― Dom iNut (donut), Wednesday, 8 February 2006 09:57 (eighteen years ago) link
― Dom iNut (donut), Wednesday, 8 February 2006 09:58 (eighteen years ago) link
― NickB (NickB), Wednesday, 8 February 2006 10:01 (eighteen years ago) link
― Harrison Barr (Petar), Wednesday, 8 February 2006 12:51 (eighteen years ago) link
― Sororah T Massacre (blueski), Wednesday, 8 February 2006 12:52 (eighteen years ago) link
― She's In Parties (kate), Wednesday, 8 February 2006 13:27 (eighteen years ago) link
"Swans"You'd think they'd be some kind of folky girl group.Then Michael Gira starts making his vomiting reptile noises for vocals while playing his "Sounds Effects of Heavy Industry" album at half-speed.
― Lord Custos Omicron (Lord Custos Omicron), Wednesday, 8 February 2006 13:29 (eighteen years ago) link
― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Wednesday, 8 February 2006 13:32 (eighteen years ago) link
― AaronK (AaronK), Wednesday, 8 February 2006 13:47 (eighteen years ago) link
― brittle-lemon (brittle-lemon), Wednesday, 8 February 2006 13:56 (eighteen years ago) link
― Abu Hamster (noodle vague), Wednesday, 8 February 2006 13:59 (eighteen years ago) link
― Edward III (edward iii), Wednesday, 8 February 2006 14:11 (eighteen years ago) link
― weekly handle change (haitch), Wednesday, 8 February 2006 14:16 (eighteen years ago) link
― Stephen C (ihope), Wednesday, 8 February 2006 14:17 (eighteen years ago) link
― mike a, Wednesday, 8 February 2006 14:23 (eighteen years ago) link
― Mike W (caek), Wednesday, 8 February 2006 14:23 (eighteen years ago) link
I prejudge people who misuse the word penultimate. I think they all need to look it up.
― kornrulez6969 (TCBeing), Wednesday, 8 February 2006 14:45 (eighteen years ago) link
― Vintage Latin (dog latin), Wednesday, 8 February 2006 14:46 (eighteen years ago) link
― Vintage Latin (dog latin), Wednesday, 8 February 2006 14:47 (eighteen years ago) link
I prejudge people who misuse the word penultimate
that's a pet peeve of mine too. wait, now I need to look up pet peeve to make sure I used that correctly.
― ziti sanskrit (sanskrit), Wednesday, 8 February 2006 14:50 (eighteen years ago) link
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 8 February 2006 15:14 (eighteen years ago) link
Any band with more than, say, three words in its name I immediately assume will be a third-rate emo band. However, having heard the above bands, I can now dismiss them based on their boring music.
― js (honestengine), Wednesday, 8 February 2006 15:52 (eighteen years ago) link
So you're not a Pussy Galore type rawk act?
― senseiDancer (sexyDancer), Wednesday, 8 February 2006 15:57 (eighteen years ago) link
― Vintage Latin (dog latin), Wednesday, 8 February 2006 15:58 (eighteen years ago) link
― Vintage Latin (dog latin), Wednesday, 8 February 2006 15:59 (eighteen years ago) link
― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Wednesday, 8 February 2006 16:04 (eighteen years ago) link
― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Wednesday, 8 February 2006 16:09 (eighteen years ago) link
― Eppy (Eppy), Wednesday, 8 February 2006 16:10 (eighteen years ago) link
― Vintage Latin (dog latin), Wednesday, 8 February 2006 16:11 (eighteen years ago) link
― Dave will do (dave225.3), Wednesday, 8 February 2006 16:12 (eighteen years ago) link
― actionjackson, Wednesday, 8 February 2006 16:58 (eighteen years ago) link
― Vintage Latin (dog latin), Wednesday, 8 February 2006 17:10 (eighteen years ago) link
Oddly enough, they're one of the more depressing and sad bands around.
― kornrulez6969 (TCBeing), Wednesday, 8 February 2006 17:14 (eighteen years ago) link
― telos, Wednesday, 8 February 2006 17:16 (eighteen years ago) link
― Cliftonb, Wednesday, 8 February 2006 17:17 (eighteen years ago) link
― Particle Ranger (particle ranger), Wednesday, 8 February 2006 17:19 (eighteen years ago) link
(Me, I don't hate the misuse of "penultimate" nearly as much as "jive/jibe" or "could/couldn't care less" confusion. Arrghh!)
― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Wednesday, 8 February 2006 17:37 (eighteen years ago) link
― Thea (Thea), Wednesday, 8 February 2006 17:58 (eighteen years ago) link
― Thea (Thea), Wednesday, 8 February 2006 17:59 (eighteen years ago) link
― Thea (Thea), Wednesday, 8 February 2006 18:01 (eighteen years ago) link
String Cheese Incident, Col. Hamptons Aquarium Rescue Unit, etc.
― John Justen (johnjusten), Wednesday, 8 February 2006 18:06 (eighteen years ago) link
― mark e (mark e), Wednesday, 8 February 2006 18:16 (eighteen years ago) link
― Eppy (Eppy), Wednesday, 8 February 2006 18:19 (eighteen years ago) link
― polyphonic (polyphonic), Wednesday, 8 February 2006 18:20 (eighteen years ago) link
band with a terrible name that is also terrible:Mates of State.
awful.
― Cameron Octigan (Cameron Octigan), Wednesday, 8 February 2006 18:24 (eighteen years ago) link
BTW, Mark, is "selfish cunt" a band name, or have I somehow wronged you?
― John Justen (johnjusten), Wednesday, 8 February 2006 18:26 (eighteen years ago) link
london media were all over them a couple of years ago. i never felt the urge to track anything down.
― mark e (mark e), Wednesday, 8 February 2006 18:35 (eighteen years ago) link
proof :
http://eil.com/shop/extsearch.asp?DiscTitle=britain-is-shit
― mark e (mark e), Wednesday, 8 February 2006 18:38 (eighteen years ago) link
― John Justen (johnjusten), Wednesday, 8 February 2006 18:42 (eighteen years ago) link
― John Justen (johnjusten), Wednesday, 8 February 2006 18:47 (eighteen years ago) link
― mark e (mark e), Wednesday, 8 February 2006 18:49 (eighteen years ago) link
FUCK
― LoneNut, Wednesday, 8 February 2006 18:49 (eighteen years ago) link
― pinder (pinder), Wednesday, 8 February 2006 18:52 (eighteen years ago) link
― Paul (scifisoul), Wednesday, 8 February 2006 18:55 (eighteen years ago) link
― Paul (scifisoul), Wednesday, 8 February 2006 18:56 (eighteen years ago) link
― Diego Valladolid (dvalladt), Wednesday, 8 February 2006 18:57 (eighteen years ago) link
― Chairman Doinel (Charles McCain), Wednesday, 8 February 2006 19:18 (eighteen years ago) link
by "people" you mean like the 5 or so people who heard of 'em, right donut? not, like, the general public.
speaking of which:
general public
― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 8 February 2006 19:29 (eighteen years ago) link
― stu (stu), Wednesday, 8 February 2006 19:49 (eighteen years ago) link
Yes.
― Dom iNut (donut), Wednesday, 8 February 2006 21:07 (eighteen years ago) link
― Dom iNut (donut), Wednesday, 8 February 2006 21:08 (eighteen years ago) link
― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Wednesday, 8 February 2006 21:12 (eighteen years ago) link
― Brooker Buckingham (Brooker B), Wednesday, 8 February 2006 21:12 (eighteen years ago) link
― pinder (pinder), Wednesday, 8 February 2006 22:53 (eighteen years ago) link
Really? I would assume they either sound like Phish or that they're a party-funk campus band.
― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Wednesday, 8 February 2006 22:58 (eighteen years ago) link
― musically (musically), Wednesday, 8 February 2006 23:00 (eighteen years ago) link
― js (honestengine), Wednesday, 8 February 2006 23:02 (eighteen years ago) link
― dmun drive-in (dmun), Wednesday, 8 February 2006 23:23 (eighteen years ago) link
uggh
― Euler (Euler), Wednesday, 8 February 2006 23:42 (eighteen years ago) link
― JB Young, Thursday, 9 February 2006 01:20 (eighteen years ago) link
Dismemberment Plan has the same sort of incorrect connotations, I think.
― John Justen (johnjusten), Thursday, 9 February 2006 01:37 (eighteen years ago) link
― Sym Sym (sym), Thursday, 9 February 2006 02:19 (eighteen years ago) link
― sleeve (sleeve), Thursday, 9 February 2006 02:19 (eighteen years ago) link
The Arctic Monkeys (My personal pick so far)
― Jingo, Thursday, 9 February 2006 03:15 (eighteen years ago) link
― js (honestengine), Thursday, 9 February 2006 04:36 (eighteen years ago) link
Bark Psychosis certainly outgrew their name which was coined by a couple of prodigious adolescents and is way too garage-goth for the music they wound up playing.Live Skull is a bandname that has similar cod-cheapo-schlock-horror garage goth associations which don't really fit what the band was about. I still like Positraction anyway.Not sure what associations I'd make to the name The Birthday Party if I wasn't as immersed in history of what the band means to me.
