Nah, that happened before I got tired of it. ;)
― cwkiii, Thursday, 30 August 2012 02:28 (eleven years ago) link
Drive By Truckers
― Vic Perry, Thursday, 30 August 2012 04:23 (eleven years ago) link
Missing or superfluous letters automatically put bands on this list for me these days. Just tired of it already.
It's so you can Google them isn't it?
― hurricane weather (forapper), Thursday, 30 August 2012 04:54 (eleven years ago) link
That makes sense. But then there are newish bands with names that seem to have been chosen deliberately to defy Google (e.g. The Men, Girls) that still come up as the #1 search result when you search for their name + "band". I don't know, I guess it's mostly in my head, but I tend to avoid bands that jump on what appear to be band name trends; like if you formed some time in the middle of the last decade and have the word "Wolf" in your name, you were written off/pointedly ignored.
It's the all caps-no vowels band names in particular these days that have been bugging me. But at least this thread exists so I can take comfort in knowing I'm not alone in being unfairly dismissive!
― cwkiii, Thursday, 30 August 2012 13:20 (eleven years ago) link
Anything that makes me use Character Map.
― Click here to read in HD (dog latin), Thursday, 30 August 2012 13:25 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.ilxor.com/ILX/SiteNewAnswersControllerServlet
― look at this quarterstaff (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 18 September 2012 21:16 (eleven years ago) link
Sorry
The Presets
― look at this quarterstaff (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 18 September 2012 21:17 (eleven years ago) link
why not just call your band "Autopilot" (actually, that's a better name) or "Phoning It In"
king gizzard & the lizard wizard
then i happened to hear one of their tracks accidentally and it was great
― eat sock become sock (electricsound), Tuesday, 3 June 2014 01:48 (nine years ago) link
Dirty beaches.
I mean seriously dude? Two ridiculously overused words in post - 00 band names..lets just mash em together!
I did listen to him though finally. Pretty good shit.
― Dreamland, Tuesday, 3 June 2014 02:18 (nine years ago) link
Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr.
― campreverb, Tuesday, 3 June 2014 15:02 (nine years ago) link
Spotify is bannering me about a band called The Orwells
― ₴HABΔZZ ¶IZZΔ (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 3 June 2014 15:08 (nine years ago) link
But they come so highly recommended...
The Orwells: "They're like the Strokes if the Strokes got hit in the head with rocks."
― Wristy Hurlington (ShariVari), Tuesday, 3 June 2014 15:10 (nine years ago) link
Trying to sound literate by naming your band after an author probably 50% of middle schoolers read: C/D. Also, trying to imply that your shitty indie band is the musical equivalent of a sober, clear-eyed political critic and one of the greatest essayists of all time -- not only highly unlikely, but highly un rock-and-roll even if true.
― ₴HABΔZZ ¶IZZΔ (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 3 June 2014 15:16 (nine years ago) link
CHVRCHES
― clouds, Tuesday, 3 June 2014 15:23 (nine years ago) link
^^^ something about it screams "latecomers to Williamsburg"
― ₴HABΔZZ ¶IZZΔ (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 3 June 2014 15:24 (nine years ago) link
I like the fact the next buzz band to come along was called "Temples". CHVRCHES are fine, name aside, though.
Dirty beaches.I mean seriously dude? Two ridiculously overused words in post - 00 band names..lets just mash em together!
I had assumed that it's a juvenile "dirty bitches" pun rather than evidence of an interest in marine conservation, given that's how about 75% of the world would say those words in English, but i may be wrong.
― Wristy Hurlington (ShariVari), Tuesday, 3 June 2014 15:25 (nine years ago) link
Classixx
Del the Funky Homosapien
― rap is afraid of me (rip van wanko), Tuesday, 3 June 2014 15:39 (nine years ago) link
Nude Beach
― ₴HABΔZZ ¶IZZΔ (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 3 June 2014 15:40 (nine years ago) link
Trying to sound literate by naming your band after an author probably 50% of middle schoolers read: C/D.
Similarly: Gatsby's American Dream
I feel like there were a few other bands in the mid '00s who were heavily influenced by their high school summer reading lists, but the only other examples I can think of right now are shitty local bands.
― cwkiii, Tuesday, 3 June 2014 15:50 (nine years ago) link
I liked Rainer Maria in the day
― rap is afraid of me (rip van wanko), Tuesday, 3 June 2014 16:05 (nine years ago) link
You were assigned Rilke in high school?
I don't think even yr absolute standards are always a bad idea to draw from, e.g. I like the names of both Rollerskate Skinny (Catcher in the Rye) and the Boo Radleys (To Kill a Mockingbird). But "The Orwells" is just so lumpen and ham-fisted.
― emil.y, Tuesday, 3 June 2014 16:18 (nine years ago) link
I agree, and those are great examples. But when done wrong it's just a sad disaster.
― cwkiii, Tuesday, 3 June 2014 16:25 (nine years ago) link
Tempted to start a S/D: Bands Whose Names Are References to Canonical Literature thread, but will restrain myself.
― cwkiii, Tuesday, 3 June 2014 16:26 (nine years ago) link
Although it's neither a truly bad name nor a truly bad band, I kind of knew exactly what Perfect Pussy was going to sound like, and I just recently confirmed it.
