943f42	type	Fake Band
Fake Band / int_ea943f42	comment	Banjo & Sullivan from The Devil's Rejects are kind of an unusual example: None of their music actually appeared in the movie (although the characters had a backstory of being touring musicians), but a supposed Greatest Hits Album was released as a tie-in to the movie, with the music actually provided by country singer Jesse Dayton.
Fake Band / int_ea943f42	featureApplicability	1.0
Fake Band / int_ea943f42	featureConfidence	1.0
The Devil's Rejects	hasFeature	Fake Band / int_ea943f42
Fake Band / int_ea9a8	type	Fake Band
Fake Band / int_ea9a8	comment	"Guardians Inferno", the third end credits song of Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, is credited to "The Sneepers feat. David Hasselhoff". There is, of course, no such band; in the song's music video, it's the main cast of the movie and director James Gunn having loads of fun in full Disco regalia.
Fake Band / int_ea9a8	featureApplicability	1.0
Fake Band / int_ea9a8	featureConfidence	1.0
Guardians Inferno (Music)	hasFeature	Fake Band / int_ea9a8
Fake Band / int_ebfc3da6	type	Fake Band
Fake Band / int_ebfc3da6	comment	Studio 666 has Dream Widow, a heavy metal band who met a grisly fate while recording in the same mansion studio that the Foo Fighters are now recording in. A self-titled Dream Widow album was released a few months after the movie was - with all songs for the most part written, played, and produced by Dave Grohl.
Fake Band / int_ebfc3da6	featureApplicability	1.0
Fake Band / int_ebfc3da6	featureConfidence	1.0
Studio 666	hasFeature	Fake Band / int_ebfc3da6
Fake Band / int_ec220d07	type	Fake Band
Fake Band / int_ec220d07	comment	The Josie and the Pussycats movie was better about this, at least in the sense that the kind of pop-punk music that the new Pussycats play is something that you can more realistically imagine three teenage girls coming up with in their garage. On a separate note, the movie was also eerily prescient, foreshadowing the replacement of boy bands and pop princesses with power pop (Good Charlotte, Paramore) and singer-songwriters (Kelly Clarkson, Avril Lavigne) following the Turn of the Millennium. (The movie was made in 2001. The following year, Avril Lavigne, Good Charlotte, and Simple Plan broke into the mainstream.) Maybe the producers recognized that people were getting tired of bubblegum pop?
Fake Band / int_ec220d07	featureApplicability	1.0
Fake Band / int_ec220d07	featureConfidence	1.0
Josie and the Pussycats	hasFeature	Fake Band / int_ec220d07
Fake Band / int_ec682b81	type	Fake Band
Fake Band / int_ec682b81	comment	Fraktus who allegedly invented Techno as early as 1980 are not so much a real band disguising as a fake one, but rather a comedy group disguising as a band. They're one of several projects by Studio Braun, and their instrumental backings mostly came from Carsten "Erobique" Meyer.
Fake Band / int_ec682b81	featureApplicability	1.0
Fake Band / int_ec682b81	featureConfidence	1.0
Fraktus (Music)	hasFeature	Fake Band / int_ec682b81
Fake Band / int_ed8ea212	type	Fake Band
Fake Band / int_ed8ea212	comment	The Bedrock Rockers from The Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm Show.
Fake Band / int_ed8ea212	featureApplicability	1.0
Fake Band / int_ed8ea212	featureConfidence	1.0
The Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm Show	hasFeature	Fake Band / int_ed8ea212
Fake Band / int_ee384546	type	Fake Band
Fake Band / int_ee384546	comment	The songs that play on the radio in Cyberpunk 2077 were recorded by real artists under in-world pseudonyms. Refused stand in for Samurai, the iconic rock band led by the Deuteragonist Johnny Silverhand, with Dennis Lyxzen providing the singing voice of Johnny, full-borg singer Lizzy Wizzy is played by Grimes and the singing voices of the fictional trio Us Cracks are provided by Namakopuri.
Fake Band / int_ee384546	featureApplicability	1.0
Fake Band / int_ee384546	featureConfidence	1.0
Cyberpunk 2077 (Video Game)	hasFeature	Fake Band / int_ee384546
Fake Band / int_f140ab40	type	Fake Band
Fake Band / int_f140ab40	comment	In the 2007 film St Trinians, real-life band Girls Aloud perform the closing song, credited as the school band.
