Artists You've Written Off/Pointedly Ignored because of their name

Donkey Punch

There is a band playing at my friend's underground festival this weekend called TURD THROWER.
Pretty sure I am missing that day, anyway.

Doesn't sound like something you'd want to catch, that's for sure.

TURD THROWER.

Bahahahaha

GG Allin tribute band?

Any act whose name has the word "fuck" or "shit" in it. I'm too old for that type of "edginess".

Any act whose name has more than four words. "I just bought the new album by I Love You But My Panda Is Gay" is not a sentence I ever want to say out loud.

LOL! I would totally be in a joke band called I Love You But My Panda Is Gay.

A friend recommended me a band called Volapük but I can't listen to them because every time I read it I think "vomit puke".

Which reminds me: Vomit Launch

Vomit Launch are a great band!

Maybe they are but y'know

Big "a-doy" one that I'm shocked hasn't wound up here yet: Limp Bizkit.

There are plenty of other, more credible reasons to write off Limp Bizkit.

But the name is a pretty adequate map of the territory, you have to admit.

Touché.

Hurrah for Alex' Pissed Jeans loving.

For me, they reignited that whole Flipper, Fang, Killdozer flame with their debut. Their second one was, erm, toilet but "King of Jeans" nails it.

Hilarious existential sarcasm.

Would love to see them live. Any good?

new reviews at Onion's AV club:

Music

* Carissa's Wierd A
* The Innocence Mission B+
* Danger Mouse And Sparklehorse B-
* School Of Seven Bells C

"Danger Mouse and Sparklehorse" sounds like an 80s Saturday morning cartoon.

I think Volapük is a decent band name, at least if you know what "volapük" is.

tUnE yArDs -- it's so "I am experimental just like those Dirty Projectors you've been reading about in New York Magazine, hence I have wAcKy cApS!"

I look at that band name and my mind automatically skips over the "UnE y" part

hahaha

Turd Thrower turned out to be Lightning Bolt.
Pleasantly surprised.

I think Volapük is a decent band name, at least if you know what "volapük" is.

Just looked it up. That is pretty interesting.

Ozric Tentacles.
Spyro Gyra.
Keel.
Enuff Z'nuff.
Fattburger.

tUnE yArDs took the cake for me. also any "female name" "and the" "quirky object" theme: marina and the diamonds, florence and the machine, etc.

Bunnygrunt

Drunkdriver.

Rilo Kiley

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Never have I been so sure that I did not want to hear a band.

is it because of the rainbow?

curren$y

Sounds exactly like I expected too -- three girls from a Vassar College acapella group discover Gillian Welch and their parents' copy of Anthology of American Folk Music, decide to make a record.

Fyfe Dangerfield

you are missing nothing

Hurrah for Alex' Pissed Jeans loving.

For me, they reignited that whole Flipper, Fang, Killdozer flame with their debut. Their second one was, erm, toilet but "King of Jeans" nails it.

Hilarious existential sarcasm.

Would love to see them live. Any good?

― Fer Jessie the Drunk Dutch Mountain Ark (Mobbed Up Ping Pong Psychos), Thursday, July 15, 2010 6:49 PM (1 month ago) Bookmark

they used to be good! havent seen em since between the first and second records, but they were good then. i didnt love the second LP either, after feeling just ^^ this way about the first. maybe i should check out KoJ?

Vampire Weekend. unless they are the best band of all time, i probably just won't bother.

Meat Puppets

Toddla T

oh no! oh my!

Floetry

creedence clearwater revival, what the fuck is that all about?

creedence clearwater revival, what the fuck is that all about?

It's better than their previous name!

^ Jesus Christ, yes x 100000000000000000

Apparently there's a a band called "Rapeman", inspired by a manga of the same name. Can't imagine ever buying their records (or the manga, for that matter).

If you were into the Wax Trax scene of the 80s & 90s, you owned those Rapeman EPs.

Tuomas, they were Steve Albini's next band after Big Black split up. It was quite a controversial name at the time, or at least it was a bit of an issue when they visited the UK. I went to see them at Leeds Polytechnic and iirc, that gig only just went ahead after threats by the student union to pull it. Outside the venue there was a sizeable student protest and Albini did have to answer questions about the name in every single interview that I ever read. Was never all that comfortable about the name myself tbh and mostly went to the show on account of the other two groups on the bill (Band of Susans and Dinosaur Jr.).

If you were into the Wax Trax scene of the 80s & 90s, you owned those Rapeman EPs.

yeah, it's true. those dudes copped all their good ideas from the first few big black records.

but christ, "rapeman". tried to be okay with the name, still love the records, but christ.

lol @ CCR

Outside the venue there was a sizeable student protest and Albini did have to answer questions about the name in every single interview that I ever read.

Interesting, what was his justification for the name then?