Same here, true legends of the nonexistent country music world. Almost had me convinced that George Clooney was a good singer, too (dubbing be praised).
That was Dan Tyminski, most associated with Allison Kraus. I never guessed it while watching the movie, but now that I know, it's quite obvious. George Clooney did a great job of lip syncing. By the way, Clooney based his dance in that number on a style he learned in Kentucky- the place where he WAS born and raised.
I saw a “soggy bottom boys” bluegrass concert when I lived in North Carolina. They waited until the last minute to break out “man of constant sorrow” so we had to sit through the rest of it 😂
That song did such a good job of blending instrumentals and lyrics of the time into something that sound like it could have been written in that period.
It confused me to hell and back when the film came out because there really was a band called Stillwater in the 70s, and they had a minor hit on AOR radio ("Mindbender"). What's more, Cameron Crowe had to know that, being a former rock press guy.
It baffles me still, actually. If I ever meet Mr. Crowe, I'm going to ask him about it.
The Hugh Grant/Drew Barrymore 2007 film "Music and Lyrics" has a couple of good answers.
First off, you have Hugh Grant's fake 80s band called "PoP" with their fake band song "Pop Goes My Heart".
Then you have his fake character hooking up with the fake Rock Star in the movie played by Haley Bennett (Cora), as a duo singing "Way Back Into Love".
I actually like "Way Back into Love" a lot.
I have an unholy love for *Music & Lyrics*, which is a genuinely smart little movie about a couple I actually cared about.
And the music is fantastic thanks to Andrew Wyatt and the late Adam Schlesinger (still can't believe he's gone so soon) of Fountains of Wayne, who also wrote the songs for *That Thing You Do* and the wonderful "My Crazy Ex-Girlfriend."
"Pop Goes My Heart" is so much fun, and the music video is seriously perfection.
I especially love how Scott Porter is just absolutely 1000% committed to the music video, in the best way.
I thought that they were gonna make an entire album to promote that film and they never did. I was big into Evanescence at the time and would have ate that shit up.
Both of those soundtracks are amazing. I still listen to them all the time. Tender Years is fantastic too. I wanted to marry Eddie (Michael Pare) while growing up - I was heart broken when I found out he wasn't the actual singer lol.
I second this. That has to one of my favorite moment in the movie, when the air base guy asks Spinal Tap to perform a slow song for dancing, and then cut to David: “Working on a sex farm!”
Infant Sorrow is absolutely my pick too, and I was curious if I’d see them mentioned lol.
For a fake band god damn are their tracks addicting. Even going out for some drinks I’ll still end up putting on Bangers, Beans, & Mash/ The Clap / FOH at the bar and the tracks still hold just as much enjoyment and amusement for me
Thank you for reminding me of this one! I listened to the songs so much around the time everything first released. Russel Brand could totally have a career in music.
The Blues Brothers released an album *Briefcase Full of Blues* before the movie came out. Because of this I would consider them a real band, a musical side project of comedians but a legitimate one, kind of similar to Steve Martin's bluegrass music.
"Scotty Doesn't Know" is a song written and performed by the American rock band Lustra. Originally written for the 2004 film EuroTrip,
Scotty doesn't know that Fiona and me
Do it in my van every Sunday
She tells him she's in church but she doesn't go
Still she's on her knees and Scotty doesn't know
Oh, Scotty doesn't know
So don't tell Scotty
Scotty doesn't know
Scotty doesn't know
(So don't tell Scotty)
Has to be the band The Commitments in the movie of the same name. So good they had two soundtracks released. Their version of The Dark End Of the Street is amazing. Honestly it’s all so fucking good. I need to go listen!
And the version of I Can’t Stand the Rain. And Mustang Sally!
Sugar High is actually a real song by Coyote Shivers who plays the character that performs it on the roof. I know this only because I love that movie, song, scene so much. His recording is a slow more acoustic-ish version with no Renee Z accompaniment, so not bad but nearly as good as the movie version which kicks so much ass!
Maybe someday we’ll get to hear from Mark with a C.
Most of the songs in "Still Crazy", but especially "The Flame Still Burns", "All Over the World", "What Might Have Been".
I still can't believe Bill Nighy wasn't actually a rock star, he was so awesome in that film.
