3 Minute Hero Carbon-fiber moldings attached to tungsten frames

Press/Awards

1989 -- "Best Band that Does Not Yet Exist" Award. Soothsayers Magazine

1995 -- "Ugliest Suits" Award. Gingiss Formalwear Monthly (internal publication)

1996 -- "Most Stunning Ascot" Award. Little Sailors Magazine

1997 -- "Best Custom-Painted 1969 International Harvester Shorty Bus" Award. Some baked guy in Pittsburgh who really looked like a young Michael Douglass

1998 -- "Best New Ska Band" Minnesota Music Awards

1999 -- "Best New Ska Band" Minnesota Music Awards (the only repeat in MMA history until it was awarded posthumously to the 1976 & 1977 Pittsburgh Steeler football squads).

2000 -- "Best Reason for Dissolving a Band" (Ran out of deodorant). Flora Hewlitt Excuse Foundation

2001 -- "Largest Diaspora (in square miles) of Recently Dissolved Artistic Group" Award. The Rand McNally Awards (The McNally's)

2002 - 2007 -- No awards received

2008 -- Nobel Prize for something about cells &/or electromagnetism.

2009 -- "The World's Most Beautiful Man" Award. People Magazine. (Awarded to seven of eight band members).

2010 -- "The Malm" Award. IKEA. (Awarded to musical groups that exhibit stunning bone structure).

2011 -- "Album of the Year" for their release "F MINUS: Uncollected Works." Awarded by Macaroni & Cheese Magazine.

2012 -- "Hottest Gnome(s) Award." General Public.