Musical Sightings

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Contents 1 ApologetiX 2 Beach Boys 3 Beastie Boys 2004 Pageant Tour 4 Bigg Nife 5 Butch Walker 6 Calibretto 13 7 Five Iron Frenzy 8 Flatfoot 56 9 Goldspot 10 Jack's Mannequin 11 Jump, Little Children 12 Jump5 13 Karl Olson/Ultraklystron 14 KJ-52 15 Legitimate Business 16 Lemon Demon 17 Mindless Self Indulgence 18 Patent Pending 19 The Planet Smashers 20 Relient K 21 Salsa Commodity 22 The Skate Party 23 Sol Martin 24 Strike Four 25 Strong Bad Live! 26 Suburban Legends 27 Thursday 28 Time For Living 29 Tripleside 30 Very Low Sodium Band 31 Waking State 32 Y-O-U

ApologetiX

• In the booklet for the Christian group ApologetiX's 2003 CD "Adam Up," their guitarist is wearing a Strong Bad shirt. Also, at a show in Cincinnati, Ohio, the guitarist, Karl, wore his Strong Bad shirt (the mask shirt). In the booklet, he is wearing the full body shirt. He's got both!
• At their stop in Big Rapids, Michigan October 2, 2004, the keyboardist, Bill Hubauer, somehow got the Homestar quotes from the main webpage into his piano playing loud "Toons!," "Games!," "Characters!," and "Downloads!" while the lead singer, J. Jackson, was trying to say stuff. So far, no reported repeats of this activity.
• On August 22nd ApologetiX stopped at Elizabethtown, PA. In the middle of the concert, between songs, Karl started singing "Trogdor". He also commented on someone's The Cheat hoodie.
• Early 2006 ApologetiX released a Live DVD with snippets between some songs. Karl is seen several times with a Trogdor t-shirt.

Beach Boys

• Homestar makes a random appearance on the interactive Beach Boys CD-ROM "Project SMILE." Click to enter the "Smile 2004" section, then the "Fan Experiences" subsection. Somewhere in the mess of random images on the main page of this section is a tiny animated GIF of Homestar dancing.

Beastie Boys 2004 Pageant Tour

• On December 16th 2004 at the Zenith in Munich, Germany, the Beastie Boys used two JumboTron screens on the left and right side of the stage to present to the crowd the first one and a half minutes of Everybody to the Limit. Even though most of the listeners might have never heard of Homestar Runner or Strong Bad the crowd cheered and clapped their hands rhythmically with the music.
• Everybody to the Limit and other Homestar Runner footage might have been part of other Beastie Boys shows during the 2004 Pageant Tour, but no other sightings have been reported.

Bigg Nife

• The band Bigg Nife took their name from band names.

Butch Walker

• On the links page on Butchwalker.com, there is a link to H*R which reads "Homestar Runner ..our buddies.. yes.. i said it.. OUR buddies.."

Calibretto 13

Calibretto 13 has a Myspace profile. Evidently they like Homestar Runner. They have a link to the website, with the text "You gotta love that homestar, he is a terrific athlete."

Five Iron Frenzy

• Reese Roper, lead singer of the Christian ska band Five Iron Frenzy, is pictured in a CD release's booklet wearing a The Cheat shirt as shown here. In the liner notes, drummer Andy Verdecchio thanks Strong Bad.
• During their performance at the 2003 Cornerstone Music Festival, Reese asked the crowd if they were "ready to achieve burnination".

Flatfoot 56

Josh of the Christian celtic punk group Flatfoot 56 cites Homestar Runner as one of his favorite websites. [1]

Goldspot

Indie band Goldspot used the beat from the Old Intro 2 on their song "Cusp" from their album "Tally of the Yes Men". This song is available for download on iTunes.

Jack's Mannequin

During a performance of their song The Mixed Tape for Yahoo Music, one of the band members can be seen wearing a Limozeen t-shirt. See it here.

Jump, Little Children

On June 6th, 2003, during his solo tour, Jay Clifford was asked to play a song and replied "It's been probably five years since I've played this song so forgive me. It's gonna sound like crap. Crap! It's gonna sound like crap! Anybody watch Homestar Runner? It's the cool- I mean, the best thing ever, that's ever happened to this planet! That's Homestar Runner. So Holy Crap!" Download this clip! - You will need to be able to convert it or play a shnf file.

Jump5

During one bonus "track" on their remixed album (Remixed), Chris sings something extremely similar to The System is Down (one of the various sound effects).

Karl Olson/Ultraklystron

Karl Olson, also known as Ultraklystron, recorded two songs related to H*R: a cover of The Skate Party song Strong Sad Rocks Out and an original song, He's Homsar, which are no longer available at these sites.

KJ-52

On his new album, Behind the Musik (A Boy Named Jonah), Christian rapper KJ-52 lists Homestar Runner in his song "Things I Like."

The way in which the verse "Come on now, everybody!" is performed in "Whoop Whoop" (from It's Pronounced Five-Two) is suspiciously similar to the Intro song.

