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-> "''The Men That Will Not Be Blamed For Nothing!'' If we don't stop them, they could rewrite history - all of history! ''One song at a time...''"
''The Men That Will Not Be Blamed For Nothing'' is a {{Steampunk}} band formed in London in 2008 by Andrew O'Neill and Andy Heintz. They've described their genre as "crusty punk meets cockney sing-songs meets grindcore in the 1880s" - their music uses the history of Victorian Britain for satire and contemporary social commentary, making fun of famous (and less-famous) historical events, and often focusing on the era's macabre side. More recent albums have drawn increasingly from a variety of punk and alternative music genres.
''The Men That Will Not Be Blamed For Nothing'' is a {{Steampunk}} band formed in London in 2008 by Andrew O'Neill and Andy Heintz. They've described their genre as "crusty punk meets cockney sing-songs meets grindcore in the 1880s" - their music uses the history of Victorian Britain for satire and contemporary social commentary, making fun of famous (and less-famous) historical events, and often focusing on the era's macabre side. More recent albums have drawn increasingly from a variety of punk and alternative music genres.
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-> "''The Men That Will Not Be Blamed For for Nothing!'' If we don't stop them, they could rewrite history - all of history! ''One song at a time...''"
''The The Men That Will Not Be Blamed For Nothing'' for Nothing is a {{Steampunk}} band formed in London in 2008 by Andrew O'Neill and Andy Heintz. They've described their genre as "crusty punk meets cockney sing-songs meets grindcore in the 1880s" - their music uses the history of Victorian Britain for satire and contemporary social commentary, making fun of famous (and less-famous) historical events, and often focusing on the era's macabre side. More recent albums have drawn increasingly from a variety of punk and alternative music genres.
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* ''The Steampunk Album That Cannot Be Named For for Legal Reasons'' [[note]]Originally released as ''Now That's What I Call Steampunk! Volume 1'', until the trademark owners of ''Now That's What I Call Music!'' Music/NowThatsWhatICallMusic sued them for infringement[[/note]] (2010)
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* TheCameo: [[Series/DoctorWho Sylvester McCoy]] voices the intro to ''...Cannot Be Harmed By Conventional Weapons''.
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* HauntedHouse: Subverted. "This House Is Not Haunted." There's a perfectly scientific explanation for everything from the cold draft in the hallway to the mysterious bumps in the night... so [[DoubleSubversion surely there must also be one]] for the [[BloodyHorror bleeding walls]] and the [[SleepParalysisCreature midnight shadow standing in the bedroom]].
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* HauntedHouse: Subverted. "This House Is Not Haunted." Haunted". There's a perfectly scientific explanation for everything from the cold draft in the hallway to the mysterious bumps in the night... so [[DoubleSubversion surely there must also be one]] for the [[BloodyHorror bleeding walls]] and the [[SleepParalysisCreature midnight shadow standing in the bedroom]].
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* ImmuneToBullets: The Men That Will Not Be Blamed For Nothing cannot be harmed by conventional weapons, according to the album ''This May Be The Reason Why The Men That Will Not Be Blamed For Nothing Cannot Be Harmed By Conventional Weapons'', and that "this" may be the reason why... [[OrphanedPunchline whatever "this" is]].
* LiteraryAllusionTitle: The band takes its name from the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goulston_Street_graffito Goulston Street graffito]], sometimes claimed to be a clue to the identity of Jack the Ripper: "The Juwes are the men that will not be blamed for nothing". The band treats it like the name of a group of anti-establishment Victorian time travellers on the album ''This May Be The Reason Why The Men That Will Not Be Blamed For Nothing Cannot Be Harmed By Conventional Weapons''.
* LiteraryAllusionTitle: The band takes its name from the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goulston_Street_graffito Goulston Street graffito]], sometimes claimed to be a clue to the identity of Jack the Ripper: "The Juwes are the men that will not be blamed for nothing". The band treats it like the name of a group of anti-establishment Victorian time travellers on the album ''This May Be The Reason Why The Men That Will Not Be Blamed For Nothing Cannot Be Harmed By Conventional Weapons''.
