back on topic, these dudes would never make it through the door at the local high fem dance and kink party
https://www.thesylvee.com/wp-content/uploads/tm_event/violent-femmes-performing-the-debut-album-from-cover-to-cover.gif
― Kate (rushomancy), Wednesday, 13 September 2023 01:55 (one year ago) link
"Show me some men who look like old lesbians looking like men"
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Wednesday, 13 September 2023 01:57 (one year ago) link
is that bobcat goldthwait in front
― deep wubs and tribral rhythms (Boring, Maryland), Wednesday, 13 September 2023 02:42 (one year ago) link
Kate, I def did not invent the term “sex nerds”
― kirsten gilla band (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 13 September 2023 03:53 (one year ago) link
Spinal Tap did iirc
― Make the chats AI (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 13 September 2023 05:35 (one year ago) link
One Little Indian —> One Little Independenthere is how it started...and then it sucked even more shit!― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Tuesday, 12 September 2023
here is how it started...and then it sucked even more shit!
― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Tuesday, 12 September 2023
Nah, quite a few examples in the poll predate OLI’s name change in 2020 - Preoccupations changed their name in 2015, Rich Brian changed his in 2018.
― houdini said, Wednesday, 13 September 2023 06:38 (one year ago) link
One band I was thinking might change their name is Black Kids, but they seem to be fairly inactive.
― houdini said, Wednesday, 13 September 2023 06:41 (one year ago) link
missing slaves -> rain city drive (there were two bands active last decade under the name 'slaves' and they both got a lot of shit for it and took a decade to change their names)
― ufo, Wednesday, 13 September 2023 06:45 (one year ago) link
"Men have been enslaving men for as long as we've had gods to hide behind,""Every man is a slave to what we love – whether it be women, drugs, music or sports. Through art we are all equals".
vs.
"Our band name relates to people not being in control of their day to day lives. Slaves was our way of getting off the paths we didn't want to walk down anymore. The music we make is motivational and aimed at people personally as well as collectively."
― ufo, Wednesday, 13 September 2023 06:47 (one year ago) link
voted POP ETC. that one is truly unfathomable
― imago, Wednesday, 13 September 2023 07:44 (one year ago) link
Kate, I def did not invent the term “sex nerds”― kirsten gilla band (Whiney G. Weingarten)
― kirsten gilla band (Whiney G. Weingarten)
no of course not... there's an idea a lot of people have that we're like cruel, scary people who are into transgression for its own sake and maybe there are some people like that out there! but mostly the people i know are nerds. my favorite are the bob vila types. there's this whole subclass of kinksters whose main thing is building the most _amazing_ dungeon furniture. there are few things i'm worse at in the world than that kind of thing, personally, so i'm grateful there are people who can do that and like it!
― Kate (rushomancy), Wednesday, 13 September 2023 16:05 (one year ago) link
my favorite are the bob vila george clooney types.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_oVd4X2ITfg
― peace, man, Wednesday, 13 September 2023 16:11 (one year ago) link
i'm sorry george clooney's character in that movie is a fuckin' amateur. i mean look at how janky that thing is. not only that, but he's reinventing the wheel. why bother when the sybian already exists? (to be fair the sybian may well have been the real-world inspiration for clooney's device.)
your real high-quality dungeon furniture isn't just supergluing a dildo to a chunk of wood. there's often serious engineering work involved, and, of course, _extensive_ consideration given to safety. literal unfinished two-by-fours attached to a pulley? give me a break. clooney's character is one of those arrogant clueless Big Dick Daddy Doms who keep showing up where they're not wanted and generally make people uncomfortable.
― Kate (rushomancy), Wednesday, 13 September 2023 16:50 (one year ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Wednesday, 11 October 2023 00:01 (eleven months ago) link
this better be Rich Brian
― real warm grandpa (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 11 October 2023 00:07 (eleven months ago) link
Definitely voting Lady Antebellum for the "let's deal with our problematic name by stealing the name of a Black artist and making her unfindable on streaming services" move.
