We Suck | Tragic Comedy

Scott Hardie | April 15, 2012
After stumbling upon an old favorite band on Pandora, I looked up the lead singer and discovered that he was formerly in a band called You Suck, whose only single was "The You Suck Chant" with the b-side "Get the Fuck off the Stage." What really struck me was this passage:

[Mykel Board]'s band blew my mind. The idea of having someone in the band that didn't sing or play an instrument was a revelation to me. Within a year, I had, with some friends, developed a band called You Suck, where most of the people on stage didn't play an instrument. Like there was a guy who did a Rubik's Cube, or a couple of people playing chess, or a guy with a dead fish on the end of a fishing line which he waved around the audience, or whatever. If you had some visual idea and cared to join us, we would let you. Over the course of a little over a year, over 100 people performed in You Suck. Mykel came to our first show and said that his face hurt from laughing so much.

That's great! I say, forget instruments and singing, we don't even need to record songs or play shows! We, that is you and I, can be a band. Starting now. So... What instrument do you play?

I'm going with Etch-a-Sketch.

Aaron Shurtleff | April 15, 2012
My instrument will be that I will read a book and periodically loudly bemoan that the main character is unrealistic, complete with indecipherable insults.

Steve West | April 15, 2012
I'm thinking of making slurping noises from a big bowl of oyster stew. And cracker box maracas. And a satisfying, "Ahhhhhh".