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

Pigeons Playing Ping-Pong

I mean, jesus, even if they weren't fourth rate jamband also-rans that would still be one of the worst band names I've ever heard.

There's that whole category of band names you weren't put off by, but you feel you have to qualify recommendations of them with "but they're good, honestly" when the person you're talking to pulls a face. My Bloody Valentine and American Music Club for example.

Bands you like but only listen to when no one else is around because of the anxiety caused by worrying someone will ask what you're listening to and you'll have to say their name out loud

(Which also has the separate subcategory of names you don't know how to pronounce, but that's off topic)

I still don’t know how to pronounce “Charli XCX” (and I’ve listened to all her albums).

Foxygen

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Yeah, red card. You can't come back from 'foxygen'

A band called Deflatormouse C/D?

Haha, that's fair.

I came up with deflatormouse when i was 10, but there are other deflatormice out there. Including (i think) an emo band.

Foxygen, too, would have been ok as a screen name.

It's pretty interesting seeing what's a complete no-no for other people. I can see how agreeing a band name might be a nightmare. For me Foxygen is a bit goofy but it's short enough not to bother me. It's when a band name is three words and more of snippet of bad poetry than a band name that I'm like uh-uh.

foxygen is a triple whammy of sounding stupid, inexplicable and somehow boring

They were just kids

Pitchfork: Which one of you came up with the name Foxygen?

Sam France: It was something my friend said about a guy that she found attractive. She said he was sexy or hot, or that he was her foxygen, or something like that. We were probably about 13. I don't know why, but it stuck.

I think a lot of terrible names probably come from bands when they are very young. See also poor old Gorky's Zygotic Mynci, whose career I think was probably sabotaged by that name.

After struggling to come up with a band name, they decided "we might as well stick with the most ridiculous crap name we could think of."

Fair enough.

"foxy" in general needs to be approached with caution.
Gzm never stood a chance anyway.

Good or not, the name suited them for a time

Yeah for a time but by 1998 or so they were writing a lot of non-weird, classically beautiful songs that I’m sure could have had a wider audience without that baggage.

I was about to say, we're talking about a band that sang "i'm a pekingese/i'm a cottage cheese" over a faux metal riff with fake monty pythonesque opera singing.

Hobestly tho, I think their later stuff could have had a wider audeience if they'd written it in the 1970's

I like gzm don't get me wrong. And love 'barafundle' in particular

Garcia Peoples

Pen geag glas, if fingers were xylophones and the barafundle bumbler are all time xp

I have a friend who insists that Foxy Shazam is the worst band name of all time. I always maintain that it's not even the worst band name with 'foxy' in it tho. That name, despite my better instincts, actually makes me curious to hear the band.

I'd like to theorize that modifying 'foxy' with even more dubious words sonehow lessens the blow, but that would be terribly dishonest. The truth is i actually really like the word 'shazam'.

I think I like the word foxy quite a lot.

I still don’t know how to pronounce “Charli XCX” (and I’ve listened to all her albums).

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Fairly certain there's at least a few songs with a "Charli Ecks-See-Ecks" tag on them.

how else would you say it

Charlie Ten One-Hundred Ten

Charli Straight-Edge C

Her first name is actually pronounced Ceeharley

I'm afraid Greentea Peng fits here for me. Undoubtedly I am missing out, but it sounds like a YouTube channel about health food shops or an artisan teabag brand.

Greentea Peng is a funny one bc her name def fits the vibe

Snapped Ankles

Fairly certain there's at least a few songs with a "Charli Ecks-See-Ecks" tag on them.

Must’ve missed it! That’s obv my first guess, but it sounds like someone’s uncool dad guessing (wrong) how to pronounce an artist name.

rn I am listening to Freakadelic by Jooklo Stellar Tribe; I really love this record a lot but man if anything was worth mentioning in this thread...

I did pointedly ignore the Jooklo groups for several years before stumbling across a description of this record that finally made me curious enough to check them out, so it is actually on topic haha

Hoobastank

no regrets

buck gooter

wheatus, com truise, twin peaks

Wheatus's debut album was weird, they were obsessed with the iROC, which they mentioned in "Teenage Dirtbag", but are also pictured in one in the liner notes.

and i know this cos one of my best friends bought the album and i have clowned him ever since

The band derives its name from the nickname "wedus" given to the Brown brothers by their father when they were children

OK but what the fuck is wedus.

Another song from the album, "Punk Ass Bitch", was bought by the creators of Jackie Chan Adventures and reworked as "Chan's the Man", the end credits theme for the program's first season.

new one: The Goon Sax

Dry Cleaning is a chore not a band name.

Goon Sax is apparently slang for teenagers taking the silver bag out of box wine so they can walk around and drink out of their jackets, which you gotta respect that

Well, I think the slang is goon sack, so turning it into a sax pun is what you’ve got to respect or not

It’s in the proud tradition of sax on the beach imo

haha yeah i like it

also i think it just looks more appealing visually written out "goon sax" vs "goon sacks"

I was just happy to learn about goon sacks, wish i would have thought of that when i was a kid

Affleck’s Palace
Ashton Lane

To those unfamiliar with Manchester and Glasgow but on top of swinging London mythology, it’s a bit like naming your band Carnaby Street.