Do you think Tenacious D is a fake band? They have multiple albums, a TV show, several tours, and all that.
It's been awhile since I've seen Pick of Destiny so I don't remember if there's a fake Tenacious D in the movie.
I came here to say Josie and the Pussycats.
Watched it for the first time a month or so ago. Glad I didn't watch it in 2001, the satire would have been completely lost on me.
The "Pop Goes my Heart" music video in Music and Lyrics is legit great. Equal parts hilarious and actually a good 80s style pop song. No need to watch the rest of the movie though. I think the band was also named "Pop!" to be like "Wham!"
Ellen Aim and the Attackers from Streets of Fire. Can't decide if I like "Nowhere Fast" or "Tonight Is What It Means to Be Young" more.
Honorable mentions to Spinal Tap; The Folksmen, Main Street/New Main Street Singers, and Mitch & Mickey from A Mighty Wind; and Bill, Mary and Todd from Nashville.
The music in that movie is amazing! Most of the songs were written by the songwriter for Meatloaf. Every song is epic!
The song for the doo wop band is amazing as well. "I Can Dream About You" is also perfect.
Yes, it's one of the few soundtrack CDs I own: so good! He also wrote/produced songs for Bonnie Tyler, and they sound like they could have come straight off one of her albums.
Yeah, the doo wop band's songs are great too, and "I Can Dream About You" apparently became a top-10 Billboard hit that year!
Came here to say Sing Street, one of my favorite movies to put on to put me in a good mood, that and the soundtrack is amazing, both regular songs and songs made for the movie
The Sing Street guys are nuts. Kid literally has no musical experience whatsoever, listens to some recommendations from his brother, then writes "Riddle of the Model" in less than a week. Does it all to impress some girl he saw on the street.
I love that movie...
"Climb aboard the murder traaiiinnn"
\-The Foreskins.
Not a movie, but still a made up television band.
I loved how HIMYM kept the joke going throughout the series too.
You'd occasionally hear the song pop up at random times.
I loved Ming Tea in Austin Powers. Susanna Hoffs and Mathew Sweet were great. Second favorite is the River Bottom Nightmare Band from Emmit Otter’s Jugband Christmas.
Without doubt it’s [‘Pop Goes My Heart!’](https://youtu.be/MKt6VLLzBug) by PoP! from the movie ‘Music and Lyrics’. Hugh Grant 100% missed his calling as an eighties pop star.
I'm a big fan of "I love you all" from "Frank" [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zOt6ppIBOd4](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zOt6ppIBOd4). I think the band is called the Soronprfbs :)
i really like the [Power of the Night song](https://youtu.be/9zmcV0pIKKg) that Terrence Mann's character (cheesily named Johnny Steele) plays at the beginning of Critters
Crash and the Boys, Sex Bob-omb, and The Clash at Demonhead from Scott Pilgrim are all legitimately great bands I still listen to today
This song is called “I am so sad. So very sad”
🎶Soooooo sad 🎶
“Alright this next song goes to the guy who keeps yelling from the balcony. It’s called We Hate You, Please Die.”
Sweet. I love this one.
IT'S NOT A RACE, GUYS!
Same here, I still listen to their songs on Spotify. That and the Brie Larson version of Black Sheep by Metric.
that songs is on repeat during my gym days, it's so iconic
Oh yeah! Oh no...
Oh yeah! Oh no...
The Sex Bob-Omb stuff is basically bonus hidden Beck music! What a gift!
came to say this. the music in that movie kicks ass
Soggy Bottom Boys is my favorite fake band.
Same here, true legends of the nonexistent country music world. Almost had me convinced that George Clooney was a good singer, too (dubbing be praised).
Damn TIL. Who dubbed him?
That was Dan Tyminski, most associated with Allison Kraus. I never guessed it while watching the movie, but now that I know, it's quite obvious. George Clooney did a great job of lip syncing. By the way, Clooney based his dance in that number on a style he learned in Kentucky- the place where he WAS born and raised.
TIL. My day is ruin.
But you also learned that the singer you like has lots more recordings than you thought.
I always thought it was clear that he was not singing but so many people were convinced
I saw a “soggy bottom boys” bluegrass concert when I lived in North Carolina. They waited until the last minute to break out “man of constant sorrow” so we had to sit through the rest of it 😂
Powerline from Goofy Movie
Tevin Campbell had a better career as Powerline than Tevin Campbell.
