Bands whose names you've misinterpreted

If this has been done, I couldn't find it.

Anyway, I originally thought that The Inspiral Carpets were The Inspirational Carpets.

ever heard of Palais Schaumburg?
mumbling radio dj's made me believe the bands name was
Panesch Hamburg.

OK, here's a story: In the pre-www days of the mid-90s, if you lived in Michigan, you dialed (313) 961-MELT to find out who was playing at St. Andrew's Hall in Detroit, which had (by miles) the most and best bookings at the time. In 1995, I dialed up & listened to the upcoming roster & heard "Laika & the Cosmonauts." The band Laika, having just released their first album, I assumed this meant they were playing with a band called The Cosmonauts opening up for them. So I herded up a gang of people and made the move to Detroit, only to find out that we had purchased tickets to Laika & The Cosmonauts, a surf-rock band (who were actually pretty great, but when you're exptecting something, you're expecting something).

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

i prefer my interpretation to theirs

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.

For years, my friend Josh thought Die Kreuzen (mispronouncing it as "Die Cruisin'" as opposed to "Dee Croytzen") was about a car accident.

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

I thought the same, until I read this post!

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?

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.

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!"

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)

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)

Serves everybody right

Swerves everybody right

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.