Artists You've Written Off/Pointedly Ignored because of their name

A friend was recently waxing rhapsodic about the band Pissed Jeans, but I simply can't get beyond that stupid name. Perhaps I'm missing some great music as a result. I've loved a lot of embarassingly-named bands in my day too, but I just can't support a band called Pissed Jeans.

Et vous?

This is terrible, but I've never given John Vanderslice's music a chance because of his last name. I don't know why.

Killing Joke

2 pac

harry pussy

I was a fan, but I very quickly stopped telling those "not in the know" that I admired the band Garbage because of the response the name alone generated.

I quite liked Nashville Pussy when they first made the rounds (when Corey Parks was still the bass player). I've since lost interest/sobered up. I even have a Nashville Pussy t-shirt (complete with since legally-contested bobcat design), but never feel like wearing it, as it'll mean explaining to offended parties that (a) it's a band and (b) they took their name from a ludicrous Ted Nugent quote on Double Live Gonzo and (c) who really gives a damn anyway?

hey guys if it's OK with you I'm going to totally hate this band sight unseen for their name having the phrase "pure AT heart" in it instead of "pure OF heart." even if they did it on purpose to be 'funny' or something.

― some dude, Tuesday, February 10, 2009 12:45 PM (2 months ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

lots of people i respect seem to think my morning jacket is alright but there is no way i can get past that name

Agreed on My Morning Jacket. CANNOT get beyond it.

Used to really be bothered by At the Drive-In too. Even if it's a stab at Poison's "Talk Dirty To Me" (is it?), it's just lame.

Gentle Giant
Scout Niblett
Blind Melon
Pearl Jam
Black Moth Super Rainbow
Wolfmother
Animal Collective

Toad the Wet Sprocket
New Found Glory
Boards of Canada

the whitest boy alive

I refused to listen to Death Cab For Cutie for years because of their name. Even after I inadvertently heard and liked them, I've refused to ever own any of their music, just because I hate their name.

Basically 95% of indie/emo bands

Took me a while to shell out for anything by The Butthole Surfers.

c-murder

clap your hands say yeah

Gentle Giant
I don't really like prog but I always liked the name

It took me a long time to listen to Of Montreal because I thought the name was so pretentious. My Mom despised the band Hole because of their name but I caught her singing along to Violet once!

xp iatee: I think I have an aversion to anything that has a name that smacks of "elves and fairies in the forest" or new age/hippie stuff - Animal Collective made me think of hippie jam bands where the musicians have power animals.

yeah agree on animal collective at least

my two were mentioned:

My Morning Jacket - got over it and think they're pretty ace
Deathcab for Cutie - i think i heard them once and found them unremarkable enough to go on ignoring

I know it's shallow of me but no matter how many times they sweep the Voice poll I still can't bring myself to listen to The Guys Who're Gonna Beat J0hn D's Ass

Big Dick McGee

I like the name but I couldn't forgive him for killing his wife marion

Black Moth Super Rainbow OTM.

clap your hands say yeah
the yeah yeah yeahs

basically

Fucked Up, for awhile, now i like them a lot

minus the bear

Dr. Dog, I guess. I've still never knowingly heard them.

It took me a while to get around to checking out Eyehategod because of the name. I'm glad I got past that.

Pissed Jeans, oddly enough, doesn't bother me as a name. It suits their sound. They're good! One of the better pigfuck revival acts out there.

yeah yeah yeahs is a great band name, except for when you have to say it aloud

funny, i do remember, way back when I was a teen, hearing about this band Pavement and thinking, come on, come up with a real band name, dudes. Just sounded boring, along the lines of grunge bands naming songs "Porch."

You couldn't pay me a million dollars to listen to one second of the work of a band with a name like "Death Cab for Cutie". No fucking way.

Final Fantasy
Dr. Dog

ryan adams

i figured anybody w/name that close to bryan adams who didn't change it couldn't possibly be any good.

maybe i'm in the minority here, but Death Cab For Cutie's name is my fave thing about them, becuz it makes me think of that funny Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band song.

!!! is another one, actually

In case y'all didn't know:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_Cab_for_Cutie_(song)

(oh xpost!)

and yet, they are totally humorless and sound nothing like the Bonzos AND are just terrible in general

agreed

Dogs Die in Hot Cars

They've been too ubiquitous here for me to write them off solely because of their name, but I think I might have given Arctic Monkeys more of a chance if they were called just about anything else instead.

I gave Dananananaykroyd a listen on emusic out of morbid curiosity (expected some horrible joke band) and was pleasantly surprised with my favorite album of the year to date...

^^^^I have been struggling with friends' recommendations owing to their name

Used to really be bothered by At the Drive-In too. Even if it's a stab at Poison's "Talk Dirty To Me" (is it?), it's just lame.

Haha, I never made that leap from At-the Drive In to Poison, but I love it!

i had a friend who was really into the pAper chAse & kept insisting i check them out but i refused because i thought their name looked dumb. now, "When & If The Big One Hits" is one of my favorite songs but i still don't like looking at their name.

more recently, i had a similar experience with tUnE-YaRdS.

Gastunk has a name that just doesn't entice.

Ween.

And also Death Cab For Cutie.

Heltah Skeltah
Cunninglynguists
All Natural

Anal Cunt.... there's a tough one to defend.

After disliking Crystal Castles, feeling meh about Crystal Stilts, and not getting much from Deerhoof, I'm unreasonably skeptical of recent advice to check out Crystal Antlers.

oh yeah anything with "Wolf" in the title

apart from "Wolf Eyes" because they were the first one I knew about and they blew my 17 year-old brain to bits

Crystal Antlers are great and better than those other bands (judgment based entirely on the one show we played with them - haven't heard their recorded output)

for a long time one reason i didn't get into radiohead was their name. most bands have stupid names these days. and make crap music. coldplay anyone? what kind of name is clouddead? arctic monkeys i have never listened to (is their name supposed to be funny?) but i don't think i missed something. as mentioned upthread the whitest boy alive is a terrible name. like kings of convenience btw. but kings of convenience at least had some great guitar songs. twba are just plain dull. kings of leon i never listened to 'cause of the name. there must be dozens of others i can't think of right now.

Rapeman, and I'm a pretty big Albini fan.

Any band called The Black whatevers (Keys, Lips, Angels etc). Especially Black Kids.

dude you should check out black sabbath, good stuff

Were they called The Black Sabbaths? Exactly.

i have no interest in them at all, but

someone still loves you boris yeltsin

has got to be among the worst names ever

Looking at this thread title I felt an immediate identification with the premise. But now I can't for the life think of an example of this that applies to me, although I know there are a lot.

Retro prog band Wobbler. Maybe they're great, but fucking hell.

more upsetting are bands whose names are dope and then turn out to be garbage

and yeah, jim otm. i felt like i had a grip of terrible band names i hate ready to drop here and now i'm dry

The Pooh Sticks

Fudge Tunnel

I guess I don't like to be reminded of poop

I didn't listen to Fuck Buttons for a long time because their name sounded like some stupid Vice Magazine bullshit. but I'm glad I got over it because I actually really like 'em.

also I think I would've liked Wooden Shjips about 80% more if their name wasn't spelled like that.

(interestingly, this did not keep me from diggin' Wzt Hearts)

Ah, but Fudge Tunnel sound exactly like what you'd expect them to with a name like that,

I too hated the Pooh Sticks for their name. Then I heard their music, and I hated them even more.

I too am on the no-more-animals/black/crystal names anti-bandwagon. Obviously I've made exceptions, but yeah.

bands that use thee instead of the.

i knew there was something i was forgetting.

unfortunately most of those bands are pretty quality imo

daimn.

Mi@sma & The Carousel Of Headless Horses

Looking at this thread title I felt an immediate identification with the premise. But now I can't for the life think of an example of this that applies to me, although I know there are a lot.

― Suggesteban Cambiasso (jim), Tuesday, April 14, 2009 6:28 PM (1 hour ago)

Disco Inferno sure have a misleading band name. Wish I'd looked into them a lot sooner.

