Top Ten Tuesday: Music/Band Insults in Film

In honor of ‘500 Days of Summer’ going wide this week we wanted to do a top ten list that was music related. I recently watched ‘Juno’ again and I had to include her Sonic Youth jab somehow so what better way than a top ten music insult list?! I didn’t know how difficult it would be to come up with 10 of these, but we did it with a little help from our Twitter friends. Enjoy the list:

10. ‘Dumb and Dumber’

Lloyd: Hey, look, the Monkees! They were a huge influence on the Beatles.

09. ‘School of Rock’

Freddy: I’m just saying, name two great chick drummers.
Katie: Sheila E Meg White from The White Stripes?
Freddy: She can’t drum.

08. ‘Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist’

Nick: “Well, you’re two penises short of a Shania Twain reimagination band!”

07. ‘Fired Up!’

Nick: Remember when I pretended to be really into Nickelback for that senior chick?
Shawn: God they suck.
Nick: So did she.

06. ‘High Fidelity’

Rob: “Liking both Marvin Gaye and Art Garfunkel is like supporting both the Israelis and the Palestinians.”

05. ‘Kingpin’

Claudia: Your act is about as fresh as a Foghat concert.

04. ‘Juno’

Juno: Oh and you know what? I bought another Sonic Youth album and it sucked… it’s just noise.

03. ‘This is Spinal Tap’

Tommy Pischedda: Excuse me… are you reading “Yes I Can”?
Limo Groupie: Yeah, have you read it?
Tommy Pischedda: Yeah, by Sammy Davis, Jr.?
Limo Groupie: Yeah.
Tommy Pischedda: You know what the title of that book should be? “Yes, I Can If Frank Sinatra Says It’s OK”. ‘Cause Frank calls the shots for all of those guys. Did you get to the part yet where uh… Sammy is coming out of the Copa… it’s about 3 o’clock in the morning and, uh, he sees Frank? Frank’s walking down Broadway by himself…

02. ’40 Year Old Virgin’:

David: You know how I know you’re gay?
Cal: How?
David: You like Coldplay.

01. ‘High Fidelity’

Barry: (in response to middle-aged guy asking for I Just Called To Say I Love You for his daughter’s birthday and Barry tells his he has the record but will not sell it to him.) “Well, it’s sentimental tacky crap. Do we look like the kind of store that sells I Just Called to Say I Love You? Go to the mall.”