xpost And lol of course a quick googling reveals that someone has already run with that terrible idea.
― Sammo Hazuki's Tago Mago Cantina (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 19 February 2020 17:01 (four years ago) link
I've never heard a note of their (her?) music, but Joanna Gruesome sounds so much like a 70s Hanna Barbara cartoon parody of Joanna Newsom that I love imagining the world in which such a thing might exist.
― Maria Edgelord (cryptosicko), Wednesday, 19 February 2020 17:10 (four years ago) link
Do Mary Tyler Morphine count?
― Maresn3st, Wednesday, 19 February 2020 17:10 (four years ago) link
Wevie Stonder fails in every way.
― jmm, Wednesday, 19 February 2020 17:10 (four years ago) link
Joanna Gruesome = Scooby Doo villain iirc
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 19 February 2020 17:11 (four years ago) link
Yes, Wevie Stonder exudes such a depressingly-fundamental lack of effort it kind of makes me sad for those band members. You okay, boos?
― Sammo Hazuki's Tago Mago Cantina (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 19 February 2020 17:13 (four years ago) link
Buh Theatles
― Sammo Hazuki's Tago Mago Cantina (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 19 February 2020 17:14 (four years ago) link
Look I switched the letters. Look. Lookit.
Just learned altered zones era RUN DMT changed his name to Salvia Plath to avoid confusion with a dubstep duo also called Run DMT but that another different person was already using Salvia Plath as an artist name at the same time, too. Truly an innovator in terrible already taken drug puns.
― Judi Dench's Human Hand (methanietanner), Wednesday, 19 February 2020 17:15 (four years ago) link
dread zeppalin is a tribute band, feel like we should make an exception for those?
― ooga booga-ing for the bourgeoisie (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 19 February 2020 17:17 (four years ago) link
are there any good ones of these? i always thought "Beatless" was kinda funny in a MAD magazine movie parody kind of way, but now i can't seem to confirm that was a real band and not some record store joker's labeling of a used CD section divider.
― Doctor Casino, Wednesday, 19 February 2020 17:17 (four years ago) link
Cannabis Corpse
Bet that already exists.
― Sammo Hazuki's Tago Mago Cantina (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 19 February 2020 17:17 (four years ago) link
Yes, and they are actually kinda good.
― Judi Dench's Human Hand (methanietanner), Wednesday, 19 February 2020 17:18 (four years ago) link
The big one missing here is Fats Domino / Chubby Checker.
Isn't Kathleen Turner Overdrive a proposed joke name of the band in "High Fidelity"?
I would submit that Lez Zeppelin is about as inspired as Dread Zeppelin.
But as voodoo chili notes, it's also kinda not fair to fault tribute bands for punning on the name of the band they are a tribute of. I mean if you buy a ticket to "Bruce in the U.S.A." you pretty much know what you're getting.
― Natalie Wouldn't (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 19 February 2020 17:18 (four years ago) link
Dr. C, you are otm wrt the Mad Magazine comparison. Even as a kid it used to drive me nuts that the altered names in their movie parodies were so completely tossed off. RAIDERS OF THE LOST BLECCH! or whatever. Come on, man, you're getting paid for this shit.
― Sammo Hazuki's Tago Mago Cantina (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 19 February 2020 17:19 (four years ago) link
xps saw duran duran duran the same day i saw black abba :)
― nxd, Wednesday, 19 February 2020 17:20 (four years ago) link
ok fine nobody vote for Dread Zeppelin (or AC/DShe or Lez Zeppelin or Petty Theft or whatever)
Dats Fomino? Chebby Chucker? not sure what you're getting at
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 19 February 2020 17:20 (four years ago) link
IIRC I set my ILX dn to 'Portly Backgammon' for a while but I don't know if anyone got it.
― Sammo Hazuki's Tago Mago Cantina (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 19 February 2020 17:21 (four years ago) link
Of these, Wevie Stonder is unquestionably the worst. Just fucking pointless all around.
― romanesque architect (pomenitul), Wednesday, 19 February 2020 17:22 (four years ago) link
Still better than Wevie Stonder, which doesn't even rhyme naturally with the original.
― jmm, Wednesday, 19 February 2020 17:22 (four years ago) link
Honorable mention to
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Phillips
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Phillips_(musician)
― Natalie Wouldn't (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 19 February 2020 17:23 (four years ago) link
xp was just gonna post
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXGhpUAHP1c
― budo jeru, Wednesday, 19 February 2020 17:24 (four years ago) link
another one i loathe is elvis depressedly
― budo jeru, Wednesday, 19 February 2020 17:25 (four years ago) link
lol @ portly backgammon
― budo jeru, Wednesday, 19 February 2020 17:26 (four years ago) link
Joanna Gruesome is some Treehouse of Horror gravestone shit
― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Wednesday, 19 February 2020 17:26 (four years ago) link
Kind Buddy Holly
― Sammo Hazuki's Tago Mago Cantina (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 19 February 2020 17:26 (four years ago) link
I feel almost certain that the college jam band circuit is liberally sprinkled with these shits.
