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

I was about to say Deja Voodo but I've actually heard them.

Deja Voodoo, though. Man.

I actually like that, in a trashy garage-punk way.

This cunt: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Offenbach

Obviously just ripping off JSB's style and name.

Thighpaulsandra

Yes, that name is terrible

Ducktails

ppl don't understand that "pure at heart" means something different than "pure of heart"?

I've definitely written off Ducktails even though my friends swear by them

Also, I cannot bring myself to listen to something called CAGE THE ELEPHANT

Jimmy Eat World (saw it on someone's end of the decade list)

Oingo Boingo

ppl don't understand that "pure at heart" means something different than "pure of heart"?

Pure at heart = 'underneath all the evil, he's actually a nice bloke'

Pure of heart = 'doesn't drink,smoke,swear, and spends all his spare time reading the bible'

or something like that.

for a long time i did not give radiohead a chance. partly due to their ridiculous name, partly due to the hype, partly due to thom yorke's voice. from amnesiac on i listened to their music.

with coldplay though everything is in harmony. a stupid name, a shitty voice, empty lyrics which seem to be written by a robot. plus boring music which isn't worth commenting on.

sorry for reposting the same shit again.

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What's ridiculous about the name Radiohead? Or Coldplay for that matter.

Now Spoon, that's a stupid name for a band.

Not for a shit band.

There have been occasions where bands have gone "ah, we're a bit shit, let's give ourselves a stupid name" and then for some reason get sudden success.

Farmer's Boys, e.g.

What's ridiculous about the name Radiohead? Or Coldplay for that matter.

Also, I cannot bring myself to listen to something called CAGE THE ELEPHANT

Don't worry. From what I've heard you're not missing anything.

casiotone for the painfully alone

― billstevejim, Sunday, April 19, 2009 10:33 PM (1 month ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

there's no way a mind which thinks that's an acceptable band name could ever be anything other than 100% contemptible

casiotone for the painfully alone at least is ridiculous AND funny.

I swear I read someplace that said cold play is a "random sequencing" of any particular thing. Like...if radio DJ played an arbitrary shuffle of songs, "a cold play of Lilly Allen, AC/DC, etc etc..."

Can't recommend quoting me on that.

Pissed Jeans is pretty bad, but yeah, AIDS Wolf is not only the worst of all the Wolf names, but also the worst band name ever.

Um. Yeah if taking those names at face value is your stance then I guess so.

Coldplay are a hangover from the 90s school of Brit indie band naming ie - "make sure your band has a name with as few connotations as possible". See also Blur.

I think I prefer this to new-skool Google-friendly band names.

but coldplay is about the most google-friendly name imaginable. or do you think you will find one page with coldplay on it where it doesn't stand for the band?

I always liked the supposed origins of the name AIDS Wolf (IIRC an urban myth about rabid wolves wandering into big cities and transmitting AIDS) but got the impression with the band, especially after limited interaction with them, that they were more the type who'd be mouthing "that's right, we went there" after telling you their name

there's no way a mind which thinks that's an acceptable band name could ever be anything other than 100% contemptible

Met this dude at a party a few months ago. Haven't heard the music, but he seemed like a nice guy.

cruiserweight. as it turns out they're a pretty dope little poppy punk band.

Um. Yeah if taking those names at face value is your stance then I guess so.

Understanding the backstory to AIDS Wolf's name makes it only marginally more tolerable. My reaction to these is slightly mysterious I suppose, as I don't have any problem with Dead Kennedies, which is pretty offensive. I think DJ Mencap has nailed it though.

Met this dude at a party a few months ago. Haven't heard the music, but he seemed like a nice guy.

He is a nice guy, he and my sis used to work together in SF and I've chatted with him a few times.

AIDS Wolf are actually pretty cool people.

Saw Casiotone for the Painfully Alone in a basement in Mid-Missouri and I liked it. Not buying any records any time soon.

"Here We Go Magic" is a band name?

There was some really lazy student journalism on display when the band Cave played in town a few weeks ago (a band that formed in this town and that anyone with any kind of relationship to the local music scene could have made a comment on) and the blurb in the back of the paper just said "I can't google this band but someone told me they were worth seeing so I guess you should go." The price I pay for living in a town with an unusually high student journalism population.

student journalisT pop.

if i was writing a live show calender full of silly soundbytes i would not be ashamed at all to write that about a band with a googleproof one-word name. i dunno if the blurbs in that particular paper are more factual/serious as a rule, though.

Guess I was just butthurt cuz I used to be in the band, lol.

haha

i think it's a pretty dumb blurb

What's ridiculous about the name Radiohead?

― Tits Bramble (Matt DC), Wednesday, May 27, 2009 6:02 AM (9 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

^Mind is blown that this is a real post.

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It was a terrible name for a SONG

Terrible? Seriously?? It just sort of sits there not drawing attention to itself imo.

there's no way a mind which thinks that's an acceptable band name could ever be anything other than 100% contemptible.

awww this is so wrong - its ridiculous and funny and, most importantly, accurately encapsulates the music (which, at least at the outset) was this very lovingly constructed miserablist/minimalist keyboard pop (composed and performed solely on cheap keyboards). I love Owen, good guy.

Yeah, I never took offense to that name. It seems appropriately self-effacing and accurate.

Another one I could never bring myself to listen to, but not just because of the name - the covers were pretty dire too: Dayglo Abortions.

x-posts Yes to Shakey re: CftPA

I really like the one Casiotone album I own a lot and he was charmingly awkward and funny when I saw him a couple years ago. I don't know how anyone could hear that name and not realize that it's v funny.

hearing or seeing the band plays into your opinion - I thought "I love you but I've chosen darkness" was a really funny band name until I discovered they had no sense of humor

' I thought "I love you but I've chosen darkness" was a really funny band name until I discovered they had no sense of humor'
this made me laugh so perhaps you should forgive them their horrible earnestness?