I always assumed the Deftones were some kind of ska punk band. Was suprised by their actual output.

Was completely put off by the Presets assuming they were hipster shit. Well, they're not far removed from that but they're actually also pretty good.

ILM I'm disappointed in you. All this time and no Gay Dad mention? For shame.

I avoided Neutral Milk Hotel for years, and still feel embarrassed trying to convince people they should give them a listen.

Never gave Super Furry Animals a thought because of their name. Now kicking self.

I think I punched a wall the first time I heard the name Fallout Boy.

A lot of the groups already mentioned are in this thread.

Add: Raccoo-oo-oon, Wildildlife, roughly 99% of all post rock groups with a name containing more than three words, metal groups that sounded like an angry 13 year-old named them (christfucker666 or whatever)... I could go on and on, really.

oh god Neutral Milk Hotel otm

i was camping w/some pals and someone started playing songs from Aeroplane (<--- I understand that this is embarrassing on its own) and this dude was like 'hey who is that i'd like to check them out' and i was genuinely embarrassed to give him the name :-/

Chickenfoot gets written off for the name and for SH equally

Has no one said TV On The Radio yet? I've actively sought out albums, put them on, pondered them for 1minute 30 seconds then thought "But they're called 'TV on the' fucking 'Radio'" and switch them off in disgust.

yea tv on the radio is pretty terrible, tho i like the band

Margot & the Nuclear So and So's

Tries so hard and falls so flat. Hootie & the Blowfish is a better name.

Gay Dad have the disadvantage of not seeming for a second like a band one would be missing out on by avoiding because of their name.

I realize this is true of lots of others named here, but Gay Dad even more so.

is there actually someone named Margot in Margot & the Nuclear So and So's? still a terrible name, but much more terrible if there isn't ...

In reality, the band is called Margot after Gwyneth Paltrow's character in the Wes Anderson film The Royal Tenenbaums.

the best thing about gay dad was their name.

any band that is called something like The Shunts or The Houses or The Bikeracks or anything stupid like that.

it just gets worse...

Pre Margot
Richard Edwards was in a band during his college years called Archer Avenue (named after the street where the characters in The Royal Tenenbaums lived).

WHO THE FUCK NAMES TWO BANDS AFTER THE ROYAL TENENBAUMS

A FUCKING LUNATIC, THAT'S WHO

Noah and the Whale, to continue on a vague Wes Anderson theme

Carissa's Wierd

definitely! xpost

Anal Cunt....

― Alex in NYC, Tuesday, April 14, 2009 5:15 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

So fuckn backwards. Their name is like reason number one why you should listen to this band

You Say Party! We Say Die!
Baby Animals
Breakestra
J.J. Gray & Mofro
The Decemberists

You Say Party! We Say Die!

^^^works better as an ian riese-moraine username

^^^don't get that, but I'll take your word for it

in the same vein:

Get Him Eat Him

Final Fantasy

It Hugs Back
Passion Pit
You Love Her Cos She's Dead
1990s

But then I tend not to like bands' names till I've heard the band.

Just searching for posts with a certain band's name will give you dozens of threads similar to this one, of which I've selected five
Bands Who(m) I Have Never Heard Note One Of, But The Name Tells Me All I Need To Know
ILM Most Hated 2005
Crap Band Name Watch!!!!
Bands that are victims of having a name that allowed them to be pre-judged and dismissed by people before being even listened to...
Bands that are victims of having a name that allowed them to be pre-judged and dismissed by people before being even listened to...

Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly

Well four threads, five posts.

^^^yup (cape)

Uh Huh Her

ANY band named after a Smiths song (I mean come on..). I generally have a hard time with bands named after other bands' songs or albums. It just seems half-assed. It took me a long time to accept Eric's Trip b/c of this. I probably would have had a problem with Radiohead too, except for that I was unaware of the TH song until well after I was already a RH stan.

Bands You could never allow yourself to like, given their (to your ears) indefensibly stupid name.
band whose name sounds like something you wouldn't want within a ten foot radius of yourself

Shittiest Ska Bands Names Ever (or Total Skrap):
who has the worst name out of all the 'The ....' bands?

It Hugs Back

aww these guys are awesome

xxpost: was just thinking of Shakespear's Sister...

If I hadnt heard their music right away, there's no way I would have given iliketrains any time of day.

Also, bugger the name - the Baby Animals are shit.

I Love You But I've Chosen Darkness

Until the CD reissues came out, I completely ignored The Lines and also The Sound because I could never remember their humdrum names. Who knew that they created so much jaw-droppingly splendid music? Too bad about those names, though.

Shimpboat.

Govt. Cheese
Gov't Mule
Big Head Todd & the Monsters
Johnny Hates Jazz
moe

Cute Is What We Aim For fills me with rage every time I see the name.

"Alex in NYC" is kind of IKEA-grumptious.

I am just curious, as this has come up before, but the Jeans aren't angry. We know this, right?

Oh, and the worst: To Kill a Petty Bourgeoisie

I still haven't bothered with Unsane even though I think I might like them.

I Love You But I've Chosen Darkness

― henry s, Wednesday, April 15, 2009 1:16 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

This can't be real. o.o

I can't even bring myself to google that.

i have no interest in them at all, but

someone still loves you boris yeltsin

has got to be among the worst names ever

― i like to fart and i am crazy (gbx), Tuesday, April 14, 2009 5:27 PM (4 hours ago) Bookmark

posters you've written off because of their name...

(j/k)

^i am glad i checkout out SSLYBY but yeah fuck that really is one of the worst names of all time

checked out

condo fucks (how could one of my fave bands who have a decent name call their last project like that, my esteem for them has definitely decreased after that.)

...and you will know us by the trail of dead (most ridiculuos name ever? the three dots in the beginning are the top of the icing. never really listened to them)

The Strange Fruit Project
any the ______ project, really

henry cow, fad gadget

i dismissed death cab for cutie on the basis id assumed they were another landfill emo band. I then was convinced by a friend who i usually trust on these matters to investigate their music. At which point I dismissed then for being a load of old smug wet toss.

At the moment loads of germans making perfectly good house music are causing dance musics collective skin to crawl over their need to stick 'motor city detroit deep afro soul' minstrel crap in their names

I missed out on mclusky for years, because I convinced myself they sounded like Hefner. Who I have never knowingly heard because of their name.

Terje Rypdal, Shaham Hagai, Nejad Rastegar Nasser, Barrington Levy, Isung Yun, Josek Suk (clearly suks), Professor Longhair (damn hippies), Dr John (get back in the surgery), Peter Tosh (clearly tosh), Sofia Gubaidulina (too close to Gobbolino). Man, racism is hard.

jefre cantu ledesma

condo fucks (how could one of my fave bands who have a decent name call their last project like that, my esteem for them has definitely decreased after that.)

- Fuck Buttons
- Holy Fuck
- Fucked Up (although this uncited anecdote on their wikipedia page is amusing: "Zucker was replaced as frontman after missing several crucial shows while in jail for punching a Toronto police officer who had stolen a ham sandwich from him")
- I guess I just don't like band names with fuck in them, okay? although I'm oddly indifferent to Anal Cunt.
- Fountains of Wayne (compounded by the fact they're responsible for that horrible Stacey's Mom song)
- The Boy Least Likely To

Some of the ones listed that I've heard — My Morning Jacket, Cute is What We Aim For, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, You Say Party! We Say Die!, and Minus the Bear — I thought lived up to the awfulness of their names.

jefre cantu ledesma

no big loss as far as i can tell, his ep on static caravan is the most boring thing they've ever put out

chris brown.

i went to school with a guy called chris brown.

it's not a name that really 'pops', is it?

micah blue smaldone

i think i'm just jealous that i didn't have rich hippie parents.

