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

Dogs Die in Hot Cars

In addition to My Morning Jacket, My Brightest Diamond.

Don't forget about Lavender Diamond...

My Brightest Diamond, My Chemical Romance, my word, these are shite names!

also: Say Hi To Your Mom, Bright Eyes, Her Space Holiday

stop it with the cute-ums!

The I Didnt Read the Threads.

Gay For Johnny Depp

But seriously, if we're talking about annoying names, let he who is without sin and all that, you know?

Gandalf

On that note "Spock's Beard" is pretty intensely awful.

Van Dyke Parks would be an awful name for a band but it's an OK name for a person.

jesca hoop

this band (their explanation of their name is possibly even more annoying than their name):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margot_&_The_Nuclear_So_and_So%27s

haha, just saw the two previous references to them

Pocahaunted.

All the ones at the top of the charts on last.fm. I refuse to give them one dollar of my money!

A Tribe Called Quest used to bug me (as a name). But their first couple of albums are damn great, so I got over it.

Smif n Wessun

casiotone for the painfully alone

Gorky's Zygotic Mynci

Maybe we need to have a T/S thread about who is more annoying - Margot et al. vs. AIDS Wolf

Gorky's OTM. Was thinking about that today when "Desolation Blues" came up on shuffle.

Pains Of Being Pure At Heart better be DAMN good...

"Natalie Portman's Shaved Head" is one of the worst band names ever. Hoobastank is up there too though.

any band name with 'stank', 'scent', 'smell' or the like will put me off immediately. same for any songs with those words in the title

Animal Collective made me think of hippie jam bands where the musicians have power animals.

well that is pretty accurate

Made out of babies always sorta creeped me out..

Is there a band called o_O ?

Back in the days of IDM there was an unsigned artist on a record label I sort of ran, who called himself Cell but also ran under a range of pseudonyms including Cel, Sell, Sel etc. but I also remember him using o_O on some of his tracks, which is where I first saw that flavour smiley. His stuff was really good and I remember Aphex Twin being interested in signing him to Rephlex but Cell didn't believe it was really RDJ and told him to fuck off.

Yeah, Animal Collective puts me off. As does A.R.E. Weapons -- who are laughable anyway, so it's a lose-lose situation, really.

LMFAO

http://www.interscope.com/images/artist/lmfao.jpg

apt name because i did just lmfao looking at that picture.

a friend reminded me of another one:

Brightblack Morning Light - the reason why I've pointedly written off/ignored Black Moth Superrainbow - because their name sounds like Brightblack Morning Light.

Funki Porcini

johnny foreigner.. but i finally heard some and it not bad

this applied to the Arctic Monkeys before I heard them. great bands should not have a shit name, it's confusing.

I'm A Fucking Gymnist

Or rather, I'm A Fucking Gymnast, since I can't spell.

Best Kissers In The World
She Wants Revenge

Thighpaulsandra

Killing Joke

― Mr. Que, Wednesday, April 15, 2009 5:06 AM (1 month ago)

I know, right?

That name sounds so goth.

Prefab Sprout

I was about to say Deja Voodo but I've actually heard them.

Deja Voodoo, though. Man.

I actually like that, in a trashy garage-punk way.

This cunt: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Offenbach

Obviously just ripping off JSB's style and name.

Thighpaulsandra

Yes, that name is terrible

Ducktails

ppl don't understand that "pure at heart" means something different than "pure of heart"?

I've definitely written off Ducktails even though my friends swear by them

Also, I cannot bring myself to listen to something called CAGE THE ELEPHANT

Jimmy Eat World (saw it on someone's end of the decade list)

Oingo Boingo

ppl don't understand that "pure at heart" means something different than "pure of heart"?

Pure at heart = 'underneath all the evil, he's actually a nice bloke'

Pure of heart = 'doesn't drink,smoke,swear, and spends all his spare time reading the bible'

or something like that.

for a long time i did not give radiohead a chance. partly due to their ridiculous name, partly due to the hype, partly due to thom yorke's voice. from amnesiac on i listened to their music.