Most Unpretentious band

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Ok the flip side of an earlier thread. My nomination Teenage Fanclub.

― Jim Reckling (Jim Reckling), Friday, 13 February 2004 17:36 (twenty-two years ago)

"Carl Jung"? "The Concept"? UNPRETENTIOUS?! you fucking NUTS?!

― Matos W.K. (M Matos), Friday, 13 February 2004 17:39 (twenty-two years ago)

Well, that ends that thread!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 13 February 2004 17:42 (twenty-two years ago)

I'll venture a guess and say it's likely a band none of us have ever heard.

― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Friday, 13 February 2004 17:43 (twenty-two years ago)

Meat Loaf

― My Huckleberry Friend (Horace Mann), Friday, 13 February 2004 17:45 (twenty-two years ago)

Foghat

― Silly Sailor (Andrew Thames), Friday, 13 February 2004 17:46 (twenty-two years ago)

It's an EXTREMELY boring band. Sloan, something like that. I can see where the Teenage Fanclub guess is coming from.

― charlie va (charlie va), Friday, 13 February 2004 17:46 (twenty-two years ago)

Meat Loaf

― My Huckleberry Friend (Horace Mann), Friday, 13 February 2004 17:46 (twenty-two years ago)

two votes, I win

― Meat Loaf (Horace Mann), Friday, 13 February 2004 17:47 (twenty-two years ago)

Foghat

― Silly Sailor (Andrew Thames), Friday, 13 February 2004 17:47 (twenty-two years ago)

Stereophonics!

― Kelly Jones , Working Class Man From Wales, Friday, 13 February 2004 17:49 (twenty-two years ago)

Wouldn't it be someone 'salt of the earth' like Jimmy Buffet?

― Baked Bean Teeth (Baked Bean Teeth), Friday, 13 February 2004 17:51 (twenty-two years ago)

i know they're post rock, and i know their song titles can be long winded, and i know they're instrumental, but explosions in the sky are completely down to earth friendly guys. they get a vote from me.

― Felonious Drunk (Felcher), Friday, 13 February 2004 17:52 (twenty-two years ago)

they are called explosions in the sky = they are pretentious

― Matos W.K. (M Matos), Friday, 13 February 2004 17:52 (twenty-two years ago)

Buffet owns restaurants and writes books. He's inelligible.

― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Friday, 13 February 2004 17:53 (twenty-two years ago)

Bettie Serveert or Buffalo Tom
I'm just throwing out the first things that came to mind...

― Blood and sparkles (bloodandsparkles), Friday, 13 February 2004 17:55 (twenty-two years ago)

AC/DC

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Friday, 13 February 2004 17:55 (twenty-two years ago)

Buffalo Tom?!?!?!

― Matos W.K. (M Matos), Friday, 13 February 2004 17:56 (twenty-two years ago)

lots of country artists

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Friday, 13 February 2004 17:57 (twenty-two years ago)

What part of Buffalo Tom is pretentious, Matos? (Aside from early involvement with J. Mascis, that is.)

― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Friday, 13 February 2004 17:58 (twenty-two years ago)

Have you heard I Couldn't Have Said It Better, the last word in unpretense.

― My Huckleberry Friend (Horace Mann), Friday, 13 February 2004 17:59 (twenty-two years ago)

sonic youth

― dan (dan), Friday, 13 February 2004 18:01 (twenty-two years ago)

um, let's start with the name and proceed from there.

― Matos W.K. (M Matos), Friday, 13 February 2004 18:01 (twenty-two years ago)

what's pretentious about the name? it's a goof on all the '79-era bands w/ "youth" in the name. unpretentious. try harder.

― dan (dan), Friday, 13 February 2004 18:02 (twenty-two years ago)

I will say that seeing Buffalo Tom open for MBV was one of the most dull experiences of my life, so maybe that made them unpretentious at the time. And yet they were loud and passionate about their nothing.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 13 February 2004 18:03 (twenty-two years ago)

It's obviously Bachman Turner Overdrive, you stupid fucks.

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Friday, 13 February 2004 18:04 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/totp2/features/wallpaper/images/640/meat_loaf.jpg

― My Huckleberry Friend (Horace Mann), Friday, 13 February 2004 18:04 (twenty-two years ago)

I gotta go with the Ultimate Redneck David Allen Coe. Anyone that dumb and flagrantly offensive has to win.