"condo fucks (how could one of my fave bands who have a decent name call their last project like that, my esteem for them has definitely decreased after that.)"

this is all part of the joke, no?

all band names suck, people should just record themselves under their real names, or even better, some kind of identifying number

Death Cab For Cutie (even finding out about the Bonzo Dog link doesn't appeal)
Modest Mouse
Fuck Buttons
Holy Fuck
Crystal Castles

Various solo artists with really dull names, so dull I can't recall them.

http://www.the-fly.co.uk/upload/images/album_reviews/Joe-Lean-And-The-Jing-Jang-.jpg

Hefner were better than McClusky- both very good, too. Bad and rather misleading names.

I always thought Nirvana was a terrible name, given their approach, and given that there were a ton of bands in their greater scene that were far more mind-manifesting (Soundgarden, Sonic Youth, Loop)

Hefner were a terrible band.

You know, I never bothered listening to Hefner or McClusky, and the names were a big part of that.

xpost re artists performing under their own dull names - I get over this, but initially, my reaction tends to be "What, you just couldn't be bothered going to the trouble?"

A Place To Bury Strangers

oooh...I'm so scared!

Pantytec

yeah condo fucks makes me lol

if i could punch a name, cute is what we aim for & i love you but chosen darkness would be those names

Mclusky not McClusky

the bee AY tles

In addition to My Morning Jacket, My Brightest Diamond.

I thought A Place to Bury Strangers were a screamo/nu-hardcore band for the longest time.

I'm sure someone's mentioned them already but Dogs Die in Hot Cars

Clap Your Hands Say Yeah used to piss me off (i.e. "You're for getting an ampersand!!!")

forgettin'

I've seen them live (they were good) and got a record (not as good) but ever time I try to tell someone about Raccoo-ooo-oon I feel like a total dipshit. So them.

^

Oh, and the worst: To Kill a Petty Bourgeoisie

OTM!

The Crystal Method

ooooh, a drug reference...how cool!

Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly.

^^^so bad it's worth multiple mentions

Oooh, didn't see that one.

On! Air! Library! Especially bad because "On Air Library" wouldn't be a bad band name at all.

Oh, and the worst: To Kill a Petty Bourgeoisie

― grandavis, Wednesday, April 15, 2009 2:47 AM (12 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

ah this bums me out....anyway i know all of them and can only say they are great, super duper people and you are missing some great music.

"Oh, and the worst: To Kill a Petty Bourgeoisie"

Sorry, I like a lot of stuff on Kranky, and a lot of bands with questionable names, but just can't make it past this one. Immediately rings an alarm, like someone wearing Keds. Certainly as much my problem as theirs.

Cute is what we aim for

Forgot that one! Now thanks to ILX I think of them as - one of those bands with some kind of shitty Cuddlestein Mountain names.

Banjo or Freakout
AIDS Wolf
Gay Against You

Psychedelic Horseshit.

Natalie Portman's Shaven Head
Dananananaykord

I can't believe some of these bands are real.

AIDS Wolf has this on lock

Cute is what we aim for

arent they just some warped tour emo band? those seem like they should be exempted from this thread due to their uniformity wrt terrible names

Nobody's brought up all the ska bands with some ska-related term in their names or metal bands with highly genre-specific type names. Probably because those that write off/pointedly ignore those names also write off/pointedly ignore those genres.

AIDS Wolf has this on lock

― Neotropical pygmy squirrel, Wednesday, 15 April 2009 20:52 (16 minutes ago) Bookmark

Just heard of them on another thread: the Babys.

just listened to a song by psychedelic horseshit. it sounded exactly like that.

Art Brut
Man Man
!!!

... and anything else that screams tone deaf 20-year old with a beard.

Unnecessary punctuation is a recurring theme. I mean, who names a band

Boats!

with an exclamation mark? I mean, you might as well call your band "we'reabunchoffucktardsobv".

If I recall there was a band named "Up Up Down Down Left Right Left Right B A Start" or whatever that Nintendo cheat was. Owch! And the title of their album was "Worst Band Name Ever," which self-awareness did not exonerate them.

I can't believe some of these bands are real.

When I was in high school we were bored and playing "outdo each other listing obscure bands" and the nerdiest loner guy came up with "People with Chairs up their Noses" and we roundly mocked him for making shit up.

And then later I found out that was a real band :|

To this day I lose sleep, wondering how much our mockery shaped that lonely young man's future ;_;

lol i have some of their tracks. they're crap.

I always wondered what they were like. Were they a sort of Mr Floppy novelty punk mob or something?

novelty postpunk in a makers of the dead travel fast but not nearly as good sort of vein

Does It Offend You, Yeah?

When I found out a band called itself "Stars of Track and Field," I laughed smugly, and thought, "That's a shitty name for a band. Who would name themselves after a Belle & Sebastian song... Shouldn't the name-influencing band at least be long dead and gone and/or legendary in some respect?" Then I realized JUST EXACTLY HOW SHITTY THAT BAND NAME WAS, and my music reviewer co-worker and I ritually destroyed the review copy of the CD. We're talking scratching, biting, ripping, breaking and eventually setting on fire. Then they sent us four more review copies. I think one died by paper shredder.

woods - saw them hyped in the metro this morning, immediately irritated by lack of definite article (DON'T TRY IT unless you're swans or boredoms)

As much as I love the band, I cringe every time I see the name Working For A Nuclear Free City

Fra Lippo Lippi

UNTIL TONIGHT!

Orion Rigel Dommisse

AIDS Wolf is a good example. I was bored with "Aren't we daringly un-PC" names and/or packaging by the early nineties.

Does It Offend You, Yeah?

Yeah sorry these guys could be the second coming of whatever and I wouldnt bother with a name that shite.

Fra Lippo Lippi

UNTIL TONIGHT!

― GÖTT DAT SCHING (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Thursday, 16 April 2009 10:06 (3 hours ago) Bookmark

dude that is anything but an awful band name, anyone getting their Robert Browning on has gotta have some class

Any act whose artist name starts with "MC" (capital letters - "Mc" is OK)

http://www.agnesscott.edu/LRiddle/women/abstracts/schatt/schatt_cover.jpg

Fra Lippo Lippi

UNTIL TONIGHT!

― GÖTT DAT SCHING (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Thursday, 16 April 2009 10:06 (3 hours ago) Bookmark

dude that is anything but an awful band name, anyone getting their Robert Browning on has gotta have some class

Browning's great, as is that poem specifically, but using it as a band name? Brrr.

Why?

I actually don't mind AIDS Wolf, cuz it seems kind of goofy and harmless

also: Wavves or Wavvves or whatever the fuck it is. every time I see it written my brain turns off my and my fingers instinctively ctrl-W.

you guys are missing out if if you don't listen to Fuck Buttons

Project Jenny Project Jan

Toxic Airborne Event
Monotonix
Die!Die!Die!

Susan Boyle

Any act whose artist name starts with "MC"

If this doesn't prompt a Marcello comeback it'll have to be that woman off Britain's Got Talent.

Fuck Buttons

++

"Look at me, mom! Look at me! You're not looking!"

I kind of like "Fuck Buttons." It sounds like it should be a spoonerism of something harmless, and you despoonerize it and it turns into "Butt Fuckins."

no it's Buck Futtons, 50s Hamptons comic.

Fuck Buttons and Holy Fuck are both good but would be more likeable with less earnest names. The Slugfuckers and The Fuck Fucks are not necessarily good but the names are amusing. Fucked Up are lame and the name is terrible.

!!!

What a willfully irritating name.

Great name, good band!

just became aware of a band called: Forth Yeer Freshman

just saw a show listing for something called 'The Rape featuring Cubbiebear'

o_O

Context counts for a lot. I wouldn't normally cross the street to see a band called The Diarrhea of Anne Frank, but I was willing to give them a shot since they were opening for the Jesus Lizard.

Five words:
Does it offend you, yeah?

I should also add that Fucked Up were awesome when I saw them live.... record kinda failed to capture the visceral experience of a huge man throwing himself at you to some tunes that could have been The Dicks in their heyday.

I really hope there is a messageboard for real ale enthusiasts w/ a thread about beers they were put off drinking because of the stupid name

Hoobastank
G Love & Special Sauce
String Cheese Incident

Is there a band called o_O ?

