Anything that makes me use Character Map.
― Click here to read in HD (dog latin), Thursday, 30 August 2012 13:25 (eleven years ago) link
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― look at this quarterstaff (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 18 September 2012 21:16 (eleven years ago) link
Sorry
The Presets
― look at this quarterstaff (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 18 September 2012 21:17 (eleven years ago) link
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
― eat sock become sock (electricsound), Tuesday, 3 June 2014 01:48 (nine years ago) link
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.
― Dreamland, Tuesday, 3 June 2014 02:18 (nine years ago) link
Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr.
― campreverb, Tuesday, 3 June 2014 15:02 (nine years ago) link
Spotify is bannering me about a band called The Orwells
― ₴HABΔZZ ¶IZZΔ (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 3 June 2014 15:08 (nine years ago) link
But they come so highly recommended...
The Orwells: "They're like the Strokes if the Strokes got hit in the head with rocks."
― Wristy Hurlington (ShariVari), Tuesday, 3 June 2014 15:10 (nine years ago) link
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.
― ₴HABΔZZ ¶IZZΔ (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 3 June 2014 15:16 (nine years ago) link
CHVRCHES
― clouds, Tuesday, 3 June 2014 15:23 (nine years ago) link
^^^ something about it screams "latecomers to Williamsburg"
― ₴HABΔZZ ¶IZZΔ (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 3 June 2014 15:24 (nine years ago) link
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.
― Wristy Hurlington (ShariVari), Tuesday, 3 June 2014 15:25 (nine years ago) link
Classixx
Del the Funky Homosapien
― rap is afraid of me (rip van wanko), Tuesday, 3 June 2014 15:39 (nine years ago) link
Nude Beach
― ₴HABΔZZ ¶IZZΔ (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 3 June 2014 15:40 (nine years ago) link
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.
― cwkiii, Tuesday, 3 June 2014 15:50 (nine years ago) link
I liked Rainer Maria in the day
― rap is afraid of me (rip van wanko), Tuesday, 3 June 2014 16:05 (nine years ago) link
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.
― emil.y, Tuesday, 3 June 2014 16:18 (nine years ago) link
I agree, and those are great examples. But when done wrong it's just a sad disaster.
― cwkiii, Tuesday, 3 June 2014 16:25 (nine years ago) link
Tempted to start a S/D: Bands Whose Names Are References to Canonical Literature thread, but will restrain myself.
― cwkiii, Tuesday, 3 June 2014 16:26 (nine years ago) link
Although it's neither a truly bad name nor a truly bad band, I kind of knew exactly what Perfect Pussy was going to sound like, and I just recently confirmed it.
― ₴HABΔZZ ¶IZZΔ (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 3 June 2014 22:32 (nine years ago) link
The Orwells are stillI IN middle school iirc so give em a break. Almost all band names are really stupid if you spend more than a few seconds thinking about them so I maximize efficiency by spending no more than 1.1 seconds. I have never gotten to the end of ...and you will know us by the trail??? but I assume the ending is satisfying
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 4 June 2014 00:22 (nine years ago) link
Lol are they really? Cute then.
― ₴HABΔZZ ¶IZZΔ (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 4 June 2014 00:52 (nine years ago) link
Yeah, based off of their letterman performance last year they look to be about 17-18
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 4 June 2014 00:57 (nine years ago) link
Fuds
― PaulTMA, Wednesday, 4 June 2014 01:05 (nine years ago) link
Cerebral Ballzy
― ginuwine's cousin (monotony), Wednesday, 4 June 2014 04:33 (nine years ago) link
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.
Is adding one or more redundant letters to a word/name the new having the word "Wolf" in your name?
