great band, shame about the name

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oh, okay. Thanks Ned!

― Donna Brown (Donna Brown), Thursday, 29 January 2004 17:03 (twenty years ago) link

Why is "Sonic Youth" bad, ultrasound? You have another suggestion?

A Certain Ratio may not have anyting to do w/ Nazism, Fascism or Maoism, but it sure sounds like it and would fit in especially w/ the faux-Maoist wank the UK bands were having at the time, ie. Gang of Four.

― Etta, Thursday, 29 January 2004 17:18 (twenty years ago) link

Sonic Youth, like Pink Floyd, was the combination of two luminaries= Fred "Sonic" Smith of the MC5 and reggae performer Big Youth. Doesn't make their current albums any less dull, but there you have it.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 29 January 2004 17:30 (twenty years ago) link

Sonic Youth - works for me. Can anyone explain the name Turin Brakes, not that I enjoy the singer's bleating.

― Etta, Thursday, 29 January 2004 17:55 (twenty years ago) link

I think New York Dolls is a great name....

Alex, I've read that The Band wasn't named laziness, but actually cockiness....as in they were The Band and no one could touch them...

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Thursday, 29 January 2004 18:01 (twenty years ago) link

(although you still might think it's a stupid name, but I've always liked it)

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Thursday, 29 January 2004 18:01 (twenty years ago) link

I like the name Turin Brakes

― Donna Brown (Donna Brown), Thursday, 29 January 2004 18:22 (twenty years ago) link

If you want to talk wanky Nazi names, New Order is a lot worse than Joy Division.
I'd say it's just as bad, but I wouldn't call them a "great band" so I didn't mention it.

― no opinion, Thursday, 29 January 2004 18:22 (twenty years ago) link

but I wouldn't call them a "great band"

GAH!

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 29 January 2004 18:30 (twenty years ago) link

Jackie-O Motherfucker
Blossom Toes
Spacemen 3
Red House Painters

― Dave Segal (Da ve Segal), Thursday, 29 January 2004 18:31 (twenty years ago) link

Electric Prunes
Flying Saucer Attack

― Dave Segal (Da ve Segal), Thursday, 29 January 2004 18:33 (twenty years ago) link

We can't let reggae bands off the hook, here. Burning Spear.

― Etta, Thursday, 29 January 2004 18:39 (twenty years ago) link

That reminds me: SPEAR OF DESTINY.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 29 January 2004 22:29 (twenty years ago) link

Orange Juice.

― may pang (maypang), Thursday, 29 January 2004 22:32 (twenty years ago) link

hello?Manic Street Preachers?
Fountains of wayne
gaye bikers on acid
man or astroman?
geezers of nazerath
selfish cunt

― silokk, Thursday, 29 January 2004 23:43 (twenty years ago) link

american music club

― anthony kyle monday (akmonday), Thursday, 29 January 2004 23:51 (twenty years ago) link

Ned writes:
Oh heavens no -- it was taken directly from a lyric by Brian Eno from "The Third Wheel"

the TRUE wheel!

― gygax! (gygax!), Thursday, 29 January 2004 23:52 (twenty years ago) link

The "Echo" bit is straightforwardly appropriate, I would think. The "Bunnymen" bit might possibly seem jaunty and inappropriate, but then you must consider several factoids: they had fun bouncy basslines; almost all of their videos featured carboard animals and other amusing stage props; their hair usually sat two or three inches higher above their heads than seemed suitable for their particular haircuts, almost like ears; plus most importantly when you really think about it there is something deeply sinister about the idea of a Bunny-Man. Have you ever in your life encountered a depiction of a bunny-man -- i.e. not an anthropomorphic bunny but a bunny-man -- that was not intended to be at least uncanny, if not outright chilling? There are no cute bunny-men. Hence it works: they are tall shadowy bunnymen bounding across a stageful of two-dimensional cut-out props.

― nabiscothingy, Friday, 30 January 2004 01:04 (twenty years ago) link

New Fast Automatic Daffodils

Disco Inferno (only for online search purposes)

― donut bitch (donut), Friday, 30 January 2004 01:08 (twenty years ago) link

What the hate for Dandy Warhols? Its a great name alongside Brian Jonestown Massacre, unlike REO Speeddealer and like.

