Gallery of unfortunate band photos

This one's not doing Grizzly Bear any favors, given my already low estimation of their coddly, indie-comfort-food music:

http://cdn.pitchfork.com/media/grizzlybearportrait452sanchez.jpg

OMG:

http://cdn.pitchfork.com/media/baths452__.jpg

http://imgur.com/ugII0.jpg

The guy on the right looks like Booger from Revenge of the Nerds.

"Last month, Perfume Genius (otherwise known as Seattle songwriter Mike Hadreas) released Learning, an album full of shaken, wounded reveries."

― Pfork

http://cdn.pitchfork.com/media/perfumegenius.jpg

He doesn't look nearly shaken or wounded enough.

http://beyondrace.com/images/stories/AnimalPeta.jpg

The worst.

I <3 those guys' music but motherfuckers need to take a fucking shower.

I like to imagine some really droopy boobs are below the bottom of that perfume genius photo

I feel truly sorry for Robin Gibb here. Poor kid.

http://i38.tinypic.com/27y8gn7.jpg

I <3 those guys' music but motherfuckers need to take a fucking shower.

I have to give them credit for being three of the most anonymous looking dudes out there. Good way to avoid stalkers.

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natural selection mayne

Whats wrong with the Jonsi pic? :/

http://www.thewire.co.uk/images/artists/clouddead/COVER241.jpg

xxxxp from Simon Napier-Bell's book 'You Don't Have To Say You Love Me':

The lead singer had protruding teeth and a high warbly voice. He was generally known around the music business as the singing goat and one TV producer went to enormous lengths to send the whole thing up. Under instructions from Robert (Stigwood, the group's manager) to produce a beautiful artistic image of the group, the director placed his cameras on the singer in close-up profile, then he shot the rest of the group in miniature, in a pool of light in the distance. They were framed by the singer's open mouth, with the goaty teeth protruding over the small background figure like an awning over the tables of a French street cafe.

http://c1.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images02/130/l_9ca91baf3d36410fa583050e7e6142d8.jpg

http://i38.tinypic.com/167ts47.jpg

Animal Collective: The Movie...

Starring Zach Galifianakis as Geologist....Winona Ryder as Panda Bear...and the guy who plays Osacr on The Office as Avey Tare...

anjelica huston is in a metal band now

local rag is trying to convince me to listen to these jokers:

http://www.portlandmercury.com/imager/b/magnum/2658980/fa86/music2-570x300.jpg

Oh hey, your country has it's equivalent of Mumford & Sons:
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Lmbijs2fZwI/S6UaJP38GrI/AAAAAAAAEe0/uZLuWGki04A/s640/mumford-and-sons-otw.jpg

They could get together and swap mandolin tips!

need to open a lute/old timey hat store asap

Frightened Rabbit:

http://cdn.pitchfork.com/media/frabbitphoto452.jpg

Man, that band looks like it needs some exercise.

are there any indie bands who've forgone the oblig staging of (completely unremarkable singer) foremost, other members aligned due to some coefficient of instrument played/stature/idiosyncracy?

I thought it had long been standard to deemphasize the charismatic singer/frontman in the photo as a kind of fuck you to celebrity. Maybe that was more true in my college days though.

Like Fugazi photos often have Joe Lally, the most introverted band member, in front or at least sharing the front.

Frightened Rabbit, or Faith + 1?

http://www.brightestyoungthings.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/faith1eh3.jpg

I thought it had long been standard to deemphasize the charismatic singer/frontman in the photo as a kind of fuck you to celebrity. Maybe that was more true in my college days though.

― Ground Zero Mostel (Hurting 2), Friday, 27 August 2010 02:33 (1 hour ago)

true but that was a reaction to a long established protocol for diffidently conveyed hierachy, which now seems to have been restored

http://ezpicshare.com/images/art733-1282877352.jpg

some do it more subtly than others

all bands should look like that.

