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

totally enormous extinct dinosaurs

their PR has been conscientiously updating me on this band for some years now and i just cannot

And So I Watch You From Afar

When Saints Go Machine is a horrible horrible name

It is supposed to be a pun isn't it?

It's not a very good one if so. I've hated having to say their name outloud (which I do on occasion if someone asks me for music recommendations).

Grizzly Bear.

Mwahaha

i blame the internet

xp - at least one of them used to be in a band called Ned. cool guy.

There's a band in Atlanta called Groove Stain, which is hilarious and the worst name I have ever heard for a band EVER.

Reptar

lol groove stain

Most unappealing band name I have heard in a long time:

Bushwick Book Club

Leftover Crack... I had no idea.

The Beatles - who wants to listen to insects?

When Saints Go Machine is a horrible horrible name

― I want your nose, your shoes and your unicycle (dog latin), Tuesday, January 31, 2012 10:29 AM (2 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

It is supposed to be a pun isn't it?

― Derartu Cthulhu (NickB), Tuesday, January 31, 2012 10:38 AM (2 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

omg i just got what this pun is meant to be

i cannot

Girls

twenty | one | pilots

Dirty Projectors

or indeed any 'Dirty' band

Prefab Sprout

― anagram, Tuesday, May 19, 2009 7:00 AM (3 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Prefab Sprout just recently graduated from being an Artist I've Written Off/Pointedly Ignored Because of Their Name to an Artist I Play Around Other People With Great Trepidation Due To Fear That They Will Ask Me Who It Is and I Will Have To Say Their Name Out Loud.

Butthole Surfers

I remember an band called "Weeknd" placing in some ILM poll... The missing "e" irritates me so much I never want to listen to them.

alt-j (∆)

I remember an band called "Weeknd" placing in some ILM poll... The missing "e" irritates me so much I never want to listen to them.

Missing or superfluous letters automatically put bands on this list for me these days. Just tired of it already.

Like in Beatles maybe?

Nah, that happened before I got tired of it. ;)

Drive By Truckers

Missing or superfluous letters automatically put bands on this list for me these days. Just tired of it already.

It's so you can Google them isn't it?

That makes sense. But then there are newish bands with names that seem to have been chosen deliberately to defy Google (e.g. The Men, Girls) that still come up as the #1 search result when you search for their name + "band". I don't know, I guess it's mostly in my head, but I tend to avoid bands that jump on what appear to be band name trends; like if you formed some time in the middle of the last decade and have the word "Wolf" in your name, you were written off/pointedly ignored.

It's the all caps-no vowels band names in particular these days that have been bugging me. But at least this thread exists so I can take comfort in knowing I'm not alone in being unfairly dismissive!

Anything that makes me use Character Map.

http://www.ilxor.com/ILX/SiteNewAnswersControllerServlet

Sorry

The Presets

why not just call your band "Autopilot" (actually, that's a better name) or "Phoning It In"

king gizzard & the lizard wizard

then i happened to hear one of their tracks accidentally and it was great

Dirty beaches.

I mean seriously dude? Two ridiculously overused words in post - 00 band names..lets just mash em together!

I did listen to him though finally. Pretty good shit.

Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr.

Spotify is bannering me about a band called The Orwells

But they come so highly recommended...

The Orwells: "They're like the Strokes if the Strokes got hit in the head with rocks."

Trying to sound literate by naming your band after an author probably 50% of middle schoolers read: C/D. Also, trying to imply that your shitty indie band is the musical equivalent of a sober, clear-eyed political critic and one of the greatest essayists of all time -- not only highly unlikely, but highly un rock-and-roll even if true.

CHVRCHES

^^^ something about it screams "latecomers to Williamsburg"

I like the fact the next buzz band to come along was called "Temples". CHVRCHES are fine, name aside, though.

Dirty beaches.

I mean seriously dude? Two ridiculously overused words in post - 00 band names..lets just mash em together!

I had assumed that it's a juvenile "dirty bitches" pun rather than evidence of an interest in marine conservation, given that's how about 75% of the world would say those words in English, but i may be wrong.

Classixx

Del the Funky Homosapien

Nude Beach

Trying to sound literate by naming your band after an author probably 50% of middle schoolers read: C/D.

Similarly: Gatsby's American Dream

I feel like there were a few other bands in the mid '00s who were heavily influenced by their high school summer reading lists, but the only other examples I can think of right now are shitty local bands.

I liked Rainer Maria in the day

You were assigned Rilke in high school?

I don't think even yr absolute standards are always a bad idea to draw from, e.g. I like the names of both Rollerskate Skinny (Catcher in the Rye) and the Boo Radleys (To Kill a Mockingbird). But "The Orwells" is just so lumpen and ham-fisted.

I agree, and those are great examples. But when done wrong it's just a sad disaster.

Tempted to start a S/D: Bands Whose Names Are References to Canonical Literature thread, but will restrain myself.