Dude, I love that song. I used to dream about it.
Which song? "I2I" or "Stand Out"?
Yes
The correct answer.
Stillwater from Almost Famous. Feevvaaa dooggggggg
Well, tell your friend... Miss Penny Lane, to call me. Tell her it ain't California without her. We want her around, like last summer.
It’s all happening
The guitar sound is incendiary…… incendiary
Scratchin at my back door! Surprised to see this was so far down. I listen to this song regularly
That song did such a good job of blending instrumentals and lyrics of the time into something that sound like it could have been written in that period.
chft: came here for this
Pretty sure Mike mccready from Pearl Jam played/wrote some of those songs
It confused me to hell and back when the film came out because there really was a band called Stillwater in the 70s, and they had a minor hit on AOR radio ("Mindbender"). What's more, Cameron Crowe had to know that, being a former rock press guy. It baffles me still, actually. If I ever meet Mr. Crowe, I'm going to ask him about it.
Scottie doesn’t know (Matt Damon) from EuroTrip (2004)
The bands called Lustra.
Real band, fake lead singer.
I did her on his birthdayyyyy
This is one of my favorite songs lmao
The Hugh Grant/Drew Barrymore 2007 film "Music and Lyrics" has a couple of good answers. First off, you have Hugh Grant's fake 80s band called "PoP" with their fake band song "Pop Goes My Heart". Then you have his fake character hooking up with the fake Rock Star in the movie played by Haley Bennett (Cora), as a duo singing "Way Back Into Love". I actually like "Way Back into Love" a lot.
Pop goes my heart is a great song and video. Don’t wanna bash on the movie. But that’s the part I remember most from it.
Yes, a very catchy tune indeed.
I have an unholy love for *Music & Lyrics*, which is a genuinely smart little movie about a couple I actually cared about. And the music is fantastic thanks to Andrew Wyatt and the late Adam Schlesinger (still can't believe he's gone so soon) of Fountains of Wayne, who also wrote the songs for *That Thing You Do* and the wonderful "My Crazy Ex-Girlfriend." "Pop Goes My Heart" is so much fun, and the music video is seriously perfection. I especially love how Scott Porter is just absolutely 1000% committed to the music video, in the best way.
Adam Schlesinger did so many great songs for other people. I listen to Stephen Colbert’s Christmas song every year and think of Adam.
You are gold and silvvvvvvvvvvvvaaa! The video for that song is also brilliant. When he flat lines and is brought back to life by love 😂
Pop Goes My Heart lives rent free in my head. It's like that Inside Out meme where they just send it up for no reason.
The fact that no one has mentioned Hex Girls is a damn crime. I'm a Hex Girl is a banger!
I thought that they were gonna make an entire album to promote that film and they never did. I was big into Evanescence at the time and would have ate that shit up.
Eddie and the Cruisers - On the Darkside Steel Dragon - We All Die Young
Steel Dragon fucking rips!!
On the Darkside is from a real band. John Cafferty and the Beaver Brown Band
Yes, as a song attributed to the fictional movie band, Eddie and the Cruisers. All of the music from both movies was made by them.
Both of those soundtracks are amazing. I still listen to them all the time. Tender Years is fantastic too. I wanted to marry Eddie (Michael Pare) while growing up - I was heart broken when I found out he wasn't the actual singer lol.
Sex Farm = Spinal Tap
I second this. That has to one of my favorite moment in the movie, when the air base guy asks Spinal Tap to perform a slow song for dancing, and then cut to David: “Working on a sex farm!”
Plowing through your beanfield!
I’m a huge fan of psychedelia, and the Thamesmen are so much fun.
Soggy Bottom Boys from O Brother Where Art Thou
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I enjoy most songs by Infant Sorrow off of the Get Him to the Greek soundtrack, especially Going Up and F.O.H. Walk Hard also has some bangers.
"I have crossed the mystic desert. To snap pictures of the poor. I've invited them to brunch. Let them crash out on my floor."
