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

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Ducktails
Box Elders
Beachwood Sparks
Silversun Pickups
Explosions In The Sky
...And So I Watch You From Afar
and loads of local bands with effete names akin to the last two

PaulTMA, Monday, 19 April 2010 14:18 (sixteen years ago)

Mr Bungle

mdskltr (blueski), Thursday, 29 April 2010 15:48 (sixteen years ago)

Gas

huh! tikuuta. (kingkongvsgodzilla), Thursday, 29 April 2010 15:50 (sixteen years ago)

(joke, but it's true I've never checked them out)

huh! tikuuta. (kingkongvsgodzilla), Thursday, 29 April 2010 15:53 (sixteen years ago)

They're rlly rlly great.

Fetchboy, Thursday, 29 April 2010 15:56 (sixteen years ago)

It's some sort of Matthew Herbert fart sample electronica? ; )

huh! tikuuta. (kingkongvsgodzilla), Thursday, 29 April 2010 15:58 (sixteen years ago)

It's a Wolfgang Voigt ambient project. Arguably his best.

Fetchboy, Thursday, 29 April 2010 15:59 (sixteen years ago)

cant believe "Gay Witch Abortion" hasnt shown up on this thread yet

Varg Vikinem (jjjusten), Thursday, 29 April 2010 16:07 (sixteen years ago)

A trusted friend has highly recommended We Were Promised Jetpacks, but I mean come on.

like a musical album. made by a band. (fucking in the streets), Thursday, 29 April 2010 16:08 (sixteen years ago)

steely dan

borntohula, Thursday, 29 April 2010 16:09 (sixteen years ago)

Deerhoof

cool and remote like dancing girls (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 29 April 2010 16:17 (sixteen years ago)

This seems to be the place they were talked about most on ILM. Did anyone ever end up giving them a chance?

― kingkongvsgodzilla, Monday, 19 April 2010 13:27 (1 week ago) Permalink

Yeah, the Canadian indie press and the whole Canadian indie culture looooove YSPWSD!. Poppy indie-rock with chicks in the band? Hello, welcome to Canada. And of course additional outpourings of appreciation over the last couple of weeks. A buddy of mine who is normally a drum'n'bass/mashup DJ who is formelly on the record as being ultra-suspicious of anthing resembling a "band" called me last night to tell me he's doing a 2 hour show dedicated to them. I was like "cool", thinking "wtf?".

everything, Thursday, 29 April 2010 16:35 (sixteen years ago)

Wolfgang Voigt

huh! tikuuta. (kingkongvsgodzilla), Thursday, 29 April 2010 16:50 (sixteen years ago)

(sorry)

huh! tikuuta. (kingkongvsgodzilla), Thursday, 29 April 2010 16:50 (sixteen years ago)

Girl Talk
Girls Aloud
Brazillian Girls
Everything But the Girl

hope this helps (Granny Dainger), Thursday, 29 April 2010 17:13 (sixteen years ago)

(wow girl does not look like a word that's in the English language to me now)

hope this helps (Granny Dainger), Thursday, 29 April 2010 17:14 (sixteen years ago)

what's your problem with girls?

mdskltr (blueski), Thursday, 29 April 2010 17:15 (sixteen years ago)

cant believe "Gay Witch Abortion" hasnt shown up on this thread yet

can't believe you don't think 95% of the ILX posts that mention Gay Witch Abortion were written by you

Marriage, that's where I'm a Viking! (HI DERE), Thursday, 29 April 2010 17:16 (sixteen years ago)

mainly cooties
xp

hope this helps (Granny Dainger), Thursday, 29 April 2010 17:17 (sixteen years ago)

jay electronica

pollos da don (tpp), Thursday, 29 April 2010 17:20 (sixteen years ago)

Gucci Mane

hope this helps (Granny Dainger), Thursday, 29 April 2010 17:22 (sixteen years ago)

xp: I'm having trouble (not ungooglable trouble, mind you) convincing myself that that's even real.

huh! tikuuta. (kingkongvsgodzilla), Thursday, 29 April 2010 17:23 (sixteen years ago)

jay electronica

dear christ

sausage s4rgent (acoleuthic), Thursday, 29 April 2010 17:25 (sixteen years ago)

would totally check out an artist called Dear Christ

hope this helps (Granny Dainger), Thursday, 29 April 2010 17:26 (sixteen years ago)

After reading his wikipedia page, I'm totally going to check him out, but that name...

huh! tikuuta. (kingkongvsgodzilla), Thursday, 29 April 2010 17:26 (sixteen years ago)

jay electronica - exhibit c

huge hit amongst rap dinosaur types

pollos da don (tpp), Thursday, 29 April 2010 17:34 (sixteen years ago)

Besnard Lakes

for some reason my brain chunks those word shapes and letterforms into Barenaked Ladies

dazzle shjips (Future_Perfect), Thursday, 29 April 2010 17:35 (sixteen years ago)

Does It Offend You, Yeah?

nope, too busy Clapping My Hands

I lol'd.

