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

There was a Toronto band named "hhead", forerunners to Broken Social Scene, who I think of as pioneers of the unnecessary superfluous letter trend. A friend of mine took them as a sign that all the good band names had been taken (30 years ago!).

They were also pioneers of the lower-case letters only trend.

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Abe Vigoda, along with every other band name that’s an “lol so random” celebrity name

Deftones
Deafheaven

xp You missed out - it became one of those things where you didn’t think about the actor anymore when you heard the band’s name.

For a good while I avoided FKA Twigs cause it sounded like the name of a lesser Warp act that peaked with being on a label compilation. Eventually heard stuff by her and didn't regret not having heard her earlier.

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Is adding one or more redundant letters to a word/name the new having the word "Wolf" in your name?

I always assumed this was because all the band names were already taken.

Anyway, I was relived to see that you left Alvvays off of your list. Alvvays forever.

As a rule I shy away from bands that have names which place "the" between a pair of otherwise unrelated words:

Young The Giant
Foster The People
Portugal The Man
Ha Ha The Moose

Jimmy the Hoover aside.

Cola Boyy as it’s a piss poor rip off of the Saint Etienne side project.

Horse The Band can do one as well

King Gizzard and the Slizzard Blizzard can get tae fuck forever

Horse The Band can do one as well

not a band

people can be things but bands shouldn't be people as a general rule, that's half of what makes portugal. the wankers so irritating

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but then I heard "MMMOOOAAAAAYAYA" on the radio and realized this band rules

Anyway, I was relived to see that you left Alvvays off of your list. Alvvays forever.

They've kind of got their own mini-trend going with Ovvls and Hovvdy.

Oh and OVVN

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Mott Thee Hoooople

Oddly, Andrew Hill. No honorific title, funky nickname, or melodious or alliterative given name made it hard for me to keep him on the mental list of jazz artists to check out. Maybe even some subconscious connection with Windham Hill Records?

or Dru Hill

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Anal Depression

Dry Cleaning.

Manequin Pussy

Coda to the original crux of this post -- all now ancient history. I was later dragged to go see Pissed Jeans at Cakeshop, and they were fucking excellent.

lol nice

anybody with Collective in the title except Animal

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(also: Chris Brown and Justin Bieber, but that's not strictly in keeping with the spirit of the thread)

anybody with Collective in the title except Animal

so collective they posted themselves twice

King Gizzard and the Slizzard Blizzard can get tae fuck forever

My friend

I heard them before I heard their name, which helped a LOT

Soccer Mommy. and then I heard the music, and I was proven CORRECT

I will admit that if 2 Chainz had continued as Tity Boi I would never have listened to his solo stuff at all.

King Gizzard and the Slizzard Blizzard can get tae fuck forever

Was going to mention them myslef but assumed they'd already been mentioned.

Don't mind Collectives or __ The ___ constructions. I thought Foster The People started with a verb, though, making it not fit in with the original dislike? I'm not mad keen on doubling letters but there are enough bands who do that who are fine-to-good that it wouldn't put me off in itself. While I have liked some stupid spoonerism-named bands in the past any new one will have to get over a massive hurdle to get me to listen to them.

I have literally refused to hear a note of King Gizzard etc because I hate the name so much.

I do like a lot of bands with very bad names though ;_;

there are a non-zero number of people itt who listen to a band called Anal Stabwound

actually it might even be double digits lol

The Front Bottoms should be jailed for picking that name.

I don't mind 70s prog band Public Foot The Roman because it sounds like the name came from a broken signpost, otherwise all that Minus The Bear stuff can piss off.

was The Fugs just a clever name

Oh, actually, yes, The Front Bottoms are another band that I just won't countenance listening to. No fucking way.

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