creatively bankrupt newish chillwave/post-AnCo bands whose names are just '80s ephemera

haha thanks! we were always pretty psyched about the name tbh, and it fit the kind of silly/evil thing we were going for.

bleak end at bernies is kinda lol tbh

Personal and the Pizzas
Space Lions In Outer Space

Personal and the Pizzas

i really love this name

have you actually heard Personal and the Pizzas? Pretty sure they're not chillwave or sound like Animal Collective!

I might pick up the new personal and the pizzas single for you. The a side is great. The b side is basically "I wanna be your boyfriend" with a dollop of "do you want to know a secret?"

^sarahel missing the point as per usual

― Christopher Green Leafy Swagon Indiebro (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, October 12, 2010 3:54 PM (6 months ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

i just got an email for SNUFFALUFFAGUS

http://snuffaluffagus.bandcamp.com/

jesus

is it really too much to ask for bands to come up with names that make me hate them before i've heard a note of their music

Snuffaluffagus is eternal!

The name is even more awful because the Sesame Street character is Snuffleupagus, not Snuffaluffagus.

Maybe not ephemera, but is Dutch Uncles the least appealing name for a band on the planet?

The name is even more awful because the Sesame Street character is Snuffleupagus, not Snuffaluffagus.

― 'what are you, the Hymen Protection League of America?' (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, April 14, 2011 12:01 PM (21 minutes ago) Bookmark

maybe that's their clever copyright infringement dodge

dog latin, you must live a very charmed life for you to even think that!

If I were them I wouldn't really worry about getting popular enough to have that be an issue, but I guess. Still awful though.

^sarahel missing the point as per usual

― Christopher Green Leafy Swagon Indiebro (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, October 12, 2010 3:54 PM (6 months ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

― livin' la vida Moka! (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, April 14, 2011 7:32 AM (2 hours ago)

No dude, it's just that there are dozens of threads for contemptible band names, this one, which you started, is more specific ... and Personal and the Pizzas does not fit!

I think most people of our gen have 80s/nostalgic/childhood associations when they head the phrase "Personal Pizza" (ie, the Pizza Hut Personal Pan Pizza, which you probably shouldn't eat if you are over the age of 12).

Is that on the menu at Combination Pizza Hut and Taco Bells?

is this gonna be like when you insisted most twentysomethings think of actual ducks' tails when they hear the phrase "Ducktails"

that wasn't me, i don't think?

Space Lions In Outer Space is not a reference to anything and is just a terrible name, thoguh, right?

unless it's an oblique reference to the 1992 They Might Be Giants single "The Guitar (The Lion Sleeps Tonight)"

is this gonna be like when you insisted most twentysomethings think of actual ducks' tails when they hear the phrase "Ducktails"

― livin' la vida Moka! (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, April 14, 2011 10:09 AM (15 minutes ago)

i suggested that 20-somethings that didn't grow up in America might not be familiar with the cartoon.

Personal and the Pizzas is such an awesome band name.

Any reference to Pizza Hut personal pizzas are worthless without an included nod to the Book It! program:

http://i.acdn.us/image/A6260/62609/300_62609.gif

i thought pizza punk was a termbo thing

They're certainly a termbo band.

Universal Studios Florida played at a Laser Dome last night. With a band named Beat Connection. Like the LCD Soundsystem song. '00s ephemera already!

Maybe not ephemera, but is Dutch Uncles the least appealing name for a band on the planet?

It's better than Dutch Oven.

This probably isn't the right thread, but these opening credits for the show The Phoenix are amazing. This must be the most Kenneth Anger-esque thing to ever appear on network TV

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SASkqWyn40

Have we done shred savage?

wk, i think you're lookin for this thread

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shred savage is kinda lol

took me a moment to get that one

this thundercat (lol) song isn't bad.

a friend's band is playing a gig with a band called Polly Darton

not sure what kinda bands these are, but just saw the names: Dananananaykroyd and Ringo Deathstarr

noisy British twee rock and shoegaze o rama respectively

more '90s/'00s ephemera but the futurama band names are coming thick and fast lately

today's: 'death by snoo snoo' and 'robot house'. really like the name robot house tbh

Hudson Mohawke

What better way to kick off where we left off than with a producer we've been keeping our eye on all summer, MORD FUSTANG! Flying in from native Estonia, it's nothing but sick, upbeat, synth heavy tracks with his sound being compared to Deadmau5, Feed Me and Skrillex combining electro drops with a little bit of dubstep to produce a mesmerising sound which has become his trademark.

http://f.bandcamp.com/z/16/01/1601180188-1.jpg

you utter wanker

You Utter Wanker is a great name for a band.

i read that like Too $hort saying it

xp http://www.discogs.com/artist/Utter+Bastard

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ASSS
MEDDICINE
PEPSI MAXX
Friday 5 August
Power Lunches Arts Cafe, 446 Kingsland Road, Dalston, E8
8pm | 4.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/124896

ASSS is the collaboration between Alex Smith and Sean Sumler based on the idea of working with instruments they knew nothing about. The two get lost in their own bombed-out desolation, bashing away heavily on tin-can drums and frazzled electronics as they blister the frayed soft edges of their compositions with buzzsaw distortion and globs of astral glue. This experimentation has resulted in many stylistic and formal variations that take the listener from shelling of falling-apart percussion and howled, woozy chants blasting off into a tribal fury, only too be washed over in a thick, goopy membrane of drain pipe reverberation and krautdrone weirdness. The band have a self-released split tape as well as a cassette on Hobo Cult Records in the past and will be launching their new split LP with Meddicine at this show!

MEDDICINE is London's one-woman psychedelic noise phenomenon! Using some tantalizing harsh synth tones, chasing drum machine beats and above all Monika's distorted vocals. The sounds are dark, electronic and brutal, like the edges of HEALTH and Crystal Castles songs that people don't often remember, a series of violent experiments in noise filled with foreboding. Far from accessible, but that's probably the point. Meddicine has releases on Clan Destine Records and a future 12" split / tour with Portland, Oregon's ASSS planned for the summer.

PEPSI MAXX is a one man deep-pop extravaganza, consisting of alluring samples, radiant guitar fuzz and textural vocals. Pepsi MAXX creates grand melodies and slow soul jams that take place in an infinite time continuum of American accents, 1930s Biarritz and 2030s night time Nevada.

literally just came here to post the last one of those

one thing i wonder about chillwave artists (and maybe lamp or MFB can help here) is do they sit around and actually listen to like Steve Winwood and Chris DeBurgh all day?

when your art is like "creating faded memories of pop culture ephemera" or whatev, is that what what you listen to for fun? Like if Memory Tapes picks me up at the airport, is he gonna be blasting an Air Supply tape in his car, or is he just gonna be playing Fleet Foxes or whatever like any other white person?

well the wall street journal hasnt appointed me an authority on hipsters or anything but yeah, id say lots of ~these people~ listen to air supply or thrifted cassettes of 80s pop or youtubes of childrens tv show themes or w/e for pleasure. i personally am more likely to listen to that stuff than fleet foxes (which im never going to listen to) but i cant vouch for memory tapes bro there