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• Saint Vincent and the Grenadines: An Afro-Caribbean music group from the country of the same name.
• 0% Approval Rating: Hardcore political rap, constantly chewing into the failures of some political administration, past or present. Their lyrics outwardly seem to diss any authority on principle, but if you actually listen to the verses, it can be gleaned they're actually demanding the governments to get off their collective ass and do good for all mankind like they should.
• Two Rights Make a Wrong: Beloved Ugly Guy, Hot Wife novelty country duo, whose last names are Wright. They regularly show up on the Grand Ole Opry and run their own dinner theater in Branson.
• Three Chords and the Truth: Parody Grunge band who claim to have failed to gain mainstream success or recognition as True Art during the early-to-mid-90s, and are making up for it. Think of them as Steel Panther for the Grunge era. The music they produce is an Affectionate Parody of both the best (powerful riffs, deep messages) and worst (unintelligible singing, unpolished sound, much pretentiousness) bits of Grunge.
• The Queen Will Be Watching: The band members are dressed as medieval peasants, except the lead singer, who's an cool, evil queen. Songs tend to be a call-and-response between the queen and her evil deeds, and the peasants planning their rebellion. Their Signature Song: "God Save Us from the Queen!"
  • Alternatively, the homage band of Queen with Freddie Mercopy lead singer.
• Quote Source: A J-Pop group famous for their profound lyrics. They are in a rivalry with Image Source.
• RPG Elements: Filk band. Members are named after the Classic elements, and their lyric booklets give the band members Character Levels.
• Rabbit Magician: A one-man Industrial Metal group/Performance Artist that forgoes the usual Cyberpunk/political edge of the genre and instead favors Post-Modern Magik/Urban Fantasy, doing high-octane acts of prestidigitation on-stage while the instrumentals play in the background, said tricks usually involving an ironic twist to them (Saw a Woman in Half with blood and live doves coming out of the two halves, getting pulled through the hat instead of pulling a rabbit out, etc).
• Rage Against the Reflection: An American Christian metalcore band whose lyrics are about their brushes with depression and suicide and eventual turning to Christ. The band are suprisingly not conservative for "mainstream" Christians, and LGBTQ+ rights, science, and fantasy works are not classified as the devil's creations (the drummer is bisexual and has a boyfriend, the bassist is a huge Dungeons & Dragons fan, and the rhythm guitarist has a degree in biology).
• Rage Quit: A metal band. At their live shows, the guitarist always makes a mistake about halfway through the fifth song, and his playing just gets worse from that point on until he gives up and walks off stage. Currently looking for a new guitarist.
• Railroad Baron: A thrash metal band from Texas made up of railfans. The lead singer dresses up as, well, a railroad baron and the other members dress up as stereotypical railroad employees. Think of them as being Alestorm if they sung about railroading history and railfan culture instead of pirates. Contrary to popular belief, the band-members are good friends with those of Railroad Employee Roundhouse and the two bands are currently touring together.
• Railroad Employee Roundhouse: A British railroading-themed thrash metal band. Started off as a drone metal band but gave up after two albums in that genre and switched to thrash metal with a railroading theme by the time their third album dropped. Currently touring with Railroad Baron.
• Rainbows and Unicorns: Saccharine pop music aimed at young girls.
• Raising the Steaks: A glam metal band that draws inspiration from bands like Ratt, Dokken, glam-era Pantera, Poison, Def Leppard, Lion, Vinnie Vincent Invasion, Slaughter, Skid Row, Mötley Crüe, Odin, Thor, Quiet Riot, Extreme, Warrant, Tesla, Turbo-era Judas Priest, Whitesnake, Damn Yankees, and Cinderella. Currently on tour with Ride the Rainbow and Fairy Godmother.
• Rated M for Manly: On the surface, Heavy Metal. Actually a brilliantly done Stealth Parody of the genre. Lots of argument amongst fans if their music is intentionally So Bad, It's Good, unintentionally So Bad, It's Good, So Good It's Bad, So Bad It's Horrible, or just plain Good. Rivals of Testosterone Poisoning.
• Raygun Gothic: Power/prog metal. Their albums all tell the Crystal Spires and Togas science fiction saga. They are faster than DragonForce and more complex than Dream Theater, and their ultimate goal is to create the most difficult-to-play piece of music ever.
• A Real Man Is a Killer: Either a blackened thrash metal band with experimental influences from Oslo, Montana, or a hardcore rap group focusing on crime and war in their lyrics. Or possibly both.
• Real Men Take It Black: A side project by rapper Sassy Black Woman. In bold wording and imagery she sings about being a strong woman who likes strong coffee and strong men who can handle strong women and strong coffee. 10% joke, 70% filthy, 20% waxing lyrical about caffeine. Known for the hit "You, Get Me Coffee", about how what women really want is coffee when they want it.
• Real Men Wear Pink: A pop-punk band who have all of their band tee's in pink and often joke about being gay when really they do this to get a female fanbase and thus chicks.
• Real Money Trade: Political rap that discusses social-economical issues. Once appeared in a Premium Currency song.
• Real Women Don't Wear Dresses: all-girl punk band where every member wears pants.
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: More Japanese singers. These ones, for no discernible reason, sing Japanese mythology (and occasionally other mythology) translated to Portuguese through French, with a Punk tune. Nobody has any idea whose idea it was to start this band.
• Red Shirt Army: A Star Trek band in the style of The Nth Doctor, Big Damn Heroes, and Adam Westing. Bitter rivals with Kirk's Rock.
• Redemption Rejection: A Sex Pistols/Public Image Ltd. tribute band founded by an ex-anarchist who was unable to find work after he was paroled from prison and founded the band to have a full-time "job".
• Refuge in Audacity: Punk comedy band that uses a lot of Dead Baby lyrics.
• Refused Reunion: Blues band.
• Resized Vocals: An A cappella group famous/infamous for their use of Auto-Tune.
• Resurrected Murderer: Thrash metal.
• Retcon: a cheesy pop/R&B fusion band, which tries to play up its edginess.
• Ride the Rainbow: A glam/hair/power-metal band with the fashion sense of Twisted Sister, the color palette of a five-year old girl's Rainbow Brite-themed birthday party, the upbeat tempo of Neonfly and is consistently picketed by Moral Guardians for corrupting their youth in-spite of the overwhelmingly upbeat love-ballads that make up most of their albums.
• Rightful King Returns: The lead singer is an Elvis impersonator. Nead we say more?
• The Roadie: An American Folk Metal band named after its lead singer, who just so happened to be a former Roadie, his first album comprised mainly of love-letters tot he unsung heroes of the Rocking industry.
