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

i actually love the name mega bog

It's kinda cute. My cousin has a (now in her thirties) kid named Meg, and called her Megabug when she was a little one. And of course we haven't let either one of them live that down.

"Roxy Music" is perfect for them and their sound.

I remember going to a friends' family's Christmas get-together one evening. Everyone was getting pissed and doing Playstation karaoke. It was mine and the patriarch's turn to do a song together, so we picked "Love Is The Drug". The Dad's big lunk of a son, 30 going on 17, goes up to him: "Dad! Dad! What you gonna sing?". Dad tells him: "I think we're going to go for some Roxy Music". Son: "What the fuck is that?"

Just one of these exchanges that's stuck in my mind for years, it was more in the delivery of the conversation though

i actually love the name mega bog

Unfortunately to anyone in the UK, a bog is another word for a lavatory. It's even worse in Australia though where it apparently means 'the act or an instance of defecating'.

wow i’m even more into mega bog now that i know it means mega toilet in the uk

I knew this but i'm sure nobody is surprised that I know of all of the names for toilet giving my posting history

Cludgie?

I was not familiar with the Australian term "dunny" until I watched the show Mr Inbetween.

The actual fuck is 'PinkPantheress' lmao

sounds like a marijuana product with millennial aesthetic packaging?

misread that as Pink Parentheses

I didn't bother listening when I came across the name last night but the (bit of a) song she does over the Adam F track is p' good.

william tyler

that's a president

He suffers from Andrew Hill syndrome I mentioned upthead, a colorless name and no jazz nickname or diminutive to enliven.

Especially since Andrew Hill was on the more out/avant side of the spectrum! So much so that a certain poster who will remain, um, unnamed was probably a big fan thereof.

The name "Foo Fighters" puts me in a bad mood.

Broken Social Scene

Morcheeba

Collardio is pro-Foo. Got it.

Bob Dylan

Broken Social Scene
My Morning Jacket
Carseat Headrest
Modest Mouse

all names that probably gave me serious pause but glad I gave a chance. wouldn’t list as my absolute faves but I’ve enjoyed quite a bit of their output

Oh like Broken Social Scene and Modest Mouse. Can’t stand the other two.

Dumbo Gets Mad

Listening right now with a friend because he’s a big fan and they’re actually way better than I thought they would be based on the name.

A band called Spare Parts for Broken Hearts is playing tonight at a local club.

Haha, I weirdly like that name

Xpost in between prom gigs?

Hiss Golden Messenger

xps:

They kinda rock! Great vocalist. Solid grungy alt-rock.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=okKI1a2i3dE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpP7fO9tcsY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ciJ_TwxeeTY

(also think the name is fine)

(but not judging nickn for thinking its terrible either)

Good name for a song, a bit long for a band.

In that last one where she sings "ever, ever" at 2:50, I keep hearing "Rhiannon, Rhiannon". Has the right voice for it too!

Played all three clips, and I don't hate 'em, but the name gives me a "trying too hard emo band" vibe.

Yeah, it's does call to mind Black Tape for a Blue Girl or Casiotone for the Painfully Alone or something

And The Pains of the Pure At Heart, which is the one I couldn't think of earlier.

Tonstartssbandht

Just finished listening to the new King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard, whose name I hate tremendously, but it's a really good album.

Yeah I've heard good things about this band as well but there is no way I'm ever listening to them with a name like that.

Karate

but it turns out they're good

Too many gothic bands because I judge from their name whether they take themselves too seriously.

OOIOO

Bitchin' Bajas

^ Same - I eventually started listening and liked Bitchen Bajas quite a bit. But since then, whenever shuffle shuffles up that name, I still intuitively hit skip.

I still agree with this post:

Frippertronics / Alice etc is totes my wheelhouse but can't, won't, on principle, listen to a band that can't come up with a better name for themselves than Bitchin Bajas. Sorry. What if I choke to death on a cookie and this is the last thing they find on my turntable? "Looks like he checked out to...'Bitchin' Bajas.'"

― Jimmywine Dyspeptic, Saturday, July 13, 2013 4:54 PM (eight years ago)

Bitchin' Bajas sounds like the name of the house band at Cabo Wabo, and that has a lead singer whose signature hand gesture is not devil horns but "hang loose."

Exactly. I went to show where they were the openers, and was fully primed to see a bunch of dudes with white dreads and those Mexican hoodies. I was sorely disappointed (and a bit bored by the end tbh).

I wonder how much market share they could have stolen from Floating Points without the ironic band name.

always gave me "creatively bankrupt post-AnCo chillwave bands whose names are just 80s ephemera" vibes, even though the name itself isnt a reference (afaik?). i do love them now though.

If this were indeed the 80's I can see Downtown Julie Brown saying "wubba wubba wubba, we've got the latest from Bitchin' Bajas coning up right after Huey Lewis introduces us to his new drug...whoah man!"

i used to like Zs but had to write them off due to my ongoing litigation against them

yall are missing out on the bajas

I’ve come around to their name.