I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Thursday, 29 April 2010 18:06 (sixteen years ago)

Male Bonding.

I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Thursday, 13 May 2010 13:22 (sixteen years ago)

two weeks pass...

HI DERE I AM A "TAME IMPALA"

http://creagrus.home.montereybay.com/Impala-MblfcHdOn-21Jy05Et-w.jpg

I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Sunday, 30 May 2010 06:40 (sixteen years ago)

Casitone is thinking of changing his name. Tried to dissuade him, or else he should change it to a past album title: "Vs. Children" or "Advance Base Battery Life" or even go with the acronym CFTPA, which he shares with the Canadian Film and Television Producers Association.

― Miracles (acoustic version) (Ówen P.), Thursday, April 15, 2010 6:26 AM (1 month ago) Bookmark

Is this guy actually Owen Ashworth?

snakebite and a passable pinot noir (Upt0eleven), Sunday, 30 May 2010 10:17 (sixteen years ago)

MSTRKRFT

Miles "Tails" Davis (Daruton), Sunday, 30 May 2010 12:59 (sixteen years ago)

lol Pissed Jeans.

Aspergers Makes My Pee Smell Funny (Eisbaer), Sunday, 30 May 2010 13:08 (sixteen years ago)

Seconding "bands that use thee instead of the."

cwkiii, Sunday, 30 May 2010 16:00 (sixteen years ago)

Also, until very recently: Hot Tuna.

cwkiii, Sunday, 30 May 2010 16:02 (sixteen years ago)

Lali Puna

Miles "Tails" Davis (Daruton), Sunday, 30 May 2010 16:08 (sixteen years ago)

wanna be a balla, shot calla, twenty-inch blades on Tame Impala

ksh, Sunday, 30 May 2010 16:19 (sixteen years ago)

I avoided the English Dogs for a long time because I thought they'd be a dodgy right wing Oi band, and not actually a pretty decent GBH-style punk band (not so keen on their later crossover thrash period though)

a fucking stove just fell on my foot. (Colonel Poo), Sunday, 30 May 2010 16:31 (sixteen years ago)

The Beatles (I mean, not really but it is an awful name. The pun sucks.) Splodginess Abounds, à;GRUMH..., When People Were Shorter And Lived Near The Water, My Cat Is An Alien, Dumpy's Rusty Nuts, Circle Of Dead Children, Urban Dance Squad.

Duran (Doran), Sunday, 30 May 2010 16:47 (sixteen years ago)

Is this guy actually Owen Ashworth?

Pallett iirc.

I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Sunday, 30 May 2010 16:59 (sixteen years ago)

wanna be a balla, shot calla, twenty-inch blades on Tame Impala

^ huge lol irl ^

I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Sunday, 30 May 2010 16:59 (sixteen years ago)

neon indian

symsymsym, Sunday, 30 May 2010 20:15 (sixteen years ago)

rufus wainright

hope this helps (Granny Dainger), Sunday, 30 May 2010 20:23 (sixteen years ago)

that's rufus's dad's fault though -- and loudon is a pretty odd name too.

Aspergers Makes My Pee Smell Funny (Eisbaer), Sunday, 30 May 2010 20:26 (sixteen years ago)

or at least very old-school WASP sounding. almost "charles emerson winchester III, folksinger"

Aspergers Makes My Pee Smell Funny (Eisbaer), Sunday, 30 May 2010 20:27 (sixteen years ago)

HI DERE I AM A "TAME IMPALA"

[image removed]

― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor)

calling my next project Contemplative Ostrich

ksh, Monday, 31 May 2010 00:30 (sixteen years ago)

one month passes...

Child Abuse, anyone?

anagram, Wednesday, 30 June 2010 08:36 (fifteen years ago)

Whenever I think about Tame Impala now, I always get mild lols with Ilxor's pic post in my head.

disastrous sixth series (MaresNest), Wednesday, 30 June 2010 10:04 (fifteen years ago)

Umphrey's McGee seconded, if it's been mentioned. If not, shame on all y'all.

henry s, Wednesday, 30 June 2010 11:57 (fifteen years ago)

A+

xp

ilxor has truly been got at and become an ILXor (ilxor), Wednesday, 30 June 2010 12:06 (fifteen years ago)


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