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San Francisco cult band the Icky Boyfriends echoed the musical and lyrical naivete of artists like Jonathan Richman and Half Japanese, borrowing the lovelorn geekiness of the former and the amateurish, nearly avant-garde clatter of the latter. However, the band's collective persona notwithstanding, their crude abrasiveness had more in common with the noise-rock underground, particularly that distinct streak of Bay Area weirdness that also informed other long-running scene staples like Caroliner. The Icky Boyfriends were formed circa 1988, featuring Jonathan Swift on vocals, Shea Bond on guitar, and Anthony Bedard on drums. Bedard had previously played with a garage-flavored band called the Leather Uppers, under the stage name Tone EB. The Icky Boyfriends stuck around for more than a decade, performing on a mostly local basis. Despite their longevity, their music was documented very sporadically, with only the occasional vinyl single or EP on a tiny indie. Those releases included the Cuckoo and End of Lust EPs for Blackjack, and the "Frank's Mom" single for C&P. The band also starred as themselves in the 1996 pseudo-documentary film I'm Not Fascinating, directed by Super 8 filmmaker Danny Plotnick; an accompanying LP of the same name was released on Past It Records. In 2000, the Menlo Park label issued a limited-edition, career-wrapping compilation titled Talking to You Is Just Like Being Dead, which consisted mostly of previously unreleased studio cuts. Bedard continued on in a duo called the Resineators, with guitarist David Nudelman.
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Icky Boyfriends were a locally noted indie band based in San Francisco from 1989 to 1995. They were the subject of the movie I'm Not Fascinating by filmmaker Danny Plotnick.
Local hit song "Burrito in the Jockstrap", opens their 2 CD retrospective album "A Love Obscene" on Menlo Park Records, released in 2005.