December 11, 2005

• Some of those are quite obvious, but most I don't have a clue. Rolling Stones Whitesnake Guns 'n' Roses Matchbox 20 White Zombie Smashing Pumpkins Black Flag 50 Cent The B-52s Alice in Chains The Doors (?) The Cars (?) Radiohead Garbage Ratt Cowboy Junkies The Dead Kennedys Moby (?) Great White (?) Hole (?)
• Heatmiser's 'Mic City Sons' is where the pinkish background comes from...I think.
• The picture you have has a bit cut off -- on the left side there's some wedding cake, some Skinny Puppy, maybe a Seal and some Pet Shop Boys.
• Sex Pistols in Queens' hands. Are the fairies The Pink Fairies?
• Oh, and the Gorillaz obviously.
• The queen is killing joke(r). Also... Pavement.
• You've got a Yellowman leaning against that wall too, but more tink of him as a solo artist.
• Also that must be the Scissor Sisters with the wee bows.
• Led Zeppelin, Eagles and Cornershop too! What's the the buch of Hare Krshna?
• Blur on the right.
• The Black Crowes (?) Blind Melon
• I have a fucking final tomorrow, you know.
• Also Postal Service and...is that Reel Big Fish -- the goldfish in the bowl near the bottom? Looks like Eels by the Queen, too.
• I wondered if the fish was Phish
• Spoon (the giant spoon... hard to miss) U2 (the two u's) Manic Street Preachers (the white guys on the left) Green Day (the calendar) Red Hot Chili Peppers (the peppers on the vegetable stand)
• Faeries = Pixies? I'm seeing Three Non Blondes a little right of center. And can we assume that one of those is a Jefferson Airplane? What's with the two chicks making out mid-left? At least it looks like two chicks... Who's keeping count?
• That'd be the Police just in front of the cars too. Pixies might well be it dana, but I hope it's the Pink Fairies.
• Ooo ooo I see a Dinosaur Jr.!
• And talking heads (on the TVs)
• Of course the Sex Pistols are also the Vibrators is a big punk mash-up. Wonder if that would count?
• The picture you have has a bit cut off That I did not know...Nona, do you have the full-sized picture? Or know where I can get it and post it?
• And waht I thought was a statue will be Iron Maiden. Must..look..away...
• Lemonheads (with the rest of the fruits) and Iron Maiden (crossing the street). Could that Zombie's name be Rob perchance? (stage left)
• Gah, looks like it is cut off, if this is the orginal game
• He's white. Ergo White Zombie. The planes are both B-52's. Should be Four Non-Blondes, not three, so I doubt that's it. Those cars are all the same make, it looks like, so I wonder if it's something more specific than The Cars, but I've got nothin'. Thank you for Iron Maiden, Lemonheads, and Green Day. Those were driving me nuts.
• Ah, well, there's Cake.
• That's a deep purple building in back.
• And a cypress tree on that hill
• What's that coming out of the sewer grate that looks like Cthulhu?
• I would kill anyone of you for an Alienware PC. Just so you know where we all stand.
• Nine-inch long nails on the ground by the joker
• BGG == Bee Gees
• that ain't the full version of the pic - in the full version there is more on the left of the white zombie thingie. full version can be found at the virgin site i think.
• What's with the two chicks making out mid-left? KISS?
• Jesus and Mary Chain on the left?
• Also, the Rolling Stones.
• So I don't get the contortionists, or the people partying in a building on the right, or the girl blowing a bubble upstairs on the left. One of the cars looks like a Gremlin to me.
• Would the dudes holding surfboards be the Beach Boys?
• Blues Brothers?
• "uu" on the building under the gorillas. 2 u's. U2?
• Never mind. I see that stepself already got that. I guess this would be as good a time as any to try out my new time machine so that I can save myself from that useless post. I will see you all five minutes ago.
• The partying people sure do make that house crowded. The men on the roof, though, remain at work. I'm befuddled by the bubblegum girl, the contortionists, the makeout couple and the plant in front.
• >well, then, you've stuck it to the Man. tried that, failed to derive any pleasure. he (He) is just too darned hairy...