!!!

Killing Joke

― Mr. Que, Tuesday, April 14, 2009 3:06 PM

The New Dylans

iLiKETRAiNS.

Add: Raccoo-oo-oon, Wildildlife,

Test Icicles.

Dogs Die in Hot Cars

In addition to My Morning Jacket, My Brightest Diamond.

Don't forget about Lavender Diamond...

My Brightest Diamond, My Chemical Romance, my word, these are shite names!

also: Say Hi To Your Mom, Bright Eyes, Her Space Holiday

stop it with the cute-ums!

The I Didnt Read the Threads.

Gay For Johnny Depp

But seriously, if we're talking about annoying names, let he who is without sin and all that, you know?

Gandalf

On that note "Spock's Beard" is pretty intensely awful.

Van Dyke Parks would be an awful name for a band but it's an OK name for a person.

jesca hoop

this band (their explanation of their name is possibly even more annoying than their name):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margot_&_The_Nuclear_So_and_So%27s

haha, just saw the two previous references to them

Pocahaunted.

All the ones at the top of the charts on last.fm. I refuse to give them one dollar of my money!

A Tribe Called Quest used to bug me (as a name). But their first couple of albums are damn great, so I got over it.

Smif n Wessun

casiotone for the painfully alone

Gorky's Zygotic Mynci

Maybe we need to have a T/S thread about who is more annoying - Margot et al. vs. AIDS Wolf

Gorky's OTM. Was thinking about that today when "Desolation Blues" came up on shuffle.

Pains Of Being Pure At Heart better be DAMN good...

"Natalie Portman's Shaved Head" is one of the worst band names ever. Hoobastank is up there too though.

any band name with 'stank', 'scent', 'smell' or the like will put me off immediately. same for any songs with those words in the title

Animal Collective made me think of hippie jam bands where the musicians have power animals.

well that is pretty accurate

Made out of babies always sorta creeped me out..

Is there a band called o_O ?

Back in the days of IDM there was an unsigned artist on a record label I sort of ran, who called himself Cell but also ran under a range of pseudonyms including Cel, Sell, Sel etc. but I also remember him using o_O on some of his tracks, which is where I first saw that flavour smiley. His stuff was really good and I remember Aphex Twin being interested in signing him to Rephlex but Cell didn't believe it was really RDJ and told him to fuck off.

Yeah, Animal Collective puts me off. As does A.R.E. Weapons -- who are laughable anyway, so it's a lose-lose situation, really.

LMFAO

http://www.interscope.com/images/artist/lmfao.jpg

apt name because i did just lmfao looking at that picture.

a friend reminded me of another one:

Brightblack Morning Light - the reason why I've pointedly written off/ignored Black Moth Superrainbow - because their name sounds like Brightblack Morning Light.

Funki Porcini

johnny foreigner.. but i finally heard some and it not bad

this applied to the Arctic Monkeys before I heard them. great bands should not have a shit name, it's confusing.

I'm A Fucking Gymnist

Or rather, I'm A Fucking Gymnast, since I can't spell.

Best Kissers In The World
She Wants Revenge

Thighpaulsandra

Killing Joke

― Mr. Que, Wednesday, April 15, 2009 5:06 AM (1 month ago)

I know, right?

That name sounds so goth.

Prefab Sprout

I was about to say Deja Voodo but I've actually heard them.

Deja Voodoo, though. Man.

I actually like that, in a trashy garage-punk way.

This cunt: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Offenbach

Obviously just ripping off JSB's style and name.

Thighpaulsandra

Yes, that name is terrible

Ducktails

ppl don't understand that "pure at heart" means something different than "pure of heart"?

I've definitely written off Ducktails even though my friends swear by them

Also, I cannot bring myself to listen to something called CAGE THE ELEPHANT

Jimmy Eat World (saw it on someone's end of the decade list)

Oingo Boingo

ppl don't understand that "pure at heart" means something different than "pure of heart"?

Pure at heart = 'underneath all the evil, he's actually a nice bloke'

Pure of heart = 'doesn't drink,smoke,swear, and spends all his spare time reading the bible'

or something like that.

for a long time i did not give radiohead a chance. partly due to their ridiculous name, partly due to the hype, partly due to thom yorke's voice. from amnesiac on i listened to their music.

with coldplay though everything is in harmony. a stupid name, a shitty voice, empty lyrics which seem to be written by a robot. plus boring music which isn't worth commenting on.

sorry for reposting the same shit again.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v165/noodle_vague/aviano.jpg

What's ridiculous about the name Radiohead? Or Coldplay for that matter.

Now Spoon, that's a stupid name for a band.

Not for a shit band.

There have been occasions where bands have gone "ah, we're a bit shit, let's give ourselves a stupid name" and then for some reason get sudden success.

Farmer's Boys, e.g.

What's ridiculous about the name Radiohead? Or Coldplay for that matter.

Also, I cannot bring myself to listen to something called CAGE THE ELEPHANT

Don't worry. From what I've heard you're not missing anything.

casiotone for the painfully alone

― billstevejim, Sunday, April 19, 2009 10:33 PM (1 month ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

there's no way a mind which thinks that's an acceptable band name could ever be anything other than 100% contemptible

casiotone for the painfully alone at least is ridiculous AND funny.

I swear I read someplace that said cold play is a "random sequencing" of any particular thing. Like...if radio DJ played an arbitrary shuffle of songs, "a cold play of Lilly Allen, AC/DC, etc etc..."

Can't recommend quoting me on that.

Pissed Jeans is pretty bad, but yeah, AIDS Wolf is not only the worst of all the Wolf names, but also the worst band name ever.

Um. Yeah if taking those names at face value is your stance then I guess so.

Coldplay are a hangover from the 90s school of Brit indie band naming ie - "make sure your band has a name with as few connotations as possible". See also Blur.

I think I prefer this to new-skool Google-friendly band names.

but coldplay is about the most google-friendly name imaginable. or do you think you will find one page with coldplay on it where it doesn't stand for the band?

I always liked the supposed origins of the name AIDS Wolf (IIRC an urban myth about rabid wolves wandering into big cities and transmitting AIDS) but got the impression with the band, especially after limited interaction with them, that they were more the type who'd be mouthing "that's right, we went there" after telling you their name

there's no way a mind which thinks that's an acceptable band name could ever be anything other than 100% contemptible

Met this dude at a party a few months ago. Haven't heard the music, but he seemed like a nice guy.

cruiserweight. as it turns out they're a pretty dope little poppy punk band.

Um. Yeah if taking those names at face value is your stance then I guess so.

Understanding the backstory to AIDS Wolf's name makes it only marginally more tolerable. My reaction to these is slightly mysterious I suppose, as I don't have any problem with Dead Kennedies, which is pretty offensive. I think DJ Mencap has nailed it though.

Met this dude at a party a few months ago. Haven't heard the music, but he seemed like a nice guy.

He is a nice guy, he and my sis used to work together in SF and I've chatted with him a few times.

AIDS Wolf are actually pretty cool people.

Saw Casiotone for the Painfully Alone in a basement in Mid-Missouri and I liked it. Not buying any records any time soon.

"Here We Go Magic" is a band name?

There was some really lazy student journalism on display when the band Cave played in town a few weeks ago (a band that formed in this town and that anyone with any kind of relationship to the local music scene could have made a comment on) and the blurb in the back of the paper just said "I can't google this band but someone told me they were worth seeing so I guess you should go." The price I pay for living in a town with an unusually high student journalism population.

student journalisT pop.

if i was writing a live show calender full of silly soundbytes i would not be ashamed at all to write that about a band with a googleproof one-word name. i dunno if the blurbs in that particular paper are more factual/serious as a rule, though.

Guess I was just butthurt cuz I used to be in the band, lol.

haha

i think it's a pretty dumb blurb

What's ridiculous about the name Radiohead?

