US-Centric Stupid Band Name Trends Bobbins

Is the vowel removal trend all played out?

So sick of the "v" as "u" thing.

http://i.imgur.com/I6bdjnk.jpg

don't give the game away!

That "Witch House" genre is/was the worst offender regarding band names

imo if you're going to be replacing Us with Vs then you'd BETTER be witch house, which is why i can't be doing with ch"v"rches and their weedy subknife synthpop

word

or some trv kvlt mvtvl

Is "beach_____" still popular?

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Can we talk about band names like Eagulls and shit?

Also, I won't listen to bands named Perfect Pussy, Diarrhea Planet, etc on principle.

Also, there's a Skaters and a Doldrums that aren't Skaters or Doldrums.

SYNAGOGVES
MOSQVES

Um, last I checked (unless the referendum passed while I wasn't looking) Glasgow was not in the US?

Ha - literally the thing that at the last second caused me to not pull the trigger on ordering the tape was the thought of a package showing up at my work with "Perfect Pussy" in the return address.

Pluralised common nouns are juuust beginning to irritate me a little

Lol, says the guy with a DN commemorating Battles

But that could at least be a verb too

juuust

There are so many post-rock/instrumentalish bands who do this Lords, Grails blahblah who do this it's almost funny. As obvious as all those shit drainpipe indie bands from the mid-00s who called themselves The Houses, The Shivs etc...

jvvvst

i put diarrhea planet, perfect pussy, and oozing wound in the BODY HORROR category
i only know what one of those bands sounds like but in my head they all sound the same

what's horrific about a perfect pussy idgi

speaking as someone with a pluralized single word noun/verb name i kinda wish i would have gone with something a little more searchable, not to mention less confusing to say out loud because it's a homophone, but oh well.

the 'famous musician name pun' has dipped but is still going strong in certain circles, ie Philip Grass, Michael Jukeson, etc

a pedant writes: there are three bands called Lords I'm aware of and none of em are/were post-rock/instrumentalish

also this is a 'trend' that goes back several years surely as per the examples given here

yeah i think of it as very 2009-y

i just gave myself a stupid band name and i feel ok about it, but there are quietly reverberating feelings of shame because i believe it reflects a bit of the body horror onomastic trend
there is no way to win with band names, is there? might as well go with something plain you're comfortable saying out loud around people of all ages.

I basically hate any bandname that avoids ambiguity, and there's no quicker or more annoying way to do this than call your band Women

great thread

(((DI△RRHE△▴PL△NET)))

Perfect Pussy - I Have Lost All Desire For Feeling is one of the most beautiful bandname/album-title pairings of recent years and is almost persuading me to give it a listen

VV0^^3N

just heard of a band I'll be avoiding based on name alone: Alvvays

Perfect Pussy is a great band name and I have seen no evidence of it being part of a "trend"

Pluralised common nouns are juuust beginning to irritate me a little

― Battles, "Atlas" 29 Carly Rae Jepsen, "Call Me Maybe" 14 (imago), Monday, February 3, 2014 3:36 PM (3 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Lol, says the guy with a DN commemorating Battles

― Battles, "Atlas" 29 Carly Rae Jepsen, "Call Me Maybe" 14 (imago), Monday, February 3, 2014 3:37 PM (3 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

But that could at least be a verb too

― Battles, "Atlas" 29 Carly Rae Jepsen, "Call Me Maybe" 14 (imago), Monday, February 3, 2014 3:37 PM (3 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Verb ending in s that could also be a plural noun = the best naming convention obv

Saw a band in my tumblr named 'Broods' and I was like 'Nopes'

http://i.imgur.com/grDzyjy.jpg

http://i975.photobucket.com/albums/ae232/daggerlee/SH/0CA5A1E7-E1C5-4D24-9AAC-F4B4E39BBDE9_zpsunvwt2of.jpg

these aren't new but they've always grated a little: waaves, wooden shjips

^first wave of unnecessarily misspelt bandnames.

How 'bout combining trends? "Bl△ck Cryxtal Bbeach"

Or in a mashup of teh "name your band after bygone pop culture icons" trend with the "unnecessarily chop, sub, or double letters in a word" trend, "The Cryxtal Gales"

lol

B△rBR△ MandriLL

these aren't new but they've always grated a little: waaves, wooden shjips

always thought these were rather thoughtful band names. designed to spare me the trouble of adding "band" to the string when googling.

xpost irl lolz

also contenderizer as usual awesome

Ringo Deathstarr

Com Truise

MAKE IT STOP

i quite liked "the Deathray Davies"

Was just thinking about this type of name a few minutes ago while washing the dishes & listening to Brian Jonestown Massacre. Was Camper Van Beethoven the first robin of that horrible spring?

Electric Light Orchestra has the same construction but without using a famous musician's name obv.