― Stevolende, Tuesday, 31 January 2012 11:17 (twelve years ago) link
This is an interesting take on things re: Bands who outgrew their names.
The Beach Boys being a key example.
― I want your nose, your shoes and your unicycle (dog latin), Tuesday, 31 January 2012 11:19 (twelve years ago) link
band : skull snaps
album cover :
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/1e/SkullSnaps.jpg
saw this in the racks last year.
was very surprised to find out that its very good 70s soul-n-funk album as opposed to some barrel scraping metal dirge
― mark e, Tuesday, 31 January 2012 11:22 (twelve years ago) link
I think it was Max Cavalera who said he enjoyed misleading titles: "Roots Bloody Roots" sounding like a reggae album, and Soulfly etc...
― I want your nose, your shoes and your unicycle (dog latin), Tuesday, 31 January 2012 11:26 (twelve years ago) link
bombay bicycle club
― dan138zig (Durrr Durrr Durrrrrr), Tuesday, 31 January 2012 11:37 (twelve years ago) link
yeah, every time anyone asks me to check those guys out, my brain starts shutting down.
― I want your nose, your shoes and your unicycle (dog latin), Tuesday, 31 January 2012 11:40 (twelve years ago) link
BombBicClub TS: The sound that the band name suggests vs what they actually sound like
― Mark G, Tuesday, 31 January 2012 11:45 (twelve years ago) link
Depeche Mode.
― โตเกียวเหมียวเหมียว aka Don Nots (Mount Cleaners) (Mount Cleaners), Tuesday, 31 January 2012 11:50 (twelve years ago) link
10,000 Maniacs
― ban this sick stunt (anagram), Tuesday, 31 January 2012 12:02 (twelve years ago) link
Two Lights
― good luck in your pyramid (Neil S), Tuesday, 31 January 2012 13:40 (twelve years ago) link
Shit Robot is pretty good but I feel bad listening to him. Just because I don't think any artist should refer to themselves as "shit".
― โตเกียวเหมียวเหมียว aka Don Nots (Mount Cleaners) (Mount Cleaners), Tuesday, 31 January 2012 14:09 (twelve years ago) link
This is an interesting take on things re: Bands who outgrew their names.The Beach Boys being a key example.
yeah but I don't think they'd sell many records as "The Beach Guys"
― frogs you are the dumbest asshole (frogbs), Tuesday, 31 January 2012 14:18 (twelve years ago) link
Even less as The Beach Weirdoes
― Charles Kennedy Jumped Up, He Called 'Oh No'. (Tom D.), Tuesday, 31 January 2012 14:20 (twelve years ago) link
But more as "The Beach Men!"
― Mark G, Tuesday, 31 January 2012 14:22 (twelve years ago) link
The Charles Manson Five
― good luck in your pyramid (Neil S), Tuesday, 31 January 2012 14:27 (twelve years ago) link
tUnE-YaRdS
― kornrulez6969, Tuesday, 31 January 2012 15:52 (twelve years ago) link
An ex of mine was in a band called Giant Sucking Sound. I told him it was a bad idea to give critics such an easy insult. (POP CRITICS IN LAZINESS NON-SHOCKER!!)
― stop me before i eat again (j.lu), Tuesday, 31 January 2012 16:50 (twelve years ago) link
xp I'd also put fIREHOSE on that list, it just breaks my brain
― frogs you are the dumbest asshole (frogbs), Tuesday, 31 January 2012 16:50 (twelve years ago) link
for me at least, Ween
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Tuesday, 31 January 2012 16:57 (twelve years ago) link
up until a few days ago I had never listened to ween, now I do
I never minded the name Ween, for me it was just the fact that their name was close to Weezer so I'd subconsciously mix them up
― frogs you are the dumbest asshole (frogbs), Tuesday, 31 January 2012 17:06 (twelve years ago) link
Personal and the Pizzas
― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 31 January 2012 18:11 (twelve years ago) link
Cat PowerEagles of Death MetalHellaPassion PitThe Sea and CakeYoung Marble Giants
― SNEEZED GOING DOWN STEPS, PAIN WHEN PUTTING SOCKS ON (Deric W. Haircare), Tuesday, 31 January 2012 19:43 (twelve years ago) link