― Tits Bramble (Matt DC), Wednesday, May 27, 2009 6:02 AM (9 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

^Mind is blown that this is a real post.

http://images-2.redbubble.net/img/clothing/backgroundcolor:fafafa/bodycolor:black/size:large/style:mens/view:preview/2366845-2-radio-head.jpg

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_URQk0RHUOnI/Rw6NcEei3KI/AAAAAAAAABA/st6CPIg0dOg/s320/MrClockRadioHead2.jpg

http://rlv.zcache.com/radio_head_black_tshirt-p235508424022122957yzs4_400.jpg

https://thumbtackpress.com/browse/images/bobdob0003.jpg

It was a terrible name for a SONG

Terrible? Seriously?? It just sort of sits there not drawing attention to itself imo.

there's no way a mind which thinks that's an acceptable band name could ever be anything other than 100% contemptible.

awww this is so wrong - its ridiculous and funny and, most importantly, accurately encapsulates the music (which, at least at the outset) was this very lovingly constructed miserablist/minimalist keyboard pop (composed and performed solely on cheap keyboards). I love Owen, good guy.

Yeah, I never took offense to that name. It seems appropriately self-effacing and accurate.

Another one I could never bring myself to listen to, but not just because of the name - the covers were pretty dire too: Dayglo Abortions.

x-posts Yes to Shakey re: CftPA

I really like the one Casiotone album I own a lot and he was charmingly awkward and funny when I saw him a couple years ago. I don't know how anyone could hear that name and not realize that it's v funny.

hearing or seeing the band plays into your opinion - I thought "I love you but I've chosen darkness" was a really funny band name until I discovered they had no sense of humor

' I thought "I love you but I've chosen darkness" was a really funny band name until I discovered they had no sense of humor'
this made me laugh so perhaps you should forgive them their horrible earnestness?

re: CFTPA

I also always loved how he consistently referred to CFTPA as a "band" onstage, in the plural, etc. even tho it was just one guy. ("Hi we're Casiotone for the Painfully Alone. This song is called "Casiotone for the Painfully Alone Joins the Foreign Legion".)

Anal Cunt & Does It Offend You, Yeah? FTW. Haha, kinda two sides to the same coin, methinks.

Margot & The Nuclear So-And-So's is not only ridiculous but half-assed at the same time.

Anal Cunt & Does It Offend You, Yeah?

now that is a band name we could all get behind!...2 wrongs make a right?

Guess I was just butthurt cuz I used to be in the band, lol.

really? GREAT band..

no, trip, you're totally right. go cave!

Anal Cunt is totally appropriate for the music though.

Radiohead is one of those names that you've spent enough time around to not even really consider. Actually thinking about it though, yeah, it's pretty lame. Definitely retains a whiff of the 90's.

I still kind of wish Eyehategod was just called I Hate God. That's a name.

i listened to clouddead once despite the pseudo name. i regretted it. negative bonus points for the annoying spelling: cLOUDDEAD, wtf.

Carissa's Wierd

milk teddy

Nipsey Hussle

Nipsey Hussle

― nu bay deejoning (some dude), Wednesday, April 14, 2010 8:22 PM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Muse

I don't have any idea whether ...And You WIll Know Us By The Trail Of Our Dead is actually worth contemplating at all but their name really irks me. Way too many words to say very little.

One more vote for Casiotone... actually being a decent act though. Never met the guy. His music seems sincere enough.

Pretty much any band name that begins with an ellipsis isn't going to sit well with me.

Casiotone does have that cleverness ingredient that irks so many people. Yet I like the name.

Architecture in Helsinki is silly, and slightly condescending, like Helsinki is exotic, no? There's a worse one along these lines, although noone has heard of them: Village of Savoonga. Dude, it's a little village up in Alaska!!

Gayngs

vIborg you added a word, and either way most people just say "Trail of Dead," if that helps.

Sure it does, I think it was actually the implication of "our dead" that I misinterpreted which was really bugging me. Thanks for clarifying...reading up on them they sound half-decent - maybe I'll give them a shot after I clear a couple hundred songs out of my New folder.

joy orbison

Music Go Music
The Music

stupid names

fuck i hate the name 'music go music'

awful music they make those guys

yeah, horrible name

vlborg, I'd go with the first three albums. Beyond that they sound like a lesser band trying really hard to imitate themselves. Some people really enjoy that stuff though.

Does It Offend You, Yeah?

nope, too busy Clapping My Hands

Of Montreal has always irked me.

Casitone is thinking of changing his name. Tried to dissuade him, or else he should change it to a past album title: "Vs. Children" or "Advance Base Battery Life" or even go with the acronym CFTPA, which he shares with the Canadian Film and Television Producers Association.

The The

dan le sac vs Scroobius Pip

All the "wolves", "dears", "bears" and pretty much every other animal that lives in the forest. Also anything that starts with "My" (yes, that includes My Bloody Valentine).

pedro the lion

fuckbuttons

actually, basically every band of the last 10 years

We Have Band
The Stands (lots of other The bands)
Noah & The Whale

I'm disappointed there isn't more wildly irrational writing off of people because of their real name. I sure didn't have to hear Jack Johnson before deciding that his music was boring.

AIDS Wolf are actually pretty cool people.

But actually I'm kind of a hypocrite in this area. I love Wolf Eyes and AIDS Wolf, but I've got no interest in ever hearing Wolf Parade b/c they've got a stupid name, but then didn't they come out around the same time as Mice Parade?

http://www.billboard.com/news/you-say-party-drummer-dies-aged-30-1004084044.story?tag=hpfeed#/news/you-say-party-drummer-dies-aged-30-1004084044.story?tag=hpfeed

Devon Clifford, the drummer of Canadian alt-rock act You Say Party! We Say Die!, has died aged 30.

He collapsed during the band's Vancouver show at the Rickshaw Theatre venue on Friday (April 16).

Singer Becky Ninkovic reportedly asked fans at the gig to call 911 after he collapsed. He underwent emergency surgery for a brain haemorrhage, but died April 18.

The band's record label Paper Bag has posted a statement from his family online:

YSPWSD's Devon Clifford experienced a massive brain haemorrhage resulting from congenital defects while on stage in Vancouver on Friday night and fell into a coma. A surgery was performed but sadly doctors were unable to save his life. He was 30.

Devon Clifford was an extremely gifted drummer and determined character. He loved his family, loved his band, loved traveling, loved being on stage and loved meeting people around the world. He was smart, witty, passionate, and music meant everything to him. He was also incredibly generous with his love and respected everybody he came into contact with. This was underlined by his work with the under privileged at the Portland Hotel Society.

The Clifford family would like to take this opportunity to remind young people to have the courage to follow their dreams like Devon did.

The family would also like to take this opportunity to thank everybody around the world for their kind words and stories about how Devon impacted their lives.

The band also paid tribute to their drummer via Twitter. Their post simply said: "DEVON CLIFFORD 1979 - 2010 R.I.P."

This seems to be the place they were talked about most on ILM. Did anyone ever end up giving them a chance?

Carissa's Wierd

OTM. What offends me most is the misspelling. Inexcusable, whether they realize it's wrong or not.

Also, Ducktails and Killswitch Engage.

have new respect for their name given the guy's commitment to it

Ducktails
Box Elders
Beachwood Sparks
Silversun Pickups
Explosions In The Sky
...And So I Watch You From Afar
and loads of local bands with effete names akin to the last two

Mr Bungle

Gas

(joke, but it's true I've never checked them out)

They're rlly rlly great.

It's some sort of Matthew Herbert fart sample electronica? ; )

It's a Wolfgang Voigt ambient project. Arguably his best.

cant believe "Gay Witch Abortion" hasnt shown up on this thread yet

A trusted friend has highly recommended We Were Promised Jetpacks, but I mean come on.

steely dan

Deerhoof

This seems to be the place they were talked about most on ILM. Did anyone ever end up giving them a chance?

