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

I actually don't mind AIDS Wolf, cuz it seems kind of goofy and harmless

also: Wavves or Wavvves or whatever the fuck it is. every time I see it written my brain turns off my and my fingers instinctively ctrl-W.

you guys are missing out if if you don't listen to Fuck Buttons

Project Jenny Project Jan

Toxic Airborne Event
Monotonix
Die!Die!Die!

Susan Boyle

Any act whose artist name starts with "MC"

If this doesn't prompt a Marcello comeback it'll have to be that woman off Britain's Got Talent.

Fuck Buttons

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"Look at me, mom! Look at me! You're not looking!"

I kind of like "Fuck Buttons." It sounds like it should be a spoonerism of something harmless, and you despoonerize it and it turns into "Butt Fuckins."

no it's Buck Futtons, 50s Hamptons comic.

Fuck Buttons and Holy Fuck are both good but would be more likeable with less earnest names. The Slugfuckers and The Fuck Fucks are not necessarily good but the names are amusing. Fucked Up are lame and the name is terrible.

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What a willfully irritating name.

Great name, good band!

just became aware of a band called: Forth Yeer Freshman

just saw a show listing for something called 'The Rape featuring Cubbiebear'

o_O

Context counts for a lot. I wouldn't normally cross the street to see a band called The Diarrhea of Anne Frank, but I was willing to give them a shot since they were opening for the Jesus Lizard.

Five words:
Does it offend you, yeah?

I should also add that Fucked Up were awesome when I saw them live.... record kinda failed to capture the visceral experience of a huge man throwing himself at you to some tunes that could have been The Dicks in their heyday.

I really hope there is a messageboard for real ale enthusiasts w/ a thread about beers they were put off drinking because of the stupid name

Hoobastank
G Love & Special Sauce
String Cheese Incident

Is there a band called o_O ?

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Killing Joke

― Mr. Que, Tuesday, April 14, 2009 3:06 PM

The New Dylans

iLiKETRAiNS.

Add: Raccoo-oo-oon, Wildildlife,

Test Icicles.

Dogs Die in Hot Cars

In addition to My Morning Jacket, My Brightest Diamond.

Don't forget about Lavender Diamond...

My Brightest Diamond, My Chemical Romance, my word, these are shite names!

also: Say Hi To Your Mom, Bright Eyes, Her Space Holiday

stop it with the cute-ums!

The I Didnt Read the Threads.

Gay For Johnny Depp

But seriously, if we're talking about annoying names, let he who is without sin and all that, you know?

Gandalf

On that note "Spock's Beard" is pretty intensely awful.

Van Dyke Parks would be an awful name for a band but it's an OK name for a person.

jesca hoop

this band (their explanation of their name is possibly even more annoying than their name):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margot_&_The_Nuclear_So_and_So%27s

haha, just saw the two previous references to them

Pocahaunted.

All the ones at the top of the charts on last.fm. I refuse to give them one dollar of my money!

A Tribe Called Quest used to bug me (as a name). But their first couple of albums are damn great, so I got over it.

Smif n Wessun

casiotone for the painfully alone

Gorky's Zygotic Mynci

Maybe we need to have a T/S thread about who is more annoying - Margot et al. vs. AIDS Wolf

Gorky's OTM. Was thinking about that today when "Desolation Blues" came up on shuffle.

Pains Of Being Pure At Heart better be DAMN good...

"Natalie Portman's Shaved Head" is one of the worst band names ever. Hoobastank is up there too though.

any band name with 'stank', 'scent', 'smell' or the like will put me off immediately. same for any songs with those words in the title

Animal Collective made me think of hippie jam bands where the musicians have power animals.

well that is pretty accurate

Made out of babies always sorta creeped me out..

Is there a band called o_O ?

Back in the days of IDM there was an unsigned artist on a record label I sort of ran, who called himself Cell but also ran under a range of pseudonyms including Cel, Sell, Sel etc. but I also remember him using o_O on some of his tracks, which is where I first saw that flavour smiley. His stuff was really good and I remember Aphex Twin being interested in signing him to Rephlex but Cell didn't believe it was really RDJ and told him to fuck off.