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* ImmuneToBullets: The Men That Will Not Be Blamed For for Nothing cannot be harmed by conventional weapons, according to the album ''This May Be The the Reason Why The Men That Will Not Be Blamed For for Nothing Cannot Be Harmed By by Conventional Weapons'', and that "this" may be the reason why... [[OrphanedPunchline whatever "this" is]].
* LiteraryAllusionTitle: The band takes its name from the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goulston_Street_graffito Goulston Street graffito]], sometimes claimed to be a clue to the identity of Jack the Ripper: "The Juwes are the men that will not be blamed for nothing". The band treats it like the name of a group of anti-establishment Victorian time travellers on the album''This May Be The Reason Why The Men That Will Not Be Blamed For Nothing ''...Cannot Be Harmed By Conventional Weapons''.
* LiteraryAllusionTitle: The band takes its name from the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goulston_Street_graffito Goulston Street graffito]], sometimes claimed to be a clue to the identity of Jack the Ripper: "The Juwes are the men that will not be blamed for nothing". The band treats it like the name of a group of anti-establishment Victorian time travellers on the album
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* TheTropeFormerlyKnownAsX: Following a lawsuit by [[Creator/{{EMI}} EMI Records, Records]], the album ''Now That's What I Call Steampunk!'' was retitled ''The Steampunk Album That Cannot Be Named for Legal Reasons''.
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* SerialKiller: "Occam's Razor" is about UsefulNotes/Jack the Ripper, or rather, his mythification. "Baby Farmer" is about the less-famous but deadlier [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amelia_Dyer Amelia Dyer]].
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* SerialKiller: "Occam's Razor" is about UsefulNotes/Jack the Ripper, UsefulNotes/JackTheRipper, or rather, his mythification. "Baby Farmer" is about the less-famous but deadlier [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amelia_Dyer Amelia Dyer]].
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-> "''The Men That Will Not Be Blamed For Nothing!'' If we don't stop them, they could rewrite history - all of history! ''One song at a time...''"
''The Men That Will Not Be Blamed For Nothing'' is a {{Steampunk}} band formed in London in 2008 by Andrew O'Neill and Andy Heintz. They've described their genre as "crusty punk meets cockney sing-songs meets grindcore in the 1880s" - their music uses the history of Victorian Britain for satire and contemporary social commentary, making fun of famous (and less-famous) historical events, and often focusing on the era's macabre side. More recent albums have drawn increasingly from a variety of punk and alternative music genres.
Current members include Andrew O'Neill (they/them, vocals and guitar), Andy Heintz (he/him, vocals and musical saw), and Marc Burrows (he/him, bass guitar). Ben Dawson played drums until he left in 2010, and was replaced by Jez Miller, who remained with the band until 2021.
!! Discography:
* ''The Steampunk Album That Cannot Be Named For Legal Reasons'' [[note]]Originally released as ''Now That's What I Call Steampunk! Volume 1'', until the trademark owners of ''Now That's What I Call Music!'' sued them for infringement[[/note]] (2010)
* ''A Very Steampunk Christmas EP'' (2010)
* ''Anachrony in the UK: Live in London'' (2011)
* ''This May Be The Reason Why The Men That Will Not Be Blamed For Nothing Cannot Be Killed By Conventional Weapons'' (2012)
* ''The Gin Song/Third-Class Coffin EP'' (2013)
* ''Not Your Typical Victorians'' (2015)
* ''Double Negative'' (2018)
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!! These are the tropes that will not be listed for nothing:
* AfterlifeExpress: The London Necropolis Railway is the topic of "Third-Class Coffin". The deceased singer is insulted to realise that each of the upper-class dead gets an entire train carriage for their mourners to accompany them, while the poor are stacked like freight.
