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3 | Zebrahead is a RapRock band consisting of Ali Tabatabaee, Ed Udhus, Ben Osmundson, Dan Palmer, and Adrian Estrella providing a bizarre yet interesting mix of high-energy rock guitar and high-energy hip-hop style vocals. Over the years their style has evolved from a more funk hip-hop style in their early albums to a more refined hard rock sound, with rapping (usually by Ali, who as an actual rapper nicely makes his rapping flow with and transition to and from the non-rap vocals) mixed in. Former members include founding lead guitarist |
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5 | Mostly unheard of in America, they're strangely popular in Japan. This was enough to warrant Ali and Matty being called on to perform the main theme to ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog2006'', "His World", which (along with the rest of that game's soundtrack) is arguably the best thing about that game. They also came out with a full band remix of said song, which is arguably even cooler. |
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7 | They also have a thing about singing womens' cover songs, as they released a cover of "Wannabe" (yes, ''that'' "Wannabe") by the Spice Girls (yeah, ''those'' Music/SpiceGirls), and released a whole album of womens' pop covers, ''Panty Raid''. |
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10 | !Members: |
11 | * Ali Tabatabaee - rapped vocals |
12 | * Ed Udhus - drums |
13 | * Ben Osmundson - bass |
14 | * Dan Palmer - lead guitar (2013-present) |
15 | * Adrian Estrella - clean vocals, rhythm guitar (2021-present) |
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17 | !Former members: |
18 | * Justin Mauriello - clean vocals, rhythm guitar (1996-2004) |
19 | * Matty Lewis - clean vocals, rhythm guitar (2005-2021) |
20 | * Greg Bergdorf - lead guitar (1996-2013) |
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23 | !This band's discography consists of: |
24 | * ''Zebrahead[=/=]Yellow[=/=]The Yellow Album'' (1998) |
25 | * ''Waste of Mind'' (1998) |
26 | * ''Playmate of the Year'' (2000) |
27 | * ''Stupid Fat Americans'' (2001; Japan exclusive) |
28 | * ''[[{{FunWithAcronyms}} MFZB]]'' (2003) |
29 | * ''Waste of MFZB'' (2004; Japan exclusive) |
30 | * ''Broadcast to the World'' (2006) |
31 | * ''Phoenix'' (2008) |
32 | * ''Panty Raid'' (2009) |
33 | * ''Not The New Album'' (2010; EP) |
34 | * ''Get Nice!'' (2011) |
35 | * ''Call Your Friends'' (2013) |
36 | * ''Way More Beer'' (2014) |
37 | * ''The Early Years – Revisited'' (2015) |
38 | * ''Walk the Plank'' (2015) |
39 | * ''The Bonus Brothers'' (2017) |
40 | * ''Brain Invaders'' (2019) |
41 | * ''Wanna Sell Your Soul?'' (2020; EP) |
42 | * ''Brain Invaders - Deluxe Goes Instrumental'' (2020) |
43 | * ''[=III=]'' (2021; EP) |
44 | * ''[=II=]'' (2023; EP) |
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47 | !! This band provides examples of |
48 | * AWildRapperAppears: Averted, since Ali is actually a part of the band and the rapping is to be expected from their style. |
49 | * AntiLoveSong: A few, of different flavors, particularly "Enemy," and "Here's To You," and "Do Your Worst." |
50 | * AttractiveBentGender: Averted. Oh, dear gods [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6LLSgyd7Cw averted]]. |
51 | ** Although one or two members of the band have commented on how hot they thought Matty was as a girl. |
52 | * CoolShades: Courtesy of Ed, who wears them in almost every single music video. |
53 | * CoverVersion: |
54 | ** "Wannabe" by the Music/SpiceGirls was covered on ''Waste of [=MFZB=]''. |
55 | ** ''Panty Raid'' is an album of cover songs originally performed by female recording artists. |
56 | ** "Ready Steady Go" by L'Arc-en-Ciel was covered as a Japan-exclusive bonus track for "Call Your Friends". |
57 | * TheCoverChangesTheGender: [[AvertedTrope Averted]] - All of ''Panty Raid'' leaves the lyrics the same. |
58 | * DissonantSerenity: "Mental Health". Ali seems crazy through most of the song in the lyrics (About a patient in a mental hospital), and when Matty's lyrics come in he sings 'All I want is to go home, just for a bit...but these padded rooms are the shit!'. Moment of clarity, then back to the nut farm. |
59 | * DumpedViaTextMessage: How Matty left the band. The other members didn't take it well. |
60 | * FunWithAcronyms: MFZB means "Motherfucking Zebrahead, Bitches!" |
61 | * HotBlooded: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Yb5P2dgcyU&feature=rec-LGOUT-real_rn-HM Hell Yeah!]] |
62 | * IntercourseWithYou: "Playmate of the Year" (The song, not the album that the song gives its title to.) |
63 | * NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: Hoo boy, "Karma Flavored Whiskey." The song is like the soundtrack to beating the shit out of people. |
64 | * PowerOfFriendship: "Strength" is about this. "Hell Yeah!" also invokes it. |
65 | * RapRock: As mentioned above, the rock part became emphasized more starting with ''MFZB''. Of course, the combination of rapping and rock instruments has always been their style. |
66 | * RearrangeTheSong: |
67 | ** After Matty and Ali were approached by SEGA to provide vocals to "His World" - the main theme of ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog2006'' - the band would go on to record their own arrangement of the song. |
68 | ** ''The Early Years - Revisited'' saw the band re-record a number of songs from their first three albums, with Matty singing all of the parts originally sang by Justin. |
69 | ** ''Brain Invaders - Deluxe Goes Instrumental'' is (as the name suggests) the deluxe edition of ''Brain Invaders'', minus the vocal parts of the songs. |
70 | * SanitySlippageSong: "The Walking Dead" seems to be this. |
71 | * SelfTitledAlbum: Their first release, although these days it's better known as ''Yellow'' or ''The Yellow Album'' due to the album cover simply being bright yellow. |
72 | * ShoutOut: |
73 | ** The aforementioned "Mike Dexter is a God..." is named after a character in ''Film/CantHardlyWait''. |
74 | ** "We're Not a Cover Band, We're a Tribute Band", which aims to namecheck as many songs in VideoGame/GuitarHero III as possible. |
75 | * SomethingSomethingLeonardBernstein: "Song 10" is very heavily this, to a point that the members of the band say that the lyrics don't exist. |
76 | * SongOfSongTitles: The choruses of "We're Not a Cover Band, We're a Tribute Band" reference the titles of several songs featured in, of all places, ''[[VideoGame/GuitarHero Guitar Hero III: Warriors of Rock]]''. |
77 | * SophisticatedAsHell: Ali seems fond of this. Brixton makes use of the word "rhetoric," for starters, and several of their songs tackle major social issues by Ali basically screaming a combination of [[LikeASimile clever analogies]] and [[ClusterFBomb cusswords.]] |
78 | * TakeOverTheWorld: The reason for the subject of "Broadcast to the World." |
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