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

honestly all the Fuck bands I've listened to are at least decent

why are so many of them canadian

Tool
Spoon
Built to Spill
Deerhunter
Father John Misty
Guided by Voices
Bon Iver

Cigarettes After Sex
Casiotone for the Painfully Alone
Broken Social Scene
Olivia Tremor Control

BSS, Casiotone — those are good indie acts (coming from a guy normally averse to indie).

My choice: Ross From Friends

Com Truise too probably, although that might relate to Sc13ntology as much as anything else.

Deerhunter — meh.

I do also associate Broken Social Scene and Built To Spill even though there’s not really any connection to speak of.

Tool
Spoon
Built to Spill
Deerhunter
Father John Misty
Guided by Voices
Bon Iver

― Alba

Or are you just agreeing with poster who said all band names suck, we just got used to some of them.

Built to Spill and GBV are both excellent band names, IMO (whatever you may think of those bands).

I suppose the are all toxically dull in quite a American male way. Father John Misty and Bon Iver are maybe the odd ones out and I dislike those for different reasons.

I can’t think off any amazing band names off the top of my head but I don’t mind most. The Byrds, 100gecs and Blondie are all fine, for example.

I mentioned GBV before and got pushback. I mean I guess it's a good name for a gospel accapella group or some shit

I think the meaning is that the artist(s) is/are guided by the voices in their heads?

I’m highly partial to names like Ross From Friends and DJ Sabrina the Teenage DJ (but I totally get why others aren’t).

Who isn't guided by voices in their head?

Bathtub Shitter for many years, and it turns out they're actually good and kinda musical (for death metal/grind that is)

Wank for Peace

there was a glasgow band called fuck-off machete but i can't remember if they were good or not.

I used to be email penpals with Natasha and she sent me some F.O. Machete stuff that I don't think ever got commercially released. Now I feel bad because I don't know where I put it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machine_Gun_Fellatio

Artists You’ve Written because of their name

xp

“Ross From Friends” to me represents the worst of rave culture and discounts all that is good about it.

If you were a fan of the show as a child I could see the nostalgic appeal tho. They have made some decent music too. (I listened to it by accident ok?)

Got to say the name Insane Clown Posse just never quite sat with me

Can't get over the idea of someone coming up with the name of Cigarettes After Sex as name and it getting past the stage of their friends/families/label wincing/'having a word'

Lmao. Maybe it was like Chicane which I was recently bored enough to learn came up with their name by pulling it out of a hat.

(Apparently it’s a racing term? Dunno.)

Why’d you name the band Built to Spill? Were you bad at holding drinks?
Ha! It was a game my wife and I played where we’d take turns writing a word. She’d write a word, then I’d write a word and we’d make up poems and stories. So when I was trying to come up with a band name we went back through them together to see if there was anything interesting and it was a part of that.

I guess some people just don't care what they call their band. Fair enough.

I always liked that band name, just the cadence and off-rhyme. Maybe it doesn't sound as good in a British accent idk?

can't believe nobody said Insane Clown Posse yet

Naming a band can be a wearing process, especially if all the members have divergent ideas of what an acceptable name is. So arbitrary or least dislikable ones are often the best option and usually borne of compromise.

my band's name in high school was Oonglebinky and I don't remember what an Oonglebinky is

The only problem with Insane Clown Posse is that two people are not enough to constitute a Posse, I would say you need at least four.

if insane clown posse has taught us anything its that a posse, like a family, can take many forms

XXP - If Oonglebinky were a UK band they would have been a festival band from the very late 80s, sounded a bit like Ozric Tentacles and I would have had a bootleg of them at the Treworgey Tree Fayre in 1989.

xp so what you are saying is that the fans of the Insane Clown Posse, the juggalos, are in fact part of the Posse, as they have formed their own subculture?

If you were a fan of the show as a child I could see the nostalgic appeal tho

I was actually old enough in the 90s that 90s nostalgia deployed by younger people “works” on a certain face-value level for me. I’m not really susceptible to 80s nostalgia, involving stuff from when I was actually a kid (that does feel cheap to me).

Just got an email announcing an upcoming show for beabadoobee so, holy shit, lock thread imo

Doo wop covers of Bieber's ouevre, nice

Truly what the world needs right now

She's a solo artist, apparently. For some reason I afford them more leeway with silly names. Unless they're Father John Misty, it seems.

beabadoobee? more like ehbubadeesaybubadeeyon

ommaway

carsick cars

a boogie wit da hoodie

beabadoobee
beabadooboo
beabadoobah
beabadoo ah ha!

Joanna Gruesome

and any number of bands that pun on other artists' or celebrities' names (cf. Com Truise upthread)

J Boogie's Dubtronic Science

PVRIS

xpost - I usually hate those punny ones too but I admit to loving "Joanna Gruesome" just because it's such a corrective to Newsom's twee persona

J Boogie's Dubtronic Science

if it weren't for the fact that i picked up a cd of theirs for a coin in a charity shop last year then i would think this was a joke/made up name.
but, nope, it's a genuine thing.
as for the album : it's perfectly fine downtempo/library grooves, and rather enjoyable.

i too made the mistake of avoiding beabadoobee because of the name, but actually she's pretty good tbh. this is off the new EP and it's kind of hayley williams x the sundays x sixpence none the richer x stina nordenstam x the pale saints:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aalRn01lMmg

Bed Wettin' Bad Boys, just heard of them

as someone posted upthread, Mott The Hoople may have gotten there first, but yes, Sixpence None The Richer were way ahead of the The game as well

found on Spotify:

Stinkfinger

named after the limp bizkit song that was named after the tool song?