Easy Way To Fake Being A Music Nerd

Find a foreign band outside of England or your own home country.

Seriously, you can't lose. No one outside of the U.S./Canada/North America. Find a French band, Russian band, eastern European band, or an African band.

Like take Bleu Singe. A 60s-pop band from France. Beat that!

Hell, if you don't feel like using it, make up a band, and say they're from a foreign country. What's the guy going to say - I know every band ever, and that's not one of them?

The answer is no, they will not, and you will prove to be the smarter person. God bless our lack of information outside any country but our own.

Don't use Iceland metal, though, or else you get lumped up with the metal/Trent Reznor/Goth scene obviously. Unless that's your scene, in which case ha ha, nerd. Seriously, I saw a big lineup of every Goth fag in Toronto at a H.I.M. signing. Funny as hell. Buncha losers. Seriously, as a man who wears a trenchcoat, it's those guys and the pedophiles who give the regular trenchcoat wearers a bad name.

And don't use the country's name in the band title, or else someone'll call you on it. Because obviously I wouldn't say I'm from Канада, Kanada, or 加拿大, right?

So try it. If you've left the North American continent, at any time in your life, you can go one step up. Try it.

"Oh yeah, so where do I get the Blue Monkey?"
"Oh, you won't be able to find it here. You'll have to travel to France to get it."

If they try the internet, simply say they're a small France band, and that they'll have to look them up on some smaller French websites. Chances are they won't know conversational German if they haven't already sniffed out your bullshit. If you can bluff you're way through all this, you're set, and they'll look stupid. You win. Checkmate.