Keeping it local, Beef Terminal, great music HORRIBLE name. Im sorry but its true dude.
Never liked The Church as a band name either.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Friday, 30 January 2004 01:10 (twenty years ago) link

Not all of the Bunnymen's vids featured cardboard animals. Maybe two did, but that's hardly all. Secondly, only Ian's hair stood up. Thirdly, and I might be wrong about this, but as I understood it, they named themselves "the Bunnymen" so that they'd never take themselves too seriously.....and it could be argued that they failed in that capacity.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 30 January 2004 01:12 (twenty years ago) link

Keeping it local, Beef Terminal, great music HORRIBLE name
Oh lord, yes. The name nearly kept me from wanting to hear the music. The word "beef" has no role in music whatsoever.

If there's anything I'm learning from this thread, it's don't use two nouns and an adjective in a band name, i.e. American Music Club, Neutral Milk Hotel, Gay Bikers on Acid, Red House Painters, etc. I couldn't put my finger on the reason I hated those names, but now it's all figured out.

― Barry Bruner (Barry Bruner), Friday, 30 January 2004 02:48 (twenty years ago) link

No way, REO Speeddealer is a GREAT name, Kevin Cronin sux for forcing a change. Speeddealer just doesn't have the same ring, sigh

― Donna Brown (Donna Brown), Friday, 30 January 2004 03:20 (twenty years ago) link

I refused to listen to AMC for years based on their name alone! Only after Mark Eitzel put out "West" did I give 'em a chance. I'm a big loser.

― Donna Brown (Donna Brown), Friday, 30 January 2004 03:22 (twenty years ago) link

Small Faces, later Faces - Didn't do well in America where we like to think BIG. ( Can someone explain what "Around The Plynth" is all about, I suspect it must be a Brit thing - good slide work, though. ) Little River Band never had a chance for the same underlying reason.

― jim wentworth (wench), Friday, 30 January 2004 05:54 (twenty years ago) link

Geezers of Nazereth? Is that a Nazareth tribute band?

― Donna Brown (Donna Brown), Friday, 30 January 2004 06:17 (twenty years ago) link

I was always somewhat put off by the stupid question mark in Therapy?. Decent band, though.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 30 January 2004 06:45 (twenty years ago) link

it just doesnt happen, if the band is good the name is good

― jeremy jordan (cruisy), Friday, 30 January 2004 07:18 (twenty years ago) link

Sleater-Kinney. Hard to say ("who? Slater Kenny?") and spell, sounds like it refers to band members, yeah, I know it's a cross street near where they live, or rehearse, or it's a freeway offramp, whatever. I do like the band and find myself getting annoyed when I talk about them because I dislike the name so much.

I agree that Sonic Youth is a clumsy moniker (though the genesis cited above is interesting)--I dislike all names with "youth" in them, Youth Brigade, Wasted Youth, Musical Youth. Maybe it's the Nazi overtones (not serious about this, well, maybe a little).

― no opinion, Friday, 30 January 2004 07:25 (twenty years ago) link

seventeen years pass...

Some friends once tried to think of which band names could be euphemisms for puking, and "Fountains of Wayne" was at the top of the list.

― enochroot, Friday, 25 June 2021 13:45 (two years ago) link

two years pass...

Mildlife.

― chap, Monday, 18 March 2024 23:53 (two months ago) link

We can't let reggae bands off the hook, here. Burning Spear.

WTF, long gone person from twenty years ago

― from a prominent family of bassoon players (Boring, Maryland), Tuesday, 19 March 2024 12:25 (one month ago) link

I went to go see a really good gig by @ last month. @! Like ffs guys. It was so annoying whenever anyone asked who I saw.

― a hoy hoy, Tuesday, 19 March 2024 13:06 (one month ago) link

Mildlife

This flashed my brain back to Wildildlife, a name I haven’t thought of in over a decade but that also fits.

― Slim is an Alien, Tuesday, 19 March 2024 14:11 (one month ago) link

there's someone on the 100% Electronica label who changed her name from Negative Gemini to "Neggy Gemmy" which is such an insane downgrade. I'd never tell anyone I listened to someone named "Neggy Gemmy"

― frogbs, Tuesday, 19 March 2024 14:20 (one month ago) link

Calling a band Rapeman was kind of the height of Albini's tryhard nature, wasn't it?
― DJ Mencap (DJ Mencap), Thursday, 29 January 2004 11:13 bookmarkflaglink

alas, it was not

― Colonel Poo, Tuesday, 19 March 2024 14:29 (one month ago) link

Shitfucker
Sextrash

― CEO Greedwagon (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 19 March 2024 14:50 (one month ago) link

Those guys should swap nouns.

― peace, man, Tuesday, 19 March 2024 15:14 (one month ago) link

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