Hello People!

September 19, 2003 4:56 PM

So what's more scary than pirates? How about Mimes? Or '60s San Francisco Rock Bands? How about some guys that were BOTH? Ladies and gentlemen, a band that couldn't get a hit no matter how much Todd Rundgren tried to help... THE HELLO PEOPLE!!!
posted by wendell (12 comments total)

Totally self-indulgent FFP, just because one of my personal earworms is a song they released thirty years ago, titled Future Shock.

"Leaving earth is such a trip,
Hold on tight, don't lose your grip..."

I am such a sick puppy.
posted by wendell at 5:02 PM on September 19, 2003

San Francisco?
posted by mr_roboto at 5:21 PM on September 19, 2003

KISS. This makes me think of KISS.
posted by tomharpel at 5:26 PM on September 19, 2003

Avast...ye've shivered my timbers. It's nightmares this pirate lass will be having thanks to you.
posted by dejah420 at 5:32 PM on September 19, 2003

They wouldn't last five minutes aboard me ship! Yo Ho Ho!! Aharr!!!!
posted by carter at 6:01 PM on September 19, 2003

i'd hit it!
posted by billybobtoo at 6:14 PM on September 19, 2003

OK wendell, that is indeed scary. But you know, there are some good mimes - really!
posted by madamjujujive at 6:16 PM on September 19, 2003

"Paisley Teddy Bear?"

I'm having a flashback, and not a good one.
posted by kozad at 6:35 PM on September 19, 2003

oh

my

god
posted by Outlawyr at 7:59 PM on September 19, 2003

It could always be worse.
posted by davidmsc at 9:41 PM on September 19, 2003

madamj! Of all the MeFites to bring up Dead Mimes, I didn't expect it to be you!

FYI: Hello People predated KISS by about 5 years, and were high-profile enough for them to have possibly "inspired" Gene Simmons and the boys... just another thing to be held against them.
posted by wendell at 11:33 PM on September 19, 2003

davidmsc-You sick man. I had succesfull blocked them from my memory until just this moment. You'll be getting a bill for my therapy.
posted by jonmc at 11:49 AM on September 20, 2003