not a music pun but following a trend:
https://image-ticketfly.imgix.net/00/03/20/68/92-og.jpg?w=500&h=334&fit=crop&crop=top
― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Tuesday, 3 March 2020 18:12 (four years ago) link
Spe Thoonerisms
― Una Palooka Dronka (hardcore dilettante), Wednesday, 4 March 2020 02:57 (four years ago) link
Have we mentioned Thelonious Monster? Do they count? How about the (apocryphal?) story of Tabitha Soren mishearing Bill Clinton and thinking he was a fan of The Loneliest Monk?
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 4 March 2020 03:00 (four years ago) link
Thelonious Monster may be the ur-text of this naming convention...? Is there another one that predates them?
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 4 March 2020 03:38 (four years ago) link
xpost
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Loneliest_Monk
The Loneliest Monk is an experimental rock duo from Chicago, Illinois USA.
― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Wednesday, 4 March 2020 14:48 (four years ago) link
My favorite one is the Dutch band Furtips (= the Four Tops as pronounced by Officer Crabtree from 'Allo, 'Allo)
― Deflatormouse, Saturday, 7 March 2020 05:36 (four years ago) link
Dealey Stan (they're big fans of the Kennedy assassination)
Big Richard...Some of these have to be taken already.― Har Mar Klobuchar (PBKR), Friday, February 21, 2020 5:20 PM (two weeks ago) bookmarkflaglink
Some of these have to be taken already.
― Har Mar Klobuchar (PBKR), Friday, February 21, 2020 5:20 PM (two weeks ago) bookmarkflaglink
There was a band called Enormous Richard, which is both a play on Little Richard and another way to say "big dick"
― Hideous Lump, Saturday, 7 March 2020 07:19 (four years ago) link
Lil' Baswell
― Noel Emits, Sunday, 8 March 2020 14:42 (four years ago) link
Prolly not the worst, but I just learned there’s a band called Arvo Party.
― Una Palooka Dronka (hardcore dilettante), Tuesday, 10 March 2020 02:56 (four years ago) link
Fleetwood Macrame
Must be a cover band right?
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 10 March 2020 02:59 (four years ago) link
Masonna!
The name is a combination of the Japanese words Maso (マゾ, Masochist) and Onna (女, Woman). It is also a pun on the name of the pop singer Madonna. The name is sometimes rendered as an acronym for Mademoiselle Anne Sanglante Ou Notre Nymphomanie Auréolé (血まみれのアンヌ嬢・若しくは・我等がニンフォマニアが・後光に包まれる) or Mystic Another Selection Of Nurses Naked Anthology.
― panic-buying the upmarket pasta (Matt #2), Wednesday, 11 March 2020 09:22 (four years ago) link
If by "naming convention" you mean an artist/band name that's a pun on another artist's/band's name, then yeah, Chubby Checker (mentioned several times upthread) predates them by 25 years.
― Tuomas, Wednesday, 11 March 2020 09:27 (four years ago) link
https://www.wrti.org/post/story-about-how-count-basie-got-his-nickname
― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Wednesday, 11 March 2020 10:37 (four years ago) link
I was thinking about Count Basie, but his example is more like "following a naming trends started by others" rather than having name that's a pun on one specific artist's name.
― Tuomas, Wednesday, 11 March 2020 10:56 (four years ago) link
amazed that Tuomas knows who Checky Chubber is
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 11 March 2020 15:42 (four years ago) link
everyone always forgets Obese Chess Piece
― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Wednesday, 11 March 2020 15:43 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dayympGzIlc
btw Fluke Ellington
― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Wednesday, 11 March 2020 15:47 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1oL9p_w8Yo
I was told there was a Ham Valen but googling it only pulls up a storybook about a vegan dinosaur
― sorry for butt rockin (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 11 March 2020 23:43 (four years ago) link
Folk ImplosionGuns 'n' Wankers
― PaulTMA, Thursday, 12 March 2020 02:40 (four years ago) link
We out here @ OUTER SPACE https://t.co/PuKWj2jFpw— Count Spacey (@countspaceyband) December 5, 2017
― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Thursday, 12 March 2020 12:40 (four years ago) link
Saxl Rose
― justice 4 CCR (Sparkle Motion), Friday, 13 March 2020 15:53 (four years ago) link
was gonna say I can't believe it's taken three weeks to get to Filk Implosion, but thread is for "worst"
― Fantastic. Great move. Well done (sic), Friday, 13 March 2020 20:00 (four years ago) link
Lana Del Rabies (although I believe she's changing the name)
https://www.lanadelrabies.com/
― akb23 (Matt #2), Saturday, 14 March 2020 15:12 (four years ago) link
Thom Dorke
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 8 April 2020 18:51 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYCdRua6cpQ
― Kate (rushomancy), Saturday, 18 July 2020 19:33 (three years ago) link
upthread reminds me of this immortal epic which made me laugh so hard I got a bit scaredanagrams for Kenny Loggins
― assert (MatthewK), Saturday, 18 July 2020 22:19 (three years ago) link
Thanks for that.
