74 Bands and Artists in Virgin Digital Image
Submitted by dgeiser13 on Sun, 12/04/2005 - 02:50
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- Spoiler: Highlight to view50 Cent (Large half dollar coin to left of queen)
- Spoiler: Highlight to viewAlice in Chains (Alice in Wonderland struggling with chains on right) [xfanatic50]
- Spoiler: Highlight to viewThe B-52s (2 large B-52's flying through sky in center)
- Spoiler: Highlight to viewThe Beach Boys (2 guys with surfboards on the right) [xfanatic50]
- Spoiler: Highlight to viewThe Bee Gees (A B and 2 G's to right of closet boulder)
- Spoiler: Highlight to viewThe Black Crowes (Sitting on Main Street sign on right) [xfanatic50]
- Spoiler: Highlight to viewBlack Flag (Black flag jutting out of building above closest boulder) [xfanatic50]
- Spoiler: Highlight to viewBlind Melon (Watermelon wearing sunglasses foreground extreme right)
- Spoiler: Highlight to viewBlur (Guy in pink shirt who you can't quite make out far right)
- Spoiler: Highlight to viewBush (Large bush in foreground, behind the Queen's bum and in front of Guns N Roses)
- Spoiler: Highlight to viewCake (Foreground, far left side) [tysen]
- Spoiler: Highlight to viewThe Cars (2 or 3 cars coming down street behild closest boulder)
- Spoiler: Highlight to viewCowboy Junkies (2 cowboys and a girl shooting up to left of Main Street sign) [xfanatic50]
- Spoiler: Highlight to viewThe Cranberries (Foreground, right-hand side on top of the crates)
- Spoiler: Highlight to viewCrowded House (Very packed party near background on right)
- Spoiler: Highlight to viewDead Kennedys (Black and white photos of John and Bobby Kennedy on building on far left) [xfanatic50]
- Spoiler: Highlight to viewDinosaur, Jr. (Little stegosaurus on ground behind the Queen)
- Spoiler: Highlight to viewThe Doors (Multi-colored doors leaning up against the building in center left) [Thanks, AAA]
- Spoiler: Highlight to viewThe Eagles (3 eagles flying above large spoon and Main Street sign) [xfanatic50]
- Spoiler: Highlight to viewThe Eels (2 eels on ground visible between Queen and Prince) [xfanatic50]
- Spoiler: Highlight to viewEminem (Multi-colored candies spilled on ground to right of Prince)
- Spoiler: Highlight to viewGarbage (Tipped over garbage can behind guy weilding sledge hammer) [xfanatic50]
- Spoiler: Highlight to viewThe Go-Go's (3 girls holding hands, skipping wearing go-go boots, right of center midway back) [yvgeny]
- Spoiler: Highlight to viewGorillaz (3 large apes climbing on the buildings) [Thanks, AAA]
- Spoiler: Highlight to viewGreat White (Shark on poster, left of center midway back) [0dysseus]
- Spoiler: Highlight to viewGreen Day (Calendar on foreground extreme right with one day marked green)
- Spoiler: Highlight to viewGuns N Roses (Flowers and guns mixed together on far left) [xfanatic50]
- Spoiler: Highlight to viewHole (Large hole in the street to right of center)
- Jewel (Diamond necklace in box foreground center right) [Thanks, 0dysseus!]
- Spoiler: Highlight to viewThe Killers (2 fellows dressed in black walking across street with guitar cases)
- Spoiler: Highlight to viewKiss (2 girls kissing leaning up against a pole, left of center) [russa03]
- Spoiler: Highlight to viewKorn (Ears of corn in vegetable cart foreground far right)
- Spoiler: Highlight to viewLed Zeppelin (Large zeppelin in sky center left) [xfanatic50]
- Spoiler: Highlight to viewLemonheads (Lemons with faces drawn on them in vegetable cart far right) [xfanatic50]
- Spoiler: Highlight to viewLil' Bow Wow (Little dog, by cake on right-hand side) [yvgeny]
- Spoiler: Highlight to viewMadonna (Mother and child in poster on left most building)
- Spoiler: Highlight to viewManic Street Preachers (Frantic guys in white mid background left of center) [Thanks, russa03!]
