Which bands were most frequently scrawled on/carved into desks at your school?

feels like it was ride and james

No one liked bands at my school, this wasn't the 00s.

Marilyn Manson, KoRn

Cypress Hill, Metallica.

This was in the early nineties when I was in upper elementary, I don't think people wrote band names to desks after that.

Though mostly it was tags, pussy and dick pictures, and insults directed towards others.

Korn, definitely. A girl I was friends with liquid-papered their logo on my bag. I didn't even bother to try to remove it.

Thirds for KoRn

lol early 00s girls' school - variations on "I love BSB" and "Mike Shinoda is HOTTT!!!"

MAC DRE

when i was in high school it was very cool to do a drawing of the cartoon snoop dogg from the doggystyle booklet standing in front of a marijuana leaf

i personally recall carving SLAYER, PANTERA, F.N.M. and KMFDM into desks using a compass. later (around 94?) NiN was a very trendy choice, i think i carved that a few places.

Someone wrote NWA on my pencil case and I didn't know what it meant :/

yeah that happened to me in like fifth grade!!

i've noticed a serious decrease in desk carving compared to back when i was in school, maybe because all the punk kids are into emo bands with horrible pretentious names like "the prom queen's yacht in flames"

just as i was finishing school: JAWBREAKER, 3MP, UOA, HEROIN, ANTIOCH ARROW, CLICKITAT

but if you wanted to do that authentically you couldn't deface public property, you had to do it on an old-school composition notebook w/ a sharpie or a fountain pen while wearing a thrift store v-neck sweater over a solid t-shirt

ANY 'COCKS' GROUPS OUT THERE BECAUSE THEY'RE SCRAWLED ALL OVER THE WALLS AT MY 'SCHOOL'

Oh Nirvana by a long long way.

REVOLTING COCKS

The Jam, various Two Tone acts, Clash. Showing my age.

RHCP, James

I remember very few desk carvings when I was in school and very few if any were bands. You were probably more likely to see a pot leaf or an Arctic Cat logo where I grew up.

I remember writing 2pac and Dr. Dre on my notebooks in middle school (early 90s).

INXS and U2

Earliest ones I remember were:

Groundhogs
Sensational Alex Harvey Band ("Vambo Rools" was v v popular)

hahaha

Pashmina: snap. We had VAMBO ROOLS all over the place.

KISS

Probably Led Zep. Their fans tended to be the most compulsive about display their fandom.

(if you can't the whole Zoso thing.)

Deep Purple, Black Sabbath, Yes.

I am old.

stp, bush, metallica

I remember my mate Brik using a compass (or protracter? I can't remember which was which now) to guage out some Deep Purple graffitti and then put The Stranglers over the top. Heady days.

guage = gauge

When I was doing my O-level mocks they dug out exam desks which seemed to date back to the 16th century. On one of mine, a previous candidate had carved in the entire lyric to Bruce's 'I'm On Fire':

SOMETIMES ITS LIKE SOMEONE TOOK A KNIFE BABY
EDGY AND DULL AND CUT A SIX-INCH VALLEY
THROUGH THE MIDDLE OF MY SOUL

AT NIGHT I WAKE UP WITH THE SHEETS SOAKING WET
AND A FREIGHT TRAIN RUNNING THROUGH THE
MIDDLE OF MY HEAD

The nutjob faction seemed fond of Spear Of Destiny, too: esp 'LIBERATOR!'

Also punk desk graffiti was all black marker pens whereas rock ones were coloured in band symbols.

On the bridge over the river where I live there are STP stickers on every single light post. ITS TWO THOUSAND EIGHT!

Er, IT'S

Led Zeppelin, Rush, Pink Floyd lyrics...

Rush, Slayer, and Public Enemy (this was mid- late-80s).

who was carving james into the desk? i mean, come on, how rebellious. sure it wasn't just some dude writing his first name?

and to answer the question: koRn.

slayer as well. i think it was some sort of nod to the picture featured in the sleeve of divine intervention of some dude who had carved it into his arm.

Nirvana, Chili Peppers, Pearl Jam, Blur and maybe some more token indie but grunge roold in Cornwall and probably still does.

There was a wall opposite the entrance to the sixth form college - so this would be 10 years ago - where marker pen graffiti bigging up Crass and UK Decay still survived. I was always pretty impressed with that

Do you think there are bands out there coming up with logos with tree bark carveability / pencil case writeability in mind? It seems like maybe they should!

I distinctly remember sitting down at a desk where someone had done an excellent rendition in pen and ink of the Aerosmith logo. Very impressive to me, as someone who was continually trying to get the freaking Yes logo right, but never could.

Beyond that, Zeppelin, VAN HALEN, VH perhaps most of all.

forgot AC/DC. that was a big one, too

ditto for AC/DC

Discharge
The Exploited
Motorhead
Iron Maiden
Whitesnake
Duran Duran
Ultravox
Van Halen
ZZ Top
Frankie Goes to Hollywood

http://www.astroland.net/ilovemetal.JPG

Try again

http://www.astroland.net/Music/ilovemetal.JPG

bone thugs
smashing pumpkins

Van Halen by a factor of a million or so over runner up Led Zep

ACDC
VH
OZZY

...dude in math class did a CELTIC FROST logo on his binder which really impressed me. that seven pointed star is not easy to draw....

damn some of you went to some twee secondary schools

"Violent Femmes"

i clearly remember this happening too except the only song anybody at my school even remotely liked was "gone, baby gone"

Motley Crue, Iron Maiden, and Twisted Sister (middle school, the 80's)

i am sitting at school right now in el libro and i am contemplating carving DEBARGE on the desk

>>>>>>>>>>>> INSANE CLOWN POSSE / I.C.P. <<<<<<<<<<<<

Fuck

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no question

Who and Zep come to mind

My school was definitely in the Van Halen/Zep/Floyd/ACDC/Ozzy category.