* AIIsACrapshoot: "Vive La Difference Engine" indicates that Babbage actually completed the difference engine, but kept it secret out of some vague premonition of the future of computing - not for fear of thinking machines themselves, but that the technology would fall into the wrong hands before it could be perfected.
--> ''Vive la Difference Engine, Engine!''
--> ''Lurking in a Limehouse backstreet shed!''
--> ''Future events are set in motion - ''
--> ''Watch the machine's first faltering steps!''
* AmazonChaser: "Goggles" sings the praises of women who can win fistfights and strip engines.
* AnachronisticSoundtrack: "Sewer" and "Free Spirit" both had special releases on wax cylinders, the first audio-recording format invented, which had been obsolete for decades.
* BadassBoast: Isambard Kingdom Brunel tersely refuses to let the failures of others stop him from any engineering project he sets his mind to.
--> ''I looked him up and down, and then replied''
--> ''"A lot of men tried, and a lot of men died!"''
--> ''"Yeah? Well... I'm not a lot of men."''
* BrainFever: "Charlie" came home from the tropics babbling insulting nonsense about being descended from monkeys. Too much time in the sun, clearly.
* BringMyBrownPants: Queen Victoria's black mourning attire disguises the bloodstains left when she brings Prince Albert his dinner.
* CameBackWrong: "Victoria's Secret" is that she used occult forces to bring back Prince Albert as a FleshEatingZombie, whom she keeps in the palace basement, sating his hunger with commoners' brains.
* TheCameo: [[Series/DoctorWho Sylvester McCoy]] voices the intro to ''...Cannot Be Harmed By Conventional Weapons''.
* TheComplainerIsAlwaysWrong: Everyone in "Margate Fhtagn" treats Cthulhu devouring everyone who goes for a swim as a nuisance on the same level as high temperatures and sore feet; the Nan is the only one whining about it all, and everyone is happier when she gets eaten.
* CrappyCarnival: "The Worst Sideshow Ever" is trying to pass off a slightly overweight man as the Astounding Blob, a goat with a hunting trophy strapped to its arse as a Pushme-Pullyou, a girl in a sleeping bag as Lady Caterpillar, etc.
* CreepyDoll: The cover of ''Not Your Typical Victorians'' features two large relatively normal dolls, and a third smaller one sitting between them with a [[VaginaDentata toothy vertical slit mouth]] and a long ManiacTongue.
* DidWeJustHaveTeaWithCthulhu: The obstinate vacationers in "Margate Fhtagn" initially respond to R'lyeh surfacing off the coast of Margate with a StiffUpperLip, but eventually decide it's for the best:
--> ''The next time I see that deity I'll shake him by the tentacle!''
--> ''I'll call him my friend, I'll thank him again, and buy the old bugger a pint!''
* DisproportionateRetribution: In "Margate Fhtagn", Nan insisted on coming on vacation and spends the entire time complaining about everything... so Pa tricks her into getting eaten by Cthulhu. The lingering question of how he knew what an Elder God was suggests he may have [[BatmanGambit anticipated this when he planned the trip]].
* TheFreakshow: "The Worst Sideshow Ever" doesn't actually have any freaks, and the audience finds its pickled gherkins with fake eyes and ears glued on unconvincing.
* HauntedHouse: Subverted. "This House Is Not Haunted." There's a perfectly scientific explanation for everything from the cold draft in the hallway to the mysterious bumps in the night... so [[DoubleSubversion surely there must also be one]] for the [[BloodyHorror bleeding walls]] and the [[SleepParalysisCreature midnight shadow standing in the bedroom]].
* ILoveTheDead: "Victoria's Secret" is that she loved Prince Albert too much not to try to revive him with witchcraft and voodoo.
* ImmuneToBullets: The Men That Will Not Be Blamed For Nothing cannot be harmed by conventional weapons, according to the album ''This May Be The Reason Why The Men That Will Not Be Blamed For Nothing Cannot Be Harmed By Conventional Weapons'', and that "this" may be the reason why... [[OrphanedPunchline whatever "this" is]].