WavvesDraag MeHollyyKiiaraOMAARSlayyyterJJUUJJUUSuunsBiig PiigCHIIILDCola BoyyIann DiorHoorsees
― Vaguely Threatening CAPTCHAs, Monday, 21 June 2021 22:23 (two years ago) link
Killing Joke
― Mr. Que, Tuesday, April 14, 2009
still ice cold
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 21 June 2021 22:25 (two years ago) link
The Front Bottoms
― A viking of frowns, (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Monday, 21 June 2021 22:31 (two years ago) link
some dude at 12:19 4 May 11Planningtorock
― A viking of frowns, (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Monday, 21 June 2021 22:34 (two years ago) link
I have never heard of Draag Me, but in their possible defense (?), it could (in theory at least) be a bilingual play-on-words: “draag me” means ‘carry me’ in Dutch.whether that would makes it a “better” name or not is another matter
― ten man poland chasing this means hamsik feasts (breastcrawl), Monday, 21 June 2021 22:36 (two years ago) link
I wish Psychedelic Porn Crumpets would change their name cause they're really quite good.
― Maresn3st, Monday, 21 June 2021 22:43 (two years ago) link
wolf alice wasn't even formed yet when the above complaint was made but what happened to all the other wolves. i hope no one cares about AIDS wolf these days
i file the letters thing alongside all caps or all lowercase and symbols in names, it's a sort of #vibe and maybe a generational marker. it rules sometimes (spellling) sometimes it's really annoying (wavves)
― Left, Monday, 21 June 2021 22:44 (two years ago) link
i would not listen to a band called the psychedelic porn crumpets however well recommended. i have also avoided the front bottoms
i know of at least two bands called slaves, fuck them
archers of loaf isn't a boycott-worthy name but is certainly a not-particularly-interested-in-checking-out-this-band kind of name
― Left, Monday, 21 June 2021 22:53 (two years ago) link
it's bullshit like fun. and portugal. the man that really pisses me off. i contend that 00s hipsterdom produced more awful names than the combined efforts of every other scene and era in the history of popular music
― Left, Monday, 21 June 2021 23:17 (two years ago) link
Englebert Humperdinck tho
― what's fgti up to these days? nothing. she's fake (flamboyant goon tie included), Monday, 21 June 2021 23:35 (two years ago) link
There was a Toronto band named "hhead", forerunners to Broken Social Scene, who I think of as pioneers of the unnecessary superfluous letter trend. A friend of mine took them as a sign that all the good band names had been taken (30 years ago!).
― Halfway there but for you, Tuesday, 22 June 2021 01:18 (two years ago) link
They were also pioneers of the lower-case letters only trend.
― Halfway there but for you, Tuesday, 22 June 2021 01:19 (two years ago) link
mmorning nnoon aand nnight II ggive yyou hhead
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 22 June 2021 01:19 (two years ago) link
Abe Vigoda, along with every other band name that’s an “lol so random” celebrity name
― nobody like my rap (One Eye Open), Tuesday, 22 June 2021 02:39 (two years ago) link
DeftonesDeafheaven
― assert (matttkkkk), Tuesday, 22 June 2021 02:45 (two years ago) link
xp You missed out - it became one of those things where you didn’t think about the actor anymore when you heard the band’s name.
― search term: buttrock (morrisp), Tuesday, 22 June 2021 02:45 (two years ago) link
For a good while I avoided FKA Twigs cause it sounded like the name of a lesser Warp act that peaked with being on a label compilation. Eventually heard stuff by her and didn't regret not having heard her earlier.
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Tuesday, 22 June 2021 03:16 (two years ago) link
flagged
― Left, Tuesday, 22 June 2021 04:00 (two years ago) link
twigged
― assert (matttkkkk), Tuesday, 22 June 2021 04:46 (two years ago) link
Fu Schnickens
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Tuesday, 22 June 2021 05:35 (two years ago) link
I always assumed this was because all the band names were already taken.
Anyway, I was relived to see that you left Alvvays off of your list. Alvvays forever.
― enochroot, Tuesday, 22 June 2021 12:05 (two years ago) link
As a rule I shy away from bands that have names which place "the" between a pair of otherwise unrelated words:
Young The GiantFoster The PeoplePortugal The ManHa Ha The Moose
― henry s, Tuesday, 22 June 2021 12:17 (two years ago) link
Jimmy the Hoover aside.
― Are Animated Dads Getting Hotter? (Tom D.), Tuesday, 22 June 2021 12:19 (two years ago) link
Cola Boyy as it’s a piss poor rip off of the Saint Etienne side project.
― Dan Worsley, Tuesday, 22 June 2021 12:22 (two years ago) link