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

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.

Crash Test Dummies

The Kinks

Spoon

the beatles

Prefab Sprout.

ILXor and the Shitting Dick Nipples

Wet leg is just a disgusting name

Pissed Jeans (they rule!)

Prefab Sprout.

Can't listen to anyone named rob

I remember this dude in college cracking up over the name "Rob Zombie"

the beatles

― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Thursday, March 10, 2022 2:43 PM (forty-four minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

oh yeah

Rob and Patty Zombie invite you to their Memorial Day BBQ!!!

Why did you guys not like the name Big Thief?

I can't explain this, but the first time I heard that, I thought of some blues-leaning bar band--pretty much my least favourite thing in the world. So I still haven't investigated. I take it my ignoring and writing off is woefully off the mark.

Big Thief is the worst band name I could imagine. It simultaneously doesn't mean anything, and it lacks visual description, and it sounds like a shitty cover band, as clemenza describes. It's a combination of brief words that leads you... nowhere. So I assumed the music would do the same thing. And, to be honest, they're not my thing at all.

A search for the origin of their name led me to this NPR article’s valiant effort to create intrigue.

https://i.imgur.com/fTFDvbl.png

Adriannie would be a good band name.

Car Seat Headrest. I simply refuse to contemplate listening to a band with a 'quick, think of something' name like that.

Dry Cleaning is another one like that.

Aaahah! Big Thief is a Berklee band. That explains some of why they leave me cold. That grey competence. Wonder if they were aware of the Berklee band Big Wreck?

Headrest would be a pretty good band name. Car Seat Headrest is just clunky and awkward.

Car Seat (For Babies) would be a pretty good band name