It’s been a rough week in California, so we thought it’d be the perfect time to send some love Hollywood’s way with an awards show celebrating our favorite Movies About Music! Let’s call it the Movies About Music Awards Show (working title)! We took this one as far as we’ve taken any hypothetical awards show before, and then went just a bit further :-)

Greg (who created the MAM Awards over a week and a half ago) kicks thing off with the fiercely competitive “Films That Make You Least Want To Become A Musician” category. We recommend staying away from all of these, and recognize them tonight, but only as a “head’s up” to anyone unsure on the whole music-as-a-major-and-or-a-career-path thing, you follow your dreams... The nominees this year for the category are:

“Last Days”

“Shine”

“The Pianist”

“Whiplash”

Song: Buddy Rich - Solo 1 (Live from Toronto, CA/1977)

Jay presents a brand new category (while all categories are technically new, this one seemed newer than the others), it’s the award for the “Best Fictional Movie Band Name” (see what I mean? it just sounds cooler). Our nominees this year are:

"Wyld Stallyns" from Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure

"Dr. Teeth & the Electric Mayhem" from The Muppet Movie

"Sex Bob-Omb" from Scott Pilgrim vs. the World

"Crucial Taunt" from Wayne's World

During the commercial break that we cut out, Jay was awarded a special “Best Fictional Podcast Band Name” award for “Ravenous Taint”. Great job Jay!

Song: Tia Carrere - Ballroom Blitz

Nick presents the final category of the evening, the acclaimed “Movies That Make The 70s Seem Enjoyable”. It’s hard to watch a movie and know you’re being misled, it’s even harder to love one…so it’s a particularly inconsistent and tough category to keep stocked. Nevertheless the nominees for the award this year:

Mrs. Doubtfire*

Rocketman

Bohemian Rhapsody

This is Spinal Tapp

Almost Famous

Song: Led Zepplin - Tangerine
*likely caused by a glitch in the nomination process

Thanks for listening everyone!