"Coolest" bands to appear in most naff movies?

[dead-ced-dead]

This may be better for Oscillation, but it straddles movies and music, so I thought it would be appropriate for either.

I'm watching What Happens in Vegas, a dumb romcom with Cameron Diaz, and an Eels song popped up. It occurred to me how many bad movies Eels songs show up in.

Cool is in inverted commas because this is all subjective. Just ones where the kinds of fans of the former seem to be contradictory with the fans of the latter.

[Neomod]

Stereolab popping up in that terrible Karen Gillan fillum.

[Egyptian Feast]

Ween make an appearance in the apparently awful SNL spin-off It's Pat. I never managed to see it, but according to them "It sucked, but we were good".

[greenman]

I'd guess the Clash probably pretty high up, used well in Grosse Pointe Blank but then lots of bad blokish refferences since like that Guy Ritchie Rollaballer or whatever.

[dead-ced-dead]

I'd guess the Clash probably pretty high up, used well in Grosse Pointe Blank but then lots of bad blokish refferences since like that Guy Ritchie Rollaballer or whatever.

Guy Ritchie sure knows how to soundtrack his movies. It's a shame then that Rock n' Rolla and Revolver, and parts of Snatch are so rubbish.

I quite like Lock Stock though.

[sutin]

Sparks having an actual cameo in Rollercoaster.

[DJ Bob Hoskins]

Guns 'N' Roses* made a cameo appearance in 1988's shonky Dirty Harry sequel The Dead Pool, oddly enough.

*they were cool at the time, OK?

[All Surrogate]

Digital Underground appeared in 'Nothing But Trouble'. Apparently, this was the first cinematic appearance of Tupac Shakur; what a debut!

[SweetPomPom]

Bowie had a very average batting average but Spongebob is near the bottom of the barrel. Absolute Beginners, Linguini Incident..

[Phoenix Lazarus]

Sparks having an actual cameo in Rollercoaster.

The best part of that film.

[Dusty Substance]

Bowie's cameo in Yellowbeard.

Isaac Hayes in It Could Happen To You (the one where Nicolas Cage gives a million dollar tip to Bridget Fonda)

[Sebastian Cobb]

I quite like Lock Stock though.

I had quite a "what the fuck is this and where can I hear more of it?" moment when I heard Castaways - Liar Liar in Lock Stock.

[Rizla]

The Dickies were very cool to me when they showed up in George Burns-starring 18 Again, one of the naffest of the raft of bodyswap movies that sploshed across late 80's cinema screens like a torrent of regretful boomer spunk. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6U4LqWKmxo0

[Dr Rock]

It doesn't qualify as a naff movie (imo) but great cameos from Fields Of The Nephilim's Carl McCoy, Lemmy and Iggy Pop in 1990's cyberpunk Hardware. Great use of PIL's Order Of Death in it too

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Hardware++lemmy

[Dusty Substance]

It doesn't qualify as a naff movie (imo) but great cameos from Fields Of The Nephilim's Carl McCoy, Lemmy and Iggy Pop in 1990's cyberpunk Hardware. Great use of PIL's Order Of Death in it too

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Hardware++lemmy

Fucking LOVE that movie. Hardware was my No.1 film of all time between 1991 and 1994. It was the first "grown up" film that became my absolute fave.

[Lisa Jesusandmarychain]

Urge Overkill playing the American National Anthem in " Kingpin" ( although " Kingpin" 's a good film)

[Replies From View]

product placement for tiktaks in superman the movie

[Gulftastic]

'Burning Down The House' by Talking Heads popping up in Revenge Of The Nerds.

[dissolute ocelot]

Spice World?

McFly were in a terrible Lindsay Lohan film, Just My Luck. Even more bizarrely Simple Plan are in the Olsen Twins' New York Minute.

But it's hard to beat (off) Violent Femmes in Sabrina The Teenage Witch, the old TV series with Melissa Joan Hart.

[studpuppet]

The Pretty Things appear in the 1969 Norman Wisdom film, What's Good For The Goose.

[buzby]

The Pretty Things appear in the 1969 Norman Wisdom film, What's Good For The Goose.

Under the pseudonym The Electric Banana, which they used to record library tracks for De Wolfe on the side that ended up being used by Tigon for that film (Alexander, the song used in that scene, is an absolute banger).

[holyzombiejesus]

Lawrence from Felt/ Denim/ G-KM was apparently an extra in Weekend at Bernie's[nb]or a film like that[/nb].

[holyzombiejesus]

Not sure if Cheap Trick are cool or not but they have a cameo in crappy Eddie Murphy vehicle Daddy Day Care.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RR4wCatQ-g8

[kngen]

Devo (as Dove, The Band of Love) in Pray TV, a prescient (although not that great) satire about Christian evangelical TV channels.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=66Y9xdWD6gI

Not a movie, but it's got to be worth a mention, The Seeds doing Pushing Too Hard on long-forgotten 60s US sitcom The Mothers-in-Law, more than playing up to their roles as 'weird music that the kids like these days'. Probably blew a few minds of the kids otherwise forced to sit through this with their families that evening.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQWVHvjdfZw

[JesusAndYourBush]

I don't know if Pulp are cool or if Harry Potter is naff, but the song Pulp sang in Goblet of Fire had some of the crappest naffest lyrics ever.

[phantom_power]

Ian Brown is in one as well but he is not in the slightest bit cool

[mothman]

It doesn't qualify as a naff movie (imo) but great cameos from Fields Of The Nephilim's Carl McCoy, Lemmy and Iggy Pop in 1990's cyberpunk Hardware. Great use of PIL's Order Of Death in it too

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Hardware++lemmy

Fucking LOVE that movie. Hardware was my No.1 film of all time between 1991 and 1994. It was the first "grown up" film that became my absolute fave.

I have the soundtrack album! And became a huge Richard Stanley fan. Until the Unpleasantness.

[sutin]

I don't know if Pulp are cool or if Harry Potter is naff, but the song Pulp sang in Goblet of Fire had some of the crappest naffest lyrics ever.

That's Jarvis solo, Pulp split up a few years earlier.

[Povidone]

I'd guess the Clash probably pretty high up, used well in Grosse Pointe Blank but then lots of bad blokish refferences since like that Guy Ritchie Rollaballer or whatever.

Of course there's Strummer's relatively substantial role in Alex Cox's Straight to Hell. Not exactly naff but not a great film either.

[Famous Mortimer]

Of course there's Strummer's relatively substantial role in Alex Cox's Straight to Hell. Not exactly naff but not a great film either.

And some / most / all of the Pogues. I rather like Straight To Hell, but it's not something I could rewatch a lot.