• applauding middleclasstool and the challenge in general. planning to look again when i'm fewer sheets to the wind
• Jesus and Mary Chain on the left? I thought that was Madonna. M&Ms on the ground, just above matchboxes= Eminem? Near the M&Ms, nails = Nine Inch Nails? Contortionists = Twisted Sisters? Bubble gum girl = Blondie? (looong blonde hair) Calendar on fruit stall = Green Day? Is that a crate of cranberries beneath the fruit stall?
• I don't get the black flag, though. Sorry stepself, I didn't see your comment about Green Day earlier.
• I thought that was Madonna. Hm you're right, makes more sense.
• (moneyjane's post, not mine)
• I'm shocked no one has caught the Prince in the foreground. Jewel by the fruit stand? Alnedra, the black flag is Black Flag (they're a band).
• Not mentioned yet: Korn (on the produce stand) and The White Stripes (on the crosswalk).
• erm... Isn't is 4 Non-Blondes, danapiper? Three Non-Blondes is a BBC show.
• We've got 69 so far, some tentative. In alphabetical order: 50 Cent Alice in Chains B-52s Beach Boys Bee Gees Black Crowes Black Flag Blind Melon Blondie (?) Blues Brothers Blur Cake Cornershop Cowboy Junkies Cranberries (?) Crowded House Cypress Hill Deep Purple Eagles Eels Eminem (?) Garbage Gorillaz Great White (?) Green Day Guns 'n' Roses Hole (?) Iron Maiden Jesus and Mary Chain (?) Jewel KISS (?) Korn Led Zeppelin Lemonheads Madonna (?) Manic Street Preachers Matchbox 20 Moby (?) Nine Inch Nails Pavement Pet Shop Boys Phish Pink Fairies (?) Pink(?) Pixies Police Postal Service Queen Prince Radiohead Ratt Red Hot Chili Peppers Reel Big Fish(?) Rolling Stones Scissor Sisters Seal Sex Pistols Skinny Puppy Smashing Pumpkins Spoon The B-52s The Cars (?) The Dead Kennedys The Doors The White Stripes Twisted Sisters U2 White Zombie Whitesnake Yellowman
• The Birthday Party I feel old now.
• Linkys: Mefi Flickr comments Enlarged picture (missing pet shop on the left) Which gives us a few more: Bush The Streets Cowboy Junkies (?) Styx (?) The Vines (?) Carpenters (?)
• The spoon could represent Lovin' Spoonful as well...
• Alnedra - danapiper saw Dinosaur Jr. (it's missing from your list). The only problem is that there's also a band called Stegosaurus, and a band called Stegasaurus...(according to Google ;)
• A couple having sex... a couple having sex... a demon eating a horse... a woman's sexual organs... a couple having sex... ooops, wrong thread.
• Could the televisions be Television?
• Sorry, danapiper!
• What's the open case by the fruit stand and the Cranberrys? It looks like a diamond necklace...
• Might be Jewel?
• I know I'm not helping...but couldn't the Cars be Traffic and the Blue Brothers be Killers? They look to be blod spattered.
• blod=blood
• I thought Blues Brothers but they remind me more of Antonio Banderas in Desperado.
• I've Googled a few cheat sheets on this and it seems it is the Pixies not the Pink Fairies. This is BOLLOCKS! Those are patently fairies and slightly pink. A pixie is a wee elf like character that leads you astray on Cornish moors. Stupid Virgin, mumble, grumble, groan. My blatant cheating also means I must recuse myself from this noble quest for the truth (and just sit here looking smug 'cos I now know the answers).
• *reads Abiezer's comment about recusing* *cries*
• The spoon maybe grinspoon?
• It was 75 bands when my colleague emailed this to me a couple of weeks ago!
• Do you still have the list of bands, dickdotcom?
• The guys look more like Thompson twins than Blues Brothers. Blues Brothers don't play guitar, and those guys look like mobsters who might have Tommy Guns in those cases.
• I'm still befuddled by the dildoey looking guy with the pink nose on top of the virgin sign (heh). What did I miss?