Fake Band / int_f140ab40	featureApplicability	1.0
Fake Band / int_f140ab40	featureConfidence	1.0
St Trinian's (2007)	hasFeature	Fake Band / int_f140ab40
Fake Band / int_f23aadc2	type	Fake Band
Fake Band / int_f23aadc2	comment	From Who's the Boss?, the doo-wop group "Tony and the Dreamtones" is played by actual doo-wop group "The Mighty Echoes" (plus, of course, Tony Danza). (They did have Ray Charles As Himself in another ep, however, even replacing the usual "Brand New Life" endcredit instrumental with a song Charles and the other cast members performed.)
Fake Band / int_f23aadc2	featureApplicability	1.0
Fake Band / int_f23aadc2	featureConfidence	1.0
Who's the Boss?	hasFeature	Fake Band / int_f23aadc2
Fake Band / int_f724b70d	type	Fake Band
Fake Band / int_f724b70d	comment	The Subdigitals of Code Lyoko (known as the "Subsonics" in Season 2, but renamed as there was already a real band with that name) not only have a pretty heavy presence in the series proper, but an actual album released in English and French. It's above-average French pop, though it is worth note that the English release is not so much a "translation" as a complete rewrite with varying levels of success. The song "S'envoler/Break Away" is adapted from the show's ending theme, and it and "Planet Net" are featured in the episode "Music to Soothe the Savage Beast."
Fake Band / int_f724b70d	featureApplicability	1.0
Fake Band / int_f724b70d	featureConfidence	1.0
Code Lyoko	hasFeature	Fake Band / int_f724b70d
Fake Band / int_fd0b8b37	type	Fake Band
Fake Band / int_fd0b8b37	comment	Eddie and the Cruisers included the ubiquitous radio hit "On The Dark Side," which was in actuality performed by John Cafferty and the Beaver Brown Band.
Fake Band / int_fd0b8b37	featureApplicability	1.0
Fake Band / int_fd0b8b37	featureConfidence	1.0
Eddie and the Cruisers	hasFeature	Fake Band / int_fd0b8b37

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Fake Band	processingCategory2	Music Tropes
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Interstella 5555 / int_6d7bc0f	type	Fake Band
Ojamajo Doremi / int_6d7bc0f	type	Fake Band
Sensation Comics Featuring Wonder Woman (Comic Book) / int_6d7bc0f	type	Fake Band
Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_6d7bc0f	type	Fake Band
A Mighty Wind / int_6d7bc0f	type	Fake Band
All About Lily Chou-Chou / int_6d7bc0f	type	Fake Band
American Graffiti / int_6d7bc0f	type	Fake Band
Animal House / int_6d7bc0f	type	Fake Band
Bandslam / int_6d7bc0f	type	Fake Band
Blues Brothers 2000 / int_6d7bc0f	type	Fake Band
Crossroads (1986) / int_6d7bc0f	type	Fake Band
Drive Me Crazy / int_6d7bc0f	type	Fake Band
Elizabethtown / int_6d7bc0f	type	Fake Band
Get Him to the Greek / int_6d7bc0f	type	Fake Band
Jennifer's Body / int_6d7bc0f	type	Fake Band
More American Graffiti / int_6d7bc0f	type	Fake Band
O Brother, Where Art Thou? / int_6d7bc0f	type	Fake Band
Picture Day / int_6d7bc0f	type	Fake Band
Pod People / int_6d7bc0f	type	Fake Band
Rock Star / int_6d7bc0f	type	Fake Band
Rockabilly Zombie Weekend / int_6d7bc0f	type	Fake Band
Scott Pilgrim vs. The World / int_6d7bc0f	type	Fake Band
St. Trinian's 2: The Legend of Fritton's Gold / int_6d7bc0f	type	Fake Band
Streets of Fire / int_6d7bc0f	type	Fake Band
That Thing You Do! / int_6d7bc0f	type	Fake Band
The Adventures of Ford Fairlane / int_6d7bc0f	type	Fake Band
The Big Lebowski / int_6d7bc0f	type	Fake Band
The Devil's Rejects / int_6d7bc0f	type	Fake Band
The Double Life of Veronique / int_6d7bc0f	type	Fake Band
