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

Artists You’ve Written because of their name

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“Ross From Friends” to me represents the worst of rave culture and discounts all that is good about it.

If you were a fan of the show as a child I could see the nostalgic appeal tho. They have made some decent music too. (I listened to it by accident ok?)

Got to say the name Insane Clown Posse just never quite sat with me

Can't get over the idea of someone coming up with the name of Cigarettes After Sex as name and it getting past the stage of their friends/families/label wincing/'having a word'

Lmao. Maybe it was like Chicane which I was recently bored enough to learn came up with their name by pulling it out of a hat.

(Apparently it’s a racing term? Dunno.)

Why’d you name the band Built to Spill? Were you bad at holding drinks?
Ha! It was a game my wife and I played where we’d take turns writing a word. She’d write a word, then I’d write a word and we’d make up poems and stories. So when I was trying to come up with a band name we went back through them together to see if there was anything interesting and it was a part of that.

I guess some people just don't care what they call their band. Fair enough.

I always liked that band name, just the cadence and off-rhyme. Maybe it doesn't sound as good in a British accent idk?

can't believe nobody said Insane Clown Posse yet

Naming a band can be a wearing process, especially if all the members have divergent ideas of what an acceptable name is. So arbitrary or least dislikable ones are often the best option and usually borne of compromise.

my band's name in high school was Oonglebinky and I don't remember what an Oonglebinky is

The only problem with Insane Clown Posse is that two people are not enough to constitute a Posse, I would say you need at least four.

if insane clown posse has taught us anything its that a posse, like a family, can take many forms

XXP - If Oonglebinky were a UK band they would have been a festival band from the very late 80s, sounded a bit like Ozric Tentacles and I would have had a bootleg of them at the Treworgey Tree Fayre in 1989.

xp so what you are saying is that the fans of the Insane Clown Posse, the juggalos, are in fact part of the Posse, as they have formed their own subculture?

If you were a fan of the show as a child I could see the nostalgic appeal tho

I was actually old enough in the 90s that 90s nostalgia deployed by younger people “works” on a certain face-value level for me. I’m not really susceptible to 80s nostalgia, involving stuff from when I was actually a kid (that does feel cheap to me).

Just got an email announcing an upcoming show for beabadoobee so, holy shit, lock thread imo

Doo wop covers of Bieber's ouevre, nice

Truly what the world needs right now

She's a solo artist, apparently. For some reason I afford them more leeway with silly names. Unless they're Father John Misty, it seems.

beabadoobee? more like ehbubadeesaybubadeeyon

ommaway

carsick cars

a boogie wit da hoodie

beabadoobee
beabadooboo
beabadoobah
beabadoo ah ha!

Joanna Gruesome

and any number of bands that pun on other artists' or celebrities' names (cf. Com Truise upthread)

J Boogie's Dubtronic Science

PVRIS

xpost - I usually hate those punny ones too but I admit to loving "Joanna Gruesome" just because it's such a corrective to Newsom's twee persona

J Boogie's Dubtronic Science

if it weren't for the fact that i picked up a cd of theirs for a coin in a charity shop last year then i would think this was a joke/made up name.
but, nope, it's a genuine thing.
as for the album : it's perfectly fine downtempo/library grooves, and rather enjoyable.

i too made the mistake of avoiding beabadoobee because of the name, but actually she's pretty good tbh. this is off the new EP and it's kind of hayley williams x the sundays x sixpence none the richer x stina nordenstam x the pale saints:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aalRn01lMmg

Bed Wettin' Bad Boys, just heard of them

as someone posted upthread, Mott The Hoople may have gotten there first, but yes, Sixpence None The Richer were way ahead of the The game as well

found on Spotify:

Stinkfinger

named after the limp bizkit song that was named after the tool song?

xxp the The may in fact be the least bothersome element of Sixpence None The Richer. (And it is still bothersome, to be sure. Way bothersome.)

xpost that's Stinkfist (re: Tool). i mind it less as a song title, but as a band name, nah

other The bands off the top of my head:

Stone The Crows
Jimmy The Hoover
Grab Grab The Haddock

xpost

I’m not really susceptible to 80s nostalgia, involving stuff from when I was actually a kid (that does feel cheap to me).

Pfft if there was an act called Mork From Ork I’d stan for them all day regardless of actual talent. (Or even Nanoo Nanoo really.)

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With regards to J Boogie’s Dubtronic Science, it seems like they had a long-running weekly club night in SF that was generally highly regarded. Unless I’m confusing them with some other dubby boogie-ish act.

…Now someone’s going to dig up an actual act called Mork From Ork and you call all witness me eat my words.

xps bizkit had a song called stinkfinger on their first album which i assume was named in tribute to tool. either that or gross minds think alike. same goes for the band name. i object to both, for either purpose

": it's perfectly fine downtempo/library grooves, and rather enjoyable."

Aye. I haven't heard a whole album but a bit ago "Oceanic Lullaby" came up on streaming radio and I really liked it.

If they were a new band today, would The The be called The the The?

how about Insane Clown Posse?

I love that beabadoobee album from last year, heavy early 90's feel to it.

current Helloween vocalist Andi Deris's previous group:

Pink Cream 69

Helloween

can't believe this ILM thread turned out to be a list of every band

We need two more complementary threads:

- artists you had written off because of their names, but they turned out to be pretty good!
- artists you wanted to hear because of their names, but they turned out to be pretty bad!

great band, shame about the name

great name, shame about the band

Kitchens of Distinction are definitely the latter one for me (sorry, Ned).

how does Spellling figure into all of this?

great on both counts

but i've realised i almost always like or retroactively justify the names when i like the music so i should maybe be less judgmental of stuff i haven't heard yet. within limits - even if the cherry poppin daddies made excellent music i would still fucking hate them