• Roaring Rampage of Revenge: A death metal band with lyrics about people who become people of mass destruction after either having had enough of this or that or after losing someone or something very close to them.
• Robo-Speak: The "vocals" are performed on a Mac speech synth, like MC Hawking.
• Robot Buddy: Upbeat electropop about a young kid and his amazing robot friend. Often plays alongside Cheerful A.I. and may be connected to Powered by a Forsaken Child.
• Rock Me, Amadeus!: Neoclassical Metal, do a lot of covers of classical symphonies, mostly Mozart.
• Rock Me, Asmodeus!: A hardcore thrash band, but not really black or death metal.
• Rock of Limitless Water: Pirate shanties combined with hard rock. Hasn't gathered a very large following.
• Rock-Star Song: A Postmodernism band who songs are all Trope Names and/or Take Thats against other bands or songs. They'd have a sort of Emo/Ska sound if they didn't deny categorization because they hate all genres equally. Currently on hiatus after the singer quit because he felt the band's schtick went too far.
• Rockers Smash Guitars: Not a "band" so much as a postmodern art display. Their performances consist of the members walking up to stacks of guitars and smashing them with sledgehammers. The guitars they wreck the least (or the most) are sold for thousands of dollars on eBay. Currently on hiatus after they tried to smash live guitars with another, plugged-in live guitar.
• Rocks Fall, Everyone Dies: The band formed by a disgruntled former member of Kirk's Rock, which only lasted two months before the other members left. Currently looking for members.
• Rogues Gallery: Heavy metal group that only sings about true crime. Often tour with Start to Corpse.
• Room Full of Crazy: A screwed up experimental/avantgarde rock/metal project probably featuring Mike Patton.
• Roommate Drama: Their title album tells the story of a stoic, emotionless detective who lives with an upbeat nice guy. They don't have much in common, and are troubled by their distant relationship. The lead track, "I Just Don't Understand You", is their Signature Song.
• Rose-Haired Sweetie: Cutesy pop music for elementary schoolers.
• Rouge Angles of Satin: Symphonic death metal.
• Royal Blood: English two-piece Hard Rock band, with no official guitarist... wait a minute...
• Ruined FOREVER: Dark metal band from Iceland. Have occasionally played festivals with Trope Repair Shop (get it?).
• The Ruins I Caused: Symphonic metal, soaring violins backed with growling electric guitars, thunderous drums, and the occasional air-raid siren. Best known for "Ragnarock", which they describe as "a post-apocalytic jam session".
  • Ruins for Ruins' Sake: Their most devoted fandom.
• Rule of Cautious Editing Judgment: An avant-garde electronic rock band similar to Trio (the band who performed "Da Da Da") made up of TVTropes moderators.
• Rule of Cool: A popular band that specializes in fast paced Rock music. Known for their hit single, "Instant Awesome: Just Add Ninja Pirate Zombie Robots".
• Rule of Funny: A comedy parody/tribute band to Rule of Cool.
• Run for the Border: A glam metal cover band themed after the criminal lifestyle. Their music videos are known for their well, Run for the Border themes and the endings usually being a Tropical Epilogue. Have covered songs based on or themed after literally every commitable crime known to man.
• Running Gag: In each of their albums, there's one theme or joke that ends up appearing in every song. Gained the nickname Overused Running Gag when fans complained that their gimmick was getting predictable and stale. As part of their Grand Finale, "Running Gagged", every single recurring joke they've made is brought back for a single song. They broke up, but the drummer ended up joining Brick Joke.
• Runs on Ignorance: A punk band, where no members of the band have any idea of how they're supposed to use their instruments. Somehow, they made three hit singles before they had to break up, because they learned how to use their instruments properly, and couldn't match their old performance.
• Sad Clown: A costumed Cabaret clown singing emotional love-ballads and depressing songs.
• Sailor Earth: All-girl punk band with five members who dress like the girls from Sailor Moon in concert, the lead singer (who is also the rhythm guitarist) appearing as the title character. Their first album, In the Name of the Moon (1994), has "Sailor Earth", "In the Name of the Moon" and a cover of "Moonshadow" that even Cat Stevens/Yusuf Islam appreciates. A former drummer went on to form the Tokyo Mew Mew-themed Mega Neko.
• Samurai Shinobi: A Melodic Death/Power Metal band comprised of Otakus who met in their High School manga and anime club. Their main lyrical themes include Shintoism, Buddhism, Youkai and basic Japanese history. One of their concept albums details the life of famed samurai and ninja Hattori Hanzō.
• Samus Is a Girl: A glam punk band whose members are all drag queens and kings.
• Sand Blaster: A Hard Rock group that adapts stories of Arabian Nights into individual songs.
• Sanity Slippage: A doom metal band with lyrical themes dealing with dangerous mental illnesses and people with said mental illnesses.
• Santabomination: A Death Metal Band (as well as an album named Santabomination) that releases Christmas albums.
• Sassy Black Woman: Woman rapper, raps mostly about men, the pains in the ass of everyday life and why politicians are idiots who should be taken out and shot. Brutally true, hilarious and outrageously filthy.
• Satellite Family Member: Classic and electronic fusion, with lyrics about the sanctity of family relationships.
• Sawblade Anatomy: Impossibly fast grindcore, ran a single Reclusive Artist.
• Scare 'Em Straight: Moral Guardians-endorsed band that tells you the terrible things that could happen if you do drugs, don't eat your vegetables, or go to bed too late. The consequences listed are soo unrealistic that they cross into Narm territory.
• Scary Black Man: Politically-minded rapper. He legally changed his name to this. Sings about his experiences growing up in a predominantly white region of Chicago.
• Schizo Tech: Alternative rock, using instruments such as violins, electric guitars, trombones, synthesizers, banjos, and amplifiers. An extremely unique sound.
• The Schizophrenia Conspiracy: An alternative rock band whose songs all deal with insanity. With the exception of the bassist, every member has spent some time institutionalized.
• Scoring Points: 80s-themed chiptune band that mainly composes for indie games.
• Scotireland: A celtic/folk punk band whose lyrics takes influences from Irish/Scottish history and culture.
• The Scrappy: A goth/emo metal band that focuses on worthlessness and trash. Songs include "Piece of Junk", "Useless", and "Bound for the Dump".
• "Seinfeld" Is Unfunny:
  • Rock and Roll. They sound almost exactly like The Beatles, but everybody's tired of the same old songs about love.
  • Alternatively, a Seinfeld nerd rock band whose members dress as characters from the show during concerts (similar to Adam Westing or The Nth Doctor), with Jerry on vocals, George on guitar, Elaine on drums, Kramer on keyboards, and Newman on bass. Several of their songs discuss the several ways that the show is unfunny.