― Playa Hata, Friday, 13 February 2004 18:06 (twenty-two years ago)

Meat Loaf is a concept album rock opera dude. It's BTO, you stupid fucks.

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Friday, 13 February 2004 18:07 (twenty-two years ago)

at least we can agree that sweat + overweight = unpretension

but Randy Bachman quit the Guess Who because he didn't like their immoral carrying-ons.

― My Huckleberry Friend (Horace Mann), Friday, 13 February 2004 18:08 (twenty-two years ago)

But D. Boon was sweaty & overweight and pretentious as fuck (in a good way).

Randy is definitely a weirdo, but not pretentious. He's just a Mormon.

It's BTO, ysf.

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Friday, 13 February 2004 18:09 (twenty-two years ago)

dan, fuck off. I was answering Johnny.

― Matos W.K. (M Matos), Friday, 13 February 2004 18:10 (twenty-two years ago)

but being Canadian is most pretentious pretense of all: "I'm, ahem, NOT American."

― My Huckleberry Friend (Horace Mann), Friday, 13 February 2004 18:10 (twenty-two years ago)

Sonic Youth = best band name ever

― Matos W.K. (M Matos), Friday, 13 February 2004 18:10 (twenty-two years ago)

As soon as I saw the thread title I immediately thought Teenage Fanclub. Calling a song "Neil Jung" isn't "pretentious", it's -like- a pun. A really bad pun, but a pun nevertheless.
So, Teenage Fanclub it is.

― harveyw (harveyw), Friday, 13 February 2004 18:10 (twenty-two years ago)

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000077SXB.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

― Gear! (Gear!), Friday, 13 February 2004 18:11 (twenty-two years ago)

no, concepts and puns are automatically pretentious, however twee or inconsequential.

― Matos W.K. (M Matos), Friday, 13 February 2004 18:13 (twenty-two years ago)

I vote for Lush.

― Rocco, Friday, 13 February 2004 18:15 (twenty-two years ago)

Wedding bands are the least pretentious bands. It's hard to maintain much pretense when you're playing "The Chicken Dance" and "The Hokey Pokey" and "Celebration" two or three times a weekend.

― spittle (spittle), Friday, 13 February 2004 18:15 (twenty-two years ago)

spittle wins

― Matos W.K. (M Matos), Friday, 13 February 2004 18:17 (twenty-two years ago)

The Shaggs

― Nom De Plume (Nom De Plume), Friday, 13 February 2004 18:18 (twenty-two years ago)

being Canadian may be kind of pretentious I guess, but Canadian bands have been working the meat & potatoes rock forever. Bryan Adams, Kim Mitchell, Tom Cochrane, most Blue Rodeo stuff, later Sloan, Sam Roberts. All safe, reliable boring donut rock.

(On the other hand there's the Prog-Canuck side of things that's pretty pretentious - Rush, Voivod, Rheostatitcs - but even that shit seems a little more down to earth than most Prog)

The Sadies are psychedelic Byrdsy/Morricone music. Totally pretentious - still fun though.

It is B fucking T fucking O.

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Friday, 13 February 2004 18:18 (twenty-two years ago)

But if you mean, "Most Unpretentious Band That Has Actually Recorded and Released Original Music," isn't that a little like picking the least egomaniacal egomaniac? I mean, the mere act of recording something and distributing it -- even just to a few of your friends -- carries a certain amount of implied pretense: "I have something to say, and you should listen to it!"

And god bless 'em for it too, I say.

― spittle (spittle), Friday, 13 February 2004 18:18 (twenty-two years ago)

Lush incorporated Billy Childish into a song ("The Childcatcher."). therefore, they can't win this one.

― janni (janni), Friday, 13 February 2004 18:19 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.bstuck.com/web1/family4.jpg

― My Huckleberry Friend (Horace Mann), Friday, 13 February 2004 18:20 (twenty-two years ago)

David Allan Coe has extremely pretentious moments, and those don't necessarily exclude his racist ones. I am, however, very gratified and surprised that nobody has nominated GG Allin, Turbonegro, Andrew WK, or the Ramones, all of which choices would have been incredibly stupid.

― chuck, Friday, 13 February 2004 18:21 (twenty-two years ago)

Lush are (a) English and (b) play college rock and are therefore very pretentious.

― Matos W.K. (M Matos), Friday, 13 February 2004 18:22 (twenty-two years ago)

Did Murph & the Murphtones ever release anything? I loved their bowties.

