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

oh god Neutral Milk Hotel otm

i was camping w/some pals and someone started playing songs from Aeroplane (<--- I understand that this is embarrassing on its own) and this dude was like 'hey who is that i'd like to check them out' and i was genuinely embarrassed to give him the name :-/

Chickenfoot gets written off for the name and for SH equally

Has no one said TV On The Radio yet? I've actively sought out albums, put them on, pondered them for 1minute 30 seconds then thought "But they're called 'TV on the' fucking 'Radio'" and switch them off in disgust.

yea tv on the radio is pretty terrible, tho i like the band

Margot & the Nuclear So and So's

Tries so hard and falls so flat. Hootie & the Blowfish is a better name.

Gay Dad have the disadvantage of not seeming for a second like a band one would be missing out on by avoiding because of their name.

I realize this is true of lots of others named here, but Gay Dad even more so.

is there actually someone named Margot in Margot & the Nuclear So and So's? still a terrible name, but much more terrible if there isn't ...

In reality, the band is called Margot after Gwyneth Paltrow's character in the Wes Anderson film The Royal Tenenbaums.

the best thing about gay dad was their name.

any band that is called something like The Shunts or The Houses or The Bikeracks or anything stupid like that.

it just gets worse...

Pre Margot
Richard Edwards was in a band during his college years called Archer Avenue (named after the street where the characters in The Royal Tenenbaums lived).

WHO THE FUCK NAMES TWO BANDS AFTER THE ROYAL TENENBAUMS

A FUCKING LUNATIC, THAT'S WHO

Noah and the Whale, to continue on a vague Wes Anderson theme

Carissa's Wierd

definitely! xpost

Anal Cunt....

― Alex in NYC, Tuesday, April 14, 2009 5:15 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

So fuckn backwards. Their name is like reason number one why you should listen to this band

You Say Party! We Say Die!
Baby Animals
Breakestra
J.J. Gray & Mofro
The Decemberists

You Say Party! We Say Die!

^^^works better as an ian riese-moraine username

^^^don't get that, but I'll take your word for it

in the same vein:

Get Him Eat Him

Final Fantasy

It Hugs Back
Passion Pit
You Love Her Cos She's Dead
1990s

But then I tend not to like bands' names till I've heard the band.

Just searching for posts with a certain band's name will give you dozens of threads similar to this one, of which I've selected five
Bands Who(m) I Have Never Heard Note One Of, But The Name Tells Me All I Need To Know
ILM Most Hated 2005
Crap Band Name Watch!!!!
Bands that are victims of having a name that allowed them to be pre-judged and dismissed by people before being even listened to...
Bands that are victims of having a name that allowed them to be pre-judged and dismissed by people before being even listened to...

Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly

Well four threads, five posts.

^^^yup (cape)

Uh Huh Her

ANY band named after a Smiths song (I mean come on..). I generally have a hard time with bands named after other bands' songs or albums. It just seems half-assed. It took me a long time to accept Eric's Trip b/c of this. I probably would have had a problem with Radiohead too, except for that I was unaware of the TH song until well after I was already a RH stan.

Bands You could never allow yourself to like, given their (to your ears) indefensibly stupid name.
band whose name sounds like something you wouldn't want within a ten foot radius of yourself

Shittiest Ska Bands Names Ever (or Total Skrap):
who has the worst name out of all the 'The ....' bands?

It Hugs Back

aww these guys are awesome

xxpost: was just thinking of Shakespear's Sister...

If I hadnt heard their music right away, there's no way I would have given iliketrains any time of day.

Also, bugger the name - the Baby Animals are shit.

I Love You But I've Chosen Darkness

Until the CD reissues came out, I completely ignored The Lines and also The Sound because I could never remember their humdrum names. Who knew that they created so much jaw-droppingly splendid music? Too bad about those names, though.

Shimpboat.

Govt. Cheese
Gov't Mule
Big Head Todd & the Monsters
Johnny Hates Jazz
moe

Cute Is What We Aim For fills me with rage every time I see the name.

"Alex in NYC" is kind of IKEA-grumptious.

I am just curious, as this has come up before, but the Jeans aren't angry. We know this, right?

Oh, and the worst: To Kill a Petty Bourgeoisie

I still haven't bothered with Unsane even though I think I might like them.

I Love You But I've Chosen Darkness

― henry s, Wednesday, April 15, 2009 1:16 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

This can't be real. o.o

I can't even bring myself to google that.

i have no interest in them at all, but

someone still loves you boris yeltsin

has got to be among the worst names ever

― i like to fart and i am crazy (gbx), Tuesday, April 14, 2009 5:27 PM (4 hours ago) Bookmark

posters you've written off because of their name...

(j/k)

^i am glad i checkout out SSLYBY but yeah fuck that really is one of the worst names of all time

checked out

condo fucks (how could one of my fave bands who have a decent name call their last project like that, my esteem for them has definitely decreased after that.)

...and you will know us by the trail of dead (most ridiculuos name ever? the three dots in the beginning are the top of the icing. never really listened to them)

The Strange Fruit Project
any the ______ project, really

henry cow, fad gadget

i dismissed death cab for cutie on the basis id assumed they were another landfill emo band. I then was convinced by a friend who i usually trust on these matters to investigate their music. At which point I dismissed then for being a load of old smug wet toss.

At the moment loads of germans making perfectly good house music are causing dance musics collective skin to crawl over their need to stick 'motor city detroit deep afro soul' minstrel crap in their names

I missed out on mclusky for years, because I convinced myself they sounded like Hefner. Who I have never knowingly heard because of their name.

Terje Rypdal, Shaham Hagai, Nejad Rastegar Nasser, Barrington Levy, Isung Yun, Josek Suk (clearly suks), Professor Longhair (damn hippies), Dr John (get back in the surgery), Peter Tosh (clearly tosh), Sofia Gubaidulina (too close to Gobbolino). Man, racism is hard.