• Self-Offense: Alternative rock band with lyrics about self-loathing. Their lead single is "Doesn't Mind a Beating".
• Serial Escalation: A band that goes to ridiculous lengths to one-up every other band. Their guitarist plays fast enough to put DragonForce to shame... with his teeth, the lead singer incorporates spontaneous glass breakage into their concerts, their drummer is a zombie Keith Moon. Their pyrotechnics must be seen to be believed. They played with Moment of Awesome once. The show got sold out 3 seconds after tickets went on sale.
• Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness: Rapper with a tendency to write really, reeeally complicated lyrics. Occasionally uses words that take up an entire bar to pronounce.
• Shadow Government: Black-IndustrialMetal band with themes of war, crony-capitalism, corrupt religion, and cryptids. Their mascot is a tall Grey-Alien in a black suit. Fans who've analyzed their most critically acclaimed album — "Eye of Providence" — think that the reason why their production quality had fallen in later albums is because the various antagonists in their more story-heavy songs are deliberately based off of specific people in their own record-company.
• Shady Scalper: Horrorcore Played for Laughs. It deals with the nightmares of nerds and collectors everywhere.
• Shaped Like Itself: No-one can really pinpoint their style, only agree that the band sounds like itself.
• She's a Man in Japan: American band, none of whom have been to Japan.
• Shiny New Australia: Aussie indie rock with aboriginal influences, notable for the fact that the band was originally started by two immigrants: one German, another Mongolian. Nevertheless, it enjoys appreciable acclaim in Australia, New Zealand, and with North Rhine-Westphalia hipsters. Their most popular album is Madness to the Max, and their most critically acclaimed, as well as most divisive one is Risk Management.
• Shock and Awe: AC/DC-influenced band, with some elements of power metal.
• Shoe Phone: Punk rock band formed in 1978 by three guys and two girls with many songs and albums deriving from Get Smart. Scored their first hit with "Missed It By That Much" (1981, #1) from their debut album, I Asked You Not To Tell Me That (1982, #1). Sailed into They Changed It, Now It Sucks! territory with the failed synth-pop-meets-punk-rock experiment known as Siegfried's Capture and the Collapse of KAOS (1985, #35), providing Canon Discontinuity (and Fanon Discontinuity) on it and its single, "Siegfried on The Love Boat" (1984, #30). Regained fans with "Six Destroyers" (1989, #1) from their final album, In CONTROL (1992, #1), which was nevertheless a Creator Killer because of Creator Breakdown and Troubled Production. Qualifies as Long-Runner Line-up Class 1: Logical Extreme. Later formed Uriah Gambit and One-Steve Limit.
• Signed with a Kiss: A glam metal band from the 80s who would tour with Our Witches Are Different. The band's female guitarist got along well with Our Witches Are Different's lead guitarist, as she also had a younger brother herself, in fact, the band was originally going to be named Boy Meets Girl, but while recording a song, the guitarist received a letter from her brother with a drawing of the two of them together, and when she wrote him back, she kissed the bottom part, which is when she decided on the name for the band, and signing things with kisses, be they autographs, band merchandise, or letters to fans, friends, or relatives, became the band's signature trait.
• Silk Hiding Steel: A four-girl group whose members are all accomplished fencers. Best known for the beautifully choreographed duel in the music video for their hit single Sword Lily.
• Simple Plan: Pop-punk, maybe from Cana- wait...
• Sin Eater: A satanic black metal band whose gimmick is eating the food from the garbage can that they bring in the stage bafore playing.
• The Singing Mute: A generic Hipster Alternative Indie Folk Music band that tries using an oxymoronic name.
• Sir Cameos-a-Lot: He always appears in the background of music videos, but doesn't put out much himself. Has brought popularity to obscure bands, with his fans watching their music videos just to see if they can spot him.
• Slasher Smile: Incredibly disturbing and violent lyrics set to catchy, cheerful pop rock.
• Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism: Well respected and loved pop/punk band featuring dueling violins and synthesizers as well as philosophical lyrics about opposites. The name is usually shortened to Sliding Scale. Have released many singles, (see here for full list. Scroll down to Sliding Scale. The band's singles discography is there.) but best known for their trio of Samuel Beckett like concept albums collectively called Morality These were the critically panned Black vs. White, the more well received Darker and Edgier Grey, and the more bizarre, alien Blue to Oranges. A fourth installment is said to come out soon called Chaotic/Neutral.
• Smashing Watermelons: Tropical covers of The Smashing Pumpkins songs.
• The Snark Knight: A trio of bass/vocals/drums playing a very stripped-down hybrid of Post-Punk and Psychedelic Rock. Notorious for their extremely insightful (and verbose) lyrical Take Thats to everything... Including themselves.
• Snobby Hobbies: A five-person orchestra that plays exclusively for billionaire shindigs.
• So Yeah: Indie-Power Pop based in Seattle but with two of four members from Vancouver (its fans debate whether they sound more like OK Go or The New Pornographers). A fair number of their songs just kind of trail off without actually ending, on the grounds that "you know where this is going, so why should we keep playing?" Most of these songs (and all of their albums) are references to Eddie Izzard routines.
• So Bad, It's Horrible: A garage band that tries so hard to be the worst band on the entire planet, complete with an awful singer, an out-of-tune guitar, and a drummer who just bangs things randomly, pretending to be completely ignorant as to what a beat is. They end up gaining fans because the worst they can manage to get is So Bad, It's Good. Take inspiration from the Shaggs.
• Soapbox Sadie: A Riot Grrrl band. Known by their Anvilicious Poe's Law songs about women's rights, animal rights, and more.
• Soft-Spoken Sadist: A gothic metal band whose lyrics calmly explain all the tortures they wish to inflict on others.
• Someday This Will Come in Handy: Progressive Rock, interspersed with random trivia. At least once per song, at least one band member will implement whatever is in his/her pockets at the time.
• Something about a Rose: retro cocktail act with some stylistic similarities to Pink Martini, who got their start doing Guns N' Roses covers.
  • Alternately, four girls who are all RWBY fans who formed a tribute band. They dress up as the titular team at live concerts (lead singer/guitarist=Ruby, keyboardist=Weiss, bassist=Blake, drummer=Yang). They balance their repertoire between covers of existing RWBY songs, original songs about RWBY, and RWBY-themed parodies.
• Something Something Leonard Bernstein: Parody cover band that does covers of songs that they don't know half the lyrics to. Half the time, they just sing a few words of a song and mumble the rest. Some of their more famous "covers" include ones of "Heaven or Las Vegas", "We Didn't Start the Fire", and "Despacito".
