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

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.

Bitchin Beard Papa Bajas

(They’re Built, They’re Stacked)

Belchin’ Bejars

These are irrational by definition, right? Big Thief.

Up until the release of U.F.O.F., I was under the impression that Big Thief were a punk or garage rock band.

Confused with early 90s Sub Pop band Big Chief, maybe?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7a_jH1TDmXM

Nah. Just something about their first two album covers just made me think they were on the noisier, punkier end of things.

otm, seconded on Big Thief.

Why did you guys not like the name Big Thief?

stealing is rong

Sounds bad 80s sophistipop to me, rather than punk.

Well, they're not punk (ha ha)

I thought it was a cool name even before I liked the band; seems like one of those objectively "good band names" to me

this is a funny thread to read and then look at everyone's usernames

maybe another thread but I wonder what's the best band with the worst name. probably My Bloody Valentine but I would argue it's actually Beardfish.

not a band, but Wizkid seems like a contender.

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