Are there band names/song and album titles that *cross the line* for you

There used to be a group called "River City Rapists" around here, taking their name from a serial offender who worked the Town Lake jogging paths.

Classy!

Diarrhea of Anne Frank.

It's not so much offensive as just gross.

Also, "Cherry Poppin' Daddys" seemed like a poor combination of words.

(but also pretty funny)

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At least Diarrhea of Anne Frank sounds like something that would have been funny when they thought of it, like they were stoned out of their minds and cracking themselves up.

S.I.D.S. bothers me more than child abuse actually.

It didn't upset me, but "Mid-Missouri Sex Offenders" offended some...They were awesome, though!

I've always avoided ...And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead because there's no way a band with a name that stupid can make decent music.

oops. it was just "Missouri Sex Offenders"

it's funny, a band like meatshits doesn't really bother me. their album covers and titles are really offensive and everything, but they are so over the top that it just seems silly to get upset about. i feel that way about most goregrind. and i often like the music. one exception would be the last album by xxx maniak, harvesting the cunt nectar. it just really really bugged me for some reason. one extra-musical reason was that i heard that they were ex-porn people and the album itself just seems so porn-y in a really bad porn way. just skeezy. most goregrind is just some doofus with an overactive imagination trying to gross out as many people as he can. these dudes are just gross. period. but mostly pork soda is my least favorite album title. yuck. i just hate it so much and it's why i will never listen to primus. some people are just better than other people at being wacky. or dumb.

i think i'm like very sensitive w.regard to this, i really have a problem with Butthole Surfers kindof names, and a lot of the things mentioned on this thread kinda make me sick... ::shrugs::

oops. it was just "Missouri Sex Offenders"

following cease and desist letter from mid-missouri...

That Limp Bizkit album with the title I can't be bothered to look up in full. You know the one.

http://cover6.cduniverse.com/MuzeAudioArt/Large/32/598732.jpg

lol whaaaat

but mostly pork soda is my least favorite album title. yuck. i just hate it so much and it's why i will never listen to primus.

The title of Final Fantasy's 2006 album.

chocolate starfish and the hot-dog flavored water

otm turangalia

i don't even want to say it.

one of my fav band names ever was this old local mpls band called John Updyke Lick Pussy

I'm still amazed that people are all weirded out over He Poos Clouds, which is just a LESS gross way to say "his shit don't stink."

less gross != not gross

Agree with Seward on XXX Maniak. I just threw that album away without even playing it, and I'm a guy who laughed out loud when I got Regurgitate's Carnivorous Erection (go ahead, Google the album cover) in the mail.

I'm still amazed that people are all weirded out over He Poos Clouds, which is just a LESS gross way to say "his shit don't stink."

-- nabisco, Friday, June 22, 2007 7:40 PM (8 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

"I'M GONNA FILL YOUR HOO-HA WITH MY GOOF JUICE"

I mean yeah, it offends my bourgeois sensibilities, but I'd like to think that being sickened by child abuse is one of the best bourgeois sensibilities one can have.

What?

Rapeman always bothered me.

if Happy Flowers weren't so gosh-darned lovable, I'd be put off by a name like Mr. Horribly-Charred Infant...

No.

being sickened by child abuse is one of the best bourgeois sensibilities

the proletariat smacks its kids

If a band name bothers your "bourgeois sensibilities" it's probably a sign that it's a really good band name.

otm

i would like to go on record as saying that i am not offended by the name of dave pajo's "metal" band, Dead Child, but I was offended by how horrible the music was on the album.

oh, and Child Abuse suck too.

I googled the CA album cover literally five minutes ago for eBay selling purposes, so no, I didn't like it that much either. "Harvesting The Cunt Nectar" sounds quite cute to me somehow! Cross-ref w/ Seinfeld bee rape maybe.

Yeah, but that's kind of my point, which I guess I didn't get across. I mean to say that offending bourgeois sensibilities is normally a good goal for a band name. But Child Abuse just conjures up really awful stuff in my mind without any further purpose - maybe it's because of the stuff that's been in the news about the child porn rings, maybe because of stories I hear from my wife about neglected and abused kids. I'm not thinking about a little slap in the face when I hear the name.