• Songs of Solace: Affectionate Parody of late-2010s downtempo pop music. Their biggest hit "Unbroken Vigil" is based around a sample of Mankind's exit theme.
• The Sorcerer's Apprentice: Punk band whose five members dress as sorcerer Mickey, brooms, and Yen Sid at concerts.
  • Actual German Hard rock/Blues band. Here is their Facebook page.
• Soul Fragment: Wizard rock.
  • Alternatively, a Collective Soul cover band.
• Soulless Bedroom: Downbeat vaporwave.
• Sound Defect: A Stylistic Suck comedy band that specializes in adding Wacky Sound Effects to their music, as well as other sound gags (the sound suddenly cutting out, an instrument suddenly detuning or seeming to break, etc.). A Running Gag involves them attempting to find the right sound effect for a song...and failing repeatedly.
• Southern Belle: Satirical heartland rock/southern rock group. The lead singer sings like John Mellencamp and he and the other members give all interviews in Deep South accents despite them all hailing from the Philadelphia suburbs.
• Space Is Cold: Gothic Space-Rock.
• Space Marine: Leslie Fish meets Sabaton. They sing power metal about war in space.
• Space Whale Aesop: Parodies of Stock Aesops, often with a sci-fi theme.
• Space Zone: An Avant-Garde Metal that uses elements of 50's-style rock and a theremin. The theremin player is dressed like an alien while the rest are dressed like The Men in Black, their songs all based on schlocky sci-fi B-Movies.
• Sparkling Eyes of Excitement: Bishōnen J-Pop band.
• Speaking Simlish: A pop-rock band that either speak a mash of foreign languages in each song, or just sing gibberish. Wider audiences claim they're actually singing in Chinese, Japanese, Korean and even Russian.
• Spectrogram Spectacle: Impenetrable IDM act. They release albums where every track aside from the Title Track is a band photo imported as a spectrogram and stretched out to 5 minutes.
• Spexico: Indie-folk. They're from Nebraska and have absolutely no Latino members; they claim they met in Spanish class.
• Spiked Blood: Punk rock.
• Spikes of Villainy: Affectionate parody of Black Metal. Lots of fantasy and Warhammer 40,000 references in the lyrics.
• Spit-Trail Kiss: A French DJ and vocalist duo mashing Electronica-House-Club-Trance-Jungle Bass genres.
• Spiteful Will: Stars a fictional man named Spiteful Will, who wants to get revenge on everyone who's wronged him in the past. Music is inspiring while simlultaneously bitter.
• Spoon Bending: Psychedelic Rock group full of bell-like noises that the band members believe stimulate the brain in a manner similar to LSD with the intent of creating a race of Psychic humans.
• Spring Cleaning Fever: A Japanese Pop-Idol group that became really popular in the West because American Moral Guardians tried hitting them hard with Bowdlerization due to their skimpy outfits and risque song lyrics.
• Springtime for Hitler: A neo-Nazi rock band that keeps trying to get themselves pulled off the radio by singing praises for Hitler. The controversy just makes them even more popular.
• Squee: a Japanese pop band whose songs are incomprehensible, but the few understandable lyrics all relate to a Sugar Bowl world where sparkles reign supreme.
• Squishy Wizard: A group of self-admitted nerds with songs that spoof video-game tropes, such as the titular wizard.
• Start to Corpse: As always with names like these, metal, probably some garage band who's a bit confused on their exact Sub-Genre, or what it actually means. Bassist wants to play Black metal, the drummer wants to play Death metal, the Guitarist wants to experiment, and the lead singer is still mesmerised by the idea of subgenres.
• Steampunk: Symphonic metal band... with a twist! The band uses steam tractor with generator attached to power their instruments, the drummer uses a clockwork backpack with six extra arms to maximize efficency. Some songs use overhauled string instruments, brass instruments (steam-powered,natch), and a freakin' pipe organ. A Tesla Coil and low-temperature steam provide on-stage effects, musicans dress as Victorian-era gentlemen, soldiers, and Mad Scientists. And you know how they haul all their perephirals around? With the help of their blimp. Currently on tour with Raygun Gothic.
• Steel Drums and Sunshine: Feel-good calypso band. Their tracks are named after shades of yellow or blue.
• Steel Ear Drums: A western rock band infamous for ending all their songs by shooting in the air with revolvers. Has received numerous lawsuits due to their albums causing temporary hearing loss to their listeners.
• Stepford Smiler: A pop rock Band Who Plays very Happy music, But lyrically They talk about Suicide and depression and Murder. Basically Lyrical Dissonance to the core.
• Stingy Jack: An Industrial Metal band made to be a mocking burlesque of Rob Zombie's work, complete with a guy dressed in a pumpkin-headed scarecrow costume dancing around on stage.
• Stock Puzzle: A sound crew remixes popular music that you've already heard several hundred times.
• Stock Slasher and the Devious Daggers: Thrash metal.
• "Stop Having Fun" Guys: A classical music group made up of Wikipedia admins. Their only hit (and original; as their entire repertoire aside from it is music by Mozart and other composers like him) song was "Notablity Guidelines", which was written after fans of Dos Gringos and Yu-Gi-Oh! The Abridged Series were angered by their respective Wikipedia pages being deleted for being "non-notable".
• Stopped Caring: Vaporwave album appealing towards 90s nostalgia. Their first EP is "ＮｏＨｅｌｐＩｓＣｏｍｉｎｇ".
• Strictly Formula: A pop rock band who uses every riff, lyric and melody that you've heard in every other song on the radio.
• Stupid Statement Dance Mix (now defunct): Remixing internet memes or creating new ones. Most fans are nerds. Their most popular song to date is "I Killed a Guy (with a trident).", a Katy Perry parody made up entirely of Brick Tamland quotes. Broke up when the trend died out.
• Stupid Jetpack Hitler: A fringish rock band with lyrics which are either profound or nonsensical (nobody agrees). Not for the easily offended.
• Stupid Sexy Flanders: Tribute band to The Simpsons.
• Sturgeon's Law: An experimental rock group that only puts effort into one out of ten songs on each of their albums.
• Subspace Ansible: Sci-fi prog rock. Don't like being called Subspace Ensemble.
• Sucking-In Lines: Emo alternative rock.
• Sugar-and-Ice Personality: Call And Response Songs between a Keet and a Kuudere.