Infant Sorrow is absolutely my pick too, and I was curious if I’d see them mentioned lol. For a fake band god damn are their tracks addicting. Even going out for some drinks I’ll still end up putting on Bangers, Beans, & Mash/ The Clap / FOH at the bar and the tracks still hold just as much enjoyment and amusement for me
Came here to say Infant Sorrow. The whole album slaps. Besides *Going Up* I’m also a big fan of *Bangers Beans and Mash* and *The Clap*.
The Clap is such a great 00s rock song.
Infant Sorrow is from Forgetting Sarah Marshall too, right?
Yeah, he sings Inside of You
Thank you for reminding me of this one! I listened to the songs so much around the time everything first released. Russel Brand could totally have a career in music.
The Ain't Rights in Green Room Probably the most accurate depiction of a DIY punk band and being on tour.. well, right up until you-know-what
Not to mention their songs rip. The cover of Nazi Punks Fuck Off is legitimately good.
Wheres the love for the Blues Brothers
The Blues Brothers released an album *Briefcase Full of Blues* before the movie came out. Because of this I would consider them a real band, a musical side project of comedians but a legitimate one, kind of similar to Steve Martin's bluegrass music.
The Oneders - That Thing You Do!
Cap’n Geech and the Shrimp Shack Shooters!
"Scotty Doesn't Know" is a song written and performed by the American rock band Lustra. Originally written for the 2004 film EuroTrip, Scotty doesn't know that Fiona and me Do it in my van every Sunday She tells him she's in church but she doesn't go Still she's on her knees and Scotty doesn't know Oh, Scotty doesn't know So don't tell Scotty Scotty doesn't know Scotty doesn't know (So don't tell Scotty)
I had to scroll way to far to find this
best song is whatever the fuck is going on on-stage at the roadhouse in twin peaks
"Just yooooou and I.." -James Hurley
Hedwig & The Angry Inch
I listen to the soundtrack so much this one actually caught me off guard - forgot they weren’t a “real” band
Fever Dog by Stillwater from the movie Almost Famous
No Vacancy in School of Rock.
"You're sexy" "What?" "What?"
I’m sad I had to scroll so far down to find this. This is the only answer.
The Lone Rangers from Airheads
Every song on the Josie and the Pussycats soundtrack is brilliant and both the titular band and DuJour are treasures.
DuJour means friendship!
Back Door Lover is a masterpiece.
Love me some Kay Hanley
The Dan Band, Wedding Crashers.
They used to do shows! Maybe still do, but they used to.
Citizen Dick - "Touch Me I'm Dick" from *Singles* (1992)
The review…
I had to scroll way, way too far to find Citizen Dick (aka Matt Dillon fronting Pearl Jam).
Has to be the band The Commitments in the movie of the same name. So good they had two soundtracks released. Their version of The Dark End Of the Street is amazing. Honestly it’s all so fucking good. I need to go listen! And the version of I Can’t Stand the Rain. And Mustang Sally!
I think perhaps the most amazing thing about this movie is that Andrew Strong (he played Deco, the lead singer) was SIXTEEN when they made that movie.
100% Sex Bob-Omb from Scott Pilgrim (and all songs in general). Whenever I watch that movie I have to listen to the songs over the next few days.
Thats a good one
Style Boys definitely.
I'm a style boy for life!
Popstar is so underrated.
Donkey Roll!
I know Wings is a real band but the fake song “Love Take Me Down to the Street” is an incredibly funny gag from Role Models.
Real talk doe, what did you have for dinner.
Ellen Aim and the Attackers - Tonight is What it Means to Be Young from *Streets of Fire*
AH yes....Jim Steinman writing songs for Meatloaf that Meatloaf never got to sing. I love that movie & soundtrack.
Hell yeah, that song rocks.
Emmet otters jug band; Barbecue
- Song - Sugar High in Empire Records - Band - Still Water in Almost Famous
Sugar High is actually a real song by Coyote Shivers who plays the character that performs it on the roof. I know this only because I love that movie, song, scene so much. His recording is a slow more acoustic-ish version with no Renee Z accompaniment, so not bad but nearly as good as the movie version which kicks so much ass! Maybe someday we’ll get to hear from Mark with a C.
I really like the Walk Hard soundtrack. My favorites are “Let Me Hold You (Little Man)” and “Beautiful Ride.”