― kingkongvsgodzilla, Monday, 19 April 2010 13:27 (1 week ago) Permalink

Yeah, the Canadian indie press and the whole Canadian indie culture looooove YSPWSD!. Poppy indie-rock with chicks in the band? Hello, welcome to Canada. And of course additional outpourings of appreciation over the last couple of weeks. A buddy of mine who is normally a drum'n'bass/mashup DJ who is formelly on the record as being ultra-suspicious of anthing resembling a "band" called me last night to tell me he's doing a 2 hour show dedicated to them. I was like "cool", thinking "wtf?".

Wolfgang Voigt

(sorry)

Girl Talk
Girls Aloud
Brazillian Girls
Everything But the Girl

(wow girl does not look like a word that's in the English language to me now)

what's your problem with girls?

cant believe "Gay Witch Abortion" hasnt shown up on this thread yet

can't believe you don't think 95% of the ILX posts that mention Gay Witch Abortion were written by you

mainly cooties
xp

jay electronica

Gucci Mane

xp: I'm having trouble (not ungooglable trouble, mind you) convincing myself that that's even real.

jay electronica

dear christ

would totally check out an artist called Dear Christ

After reading his wikipedia page, I'm totally going to check him out, but that name...

jay electronica - exhibit c

huge hit amongst rap dinosaur types

Besnard Lakes

for some reason my brain chunks those word shapes and letterforms into Barenaked Ladies

Does It Offend You, Yeah?

nope, too busy Clapping My Hands

I lol'd.

Male Bonding.

HI DERE I AM A "TAME IMPALA"

http://creagrus.home.montereybay.com/Impala-MblfcHdOn-21Jy05Et-w.jpg

Casitone is thinking of changing his name. Tried to dissuade him, or else he should change it to a past album title: "Vs. Children" or "Advance Base Battery Life" or even go with the acronym CFTPA, which he shares with the Canadian Film and Television Producers Association.

― Miracles (acoustic version) (Ówen P.), Thursday, April 15, 2010 6:26 AM (1 month ago) Bookmark

Is this guy actually Owen Ashworth?

MSTRKRFT

lol Pissed Jeans.

Seconding "bands that use thee instead of the."

Also, until very recently: Hot Tuna.

Lali Puna

wanna be a balla, shot calla, twenty-inch blades on Tame Impala

I avoided the English Dogs for a long time because I thought they'd be a dodgy right wing Oi band, and not actually a pretty decent GBH-style punk band (not so keen on their later crossover thrash period though)

The Beatles (I mean, not really but it is an awful name. The pun sucks.) Splodginess Abounds, à;GRUMH..., When People Were Shorter And Lived Near The Water, My Cat Is An Alien, Dumpy's Rusty Nuts, Circle Of Dead Children, Urban Dance Squad.

Is this guy actually Owen Ashworth?

Pallett iirc.

wanna be a balla, shot calla, twenty-inch blades on Tame Impala

^ huge lol irl ^

neon indian

rufus wainright

that's rufus's dad's fault though -- and loudon is a pretty odd name too.

or at least very old-school WASP sounding. almost "charles emerson winchester III, folksinger"

HI DERE I AM A "TAME IMPALA"

[image removed]

― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor)

calling my next project Contemplative Ostrich

Child Abuse, anyone?

Whenever I think about Tame Impala now, I always get mild lols with Ilxor's pic post in my head.

Umphrey's McGee seconded, if it's been mentioned. If not, shame on all y'all.

A+

xp

Dipping into the Jam Band pool is too easy. Endless thread, endless, e.g.: Disco Biscuits.

RATATAT

Child Abuse is a great band, but then I also like AIDS Wolf, so ...

yeah yeah yeahs is a great band name, except for when you have to say it aloud

― congratulations (n/a), Tuesday, 14 April 2009 20:59 (1 year ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

exactly, you sound like scooby doo

Emmy the Great. Give me a fuckin' break.

she's pretty good tho

well she shoulda called herself Emmy the Pretty Good then

Alan Pownall.

"Alan", in 2010.

Wouldn't it have been better if he'd spelt it "Pwnall"?

bands who are dead egdy with the eff word in their names mummy why are the songs just not there

i've written myself off from time to time

Fucked Up. Which, as I've today discovered, was a mistake.

Blechtum from Blechdom

skinny puppy

"oOoOOo" is the worst band name I've ever seen.

Pinback

Child Abuse, anyone?

― anagram, Wednesday, June 30, 2010 1:36 AM

Isn't there a band called Child Pornography? I thought I read that here in these forums but maybe not. Talk about a name you DO NOT want to google!

yes there is - it is actually one guy - and he is a friend of mine & table is the table, actually.

http://www.blogcdn.com/www.urlesque.com/media/2010/07/pedestrian---2.jpg

Das Racist
Die Antwoord

UH. Was just coming to post Umphrey's McGee, saw I was beaten by only days. I was already predisposed towards writing them off as a jam band, though.

But I will also offer up Ekoostik Hookah. I mean...jesus christ, come on.

Discovered my brother feels this way about Real Estate.
Can't say I blame him.

Another vote for Emmy The Great. Imagine choosing that moniker, fucking hell

When I was a teen, I thought "Sonic Youth" sounded pretentious and stupid, so I struck them off the list. They never made it back on.

I thought "Sonic Youth" sounded pretentious

You were correct.

By the way, I now love Pissed Jeans.

Die Antwoord

because it's foreign, or because you don't like it in translation?

my bloody valentine

for obvious reasons. it torments me when somebody asks what my favorite band is and i have to reply with the automatic assumption that they've categorized me into the emoverse.

Best Coast

You're missing out with Best coast because they are dynamite!!!!

Tindersticks

Japancakes

I am pleased that Alex in NYC is now a fan of Pissed Jeans.
They kick a lot of ass.

You're missing out with Best coast because they are dynamite!!!!

But their name is terrible!

Shakatak
Methadrone
We Are Scientists
Birchville Cat Motel
Volcano the Bear
Black Tape for a Blue Girl
Guitar Wolf

Shakatak and Guitar Wolf are dope imo.

Birchville Cat Motel well worth your time.

Die Antwoord

because it's foreign, or because you don't like it in translation?

Because it looks really stupid, phonetically, at first glance.

Black Tape for a Blue Girl

I love this band name, although I've never heard the band.

Excuses for Skipping

Any band I have written off bcz of their name is the type of band I would actively have to search out myself to hear, anyway. ie: Monsoon Bassoon, who are never on the radio, and who no one I know listens to.

Donkey Punch

There is a band playing at my friend's underground festival this weekend called TURD THROWER.
Pretty sure I am missing that day, anyway.

Doesn't sound like something you'd want to catch, that's for sure.

TURD THROWER.

Bahahahaha

GG Allin tribute band?

Any act whose name has the word "fuck" or "shit" in it. I'm too old for that type of "edginess".

Any act whose name has more than four words. "I just bought the new album by I Love You But My Panda Is Gay" is not a sentence I ever want to say out loud.

LOL! I would totally be in a joke band called I Love You But My Panda Is Gay.

A friend recommended me a band called Volapük but I can't listen to them because every time I read it I think "vomit puke".

Which reminds me: Vomit Launch

Vomit Launch are a great band!

Maybe they are but y'know

Big "a-doy" one that I'm shocked hasn't wound up here yet: Limp Bizkit.

There are plenty of other, more credible reasons to write off Limp Bizkit.

But the name is a pretty adequate map of the territory, you have to admit.

Touché.

Hurrah for Alex' Pissed Jeans loving.

For me, they reignited that whole Flipper, Fang, Killdozer flame with their debut. Their second one was, erm, toilet but "King of Jeans" nails it.

Hilarious existential sarcasm.

Would love to see them live. Any good?

new reviews at Onion's AV club:

Music

* Carissa's Wierd A
* The Innocence Mission B+
* Danger Mouse And Sparklehorse B-
* School Of Seven Bells C

"Danger Mouse and Sparklehorse" sounds like an 80s Saturday morning cartoon.

I think Volapük is a decent band name, at least if you know what "volapük" is.

tUnE yArDs -- it's so "I am experimental just like those Dirty Projectors you've been reading about in New York Magazine, hence I have wAcKy cApS!"