• Sugar Wiki: A Glam-Pop-Groove-Funk-Progressive Rock group with Hippie Jesus on guitar, Santa Claus on drums, Gandalf the White on bass, Amaterasu Omikami on the fiddle, a sentient rainbow doing the lights, a unicorn that farts rose-scented bubbles on pyrotechnics, Albus Dumbledore as their manager, William Shakespeare as their songwriter and Steven Universe and Shadow Moon as their roadies. All of their songs are ballads created to sow peace and love to the world. Exposure to it alleviates stress and promotes productivity in the general wellbeing in the universe. Prolonged exposure can lead to intense feelings of happiness and an expanded capacity of compassion for one's fellow man that have led to them being banned in the United States, Saudi Arabia and North Korea.
• Supergroup: An Alternative Metal band whose members were members of other Supergroups; they took one look at what they were, realized how cool that sounded, and ran with it.
• Supernatural Team: A Hard Rock band with their own licensed comic book portraying the band members as a group of free-lance exorcists that fight demons and ghostly supervillains.
• Supreme Chef: Pop music. Their singer, the Supreme Chef, is a no-nonsense, unemotive chef who lives to work and is super good at his job. His first album is Chef of Iron. A turning point for his music is Through His Stomach, which follows a story of him becoming the boyfriend of one of The Sweet Bakers. By the end, they're an Official Couple; fans went crazy and love it. During their A Side Order of Romance tour, the Supreme Chef slowly becomes more open about showing his affection for his girlfriend; the fanbase exploded.
• Surrounded by Smart People: Lead singer is a regular guy who somehow ended up with a bunch of astrophysicists. They mostly play math rock and nerdcore to confuse the living daylights of their lead.
• Survival Horror: A Horror Core group who uses a Polygon artstyle in their album art.
• Sympathy for the Devil: Heavy metal band that largely worships Satan. Scored their first hit by covering the song they are named after on their self-titled debut album.
• The Syndicate: The Italian-American answer to the Dropkick Murphies, singing folk-punk, the folk part coming from traditional Southern Italian music. Occasionally sing covers of songs from Frank Sinatra, Bruce Springsteen and Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons just to fuck with people—although to be fair, they are from North Jersey and the drummer is even from Hoboken.
• TV Tropes: Some casual indie band. You listen to their songs every now and then, but they're not all that engaging.
• Take It to the Forums: Smashcore clusterjam wreck-rock. Live performances banned in 11 countries.
• Take That!: The same band as Accentuate the Negative. Naturally, these two bands loathe each other. Not to be confused with the boy middle aged man band led by Gary Barlow.
• Take That, Audience!: A hardcore punk band whose songs are filled with insults towards their listeners, critizing every single aspect in their lives, including the fact that they are buying their albums in the first place. Funnily enough, this doesn’t stop them from being a fan favorite in the scene
• Take That, Scrappy!: Tribute band to Scooby-Doo where all the songs have something bad happen to Scrappy.
• Talking Heads: New Wave Music, no-drama, a bit arty but maybe a bit funky... Wait...
• Team Kids: Indie pop punk.
• Tear-Stained Stationery: Sad emo rock. The album covers are designed to look like letters, and each track name forms the contents.
• Tears of Fear: Blues and metal hybrid.
• Techno Babble: Vocal samples over a drum machine beat, not recommended as backgorund music for crowded places. Features lengthy rap sessions by a Don Vito Corleone impersonator.
• Technologically Blind Elders: A group of blind old people who use electronic instruments.
• Teenage Mutant Samurai Wombats: A Hard Rock band thematically based around 80's Nostalgia. They dress in Punk attire, their clothes and instruments are in glow-and-the-dark green paint to evoke Mutagenic Goo, and they have come out with many songs and concept albums that evoke The 8-bit Era of Console Video Games, Saturday Morning Cartoons, stereotypically manly Action Heroes, Reagan-era action-figures, aerobics, Slasher Movies set in the woods, Mutants, Cassette Futurism, Climate Change and the Cold War. While they played opening acts for a lot of most famous bands, their big break came when Lloyd Kaufman asked them to cameo in Troma's latest movie, their band becoming an official part of Tromaville lore.
• Teens Are Monsters: A ragtag Garage Band trio of misfit teenage girls blasting their hearts out on cheap instruments. Their lyrics are generally sardonic, snarky, darkly humorous reflections and observations on the follies of teenage life. Their music is usually categorized as "alternative rock," but it is also influenced by hardcore punk, punk pop, and progressive rock. They performed their first gig when they crashed a talent show at their high school, setting up in record time and performing part of the song "Pep Rally Purgatory" before the administration caught on and forcibly removed them from the stage. They later released their debut album Brainless Beauty and began a tour in a converted family minivan, playing guerilla gigs across the country and building up a fanbase of various teenage freaks. They are currently on tour with Horny Vikings (their gigs together are totally not Project X -esque teen house parties). The band members are:
  • A Daria-esque guitarist/cellist/lead singer who writes most of the lyrics and sings most of the songs.
  • A keyboardist/violinist/occasional lead vocalist and lyricist who dresses like a stereotypical Goth but is actually more like a Shrinking Violet nerd.
  • A drummer/percussionist who has the reputation of being the most energetic and out-there of the three, due to stunts like tossing candy into the audience, punching out bouncers at venues, and soloing until becoming too exhausted to play.
• Telepathic Spacemen: A Psychedelic Rock/Progressive Rock/Space Rock/Shoegazing/Dream Pop/Alternative Metal band who don't need instruments since they play everything in their heads and just use special amplifiers to translate it into sounds. This can make their concerts rather boring since they spend them staring at their shoes.
• Teleporter Accident: Thrashing grindcore, but with a faint yet persistent techno beat.
• Terrorists Without a Cause: Alternative rock, politically infused lyrics against The Man.
  • The first-ever indie act out of Idlib.
• Test Subject for Hire: Alternative rock with a very bad understand of psychology ethics.
• Testosterone Poisoning: Blatant parody heavy metal band, with hilarious lyrics. Rivals of Rated M for Manly, despite frequently being confused with them.
• The Razor Apples: A group of former lunchladies make a rock band. Never caught on.
• The Scooby-Dooby Doors: A Doors tribute band consisting of two men and two women. They are best known for their elaborate concerts that follow the typical SD episode setup. The members dress as Scooby-Doo characters (Fred on vocals, Velma on keys, Shaggy on drums, and Daphne on guitar), and in-between songs they perform skits with an overarching story involving them solving a mystery (which is different depending on the city they're performing in). Scooby (and, when he appears, Scrappy) are represented by hand puppets performed by the drummer and guitarist, respectively, while the suspects and other characters are played by their backup dancers. They have a Fandom Rivalry with fellow Scooby tribute band Take That, Scrappy!, though both bands are good friends with one-another.
• The Sour Prudes: Parody band that act like grumpy old Moral Guardians.