- Spoiler: Highlight to viewMatchbox 20 (The number 20 spelled out in matchboxes foreground right of center) [xfanatic50]
- Spoiler: Highlight to viewNine Inch Nails (Large nails in foreground to right of center)
- Spoiler: Highlight to viewPavement (All of the pavement in the picture) [russa03]
- Spoiler: Highlight to viewPhish (Goldfish in foreground in center right) [russa03]
- Spoiler: Highlight to viewPink (The sky is a very obvious pink)
- Spoiler: Highlight to viewThe Pixies (4 fairies floating around the Virgin decal) [xfanatic50]
- Spoiler: Highlight to viewThe Police (2 policemen standing mid-background to left of center)
- Spoiler: Highlight to viewThe Postal Service (Guy getting mail below The Pixies) [xfanatic50]
- Spoiler: Highlight to viewPrince (Royal man front center)
- Spoiler: Highlight to viewQueen (Royal lady front left of center)
- Spoiler: Highlight to viewRadiohead (Guy on crosswalk with large boombox for head in center) [xfanatic50]
- Spoiler: Highlight to viewRatt (Left of center, behind Scissor Sisters) [pianoshootis]
- Spoiler: Highlight to viewRed Hot Chili Peppers (Large red peppers on vegetable stand on far right)
- Spoiler: Highlight to viewThe Rolling Stones (Two large boulders rolling down street in back center) [xfanatic50]
- Spoiler: Highlight to viewScissor Sisters (Two pink scissors with pink bows walking together right of center) [xfanatic50]
- Spoiler: Highlight to viewSeal (Seal on circus poster on far left) [xfanatic50]
- Spoiler: Highlight to viewSex Pistols (Queen pointing two pistols with pink vibrators in them left of center)
- Spoiler: Highlight to viewSmashing Pumpkins (Guy with sledgehammer smashing pumpkins to right of center) [xfanatic50]
- Spoiler: Highlight to viewSpoon (Large shiny spoon propped up against buiding on right) [xfanatic50]
- Spoiler: Highlight to viewThe Streets (This picture is taken at the intersection of 2 streets) [russa03]
- Spoiler: Highlight to viewTalking Heads (TVs in store front window, right-hand side) [dgeiser13, yvgeny]
- Spoiler: Highlight to viewU2 (Two red U's painted above window with televisions in it on right)
- Spoiler: Highlight to viewThe Vines (Vines growing out of the sewer right behind the Queen's bum on left) [xfanatic50]
- Spoiler: Highlight to viewWhite Zombie (Zombie with white skin and white suit on left) [xfanatic50]
- Spoiler: Highlight to viewWhitesnake (Big white snake wrapped around pole on left) [xfanatic50]
- Spoiler: Highlight to viewYellowman (Yellow man leaning up against buildingon left-hand side)
Author Comments:
This image from Virgin supposedly has references to 74 musicians and band names in it. You can play the game, if it's still going on. Any Listologists interested in playing with me? If so please post your guesses below and spoilerize them!!!








The Zeppelin in the sky is clearly Led Zeppelin. The Blag Flag hanging from the building is Black Flag. The pair of scissors are the Scissor Sisters. The guy with the boombox for a head is Radiohead. There are some vines creeping out of the sewer by the flower cart, which is the Vines. I think the mailman represents The Postal Service. On the Main St. sign are the Black Crowes. There are two boulders on the street which are the Rolling Stones. The 20 made in matches is Matchbox 20. The smiling lemons I think represent the Lemonheads. The seal on the poster is of course Seal. There are fairies flying around the virgin sign which are the Pixies. The two guys with surf boards are possibly the Beach Boys. The giant spoon is the band Spoon. The crazy clown looking guy is actually White Zombie. The snake wrapped around the pole is White Snake. Obviously the eagles are The Eagles. The eels on the ground by the Queen are the band The Eels. The guns combined with the roses are Guns N Roses. The little girl with chains wrapped around herself is Alice in Chains. The tipped over wastebasket reveals Garbage. The two posters of Kennedy represents the Dead Kennedy's. The guy with the sledgehammer is Smashing Pumpkins. And finally, for now... the two cowboys and the girl are the Cowboy Junkies. Maybe I'll see more later.