I look at that band name and my mind automatically skips over the "UnE y" part

hahaha

Turd Thrower turned out to be Lightning Bolt.
Pleasantly surprised.

I think Volapük is a decent band name, at least if you know what "volapük" is.

Just looked it up. That is pretty interesting.

Ozric Tentacles.
Spyro Gyra.
Keel.
Enuff Z'nuff.
Fattburger.

tUnE yArDs took the cake for me. also any "female name" "and the" "quirky object" theme: marina and the diamonds, florence and the machine, etc.

Bunnygrunt

Drunkdriver.

Rilo Kiley

SPOTLIGHT::
Who Are...Mountain Man

File Under: Harmonic Appalachian folk
For Fans Of: Fleet Foxes, Grizzly Bear, Joni Mitchell
Personae: Molly Sarle, Alexandra Sauser-Monnig and
http://www.emusic.com/proxy/20100719-142025/eMusic/content/feature/spotlight/s2010/s2010_201007-wa-mountain-man/emu%3AsubjectImage.jpg

Never have I been so sure that I did not want to hear a band.

is it because of the rainbow?

curren$y

Sounds exactly like I expected too -- three girls from a Vassar College acapella group discover Gillian Welch and their parents' copy of Anthology of American Folk Music, decide to make a record.

Fyfe Dangerfield

you are missing nothing

Hurrah for Alex' Pissed Jeans loving.

For me, they reignited that whole Flipper, Fang, Killdozer flame with their debut. Their second one was, erm, toilet but "King of Jeans" nails it.

Hilarious existential sarcasm.

Would love to see them live. Any good?

― Fer Jessie the Drunk Dutch Mountain Ark (Mobbed Up Ping Pong Psychos), Thursday, July 15, 2010 6:49 PM (1 month ago) Bookmark

they used to be good! havent seen em since between the first and second records, but they were good then. i didnt love the second LP either, after feeling just ^^ this way about the first. maybe i should check out KoJ?

Vampire Weekend. unless they are the best band of all time, i probably just won't bother.

Meat Puppets

Toddla T

oh no! oh my!

Floetry

creedence clearwater revival, what the fuck is that all about?

creedence clearwater revival, what the fuck is that all about?

It's better than their previous name!

^ Jesus Christ, yes x 100000000000000000

Apparently there's a a band called "Rapeman", inspired by a manga of the same name. Can't imagine ever buying their records (or the manga, for that matter).

If you were into the Wax Trax scene of the 80s & 90s, you owned those Rapeman EPs.

Tuomas, they were Steve Albini's next band after Big Black split up. It was quite a controversial name at the time, or at least it was a bit of an issue when they visited the UK. I went to see them at Leeds Polytechnic and iirc, that gig only just went ahead after threats by the student union to pull it. Outside the venue there was a sizeable student protest and Albini did have to answer questions about the name in every single interview that I ever read. Was never all that comfortable about the name myself tbh and mostly went to the show on account of the other two groups on the bill (Band of Susans and Dinosaur Jr.).

If you were into the Wax Trax scene of the 80s & 90s, you owned those Rapeman EPs.

yeah, it's true. those dudes copped all their good ideas from the first few big black records.

but christ, "rapeman". tried to be okay with the name, still love the records, but christ.

lol @ CCR

Outside the venue there was a sizeable student protest and Albini did have to answer questions about the name in every single interview that I ever read.

Interesting, what was his justification for the name then?

so many already mentioned above. floetry ffs. kill: rapeman, tUnE yArDs, carissa's wierd, eyehategod, clap your hands say yeah, toad the wet sprocket, the pains of being pure at heart, gastunk, fuck buttons (who i love despite their awful awful name), uh huh her, cunninglynguists, racoo-oo-oon, someone still loves you boris yeltsin, on! air! library!, aids wolf, natalie portman's shaved head, cute is what we aim for, dananananakroyd, does it offend you, yeah?, hoobastank, pocahaunted, gorky's zygotic mynci, casiotone for the painfully alone, ...and you will know us by the trail of dead, dan le sac vs scroobius pip, gay witch abortion, umphrey's mcgee, my cat is an alien, oOoOOo, you say party! we say die onstage!, limp bizkit

also kill some more:

flobots
my chemical romance
sixpence none the richer
save ferris
gogogo airheart
poopshovel
basically any contemporary band with a name evoking hazy summer memories

somebody mentioned black tape for a blue girl. really? always thought that was a lovely name. never heard the band.

IIRC it was just some stuff about how it was solely a reference to the manga strip, and how bizarre that strip was, and that the name wasn't really a big deal for them. xp

haha @ poopshovel btw

rapeman is a great name, what is wrong with you?

black tape for a blue girl are a pretty horrible band I gotta say

http://i274.photobucket.com/albums/jj242/donaldparsley/poopshovel.jpg

"Some things hurt more, much more than Cars and Skateboards"

yes, things such as poopshovels, apparently

http://c4.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images02/98/l_a841318405c34338b35d8f334259dba7.jpg

^ I think all the acts on Community 3 had terrible names

plus some of the ugliest record covers known to man. remember looking with confused disdain at chicken scratch and horny genius records many a time. never thought to listen to one. spent quite a while looking for opus lengthemus though.

btw, if harrison buttwhistle were a band, well, i'm just saying...

Horny Genius had this one single whose awful cover was a photo of a man holding a bbq-ed cat on a stick.

i am so glad i don't know what you're talking about

(please don't help me know)

For years, that picture was what I thought of whenever I wondered what Iowa was like.

somebody mentioned black tape for a blue girl. really? always thought that was a lovely name.

I dunno. I picture the black tape as something a rapeman would use.

all of the above... plus

If you were into the Wax Trax scene of the 80s & 90s, you owned those Rapeman EPs. - I just realized that earlier I had somehow confused Rapeman with Lard, the intermittent Al Jourgenson/ Jello Biafra collab. I do also recall Rapeman, though. I had the Budd EP at some point. Never really thought it held a candle to Albinis more noteworthy projects & did not investigate further. I think they only put out two or three other records anyway.

Delicate Steve

Steve Albini.

That's seasick steve, just having got off the boat at Dover?

Diddy

my bloody valentine

i finally heard Holy Fuck and they were pretty good

I always liked their name, but they're just kind of a neat instrumental combo, doesn't fit the name at all

the decemberists
mudhoney
soundgarden

Fucking tsarists, I don't know.

the decemberists

plenty other reasons to write off this band

Tones on Tail. What is this? Some kind of dog band?

It's something you would write on a master tape box, to indicate where the line-up tones are on the tape. But I agree it's a dumb name.

aFRAYED KNOTT
DOGEESESEEGOD
BALD KNOBBERS

Gotta love noise/exp alldayer lineups.

Planningtorock

Vintage Trouble

How to Dress Well

Planningtorock

completely otm

tUnE-YarDs

Chris Brown

can't tell if you're making a joke or genuinely don't understand this thread

How does "Master Musicians of Bukkake" not yet make it on this list? Ever ask your gf to go see them with you? You might as well ask her if she wants to go see "Your Pussy Stank"...

Gang Gang Dance.

^wish i had pointedly ignored them instead of actually putting myself through the misery of listening to them

u nuts, Saint Dymphna one of the best albums of the decade & new one is utterly fab

+ God's Money woooooow

I remember in the late 80's/early 90's hearing the name "Beat Happening" and thinking, what a horrible name for a band.

u nuts, Saint Dymphna one of the best albums of the decade & new one is utterly fab

quite happy to be considered all shades of insane for not agreeing with this in any way shape or form

not the thread for it tho i guess

I'm surprised no one's mentioned Bat For Lashes or whatever the fuck they're called.

can't tell if you're making a joke or genuinely don't understand this thread

jokez

Oneohtrix Point Never

NOOOOO, some dude... You're missing out. I get why it's irritating, but at least 106.7 is something resembling real. Personally, I can barely contain my homicidal rage at "Uh Huh Her" and "The Pains of Being Pure at Heart"...

not really a type of music i listen to a lot of so it's not like i'm willfully depriving myself -- i'm just saying holy shit what a terrible name

saw a guy today with a tshirt for (what i assume is a band called) "thine eyes bleed". I'll let you imagine the font.....