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i know it's incredibly offensive but sudden infant dance syndrome is just too funny

sorry

No that shit is hilarious.

I don't find it offensive, but every time I hear "AIDS Wolf" I think "Now there's a bunch of idiots." It's just a reflex. Maybe they're good, I dunno.

"But Child Abuse just conjures up really awful stuff in my mind without any further purpose"

but, see, they are a really awful band with no purpose! so, in a way, the name is perfect.

i remember when albini did that run nigger run thing that, um, he really didn't have to go and do that. or call it that. but he did. cuz he so punk.

middle-class white people in "desperate to trangess middle-class white people norms for no productive reason" shocker

I mean, sorry, guys, but the idea that offending bourgeois sensibilities is like inherently categorically awesome is just plain stupid: there are sensibilities there's a point to offending and there are sensibilities that there's no point in offending, and in fact one common bourgeois sensibility is to look down on people for being stupid assholes, and thus often considerable overlap between "offending bourgeois sensibilities" and "being a stupid asshole," the latter of which happens a lot, for some reason.

That said, I never really thought twice about the name Child Abuse, which I guess maybe I should have.

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nabisco, sometimes I feel like you should be a professional thought-clarifier

AIDS Wolf at least has a weird story behind their name though

What is it?

"and thus often considerable overlap between "offending bourgeois sensibilities" and "being a stupid asshole,"

yeah, i don't think anyone is arguing that people who are trying to be offensive aren't also assholes. most of the time they are.

i mean the point of their shockingness is that they are assholes!

socioeconomics is pretty useless as a predictor of assholism

I mean that setting up child porn rings as oppositional to a 'bourgeois sensibility' says something weird about one's attitude toward wealth. or poverty, whatever.

"Growing up in Montana, Albini encountered an unusual array of guests in his childhood home. His mother, Giana Albini, had a charitable bent, and on Christmas and Easter would serve dinner to parollees who worked in forest-clearing crews. When Albini was 16, his mother started inviting Vietnamese and Laotian foster children to live with the family. Albini's father, Frank, was a well-known scientist and an authority on the mathematical modeling of forest fires."

hence the interest in kerosene.

I also wish there was a Jpeg of the Child Abuse T-Shirt. Where the word CHILD ABUSE is written in puffy letters under a rainbow. And all the colors in the rainbow are gray. Ouch.

Have I talked on ILX about the Cheeseburger record whose cover was a big drippy mayo-laden cheeseburger wedged between someone's buttcheeks?

Obviously that's not a name or a title, but it developed this sick fascination for me where I couldn't stop looking at it and being disturbed. We're talking like a tall, condiment-heavy cheeseburger, lettuce and tomato, possibly a double stack. Wedged in someone's ass. Not just gently placed there, but like vigorously wedged in.

i don't know what line that crosses but... I WANT IT CROSSED

What is it?

-- Mark Rich@rdson, Friday, June 22, 2007 10:14 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Link

I dunno, it somehow struck me as slightly better than if they had just randomly combined the words themselves

used to be you could go and see filthy maggoty cunt and vaginal carnage at least weekly in melbourne for a while

hey, leave my mother out of this. i told you, she's in rehab!

I mean that setting up child porn rings as oppositional to a 'bourgeois sensibility'

I didn't really mean that whole "bourgeois sensibilities" thing literally guys.

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there's crossing the line and there's gracefully ballet-jumping over it...

Dying Fetus
and... Miss. Carriage (local band from a few years ago)

my band lightning kikes (a tribute to lou christie and to our own heritage) bothered some people. in one of my proudest ILM moments, we earned an outraged ILM post about the name from michael musto. but most people, when they heard the name, stared back blankly for a moment and then just continued the conversation, clearly trying to avoid any kind of visible reaction, as if they had no idea what the appropriate response should be, and as if they therefore were scared of offending ME with the wrong response.

we eventually changed our name to lightning kites because we got a new bass player who was openly offended and wasn't shy about bringing it up, and we liked her more than we liked the name.

but it was a good name.

"Lightning Strikes" always kind of bothered me! and creeped me out as a kid. i had the 45. i always read it as pro-rape.

filthy maggoty cunt

Disgusting. Needs a comma.

that's an odd reading of "lightning strikes," scott. it's definitely pro-cheating. but that's a very different ball of wax!

michael musto posts to ilx?