• The Starscreams: Rival band and Decepticon counterpart to Autobots, Rock Out! Has more of a metal influence; harder, heavier, and darker, though by how much can vary wildly by song. Originally known as The Megatrons, but changed their name after the original lead singer's.... How shall I put it? ...Departure.
• The Sweet Bakers: Very Moe all-female band who sing about their love of food. During concerts, they all wear aprons with cute saying on them. People who meet them outside of concerts can confirm that they're just as nice as they seem. One of them is now the boyfriend of the Supreme Chef.
• The Wallet Moths: Indie rock. Currently busking.
• The Woobies: A Shallow Parody of emo.
• Themed Wedding: A Postmodern Jukebox-esq. Tribute band that creates renditions of famous love songs, usually switching genres to be at their most ironic (like "Can't Help Falling In Love" by Elvis Presley redone to sound like "Monster Mash").
• There Are No Girls on the Internet: A band that parodies angsty emo. All of the members are covered with fake pimples, the lead singer's voice is deliberately whiny and scratchy (he has formal practice on how to emulate voice cracks), and most of their songs revolve around how to avoid the cooties.
• There Is a God!: Purely Christian band.
• There Is No Cure: The Cure hate band.
• There Is No Kill Like Overkill: More Dakka! Speed/power metal in all it's glory. Play only on eleventh volume (their concerts are not unlike Space Shuttle takeoff), use largest and loudest tech available. Frequently perform in improbable locations: over the erupting volcanoes, in the storms' eyes,and on the moon, among other places. Rivals with More Dakka.
• There Is No Such Thing as Notability: Nerdcore, but all the references are very obscure. Generally considered to be Wikipedia admins' second-worse nightmare.
• Things Man Was Not Meant to Know: The hardest and blackest of the metal bands. No, blacker than that.
• This Is for Emphasis, Bitch!: Named after the Precision B-Strike from their debut album.
  This is for emphasis, BIIIIIiIiIiIiIiIiIiITCH!
• This Is My Side: Hard rock that insults targets that are off-limits. Fans defend them by saying that if you're getting offended, just don't listen to their music.
• This Troper: A band that exists only in rumours spread along various internet forums (and wikis) by some frustrated nerd that would like to convince people it's a real thing; alas nobody takes him seriously.
• Thong of Shielding: all-female pop/rock. Perform only in lingere' with g-string panties. Songs are about skimpy underthings and protecting loved ones. Currently on tour with Nipple and Dimed.
• Those Two Guys: Wacky nerd-humor band. Or at least, WANNABE wacky nerd humor band. They're not actually nerds, and they're really just playing along with the record company to try and capitalize on the success of Weird Al's "White and Nerdy." Yes, they're poser nerds.
• Those Wacky Nazis: Who've constructed an elaborate stage persona of vicious, totally unironic-sounding neo-fascists from which they never deviate, and endeavour to keep their real lives (especially speculation as to whether they're Jewish, as often claimed) secret. As noted above, metal, playing gigs with the Dirty Communists to play off their rivalry. The fact that both Those Wacky Nazis and the Dirty Communists hate Putting on the Reich has led some fans to joke that the two bands are actually just two faces of a larger project, The Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact. In reality, all three bands were created by a history teacher as an excuse to perform novelty songs based off various subjects he teaches his high school class.
• Through the Eyes of Madness: Dronecore/ambient electronic, with a lot of references to going mad in the lyrics. Their first album and single are also titled Through the Eyes of Madness.
• Tilesweeper: A disco band with a soldier theme.
• Time-Freeze Trolling Spree: A Power Metal group who's gimmick is that they will sometimes stop playing in the middle of the song and chat to each other casual, maybe one member of the band helps him/herself to a drink of water, before resuming the song as if nothing happened.
• Time Stands Still: A Power Metal group who’s gimmick is that they will sometimes freeze in-place at random points in the song, allowing the echoes of their previous note and their audience’s shouting carry before resuming the song.
• To the Bat-Noun (now defunct): Another Super Hero tribute rock band. This band's members dress up as member of the Justice League: Batman (lead singer), Superman (keyboard), Wonder Woman (guitar), Green Arrow (bass), and The Flash (drums). They are bitter rivals with Adam Westing.
• Tokyo Is the Center of the Universe: Punk rock band with Deadpan Snarker vocal delivery. May not actually be from Tokyo.
• Tomato Surprise: Performs usually-creepy songs where the last line completely changes what you thought the song was about.
• Too Cool to Live: Nihilistic party metal. From the "live fast, die young" school of thought.
• Too Spicy for Yog-Sothoth: Parodic reggaeton by a set of three Latino nerds (two Puerto Ricans and a Mexican).
• Touch of the Monster: Goth band with aesthetic and lyrical focus on Interspecies Romance, often involving vampires.
• Toxic Dinosaur: Aggressive garage rock.
• Tradesnark™: Happy-go-lucky punk pop along the lines of Aquabats. All their songs parody recognizable corporations and all of their policies and controversy.
• Tranquil Fury: A Heavy Metal band whose angriest lyrics are sung without raising any voices.
• Trapped by Mountain Lions: Emo and jungle fusion. Their lead single is "Animals Hate Him".
• Trope Names for a Band: Nerd/indie with lyrics that take meta humor just a bit too far...
• Trope Repair Shop: A blues band made up of middle-aged mechanics and do-it-yourself repairmen.
• Troperiffic: TV Tropes' own band. Every song is about a trope. By far their most popular download is "Major General Song". Broke up after trope re-namings became common.
• Trophy Violence: Sings intense Bragging Theme Tunes for each of their band members. Claims that they will crush all in their path, but died out after the singer and drummer got into a petty feud and refused to speak to each other.
• Troubled Production: A insane Thrash Metal band based out of the KCMO area, played by five people: vocals, two guitars, bass, and drums. Did a lot of live shows, until their career was cut short after the drummer was murdered by a light technician for Vodka Drunkenski following their murder.com tour. As of 2017, they have released a new album with a new drummer called Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking.
• True Art: A musical collective, kind of like Parliament-Funkadelic, consisting of eight different bands. When joined together, they sound like clumsily-performed bluesy post-rock with angsty lyrics in a foreign language about gore and how much the current establishment sucks sung by chipper middle school assembly performers.
  • True Art Is Incomprehensible: Ambient post-rock like Godspeed You! Black Emperor, with a penchant for Word Salad Lyrics, unusual instruments, and the Truck Driver's Gear Change.
  • True Art Is Angsty: 90s-style grunge who's members dress in flannel and play vintage 60s guitars and sing songs with angsty lyrics about wanting to die. Always name-dropped by wannabe music critics and people who never got the hint that grunge died along with Kurt.
