Bands whose names you've misinterpreted

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for quite a while i thought the courteeners were called the courteneers

I thought the same, until I read this post!

The Pompatus Of Love (Boxing Kangaroo), Sunday, 26 April 2009 17:57 (fifteen years ago) link

I always glossed over the second "vel" in "The Velvelettes"; I read it as "Velvettes." "Velvette" is at least a legitimate play on words--what the hell is a "velvel" that there could be a diminutive female version of?

Hideous Lump, Sunday, 26 April 2009 18:27 (fifteen years ago) link

maybe they came up with the velvelettes which was too close to the velvets? motown generally tried to avoid gimmicky or copy-cat names for their bands.

lil waynes babymama (musically), Sunday, 26 April 2009 18:39 (fifteen years ago) link

the drug sentiment of Cop Shoot Cop went over my head for years. i thought it was an anti-fuzz sentiment.

i think it was when spiritualized came out with a song with the same name and i thought, "hey, wait, why would he sing a song called...ohhhhhh, now i get it!"

scott seward, Sunday, 26 April 2009 18:56 (fifteen years ago) link

haha at first I took the name Collective Soul to mean in the soul-music sense, not the Ayn Rand one (I didn't know her at all at the time, and barely do now, not that I'm in a hurry to learn more)

Matos W.K., Sunday, 26 April 2009 19:25 (fifteen years ago) link

five years pass...

O & another 90s concert-going tale: I was at a Swervedriver show in '93 at The Blind Pig in Ann Arbor, and there were a couple gnarly aggro-punks up front who kept trying to incite a violent mosh pit b/c they were pissed that it was "Swervedriver," instead of "Skrewdriver," who they had expected to see.

― SORCEROUSES..roll on stage! (Pillbox), Sunday, 26 April 2009 07:30 (5 years ago)

disconnected externalized and unrecognizable signifying structure (nakhchivan), Thursday, 20 November 2014 18:35 (nine years ago) link

Serves everybody right

why do I hate that thing (excluding imago, marcos) (wins), Thursday, 20 November 2014 18:39 (nine years ago) link

Swerves everybody right

Sir Lord Baltimora (Myonga Vön Bontee), Thursday, 20 November 2014 21:18 (nine years ago) link

screw everybody, right?

i still insist "hinder" is pronounced with a long i, and i refuse to listen to anybody who wishes to tell me otherwise.

rushomancy, Thursday, 20 November 2014 21:38 (nine years ago) link


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