Dec 2, 2005

75 Bands- Virgin Records Avertisement


They say there are supposed to be 75 bands represented in this collage:


Questions to answer:
* Yellow flowers in the cart? The red roses already take care of the G&R reference.

* Three chicks holding hands crossing the street...

* I don't see any beetles to represent that one band.

* the Krishnas in the crosswalk can be Manic Street Preachers, The Cult, >>>? We won't know.

* The chick up top blowing a bubble>> some one gave a real good guess at Iggy Pop and I like that. It's too descriptive of an image to just be Blondie I believe.

* The construction workers are either Carpenter's or Men At Work>>>? We won't know

* Mannequinn in shop window... any significance?

*is the "house Plant" in front of the cart supposed to be Bush.. kinda stretching it.




I have found (not necessarily Virgin artists, by the way):
Bush ?
Pet Shop Boys
Cake
Skinny puppy
Radiohead
Smashing Pumpkins
Guns & Roses
Sex Pistols
Madonna (the painting above Postal Service)
U2
Streetlight Manifesto (the 3 street lights)?
Matchbox 20
Lemonheads
Blind Melon
Deep Purple (the wall on the back, maybe)
Cowboy Junkies
Gorillaz
B-52's
Led Zeppelin
Houseparty or Crowded House... Thanks Tripwire buddies
The Eels
White Zombie
50cent
Garbage
Hole
The Rolling Stones

Alice in Chains
The Pixies
The Police
Spoon
The Eagles
Whitesnake
Blur
Queen
Prince
Dead Presidents...correction "Dead Kennedys" -thanks tripwire
Ratt
Black Flag
Butthole Surfers? ... duh Beach Boys- thanks Tripwire
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Phish
Postal Service
Iron Maiden
Eminem
Jewel
The Cranberries
The Scissor Sisters
The Streets (a stretch...)
Twisted Sister? (the contorted chicks in the middle)
Korn
Counting Crows? tripwire buddies say Black Crowes.
Seal
KISS... but why is it two girls? (not complaining by the way)
Dinosaur Jr.
Green Day
Cypress HIll... Nice work Toby
GREEN DAY... but cant figure significance of that particular day.
"B","G","G" on the wall (center left in picture) = The Bee Gee's ...thanks B-Mag.
Behind the guys in white are "The Doors" ...B-Mag credit
"The muscle cars are simply... The Cars???" ... Thanks B-Mag, I was reading too much into it.
On the ground next to "Matchbox 20" are a pile of "Nine-Inch Nails"? (Bmag) could be STYXX but I bet they would have used real branchy looking things.
GREAT WHITE!!!! (the shark poster... man that was killing me... thanks BMAG.

70 comments:

Yetep said...

I think that the white guys going acorss the cross walk is Credence Clearwater Revival

Anonymous said...

Nah I think it's Manic Street Preachers!

Anonymous said...

GARBAGE....
are you sure the "b52s" arent the jets?

Anonymous said...

I think the PLanes..are " the Jets" the pineapples are the super pineapples. the preaches or whatever they are are the maniac street preachers. King Kong is a band too other wise why would there be the gorillaz..and then one all by him self...
ok

Anonymous said...

I think that the 5 tvs under the U2 symbol are the talking heads. could be? and the spoon i believe is silverspoon.

Anonymous said...

I think the muscle cars are The Cars. The yellow guy on the sidewalk is Yellowman, the two dudes in black are The Killers and the crap coming out of the grate next to the stegosaurus are The Roots. Feel free to agree or disagree.

Anonymous said...

Did anyone see Cake on the sidewalk?

Anonymous said...

It isnt three non blondes- that band is actually 4 non blondes.. My friend and I thought maybe the go-gos? with the mod styles and all..
its not the roots, its the vines.
its styx
and the tvs are the talking heads
Spoon is spoon
the planes are the b-52s
We thought maybe KISS Was TATU-that psuedo lesbain duo..
anyone know what the girl blowing the bubble is? We thought maybe blondie?

Anonymous said...

The preachers crossing the street look like The Polyphonic Spree. Or, at least, they're dressed like them. The guys in the black suits are most likely The Blues Brothers. The planes flying overhead are actual B-52 bombers. The fact that there are 2 of them makes them the B-52's.

Anonymous said...

i found the petshop boys
9 inch nails
and radio head

Anonymous said...

i think the store with the shop sign is "corner shop"

mike

Anonymous said...

Skinny Puppy
The Alarm
Pavement
The White Stripes
Deep Purple

maybe the people in white are
The Cult

Anonymous said...

Black Crows - on the street sign
Ratt - Just above the scissors
Madonna - Picture above Mailman
Seal - Poster behind the Zombie

It's not styxx, they are 9 inch nails.
It's not the Blues Bros - They have no hats, are carrying guitars, and have blood on their shirts. They could be the Killers or the Hitmen.

