PEL Presents PMP#207: Spinal Tap and Other Fake Bands
The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast
Mark Linsenmayer
4.6 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 12 October 2025
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Mark, Lawrence, Sarahlyn, and Al watched Spinal Tap and its new sequel, and we throw these into a mix with K-Pop Demon Hunters and other films and shows involving made-for-TV (and film) bands, including We Are Lady Parts, That Thing You Do, Fear of a Black Hat, CB4, Atlanta, The Blues Brothers, The Commitments, Almost Famous, The Rutles, and The Monkees.
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| 0:00.0 | This episode is sponsored by Claude A.I. Check it out at Claude.a.I. slash lowercase p.m. |
| 0:11.3 | How much more black could this podcast be? Well, four times more black. But you get what you get. |
| 0:20.1 | It's pretty much pop, a culture podcast forever skating the line between clever and stupid. Today, we're discussing spinal tap and fake bands more generally in light of the new spinal tap sequel. My name's Mark Linzheimer, the glue of this podcast. Straight from hell, this is Al Baika. I'm Sarah Lindbreck, and I only go up to about a six. This is Lawrence Wearing on P&P. |
| 0:39.4 | You guys are like fire and ice, but I feel like my role in the podcast is to be in the middle of that, kind of like lukewarm water. |
| 0:45.9 | Very nice. |
| 0:46.9 | So this was officially Spinal Tap 2, and we sort of generalized this. |
| 0:51.4 | Oh, K-pop Demon Hunters, everybody's watching that. |
| 0:54.0 | So we wanted to |
| 0:55.1 | include that. I feel like there are quite different things. Very different. Do you want to give your |
| 1:01.4 | opening history with this franchise and the concept more generally? Anybody want to start? |
| 1:06.8 | Yeah, I'd like to because I feel like the slightly awkward, like, pairing suggestion was mine, |
| 1:11.5 | so I'd like to excuse it and give the reasons. |
| 1:14.3 | For a really long time, I think most of my life, I've been really fascinated in maybe a borderline, |
| 1:20.8 | like, diagnosable way, with fictional bands. |
| 1:25.0 | Like, when I was a kid, I really loved the Blues Brothers far more than a child probably had |
| 1:30.1 | any right to. I dressed up as I would blues in one particularly ill-advised birthday party costume |
| 1:35.8 | attempt. And I happened to have re-watch Spinal Tap just off my own bat fairly recently and then |
| 1:42.4 | learned that the sequel had come out and I was like, oh, this is cool, especially as an exercise in talking about fictional bands, because I think |
| 1:50.0 | there are a really interesting phenomenon, maybe for reasons that no one else thinks is particularly |
| 1:54.8 | interesting, but I saw Spinal Tap at Glastonbury, and Spinal Tap are a joke band. They're not a |
| 2:00.0 | real band, but I saw them play a real show at a real music festival, |
| 2:03.5 | and I think that's kind of cool. |
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