― Lily Dale, Wednesday, 11 October 2023 00:10 (eleven months ago) link
I didn't know that "bender" was a gay slur. It sounds pretty inoffensive tbh
― Dan S, Wednesday, 11 October 2023 00:17 (eleven months ago) link
Futurama very not woke
― real warm grandpa (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 11 October 2023 00:18 (eleven months ago) link
Every time I look at the choices, I get to Rich Brian and burst into laughter
― the new drip king (DJP), Wednesday, 11 October 2023 00:20 (eleven months ago) link
Had never heard Slaves/Soft Play before this thread. Terrible names but not bad, a less boring Idles.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Wednesday, 11 October 2023 00:37 (eleven months ago) link
omg they are wrapped up with the band Viet Cong! I remember this now! Apparently another dude in the band started a group called Cindy Lee? What the actual fuck is wrong with these men?!?!
― Piggy Lepton (La Lechera), Tuesday, September 12, 2023 5:00 PM (four weeks ago) bookmarkflaglink
that "dude" seems like they ID as nonbinary, not sure if that's a problem for you
― call all destroyer, Wednesday, 11 October 2023 00:50 (eleven months ago) link
Aotearoa New Zealand band Shihad tried to break into the US market around the time of 9/11 and were advised to rebrand because their name apparently sounded too similar to jihad.
They renamed themselves Pacifier. Ugh.
After failing to break into the US market they returned to Aotearoa and reverted back to Shihad.
This is possibly a bad example because their initial name wasn't even offensive but their new name definitely was. Well, offensively bad at least.
― The Ghost Club, Wednesday, 11 October 2023 00:56 (eleven months ago) link
The Halo Etc.
― PaulTMA, Wednesday, 11 October 2023 00:56 (eleven months ago) link
I really like what I've heard of Cindy Lee, their music is a kind of perverse psychedelic take on beach rock from the 60s, dream- and bangle rock from the 80s/90s, and noise.
Act of Tenderness is an album for the ages
― Dan S, Wednesday, 11 October 2023 01:23 (eleven months ago) link
xp at ll tbf cindy lee is the drag project of a nonbinary person
― budo jeru, Tuesday, September 12, 2023 4:12 PM (four weeks ago) bookmarkflaglink
oh ok, then that is ok! i'm sorry -- i haven't paid much attention to any their music bc their naming conventions were so wack
― Piggy Lepton (La Lechera), Tuesday, September 12, 2023 4:15 PM (four weeks ago)
I already addressed this and it is not "a problem for me" geez!
― Piggy Lepton (La Lechera), Wednesday, 11 October 2023 14:07 (eleven months ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Thursday, 12 October 2023 00:01 (eleven months ago) link
spooky black -> corbin
― Who u? I don't kno u (noz), Thursday, 12 October 2023 03:31 (eleven months ago) link
Missed this poll. Preoccupations is my bête noire, just because it was SO AVOIDABLE. Viet Cong was an obviously provocative name — when their tape came out I was shocked: “Holy shit, you can do that?” And if they’d given it even a second’s thought they could have come up with some kind of half-assed real reason why they named themselves that (“something something American imperialism something something the struggle”). Instead they were your bog-standard clueless white guys about it: “duuuuh…. We just thought it sounded cool” and got rightly pilloried. And then they chose the dumbest most boring name this side of Window Lamp.
― The land of dreams and endless remorse (hardcore dilettante), Thursday, 12 October 2023 03:36 (eleven months ago) link
And yeah, Women, I’m pretty sure it’s Matt Flegel (brother of Cindy Lee) who keeps coming up with these. Fuck, VC were SO GOOD for a while. “Death” (written for Women guitarist Chris Reiner who just up and died .. for literally no reason, not drugs or anything, just .. whatever the adult version of SIDS is …) makes Tonight’s the Night sound like Gilbert O’Sullivan.
