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

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?

xxp the The may in fact be the least bothersome element of Sixpence None The Richer. (And it is still bothersome, to be sure. Way bothersome.)

xpost that's Stinkfist (re: Tool). i mind it less as a song title, but as a band name, nah

other The bands off the top of my head:

Stone The Crows
Jimmy The Hoover
Grab Grab The Haddock

xpost

I’m not really susceptible to 80s nostalgia, involving stuff from when I was actually a kid (that does feel cheap to me).

Pfft if there was an act called Mork From Ork I’d stan for them all day regardless of actual talent. (Or even Nanoo Nanoo really.)

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With regards to J Boogie’s Dubtronic Science, it seems like they had a long-running weekly club night in SF that was generally highly regarded. Unless I’m confusing them with some other dubby boogie-ish act.

…Now someone’s going to dig up an actual act called Mork From Ork and you call all witness me eat my words.

xps bizkit had a song called stinkfinger on their first album which i assume was named in tribute to tool. either that or gross minds think alike. same goes for the band name. i object to both, for either purpose

": it's perfectly fine downtempo/library grooves, and rather enjoyable."

Aye. I haven't heard a whole album but a bit ago "Oceanic Lullaby" came up on streaming radio and I really liked it.

If they were a new band today, would The The be called The the The?

how about Insane Clown Posse?

I love that beabadoobee album from last year, heavy early 90's feel to it.

current Helloween vocalist Andi Deris's previous group:

Pink Cream 69

Helloween

can't believe this ILM thread turned out to be a list of every band

We need two more complementary threads:

- artists you had written off because of their names, but they turned out to be pretty good!
- artists you wanted to hear because of their names, but they turned out to be pretty bad!

great band, shame about the name

great name, shame about the band

Kitchens of Distinction are definitely the latter one for me (sorry, Ned).

how does Spellling figure into all of this?

great on both counts

but i've realised i almost always like or retroactively justify the names when i like the music so i should maybe be less judgmental of stuff i haven't heard yet. within limits - even if the cherry poppin daddies made excellent music i would still fucking hate them

That name is actually a reference to hard-working fathers who harvest fruit.

I'm surprised nobody on this thread has mentioned the Insane Clown Posse

That name is actually a reference to an Old West volunteer group that rounded up mentally-ill comics.

i was always put off by another band name connoting old-timey mental deficiency

Mumford & Sons

in that case I think the name perfectly reflects the music so whether it attracts or repels you, it's done its job (I guess that might be true of many others in this thread tbf)

it's true, the name telegraphs their whole thing so well that i know for a fact i will never need to listen to them to confirm

Given their terrible name and their ILM derided swing-ska-Oingo Boingo sound, Cherry Poppin' Daddies may be the guiltiest guilty pleasure CD I own.

Virgin Prunes

Badbadnotgood

I might have written off The Good, The Bad and The Queen if I hadn't already written them off because of Albarn.

Macklemore
Papa Roach
Mumford and Sons, seconded. Just sounds blah. Will never listen to this. Don't even know what it is.

Bands with a person's name + band ie Dave Matthews Band. Like, come up with something cool like Vinnie Vincent Invasion

The Beatles.

Does everyone know that Mumford is the name of the main guy in Mumford & Sons? Who I just found out today is married to Carey Mulligan!

tbh before i really knew anything about him, I wrote off John Foxx for his name, thinking he was some sub-Howard Jones/nik kershaw type major label dude

not that I have a problem with either of those dudes nowadays lol

xxp i will elide my jokes about Mumford and Sons and Carey Mulligan and instead point to the band's wack "centrist" politics

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2018/nov/16/mumford-sons-on-jordan-peterson-the-grenfell-tragedy-and-being-hated

they were in the news yesterday on the same limpdick bullshit

https://mrwinstonmarshall.medium.com/why-im-leaving-mumford-sons-e6e731bbc255

I'm surprised nobody on this thread has mentioned the Insane Clown Posse

― Hmmmmm (jamiesummerz), Friday, June 25, 2021 10:50 AM (five hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

Because it’s a great name

Illuminati Hotties

I thought I liked the Psychedelic Porn Crumpets. Was nice enough music to have in the background as I worked. But followed along with some of the lyrics last night and they were pure shit and it all made sense why they have such a terrible name.

I don't think I've ever done this tbh.

Artists You've Written Off/Pointedly Ignored because of their album names: I’m sorry but shit like “Panzerfaust” is why I don’t trust metal

I’m not sorry and shit like a Decibel rave that cites Varg lyrics as a selling point is also why

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