
Fake Bands, Real Songs: The Best Tunes by Made-Up Musicians
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The Strange World of Spinal Tap
There's a surprising amount of really excellent songs in this particular weird genre. I always knew that thing you do would be number one, but almost everything else was up for grabs. We explicitly chose not to have the monkeys on there because our colleague Andy Green, the biggest monkeys expert, is like, no, at a certain point they just became a real band so you can't use them. There were a couple different songs by the fake band Strange Fruit that we were considering and couldn't quite make it.
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