The wedding cake is Cake. The kids outside the Pet Shop are the Pet Shop Boys. I don't know if xfanatic50 meant to imply this, but the queen is Queen. The big apes on the buildings might be the Monkees or the Gorillaz. The blonde woman blowing bubble gum might be Blondie, but that one is iffy. Another iffy one is the two u's written on the wall might be The Used.
AJ, I can't find the cake!!!
Hmm... now I can't find it either. I think I must have glanced at something and thought it sorta looked like a cake, but upon closer inspection, it's really not a cake.
Waaaaait a minute. The big image you linked to first cuts off the edges of the picture! Click on your "play the game" link instead and you will find the cake in the left-hand corner.
Bee Gees - 'BGG' is left to the televisions
Blur - The blurred man to the right
Eminem - Bag of sweets at the front
Dinosaur Jr. - The toy dinosaur behide the queen
Greenday - Calander to the right with green on it
The Killers - The men in the centre holding cases
Madonna - Picture in the 'SHOP' on the left
Police - Farback centre
Prince - The boy with the queen
Red Hot Chillipeppers - To the front right
Sex Pistols - The dildo guns held by the queen
not sure about these
Bloc Party - The Building on the right with people partying
The Doors - Different coloured boards behide men in white
Nine Inch Nails - Look like sticks at the front
U2 - The two 'U's on building to the right
Oh, good call, I think it is U2, not the Used.
I combined the 3 comments so far with my own observations and we have 43 so far.
Iron Maiden or Queens of the Stone Age - On the zebra crossing
Manic Street Preachers - Men in white
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Could the black crows [sic] be Counting Crows?.. and Sheryl Crow.
and the Smashing Pumpkins sledgehammer could be (a) Tool... and MC Hammer.
Phish
Jewel
Crowded House
Methinks, The black crows are The Black Crowes.
Jefferson Airplane, MC Hammer, Men in Black, Toast, Pink Floyd
I only see Men in Black possibly. Is that a band? Where do you see the others?
I'm using the fuzzy pink guy for Pink Floyd. The B-52s for Jefferson Airplane. There's toast graffiti on the wall of a building. I believe there's a band called Men in Black, although I've never heard their music. I googled them to be sure. The sledgehammer which is smashing pumpkins could double as an MC hammer.
Could men in black be the blues brothers?
Gorillaz - the giant apes
The Doors - multicolored doors leaning against building in the left background
Beach Boys - guys w/ surfboards
Phish - goldfish in foreground
Nine Inch Nails - nails in foreground
Pavement - all the pavement in the picture
The White Stripes (stripes on crossing)
Ahhhh, I forgot to in spoiler tags! Damn it...
Fixed.
Though it seems pretty exhausted here as well, there's quite a long thread on this little game over on the Steve Hoffman site. Shop and compare if you dare... HERE.
You might as well check out the rest of his great site. I followed my dad over (who shall remain nameless.)
Not really sure of these because they are stretches Deep Purple - purple building, Toad the Wet Sprocket - dead amphibian next to the cake, Lil' Bow Wow - the dog next to the cake, Talking Heads - on the television below the party, Tatu - two kissing girls under lightpost, Go Gos - girls holding hands and skipping, Yellowman - yellow man Things I don't know: drawing of girl in bikini on window display, shark poster at bus stop, three guys on top of building that has the party, the stack of crates next to the fish and diamond necklace.
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the poster is probably Great White
the preggers Alice might be Belly
the Vines look like the Roots to me
could those be crates of Blood Oranges or Tangerine Dream?
the Cars are in Traffic
are those the Carpenters on the roof?
...and the Eagles have Wings
okay, I'll be the one to say it:
the Beach Boys could also be the BH Surfers.
speaking of stretches... could the yellow arm band be the Plastic Ono Band?
Unfortunately the spoilers that wrap the whole list don't seem to work in Firefox. Spoilering each item would probably do the trick. Not a big deal, just thought you'd want to know.
Thanks, Jim.
The picture on the website sucks. I saw the ad in a magazine and it's so much clearer. I saw D12 and 311 on the buildings on the right, Scorpions (not a dead toad), Cranberries, the Bee Gees (not three blobs that I thought were posters.
Can you give me a ballpark on where I'm looking for the 311? Is the scorpion you are referring to the immediate right of the cake?
