History Music / TenaciousD

* LikesOlderWomen: Not necessarily older than ''him'', but the song '39' is as touching a love song the D seem capable of making this side of 'Fuck Her Gently'.

* TheMovie: ''Film/TenaciousDInThePickOfDestiny''

* TrainingMontage: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nai7w1frB1E "To Be The Best"]]

* FatAndSkinny: Downplayed. Here's it's "Fat and Slightly Fatter."

* IKnowKarate: ''"With karate, I'll kick your ass.."''

* InTheStyleOf: "Tribute" is clearly meant to sound like a shorter version of [[Music/LedZeppelin "Stairway To Heaven."]] In a roundabout way, the band are calling that song the greatest in the world.

* PowerBallad: "Dude I Totally Miss You," part two of "The Road."

* {{Scatting}}: Jack occasionally does this, usually to imitate the sound of a guitar solo. He refers to it as a "ventrilo-solo."

* VitriolicBestBuds: A RunningGag in their early years is that Kage keeps quitting the band, and then [[EasilyForgiven forgiving Jables]] for his ego and coming back. Hence, the song "Kyle Quit The Band." ("But now we're back toge-e-ether, uh")

* WowingCthulhu: ''Tribute'' is about them impressing the devil by playing "the best song in the world."

* FaceOfTheBand: Invoked as part of the concept behind ''Rise of the Fenix'', parodying the RealitySubtext of Black becoming a successful mainstream actor after ''Film/SchoolOfRock'', and detailed in both "The Ballad of Hollywood Jack and the Rage Kage" and the video for "To Be the Best". After Jables becomes a humongous A-list star, [[AcquiredSituationalNarcissism he turns into a total egotistical douche]] ("Hollywood Jack") and abandons Kage for fortune and glory; only after Kage has a mental breakdown, is committed, escapes, and makes an attempt on Jables' life does he realize the error of his ways and help his best friend get back on his feet.

* MetalScream: "Master Exploder" features a few phenomenal ones. Makes sense, as the song is about this trope taken up to MakeMeWannaShout levels.

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Tenacious D, also known as "The D" and modestly referred to as "The Greatest Band In the World", are an American duo formed of lead vocalist/​guitarist/​actor/​LargeHam Creator/JackBlack and lead guitarist/​backing vocalist/​StraightMan Kyle Gass (aka J.B. and K.G., aka Jables and Kage), that have been active since 1994. They are known for their use of acoustic guitars, wacky sense of humour revolving heavily around [[RefugeInAudacity audacity]], [[VulgarHumor vulgarity]] and lampooning clichés associated with HeavyMetal and RockAndRoll. While being a really awesome heavy metal band, just ''because they can''.

* ClusterFBomb: [[spoiler: Fuck you! You fucking dick! Always naysaying... everything I ''create''. You piece of shit, You create something like [[SeriousBusiness inward singing]]! You fucking shit! You fucking sit in your tower! Fucking nap... What's funny?! YOU FUCKING BITCH! Fucking... fucker! Fucking... cock ass!]]

!!Tenacious D provides examples of the following tropes:

* ShoutOut: Young Nastyman, Wonder Boy's ArchEnemy in the song "Wonder Boy", is named after a supporting villain in the British comic book series ''ComicBook/{{Miracleman}}''.

* DistinctionWithoutADifference: "[[https://youtu.be/GNJtPFXUnm4 Video Games]]" sees Jables insist that he doesn't play video games anymore. Except for ''VideoGame/GodOfWar''. And ''VideoGame/Fallout4''. And ''VideoGame/RedDeadRedemption2''. However, Jables insists that the latter isn't a game, it's "an incredbile journey through old American history" and it doesn't count.

* NoExceptYes: "[[https://youtu.be/GNJtPFXUnm4 Video Games]]" sees Jables insist that he doesn't play video games anymore. Except for ''VideoGame/GodOfWar''. And ''VideoGame/Fallout4''. And ''VideoGame/RedDeadRedemption2''. However, Jables insists that the latter isn't a game, it's "an incredbile journey through old American history".

