sloshy

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sloshy

Genre(s)	Lo-fi Alternative rock
Members	Mitch Stockton (Lead vocals and guitar) Clark Cross-Country (Backing vocals, bass guitar) Doug Tarndner (Guitar) Dan DiMinilliditto (Drums) Mark D. (Guitar)
Discography	sloshy Limozeen vs. sloshy (2007) "The B-est of B-Sides" (2015) "Phonin' This One In" (2016) Degradest Hits (2020)
Label	Cheap as Free Records Coolier Than Thou Records

sloshy (stylized in lowercase) is a lo-fi alternative rock band. The band's general appearance and apathetic affect parody influential grunge/alt-rock bands that saw success in the 90s, such as Nirvana, Weezer, and Pavement. The band has a minimized presence onstage: wearing street clothes rather than formal outfits or special costumes, only using a few Christmas lights in lieu of special effects, and may even perform with their backs turned to the audience (in reference to adjacent alt-rock subgenre shoegaze). One of sloshy's most noticeable traits is backup singing consisting of bland, echo-filtered repetition of previous lines.

Though they first appeared in 2007, in-universe the band has been around since approximately 2001. The band's first appearance was in the Strong Bad Email concert, which established them as one of Strong Sad's favorite bands. sloshy were opening for Limozeen, but as the headliner's contract rider was unfulfilled sloshy played both sets. They briefly became one of Strong Bad's favorite bands until he realized they are not metal. The page title of Limozeen vs. sloshy ("The Label Made Us Do It!") suggests that sloshy and Limozeen are signed to the same record label, and the extreme contrasts in their style are often emphasized for comedy. A fictionalized version of sloshy appear as the antagonists in an episode of Limozeen: "but they're in space!".

The sloshy wordmark is typically rotated 180 degrees with o printed in a contrasting color, usually red (ʎɥsols).

[edit] Members

[edit] In-Universe

...but they're in space!

The band's initial lineup was a trio:

• Mitch Stockton (lead vocals, lead guitar)
• Clark Cross-Country (bass, backing vocals)
• Dan DiMinilliditto (drums)

In 2018, the release of Air​-​Sea Dolphin​/​Sloshy split introduced two new members:

• Doug Tarndner (guitar)
• Mark D. (guitar)

Clark looks strikingly similar to Patrick Wilson of alternative rock band Weezer. He wears regular glasses, not sunglasses, much to Strong Bad's astonishment.

[edit] Live Band

The band Air-Sea Dolphin portrayed sloshy at the Homestar Runner 20th Anniversary Shows and can be seen in the No-stalgia music video. Unlike the live iteration of Limozeen, it is not clear which band member each person is portraying.

• Matt Chapman (guitar, backing vocals, sound effects)
• Mike Chapman (bass, backing vocals, Synthcart, Stylophone, Speak & Spell, sound effects)
• Jamey Huggins (drums, singing, sound effects, percussion)
• Robert Schneider (lead and backing vocals, synthesizer, Synthcart, acoustic guitar, percussion)
• Ryan Sterritt (lead guitar, sound effects)

[edit] Discography

[edit] Albums

It's degradest day.

Hope you had to wait in a long line

• sloshy (concert)
  • "ok fine"
  • "unripe"
  • "art troll"
• Air​-​Sea Dolphin​/​Sloshy split EP (2018)
• Degradest Hits (2020)
  • "We Don't Really Even Care About You"
  • "Because, It's Midnite" (cover version of the Limozeen song)
  • "No-Stalgia"
  • "E-Mail Thunderclap"
  • "3 Times Halloween Funjob"

A sloshy tribute slideshow shown in Record Store Day reveals many additional albums and singles:

• The Worst Fonts EP
• Instruments We Don't Play
• B-sides
• Whose Baby Is This? (UK exclusive)
• We Need A Lawyer EP
• Final Assault EP
• All Tomorrow's Euro-Restrooms DVD
• Early Demos and Worse From Like, Forever Ago
• Because Girl Bassist, That's Why
• "Architecture Jerk" b/w "Helvetica Chump"
• No Reason To Trend

[edit] Additional songs

These songs may be standalone singles or contributions to compilation albums.

• "American Football Championship Game"
• "The B-est of B-sides"
• "Phoning This One In"
• "Forget the Rules" (Trogdor!! The Board Game Rulebook EP)

[edit] Complete Filmography

• Debut: Email concert
• Limozeen vs. sloshy
• Sloshybowl
• Homestar Ruiner, Strong Badia the Free and 8-Bit is Enough (poster in Strong Sad's room)
• Baddest of the Bands (logo on a shirt)
• Record Store Day
• Fan Costumes 2015 (logo on a shirt)
• Marzipan's Answering Machine Version 17.2
• @StrongBadActual
• sloshy - No-stalgia

[edit] Fun Facts

• In the DVD commentary for concert, the Brothers Chaps reveal that sloshy was initially conceived as the band playing guitar for the scroll button song that was released the week prior.
• Degradest Hits was the first Homestar Runner album on music streaming services to actually be credited to the fictional artist's name, rather than the generic "Strong Bad" used by most other releases.

[edit] Quotes of the Week

[edit] See Also

• Limozeen
• Taranchula