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

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Oddly, Andrew Hill. No honorific title, funky nickname, or melodious or alliterative given name made it hard for me to keep him on the mental list of jazz artists to check out. Maybe even some subconscious connection with Windham Hill Records?

or Dru Hill

christian death

Anal Depression

Dry Cleaning.

Manequin Pussy

Coda to the original crux of this post -- all now ancient history. I was later dragged to go see Pissed Jeans at Cakeshop, and they were fucking excellent.

lol nice

anybody with Collective in the title except Animal

6ix9ine

(also: Chris Brown and Justin Bieber, but that's not strictly in keeping with the spirit of the thread)

anybody with Collective in the title except Animal

so collective they posted themselves twice

King Gizzard and the Slizzard Blizzard can get tae fuck forever

My friend

I heard them before I heard their name, which helped a LOT

Soccer Mommy. and then I heard the music, and I was proven CORRECT

I will admit that if 2 Chainz had continued as Tity Boi I would never have listened to his solo stuff at all.

King Gizzard and the Slizzard Blizzard can get tae fuck forever

Was going to mention them myslef but assumed they'd already been mentioned.

Don't mind Collectives or __ The ___ constructions. I thought Foster The People started with a verb, though, making it not fit in with the original dislike? I'm not mad keen on doubling letters but there are enough bands who do that who are fine-to-good that it wouldn't put me off in itself. While I have liked some stupid spoonerism-named bands in the past any new one will have to get over a massive hurdle to get me to listen to them.

I have literally refused to hear a note of King Gizzard etc because I hate the name so much.

I do like a lot of bands with very bad names though ;_;

there are a non-zero number of people itt who listen to a band called Anal Stabwound

actually it might even be double digits lol

The Front Bottoms should be jailed for picking that name.

I don't mind 70s prog band Public Foot The Roman because it sounds like the name came from a broken signpost, otherwise all that Minus The Bear stuff can piss off.

was The Fugs just a clever name

Oh, actually, yes, The Front Bottoms are another band that I just won't countenance listening to. No fucking way.

xps

I got blocked on twitter by noted crossword blogger Rex Parker for stating that I wrote off Soccer Mommy due to their name.

I have no problem with Volcano the Bear.

Only if 'volcano' is working as a verb

Volcano the Bear ruled, and the construction would be weird and tortured and much more dislikable if it were a verb.

Wevie Stonder

God, yes, that is terrible.

Gay Witch Abortion. If the name didn't tell me to steer clear, this description did: Like a unicorn spearing it’s prey, having so little patience it completely shreads the kittens into tiny morsels of sweet bloody pulp candies.

there are a non-zero number of people itt who listen to a band called Anal Stabwound

*raises hand*

There are two French power metal bands I have never listened to because of their names: Dragony (is it an adjective?) and Fairyland.

GWA are good though. pummeling live xp

Trollfest is def one I wasn't going to listen to because of the name.

then I heard them while waiting for Possessed to go on stage.

My suspicions were confirmed

Black Label Society was another who I refused to listen to because of the name.

finally heard them. yep. was right to have ignored them.

Honestly I prob pointedly ignore about 70% of all musical artists due to their name. There's too much music out there, so it allows me to quickly whittle down the options. Sure I may miss out on an artist I might've enjoyed but overall it's been a very useful heuristic.

Black Label Society was another who I refused to listen to because of the name.

finally heard them. yep. was right to have ignored them.

I on the other hand ignored them because of their chud army of fake-biker fans who I used to see at every show in their stupid vests.

that...didn't help matters with me either, lol

I really want to write off any band with punctuation symbols in their name (not umlauts, which are pretty cool, but stuff like !!!, Sun)))))))O or whatever, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, etc.) but mostly I find I like their music.

Rae Sremmurd bugs me, sorry not sorry

front bottoms could be the greatest band of all time but i am definitely never going to listen to a note they make.

Is adding one or more redundant letters to a word/name the new having the word "Wolf" in your name?

I always assumed this was because all the band names were already taken.

even then bands are still using names that are already taken, e.g. I saw gig listings not long ago for a band called the Shivvers that are not the early 80s power pop group. They (the new band) should perhaps have called themselves the Shivvvers, or even used Google when they named their band, not that many bands seem to be aware of search engines given the number of them that reuse names.

My Morning Jacket

Chet Faker (ANY variation of this thing, including Wevie Stonder. Why would a band do this? It is the band naming equivalant of getting a shit tattoo.)

Porcupine Tree

Porridge Radio. I mean, wtf?

Maybe unfairly, Japanese Breakfast is sort of this for me.