OK but the band name is “Big Thief”
― Wet Legume (morrisp), Tuesday, 10 January 2023 15:50 (one year ago) link
Chief Theef
― fentanyl young (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 10 January 2023 15:58 (one year ago) link
International Chief Thief
― peace, man, Tuesday, 10 January 2023 16:34 (one year ago) link
Big Thief is the worst band name I could imagine. It simultaneously doesn't mean anything, and it lacks visual description, and it sounds like a shitty cover band. It's a combination of small words that leads you... nowhere. So I assumed the music would do the same thing. And, to be honest, they're not my thing at all.
― paulhw, Tuesday, 10 January 2023 21:10 (one year ago) link
what's the deal with indie rock bands having such drab functional names these days? it beats the worst excesses of the hipster era but it's way too much of an overcorrection and doesn't really inspire me to give their music a fair shot
― your original display name is still visible (Left), Tuesday, 10 January 2023 23:47 (one year ago) link
the beths, the national, dry cleaning, car seat headrest
some of them might even be good idk but come on try a bit harder
― your original display name is still visible (Left), Tuesday, 10 January 2023 23:53 (one year ago) link
I guess it's nothing new since most of the classic indie and postpunk band names are either boring or ridiculous if you think about them too much
― your original display name is still visible (Left), Tuesday, 10 January 2023 23:54 (one year ago) link
Ah yes,the halcyon days of highly meaningful band names like The The
― everybody was tofu fighting (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 11 January 2023 00:05 (one year ago) link
The SmithsThe Cure The Police
― Wet Legume (morrisp), Wednesday, 11 January 2023 00:26 (one year ago) link
I hate the name Beach House and have never wanted to listen to them for this totally understandable reason (though I did hear Depression Cherry once)
― you can see me from westbury white horse, Wednesday, 11 January 2023 00:27 (one year ago) link
The Hood Internet
― Publicradio (3×5), Thursday, 12 January 2023 00:42 (one year ago) link
By far, Car Seat Headrest is the worst one mentioned so far.
― I can't tell if he's trolling or not (ilxor), Thursday, 12 January 2023 06:56 (one year ago) link
Beatles is a pretty naff functional name, pun on an earlier archetypal group name. But it got valorised into something by usage and the group being somewhat phenomenal.The Smiths, artisanal songcraft?THe Cure arrogant statement on their place in the world, Cure for their non existence? Can't remember where the original 2 word version of that came from Easy Cure .... is it a song or some other reference.
― Stevolende, Thursday, 12 January 2023 07:27 (one year ago) link
some DJ is calling themselves jichael mackson FFS
― massaman gai (front tea for two), Thursday, 12 January 2023 15:02 (one year ago) link
I dislike when a band is called something super basic, like "Cake" or "Live," but they have a convoluted explanation that "It doesn't mean what you think..."
― Vexatious litigant (morrisp), Thursday, 12 January 2023 15:46 (one year ago) link
There's a narrow range between basic (The Music, the Band, Television, Can, The The...) and too cute like Ululating Mummies, Pamplamoose, Squirrel Nut Zippers
― everybody was tofu fighting (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 12 January 2023 15:52 (one year ago) link
I kinda wish modern bands would go for more ridiculous names like Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, but I guess if everyone is an Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, then no one is an Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark
― Vinnie, Thursday, 12 January 2023 16:01 (one year ago) link
I listen to a genre where there are a glut of bands that seem to be the founders looking for an obscure pretentious verb and a disgusting obscure medical condition and awkwardly sew them together. so my standards are low.
just no spoonerisms
― fentanyl young (Neanderthal), Thursday, 12 January 2023 16:56 (one year ago) link
Hey, Adjective Noun is one of my favorite bands.
Surely you're familiar with their albums Promising Debut and Disappointing Followup.
― everybody was tofu fighting (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 12 January 2023 17:17 (one year ago) link
obscure pretentious verb and a disgusting obscure medical condition
Ah yes, who can forget...
Flagellating Chlamydia
Defenestrated Buboes
Spatchcock and the Goiters
The Collating Hemorrhoids
Televangelize Pimple
― everybody was tofu fighting (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 12 January 2023 17:23 (one year ago) link
I hated both the named Wet Leg and Dry Cleaning, and then was all bummed out when I liked each band's music.
― Alex in NYC, Thursday, 12 January 2023 20:54 (one year ago) link
Coming to your town together on the Wet & Dry Tour.
― Vexatious litigant (morrisp), Thursday, 12 January 2023 21:09 (one year ago) link
Bahaha
― Alex in NYC, Friday, 13 January 2023 18:53 (one year ago) link
Cal Rifkin
― Alicia Silver Stone (Boring, Maryland), Tuesday, 31 January 2023 16:34 (one year ago) link
She's... back?!!
https://i.imgur.com/5oDect6.jpg
...Oh.
https://i.imgur.com/THxAfOX.png
― listened to "Mississippi" one take too long (morrisp), Thursday, 2 February 2023 03:16 (one year ago) link
Could mean the Whitney museum on tour too..
― Alicia Silver Stone (Boring, Maryland), Thursday, 2 February 2023 16:10 (one year ago) link
Oh, I wanna sit awkwardly on a bed with somebody
I wanna wear a shirt with somebody
― forbidden fruit salad (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 2 February 2023 16:13 (one year ago) link
“@“https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/at-mind-palace-music/
― unknown blues singer (morrisp), Friday, 24 February 2023 18:03 (one year ago) link
Not sure if it’s because their music is generally terrible but I hate the name “Imagine Dragons”
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Friday, 24 February 2023 18:14 (one year ago) link
Yeah me too. It's one of those superficially clever band names because one can read it in the imperative: "imagine (that there are) dragons." Or one can read implied punctuation such as "imagine... dragons!" as in sheesh, what the fuck are dragons doing here?