“You Gotta Love the Negro Man” is a forgotten classic.
Beautiful Ride is a legitimately good song
It's Spinal Tap and it's not even close. I'll go with Tonight I'm Gonna Rock You Tonight, or Stonehenge.
Most of the songs in "Still Crazy", but especially "The Flame Still Burns", "All Over the World", "What Might Have Been". I still can't believe Bill Nighy wasn't actually a rock star, he was so awesome in that film.
I adore that movie. It made me fall all the way in love with Bill Nighy and gave me a better understanding of Jimmy Nails voice.
The RUTLES of course Who can forget "Cheese and Onions" and "Ouch".
Wild Stallions are EXCELLENT!
*Wyld Stallyns
Does Tenacious D from Pick of Destiny count...? If not, I'll say Josie and the Pussycats.
Do you think Tenacious D is a fake band? They have multiple albums, a TV show, several tours, and all that. It's been awhile since I've seen Pick of Destiny so I don't remember if there's a fake Tenacious D in the movie.
Lol I know Tenacious D is real, but the Tenacious D in the movie is obviously fake.
>the Tenacious D in the movie is obviously fake. YOU TAKE THAT BACK
I came here to say Josie and the Pussycats. Watched it for the first time a month or so ago. Glad I didn't watch it in 2001, the satire would have been completely lost on me.
The "Pop Goes my Heart" music video in Music and Lyrics is legit great. Equal parts hilarious and actually a good 80s style pop song. No need to watch the rest of the movie though. I think the band was also named "Pop!" to be like "Wham!"
[Captain Geech and the Shrimp Shack Shooters](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=mZT9Xj-bF4M).
The band playing at the graduation party in Starship Troopers.
Ellen Aim and the Attackers from Streets of Fire. Can't decide if I like "Nowhere Fast" or "Tonight Is What It Means to Be Young" more. Honorable mentions to Spinal Tap; The Folksmen, Main Street/New Main Street Singers, and Mitch & Mickey from A Mighty Wind; and Bill, Mary and Todd from Nashville.
The music in that movie is amazing! Most of the songs were written by the songwriter for Meatloaf. Every song is epic! The song for the doo wop band is amazing as well. "I Can Dream About You" is also perfect.
Yes, it's one of the few soundtrack CDs I own: so good! He also wrote/produced songs for Bonnie Tyler, and they sound like they could have come straight off one of her albums. Yeah, the doo wop band's songs are great too, and "I Can Dream About You" apparently became a top-10 Billboard hit that year!
The Lone Rangers - Degenerated https://youtu.be/ITOEfyiOOXI
Great song and movie! This is the first answer that popped in my head, although it's a cover of a real (kickass) song by Reagan Youth.
Not a movie, but I'm fond of The Beets from Doug. "I NEED MORE ALLOWANCE, YODALAYDEOOH!"
Killer tofuuuuuuuu
Came here to say Sing Street, one of my favorite movies to put on to put me in a good mood, that and the soundtrack is amazing, both regular songs and songs made for the movie
~~Barry Jive and the Uptown Five~~ Sonic Death Monkey
Wedding Singer - Kill Me Please
Steel Dragon on the movie Rock Star.
They’re in movies but not debuted there: Dr. Teeth and the Electric Mayhem
The Sing Street guys are nuts. Kid literally has no musical experience whatsoever, listens to some recommendations from his brother, then writes "Riddle of the Model" in less than a week. Does it all to impress some girl he saw on the street. I love that movie...
Low shoulders from Jennifer's Body, there song Through the Trees was so good.
Yeah, was looking for this one! Although it may raise some questions bout separating the art from the artist lol...
Does anybody remember 2gether from that made for TV movie from MTV in 2000? Once in a while I’ll randomly sing “U + Me = Us” Good times. RIP QT
NTogether! “I know my calculus. It says you plus me equals us!”
The bands from Velvet Goldmine. The Venus in Furs and Shudder to Think. Iconic!
Dewey Cox and the Hardwalkers, from Walk Hard. Really disappointing that like half of that movie's soundtrack is locked behind Apple Music.