* LiteraryAllusionTitle: The band takes its name from the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goulston_Street_graffito Goulston Street graffito]], sometimes claimed to be a clue to the identity of Jack the Ripper: "The Juwes are the men that will not be blamed for nothing". The band treats it like the name of a group of anti-establishment Victorian time travellers on the album ''This May Be The Reason Why The Men That Will Not Be Blamed For Nothing Cannot Be Harmed By Conventional Weapons''.
* MadnessMantra: The sceptic in "This House Is Not Haunted" becomes increasingly desperate to reassure himself that "everything's alright - ''no God, no ghosts, no afterlife''".
* MadwomanInTheAttic: Zombie Prince Albert, whom Queen Victoria keeps in the basement.
* OneSteveLimit: "Steph(v)enson" is about George and Robert Stephenson, the father and son who co-invented the first commercial steam locomotive; not to be confused with Robert Stevenson, a lighthouse engineer who ''also'' worked on trains; not to be confused with Creator/RobertLouisStevenson, author of ''Doctor Jekyll and Mister Hyde'' and ''Treasure Island''.
--> "Well, how d'you tell 'em apart?"
--> "Well, that's pretty straightforward. A simple matter of spelling."
--> "Witchcraft?!"
--> "No, not that sort of spelling. They spelt their surnames differently. George and Robert Stephenson spelt it with a 'ph' - the other Robert spelt it with a 'v'."
--> "Oh, I see - 'Vephenson'!"
* PoliceAreUseless: "Occam's Razor" is a tirade against true crime enthusiasts and Ripperologists in particular, for sensationalising UsefulNotes/JackTheRipper as some diabolical mastermind and exploiting his mystery to sell wildly speculative books, rather than admitting he was probably nobody special and the police didn't do their jobs.
* RealMenWearPink: Andy Heintz performs with his ragged sideburns and handlebar moustache dyed pink.
* SerialKiller: "Occam's Razor" is about UsefulNotes/Jack the Ripper, or rather, his mythification. "Baby Farmer" is about the less-famous but deadlier [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amelia_Dyer Amelia Dyer]].
* SongStyleShift: "Margate Fhtagn" goes back and forth between 'jaunty seaside tune' and 'guttural cosmic horror black metal' and eventually settles somewhere in the middle.
* {{Steampunk}}: Emphasis on the punk.
* ThroughTheEyesOfMadness: "This House Is Not Haunted" ultimately remains ambiguous because the sceptical narrator is thoroughly convinced that the supernatural isn't real and therefore he must be mad.
* TheTropeFormerlyKnownAsX: Following a lawsuit by EMI Records, the album ''Now That's What I Call Steampunk!'' was retitled ''The Steampunk Album That Cannot Be Named for Legal Reasons''.
* YoungFutureFamousPeople: No one in "Charlie" takes Charles Darwin's theory of evolution seriously.
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[[caption-width-right:350:Rubbing the face of the present day in the rotten corpse of its past since 2008.]]
-> "''The Men That Will Not Be Blamed For Nothing!'' If we don't stop them, they could rewrite history - all of history! ''One song at a time...''"
''The Men That Will Not Be Blamed For Nothing'' is a {{Steampunk}} band formed in London in 2008 by Andrew O'Neill and Andy Heintz. They've described their genre as "crusty punk meets cockney sing-songs meets grindcore in the 1880s" - their music uses the history of Victorian Britain for satire and contemporary social commentary, making fun of famous (and less-famous) historical events, and often focusing on the era's macabre side. More recent albums have drawn increasingly from a variety of punk and alternative music genres.
Current members include Andrew O'Neill (they/them, vocals and guitar), Andy Heintz (he/him, vocals and musical saw), and Marc Burrows (he/him, bass guitar). Ben Dawson played drums until he left in 2010, and was replaced by Jez Miller, who remained with the band until 2021.