The Wiggles?

the decemberists

http://cdn.pitchfork.com/media/decemberists452.jpg

They all look vaguely embarrassed to be there.

except for the one holding the flowers

wow, that's some serious moon face he's got there

saw decemberists pic on a rare visit to pfk and thought of starting/reviving a 'terrible looking indie band' thread, so yeah

'how do we get the requisite emphasis on lead singer/songwriter without it seeming ~too~ obviously hierarchical?'
'is that srsly necessary? that's some serious moon face he's got there'
'yeah i dunno,.....just get him to hold some, like, candy canes, or a broken ragdoll'
'flowers it is'

Beardo #1 looks like a veteran surfer, beardo #2 looks like a university professor, beardo #3 looks like a comic book writer.

lol i can get behind that

beardo 3 looks like a douchebag

He does if you cover over guy-with-flowers.

Chick is longingly staring at fields of alfalfa.

Elevator conversation yesterday, circa 5pm:

Guy from neighboring office: so what are you listening to
Me: Mobb Deep. Because it's cold and rainy.
Guy: Ever heard of the Decembrists?
Me: um, yeah I know who they are. They're from Portland.
Guy: Well, I used to manage them.
Me: Really? Why did they fire you?
Guy: Well, I let them go. This is back when they were a jam band.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarkio_%28band%29

I tried to steer the conversation to general music industry malaise type stuff rather than admit that I fucking hate this ludicrous band

loool

will anyone rep for'em? (dpn't look at me)

*jumps into line of fire* i liked the first couple of albums! maybe even the first three! i don't recall. and moonfaced smugness aside i don't suppose i have anything much against them now, although i haven't listened to them in a few years, or their last couple of albums.

also, if you covered over the two on the right in that there photo, i could imagine it being a photo of a band i'd like.

also a good candidate for that band photos where one member isn't playing along thread, via dude on left not wearing a jacket.

It's just that thoughtful guy in the left is giving me Richard D. James vibes, and 2 other members have the same beard photoshopped in
https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTRRD63ACLzcNGKgMLdLawI_LhiJwcT00og-g&usqp=CAU

This photo of a Traveling Wilburys tribute band is giving my life: pic.twitter.com/MNU4Vqa1nX

— Michael Glover Smith (@whitecitycinema) August 28, 2021

LOL @ Dylan

Pretty sure that’s the Darkness

Do they just play Wilburys songs I wonder?

'Roy Orbison' looks like a Teddy Boy funeral director.

OMG!

Lo, snoball.

Is that Sean Penn as Dylan?

Sean Penn is exactly who I thought of when I first saw that photo!

https://i.imgur.com/MPta5t5.png

could also be picture of people who figured out how 2 live

Not so much

dude on far right pointing looks the most out of place, which is just as inexplicable as the photo itself.

gotta hand it to ice t though. he really genuinely loves attention.

I don't even understand that picture at all.

ALSO why is there always some weird guy with "eccentric" glasses that have transition lenses? What the fuck

Devo posing with Body Count at Riot Fest, iirc

Ah, thanks. I could place Devo obviously b/c of the hats but didn't recognize Body Count because I don't think I've ever seen pics of them? Other than Ice-T

My transition lenses question still stands tho. What's with that.

I dunno, doctor probably told him he should wear transition lenses and still wants to be "eccentric" or "kooky" is my guess.

I’m sorry but Devo always look like morons

kind of the point, no?

https://www.discogs.com/Thompson-Twins-Queer/release/3611463/image/SW1hZ2U6Njg4NzgxNQ==

Devo and Body Count photo rocks

It’s a great photo and Devo fucking rule but they do look so worrisomely old.

Like I knew Mark had COVID but they all look like they're 80.

As opposed to 70?

Ha yes, but many 70 year olds don't look as old as they do.

Mothersbaugh is my dad's age, and I guess he looks comparable based on that photo. I don't think he or the other two older guys in the band look particularly elderly, but age obv affects folks differently.

doctor probably told him he should wear transition lenses and still wants to be "eccentric" or "kooky" is my guess.

To be fair, one of his many activities is designing eyewear.

I absolutely love the Devo/Body Count photo and I don't understand the inclusion of it in this thread.