hey guys - ten notable solo artists who go by pluralized names as fast as you can - GO

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Nine Inch Nails

nickalicious, Tuesday, 27 November 2007 03:19 (eighteen years ago)

Okay 9.

nickalicious, Tuesday, 27 November 2007 03:20 (eighteen years ago)

the streets (kind of)

aconner2, Tuesday, 27 November 2007 03:21 (eighteen years ago)

afx twins

El Tomboto, Tuesday, 27 November 2007 03:22 (eighteen years ago)

bill withers

El Tomboto, Tuesday, 27 November 2007 03:24 (eighteen years ago)

vangelis

El Tomboto, Tuesday, 27 November 2007 03:26 (eighteen years ago)

Ken Ishii

El Tomboto, Tuesday, 27 November 2007 03:26 (eighteen years ago)

LIFT BOYS

Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Tuesday, 27 November 2007 03:35 (eighteen years ago)

Mountain Goats (sometimes)

o. nate, Tuesday, 27 November 2007 03:47 (eighteen years ago)

Dom & Roland
Omni Trio

Tuomas, Tuesday, 27 November 2007 10:02 (eighteen years ago)

How is Ken Ishii a plural?

Tuomas, Tuesday, 27 November 2007 10:05 (eighteen years ago)

BRIGHT EYES!

Mark G, Tuesday, 27 November 2007 10:26 (eighteen years ago)

that's seven now.

Mark G, Tuesday, 27 November 2007 10:31 (eighteen years ago)

McLars

The Wayward Johnny B, Tuesday, 27 November 2007 13:26 (eighteen years ago)

5. lcd soundsystem, pretty much

nate woolls, Tuesday, 27 November 2007 13:28 (eighteen years ago)

no hang on

nate woolls, Tuesday, 27 November 2007 13:29 (eighteen years ago)

Silver Jews? Sometimes?

I eat cannibals, Tuesday, 27 November 2007 23:56 (eighteen years ago)

My Dad is Dead

sonofstan, Tuesday, 27 November 2007 23:57 (eighteen years ago)

Aztec Camera more or less. At least from around the 3./4. album onwards.

Geir Hongro, Wednesday, 28 November 2007 00:13 (eighteen years ago)

Carl Wilson calls these "bandonyms," as in...

Guided By Voices, despite the participation of some pretty solid musicians (Tobin Sprout) over the years, was essentially a "bandonym" for Pollard himself, to use the term coined by Carl Wilson in an EMP paper, in the same vein as Smog (Bill Callahan), Palace (Will Oldham), Destroyer (Dan Bejar) and Mountain Goats (John Darnielle).

jaymc, Wednesday, 28 November 2007 00:16 (eighteen years ago)

but smog, palace, destroyer and aztet camera aren't plurals. nor is guided by voices, for that matter.

fact checking cuz, Wednesday, 28 November 2007 00:33 (eighteen years ago)

Nor is LCD Soundsystem, if we're being pedant.

Tuomas, Wednesday, 28 November 2007 00:34 (eighteen years ago)

that's not being pedant at all -- it's the entire point of the thread! - and yes i agree, lcd soundsystem doesn't work either, as i believe the person who posted that one figured out one minute later.

fact checking cuz, Wednesday, 28 November 2007 00:38 (eighteen years ago)

six organs of admittance

Mark Clemente, Wednesday, 28 November 2007 00:39 (eighteen years ago)

Ruins is basically Yoshida, no?

poortheatre, Wednesday, 28 November 2007 00:47 (eighteen years ago)

Foo Fighters (on their debut at least)
The Cuff Links/The Archies (essentially just Ron Dante, mostly the former rather than the latter)

Bo Jackson Overdrive, Wednesday, 28 November 2007 00:52 (eighteen years ago)

Home Blitz!

Mike Dixn, Wednesday, 28 November 2007 01:03 (eighteen years ago)

The Microphones

Z S, Wednesday, 28 November 2007 02:07 (eighteen years ago)

no to ruins

Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Wednesday, 28 November 2007 02:09 (eighteen years ago)


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