Who spelled his name with a hy-phen?

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Years ago, I heard a song on a local student radio in Norway with this line in the chorus that really stuck: "He spelled his name with a hyphen". I seem to recall it sounded like some kind of late 60s somewhat psychedelic guitar band or something, but for all I know it could of course be something completely different. I've asked some seemingly knowledgeable people about what this might be over the years, but not got any useful replies... Does anybody know? And is it any good, or have the catchiness of that line fooled me ever since?

― OleM, Saturday, 16 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Edward Ka-Spel of the Legendary Pink Dots spells his name with a hy- phen, and they play 60s-ish psychedelia influenced stuff, though through a thick layer of electronics.

― Sean Carruthers, Saturday, 16 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Um, but they don't actually mention the hyphen in song, do they? Will be happy to check out LPDs, though, if anyone thinks it's worth it. Always wondered what they were like when I've seen their records (often in quite unexpected places), but never plunged.

― OleM, Saturday, 16 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

They're great, but they have about eight million albums. Try Canta Mientras Puedas for a good sampler of the first half of the nineties.

― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 16 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

three years pass...

Revive!

Still haven't found the answer to this one – any new (or obv old) ilxors with a clue about this?

(also erm still haven't checked out teh Dots)

― OleM (OleM), Thursday, 28 April 2005 06:28 (twenty-one years ago)

c-man

― Open your eyes; you can fly! (ex machina), Thursday, 28 April 2005 07:11 (twenty-one years ago)

Geneis P_Orridge (well, that's more of an underscore than a hyphen, really).

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 28 April 2005 13:11 (twenty-one years ago)

D-Angelo

― m0stly clean (m0stly clean), Thursday, 28 April 2005 13:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Apostrophe.

― Madchen (Madchen), Thursday, 28 April 2005 13:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Joke.

― m0stly clean (m0stly clean), Thursday, 28 April 2005 13:42 (twenty-one years ago)

Er... did anyone actually read the question?

― OleM (OleM), Thursday, 28 April 2005 13:44 (twenty-one years ago)

haha. this is actually supposed to be a track-id on the song with the chorus containing the line "he spelled his name with a hyphen" then? the thread title is misleading i think.

― sleep (sleep), Thursday, 28 April 2005 14:05 (twenty-one years ago)

You're right there... :/

― OleM (OleM), Thursday, 28 April 2005 14:06 (twenty-one years ago)

Olivia Newton-John

xpost- oh, whoops

― o. nate (onate), Thursday, 28 April 2005 14:07 (twenty-one years ago)

Artist: Tyrnaround
Album: Go Back - Tyrnaround
Label: None
Genre: Psychedelic
Location: Melbourne
Mature Content: No
Year Released: 1997

Lyrics: Paragon-Smythe was a good little man
He had a name with a hyphen
Went to a party and drank from a can
He had the time of his life when
He started dancing and slapping his shins
Playing with lampshades and counting his chins
Paragon-Smythe was a good little man but he'll never drink Fanta again

On his way home he was watching the sky
Missed out on several earthquakes
Found a pavilion and thought he would try
To see how easily leg breaks
He started wheezing and gasping for air
Wearing pyjamas and combing his hair
Paragon-Smythe was a good little man
But he'll never play cricket again

That's about as good as I could do with Google. It does say it's psychedelic! (http://www.mp3.com.au/track.asp?id=35681)

― sleep (sleep), Thursday, 28 April 2005 14:18 (twenty-one years ago)

Woohoo! That's surely it, although I def. heard it before 1997. Aha, googling again says 1992. Thanks, sleep!

(sleep... mmm....)

― OleM (OleM), Thursday, 28 April 2005 15:28 (twenty-one years ago)

Jay-Z.

― Nick H (Nick H), Thursday, 28 April 2005 15:29 (twenty-one years ago)

Yoshimi P-We

― Open your eyes; you can fly! (ex machina), Thursday, 28 April 2005 16:04 (twenty-one years ago)

no prob OleM

also, Tim Friese-Greene!

― sleep (sleep), Thursday, 28 April 2005 16:46 (twenty-one years ago)

Me, although the surname is a pseudonym.

― Ian Riese-Moraine has a grenade, that pineapple's not just a toy! (Eastern Mantr, Thursday, 28 April 2005 16:50 (twenty-one years ago)

Ky-mani Marley?

― peter smith (plsmith), Thursday, 28 April 2005 16:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Ned Rag-gett?
Alex In-NYC?

― Stewart Os-borne (Stewart Osborne), Thursday, 28 April 2005 17:11 (twenty-one years ago)

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