OH LORD, NOW IT'S TWITTER MEMES: #FAILEDROCKBANDMOVIES

I was home after Christmas, sick with the horrible cold of doom, when I suddenly got totally obsessed with the #failedrockbandmovies meme, probably because I know tons of obscure bands and movies and I have to share:

How To Get A Motörhead In Advertising
The Modest Mouse That Roared
Danzig In Real Life
Run Silent Run Deep Purple
Oh What A Lovely GWAR
Everything You Always Wanted To Know About Sex Pistols But Were Afraid To Ask
Never Been KISS-ed
Where Eagles Of Death Metal Dare
Hang 'Em High On Fire
A Place To Bury Strangers On A Train
A Place To Bury Strangers In The Sun
A Fishbone Called Wanda
To Wang Chung Thanks For Everything, Julie Newmar
Kyuss Them For Me
The Badfinger And The Beautiful
Average White Band Of Outsiders
Mars Volta Attacks!
Sharon Jones & The Dap-King Of Kings
The Replacements : Killers?
The Minutemen Who Stare At Goats
Our Man Slint

I apologize if other people thought of these before me, there's just too many to go through. Here is what the Village Voice considers "the best"

The secret, I think, is the biggest possible disconnect between the style of the band and the type of movie.

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