Popular Music References
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| [[Wikipedia:The Ramones|The Ramones]] || [[The House That Gave Sucky Treats]] || [[Marzipan]] dresses as [[Wikipedia:Joey Ramone|Joey Ramone]]. || Joey and Johnny Ramone formed the legendary punk rock band, The Ramones, and were the only two who stayed with the band until its retirement. | | [[Wikipedia:The Ramones|The Ramones]] || [[The House That Gave Sucky Treats]] || [[Marzipan]] dresses as [[Wikipedia:Joey Ramone|Joey Ramone]]. || Joey and Johnny Ramone formed the legendary punk rock band, The Ramones, and were the only two who stayed with the band until its retirement. | ||
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| + | | [[Wikipedia:Digital Underground|Humpty Hump]] || [[The House That Gave Sucky Treats]] || [[Coach Z]] dresses as Humpty Hump from the band Digital Underground. || Eddie Humphrey a.k.a "Humpty Hump" a.k.a "Gregory Jacobs" a.k.a. "Shock-G" was a member of the hip hop group Digital Underground. The group was known for outrageous costumes and live shows, its music's humorous tone, and an endless parade of identities from Humphrey. | ||
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| + | | [[Wikipedia:Joey Ramone|Joey Ramone]] || [[The House That Gave Sucky Treats || [[Marzipan]] dresses as Joey Ramone. || Eddie Humphrey a.k.a "Humpty Hump" a.k.a "Gregory Jacobs" a.k.a. "Shock-G" was a member of the hip hop group Digital Underground. The group was known for outrageous costumes and live shows, its music's humorous tone, and an endless parade of identities from Humphrey. | ||
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| [[Wikipedia:TLC (band)|TLC]] || [[Pumpkin Carve-nival]] || [[Marzipan]] dresses as [[Wikipedia:Lisa Lopes|Left-Eye Lopes]]. || Lopes was a member of TLC, an Atlanta-based R&B group, one of the best-selling girl groups of all time. | | [[Wikipedia:TLC (band)|TLC]] || [[Pumpkin Carve-nival]] || [[Marzipan]] dresses as [[Wikipedia:Lisa Lopes|Left-Eye Lopes]]. || Lopes was a member of TLC, an Atlanta-based R&B group, one of the best-selling girl groups of all time. | ||
Revision as of 03:26, 20 October 2007
Many real bands and popular music are referenced in the Homestar Runner body of work.
| Band/Artist | Appearance(s) | Context | Identity |
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| Nirvana | Homestarloween Party | Homestar Runner dresses as Kurt Cobain. | Nirvana was an American grunge rock band that was formed by singer/guitarist Kurt Cobain (whom Homestar portrays in Homstarloween Party) and bassist Krist Novoselic in Aberdeen, Washington. Nirvana went through a succession of drummers, with the longest-lasting being Dave Grohl, who joined the band in 1990. Following Cobain's death in 1994, the band was ended. |
| Flavor Flav | Homestarloween Party | Coach Z dresses as Flavor Flav. | Flavor Flav is a rap artist and a member of the rap group "Public Enemy", in which he provided the comic foil to the more serious and political figure of Chuck D. He was also on VH1's reality TV show The Surreal Life. Flashy, flamboyant clothes are his trademark, and in particular the oversized clocks he wears around his neck. He now has his own reality show on VH1 called "Flavor Of Love". |
| The Ramones | The House That Gave Sucky Treats | Marzipan dresses as Joey Ramone. | Joey and Johnny Ramone formed the legendary punk rock band, The Ramones, and were the only two who stayed with the band until its retirement. |
| Humpty Hump | The House That Gave Sucky Treats | Coach Z dresses as Humpty Hump from the band Digital Underground. | Eddie Humphrey a.k.a "Humpty Hump" a.k.a "Gregory Jacobs" a.k.a. "Shock-G" was a member of the hip hop group Digital Underground. The group was known for outrageous costumes and live shows, its music's humorous tone, and an endless parade of identities from Humphrey. |
| Joey Ramone | [[The House That Gave Sucky Treats | Marzipan dresses as Joey Ramone. | Eddie Humphrey a.k.a "Humpty Hump" a.k.a "Gregory Jacobs" a.k.a. "Shock-G" was a member of the hip hop group Digital Underground. The group was known for outrageous costumes and live shows, its music's humorous tone, and an endless parade of identities from Humphrey. |
| TLC | Pumpkin Carve-nival | Marzipan dresses as Left-Eye Lopes. | Lopes was a member of TLC, an Atlanta-based R&B group, one of the best-selling girl groups of all time. |
| AC/DC | Pumpkin Carve-nival, Marzipan's Answering Machine Version 7.0 | Homestar Runner and Strong Bad (disguised as Homestar) dress as Angus Young. | AC/DC is a hard rock band formed in Sydney, Australia in 1973 by brothers Angus and Malcolm Young. The band is considered a pioneer of heavy metal, alongside bands such as Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple and Black Sabbath. |
| Talking Heads | 3 Times Halloween Funjob | Strong Sad dresses as the band's leader David Byrne. | Talking Heads is a new wave band that got its start in the late 1970s, distinguishable from other bands of this type due to their lyrical and instrumental styles, plus Byrne's vocals emphasizing tense energy. In 2002, the band was inducted into the Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame. |
| Guns N' Roses | 3 Times Halloween Funjob | Homsar dresses as Slash, a former member of the band who later formed his own band, Slash's Snakepit. | Guns N' Roses is an American hard rock band, formed in 1985. It had a musical style and bad-boy rock image that created a new epoch in the genres of hard rock and heavy metal. After a few years, however, culture clashes between the band members ended the original lineup. Today, the only surviving band member of the present-day band lineup is frontman Axl Rose. |
| David Bowie | Halloween Fairstival | Strong Sad dresses as David Bowie, more specifically, as he appears on the cover of his album Aladdin Sane. | David Bowie is a British rock and roll musician, actor, and artist who has had a profound influence on rock and roll from the 1960s to the present. He is best known and regarded for his work with glam and experimentalism in the 1970s, although his commercial success was limited, and in the 1980s, Bowie had great success in releasing his music and made an unabashed bid for commercial success. |
| Tupac | Halloween Fairstival | Coach Z dresses as the rapper Tupac. | Tupac Shakur, also known as Pac, 2Pac, and Makaveli, was a best-selling rap artist. His first album, 2Pacalypse Now, was released in 1991. Near the end of his career and life, he was controversially sentenced to jail for four and a half years for sexual abuse. He was murdered in 1996 at the age of 25. |
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