  • True Art Is Offensive: Grindcore band similar to Napalm Death, with horrifying lyrics about gore and rape. All the members are currently on death row after the bassist shot the drummer eighty times and had sex with his corpse during a live show.
  • True Art Is Foreign: Indie rock whose lyrics are never sung in English, instead switching between a lot of different languages (sometimes in the same song). Disbanded when all the members decided all their songs should be in one language, but they couldn't agree on which one. However, the lead singer will occasionally scream in Esperanto as a live member of True Art Is Incomprehensible.
  • True Art Sticks It To The Man: Consists entirely of one guy yelling about how much the current establishment sucks over a Brown Note. Currently on hiatus after said guy was arrested during a performance of his 27-minute brown note rant rock epic "Every President That Has Ever Sat In Office Or Ever Will Sucks, And Here Is A Bullet-Pointed List To Explain Why". He has since released the song "You Guys Suck, Man! You Should Have Petitioned For My Release!"
  • True Art Is Ancient: Blues-rock played by eighty-year-old nursing home residents.
  • True Art Is Boring: A classical music covers group that add lyrics to classical music pieces that are sung by chipper middle school assembly performers. Considered boring by the majority of their "audiences".
  • True Art Is Simple/Unpolished: Clumsily-performed indie/alternative rock with a penchant for Throw It In and The Show Must Go On. Receives rave reviews from Pitchfork in the U.S. and NME in the U.K. and is always name-dropped by indier-than-thou hipsters, yet is ignored by everybody else.
• True Love Is a Kink: A Punk band that uses a lot of Neon Pink. They may or may not be made up exclusively of gay men, but it is clear that gay men make up most of their audience.
• The Tsunderes: a feminist rock band that sings incredibly catchy songs about controversial women's issues such as extreme beauty ideals and female genital mutilation.
• Turn of the Millennium: A party band who celebrate everything that embodied the 2000s. They mostly do covers of songs by artists who were huge during the 2000s (e.g. Nelly Furtado, Ashanti, 50 Cent, Kelly Clarkson, The Black Eyed Peas, The White Stripes, My Chemical Romance, etc.) and the theme songs to iconic 2000s TV shows (e.g. the How I Met Your Mother theme, "Superman" from Scrubs). The male members dress like pre-Recession college frat boys on spring break while the female members dress like Bratz dolls. Their live performances include iconic imagery from 2000s films, TV shows and news events being projected behind them on a screen, handing out 2000s snacks like Gripz and Oreo Cakesters to audience members at concessions, and 2000s trivia contests.
• Tutti Frutti Hat: Samba music.
• 20 Bear Asses: Heavy Mithril filk, using "no shit there I was" stories as a Framing Device. The Ho Yay manages not to take over.
• Twice Shy: A Tamer and Chaster Affectionate Parody of TWICE.
• Ultra Super Death Gore Fest Chainsawer 3000: A hardcore death metal/electronica band. Nobody takes them seriously.
• Ultra Super Happy Cute Baby Fest Farmer 3000: A Deconstructive Parody of bubblegum pop, with an electronic influence.
• Uncertain Doom: Self-conscious, neurotic teenagers play black metal.
• Uncertified Expert: Comedy band. Each song has the members act as a "professional" in a different field, with the lyrics full of crazy misconceptions.
• Uncle Tomfoolery: An all-Black Hardcore Punk group famous for their fast and fierce musical style best displayed in their first two albums Magical Negro (1982) and Scary Black Man (1983).
• Unfortunate Implications: Lo-fi rock band whose lyrics do, in fact, have Unfortunate Implications.
• Unmoving Plaid: Dance-pop band that refuses to move on with the times.
• Unsound Effect: Experimental art-rock band that makes "music" with random objects. Kind of a Steve Reich meets early Residents sound.
  • Alternatively, a rap group whose song lyrics consist of absolutely nothing but various onomotopieas.
• Unstable Powered Child: Powered by a Forsaken Child in the style of Maximum Fun Chamber.
• Unstoppable Mailman: Nothing prevents these couriers from the swift delivery of sick beats. Their first album, Return to Sender, was a hit with tracks like "Gloom of Night" and "Dead Letters". In concert, all the members dress in blue postal service uniforms, and will take a break during shows to open fan mail.
• Unstoppable Rage: A thrash metal band with songs dealing with anger and multiple ways it's unleashed.
• The Unwitting Comedian: An Urban Blues music-group that creates songs about how their dreams of making it big as musicians have been crushed, interspersing their lyrics with jokes at their own expense.
• Unwitting Instigator of Doom: A sludge metal band following a concept dealing with a group of people who unintentionally bring about the destruction of their homeland and end up having to deal with the consequences of said destruction.
• Uriah Gambit: Uriah Heep cover band. Mick Box, Trevor Bolder and Bernie Shaw have actually enjoyed listening to their covers, some of which feature Phil Lanzon as a session musician.
• Useless Boyfriend: Band led by a female singer that mainly sings songs against love. Word has it that she actually does have a boyfriend; he's in on the joke.
• Useless Without Cell Phones: A Dubstep group that will often come on stage an hour late because they were busy texting.
• Vader Breath: some sub-set of Heavy Metal. Wear death-masks hooked up with forced-air respirators (which they're never seen without, like Daft Punk and their mirrored masks). Sing through voice changers that give them a deep, mechanical grate. Tracks are interspersed with-what else-deep, rhythmic breathing. Doctors are on stage at every show to make sure they never accidentally suffocate in those masks, and hospital staff and EMTs are given the best seats at their concerts.
• Vengeful Vending Machine: A heavy metal band, the meanings of their lyrics always just out of reach.
• Video Source: A J-Pop group famous for their big-budget music videos. They were in a threeway rivalry with Quote Source and Image Source. Disbanded when the videos ended up becoming too expensive to keep producing.
• Villainous Valour: A Thrash Metal band whose lyrics examine the stories of the most dauntless among the depraved, from the most honorable warriors to the most vicious and irredeemable criminals.
• Virtual Ghost: Alternates between Punk and Techno music.
• Visible Silence: Quiet-yet-menacing slow rock, with a lot of acoustic instruments a la early Days of the New.
• Viva Las Vegas!: A Cocteau Twins tribute act spearheaded by a devout Christian lady who got stuck in Las Vegas after she missed her flight, and started the band to fund her trip back home.
• Vocal Tag Team: Rock band that prides itself in their vocal talents, with each member trading verses/choruses.
• Vodka Drunkenski: Russian rock, formed by two brothers from Moscow and their cousins in New York. By their own account, they're political rock criticizing the state of modern Russia; by other people's account, they sing an awful lot of odes to vodka, and Cousin Vova, the lead singer, always seems to be drunk at gigs.