I don't think Wooden Shjips is unnecessarily misspelled so much as a wink at a song title written by a guy who was in one of the OG misspelled bands.

xpost: Fats Domino > Chubby Checker

Elvis Hitler were pretty early on that wave.

xps looking forward to the inevitable BRRDZ release

Joanna Gruesome is a band name. Just thought I'd throw that out there. It's usually the kind of thing that annoys me but all I can manage is a resigned sigh

i found myself slightly irritated today when i read about this local band who sounded pretty good and mentioned someone named Abigail Williams and i thought oh cool, there's a woman in the band but she's not pictured, no, it's just another band full of dudes afaict

see also Audrey Horne (i guess they're from norway but the trend still sucks)

no puns either -- just a bunch of dudes who take a real or fictional woman's name as their name

Lean Quatifah

also a dude

Abigail Williams the deathcore kinda band? it's a Salem witch trails reference, not sure anyone was going for obfuscation there. on the whole this is incredibly played out and ppl should give it a rest I agree

It's not obfuscation, I just didn't get the reference and was disappointed. Then I remembered Audrey Horne and posted grouchily itt.

foster the people
jukebox the ghost
young the giant
minus the bear
evans the death
cage the elephant
portugal the man
jeff the brotherhood
walk the moon

stop it. or, should i say, stop the it.

jimmy the hoover
volcano the bear
kissing the pink

clearly the worst

on the money

Perfect Pussy is a great band name and I have seen no evidence of it being part of a "trend"

― Burt Stuntin (Hurting 2), Wednesday, February 5, 2014 11:57 PM (3 weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

There's a band in Atlanta called Pussy Pussy fwiw.

I was a little annoyed at Portland's PWRHAUS for doing this, but the album's good, so whatever.

perfect the pussy

PRFCT TH PSSY

in the oozing wound/black pus camp, i was wondering this morning if there was a band called botched execution
or if there will be by the end of the week

my friends' bands are opening next month for a band called Ringo Deathstar(r)?

yeah they are ok like super uncanny MBV ripoff but not too bad

why don't they just use fentanyl for executions? idgi

Swami Hagar is still up for grabs.

dying at my desk thinking about swami hagar

there's a noise dude here that performs as Slammy Hagar

David Lee Roffles

i had to explain to my coworkers why i was laughing so much
this is ridiculous

are Weave Malkmus or Sick Cheney taken?

Misread that band up there as PWRHANAS

that's a better name than PWRHAUS at least

Thinking of starting a band called Moonbase Alfalpha

Thinking about starting a band called STIVIANO now

Jerry Seinfeld Garcia Band

there's a noise dude here that performs as Slammy Hagar

That's weird, I know a dude who made a, uh, druggy short film that was about a thinly veiled Hagar. They called him Slammy!

Diarrhea Planet are a band that plays "whoa-oh-oh" bro-punk stuff and has four guitar players. I can't see how they could be named anything else.

I mean, to get back to months old posts.

I always wanted to put a band together and call it Bruce Springsteen, thought there could be a lot of potential there.

Or possibly Bruise Pristine

Trying to think which cult psych/prog band just had an electronic band lift their name and do something like replace 'u's with 'v's. Saw a column in Mojo or somewhere last month that mentioned this band and I thought, god isn't that band whose name was lifted rather well known? & I don't think it was an April Fool's thing or something

In a similar vein, there's an electronic project called Downliners Sekt. As opposed to Downliners Sect from the 60s. Never knew if that was a reference to something from a book or movie in the first place though.

There was an extremely short-lived local band about 10 years ago that called themselves Neil Young. Some of its members went on to form a modestly successful emo band.

offenders:

- bands whose names make you think they're teenage girls but are not in fact teenage girls, SO HILARIOUS YOU GUYS: Girls, Tweens, Teen, etc
- bands whose names straight-up make fun of people. this is a broad category that encompasses everything from Hot Chelle Rae to Friendless Bummer.

The powerful associative effect of names is often misunderstood. While fondly thought of, mammalian names are a mistake--unless one chooses a mythical beast. A wild animal is a graceful creature that needs no clothes or grooming to look spectacular, and your onlookers--their expectations heightened--will inevitably be disappointed by the oafish onstage display of whatever crew of humanoids you've managed to muster. "Oh dear," they will say, "they are nothing like wolves/foxes/etc." If one hangs sucha name on one's group, one is raising the bar too high.

Male groups with "Girls" in their name have a similar problem. In literature and film, the "girl" represents the reader's/viewer's pure self-image. The audience is supposed to identify with the "girl," who is innocent, brave, artless, attractive, and clever (e.g., Chihiro of Spirited Away, Pippi Longstocking, and Dorothy Gale from The Wizard of Oz). Film noir is predicated on the opposite idea--that audiences like to identify with cynical, morally bankrupt, been-there done-thats. These roles are typically played by middle-aged men with five o'clock shadows (Humphry Bogart, Glenn Ford, Robert Mitchum). Most groups now resemble the stars of the noir genre, physically if not sartorially. Bands with "Girl" in their name are almost invariably these kinds of hairy and less attractive men. As a rule, then, males should avoid group names with "Girl."

--Ian Svenonius, Supernatural Strategies

Hot Bod Dylan

― how's life, Thursday, May 1, 2014 9:54 AM (39 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

In a similar vein, there's an electronic project called Downliners Sekt. As opposed to Downliners Sect from the 60s. Never knew if that was a reference to something from a book or movie in the first place though.

― Slumdog Baseballionaire (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Thursday, May 1, 2014 8:19 AM (9 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

This was the band I was thinking of. Surprised cos I don't know any previous reference than the 60s band whose Rock Sect's In I loved in my mid teens. Probably still do, just need a decent version of it, the Sanctuary anthology thing has really tinny sound.

my brother played a show with a band called BOOB DYLAN the other night. uh, in minneapolis? thought that was pretty great.

The possibilities are endless. Blob Dylan, Slob Dylan, Glob Dylan, Mob Dylan, Knob Dylan . . .

Bob Dylan Seinfeld Jurassic Park