311 is on the building all the way to the right, just to the right of the spoon. It is listed like an address above the door. It looks like a white blob on the web. It was only clear from the magazine image. Yes, the scorpion is just to the right of the cake.
Two obvious ones I don't think were mentioned
Ratt (the rat in the street)
The Leaves (the plant in the lower left)
Unfortunately, I'll need a little more convincing on The Leaves. I looked them up on All Music Guide but I don't think they are well known enough.
It probably was inadvertent. 40 years ago they were more well known than most of these are today.
Could the leaves be Robert Plant and the Strange Sensation?
Fish - Goldfish
Kiss - Two girls kissing
Pavment - The Pavement
The Streets - The streets
For some bizarre reason the Virgin wallpaper which I linked to was actually missing an inch of the image on the left side. I have linked to a more complete picture.
Cake-cake in foreground, bottom left corner
Nice spoiler, buddy.
Fixed, belatedly.
Thanks, Jim. :-)
girls running are the Runaways.
I think the girls are the go-go's. They have on go go boots.
Not sure about any of these. They're all very long shots. Perhaps some of the bands aren't well-known enough.
The Alarm- to the left of "Digital" in the Virgin sign.
Blonde Redhead- Two girls kissing, though Kiss is definitely a better answer.
Main- Too obvious? Yes...
Pulp- I suppose the sack and/or boxes in the bottom right corner could be filled with oranges. Or onions. I can't really tell.
Cypress Hill - The hill!
Twisted Sister- The only name I can think of for the two acrobats at the moment. IMO, they aren't exactly "twisted". And I'm not sure if they're both girls, either.
Like I said, they're long shots.
Is the dog next to the cake really a dog? The quality of the picture's so poor I can't tell, but if so...
Skinny Puppy (I know Lil Bow Wow's already on the list)
I've only got the internet image to go on, with a crappy zoom function, so a lot of things in the pic are blocky or blurred.
What about garbage, the tipped over trash can in the street? anybody see .50? Fifty Cent.White Zombie? Korn? Blind Melon? White Stripes?Queen? Prince?
Twister Sister, Deep Purple?
No-one's mentioned Iron Maiden (in the middle of the road).
could the subway entrance mean "the subways"? and the day marked in the calendar is august 21, the same day in the cover of "be here now" from Oasis... And the Ratt could also be Modest Mouse...
the talking heads could also be The Televisions. The two kids could be the New Kids on the Block, and the Blur could be The Who
Virgin Bands 2005
U2
BEE GEES
CROWED HOUSE
WHITE SNAKE
EMINEM
DEAD KENNEDYS
GORILLAZ
THE EAGLES
BLIND MELON
THE POLICE
RADIO HEADS
GUNS & ROSES
50 CENT
THE EELS
THE B52'S
LED ZEPPLIN
BLACK SABBATH
SMASHING PUMPKINS
THE ANGELS
SEAL
QUEEN
PRINCE
WHITE STRIPES
THE BLUES BROTHERS
THE DOORS
THE CARS
ROLLING STONES
GREEN DAY
MATCH BOX 20
GARBAGE
BEACH BOYS
DEEP PURPLE
BLUR
JEWEL
KORN
ALICE IN CHAINS
SCISSOR SISTERS
RED HOT CHILLI PEPPERS
THE DAFFODILS
9 INCH NAILS
BOOM TOWN RATS
GRINSPOON
THE BLACK CROWS
QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE
HOLE
MACHINE GUN PHILLATIO
BUSH
CAKE
THE CRANBERRIES
LEMONHEADS
KISS
PINK
SEX PISTOLS
WHITE ZOMBIE
YELLOW MAN
COWBOY JUNKIES
DINOSAUR JR
THE GO GO'S
GREAT WHITE
THE KILLERS
LIL BOW WOW
MADONNA
MANIC STREET PREACHERS
PAVEMENT
PHISH
THE PIXIES
THE POSTAL SERVICE
RATT
SPOON
THE STREETS
TALKING HEADS
THE VINES
IRON MAIDEN
TWISTED SISTER
THE CARPENTERS
SEXY STEVES
I guess that the shop on the corner could be Cornershop!
Where did you find eels?
Could the sky be Sky?
Does anyone know what the orange and yellow blob thing is in the right corner?