I avoid playing favorites, usually, but I honestly have to give it up for probably my favorite fictional band, Toronto's own Sex Bob-Omb.
From the movie Scott Pilgrim Vs The World, Sex Bob-Omb puts the power back into Power Trio. The band is fronted by vocalist and guitarist Stephen Stills, aka "The Talent" (Mark Webber), with bassist Scott Pilgrim (Michael Cera), drummer Kim Pine (Alison Pill), and Young Neil, aka "Obviously NOT The Talent", (Johnny Simmons), who just hangs about and subs on bass whenever Scott can't be asked.
The movie's music supervisor Nigel Godrich described the fictional punk
band, Sex Bob-Omb as either “genius” or “complete shit." This is
exactly how I feel about Devo. And sometimes The Doors.
Michael Cera could already play the bass guitar, but Webber, Pill, and Simmons had to learn their instruments, see below:
Indie superstar musician, singer, songwriter Beck wrote the songs for Sex Bob-Omb in just two days. “It needed to be underthought,” Beck says. “They had to be funny, but I also wanted them to sound raw. like demos.” The songs end up being a wonderful mix of lo-fi indie rock sound of Pavement, the minimalist, gritty approach of The White Stripes, catchy hooks reminiscent of The Strokes, with the ghost of "Bleach" era Nirvana subtly haunting the vibes and production value. And how the hell Stephen Stills supposedly gets that tone out of that beaten up acoustic guitar is beyond me. But it's glorious.
If you've never seen Scott Pilgrim Vs The World, do yourself a favor and check it out. The film kicks as much ass as the characters, and the soundtrack. The world right now is filled with boring, uptight, stale and restrained movies, SPVTW is a call back to when movies took real chances to be fun, entertaining, experimental, smart, giddy and loud.
