History Main / TrashCanBand

* On ''Series/{{Glee}}'', a power outage inspires the students to create music acoustically and they take it one step further, performing the number [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCkqmB2_G1Y We Will Rock You]] using everything from trash cans to bottles to zips as their instruments.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheTripletsOfBelleville'' have quite a few moments like this. And when the composer was invited to perform the [[CrowningMusicOfAwesome main song]] at the Oscars, his backup band was playing on vacuum cleaners and bicycle spokes...

* ''Disney/{{Tarzan}}'': A group of gorillas and Tantor the elephant use miscellaneous items they find to play music during the film's "[[CrowningMusicOfAwesome Trashin']] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fp1lxROkYSs the Camp]]" sequence.

* A few episodes of ''Series/HomeImprovement'' had a group of workers from a construction company come onto the ShowWithinAShow and talk about the weird things they do on the job (like cooking and hygiene). In their last few appearances, they made a band with instruments made mostly from power tools. They performed in their second-to-last appearance, and helped close the show in the finale.

* "[[CrowningMusicOfAwesome Trashin']] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fp1lxROkYSs the Camp]]".

* ''WesternAnimation/NatureCat'' and his friends resort to a rural variant when they ruin their real instruments shortly before a Battle of the Bands competition. They resort to using sticks, shells, a hollow log, pebbles and hollow reeds for improvised instruments.

* ''Film/CatsDontDance'' has Danny pull together one of those to help the disillusioned animal actors get their spirit back. It eventually grows into a huge block party, with a montage of all the characters dancing or playing makeshift instruments.

* ''WesternAnimation/FatAlbertAndTheCosbyKids''.

* PhilCollins' drum rig was made up to look like this (or even ''was'' this) during the "Both Sides" tour, which had a "homeless/poor urban area" design to it.

* In the GordonKorman book ''Bugs Potter LIVE at Nickaninny'', the title character steals pots and pans from his family's campsite to make an impromptu drumset.

* CreedenceClearwaterRevival's "Down on the Corner" is about a partial trash can band called Willy and the Poor Boys.

* Non-musical example: for "Breaking the Girl", off of the RedHotChiliPeppers album ''Music/BloodSugarSexMagik''. The members went into a nearby dump and rounded up a bunch of trash cans and other garbage that they used as percussion in the song's breakdown.

* A few episodes of ''HomeImprovement'' had a group of workers from a construction company come onto the ShowWithinAShow and talk about the weird things they do on the job (like cooking and hygiene). In their last few appearances, they made a band with instruments made mostly from power tools. They performed in their second-to-last appearance, and helped close the show in the finale.

* Some {{Industrial}} musicians use garbage as percussion (or, more commonly these days, [[{{Sampling}} samples thereof]]). Test Dept. and ''Einsturzende Neubauten'' are both good early examples who used things like springs, pipes, sheet metal and other metal-based rubbish as instruments.

* Some {{Industrial}} musicians use garbage as percussion (or, more commonly these days, [[{{Sampling}} samples thereof]]). Test Dept. and Music/EinsturzendeNeubauten are both good early examples who used things like springs, pipes, sheet metal and other metal-based rubbish as instruments.

->''Bangin' on a trash can''
->''Drummin' on a street light''

* A [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jug_band Jug Band]], as seen on ''Series/TheMuppetShow'' from time to time, as well as in ''Literature/EmmettOttersJugBandChristmas'', is a specific type of Trash Can Band, consisting of a jug, a washboard and a washtub bass.

* A [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jug_band Jug Band]], as seen on ''TheMuppetShow'' from time to time, as well as in ''Emmett Otter's Jug Band Christmas'', is a specific type of Trash Can Band, consisting of a jug, a washboard and a washtub bass.

* The music video for the song "Troll Hammaren" by the band {{Finntroll}} shows the trolls playing weird, makeshift, "trollish" instruments which nonetheless deliver the sound of normal percussion and guitars.

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* Non-musical example: for "Breaking the Girl", the RedHotChiliPeppers members went into a nearby dump and rounded up a bunch of trash cans and other garbage that drummer Chad Smith used as percussion in the song's breakdown.

-->--''WesternAnimation/{{Doug}}'', "One Little Voice"

* ''Stomp'' IS this trope, turned up to eleven. The musical starts off with the cast making music with brooms, and it gets better from there.

* On {{Glee}}, a power outage inspires the students to create music acoustically and they take it one step further, performing the number [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCkqmB2_G1Y We Will Rock You]] using everything from trash cans to bottles to zips as their instruments.

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-->--''{{Doug}}'', "One Little Voice"

* ''TheLittleRascals'' did this, at least in Creator/{{Hanna-Barbera}}'s animated series.