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There’s a lot of bad movies out there made better by music. There are also a lot of indie movies out there made famous by music.
The unsung heroes, however–beyond the Oscar–winning soundtracks and the Garden States of the world–are those great bands made up completely for the benefit of the movie. In other words: Where would we all be without the joy of This Is…Spinal Tap? It would be a grim, un-fantastic movie world, that’s for sure.
This list of the best fictional bands ever created for Hollywood is merely a tip of the iceberg. But, we hope, it’s still a solid catalog of the very best fictional bands out there in film.
It’s also possible that this list is just an excuse to talk about Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure.
Anyway, check our list out after the jump.
1. Spinal Tap – This is Spinal Tap
2. Citizen Dick – Singles
3. The Wonders, aka The One-ders – That Thing You Do!
4. Stillwater – Almost Famous
5. Eddie and The Cruisers – Eddie and The Cruisers
6. Josie & the Pussycats – Josie & the Pussycats
7. Berko, also Rex Manning – Empire Records
8. Bad Blake – Crazy Heart
9. The Kinky Wizards/Barry Jive & the Uptown Five/Kathleen Turner Overdrive/Sonic Death Monkey – High Fidelity
10. Hey, That’s My Bike – Reality Bites
11. Loveburger – Can’t Hardly Wait
12. Buckaroo Banzai – The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai
13. The Wild Stallions Wyld Stallyns – Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure
14. Infant Sorrow – Forgetting Sarah Marshall, Get Him To The Greek
15. The Lone Rangers – Airheads
16. The Commitments – The Commitments
17. Big Fun – Heathers
18. Otis Day & The Knights – Animal House
19. Blues Brothers – Blues Brothers
20. Blueshammer – Ghost World
21. Sausalito – Lost in Translation
22. Hangman’s Joke – The Crow
23. The Soggy Bottom Boys – O, Brother, Where Art Thou?
24. Camel Lips – Serial Mom
25. Crucial Taunt – Wayne’s World
26. The Cheap Girls – The Money Pit
27. Cherry Bomb – Howard the Duck
28. The Folksman – A Mighty Wind
29. The New Main Street Singers – A Mighty Wind
30. Mitch & Mickey – A Mighty Wind
31. Munchausen By Proxy – Yes Man
32. River Bottom Nightmare Band, Emmet Otter’s Jug Band – Emmet Otter’s Jug Band Christmas
33. Diamonds In the Rough – Saving Silverman
34. Ellen Aim & the Attackers – Streets of Fire
35. The Five Heartbeats – The Five Heartbeats
36. The Max Rebo Band, Figrin D’an & the Modal Nodes – Star Wars
37. The Flaming Creatures – Velvet Goldmine
38. Maxwell Demon w/ Venus in Furs – Velvet Goldmine
39. Tommy Gnosis & Hedwig & the Angry Inch – Hedwig & the Angry Inch
40. Dead Pink – Friends ‘Til the End
41. Suburban Funk – The New Guy
42. Fuck You Yankee Blue Jeans — Clerks
43. School of Rock – School of Rock
44. Autobahn – The Big Lebowski
45. The Tri-Lambs – Revenge of the Nerds