Why is Leo Slayer not mentioned on this thread? Perhaps because it actually justifies the form.
― All Diacritics Love Ü (Noel Emits), Sunday, 19 July 2020 08:20 (three years ago) link
Com TruiseOrson Wellies
― SQUIRREL MEAT!! (Capitaine Jay Vee), Sunday, 19 July 2020 08:56 (three years ago) link
lol sorry it’s “Orson Wells”
― SQUIRREL MEAT!! (Capitaine Jay Vee), Sunday, 19 July 2020 08:57 (three years ago) link
In related news, There’s a weed called Dank Sinatra
― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Sunday, 19 July 2020 11:21 (three years ago) link
Christopher Cross/Kris Kross
― Siegbran, Sunday, 19 July 2020 11:25 (three years ago) link
David Gilmour Girls
― brain (krakow), Sunday, 19 July 2020 11:42 (three years ago) link
how many of you have actually heard Wevie Stonder?
― doorstep jetski (dog latin), Sunday, 19 July 2020 11:53 (three years ago) link
I have actually heard Wevie Stonder.
― All Diacritics Love Ü (Noel Emits), Sunday, 19 July 2020 12:34 (three years ago) link
Rand Gunk Failroad
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Sunday, 19 July 2020 13:55 (three years ago) link
I admit to willfully ignoring the thread title and posting a band name simply because it fits the pattern, rather than because I think the band is bad, though they may well be (I've never heard them).
― brain (krakow), Sunday, 19 July 2020 14:25 (three years ago) link
Panic Meat Stretchers
― doorstep jetski (dog latin), Sunday, 19 July 2020 20:20 (three years ago) link
there is a takeaway restaurant in Wales called Manic Street Pizzas which when I first heard of it made me laugh a lot. 'Bakeries gave us flour / Then spelt made it gluten free'
― doorstep jetski (dog latin), Sunday, 19 July 2020 20:24 (three years ago) link
there's a local band here called Dismembering the Carcass and I want to beat them with their own shoes until funny colored shit comes out their nose
― Lady Antibody (Neanderthal), Monday, 20 July 2020 02:22 (three years ago) link
Bee Gee Allin
― Master of Treacle, Monday, 20 July 2020 02:39 (three years ago) link
If that’s for real, then yeah
― Left Eye Frizzell (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 20 July 2020 03:06 (three years ago) link
There's an EDM DJ (LA based, I assume) called Fleetwood Smack.
― nickn, Monday, 20 July 2020 03:21 (three years ago) link
And Martin Mull's "blues" song was by Blind Lemon Pledge.
(For the non-USers, Pledge is a furniture polish, that comes in a lemon scented version.)
― nickn, Monday, 20 July 2020 03:37 (three years ago) link
worked with someone who was in a band called Pill Collins
― doorstep jetski (dog latin), Monday, 20 July 2020 08:44 (three years ago) link
(xp) Yes, we have that over here.
― Sonny Shamrock (Tom D.), Monday, 20 July 2020 09:19 (three years ago) link
https://www.discogs.com/artist/2260190-Philip-D-Kick
*sigh*
― StanM, Tuesday, 21 July 2020 11:40 (three years ago) link
that's a genuinely cool Om Unit side project that remixes old jungle tunes in a footwork style. I rate it
― doorstep jetski (dog latin), Tuesday, 21 July 2020 18:01 (three years ago) link
yeah i really like PDK
― Kate (rushomancy), Tuesday, 21 July 2020 18:20 (three years ago) link
plus unlike a lot of these, it's a pretty good pun
― doorstep jetski (dog latin), Tuesday, 21 July 2020 18:25 (three years ago) link