The Three Stooges / int_6d7bc0f	type	Fake Band
This is Spın̈al Tap / int_6d7bc0f	type	Fake Band
Top Secret! / int_6d7bc0f	type	Fake Band
Velvet Goldmine / int_6d7bc0f	type	Fake Band
Yes-Man / int_6d7bc0f	type	Fake Band
Versus (Lets Play) / int_6d7bc0f	type	Fake Band
Beansidhe's Wail / int_6d7bc0f	type	Fake Band
Paraiso Street / int_6d7bc0f	type	Fake Band
Pondovadia / int_6d7bc0f	type	Fake Band
Rainbow Magic / int_6d7bc0f	type	Fake Band
MAD (Magazine) / int_6d7bc0f	type	Fake Band
MAD (Magazine) / int_6d7bc0f	type	Fake Band
TheElectricCompany	seeAlso	Fake Band
TheGleeProject	seeAlso	Fake Band
Gravitation (Manga) / int_6d7bc0f	type	Fake Band
His and Her Circumstances (Manga) / int_6d7bc0f	type	Fake Band
K-On! (Manga) / int_6d7bc0f	type	Fake Band
The Prince of Tennis (Manga) / int_6d7bc0f	type	Fake Band
Autosuggestion	seeAlso	Fake Band
Bad Lip Reading (Music) / int_6d7bc0f	type	Fake Band
Better Than Ezra (Music) / int_6d7bc0f	type	Fake Band
Confession Executive Committee (Music) / int_6d7bc0f	type	Fake Band
Confession Executive Committee ~Love Series~ (Music) / int_6d7bc0f	type	Fake Band
Cruising with Ruben & the Jets (Music)	seeAlso	Fake Band
Danger Days: The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys (Music) / int_6d7bc0f	type	Fake Band
Dream Theater (Music) / int_6d7bc0f	type	Fake Band
El Cuarteto De Nos (Music) / int_6d7bc0f	type	Fake Band
Fox Szn (Music) / int_6d7bc0f	type	Fake Band
Glenn Miller (Music) / int_6d7bc0f	type	Fake Band
Goodbye Yellow Brick Road (Music) / int_6d7bc0f	type	Fake Band
Guardians Inferno (Music) / int_6d7bc0f	type	Fake Band
Homestuck (Music) / int_6d7bc0f	type	Fake Band
Los Prisioneros (Music) / int_6d7bc0f	type	Fake Band
Mechanical Animals (Music) / int_6d7bc0f	type	Fake Band
Music of the Spheres (Music) / int_6d7bc0f	type	Fake Band
Pleaserock (Music) / int_6d7bc0f	type	Fake Band
SEVENTEEN (Music) / int_6d7bc0f	type	Fake Band
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (Music) / int_6d7bc0f	type	Fake Band
The Banzai Predicament (Music) / int_6d7bc0f	type	Fake Band
The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars (Music) / int_6d7bc0f	type	Fake Band
Uncle Meat (Music) / int_6d7bc0f	type	Fake Band
Willy and the Poor Boys (Music) / int_6d7bc0f	type	Fake Band
One Shot Podcast (Podcast) / int_6d7bc0f	type	Fake Band
Trashfuture (Podcast) / int_6d7bc0f	type	Fake Band
GTA Radio (Radio) / int_6d7bc0f	type	Fake Band
NoPixel (Roleplay) / int_6d7bc0f	type	Fake Band
SuperHighSchoolLevelDanganRonpaRoleplay	seeAlso	Fake Band
Amen / int_6d7bc0f	type	Fake Band
Automan / int_6d7bc0f	type	Fake Band
Even Stevens / int_6d7bc0f	type	Fake Band
Happy Endings / int_6d7bc0f	type	Fake Band
Harry and Paul / int_6d7bc0f	type	Fake Band
Have I Got News for You / int_6d7bc0f	type	Fake Band
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia / int_6d7bc0f	type	Fake Band
Kamen Rider Kiva / int_6d7bc0f	type	Fake Band
Kids Incorporated / int_6d7bc0f	type	Fake Band
Knots Landing / int_6d7bc0f	type	Fake Band
Lancelot Link, Secret Chimp / int_6d7bc0f	type	Fake Band
Les Minikeums / int_6d7bc0f	type	Fake Band
Mongrels / int_6d7bc0f	type	Fake Band
Nathan for You / int_6d7bc0f	type	Fake Band
Okaasan to Issho / int_6d7bc0f	type	Fake Band
SCTV / int_6d7bc0f	type	Fake Band
Saved by the Bell / int_6d7bc0f	type	Fake Band
The Banana Splits / int_6d7bc0f	type	Fake Band
The Colbert Report / int_6d7bc0f	type	Fake Band
The Comic Strip Presents / int_6d7bc0f	type	Fake Band
