Face-bashingly head-smashingly amazing music can come from characters who don't actually even exist in the real world. Today we are counting down our top 10 fictional bands. This top ten list features fake bands making the realest kind of music…

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Face-bashingly head-smashingly amazing music can come from characters who don't actually even exist in the real world. Today we are counting down our top 10 fictional bands. This top ten list features fake bands making the realest kind of music there is.

Top ten fictional bands was a huge blast to the past. There is even some media I hadn't checked out before that had some amazing talent behind it. You don't really appreciate fictional bands until you look back. This won't be the last top ten list I do. It was a ton of fun!

To pair a great show with amazing music is fantastic. We are extremely lucky to life in an age where we can sit down and watch cartoons blast out some amazing music. These fictional bands are sure to knock your socks off, so sit back and enjoy the collection!

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In Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, our hero (Michael Cera) and his fictional band Sex Bob-omb must do battle with Scott’s girlfriend’s seven evil exes, both on and off the stage. With so many different band scenes, writer/director Edgar Wright wanted to make sure the music was worthy of Toronto rock city. “Nigel Godrich [and I] were both very critical about fictional bands in films,” Wright tells Paste, “so we wanted to make sure we get the right people for the job. We basically cast bands like actors. We cast different artists to play the different fictional bands, and Beck was really up for doing the Sex Bob-omb songs. I think he saw it like a fun exercise to play a part rather than writing Beck songs. What’s sort of cool is that he channeled some of the more fuzzier, kind of punkier stuff of his first demos. He did something like 22 songs in 72 hours. It was incredible.”

So where does Sex Bob-omb stack up among the countless fictional bands to grace movie screens, TV shows and books over the years? We decided we’d rank celebrate the 50 best. Some of the songs are awesome and some are just awesomely bad. A few weren’t even based on The Beatles. Tell us who we missed in the comments section below.

SPOILERS:

Sex Bob-omb:

From the 2010 film, and the comics before that, Sex Bob-Omb is the name of Scott Pilgrim’s band, featuring himself,a female drummer called Kim and Stephen Stills who is known as “The Talent”. They also have their own groupie, Young Neil and the Scott Pilgrim wiki describes them as “neither wildly popular nor terrible”. They were born out of an earlier band called Sonic and Knuckles, and once played with Envy Adams who went on to become a proper rock star in a band called The Clash at Demonhead.

As fake bands go, they’re a pretty convincing one, with the infighting and lameness that most people will remember from being in a teenage band themselves. Kim does a great line in banging her sticks together and shouting “One..Two…Three….Four!”

Dr Teeth and the Electric Mayhem:

This band, on the other hand, rocked. Featuring the eponymous Dr Teeth, the glamorous hippy chick Janice, guitarist Floyd and saxophonist Zoot, they wowed the crowds at the Muppet Show for years. Described as show creator Jim Henson as “Rock act – far-out, elaborate weird equipment, big amps…” they encapsulated the psychedelic sound of the late 60s bands like The Doors and Pink Floyd (there may have been a subtle nod to the latter band in the guitarist’s name.)

Of course, the secret weapon of the Electric Mayhem band was their drummer, Animal. Based partly on Keith Moon, he had a style that was way-out and experimental. And also very, very loud. He was an amicable band member as long as no-one upset him or stopped him drumming, and a good person to have on your side as freaky-necked Beaker found out when heckling threatened to drown out his rendition of “Feelings” (Animal intervened with a bellow of “Quiet”). A legendary drummer for a legendary band.

Spinal Tap:

And that band was Spinal Tap. Loosely based on the British metal bands like Iron Maiden, this 5-piece burst onto the rock scene in the 1984 film “This is Spinal Tap”, directed by Rob Reiner. The film focused on David St Hubbins, Nigel Tufnel and Derek Smalls with occasional appearances from crazy-eyed keyboardist Viv Savage and an ever-changing drummer. Classic ‘ Tap moments include the tiny version of Stonehenge, the band getting lost on the way to the stage and the amps that went all the way up to 11 (because sometimes 10 just isn’t loud enough). The songs rocked, the humor was keenly-observed and the outfits were …edgy. A worthy winner of the “Best Fictional Rock Band Ever” title.