!! Discography:
* ''The Steampunk Album That Cannot Be Named For Legal Reasons'' [[note]]Originally released as ''Now That's What I Call Steampunk! Volume 1'', until the trademark owners of ''Now That's What I Call Music!'' sued them for infringement[[/note]] (2010)
* ''A Very Steampunk Christmas EP'' (2010)
* ''Anachrony in the UK: Live in London'' (2011)
* ''This May Be The Reason Why The Men That Will Not Be Blamed For Nothing Cannot Be Killed By Conventional Weapons'' (2012)
* ''The Gin Song/Third-Class Coffin EP'' (2013)
* ''Not Your Typical Victorians'' (2015)
* ''Double Negative'' (2018)
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!! These are the tropes that will not be listed for nothing:
* AfterlifeExpress: The London Necropolis Railway is the topic of "Third-Class Coffin". The deceased singer is insulted to realise that each of the upper-class dead gets an entire train carriage for their mourners to accompany them, while the poor are stacked like freight.
* AIIsACrapshoot: "Vive La Difference Engine" indicates that Babbage actually completed the difference engine, but kept it secret out of some vague premonition of the future of computing - not for fear of thinking machines themselves, but that the technology would fall into the wrong hands before it could be perfected.
--> ''Vive la Difference Engine, Engine!''
--> ''Lurking in a Limehouse backstreet shed!''
--> ''Future events are set in motion - ''
--> ''Watch the machine's first faltering steps!''
* AmazonChaser: "Goggles" sings the praises of women who can win fistfights and strip engines.
* AnachronisticSoundtrack: "Sewer" and "Free Spirit" both had special releases on wax cylinders, the first audio-recording format invented, which had been obsolete for decades.
* BadassBoast: Isambard Kingdom Brunel tersely refuses to let the failures of others stop him from any engineering project he sets his mind to.
--> ''I looked him up and down, and then replied''
--> ''"A lot of men tried, and a lot of men died!"''
--> ''"Yeah? Well... I'm not a lot of men."''
* BrainFever: "Charlie" came home from the tropics babbling insulting nonsense about being descended from monkeys. Too much time in the sun, clearly.
* BringMyBrownPants: Queen Victoria's black mourning attire disguises the bloodstains left when she brings Prince Albert his dinner.
* CameBackWrong: "Victoria's Secret" is that she used occult forces to bring back Prince Albert as a FleshEatingZombie, whom she keeps in the palace basement, sating his hunger with commoners' brains.
* TheCameo: [[Series/DoctorWho Sylvester McCoy]] voices the intro to ''...Cannot Be Harmed By Conventional Weapons''.
* TheComplainerIsAlwaysWrong: Everyone in "Margate Fhtagn" treats Cthulhu devouring everyone who goes for a swim as a nuisance on the same level as high temperatures and sore feet; the Nan is the only one whining about it all, and everyone is happier when she gets eaten.
* CrappyCarnival: "The Worst Sideshow Ever" is trying to pass off a slightly overweight man as the Astounding Blob, a goat with a hunting trophy strapped to its arse as a Pushme-Pullyou, a girl in a sleeping bag as Lady Caterpillar, etc.
* CreepyDoll: The cover of ''Not Your Typical Victorians'' features two large relatively normal dolls, and a third smaller one sitting between them with a [[VaginaDentata toothy vertical slit mouth]] and a long ManiacTongue.
* DidWeJustHaveTeaWithCthulhu: The obstinate vacationers in "Margate Fhtagn" initially respond to R'lyeh surfacing off the coast of Margate with a StiffUpperLip, but eventually decide it's for the best:
--> ''The next time I see that deity I'll shake him by the tentacle!''
--> ''I'll call him my friend, I'll thank him again, and buy the old bugger a pint!''
* DisproportionateRetribution: In "Margate Fhtagn", Nan insisted on coming on vacation and spends the entire time complaining about everything... so Pa tricks her into getting eaten by Cthulhu. The lingering question of how he knew what an Elder God was suggests he may have [[BatmanGambit anticipated this when he planned the trip]].