― Baked Bean Teeth (Baked Bean Teeth), Friday, 13 February 2004 18:25 (twenty-two years ago)

I've seen these guys before, and they are pretty unpretentious.

http://www.johnnyholm.com/

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Friday, 13 February 2004 18:28 (twenty-two years ago)

pretense alert:
Leader and front man of the most widely known and
traveled band in America, Johnny Holm is the most
entertaining entertainer performing today.

― My Huckleberry Friend (Horace Mann), Friday, 13 February 2004 18:29 (twenty-two years ago)

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Daniel Johnston. totally unpretentious. and yet, a god.

― kaynyc, Friday, 13 February 2004 20:24 (twenty-two years ago)

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-- Gear! (drink_to_remember@yahoo

...and you might be right,. in fact, if this thread were Stupid Musicians You Have Loved, he would probably win...but he is far from pretentious.

― thomas de'aguirre (biteylove), Friday, 13 February 2004 20:24 (twenty-two years ago)

That was created by the God-fearing idiots who couldn't understand him.

― Playa Hata, Friday, 13 February 2004 20:27 (twenty-two years ago)

NRBQ

― Colin Meeder (Mert), Friday, 13 February 2004 20:33 (twenty-two years ago)

New Kids on the Block

― Kathleen Robbins, Friday, 13 February 2004 21:28 (twenty-two years ago)

In terms of "indie" bands: Scrawl.

In terms of well-known bands: Bob Seger, maybe?

― mike a, Friday, 13 February 2004 21:30 (twenty-two years ago)

Anal Cunt

― Leee Majors (Leee), Friday, 13 February 2004 22:13 (twenty-two years ago)

Ramones.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Friday, 13 February 2004 22:16 (twenty-two years ago)

Britney Spears singing 'I Love Rock n Roll'

― pete s, Friday, 13 February 2004 22:23 (twenty-two years ago)

The News.

― mike h. (mike h.), Friday, 13 February 2004 22:27 (twenty-two years ago)

I would have to cast my vote for Emerson, Lake, & Palmer, for their Pictures at an Exhibition album.

― Joe (Joe), Saturday, 14 February 2004 01:30 (twenty-two years ago)

Low

― daria g (daria g), Saturday, 14 February 2004 01:32 (twenty-two years ago)

Wesley Willis

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Saturday, 14 February 2004 02:30 (twenty-two years ago)

Beat Happening could probably be nominated for most pretentiously unpretentious...
but I know someone who can win this hands down...and that is

SUPERCHARGER, FULES!!!@ BOW DOWN TO THE GODS OF THUNDER!

― Francis Watlington (Francis Watlington), Saturday, 14 February 2004 02:35 (twenty-two years ago)

Chas & Dave. Get with it, people.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Saturday, 14 February 2004 02:45 (twenty-two years ago)

The Rutles

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Saturday, 14 February 2004 02:47 (twenty-two years ago)

I should have known that a pretentious writer could not recognize TFC as an Unpretentious band Matos.

― Jim Reckling (Jim Reckling), Saturday, 14 February 2004 03:17 (twenty-two years ago)

Definitely agree with latebloomer on The Ramones.
and...
The Four Tops - same stuff year in, year out.
also The Temptations for the same reason.
Actually, I can't tell them apart.

― jim wentworth (wench), Saturday, 14 February 2004 03:26 (twenty-two years ago)

The Beach Boys, for the most part.

― may pang (maypang), Saturday, 14 February 2004 03:28 (twenty-two years ago)

Abba? Unless capitalism counts as pretension.

― dleone (dleone), Saturday, 14 February 2004 03:55 (twenty-two years ago)

The Ramones built an entire music career on not being pretentious. Indeed, there pretention was that they were not pretentious. The Talking Heads went to museums; they ate burgers. They were so pretentiously unprentious that they unpretentious. This is the pretentious post ever.

― Jaromil (Jaromil), Saturday, 14 February 2004 04:04 (twenty-two years ago)

That was so pretentious it was unreadable. Like Joyce. What I was trying to say was that The Ramones were so pretentiously unpretentious that they brought the entire metaphysical, ontological and, indeed, eschatological paradigm of pretentious so far that the the very epistemological precursors and predeterminant deconstructive aesthetic potentialites no longer applied -- and thus they evaded the phenomena of pretention; while existing statically in the noumena of pretense (in a Kantian rather than Heideggerian sense of course.) Although the Phil Spector album is dangerously close on an aesthetic level.

