I play bass and do some singing in Hearts In Bondage.
yeah yeah.
bass. music. pizza. breaking things. metal fabrication. attaining worthless bullshit that looks kinda neat.
osaka.
chiyo-chan.
sakaki.
tomo.
yomi.
kagura.
kaorin.
and of course, mr. tadakichi.
All of these bands wrote at least one great song. An incomplete, alphabetical list: 20/20, 999, Accidents, Adicts, Adolescents, Adverts, Against Me!, Angelic Upstarts, Arcade Fire, Area 51, Atom and His Package, Authorities, Avengers, Bags, Barracudas, Batmen, Belle and Sebastian, Big Black, Big Boys, Big Iron, Blitz, Bloc Party, Blonde Redhead, Blue Hearts, Bored To Death, Buzzcocks, Carter The Unstoppable Sex Machine, Cheap Trick, Chiefs, Chron Gen, Circle Jerks, Clash, Crowd, Crucifucks, Cure, DRI, Dead Boys, Dead Milkmen, Deadbeats, Dehumanizers, Descendents, Devo, Dickies, Dicks, Dow Jones and the Industrials, The Eat, Elvis Costello, Embarrassment, Exploding Hearts, The Eyes, Faction, Fad Gadget, Fastbacks, Feederz, Fischer Z, Flamin’ Groovies, Flaming Lips, Flyboys, The Flys, Freeze, Freezepop, Fuckboyz, Fuzzbox, Germs, GG Allin, Girls, Glove, Go-gos, Grimple, Half Man Half Biscuit, Hearts In Bondage, Hickey, Hollywood Killers, Hollywood Squares, Iggy Pop, Ill Repute, Jack Acid, Jam, Jim Carroll, Joy Division, Judas Priest, Judys, Kaiser Cheifs, Kanzashi, Kelpies, Kraftwerk, Krupted Peasant Farmerz, Lambrettas, Leatherface, Lookouts, Los Reactors, Love, Helen Love, Lunch Bunch, MIA, Man Or Astroman, Marbles, Merton Parkas, Mice, Misfits, Mission of Burma, Moby Grape, Modern Lovers, Mo-Dettes, Moldy Peaches, Naked Raygun, Neon Hearts, New York Dolls, Nina Hagen, Now, Offenders, Only Ones, Penetration, Phy, Pixies, Positive Hatred, Pogues, Pointed Sticks, Primitives, Propaghandi, Psychedelic Furs, Quicks, Radio Birdman, Razar, Rezillos, Rhino 39, RKL, Rik L Rik, Rikk Agnew, Rudimentary Peni, Sahara Hotnights, Samhain, Scared Straight, Screamers, Selby Tigers, Servotron, Simpletones, Sloppy Seconds, Smiths, Snakes, Social Unrest, Soft Boys, Soophie Nun Squad, Sounds, Sparks, Specimen, Speedies, Spizzenergi, Squat, Stepmothers, Stooges, Strawberry Switchblade, Subhumans (can), Subhumans (uk), Suicide Squad, Sunshine, Supernova, T. Rex, T.S.O.L., Talking Heads, Tilly and the Wall, Tilt, Toy Dolls, Undertones, Untouchables (UK), Vapors, Vaselines, Velvet Underground, The Vicious, Warsaw, Weirdos, White Heat, Wipers, Witches, Wire, X, XL Capris, XTC, Yachts, Zero Boys, Zombies
Battle Royale, Eyes Without A Face, Lind Linda Linda, "It" (with Clara Bow, not the clown), Over The Edge, Riki-Oh: The Story of Ricky, Young Poisoner's Handbook, Class Of 1984, Tuff Turf, Sin City, Freaks, Quadrophenia, Zombie Movies, any movie about 80's street thugs and alot of other crap along those lines.
Snuff Box, Black Books, Gath Marenghi's Dark Place, The IT Crowd, Arrested Development, Speed Racer, Carnivale, The Office, Home Movies, Battlestar Galactica. Probably some other stuff.
Moon Is A Harsh Mistress - Heinlen, Watership Down - Adams, Childhood's End - Clark, Metaphysics of Death - Fischer, The Stranger - Camus, Blindness - Saramago, Skipped Parts - Sandlin, just about any Nick Hornby, Philip K Dick or Vonnegut.
Heckle and Jeckle. Speed Racer. Felix the Cat (post-silent, pre-movie). Gumby (60's). Top Cat. Oh, and Danger Mouse. Can't forget Danger Mouse.
And dylan moran.
And Matt Berry
And RichFulcher