Band name fusions....& what would they sound like???

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Fatboy SLIM Whitman - Big beat country - would be different

― peter d (peter dee), Thursday, 16 June 2005 21:49 (twenty years ago)

The Revolting BuzzCockteau Twins -- Prurient Industrial Punk Rockers who play spritely love songs with non-gender specific lyrics with a dreamy astmospheric aftertaste.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 16 June 2005 21:52 (twenty years ago)

Änglagwar - Peter Gabriel being tortured by Venom while King Crimson fiddles around in the background. Great stageshow too

― Øystein (Øystein), Thursday, 16 June 2005 21:57 (twenty years ago)

Magnetic FIELDS of the Nephilim - 'Greyfey' Could improve record sales for both parties concerned.

― peter d (peter dee), Thursday, 16 June 2005 21:59 (twenty years ago)

Joss STONE Roses = Ian Brown struggles to keep up with a 'real' singer.

― peter d (peter dee), Thursday, 16 June 2005 22:02 (twenty years ago)

Sigur Rush - Cryptic, dreamy Icelandic prog rock with kickass drum solos.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 16 June 2005 22:04 (twenty years ago)

Jay ZZ Top - "I got 99 problems but the beard aint one"

― peter d (peter dee), Thursday, 16 June 2005 22:09 (twenty years ago)

Angus Young's Marble Giants. - Potty-minded boogie metal played crisply with an organ and a drum machine.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 16 June 2005 22:12 (twenty years ago)

Judy Rollins - Winsome songs about clowns and whales as trilled by a vein-popping, tattooed she-behemoth.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 16 June 2005 22:14 (twenty years ago)

Modest Mouse on Mars Volta =
experimental whiskey-fuled indie rock with a sonic vibe and some white-boy afros.

― shh! (wide-eyed), Thursday, 16 June 2005 23:14 (twenty years ago)

Captain Beefheart and Tennille: just imagine

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Thursday, 16 June 2005 23:17 (twenty years ago)

Jonathan Richmantronix: songs about ice cream cones and toy guitars sung in a faux-naive style through a vocoder, over bangin' electro beats

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Thursday, 16 June 2005 23:18 (twenty years ago)

Toby Keith Fullerton Whitman

jingoistic minimalism, ambient drones for my horses

― Josh Love (screamapillar), Thursday, 16 June 2005 23:21 (twenty years ago)

Blonde Red(head) House Painters=
so effing sad and beautiful that the record comes with a noose to kill yourself after the first listen.

― shh! (wide-eyed), Thursday, 16 June 2005 23:22 (twenty years ago)

Klaus Nomeansno: your basic falsetto new wave german cabaret/politicized dadaist jazzcore set up

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Thursday, 16 June 2005 23:24 (twenty years ago)

basement jaxxon 5: actually this would sound awesome

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Thursday, 16 June 2005 23:26 (twenty years ago)

OK Go Go-Betweens =
Post-Poppy McPopperson. except with a hotter lead singer.

― shh! (wide-eyed), Thursday, 16 June 2005 23:27 (twenty years ago)

bonnie "prince" billy "crash" craddock: former teen idol croons tom-jones-meets-charley-pride versions of songs about ejaculate, cinematography

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Thursday, 16 June 2005 23:29 (twenty years ago)

basement jaxxon 5: actually this would sound awesome

THAT WOULD BE AMAZING!
Amateur(ist), looks like you and i are stuck in this thread! i love shit like this...

― shh! (wide-eyed), Thursday, 16 June 2005 23:31 (twenty years ago)

Roy Division: The Pin Group.

― Ian Riese-Moraine: exposing ambitious careerists as charlatans since 1986. (East, Thursday, 16 June 2005 23:33 (twenty years ago)

oops, i meant "OK GO-Betweens"

― shh! (wide-eyed), Thursday, 16 June 2005 23:33 (twenty years ago)

Bee Jesus Lizard: fluttering falsetto harmonies over confrontational noise rock

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Thursday, 16 June 2005 23:36 (twenty years ago)

Oingo BoinGo! Team: probably the worst band known to man; a harbinger of apocalypse

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Thursday, 16 June 2005 23:37 (twenty years ago)

The Libertina Turner =
crack-adled brit-popsters with LEGS.

― shh! (wide-eyed), Thursday, 16 June 2005 23:44 (twenty years ago)

oops, i meant "OK GO-Betweens

I thought you were adding the Go-Gos to the mix, and I was wondering if Belinda was the hot singer.

― nickn (nickn), Friday, 17 June 2005 00:00 (twenty years ago)

I thought you were adding the Go-Gos to the mix, and I was wondering if Belinda was the hot singer.

oh yeah, i guess it could have been another triple-play that way, huh? nah, i didnt think about that, but i was referring to Damian (the ld. singer of OK Go) as the hot lead singer.

