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Favorite recurring character? (Select 4)

  • Jack / AIDSMobdy

    Votes: 257 24.0%

  • Josh / the Wizard

    Votes: 77 7.2%

  • Colin (Canadian #1)

    Votes: 460 42.9%

  • Jim (Canadian #2)

    Votes: 230 21.4%

  • Tim

    Votes: 386 36.0%

  • Len Kabasinski

    Votes: 208 19.4%

  • Freddie Williams

    Votes: 274 25.5%

  • Patton Oswalt

    Votes: 27 2.5%

  • Macaulay Culkin

    Votes: 541 50.4%

  • Max Landis

    Votes: 64 6.0%
  • Total voters
    1,073
FrickinFrackinFruckin said:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=5jPtkjxU5jg
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But I thought that they hinted in the last Spotlight episode (the Chooper/Blood Shack one) that their next Spolight would be for another film made by the Diamond Cobra lady (the "keep me uppidy-up to date" line near the end was a reference to one of her songs).

Also I'm not seeing any fucking masks on these hack frauds and they have an international guest as well. Hasn't Josh "The Wizard" Davis (of Red Letter Media fame) informed them that their actions are causing the deaths of thousands of people and violating the Milwaukee Health Department's mask rules?
 
BlueSpark said:
But I thought that they hinted in the last Spotlight episode (the Chooper/Blood Shack one) that their next Spolight would be for another film made by the Diamond Cobra lady (the "keep me uppidy-up to date" line near the end was a reference to one of her songs).

Also I'm not seeing any fucking masks on these hack frauds and they have an international guest as well. Hasn't Josh "The Wizard" Davis (of Red Letter Media fame) informed them that their actions are causing the deaths of thousands of people and violating the Milwaukee Health Department's mask rules?
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Considering that even the re-uploads of that Diamond Cobra video are gone from YT, they probably don't want to risk it.
 
Soundproof Van
The Blue Check Marx
Milwaukee Mask Mandate
Facediaper

or if they want some classic names:
Soydivision
Great Big Whites
Low-Test-ament
Megaderf
Judas Unemployed Computer Technician


Also, if anyone wants to hear them:
 
Mola Ram said:
Quelle surprise, they fucking suck.
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They've got about a hundred songs up on YT, and AIDSMoby put more on Vimeo over a decade ago. Shockingly, despite some of these uploads being ten years old, most of their songs only have a few dozen views, so if you jump in now, you really COULD say you heard Josh's band before it became famous.

If you'd like to see them live:

Apparently they've been doing this shit since before the Towers fell. Highlights of their career include getting a favorable review in an Ohio music magazine in the mid 2000s, a copyright dispute with 90s altrock band Nada Surf back in 2011, and after two decades of being snubbed by the Wisconsin Area Music Industry Hall of Fame, they were finally nominated for a WAMI award in 2020 - but then the show got cancelled due to Covid, so they get nothing.
 
Mola Ram said:
That's either a case of "Jean Claude Van Damme is the greatest kickboxer in Belgium" or a result of Josh's association with RLM. Probably both.
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They were nominated in the "Best Punk Artist" category, and were up against seven other bands, including Fox Face and Indonesian Junk!

According to their Wikipedia article (which one of them probably wrote), obscure 80s punk band Die Kreuzen namedropped them at the 2011 WAMIs, so they've been chasing this rainbow for at least a decade.

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At Die Kreuzen's 2011 induction into the Wisconsin Area Music Industry (WAMI) Hall of Fame, they cited IfIHadAHiFi as a current band that they thought "should be in consideration for a WAMI."[2]
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So I looked up some of those other WAMI bands who were competing with Josh, before Covid killed the dream. One of them (BUD), I couldn't find at all. But these are the other six challengers:

Indonesian Junk looks like Shelbyville RLM. They even have a Shelbybille Jack Packard! It's weird that, despite Josh having a team of hack frauds at his disposal, these Shelbyville kids have far better production value than Josh's music videos.

Like Indonesian Junk, the Platinum Boys are ALSO indie Milwaukee filmmakers. Sensing a pattern here.

First Rule are indie filmmakers AND a political band! Looking bad for Josh.

Fox Face is a girl band. They sound like a shitty Lunachicks or a MACY's discount rack Sleater-Kinney, but sadly they're still better than Josh's band.

Size 5's sound like a 40-something Blink 182.

And Bad Year probably won. *sigh*

Is Milwaukee a really big place for fat white guy indie filmmakers with friends in terrible punk bands? Or did RLM have a hand in some of these productions?
 
Solid Snek said:
So I looked up some of those other WAMI bands who were competing with Josh, before Covid killed the dream. One of them (BUD), I couldn't find at all. But these are the other six challengers:

Indonesian Junk looks like Shelbyville RLM. It's weird that, despite Josh having a team of hack frauds at his disposal, these Shelbyville kids have far better production value than Josh's music videos.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=RqNiW9NKf80

Like Indonesian Junk, the Platinum Boys are ALSO indie Milwaukee filmmakers. Sensing a pattern here.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=xiX4G7WgoKY

First Rule are indie filmmakers AND a political band! Looking bad for Josh.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=BaWIPsaL2_U

Fox Face is a girl band. They sound like a shitty Lunachicks or a MACY's discount rack Sleater-Kinney, but sadly they're still better than Josh's band.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=ERxn5HR1fUc

Size 5's sound like a 40-something Blink 182.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=6fYLZ6lVJ64:122

And Bad Year probably won. *sigh*
https://youtube.com/watch?v=lY62WVXF1Xw

Is Milwaukee a really big place for fat white guy indie filmmakers with friends in terrible punk bands? Or did RLM have a hand in some of these productions?
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As much as I might love RLM, I can only conclude we must bomb Milwaukee from the face of the earth.
 
Mola Ram said:
As much as I might love RLM, I can only conclude we must bomb Milwaukee from the face of the earth.
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At least we now know how Rich got AAAAAAAAAAIIDS.

I nearly contracted it just looking those thumbnails.
 
For anyone who doesn't want to waste their life watching any of those, here's a shot of (clockwise from upper left) Shelbyville Rich, Shelbyville Mike, Shelbyville Jack, and Shelbyville Jay.

Screenshot 2021-12-11 at 12-13-44 Indonesian Junk - When I Find You (Official Video).png

Should tell you all you need to know.
 
Solid Snek said:
They've got about a hundred songs up on YT, and AIDSMoby put more on Vimeo over a decade ago. Shockingly, despite some of these uploads being ten years old, most of their songs only have a few dozen views, so if you jump in now, you really COULD say you heard Josh's band before it became famous.

If you'd like to see them live:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=fP6OAky97zA
Apparently they've been doing this shit since before the Towers fell. Highlights of their career include getting a favorable review in an Ohio music magazine in the mid 2000s, a copyright dispute with 90s altrock band Nada Surf back in 2011, and after two decades of being snubbed by the Wisconsin Area Music Industry Hall of Fame, they were finally nominated for a WAMI award in 2020 - but then the show got cancelled due to Covid, so they get nothing.
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How the fuck do you play music for so long, and suck so fucking bad?

And I say that as someone who's favorite bands includes Guided by Voices and a bunch of 80s Hardcore records where the distortion is sometimes louder than the fucking guitars themselves.


Edit: Bad Year is the only one of those that deserves to call itself a band, and they don't suck.

I mean they are not in any way good, but they are basically just generic as fuck and I could have easily seen them being in rotation on MTV in like 2003 during the whole numetal phase and shit.
 
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