It's the way the girls sing "Stop!" just before Lou screams, "I can't stop! I can't stop ..."

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PS: Ashlee Simpson album titles cross the line for me.

Oh, forgot one...Telephone Poles.

I can't believe I scrolled so long before seeing an A.C. reference, as they're the first band that popped into my head.

Also, Scott: I do agree about Pork Soda, but don't let that rule out Primus for you completely. The Brown Album is great stuff.

you guys be the judge. he is obviously a deluded stalker who will stop at nothing to get what he wants:

Listen to me, baby, you gotta understand
You're old enough to know the makings of a man
Listen to me, baby, it's hard to settle down
Am I asking too much for you to stick around

Every boy wants a girl
He can trust to the very end
Baby, that's you
Won't you wait but 'til then

When I see lips beggin' to be kissed (stop)
I can't stop (stop)
I can't stop myself
(Stop, stop)

Lightning is striking again
Lightning is striking again

Nature's takin' over my one-track mind
Believe it or not, you're in my heart all the time
All the girls are sayin' that you'll end up a fool
For the time being, baby, live by my rules

When I settle down
I want one baby on my mind
Forgive and forget
And I'll make up for all lost time

If she's put together fine
And she's readin' my mind (stop)
I can't stop (stop)
I can't stop myself
(Stop, stop)

Lightning is striking again
Lightning is striking again
And again and again and again

[Instrumental Interlude]

Lightning is striking again
Lightning is striking again

There's a chapel in the pines
Waiting for us around the bend
Picture in your mind
Love forever, but 'til then

If she gives me a sign
That she wants to make time (stop)
I can't stop (stop)
I can't stop myself
(Stop, stop)

Lightning is striking again
Lightning is striking again
And again and again and again
Lightning is striking again
And again and again and again

and, yeah, if you have never heard the song you need to know this:

"It's the way the girls sing "Stop!" just before Lou screams, "I can't stop! I can't stop ..."

i know they probably didn't mean it to be so scary, but it always scared me! he just seemed demented to me. plus, his falsetto is pretty damned demented.

that's like the third time that i've posted the lyrics to that song on ilm. it must have really scarred me as a child.

read those lyrics again (and again and again...). the "you" he's addressing is his steady girlfriend. the "she" who's put together fine is another girl altogether, a potential one-night stand. he's not even trying to have sex with the girl he's addressing the song to. he's trying to tell her he's going to marry her one day, and he's going to keep sleeping with other girls until that day (though he'll be thinking of her, "believe it or not"). he's asking her to "stick around" and "wait" and "live by my rules" while he keeps cheating on her.

the backing choir is presumably asking him to "stop" this behavior.

yeah, that makes sense. it's still a strange song. i used to be riveted by it. it was all about all the stuff i didn't know about. it used to weird me out when dion ripped open his shirt and had rosie on his chest when i was little too.

it's definitely strange!

Thankfully, I have just learned from my Todd P e-mail that there is a band called Child Pornography.

I remember hearing that Ed Koch or someone in his administration was so offended by seeing the name of a dB's side project band (Wipe Me Mommy) listed in the Voice that the city banned their show. True? Was this band any good?

White Rose Movement, so called because they were heroically opposed to the war in Iraq AND they like the colour white, or something. Twatsss.

It's hard to be shocked by anything in hip hop anymore, but I know a local MC named The Homicide Rappa, and I think that's a little over the top. Also, he/his label are always commenting on my MySpace page with banners that straddle the line between funny and disturbing (an artistic rendering of Jesus Christ holding a giant machine gun in place of carrying a cross, a promo for a rapper named Glocks Da Gunsmith with a picture of a bloody bullethole in a car's windshield).

well, assuming Child Pornography is a noise group, they chose an appropriately unsearchable phrase.

their myspace is just the two words spelled backwards.

when everybody was going on about child abuse I was thinking wait until they get a load of child pornography.

there's a band from boston called twodeadsluts onegoodfuck, that's a pretty offensive name.

old school ones: zip code rapists, the child molesters

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