― Jaromil (Jaromil), Saturday, 14 February 2004 04:11 (twenty-two years ago)

Custos, please tell us the next time you switch usernames.

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Saturday, 14 February 2004 04:12 (twenty-two years ago)

Jaromil and Sinor N.K. Loveless separated at birth SHOCKA!!!

― Francis Watlington (Francis Watlington), Saturday, 14 February 2004 04:17 (twenty-two years ago)

teenage fanclub and the whole shoeshine gang is the correct answer.

― keith m (keithmcl), Saturday, 14 February 2004 04:32 (twenty-two years ago)

most pretentious thread ever

― donut bitch (donut), Saturday, 14 February 2004 04:35 (twenty-two years ago)

Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band

Now you may well laugh and I don't blame you but I mean it.

― Dadaismus (Dada), Saturday, 14 February 2004 04:47 (twenty-two years ago)

I think it's officially Wesley Willis. I mean, he wanted nothing but to make fun music, he didn't even know to pretend to be anything but himself.

― David Allen (David Allen), Saturday, 14 February 2004 04:53 (twenty-two years ago)

offtopic...
Custos, please tell us the next time you switch usernames.
Whua!?
Um...I don't think I'll be changing it for awhile. I've grown to like the sound of "Omicron"

anyhow, back on topic...
the real answer is the Meatls

― Lord Custos Omicron (Lord Custos Omicron), Saturday, 14 February 2004 08:38 (twenty-two years ago)

Pretention is an art form.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Saturday, 14 February 2004 09:02 (twenty-two years ago)

dressy bessy?

― phil-two (phil-two), Saturday, 14 February 2004 09:21 (twenty-two years ago)

Bikini KIIIIILL!

― billislord, Saturday, 14 February 2004 10:11 (twenty-two years ago)

they are called explosions in the sky = they are pretentious

But even if the name refers to fireworks?

― Leee Majors (Leee), Saturday, 14 February 2004 20:38 (twenty-two years ago)

The Undertones?

― Mike Ouderkirk (Mike Ouderkirk), Saturday, 14 February 2004 20:43 (twenty-two years ago)

Not after "Julie Ocean."

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Saturday, 14 February 2004 20:45 (twenty-two years ago)

It would have to be some band with aboslutely no claim to any sort of artistic credibility. One that wasn't too self-confident, either.

Something like Herman's Hermits, perhaps. Except moreso.

― The Good Dr. Bill (Andrew Unterberger), Saturday, 14 February 2004 20:48 (twenty-two years ago)

Mulligan and O'Hare

― pete s, Saturday, 14 February 2004 20:49 (twenty-two years ago)

How about Bananarama?

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Sunday, 15 February 2004 01:59 (twenty-two years ago)

But they worked with Prince

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Sunday, 15 February 2004 02:01 (twenty-two years ago)

Did working with Nick Cave make Kylie Minogue pretentious?

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Sunday, 15 February 2004 02:02 (twenty-two years ago)

Green Day?

― MerkinMuffley (MerkinMuffley), Sunday, 15 February 2004 06:05 (twenty-two years ago)

It's the Wedding present.

― fletcher dexter, Sunday, 15 February 2004 19:27 (twenty-two years ago)

AC/DC, period.

― Myonga Von Bontee, Tuesday, 17 February 2004 14:09 (twenty-two years ago)

...partly 'cause they're Aussies!

― Myonga Von Bontee, Tuesday, 17 February 2004 14:10 (twenty-two years ago)

Low levels of pretention are present in any band (note: Wesley Wills would prob win, but he is/was not a band) that has any kind of name that does not include the band leader's name.

So, I nominate:

The Dave Clarke Five.

as: Dave Clarke was the drummer. Not the singer or the songwriter, but the band leader and boss person. Total lack of pretention there.

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 14:17 (twenty-two years ago)

pinback
mountain goats

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 18:50 (twenty-two years ago)

The Descendents! Songs about farting! Science/Academia!

― Jon Williams (ex machina), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 21:19 (twenty-two years ago)

xiu xiu

― russ, Tuesday, 17 February 2004 23:55 (twenty-two years ago)

The Descendents are a good choice.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Wednesday, 18 February 2004 05:37 (twenty-two years ago)

um, hanson?

― juju, Wednesday, 18 February 2004 06:47 (twenty-two years ago)

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