Top ten fictional bands

The Carrie Nations

1. Spinal Tap
This is Spinal Tap (1984)
As mentioned some years ago, a fictional band who then released an album and toured in real life.

2. The Carrie Nations (formerly The Kelly Affair)
Beyond The Valley of the Dolls (1970)
Named after Carrie Nation (1946-1911), ‘radical American temperance leader famous for storming saloons and smashing bar fixtures with a hatchet’.

3. Autobahn
The Big Lebowski (1998)
Named after the Kraftwerk album and inspired by them.

4. Figrin D’an and the Modal Nodes
Star Wars (1977)

5. Wyld Stallyns
Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure (1989)

6. The Folksmen
A Mighty Wind (2003)

7. Stillwater
Almost Famous (2000)

8. Marvin Berry and the Starlighters
Back to the Future (1985)

9. The Paranoids*
The Crying of Lot 49, Thomas Pynchon (1966)

10. The Fool*
Gravity's Rainbow, Thomas Pynchon (1973)
An English rock group who has Tyrone Slothrop appearing on one of their album covers.

*Yes, two Pynchon bands make it in the top ten. And yes, I know it’s difficult to gauge how good a fictional band is in a novel, as you can’t actually hear them, but imagination is a powerful tool.

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