― The land of dreams and endless remorse (hardcore dilettante), Thursday, 12 October 2023 03:48 (eleven months ago) link
“something something American imperialism something something the struggle”). Instead they were your bog-standard clueless white guys about it: “duuuuh…. We just thought it sounded cool”
the latter is the better excuse
― close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac), Thursday, 12 October 2023 06:19 (eleven months ago) link
Well, the former is more a 'justification'
― Mark G, Thursday, 12 October 2023 06:37 (eleven months ago) link
If I remember correctly, VC were starting to get protests from the Hmong communities in the Midwest and they decided to change the name because it meant nothing to them.
― bbq, Thursday, 12 October 2023 06:38 (eleven months ago) link
But I always thought it was cute that Gang of Four publicly defended their band name.
― bbq, Thursday, 12 October 2023 06:43 (eleven months ago) link
Well, there was four of them, so there was that.
(Plus, there was only ever one Viet Cong)
― Mark G, Thursday, 12 October 2023 06:47 (eleven months ago) link
when did the band form / name themselves? all I can find is 1976 but mao died in september and the gang were arrested / denounced in october and the name takes on whole new connotations after that - I'd always assumed it was a possibly tongue in cheek "anti-revisionist" response to the rise of deng but it seems too early for that and maybe I'm thinking about it more than they did in any case
― Left, Thursday, 12 October 2023 07:37 (eleven months ago) link
Can’t tell if my syntax was poor or if Mark G is making a joke, but here’s what I was referring to.
https://pitchfork.com/news/58779-gang-of-four-on-viet-cong-name-controversy-ridiculous-undemocratic-anti-progressive/
― bbq, Thursday, 12 October 2023 07:48 (eleven months ago) link
oh I thought you meant defending *their* bandname
― Left, Thursday, 12 October 2023 07:51 (eleven months ago) link
those capitalist roaders at p4k seem to think it's a loaded bandname but I don't recall reading about any Go4 controversy, it's not like their lyrics were about chucking teachers out of upper storey windows. I'm of that age when I first saw that term on the tv news, it was in reference to the fookin' SDP.
― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Thursday, 12 October 2023 08:53 (eleven months ago) link
I've never heard of any controversy about Go4's name
― The First Time Ever I Saw Gervais (Tom D.), Thursday, 12 October 2023 09:24 (eleven months ago) link
“something something American imperialism something something the struggle”
i once chatted with a member of the soft pack/muslims where he was on some bullshit like that, complaining about "having" to change the name because no one understood the complex multivalent political/religious/historical commentary they were making maaan, iirc the holocaust was somehow involved even? it was truly moronic and embarrassing
― waste of compute (One Eye Open), Thursday, 12 October 2023 13:30 (eleven months ago) link
most artists are dumb
― deep wubs and tribral rhythms (Boring, Maryland), Thursday, 12 October 2023 13:59 (eleven months ago) link
MC Hamas is probably thinking twice right now
― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Thursday, 12 October 2023 14:32 (eleven months ago) link
same with Vanilla ISIS
― real warm grandpa (Neanderthal), Thursday, 12 October 2023 14:41 (eleven months ago) link
BBQ, I don't follow but when the SDP party formed in the UK, the originators were called "The Gang Of Four". That's what I was referring to.
― Mark G, Thursday, 12 October 2023 15:03 (eleven months ago) link
"Gang of (Number)" is also a common name for a group of legislators from different parties collaborating on a bill
― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Thursday, 12 October 2023 15:05 (eleven months ago) link
Also, Gang of Four was an explicitly political band
― kirsten gilla band (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 12 October 2023 15:59 (eleven months ago) link
Mick Lynch spotted at a recent Gang of Four gig, so that all checks out
― Ward Fowler, Thursday, 12 October 2023 16:27 (eleven months ago) link
Gang Of Four definitely took the name from the Maoist political faction but I can't see why that would casue any offence.
― stirmonster, Thursday, 12 October 2023 16:28 (eleven months ago) link
some people are really really offended by communism
― no gap tree for old men (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 12 October 2023 16:31 (eleven months ago) link
Wait till they hear my band Gay Chuevara
― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Thursday, 12 October 2023 16:46 (eleven months ago) link