Wu Tang logo

I had to wash one off of a desk once because the dean thought I had written it

It was large, too, outlined and filled in with permanent marker

My period stopped working, sorry

^^ is that a ghostface verse??

Ranomes (my work)
Primus
Rage
etc

weirdly, the new fast automatic daffodils. indeed: that's how i first heard of them.

i remember being 10 or 11 -- mid-eighties -- and seeing SEX PISTOLS carved with what must have been a fucking machete into a desk. i hadn't really heard of them at all -- i just knew they were PUNK and SCARY -- but i did think, fuck me, i bet i'm going to love that band when i hear them.

and lo, i did.

ISTR scratching THE FALL into a few desks myself, mainly because those are easy geometric letters ;)

Iron Maiden
Van Halen
AC/DC
Ozzy
maybe Lynyrd Skynyrd
These were also the most likely candidates to be drawn in pen on the backs of jean jackets in my school. (usually with the arms ripped off.)

Carter USM
The Cure
JAMC
Pixies

(my desk, mainly)

from the kids in my year - pantera, pantera and more pantera.

i always thought this older girl was really cool who had 'violent femmes' on her school bag. i had never heard them and didn't til some time later, think i thought they were a was like a feminist punk band or something.

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see, if i'd gone around between 1988 and 1992 carving SECTION 25 [1] and ORCHESTRAL MANOEUVRES IN THE DARK [2] into desks, it would have been pretty fucking obvious whose handiwork it was :/

[1] i'm saddened, actually, that even in their home town there was absolutely no section 25 graffiti anywhere.
[2] shame there was never a handy shortened name for this band -- maybe some kind of three-letter abbreviation. would have been a boon to desk-etchers everywhere.

I think most band names on desks at my school were put there by me or my Y8 desk neighbour. Don't remember many others - PWEI scratched into a science lab desk, RHCP, Blur, a desk with Teenage Fanclub and someone vaguely baggy on.

There were a lot of Manics song titles in biro or tippex on battered army surplus rucksacks, though. Meanwhile I missed the entire point of having such an ugly rucksack by never writing/drawing on it because I wanted to save it for when I had a really good design (never did, of course). But yeah, girls' school in early/mid-90s = half people with battered army surplus Manics rucksacks, half people with Take That stickers all over their otherwise pristine science files.

i had a big picture of martin hannett on my french folder in sixth form.

rather less esoterically, i had keith from the farm on my english folder.

(my classics folder, meanwhile, had an elaborately cut-and-pasted montage involving, er, photographs of one of the classical studies teachers being inserted into various Viz cartoons. quite why he tolerated such shit, i've no idea.)

english dept seminar room @ tulane dominated by massive table with decades of historic band-name carvings. highlights include "uriah heep" and "dub narcotic." never thought of calvin johnson fans as table-carving types.

see, if i'd gone around between 1988 and 1992 carving ... ORCHESTRAL MANOEUVRES IN THE DARK into desks, it would have been pretty fucking obvious whose handiwork it was :/

shame there was never a handy shortened name for this band -- maybe some kind of three-letter abbreviation. would have been a boon to desk-etchers everywhere.

are you kidding?

Justice

M People

Arthur Russell

Jandek

Class of 87 - lots of VH and Metallica.

icp and korn

Moonship, where were you at? I had junior and high school years in SD and saw no UOA or Clickitat scrawls. Your school wins.

I remember a lot of kids wearing T-shirts of bands, but my school didn't really have an exceptional amount of desk vandalism that i can remember

Jandek

-- Mackro Mackro

Smile of the week

grateful dead, oddly enough

this was around the time those dr. seuss hats became popular

are you kidding?

DUDE. come on :)

def metallica-- we had old ass desks tho

I don't know about most frequent but the best was the desk in my 7th grade english class with WHITE LOIN carved into it.

For some reason kids in my school were obsessed with the Doors. Maybe because the logo was easy to carve, but it was everywhere. That stupid val kilmer movie had something to do with it too. One lone kid kept carving 'Nitzer Ebb' into stuff but nobody else joined in.

NIN
seBADoh
smashing pumpkins logo with heart

2unlimited
Rednex
Whigfield
The Grid
Reel 2 Reel
Outhere Brothers
20 Fingers Featuring Gillette

Gioachino Rossini is a Fudgepacker (chemistry 1983)

it is pretty odd to see no mention thus far of GNR

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Well that didn't work. It's supposed to be the AC/DC from over here: http://www.ascii-art.de/ascii/ab/band_logos.txt

My final desk at school had Half Man Half Biscuit scrathed into it. I hadn't heard of them and assumed it was just a joke.

it is pretty odd to see no mention thus far of GNR

I think for carved into desks purposes it was required to be GnFnR

Phuck Phish