Here’s the thing about being a roommate on MTV”s “Real World” and also being in a band: It’s not going to help you. In fact, it may have the opposite effect. Most fans don’t associate rock cred with glossy MTV reality shows. “Nobody likes people who appear to be given the silver platter,” Glen Naessens, who appeared with his band Perch on the show’s second season, said. “I learned that on tour with Perch when bands would trash us everywhere we played.” Bands looking for credibility would be better served by making a creative video and posting it to YouTube. Even appearing on “American Idol” would be better. You might not earn rock cred but it might get ya a gold record (just ask Daughtry). There are a handful of ex-”Real World”-ers who have gone on to have semi-successful acting careers (like Jacinda Barrett and Jamie Chung), however none of the musicians featured have had any mainstream success after the cameras stopped rolling. Here’s a look at some of the bands who have appeared on the show over the years.

Reign Dance
Season: “Real World: New York”
Andre Comeau from the inaugural “Real World” season, was the prototype for all the rockers that followed. Even if his band’s brand of melodic hard rock wasn’t that awesome, they were more legit than most of the bands that followed. Reigndance aren’t together anymore but Comeau still plays. He has a new band called .

Perch
Season: “Real World: Los Angeles”
Glen Naessens joined the cast of “The Real World: Los Angeles” in the middle of the season after one of the roommates got booted (“It wasn’t not funny!”), but it didn’t take him long for him to get comfortable enough to invite his Philly-based band out to L.A. to hang out and jam, much to his roommates’ chagrin. Amazingly, nearly 20 years later, Perch are still together — and still fronted by Glen.

Midnight Voices
Season: “Real World: San Francisco”
Of all the musicians to have appeared on “The Real World” over the years, Mohammed Bilal from “The Real World: San Francisco,” was probably the most legit going in. His world music-influenced hip-hop group Midnight Voices was a popular local draw in San Francisco before he was ever cast on the show — and their popularity continued past Bilal’s time on in the “Real World” house.

Unilever
Season: “Real World: London”
The post-punk band led by spiky-haired Neil Forrester of “The Real World: London,” are most notable for a gig they played in which Neil had the tip of his tongue bitten off by a heckling male concert goer he tried to French kiss. Subsequently, Forrester spent much of the remainder of the season writing things down while he struggled to communicate with a swollen, stitched-up tongue.

Late Night Wars
Season: “Real World: Cancun”
Joey Rozmus from “The Real World: Cancun” got kicked off of his season early — perhaps as a ploy to up his quota of punk points, which he’ll no doubt cash-in in hopes of scoring a major label deal for his emo-ish pop-punk band. Here’s a better plan for scoring indie cred: Book yourself a DIY tour, release a 7″ and stay away from “The Real World.”

Wicked Liquid
Season: “Real World: D.C.”
Josh Colon from “The Real World: D.C.” has a voice as terrible as the name of his band. He also has an ego the size of Lollapalooza, which isn’t always a bad thing for a frontman — unless you have no musical ability and your rap-rock party band is as funky as The Carpenters. The D.C. season may have wrapped up, but haven’t — they’re still out there hoping to make it big.

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