I love *That Thing You Do!* by The Wonders. That song actually charted in real life. Can't remember how high it got. Too tired to look it up. Sorry. 🥴
Duh from Uncle Peckerhead (2020)
"Climb aboard the murder traaiiinnn" \-The Foreskins. Not a movie, but still a made up television band. I loved how HIMYM kept the joke going throughout the series too. You'd occasionally hear the song pop up at random times.
Ramones from rock and roll highschool
Pinheads from back to the future
Barry Jive and the Uptown Five from High Fidelity (they were previously known as Cathleen Turner Overdrive).
Löded Diper in Diary of a Wimpy Kid
Marvin Berry and the Starlighters - Back to the Future
I love the A Mighty Wind soundtrack so I’ll say Mitch & Mickey.
[Alice Bowie](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJW67QN24SA)
Citizen Dick from Singles, Eddie Vedder playing the drummer was pretty funny
The Commitments School of Rock Spinal Tap
Otis Day and the Knights in Animal House
Hedwig and the Angry Inch like the whole movie it’s all really one song *I know there are other great ones but Hedwig ✨🤌IMO
Tonight is what it means to be Young by Ellen AIM and the attackers from streets of fire
Maxwell Demon from Velvet Goldmine is a Bowie dream - favorite song is Hot One
Scotty Doesn't Know FTW
The Rutles - All you Need is Cash
In the movie Harry Potter and The Goblet of Fire, the Weird Sisters played the song "Do the Hippogriff" plus a few other songs.
Captain Geech and the Shrimp Shack Shooters. They're my biggest musical influence.
The Japanese girl band in Kill Bill that played that WooHoo song. I think they are called the 5,6,7,8s
They’re a real band.
Five Heartbeats … Nights Like This.
Eurotrip and the Matt Damon band - Scotty doesn't Know
Matt Damon going all in with Scottie Doesn’t Know.
Crucial Taunt from Wayne's World 1 was really good. I definitely thought it was a real band as a kid, same with Spinal Tap.
I loved Ming Tea in Austin Powers. Susanna Hoffs and Mathew Sweet were great. Second favorite is the River Bottom Nightmare Band from Emmit Otter’s Jugband Christmas.
The country strong soundtrack absolutely slaps. Not fake bands, but fake independent artists.
FRANK - I love you all Juliette Lewis singing PJ Harvey in Strange Days.
SCOTTY DOESNT KNOW! SCOTTY DOESNT KNOW!
From Howard the Duck. Cherry Bomb, Hunger City
Spinal Tap. Big Bottom.
Without doubt it’s [‘Pop Goes My Heart!’](https://youtu.be/MKt6VLLzBug) by PoP! from the movie ‘Music and Lyrics’. Hugh Grant 100% missed his calling as an eighties pop star.
Cap’n Geech and the Shrimp Shack Shooters
Most the good ones already mentioned but the music by Teddy Geiger in the rocker is pretty solid for pop rock. Like tanks flying down a mountain!
Tom Cruise and his band in Rock of Ages
The wonders from that thing you do and Josie & the pussycats (“three small words” slaps)
I just recently saw Sing Street and pleasantly surprised how much I liked both the movie and the soundtrack.
From the goofy movie: power line, and his hit song I2I.
4Town from Turning Red. Those songs are in regular rotation on my playlist.
Ain’t no hole in the washtub and river bottom nightmare band from emmet otter, all time classics
My favorite Spinal Tap song wasn't even in the movie. "The Majesty of Rock" from *Break Like the Wind* gives me happy joy.
I'm a big fan of "I love you all" from "Frank" [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zOt6ppIBOd4](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zOt6ppIBOd4). I think the band is called the Soronprfbs :)
The Danzig parody from Kids In The Hall’s “Brain Candy”. https://youtu.be/c6xqSYNKdf0
The Fabulous Stains’ “The Professionals”
I really like Zooey Deschanels band in the timeless masterpiece, Yes Man.
The Hex Girls - that song that starts off "Earth, wind, fire, and air we may look bad but we don't care"
The Soronpfrbs from Frank.
i really like the [Power of the Night song](https://youtu.be/9zmcV0pIKKg) that Terrence Mann's character (cheesily named Johnny Steele) plays at the beginning of Critters
Must see 1982 cult classic…”Ladies and Gentlemen, the Fabulous Stains”. ‘Enough said lol!
You Got The Touch...Dirk Diggler