― shh! (wide-eyed), Friday, 17 June 2005 00:08 (twenty years ago)

the Scissor Sisters of Mercy - Murky Doom Mongering with a flamboyantly gay patina

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 17 June 2005 00:15 (twenty years ago)

LCD Soundsystem Of A Down =
hahaha. dancy-pants meets crappy dude-rock.

― shh! (wide-eyed), Friday, 17 June 2005 00:25 (twenty years ago)

Men at Kraftwerk: bouncy pop vocals over electronic beats.

― j.lu (j.lu), Friday, 17 June 2005 00:28 (twenty years ago)

Big Black Flag - Like Big Black, just with longer hair and weed.

― latebloomer: We kissy kiss in the rear view (latebloomer), Friday, 17 June 2005 00:28 (twenty years ago)

Steely Damned - Sophisticated jazz-pop as played stealthily and irreverently by amphetamine-fueled punk clowns.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 17 June 2005 00:29 (twenty years ago)

Flaming Lipps Inc. -- LSDisco

― Earl Nash (earlnash), Friday, 17 June 2005 00:47 (twenty years ago)

The Grateful Dead Boys — every night, a new, sensitive, telepathic, hour-long exploration of "Sonic Reducer."

― Rock Hardy (Rock Hardy), Friday, 17 June 2005 00:58 (twenty years ago)

Huey Lewis & the Neu! - Good time bar band Kraut rock.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 17 June 2005 01:12 (twenty years ago)

Jimmy Eat World Class Wreckin' Cru - Old school emo hip hop.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 17 June 2005 01:18 (twenty years ago)

This thread feels familiar. I think we did the same thing last year. I thought of Stereolabradford and U2 Live Crew and then thought, "I've heard of these before."

― Rock Hardy (Rock Hardy), Friday, 17 June 2005 01:23 (twenty years ago)

Musical Sausage aka Before & After

― Rock Hardy (Rock Hardy), Friday, 17 June 2005 01:27 (twenty years ago)

Imaginary Tribute Bands (/ILX/ThreadSelectedControllerServlet?thread.php?msgid=3598169&showall=true)

― Lord Custos Omicron (Lord Custos Omicron), Friday, 17 June 2005 01:47 (twenty years ago)

Band Collisions II: Electric Boogaloo!

― Lord Custos Omicron (Lord Custos Omicron), Friday, 17 June 2005 01:53 (twenty years ago)

Band Collision

― Rock Hardy (Rock Hardy), Friday, 17 June 2005 01:55 (twenty years ago)

Simply Red Hot Chili Peppers - Punk-funk soup for the blue-eyed soul.

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Friday, 17 June 2005 02:59 (twenty years ago)

Mr. Mister Big Black Sabbath - anthemic-cum-bombastic '80s acoustic guitar + synth rock balladeers, performing songs about fucking, wizards, and wizards fucking.

― cheeses haitch christ (haitch), Friday, 17 June 2005 03:24 (twenty years ago)

Beach Boyz 2 Men

more vocal harmonies than i'd like to imagine.

― Suzy Creemcheese (SuzyCreemcheese), Friday, 17 June 2005 03:28 (twenty years ago)

Drive Like Jeru The Damaja

― polyphonic (polyphonic), Friday, 17 June 2005 04:16 (twenty years ago)

> bonnie "prince" billy "crash" craddock: former teen idol croons tom-jones-meets-charley-pride versions of songs about ejaculate, cinematography

I like that this reads like Xgau.

― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Friday, 17 June 2005 04:23 (twenty years ago)

Nine Nine Nine Below Zero 7 - Punkish R'n'B smoothed out on a post-trip-hop sonic wallpaper coffee bar tip.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 17 June 2005 04:25 (twenty years ago)

Jermaine Stewart Copeland: he don't have to take the sting out to have a good time

Wilco to Power: I couldn't even do this justice.

― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Friday, 17 June 2005 04:25 (twenty years ago)

Earth, Wind & Firewater - Flamboyant, soaring-vocalled funk played by sneering, alcoholic Klezmerpunks.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 17 June 2005 04:26 (twenty years ago)

The Stevie Wonder Stuff - Catchily smarmy punk-pop played by blind men.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 17 June 2005 04:31 (twenty years ago)

the warren zevon bondies - let's watch jack white just try to beat up these guys, who never leave home without their thompson guns.

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Friday, 17 June 2005 05:03 (twenty years ago)

crosby, stills, nash & young mc - crosby tends to take it personally when the other three turn to him every night and rap the line "come on fatso and just bust a move" in perfect harmony.