The Electric Company	seeAlso	Fake Band
The Late Show with David Letterman / int_6d7bc0f	type	Fake Band
The League of Gentlemen / int_6d7bc0f	type	Fake Band
The Mighty Boosh / int_6d7bc0f	type	Fake Band
The Smell of Reeves and Mortimer / int_6d7bc0f	type	Fake Band
The Steve Harvey Show / int_6d7bc0f	type	Fake Band
The Wayans Bros. / int_6d7bc0f	type	Fake Band
The Zack Files / int_6d7bc0f	type	Fake Band
Who's the Boss? / int_6d7bc0f	type	Fake Band
Psionics: The Next Stage in Human Evolution (Tabletop Game) / int_6d7bc0f	type	Fake Band
Blood Drive (Video Game) / int_6d7bc0f	type	Fake Band
Double Dragon Neon (Video Game) / int_6d7bc0f	type	Fake Band
Grand Theft Auto (Video Game) / int_6d7bc0f	type	Fake Band
Grand Theft Auto III (Video Game) / int_6d7bc0f	type	Fake Band
Grand Theft Auto: Vice City (Video Game) / int_6d7bc0f	type	Fake Band
Guitar Hero (Video Game) / int_6d7bc0f	type	Fake Band
Haven (2020) (Video Game) / int_6d7bc0f	type	Fake Band
Hitman (2016) (Video Game) / int_6d7bc0f	type	Fake Band
League of Legends (Video Game) / int_6d7bc0f	type	Fake Band
Life Is Strange: True Colors (Video Game) / int_6d7bc0f	type	Fake Band
Roadkill (Video Game) / int_6d7bc0f	type	Fake Band
Rock Band (Video Game) / int_6d7bc0f	type	Fake Band
Shivers Two: Harvest of Souls (Video Game) / int_6d7bc0f	type	Fake Band
Um Jammer Lammy (Video Game) / int_6d7bc0f	type	Fake Band
Chaos;Head (Visual Novel) / int_6d7bc0f	type	Fake Band
Kira-Kira (Visual Novel) / int_6d7bc0f	type	Fake Band
Steins;Gate (Visual Novel) / int_6d7bc0f	type	Fake Band
Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_6d7bc0f	type	Fake Band
Waterman (Web Animation) / int_6d7bc0f	type	Fake Band
Ozy and Millie (Webcomic) / int_6d7bc0f	type	Fake Band
Defunctland (Web Video) / int_6d7bc0f	type	Fake Band
Gayle (Web Video) / int_6d7bc0f	type	Fake Band
Crow Cillers (Webcomic) / int_6d7bc0f	type	Fake Band
The World of Vicki Fox (Webcomic) / int_6d7bc0f	type	Fake Band
Transmission (Webcomic) / int_6d7bc0f	type	Fake Band
Beverly Hills Teens / int_6d7bc0f	type	Fake Band
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kids / int_6d7bc0f	type	Fake Band
Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers / int_6d7bc0f	type	Fake Band
Daria / int_6d7bc0f	type	Fake Band
Drawn Together / int_6d7bc0f	type	Fake Band
Generation O! / int_6d7bc0f	type	Fake Band
Growing Up Creepie / int_6d7bc0f	type	Fake Band
Gumby / int_6d7bc0f	type	Fake Band
Jabberjaw / int_6d7bc0f	type	Fake Band
Jem / int_6d7bc0f	type	Fake Band
Kid Cosmic / int_6d7bc0f	type	Fake Band
Kidd Video / int_6d7bc0f	type	Fake Band
Let's Go Luna! / int_6d7bc0f	type	Fake Band
Matt's Monsters / int_6d7bc0f	type	Fake Band
My Little Pony: Equestria Girls â€“ Rainbow Rocks / int_6d7bc0f	type	Fake Band
Nature Cat / int_6d7bc0f	type	Fake Band
Rock Dog / int_6d7bc0f	type	Fake Band
Stone Protectors / int_6d7bc0f	type	Fake Band
The Archie Show / int_6d7bc0f	type	Fake Band
The Bremen Avenue Experience / int_6d7bc0f	type	Fake Band
The Cattanooga Cats / int_6d7bc0f	type	Fake Band
The Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm Show / int_6d7bc0f	type	Fake Band
The Wombles / int_6d7bc0f	type	Fake Band
We Are Little Creatures / int_6d7bc0f	type	Fake Band
Macross 7 / int_6d7bc0f	type	Fake Band
Undocumented Features / Fan Fic / int_6d7bc0f	type	Fake Band
Tech Infantry (Tabletop Game) / int_6d7bc0f	type	Fake Band
Charby the Vampirate (Webcomic) / int_6d7bc0f	type	Fake Band

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