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

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

SPOTLIGHT::
Who Are...Mountain Man

File Under: Harmonic Appalachian folk
For Fans Of: Fleet Foxes, Grizzly Bear, Joni Mitchell
Personae: Molly Sarle, Alexandra Sauser-Monnig and
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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?

so many already mentioned above. floetry ffs. kill: rapeman, tUnE yArDs, carissa's wierd, eyehategod, clap your hands say yeah, toad the wet sprocket, the pains of being pure at heart, gastunk, fuck buttons (who i love despite their awful awful name), uh huh her, cunninglynguists, racoo-oo-oon, someone still loves you boris yeltsin, on! air! library!, aids wolf, natalie portman's shaved head, cute is what we aim for, dananananakroyd, does it offend you, yeah?, hoobastank, pocahaunted, gorky's zygotic mynci, casiotone for the painfully alone, ...and you will know us by the trail of dead, dan le sac vs scroobius pip, gay witch abortion, umphrey's mcgee, my cat is an alien, oOoOOo, you say party! we say die onstage!, limp bizkit

also kill some more:

flobots
my chemical romance
sixpence none the richer
save ferris
gogogo airheart
poopshovel
basically any contemporary band with a name evoking hazy summer memories

somebody mentioned black tape for a blue girl. really? always thought that was a lovely name. never heard the band.

IIRC it was just some stuff about how it was solely a reference to the manga strip, and how bizarre that strip was, and that the name wasn't really a big deal for them. xp

haha @ poopshovel btw

rapeman is a great name, what is wrong with you?

black tape for a blue girl are a pretty horrible band I gotta say

http://i274.photobucket.com/albums/jj242/donaldparsley/poopshovel.jpg

"Some things hurt more, much more than Cars and Skateboards"

yes, things such as poopshovels, apparently

http://c4.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images02/98/l_a841318405c34338b35d8f334259dba7.jpg

^ I think all the acts on Community 3 had terrible names

plus some of the ugliest record covers known to man. remember looking with confused disdain at chicken scratch and horny genius records many a time. never thought to listen to one. spent quite a while looking for opus lengthemus though.

btw, if harrison buttwhistle were a band, well, i'm just saying...

Horny Genius had this one single whose awful cover was a photo of a man holding a bbq-ed cat on a stick.

i am so glad i don't know what you're talking about

(please don't help me know)

For years, that picture was what I thought of whenever I wondered what Iowa was like.

somebody mentioned black tape for a blue girl. really? always thought that was a lovely name.

I dunno. I picture the black tape as something a rapeman would use.

all of the above... plus

If you were into the Wax Trax scene of the 80s & 90s, you owned those Rapeman EPs. - I just realized that earlier I had somehow confused Rapeman with Lard, the intermittent Al Jourgenson/ Jello Biafra collab. I do also recall Rapeman, though. I had the Budd EP at some point. Never really thought it held a candle to Albinis more noteworthy projects & did not investigate further. I think they only put out two or three other records anyway.

Delicate Steve