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

Natalie Portman's Shaven Head
Dananananaykord

I can't believe some of these bands are real.

AIDS Wolf has this on lock

Cute is what we aim for

arent they just some warped tour emo band? those seem like they should be exempted from this thread due to their uniformity wrt terrible names

Nobody's brought up all the ska bands with some ska-related term in their names or metal bands with highly genre-specific type names. Probably because those that write off/pointedly ignore those names also write off/pointedly ignore those genres.

AIDS Wolf has this on lock

― Neotropical pygmy squirrel, Wednesday, 15 April 2009 20:52 (16 minutes ago) Bookmark

Just heard of them on another thread: the Babys.

just listened to a song by psychedelic horseshit. it sounded exactly like that.

Art Brut
Man Man
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... and anything else that screams tone deaf 20-year old with a beard.

Unnecessary punctuation is a recurring theme. I mean, who names a band

Boats!

with an exclamation mark? I mean, you might as well call your band "we'reabunchoffucktardsobv".

If I recall there was a band named "Up Up Down Down Left Right Left Right B A Start" or whatever that Nintendo cheat was. Owch! And the title of their album was "Worst Band Name Ever," which self-awareness did not exonerate them.

I can't believe some of these bands are real.

When I was in high school we were bored and playing "outdo each other listing obscure bands" and the nerdiest loner guy came up with "People with Chairs up their Noses" and we roundly mocked him for making shit up.

And then later I found out that was a real band :|

To this day I lose sleep, wondering how much our mockery shaped that lonely young man's future ;_;

lol i have some of their tracks. they're crap.

I always wondered what they were like. Were they a sort of Mr Floppy novelty punk mob or something?

novelty postpunk in a makers of the dead travel fast but not nearly as good sort of vein

Does It Offend You, Yeah?

When I found out a band called itself "Stars of Track and Field," I laughed smugly, and thought, "That's a shitty name for a band. Who would name themselves after a Belle & Sebastian song... Shouldn't the name-influencing band at least be long dead and gone and/or legendary in some respect?" Then I realized JUST EXACTLY HOW SHITTY THAT BAND NAME WAS, and my music reviewer co-worker and I ritually destroyed the review copy of the CD. We're talking scratching, biting, ripping, breaking and eventually setting on fire. Then they sent us four more review copies. I think one died by paper shredder.

woods - saw them hyped in the metro this morning, immediately irritated by lack of definite article (DON'T TRY IT unless you're swans or boredoms)

As much as I love the band, I cringe every time I see the name Working For A Nuclear Free City

Fra Lippo Lippi

UNTIL TONIGHT!

Orion Rigel Dommisse

AIDS Wolf is a good example. I was bored with "Aren't we daringly un-PC" names and/or packaging by the early nineties.

Does It Offend You, Yeah?

Yeah sorry these guys could be the second coming of whatever and I wouldnt bother with a name that shite.

Fra Lippo Lippi

UNTIL TONIGHT!

― GÖTT DAT SCHING (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Thursday, 16 April 2009 10:06 (3 hours ago) Bookmark

dude that is anything but an awful band name, anyone getting their Robert Browning on has gotta have some class

Any act whose artist name starts with "MC" (capital letters - "Mc" is OK)

http://www.agnesscott.edu/LRiddle/women/abstracts/schatt/schatt_cover.jpg

Fra Lippo Lippi

UNTIL TONIGHT!

― GÖTT DAT SCHING (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Thursday, 16 April 2009 10:06 (3 hours ago) Bookmark

dude that is anything but an awful band name, anyone getting their Robert Browning on has gotta have some class

Browning's great, as is that poem specifically, but using it as a band name? Brrr.

Why?

I actually don't mind AIDS Wolf, cuz it seems kind of goofy and harmless

also: Wavves or Wavvves or whatever the fuck it is. every time I see it written my brain turns off my and my fingers instinctively ctrl-W.

you guys are missing out if if you don't listen to Fuck Buttons

Project Jenny Project Jan

Toxic Airborne Event
Monotonix
Die!Die!Die!

Susan Boyle

Any act whose artist name starts with "MC"

If this doesn't prompt a Marcello comeback it'll have to be that woman off Britain's Got Talent.

Fuck Buttons

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"Look at me, mom! Look at me! You're not looking!"

I kind of like "Fuck Buttons." It sounds like it should be a spoonerism of something harmless, and you despoonerize it and it turns into "Butt Fuckins."

no it's Buck Futtons, 50s Hamptons comic.

Fuck Buttons and Holy Fuck are both good but would be more likeable with less earnest names. The Slugfuckers and The Fuck Fucks are not necessarily good but the names are amusing. Fucked Up are lame and the name is terrible.

!!!

What a willfully irritating name.

Great name, good band!

just became aware of a band called: Forth Yeer Freshman

just saw a show listing for something called 'The Rape featuring Cubbiebear'

o_O

Context counts for a lot. I wouldn't normally cross the street to see a band called The Diarrhea of Anne Frank, but I was willing to give them a shot since they were opening for the Jesus Lizard.

Five words:
Does it offend you, yeah?

I should also add that Fucked Up were awesome when I saw them live.... record kinda failed to capture the visceral experience of a huge man throwing himself at you to some tunes that could have been The Dicks in their heyday.

I really hope there is a messageboard for real ale enthusiasts w/ a thread about beers they were put off drinking because of the stupid name

Hoobastank
G Love & Special Sauce
String Cheese Incident

Is there a band called o_O ?

!!!

Killing Joke

― Mr. Que, Tuesday, April 14, 2009 3:06 PM