Norman Nodge

I saw a band t-shirt for a band called Vulvectomy today

New clitgaze duo

When Saints Go Machine

totally enormous extinct dinosaurs

their PR has been conscientiously updating me on this band for some years now and i just cannot

And So I Watch You From Afar

When Saints Go Machine is a horrible horrible name

It is supposed to be a pun isn't it?

It's not a very good one if so. I've hated having to say their name outloud (which I do on occasion if someone asks me for music recommendations).

Grizzly Bear.

Mwahaha

i blame the internet

xp - at least one of them used to be in a band called Ned. cool guy.

There's a band in Atlanta called Groove Stain, which is hilarious and the worst name I have ever heard for a band EVER.

Reptar

lol groove stain

Most unappealing band name I have heard in a long time:

Bushwick Book Club

Leftover Crack... I had no idea.

The Beatles - who wants to listen to insects?

When Saints Go Machine is a horrible horrible name

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It is supposed to be a pun isn't it?

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omg i just got what this pun is meant to be

i cannot

Girls

twenty | one | pilots

Dirty Projectors

or indeed any 'Dirty' band

Prefab Sprout

― anagram, Tuesday, May 19, 2009 7:00 AM (3 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Prefab Sprout just recently graduated from being an Artist I've Written Off/Pointedly Ignored Because of Their Name to an Artist I Play Around Other People With Great Trepidation Due To Fear That They Will Ask Me Who It Is and I Will Have To Say Their Name Out Loud.

Butthole Surfers

I remember an band called "Weeknd" placing in some ILM poll... The missing "e" irritates me so much I never want to listen to them.

alt-j (∆)

I remember an band called "Weeknd" placing in some ILM poll... The missing "e" irritates me so much I never want to listen to them.

Missing or superfluous letters automatically put bands on this list for me these days. Just tired of it already.

Like in Beatles maybe?

Nah, that happened before I got tired of it. ;)

Drive By Truckers

Missing or superfluous letters automatically put bands on this list for me these days. Just tired of it already.

It's so you can Google them isn't it?

That makes sense. But then there are newish bands with names that seem to have been chosen deliberately to defy Google (e.g. The Men, Girls) that still come up as the #1 search result when you search for their name + "band". I don't know, I guess it's mostly in my head, but I tend to avoid bands that jump on what appear to be band name trends; like if you formed some time in the middle of the last decade and have the word "Wolf" in your name, you were written off/pointedly ignored.

It's the all caps-no vowels band names in particular these days that have been bugging me. But at least this thread exists so I can take comfort in knowing I'm not alone in being unfairly dismissive!

Anything that makes me use Character Map.

http://www.ilxor.com/ILX/SiteNewAnswersControllerServlet

Sorry

The Presets

why not just call your band "Autopilot" (actually, that's a better name) or "Phoning It In"

king gizzard & the lizard wizard

then i happened to hear one of their tracks accidentally and it was great

Dirty beaches.

I mean seriously dude? Two ridiculously overused words in post - 00 band names..lets just mash em together!

I did listen to him though finally. Pretty good shit.

Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr.

Spotify is bannering me about a band called The Orwells

But they come so highly recommended...

The Orwells: "They're like the Strokes if the Strokes got hit in the head with rocks."

Trying to sound literate by naming your band after an author probably 50% of middle schoolers read: C/D. Also, trying to imply that your shitty indie band is the musical equivalent of a sober, clear-eyed political critic and one of the greatest essayists of all time -- not only highly unlikely, but highly un rock-and-roll even if true.

CHVRCHES

^^^ something about it screams "latecomers to Williamsburg"

I like the fact the next buzz band to come along was called "Temples". CHVRCHES are fine, name aside, though.

Dirty beaches.

I mean seriously dude? Two ridiculously overused words in post - 00 band names..lets just mash em together!

I had assumed that it's a juvenile "dirty bitches" pun rather than evidence of an interest in marine conservation, given that's how about 75% of the world would say those words in English, but i may be wrong.

Classixx

Del the Funky Homosapien

Nude Beach

Trying to sound literate by naming your band after an author probably 50% of middle schoolers read: C/D.

Similarly: Gatsby's American Dream

I feel like there were a few other bands in the mid '00s who were heavily influenced by their high school summer reading lists, but the only other examples I can think of right now are shitty local bands.

I liked Rainer Maria in the day

You were assigned Rilke in high school?

I don't think even yr absolute standards are always a bad idea to draw from, e.g. I like the names of both Rollerskate Skinny (Catcher in the Rye) and the Boo Radleys (To Kill a Mockingbird). But "The Orwells" is just so lumpen and ham-fisted.

I agree, and those are great examples. But when done wrong it's just a sad disaster.

Tempted to start a S/D: Bands Whose Names Are References to Canonical Literature thread, but will restrain myself.

Although it's neither a truly bad name nor a truly bad band, I kind of knew exactly what Perfect Pussy was going to sound like, and I just recently confirmed it.

The Orwells are stillI IN middle school iirc so give em a break. Almost all band names are really stupid if you spend more than a few seconds thinking about them so I maximize efficiency by spending no more than 1.1 seconds. I have never gotten to the end of ...and you will know us by the trail??? but I assume the ending is satisfying

Lol are they really? Cute then.

Yeah, based off of their letterman performance last year they look to be about 17-18

Fuds

Cerebral Ballzy

I don't know, I guess it's mostly in my head, but I tend to avoid bands that jump on what appear to be band name trends; like if you formed some time in the middle of the last decade and have the word "Wolf" in your name, you were written off/pointedly ignored.

Is adding one or more redundant letters to a word/name the new having the word "Wolf" in your name?

Wavves
Draag Me
Hollyy
Kiiara
OMAAR
Slayyyter
JJUUJJUU
Suuns
Biig Piig
CHIIILD
Cola Boyy
Iann Dior
Hoorsees

Killing Joke

― Mr. Que, Tuesday, April 14, 2009

still ice cold

The Front Bottoms

some dude at 12:19 4 May 11
Planningtorock

I have never heard of Draag Me, but in their possible defense (?), it could (in theory at least) be a bilingual play-on-words: “draag me” means ‘carry me’ in Dutch.

whether that would makes it a “better” name or not is another matter

I wish Psychedelic Porn Crumpets would change their name cause they're really quite good.

wolf alice wasn't even formed yet when the above complaint was made but what happened to all the other wolves. i hope no one cares about AIDS wolf these days

i file the letters thing alongside all caps or all lowercase and symbols in names, it's a sort of #vibe and maybe a generational marker. it rules sometimes (spellling) sometimes it's really annoying (wavves)

i would not listen to a band called the psychedelic porn crumpets however well recommended. i have also avoided the front bottoms

i know of at least two bands called slaves, fuck them

archers of loaf isn't a boycott-worthy name but is certainly a not-particularly-interested-in-checking-out-this-band kind of name

it's bullshit like fun. and portugal. the man that really pisses me off. i contend that 00s hipsterdom produced more awful names than the combined efforts of every other scene and era in the history of popular music

Englebert Humperdinck tho

There was a Toronto band named "hhead", forerunners to Broken Social Scene, who I think of as pioneers of the unnecessary superfluous letter trend. A friend of mine took them as a sign that all the good band names had been taken (30 years ago!).

They were also pioneers of the lower-case letters only trend.

mmorning nnoon aand nnight II ggive yyou hhead

Abe Vigoda, along with every other band name that’s an “lol so random” celebrity name

Deftones
Deafheaven

xp You missed out - it became one of those things where you didn’t think about the actor anymore when you heard the band’s name.

For a good while I avoided FKA Twigs cause it sounded like the name of a lesser Warp act that peaked with being on a label compilation. Eventually heard stuff by her and didn't regret not having heard her earlier.

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