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Friday, 17 June 2005 05:11 (twenty years ago)

LOCK THREAD

― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Friday, 17 June 2005 05:34 (twenty years ago)

crosby, stills, nash & young mc

BAahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahayhahahahahahahaha

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 17 June 2005 05:44 (twenty years ago)

The Exploiteddy Pendergrass -- oh nevermind.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 17 June 2005 06:01 (twenty years ago)

Years ago I was at a rock festival, and I left the festival area with my friends to shop for food. When we returned, we noticed that someone had switched the letters on the festival billboard. It now advertised such acts as BLACK ABBA, FATLESS and ANUS (aka Anouk). We all thought Black Abba would be one helluva band.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Friday, 17 June 2005 11:03 (twenty years ago)

Roxy Musical Youth

Jaded, ennui-filled art-reggae.

I actually wouldn't mind hearing that.

― kornrulez6969 (TCBeing), Friday, 17 June 2005 18:04 (twenty years ago)

The Kurt Weilltones — snarling, invective-riddled cabaret songs and operettas.

― Rock Hardy (Rock Hardy), Friday, 17 June 2005 18:13 (twenty years ago)

Indigo Girls Aloud -- they all lez up!

― Aaron A., Friday, 17 June 2005 18:21 (twenty years ago)

Deep Jimi & The Zep Creams sound like you'd expect.

― Stoner Guy, Friday, 17 June 2005 18:30 (twenty years ago)

The Notorious B.I.G.G. Allen : dead, overweight, and covered in feces

― matlewis, Friday, 17 June 2005 18:38 (twenty years ago)

Seriously, why is this thread staying alive?

Band Collision

― PappaWheelie (PappaWheelie), Friday, 17 June 2005 18:40 (twenty years ago)

because you can't stop the rock.

Also, Fine Young Cannibal Oxes

― matlewis, Friday, 17 June 2005 18:57 (twenty years ago)

The Paul Young Gods - Housewife-courting Blue Eyed Soul as rendered unrecognizable by mechanized Swiss noise terrorists

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 17 June 2005 19:02 (twenty years ago)

The Sheryl Cro-Mags - Rootsy Californian Sunshine Rock beefed up into pumellling, latern jawed skinhead anthemizing.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 17 June 2005 19:04 (twenty years ago)

Blurillion - Thinly faux-cockney Britpop with Tolkienesque prog tendencies

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 17 June 2005 19:05 (twenty years ago)

Gene Loves Jezebelle & Sebastian Bach - Glammed out, yodelling Goth twins with a penchant for twee indie pop prone to leather-trousered, hair-flipping screamalongs.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 17 June 2005 19:08 (twenty years ago)

Reagan Youth of Today:
...um...hardcore...with a severe identity crisis.

― matlewis, Friday, 17 June 2005 19:11 (twenty years ago)

Hahahahaha

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 17 June 2005 19:14 (twenty years ago)

The AeroSmiths - Bedsit loner anthems of the sexually illiterate as played by drug-fueled, boogie rock cutthroats.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 17 June 2005 19:16 (twenty years ago)

I don't know what I'd rather hear first, the Smiths version of "Dude Looks Like a Lady" or the Aerosmith version of "Ask."

― Rock Hardy (Rock Hardy), Friday, 17 June 2005 19:32 (twenty years ago)

Vashti Bunyanni = beautiful folk vocals set to smooth-adult elevator music

― shh! (wide-eyed), Friday, 17 June 2005 19:33 (twenty years ago)

Bread Styx - Sensitive soft-rock about robots, renegades and blue collar men

― John Fredland (jfredland), Friday, 17 June 2005 20:11 (twenty years ago)

LOCK THREAD

― Rock Hardy (Rock Hardy), Friday, 17 June 2005 20:26 (twenty years ago)

hahahaha

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 17 June 2005 20:37 (twenty years ago)

My Bloody Van Dyke Parks - A one-man and one-night 'tribute band' wherein Brian Wilson - wearing his fireman's helmet, toes in the sand - accidently invents shoegaze twisting all sorts of knobs on all sorts of amps and pedals just to piss off Van Dyke Parks with his 'cleaner' take on music (and on drugs, as well). Van Dyke Parks, obviously annoyed, exits the studio early, leaving Wilson vast asleep, and by the morning, forgetting about his shoegaze invention. (e-mail me for a tape of this memorable evening :-))

― Gerard (Gerard), Friday, 17 June 2005 21:09 (twenty years ago)

Bau Wau Wau - goth jailbait

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Friday, 17 June 2005 21:24 (twenty years ago)

Boy George Michael Jackson

Pop songs dedicated to boys of all ages.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Friday, 17 June 2005 22:14 (twenty years ago)

Gen Xtersis of Mercy

10 minutes symphonic suites of pop punk goth.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Friday, 17 June 2005 22:16 (twenty years ago)

Crowded Faust - Plangent Kiwi pop played with Krautrocking intensity.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 18 June 2005 09:57 (twenty years ago)

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