The group in white is The Cult.

The Poster of Kennedy and Reagan? could be Dead Kennedys, Dead Presidents, and Presidents of the USA.

Anonymous said...

I think you forgot The Scorpions

Anonymous said...

Definetely the roots above that stegasaurus thing.

I can see the sex pistols for sure.

Anonymous said...

i saw: cowboy junkies, blind melon, dinosaur jr, the vines, the cranberries, Prince, Queen, The Sex Pistols, The Postal Service, Seal, Corner shop, Iron Maiden, Cypress Hill, The Carpenters, Deep purple. I think a lot of the other ones are pretty much obvious. Ooh wait, it took me a while to notice Jewel. But the lesbos kissing, IDK. Kiss? Are the people in the house: Trapt or Crowded House? The stand with fruits: Korn, Lemon Heads, and I already said blind melon. Then you have Alice in Chaine. Are the surfers the butthole surfers or the beach boys?

Anonymous said...

The guys on the rooftop could be "Men at Work" although "The Carpenters" is a damn good guess.

THe Posters of the Kennedys are "The Dead Kennedys" for certian.

Oh they sky is pink, so you could say "Pink" is one of the artists.

Oh and I think the fish in the bowl could be "Reel Big Fish", but "Phish" also makes sense. But the fish in the bowl is big.

Apparently the two scissors are "The Sissor Sisters".. I saw that some place else.

Anonymous said...

i'd like to think that's a subway entrance on the right, which would be The Velvet Underground?...

Anonymous said...

I think the people on the pile of television sets are "talking heads".

Anonymous said...

The Eagles, The Vines, The White Stripes, The Killers, White Zombie, The Gorillaz, Led Zeppelin, Guns & Roses, Queen, Prince, 50 Cent, The Postal Service, Cypress Hill, Beach Boys, Deep Purple, Alice In Chains, The Black Crowes, Reel Big Fish, Nine Inch Nails, Matchbox 20, Blind Melon, The Lemonheads, Korn, The B52's, Garbage, Manic Street Preachers, KISS, Cowboy Jumkies, Great White, Rolling Stones, The Doors, Green Day, The Bee Gees, The Cars, Iron Maiden, Jewel, Black Flag, Ratt, Dead Presidents, Scissor Sisters, Radiohead, Smashing Pumpkins, Talking Heads, U2, Sex Pistols, Crowded House, The Pixies, Hole, Blur, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Seal, Dinosaur Jr., Eminem, Twisted Sister, Spoon, The Eagles, Whitesnake, Streetlight Manifesto, Men At Work.


That is all I could find. Only 61

Anonymous said...

i think its "Bush" under the guns and roses crate, and the guys in whtie are the Proclaimers.

Anonymous said...

does anyone know what the broken leaf between the prince & queen is??
And I DEFINITELY say the carpenters, NOT men at work.
King Kong? I say Gorillaz.
and i say the vines, not the roots.

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Anonymous said...

I think its The Postal Service, not Mailman

Anonymous said...

Its The Postal Service, not Mailman

Anonymous said...

The groups is Four Non Blondes, not three, so I don't think that works anymore.

Anonymous said...

those are eels between the queen and prince IMHO, and has anyone asked themselves why the queen is holding two white dildo guns? oh and the velvet underground is a stretch

Anonymous said...

correction to above the band is called the 4 non-blondes...nice try though

Anonymous said...

The Planes are DEFINITLY B-52's. If they had wanted to say Jets, there would have been something more-- ahem-- jet-like? Why, of all jets to choose from, would the artist pick B-52's? Especially since this is a very famous rock band?

Anonymous said...

"Anonymous said...
does anyone know what the broken leaf between the prince & queen is??
And I DEFINITELY say the carpenters, NOT men at work.
King Kong? I say Gorillaz.
and i say the vines, not the roots."

That is not a "Broken Leaf" those are EELS... therefore the band is, yep you guessed it, "the eels"

Anonymous said...

That's not a broken leaf - those are the Eels

Anonymous said...

it's not a broken leaf
it's The Eels

Anonymous said...

it's not a broken leaf
it's The Eels

Cherry Darling said...

its the blood brothers

Anonymous said...

and the streets would be...the streets

Anonymous said...

what about the postman being "the postal service"?
or did someone already say that?

Anonymous said...

I believe the two guys in black are the blues brothers, the stuff from the drain would be the vines, and the two girls kissing could possibly be tatu

Anonymous said...

I have nothing but bad things

Remember that the answers are a play on words not what the band might look like - so nix the Blues Brothers, the GoGos, I doubt its Blondie above the Virgin logo

FinChasers said...

Wow! We sure are getting fired up about all this. Since it is my blog and we've got name calling going on I feel I need to step in here. There was a great thread of information going back and forth but it has decidedly stopped ever since someone "anonymous" got all jacked out of shape.