* TheFreakshow: "The Worst Sideshow Ever" doesn't actually have any freaks, and the audience finds its pickled gherkins with fake eyes and ears glued on unconvincing.
* HauntedHouse: Subverted. "This House Is Not Haunted." There's a perfectly scientific explanation for everything from the cold draft in the hallway to the mysterious bumps in the night... so [[DoubleSubversion surely there must also be one]] for the [[BloodyHorror bleeding walls]] and the [[SleepParalysisCreature midnight shadow standing in the bedroom]].
* ILoveTheDead: "Victoria's Secret" is that she loved Prince Albert too much not to try to revive him with witchcraft and voodoo.
* ImmuneToBullets: The Men That Will Not Be Blamed For Nothing cannot be harmed by conventional weapons, according to the album ''This May Be The Reason Why The Men That Will Not Be Blamed For Nothing Cannot Be Harmed By Conventional Weapons'', and that "this" may be the reason why... [[OrphanedPunchline whatever "this" is]].
* LiteraryAllusionTitle: The band takes its name from the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goulston_Street_graffito Goulston Street graffito]], sometimes claimed to be a clue to the identity of Jack the Ripper: "The Juwes are the men that will not be blamed for nothing". The band treats it like the name of a group of anti-establishment Victorian time travellers on the album ''This May Be The Reason Why The Men That Will Not Be Blamed For Nothing Cannot Be Harmed By Conventional Weapons''.
* MadnessMantra: The sceptic in "This House Is Not Haunted" becomes increasingly desperate to reassure himself that "everything's alright - ''no God, no ghosts, no afterlife''".
* MadwomanInTheAttic: Zombie Prince Albert, whom Queen Victoria keeps in the basement.
* OneSteveLimit: "Steph(v)enson" is about George and Robert Stephenson, the father and son who co-invented the first commercial steam locomotive; not to be confused with Robert Stevenson, a lighthouse engineer who ''also'' worked on trains; not to be confused with Creator/RobertLouisStevenson, author of ''Doctor Jekyll and Mister Hyde'' and ''Treasure Island''.
--> "Well, how d'you tell 'em apart?"
--> "Well, that's pretty straightforward. A simple matter of spelling."
--> "Witchcraft?!"
--> "No, not that sort of spelling. They spelt their surnames differently. George and Robert Stephenson spelt it with a 'ph' - the other Robert spelt it with a 'v'."
--> "Oh, I see - 'Vephenson'!"
* PoliceAreUseless: "Occam's Razor" is a tirade against true crime enthusiasts and Ripperologists in particular, for sensationalising UsefulNotes/JackTheRipper as some diabolical mastermind and exploiting his mystery to sell wildly speculative books, rather than admitting he was probably nobody special and the police didn't do their jobs.
* RealMenWearPink: Andy Heintz performs with his ragged sideburns and handlebar moustache dyed pink.
* SerialKiller: "Occam's Razor" is about UsefulNotes/Jack the Ripper, or rather, his mythification. "Baby Farmer" is about the less-famous but deadlier [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amelia_Dyer Amelia Dyer]].
* SongStyleShift: "Margate Fhtagn" goes back and forth between 'jaunty seaside tune' and 'guttural cosmic horror black metal' and eventually settles somewhere in the middle.
* {{Steampunk}}: Emphasis on the punk.
* ThroughTheEyesOfMadness: "This House Is Not Haunted" ultimately remains ambiguous because the sceptical narrator is thoroughly convinced that the supernatural isn't real and therefore he must be mad.
* TheTropeFormerlyKnownAsX: Following a lawsuit by EMI Records, the album ''Now That's What I Call Steampunk!'' was retitled ''The Steampunk Album That Cannot Be Named for Legal Reasons''.
* YoungFutureFamousPeople: No one in "Charlie" takes Charles Darwin's theory of evolution seriously.
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