Ditto "Cage the Elephant," which has an imperative reading: "cause that elephant to be caged," as well as the slightly twee notion that there is an elephant named Cage, hence an implied comma: "Cage, the elephant, wishes to be fed more peanuts."
Lots of band names can just die in fire. Maybe bands should all just be issued a number like the Social Security system.
I am guilty too; during an especially weird part of the twentieth century I was in an experimental jazz band that spelled its name differently for every show. I vaguely wish I had kept some of the posters. Curds and Whey, Kurds n Way, Curds + Weigh, Kurds & Whey, etc.
― nat king cole slaw (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 24 February 2023 21:17 (one year ago) link
Oh, I wanna sit awkwardly on a bed with somebodyI wanna wear a shirt with somebody
Underrated post
― pee change (flamboyant goon tie included), Friday, 24 February 2023 21:34 (one year ago) link
It's one of those superficially clever band names because one can read it in the imperative: "imagine (that there are) dragons." Or one can read implied punctuation such as "imagine... dragons!" as in sheesh, what the fuck are dragons doing here?Ditto "Cage the Elephant," which has an imperative reading: "cause that elephant to be caged," as well as the slightly twee notion that there is an elephant named Cage, hence an implied comma: "Cage, the elephant, wishes to be fed more peanuts."
🤯 tbh
― The field divisions are fastened with felicitations. (Deflatormouse), Friday, 24 February 2023 21:36 (one year ago) link
Hed PE
Is it a Public Enemy reference?
― INDEPENDENTS DAY BY STEVEN SPILBERG (President Keyes), Saturday, 25 February 2023 21:08 (one year ago) link
i always thought it was an abbreviation for "planet earth"
― up and down. SO FAST! stay together.💙 (Austin), Saturday, 25 February 2023 21:10 (one year ago) link
hey i was kinda right
Hed PE (also known as (hed) Planet Earth and stylized as (həd) p.e. or as (Hed)pe[12] or (Hed)PE[13]) or (həd) Planetary Evolution, is an American rock band from Huntington Beach, California.
― up and down. SO FAST! stay together.💙 (Austin), Saturday, 25 February 2023 21:12 (one year ago) link
also lol @ all those different variations and me still sitting here going, "so is it like, head pee or HEAD PEE EE?"
― up and down. SO FAST! stay together.💙 (Austin), Saturday, 25 February 2023 21:15 (one year ago) link
Their / They're / There
― enochroot, Thursday, 4 May 2023 13:26 (one year ago) link
oh jeez
― Cthulhu Diamond Phillips (Neanderthal), Thursday, 4 May 2023 14:08 (one year ago) link
Makes sense considering the three members were previously in such bands as Cap'n Jazz, Into It. Over It., and Loose Lips Sink Ships.
― henry s, Thursday, 4 May 2023 15:15 (one year ago) link
might as well name their next one Well, Akshually
― Cthulhu Diamond Phillips (Neanderthal), Thursday, 4 May 2023 15:17 (one year ago) link
Pretty good song titles
― Are You There God? It's a-Me, Mario (morrisp), Thursday, 4 May 2023 15:34 (one year ago) link
There's a local shit deathcore band called Catcher And the Rye
― linoleum gallagher (Neanderthal), Saturday, 8 July 2023 19:13 (ten months ago) link
I am fairly sure they're just idiots that think that is the title of the book. They are humongous douchebags
probably for a different thread, but cant find one suitable, what's the most obvious band name that hasn't been "taken" yet? Taken by a somewhat notable band who would stop someone else using it I mean.
― the world is your octopus (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Saturday, 8 July 2023 21:53 (ten months ago) link
I have been thinking about this. Animal names are popular - Eagles, scorpions, Owls, Wolves, Coyotes, Worms, Otters, Bonobos, Giraffes, Zebra, Naked Mole Rats, Wallabies, Sloths, Tardigrades, Yellowjackets, Fruit Bats, Bandicoots? Apparently all taken.
But there are some still sitting out there unclaimed. I am not aware of a band called the Ring-Tailed Lemurs, or the Earwigs.
The sneakiest move would be to call your next band The Beetles. Technically it hasn't been taken.
― pomplamoose and circumstance (Ye Mad Puffin), Saturday, 8 July 2023 22:21 (ten months ago) link
Earwig has already been used - early 90s shoegazer band who later turned into Insides
― NickB, Saturday, 8 July 2023 22:40 (ten months ago) link
I once read that the most common band names in America are Paradox; The Rain; and some third one I forgot. Googling confirms that Paradox is a top 10 name, as are Apollo, Atlas, and Zero.
― Josefa, Saturday, 8 July 2023 22:43 (ten months ago) link
These are fun things to check out on last.fm, for example https://www.last.fm/music/Paradox
― the world is your octopus (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Saturday, 8 July 2023 23:04 (ten months ago) link
The 1960s was a huge landgrab for common words. You just had to plant a “The” flag in front of it.
― Alito Bit of Soap (President Keyes), Sunday, 9 July 2023 12:48 (ten months ago) link
xxxpost, I check every once in a while, but there's never been a hardcore band called Lifetime of Abusethere is Life is Abuse but I don't like the ring of that as well
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Sunday, 9 July 2023 13:28 (ten months ago) link