This, like most good things on the internet, are supposed to be for information. The battle back and forth over what this ad depicts is getting silly. It has turned into a little forum for a few people to instigate a fight by (not exactly) stating "I know more more bands than you".

Let's get serious for a moment. If the horticultural specimen coming out of the grate in the street really was representative of "the Vines" it would have leaves on it and they could have put it on the back wall or something. Virgin is not trying to trick us. It is "The Roots". It definitely can be King Kong and the Gorillaz- nice work.

Now let's just turn on our califones and place the needle on a vinyl of "Man or Astroman?" and enjoy the art.

Anonymous said...

Someone posted that the pictures of Reagan and Kennedy could be Dead Presidents or Presidents of the USA...That's Robert and John Kennedy, the Dead Kennedys (not Reagan).

Anonymous said...

dose any one know the girl with the bubble gum???

Anonymous said...

Did any one see Iggy Pop (Blond with the chew gum in the balcony)????

FinChasers said...

I deleted the brawling, by the way so now my post looks a little out of place... oh well.

Anonymous said...

The white clothed guys: Choir Boys,
The Shop Sign on the corner: Corner Shop
The Jets can be: Jet, b52's, screaming jets
and for now thats all i got to add

Anonymous said...

I think the guy near to alice in chains might be "The Who", the cars in the back are "My early Mustang", and the apes are "The monkeys" but I'm not sure...

Anonymous said...

I think the guy by alice and chains might be Blur

Unknown said...

I think the guy by alice in chains is Blur. Why do you think one of the apes is a toy ape? is that significant?

Anonymous said...

fallen angels on the left side of the screen

Anonymous said...

you guys forgot green day

Anonymous said...

Hey fellas..... what about TOOL...the sledgehammer the guy uses to smash the pumpkins is a tool....just thought of it.....tell me what you think.

~David

Anonymous said...

Did nobody catch puddle of mud. And the yellow man is th Yelloman. And I actually found a band called Bubble gum so that might be what the blond is about and i seriously think it's purple haze not deep purple. I dont remeber a mention of the rolling stones either but then again there are too many too keep track and I really dont think jewel or tatua or whateer are answers at all. They don't really fit the criteria in my opinion.

Anonymous said...

Ok, so call me crazy... but i thought it said rock bands... so 50 cent, i thought would actually be Nickelback and whats the fish in the bowl?

Anonymous said...

and what's the stone statue thing behond the 2 guys in black?

Anonymous said...

Hanging out with the Cowboy Junkies is Jane's Addiction :) that's definitely one you guys have missed.

Anonymous said...

Hanging out with the Cowboy Junkies is Jane's Addiction :) That's definitely one you guys have missed.

Anonymous said...

oops forgot, but also:
311 - There are 3 vases and 11 guns.

Anonymous said...

It's not Iggy Pop; it's Bubblegum Girl.

Anonymous said...

the cars in the back look like chevelles so that could be the group... chevelle the guy next to alice in chains could be the band blur and there is also black flag

Anonymous said...

The girls kissing could be Lesbians on Ecstasy ???

Anonymous said...

The stone statue thing is Iron Maiden.

What about Jefferson Airplane?

The guys in white = Judas Priest?

Anonymous said...

THE STIXX BY 50 CENT AND NINE INCH NAILS FOR SURE...NOT TO BE CONFUSED HOWEVER. THE SKY...SIGNIFIGANCE OF BEING SAY "PINK"???

Anonymous said...

3 girls= chicks on speed ;)

Anonymous said...

Noone found Hammerfall? (the guy with hammer). What about Sweet? (in front of the scissors). And Helloween (whole pumpkins). And together with Queen: King Crimson. The guys on the roof: New Kids On The Block.And also Gorillaz are simple. And what about The Flower King? Could that plant in front be just R. Plant? And one of stones seem to have metallic paint: Metallica. Kinda dildo-looking guns are surely Sex Pistols.

Anonymous said...

the Scissors, walk like... Hammers..Pink floyd - The Wall??

Anonymous said...

The sky might be vanilla sky.
The yellow fruits with faces can be black-eyed peas
The shark behind yellow man, could be The Sharks

but what are those acrobats???

Anonymous said...

i think the two girls next to Garbage are Spandeaux Ballet. What is the significance of Main under the Black Crowes? It is the only word that is visible. That is definitely b-52's.

Anonymous said...

i think the houseplant infront of the guns n roses is a rubber plant - robert plant?

Anonymous said...

It is definitely the Counting Crows as they are above the street sign that says 'math'. The acrobats are Eurythmics...

Anonymous said...

Also thought that maybe it's Indecent Obsession as they are 2 girls kissing.

Anonymous said...

How have so many people missed the Red Hot Chili Peppers??? Look at the fruit/vegetable cart closely.