Upon being asked what his favorite Strong Bad Email was, KJ-52 replied, "Oh, man! Come on, now, that's not even a question right there. Um, my favorite Strong Bad Email, I'm-a probably say, I like the one where they got the virus, that one was hilarious. I like the one where Bubs went out and blew, um, shot a hole through the computer, but I have tons of them. Couldn't even name them all on top of my head. Um, so, that's to say, I have quite a bit. I would say that one's definitely one of the first ones that popped into my head." Click here to hear the podcast.

Earlier, a fan asked if he would write a song about Homestar Runner. KJ-52 said, "Oh, yeah! I just went to Homestar Runner this morning. I was watching, um, I read the cheatday, that was a Strong Bad Email, so you might wanna go check it out. Do I think I'll write a song about Homestar Runner? Uh, you know what, don't put it past me, I'm not saying I would. But don't put it past me, I would say that this is from the guy who wrote a song about mullets, Napoleon Dynamite and Mountain Dew. And, I love Homestar. I think it's my favorite web site ever." Click here to hear the podcast.

On his video podcast, he tells Baka Gaijin that writing a song based on a Strong Bad Email is a good idea.

On part 1 of his Remixed podcast, he mentioned downloading Podstar Runner. [2]

Legitimate Business

• New Jersey ska/punk band Legitimate Business is named after one of Homsar's lines on his Main Page.

Lemon Demon

• The band Lemon Demon referenced Trogdor in the song Fire Motif from "Clown Circus" with the lyrics "The time has come for burnination."
• In the song "Geeks In Love" on the album "Damn skippy" One lyric says "ponkity-ponkity", and in the commentary he says that's a reference to the Strong Bad email funny
• In the Music Video for "Geeks In Love", during the Logo declaring the songs name, you can see the word "TROGDOR" in the background.

Mindless Self Indulgence

• The band Mindless Self Indulgence played The System is Down and Everybody to the Limit while setting up equipment before a show at the Metro in Chicago, Illinois. After the show, a band member was heard to comment on a fan's Strong Bad T-shirt and mentioned reading about H*R in Spin Magazine.
• During their Desparta Los Ninos tour a compilation CD was played in between opening acts and before the openers played. The CD had The System Is Down, Everybody to the Limit and Ballad of the Sneak. The lead singer Jimmy Urine is quite fond of Homestar Runner cartoons, especially Strong Bad.

Patent Pending

Patent Pending has a song on their album "Don't Quit Your Day Job" called Decemberween.

The Planet Smashers

The hidden 13th track on The Planet Smasher's "Mighty" album proclaims "Trogdor!"

Relient K

The band Relient K had a Homestar Runner-like shirt logo (currently unavailable) and have linked to Homestar Runner from their web site, although since the reformatting of their website the link has been taken off.

Salsa Commodity

Salsa Commodity released the song A Tribute to Homestar Runner "Live" on their debut album, Official Homemade Ice Cream. Before all this, guitarist and singer Michael Sanders made a song about Teen Girl Squad, which can be found in the old music section of the site. There is also a sort of Trogdor cover there, using the singing from the email.

The Skate Party

Wrote the music for The Cheat Theme Song, and sent it to The Brothers Chaps as a fan contribution, who liked it enough to make a video for it and put it on the site. The Skate Party also have another song called "Strong Sad Rocks Out".

Sol Martin

At singer Sol Martin's web site, there used to be a link to Homestar Runner on the main page. His musical idol, Ronnie Martin, founder of Joy Electric, probably dislikes Homestar Runner.

Strike Four

The band Strike Four, which has some of the members from the now defunct band, Salsa Commodity, referenced the Strong Bad email mile in their song "Here I Go."

They also made a homestar trubute song, wich can be heard here

Strong Bad Live!

On June 7th, 2003, at a concert featuring Radiohead and the Beastie Boys, Strong Bad Emails were shown on the JumboTron between acts. They also showed Everybody to the Limit and it had a special new introduction wherein Strong Bad complained that he wasn't allowed on stage even though he had been the #1 hit for two summers in a row.

Suburban Legends

Orange County ska band Suburban Legends thank "homestarrunner.com" in the inside cover of their 2003 album Rump Shaker.

Thursday

The band Thursday thanks Homestarrunner.com in the booklet to their latest album, War all the Time.

Time For Living

The San Francisco hardcore punk band Time For Living has a Homestar themed album with the title track "The Cheat is not Dead". They have songs called "Discount Brick", "Just A Friendly Reminder", "Population: Tire", and "The King Of Town." Beyond the titles, the songs don't have any relationship to Homestar Runner.

Tripleside

Tripleside (www.tripleside.net) wrote an homage to Homsar called "Legitimate Business", which contains many classic Homsar quotes. You can download the song here or read the lyrics here.

Very Low Sodium Band

• The Very Low Sodium Band has a song that praises Homestar Runner. Hear the song here.
• VLSB guitarist and singer Michael Sanders later formed the band Strike Four (formerly Salsa Commodity) which performed the song live; a recording is on their album Official Homemade Ice Cream.

Waking State

In the liner notes of their 2005 release, Hang On, the DC Band Waking State gives special thanks to www.homestarrunner.com.

Y-O-U

• Worked with The Brothers Chaps on Strong Bad Sings and Other Type Hits.
• The Brothers Chaps made the music video for Y-O-U's song "L.A. Lindsay."

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