Bong Iver
― Sammo Hazuki's Tago Mago Cantina (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 19 February 2020 17:29 (four years ago) link
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, February 19, 2020 12:20 PM (eight minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
wasn't the name 'chubby checker' already a play on the name 'fats domino'?
― ooga booga-ing for the bourgeoisie (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 19 February 2020 17:30 (four years ago) link
also, lol at chebby chucker
oh, duh
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 19 February 2020 17:31 (four years ago) link
I can understand being drunk/high enough to come up with names like these and think they were really great but I don't understand how you remain drunk/high for long enough to like register a domain name and plaster the name all over your merch etc.
― Sammo Hazuki's Tago Mago Cantina (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 19 February 2020 17:33 (four years ago) link
Joanna GruesomeTame ImpalerSharon Von EatenSnail MaulSoccer MummyCarseat Headrestinpeace
― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Wednesday, 19 February 2020 17:35 (four years ago) link
Pomplamooseandsquirrel
― Sammo Hazuki's Tago Mago Cantina (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 19 February 2020 17:37 (four years ago) link
Tonight, the Gender Rifles will be opening for the Reproduction Handguns
― Natalie Wouldn't (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 19 February 2020 17:38 (four years ago) link
Spruce Bringsteen. Not a real thing, just had to get it out of my head. I'm sorry. The funny thing about this one is that if you say it quickly enough, it's easy to miss.
― may the force leave us alone (zchyrs), Wednesday, 19 February 2020 17:39 (four years ago) link
Wevie Stonder (wow my autocorrect hates that name) is a bad name but the music was sometimes good.The Beatless were a big beatles tribute band in the 90s.
― Wuhan!! Got You All in Check (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, 19 February 2020 17:39 (four years ago) link
Celibate Rifles? xps
― ☮️ (peace, man), Wednesday, 19 February 2020 17:40 (four years ago) link
Hey Dio Red
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 19 February 2020 17:40 (four years ago) link
I just remembered that there's a Japanese band called Sex Machineguns? Which I admit I find amusing. Don't know what they sound like though.
― may the force leave us alone (zchyrs), Wednesday, 19 February 2020 17:42 (four years ago) link
Ok. Anyway tomorrow it's the Thankful Alives, with surprise special guest Vartha and the Mandelas.
― Natalie Wouldn't (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 19 February 2020 17:43 (four years ago) link
I knew beyond a shadow of a doubt that this one would already exist:
Urethra Franklin
― Sammo Hazuki's Tago Mago Cantina (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 19 February 2020 17:45 (four years ago) link
there's probably lots of overlap with/inspiration to be found in this Whiney joint:
creatively bankrupt newish chillwave/post-AnCo bands whose names are just '80s ephemera
― omar little, Wednesday, 19 February 2020 17:47 (four years ago) link
Com Truise
― omar little, Wednesday, 19 February 2020 17:48 (four years ago) link
I like this one:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PC_Music#/media/File:Kane_West_-_Western_Beats.jpg
― Wuhan!! Got You All in Check (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, 19 February 2020 17:48 (four years ago) link
Let's try again
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0e/Kane_West_-_Western_Beats.jpg/240px-Kane_West_-_Western_Beats.jpg
Brian Jonestown Massacre can get grandfathered in, also the name sort of works for their particular brand.
― omar little, Wednesday, 19 February 2020 17:49 (four years ago) link
"Todd Terje" is quite funny imo
― Dadjokke (Sgt. Biscuits), Wednesday, 19 February 2020 17:58 (four years ago) link
Ean BrinoFryin BerryBourtney Carnett
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 19 February 2020 18:07 (four years ago) link
Mother John Fisty
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 19 February 2020 18:08 (four years ago) link
Doy Jahvision
― Hot, Now, and Oh-So-Very Wow! (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 19 February 2020 18:16 (four years ago) link
yeah i really like PDK
― Kate (rushomancy), Tuesday, 21 July 2020 18:20 (three years ago) link
plus unlike a lot of these, it's a pretty good pun
― doorstep jetski (dog latin), Tuesday, 21 July 2020 18:25 (three years ago) link
TS: Wevie Stonder vs. Jichael Mackson
― trapped out the barndo (crüt), Tuesday, 21 July 2020 18:27 (three years ago) link
jichael mackson had some ok bobbins
― Give me a Chad Smith-type feel (map), Tuesday, 21 July 2020 18:43 (three years ago) link
dibs on bolar pear
that's a legit typo i made because i'm drunk and i don't sleep anymore
― Kate (rushomancy), Wednesday, 22 July 2020 00:00 (three years ago) link
oh how about beat pest
that's a clever one
let's see, according to discogs beat pest exists and they're finnish
https://www.discogs.com/artist/4579619-Beat-Pest
― Kate (rushomancy), Wednesday, 22 July 2020 01:06 (three years ago) link
Ina Garden Nachtmusik
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 13 August 2021 16:37 (two years ago) link
Smelliott Ith
― Dexter Holland's Opus (Deflatormouse), Friday, 13 August 2021 17:11 (two years ago) link
Is there a band called Teh Teh or Duh Duh yet?