― ₴HABΔZZ ¶IZZΔ (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 3 June 2014 22:32 (nine years ago) link
The Orwells are stillI IN middle school iirc so give em a break. Almost all band names are really stupid if you spend more than a few seconds thinking about them so I maximize efficiency by spending no more than 1.1 seconds. I have never gotten to the end of ...and you will know us by the trail??? but I assume the ending is satisfying
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 4 June 2014 00:22 (nine years ago) link
Lol are they really? Cute then.
― ₴HABΔZZ ¶IZZΔ (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 4 June 2014 00:52 (nine years ago) link
Yeah, based off of their letterman performance last year they look to be about 17-18
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 4 June 2014 00:57 (nine years ago) link
Fuds
― PaulTMA, Wednesday, 4 June 2014 01:05 (nine years ago) link
Cerebral Ballzy
― ginuwine's cousin (monotony), Wednesday, 4 June 2014 04:33 (nine years ago) link
I don't know, I guess it's mostly in my head, but I tend to avoid bands that jump on what appear to be band name trends; like if you formed some time in the middle of the last decade and have the word "Wolf" in your name, you were written off/pointedly ignored.
Is adding one or more redundant letters to a word/name the new having the word "Wolf" in your name?
WavvesDraag MeHollyyKiiaraOMAARSlayyyterJJUUJJUUSuunsBiig PiigCHIIILDCola BoyyIann DiorHoorsees
― Vaguely Threatening CAPTCHAs, Monday, 21 June 2021 22:23 (two years ago) link
Killing Joke
― Mr. Que, Tuesday, April 14, 2009
still ice cold
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 21 June 2021 22:25 (two years ago) link
The Front Bottoms
― A viking of frowns, (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Monday, 21 June 2021 22:31 (two years ago) link
some dude at 12:19 4 May 11Planningtorock
― A viking of frowns, (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Monday, 21 June 2021 22:34 (two years ago) link
I have never heard of Draag Me, but in their possible defense (?), it could (in theory at least) be a bilingual play-on-words: “draag me” means ‘carry me’ in Dutch.whether that would makes it a “better” name or not is another matter
― ten man poland chasing this means hamsik feasts (breastcrawl), Monday, 21 June 2021 22:36 (two years ago) link
I wish Psychedelic Porn Crumpets would change their name cause they're really quite good.
― Maresn3st, Monday, 21 June 2021 22:43 (two years ago) link
wolf alice wasn't even formed yet when the above complaint was made but what happened to all the other wolves. i hope no one cares about AIDS wolf these days
i file the letters thing alongside all caps or all lowercase and symbols in names, it's a sort of #vibe and maybe a generational marker. it rules sometimes (spellling) sometimes it's really annoying (wavves)
― Left, Monday, 21 June 2021 22:44 (two years ago) link
i would not listen to a band called the psychedelic porn crumpets however well recommended. i have also avoided the front bottoms
i know of at least two bands called slaves, fuck them
archers of loaf isn't a boycott-worthy name but is certainly a not-particularly-interested-in-checking-out-this-band kind of name
― Left, Monday, 21 June 2021 22:53 (two years ago) link
it's bullshit like fun. and portugal. the man that really pisses me off. i contend that 00s hipsterdom produced more awful names than the combined efforts of every other scene and era in the history of popular music
― Left, Monday, 21 June 2021 23:17 (two years ago) link
Englebert Humperdinck tho
― what's fgti up to these days? nothing. she's fake (flamboyant goon tie included), Monday, 21 June 2021 23:35 (two years ago) link
There was a Toronto band named "hhead", forerunners to Broken Social Scene, who I think of as pioneers of the unnecessary superfluous letter trend. A friend of mine took them as a sign that all the good band names had been taken (30 years ago!).
― Halfway there but for you, Tuesday, 22 June 2021 01:18 (two years ago) link
They were also pioneers of the lower-case letters only trend.
― Halfway there but for you, Tuesday, 22 June 2021 01:19 (two years ago) link
mmorning nnoon aand nnight II ggive yyou hhead
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 22 June 2021 01:19 (two years ago) link
Abe Vigoda, along with every other band name that’s an “lol so random” celebrity name
― nobody like my rap (One Eye Open), Tuesday, 22 June 2021 02:39 (two years ago) link
DeftonesDeafheaven
― assert (matttkkkk), Tuesday, 22 June 2021 02:45 (two years ago) link
xp You missed out - it became one of those things where you didn’t think about the actor anymore when you heard the band’s name.
― search term: buttrock (morrisp), Tuesday, 22 June 2021 02:45 (two years ago) link
For a good while I avoided FKA Twigs cause it sounded like the name of a lesser Warp act that peaked with being on a label compilation. Eventually heard stuff by her and didn't regret not having heard her earlier.
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Tuesday, 22 June 2021 03:16 (two years ago) link
flagged
― Left, Tuesday, 22 June 2021 04:00 (two years ago) link
twigged
― assert (matttkkkk), Tuesday, 22 June 2021 04:46 (two years ago) link
Fu Schnickens
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Tuesday, 22 June 2021 05:35 (two years ago) link