The Beauty of GYBO

I’ve mentioned Get Your Bootleg On mashup messageboard in the past, although sometimes had my differences in the past, it always has great humour and sometimes comes up with classic and extremely funny threads.

A recent one was this thread, which mostly about a crap site I won’t mention here, and quite serious in part about sites that leech off the scene for Google hits, then evolved into a thread taking the piss out of software mashups by ‘mashing up’ names of bands and songs and computer terms.

There is comedy genius in there, and it’s a long thread, so I thought I’d save the best ones for posterity.

The ones I came up with:

Men at Quark
P.C. Allstarz
OSX Drugs and Rock n’ Roll
Sly and FireFox
John Firefoxx
Twisted Resistor
Crowded Mouse
Zip Zip Uncompress Me!
New File Order
Joystick Division
Flaming Chips
CPUs on Speed
Power Spike Hayes
My Bloody Vaxmachine
TerminalVision

And the classics so far harvested from the thread (mostly frenchblokes, quite a few from eve massacre too, but mostly a collaborative effort):

johhny cache
dolly partition
Powerpoint Sisters
Prince & The New Powerpoint Generation
Excel Rose
gnu order
myspace bloody valentine
the google dolls
The Mousemartins
Proxy Music
Modem English
the .commodores
windowflickr
Billy Ray Virus
extreme renoise terror
Rocket From The Script
Microsoft Cell
rootkit manuva
render sandman
papas got a brand new compaq
peter toshiba
Bugs Fizz
Hotspot Chocolate
Router Manuva
raid against the machine
soundblaster flash and the furious five
iMac the Knife
Compaq Velocet
blue screen of death metal
the rar band
The Phantom of the Opera(ting system)
yahooey lewis and the news
linux ritchie
fiona applet
instant messenger in a bottle
gnu shooz
George Format – When I’m Cleaning Windows XP
Freelance Shellraiser
rss speedwagon
hotbot chocolate
depeche safe mode
the birthday partition
the gmail of the species
richard direct x
Centrino & The .wavs
theme from the .exe files
xvideo killed the radeon star
Led ZIPpelin
Chips On Speed
Sex & Drugs & OGG’n’Roll
Hit Me With Your USB Stick
.zip .zip sputnik
Kernel Abrahams
.exe’s Midnight Runners
SCSI & the Banshees
Annie Linux
HAL and Oates
the goto team
lou read only
the cartridge family
oa.sys
Sigur DOS
Sabre Wulfs of Paradise.
Jet Set Willie Nelson
DJ Hype-r Sports
Ping Floyd
Earth Wind and Firefox
eBay City Rollers
renegade soundcard
Carter USB
POP3 will eat itself
A GUI Called Gerald
Soundcarden
Guns Don’t Kill People, Frapprs Do