― "The Pus/Worm" by The Smiths (hardcore dilettante), Friday, 13 August 2021 20:05 (two years ago) link
Timothy Eerie
― stank viola (Neanderthal), Monday, 17 October 2022 16:03 (one year ago) link
How quickly we have forgotten Gnarls Barkley.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Monday, 17 October 2022 17:45 (one year ago) link
Why am I not getting that Buckcherry is a pun on somebody else's name?
― henry s, Monday, 17 October 2022 18:23 (one year ago) link
It’s a Spoonerism
― Lord Pickles (Boring, Maryland), Monday, 17 October 2022 18:26 (one year ago) link
Think Huddy Bolly
― “uhh”—like, this is an insane oatmeal raisin cookie “uhh” (President Keyes), Monday, 17 October 2022 18:27 (one year ago) link
I prefer datsfomino and rittlelichard
― your original display name is still visible (Left), Monday, 17 October 2022 18:28 (one year ago) link
Bion and the Delmonts
― stank viola (Neanderthal), Monday, 17 October 2022 18:33 (one year ago) link
Kill Baley & the Homets
― “uhh”—like, this is an insane oatmeal raisin cookie “uhh” (President Keyes), Monday, 17 October 2022 18:36 (one year ago) link
Amazing - I never got that!
― henry s, Monday, 17 October 2022 18:40 (one year ago) link
I guess it's actually pretty good, now that I think about it.
I don't agree but dsfdf
― your original display name is still visible (Left), Monday, 17 October 2022 18:46 (one year ago) link
Lary Gewis and the Bayploys
― stank viola (Neanderthal), Monday, 17 October 2022 18:50 (one year ago) link
thing about these bands is, they all had to (probably still have to) go around telling all their friends and family and peers what the name of their new band was, and they stuck to their guns. for which they get some grudging respect from me
henry cow is technically one of these bands (they lied about their name) but they're too good for the rest of these jokers - I assume, having heard of none of them before this poll
― your original display name is still visible (Left), Monday, 17 October 2022 18:54 (one year ago) link
What is Henry Cow a pun of?
― “uhh”—like, this is an insane oatmeal raisin cookie “uhh” (President Keyes), Monday, 17 October 2022 18:57 (one year ago) link
Henry Cowell?
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Monday, 17 October 2022 19:04 (one year ago) link
yes - band denies it but they're full of shit
― Left, Monday, 17 October 2022 19:09 (one year ago) link
Chuck Bear
― “uhh”—like, this is an insane oatmeal raisin cookie “uhh” (President Keyes), Monday, 17 October 2022 19:16 (one year ago) link
They deny it? I hate that
― flamboyant goon tie included, Monday, 17 October 2022 19:21 (one year ago) link
Hurl Maggard
― The self-titled drags (Eazy), Monday, 17 October 2022 22:04 (one year ago) link
Moni Jitchell
― nate woolls, Thursday, 25 May 2023 20:30 (ten months ago) link
Boy Harsher, a riff on Roy Harper do we reckon?
― Maresn3st, Monday, 15 April 2024 09:20 (one week ago) link
i certainly hope not
― your mom goes to limgrave (dog latin), Monday, 15 April 2024 09:30 (one week ago) link
I wonder what the first example of this was? The first I remember was Jefferson Airhead, who had to change their name to Airhead when Grace Slick & co threatened to sue.
― Grandpont Genie, Monday, 15 April 2024 09:44 (one week ago) link
John Cougar Concentration Camp got booked unheard in Bloomington at Rhinos back in the day.
― The Artist formerly known as Earlnash, Monday, 15 April 2024 10:13 (one week ago) link
Fleddy Melculy, Belgian metal band
― StanM, Monday, 15 April 2024 10:49 (one week ago) link
I wonder what the first example of this was?
Chubby Checker
― alpaca lips now (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 15 April 2024 13:05 (one week ago) link
I imagine there were pre-rock and roll examples.
― My God's got no nose... (Tom D.), Monday, 15 April 2024 13:07 (one week ago) link
“Count” Basie was a play on Duke Ellington and Earl Hines.
― President Keyes, Monday, 15 April 2024 13:13 (one week ago) link
Interestingly. Blossom Dearie (who I knew about) postdates Blossom Seeley (who I didn't) by 30 years.
― alpaca lips now (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 15 April 2024 13:14 (one week ago) link
this is a really good record, by the way. put out by pals of mine on a pal's record label. #westernmassaction
https://www.discogs.com/release/2335180-Schurt-Kwitters-Schurt-Kwitters
― scott seward, Monday, 15 April 2024 13:25 (one week ago) link