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

yeah yeah yeahs is a great band name, except for when you have to say it aloud

funny, i do remember, way back when I was a teen, hearing about this band Pavement and thinking, come on, come up with a real band name, dudes. Just sounded boring, along the lines of grunge bands naming songs "Porch."

You couldn't pay me a million dollars to listen to one second of the work of a band with a name like "Death Cab for Cutie". No fucking way.

Final Fantasy
Dr. Dog

ryan adams

i figured anybody w/name that close to bryan adams who didn't change it couldn't possibly be any good.

maybe i'm in the minority here, but Death Cab For Cutie's name is my fave thing about them, becuz it makes me think of that funny Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band song.

!!! is another one, actually

In case y'all didn't know:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_Cab_for_Cutie_(song)

(oh xpost!)

and yet, they are totally humorless and sound nothing like the Bonzos AND are just terrible in general

agreed

Dogs Die in Hot Cars

They've been too ubiquitous here for me to write them off solely because of their name, but I think I might have given Arctic Monkeys more of a chance if they were called just about anything else instead.

I gave Dananananaykroyd a listen on emusic out of morbid curiosity (expected some horrible joke band) and was pleasantly surprised with my favorite album of the year to date...

^^^^I have been struggling with friends' recommendations owing to their name

Used to really be bothered by At the Drive-In too. Even if it's a stab at Poison's "Talk Dirty To Me" (is it?), it's just lame.

Haha, I never made that leap from At-the Drive In to Poison, but I love it!

i had a friend who was really into the pAper chAse & kept insisting i check them out but i refused because i thought their name looked dumb. now, "When & If The Big One Hits" is one of my favorite songs but i still don't like looking at their name.

more recently, i had a similar experience with tUnE-YaRdS.

Gastunk has a name that just doesn't entice.

Ween.

And also Death Cab For Cutie.

Heltah Skeltah
Cunninglynguists
All Natural

Anal Cunt.... there's a tough one to defend.

After disliking Crystal Castles, feeling meh about Crystal Stilts, and not getting much from Deerhoof, I'm unreasonably skeptical of recent advice to check out Crystal Antlers.

oh yeah anything with "Wolf" in the title

apart from "Wolf Eyes" because they were the first one I knew about and they blew my 17 year-old brain to bits

Crystal Antlers are great and better than those other bands (judgment based entirely on the one show we played with them - haven't heard their recorded output)

for a long time one reason i didn't get into radiohead was their name. most bands have stupid names these days. and make crap music. coldplay anyone? what kind of name is clouddead? arctic monkeys i have never listened to (is their name supposed to be funny?) but i don't think i missed something. as mentioned upthread the whitest boy alive is a terrible name. like kings of convenience btw. but kings of convenience at least had some great guitar songs. twba are just plain dull. kings of leon i never listened to 'cause of the name. there must be dozens of others i can't think of right now.

Rapeman, and I'm a pretty big Albini fan.

Any band called The Black whatevers (Keys, Lips, Angels etc). Especially Black Kids.

dude you should check out black sabbath, good stuff

Were they called The Black Sabbaths? Exactly.

i have no interest in them at all, but

someone still loves you boris yeltsin

has got to be among the worst names ever

Looking at this thread title I felt an immediate identification with the premise. But now I can't for the life think of an example of this that applies to me, although I know there are a lot.

Retro prog band Wobbler. Maybe they're great, but fucking hell.

more upsetting are bands whose names are dope and then turn out to be garbage

and yeah, jim otm. i felt like i had a grip of terrible band names i hate ready to drop here and now i'm dry

The Pooh Sticks

Fudge Tunnel

I guess I don't like to be reminded of poop

I didn't listen to Fuck Buttons for a long time because their name sounded like some stupid Vice Magazine bullshit. but I'm glad I got over it because I actually really like 'em.

also I think I would've liked Wooden Shjips about 80% more if their name wasn't spelled like that.

(interestingly, this did not keep me from diggin' Wzt Hearts)

Ah, but Fudge Tunnel sound exactly like what you'd expect them to with a name like that,

I too hated the Pooh Sticks for their name. Then I heard their music, and I hated them even more.

I too am on the no-more-animals/black/crystal names anti-bandwagon. Obviously I've made exceptions, but yeah.

bands that use thee instead of the.

i knew there was something i was forgetting.

unfortunately most of those bands are pretty quality imo

daimn.

Mi@sma & The Carousel Of Headless Horses

Looking at this thread title I felt an immediate identification with the premise. But now I can't for the life think of an example of this that applies to me, although I know there are a lot.

― Suggesteban Cambiasso (jim), Tuesday, April 14, 2009 6:28 PM (1 hour ago)

Disco Inferno sure have a misleading band name. Wish I'd looked into them a lot sooner.

I always assumed the Deftones were some kind of ska punk band. Was suprised by their actual output.

Was completely put off by the Presets assuming they were hipster shit. Well, they're not far removed from that but they're actually also pretty good.

ILM I'm disappointed in you. All this time and no Gay Dad mention? For shame.

d'oh, CSN(Y) of course.

Are there any acts named after the members that can't be written off just for doing that?

Um Simon & Garfunkel, Hall & Oates, Ashford & Simpson, Richard & Linda Thompson?

Loads of acts whose names include an ampersand are p cool. Heck, Loggins & Messina, Sonny & Cher, Ike & Tina, Tegan & Sara; Peter, Paul, & Mary

The real wall was the friends we mad etc.

Ergh, bad puffin, loose pasting/posting, sorry

OK maybe there's one or two or possibly more, but then again there's West, Bruce & Laing. Seems to be worse when the people involved are already known, i.e. a supergroup.

Case/Lang/Veirs were good

TS: Heck, Loggins & Messina vs. West, Bruce & Laing

Heck, Loggins & Messina otm for next band I see at a club in Portland

Will never not be delighted by the existence of Ezra Ray Hart

The Supergroup Ezra Ray Hart features Mark McGrath of Sugar Ray, Kevin Griffin of Better Than Ezra, and Emerson Hart of Tonic.

Crywank

ugh

i don't know anything about them. they may be the greatest band ever. but no.

Sissy Penis Factory

did they do "Finally"

OMG is that the pun they were going for? Dying.

I should have listened to it first. Of course.

I’d listen to Sissy Penis Factory based on name alone

Arists (sic) You've Pointedly listened to because of their name

That’s probably the best pun of this millennium so far