• Voodoo Shark: A gothic rock band with lyrics about ancient African witch doctors.
• Vulval Flora: A Funeral Doom band, emphasis on "funeral", with a visual motif of flowers. Despite the name, all the band members are male, their lead singer being Straight Gay who thought the name sounded classy.
• Walking the Earth: Country metal. Their fans ("Walkers") insist it's better than it sounds.
• Wangst: Supergroup formed by all the members of Face Full of Alien Wing-Wong, Feng Schwing, and G-Rated Sex, as well as the drummer from X Meets Y and the vocalists from Party in My Pocket. NSFC, NSFT, NSFSC... hell, not safe for ANYBODY.
  • Alternatively, an emo parody band.
• War from Another World: Hardcore rock that describes a battle between different worlds. Each "world" is represented by another band. The various worlds can be seen in music videos by There Is No Kill Like Overkill, Spiked Blood, and Bad Future. Action Girl or Little Miss Badass show up during particularly intense battles, and you may even catch Sir Cameos-a-Lot in the background!
• Warm Water Whiz: All the band members are dressed in swimwear and their instruments are themed after bath toys. Their songs tend to be gross and vulgar. Their music video for "Putting the Pee in Pool" is not for the easily disgusted.
• Washy Watchy: A variety of genres, but it's all good, clean fun, lyrics never stronger than PG-rated at worst. Be sure to watch the music videos for maximum fun.
• Wave of Babies: A Bishōnen j-pop band
• We Can Rule Together: Progressive Power Metal two-man band. Their sound is epic and thunderous, but with subtle love song-like violin pieces. The members dress up as famous historical people who opposed each other. Heavy Audience Participation is one of the things they're renowned for.
• Welcome to the Caribbean, Mon! (now defunct): Reggae, mon.
• Well, Excuse Me, Princess!: All woman punk band that sings gritty songs about how they hate débutantes and Ivy Leaguers.
• What Do You Mean, It Wasn't Made On Drugs (trope merged into Quirky Work): Psychedelic rock group that makes music on drugs. Formed from members of Disney Acid Sequence and Mushroom Samba when both broke up, the others forming G-Rated Drug.
• What Do You Mean, It's for Kids?: Grindcore band whose lyrics are all entirely child-friendly (when you can understand them).
• What the Hell, Hero?: A punk band that sings songs about famous heroic historical figures and the most vile things they have ever done. While they pretend to be bitter enemies with Paint the Hero Black it's all scripted for laughs.
• Wholesome Crossdresser: A synthrock band who's (male) members wear masks that present them as female, otherwise known as female masking. Originally the members dressed in female animegao kigurumi (aka doller) costumes but said costumes were destroyed in a freak accident involving one of the band members and a pissed-off Christian fundamentalist.
• Wick Namespace Migration: A polka-influenced alternative rock band from Nebraska. Has a rivarly with Impossible Pickle Jar.
• WikiWord: The lyrics of all their songs are freely available online and anyone can edit them. In live performances they only play the instrumental and encourages the audience to sing the songs, one of the band members is possibly Jimmy Wales in disguise...
• A Wizard Did It: Their lyrics are full of Dungeons and Dragons references. Inexplicably successful, which they credit to an omnipotent magical figure that is most likely a hallucination caused by drugs.
• Won't Do Your Dirty Work: Steely Dan tribute band, but they only do songs from Can't Buy a Thrill and Countdown to Ecstasy.
• Word Cruft: Early-1990s conscious hip-hop trio.
• Super Punk Octo Pudding Gas Mark Seven: Japanese singers who sing entirely in "English".
• World-Healing Wave: Electronica group, mainly focusing on Trance, with a profound environmentalist message weaved into their songs. Has a playful rivalry with a hardcore group coincidentally called World-Wrecking Wave (at first is was mostly their respective fans, before both groups started running with it).
• World of Badass: A Power Metal band where all the bandmates are body-builders and their drummer has become rather infamous for being a right-wing gun enthusiast that says a lot of sketchy things on social media.
• Would Not Shoot a Civilian: A 1960s British psychedelic rock band that was most notable for their anti-authoritarian pacifist streak and vehement opposition to America's Vietnamese intervention. Their first album, School Is for Losers (1965, #5), barely had a release outside of Britain at all. It famously split while in collective police custody following an out-of-control anti-war rally in Swindon. Reunited in the 1980s, and have been together since. Their first album since their split up, We're Still Relevant Dammit (1984, #1) is a Cult Classic to many.
• Wrestling Doesn't Pay:
  • A cover band who play wrestler entrance themes and dress up as famed professional wrestlers of the past.
  • Alternativly, a group of professional wrestlers forming a band for reasons explained in the name.
• X Meets Y: Their songs all have to do with human biology. In an extremely creepy way. Alternately, pop rock.
• Xtreme Kool Letterz: A rap/hip hop band with completely unoriginal songs that are usually covers for other rap artists. Well, except for the fact that they have Xtremelee Kool Leerix Wyth Phunkee Letterz.
• Yandere: All female band whose love songs alternate between pop music and death metal.
• Yoko Oh No: All-female J-pop group that does covers of Beatles songs.
• "You!" Squared: Post-modern future bass.
• You Wanna Get Sued?: Alternative band that only does covers and remixes. Currently has some legal troubles.
• Your Little Dismissive Diminutive: Post-modern alternative rock.
• Your Makeup Is Running: Goth Metal band that often alternates between depressing and sexual without warning, fronted by a gorgeous Perky Goth who wears a skimpier take on a funeral dress during live performances. Moral Guardians claim that they promote Domestic Abuse, sexual abuse, and rape, even though they rarely (if ever) discuss such topics. The closest they got to the last one was with their controversial hit-single "Aren't You Going to Ravish Me?", which describes an interaction between a young woman who wants to take part in a rape fantasy, and a guy who was initially uncomfortable with it, but slowly gets talked into it.
• Your Mind Makes It Real: They stand on stage with their instruments, but don't actually play them. The audience lies back and imagines them playing and singing dialogue from The Matrix.
• You're Cute When You're Angry: An all-girl trio of Cute Bookworms. At one point in most of their songs, they get upset, but it just comes off as adorable instead. Usually involves a desperate shout of "You Won't Like Me When I'm Angry!" and then frustrated Angrish.
• Zerg Rush: Sci-Fi speed metal from Seoul.
• Zettai Ryouiki: All female tribute to Neon Genesis Evangelion sporting short skirts and high socks.
• Zombie Apocalypse: Death Metal. Nobody is quite sure if they're serious.