By the time the band signed to a label in 2000, they had a pretty high profile thanks to Black's acting work. Backed by a DreamTeam of musicians that included [[Music/{{Nirvana}} Dave]] [[Music/FooFighters Grohl]] on drums and guitars, Music/OingoBoingo guitarist Warren Fitzgerald, bassist Steve [=MacDonald=] and Music/{{Phish}} keyboardist Page [=McConnell=], ''Tenacious D'' showed the band maturing into an outright metal band while still retaining the acoustic guitars and perfecting their outrageous humour and parodies. Split between full band-reworkings of songs from the TV series, a few new songs and comedic skits, the debut blew the minds, kicked the asses (with karate!) and rocked the socks of everyone who ever heard it, and provided the band with its SignatureSong: "Tribute", a tribute to "the best song in the world" that the band played to defeat Satan but promptly forgot afterwards. ItsALongStory.

-->''Since the beginning of time, 'twas written in the stones that a band would come.''
-->''Well, now that band has come, and now they're here to come again, in your earpussies.''

* AluminumChristmasTrees: As goofy as it might sound, "Young Nastyman" is [[ShoutOut the name of a real comic book supervillain]]. He's a supporting villain in the British superhero comic book ''ComicBook/{{Miracleman}}'' (aka ''Marvelman''), and the EvilCounterpart of Miracleman's {{kid sidekick}} Young Miracleman.

* TheRoadie: The song ''The Roadie'' was made as a thank you letter to all the roadies out there who's work goes unappreciated. [[spoiler:In the song's official music [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3b1acvZRvV4 video]] however, the titular roadie Sebastion is portrayed as being a legitimately good roadie that had worked with Music/VanHalen, Metallica and [=AC/DC=] in the past, but eventually gets drunk and destroys Jack and Kyle's green room after being rejected by a groupie. He then goes on to buy drugs, reject a boy who comes to him with a paternity test and then cons money out of them in exchange for a hooker. Jack and Kyle to fire him shortly after.]]

* RefrainFromAssuming: "Tribute" is often misnamed "The Greatest Song in the World", which it is merely a tribute to.
** One song starts with the line "This is a song called The History of Tenacious D." It's actually just called History.

%% * GettingCrapPastThe Radar: Due to overwhelming and persistent misuse, GCPTR is on-page examples only until 01 June 2021. If you are reading this in the future, please check the trope page to make sure your example fits the current definition.

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Tenacious D, also known as "The D" and modestly referred to as "The Greatest Band In the World", are an American duo formed of lead vocalist/guitarist/actor/LargeHam Creator/JackBlack and lead guitarist/backing vocalist/StraightMan Kyle Gass (aka J.B. and K.G., aka Jables and Kage), that have been active since 1994. They are known for their use of acoustic guitars, wacky sense of humour revolving heavily around [[RefugeInAudacity audacity]], [[VulgarHumor vulgarity]] and lampooning clichés associated with HeavyMetal and RockAndRoll. While being a really awesome heavy metal band, just ''because they can''.

* SomethingCompletelyDifferent
** "Papagenu (He's My Sassafrass)" sounds like it was plucked out of the [[PsychedelicRock psychedelia]] of the 60s.
** "Flutes & Trombones" is a skit devoted to averting this trope, where they catch each other sneaking into the studio with the titular instruments. One can only guess what Kage and Jables were thinking of recording.
** "Simply Jazz," 11-minutes of Jack just adlibbing over an instrumental jazz jam, with Kyle only joining on recorder. ''It's not even a Tenacious D song!''

In 2001, Tenacious D gained notoriety for releasing the extremely bawdy [[UsefulNotes/AdobeFlash animated short]] {{music video}} by ''WesternAnimation/TheRenAndStimpyShow'' creator Creator/JohnKricfalusi for the song "F-- Her Gently" which was featured (alongside ''WebAnimation/HappyTreeFriends'') in that year's annual Festival of Sick and Twisted Animation. ([[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuck_Her_Gently NSFW]], naturally enough.)

* SophisticatedAsHell: "Classico" is the trope in music form, especially since the Für Elise part.

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: The phoenix on the cover of ''Rize of the Fenix'' is a [[GagPenis penis]]. This hasn't gone totally unnoticed, though. For example, the cover is censored on Amazon and Spotify.

* DisproportionateRetribution: The ClusterFBomb above? Sparked by Kage stating that JB's (admittedly not that great) method of inward singing "wasn't really non-stop".