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

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

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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

i don't like car seat headrest, but doesn't it refer to where he would write/record his songs, in the back seat, leaning his head against the back of the frontseat headrest, so that he read the lyrics/record while looking down on his lap, or something? that'll probably get eyerolls from people but to me that's a classic lo-fi recording situation where you have no privacy, anywhere, ever, and you just have to find a spot and make it work. so...i like the name

car seat (for babies) is a better name though, lol

Meek and Lenker named the group Big Thief after an idea they learned in a songwriting workshop in Texas about “a trickster or thief that borrows from the collective conscious, and regenerates ideas and integrates them into his or her identity.”

(per stereogum article)

Well I was fine with big thief as a name before and now I hate it

The “Big” in Big Thief is what has always annoyed me. It’s just a bland and easily forgotten name. Not close to the worst mentioned on this thread, though.

yeah I agree with Paul's post above, Big Thief isn't offensive or annoying it's just a bad name that to me recalls prog bands like Big Big Train and Pineapple Thief, which they don't sound anything like. Black Country, New Road is another one of those, like what, if anything, does that mean?

Counting Crows.

xp The problem seems to be that you know too many bands, lol

Grimes

Black Country, New Road is another one of those, like what, if anything, does that mean?

Supposedly it's a road in the West Midlands ... and a shit name for a band.

looks like a shit road too tbh

https://i2-prod.birminghammail.co.uk/incoming/article18729192.ece/ALTERNATES/s615/1_KA_BEM060820_BCNRJPG.jpg

the black country area is named after all the pollution from the factories that used to be in the area btw. or the coal that was mined there or something

I'm going nuts, I wrote a post a couple of years ago summing up why Car Seat Headrest is such a bad name for a band by comparing it to a band being named after a component in a cabinet or something but I can't find it at all. What the hell?

There are several threads like this

I saw Component in a Cabinet open for Car Seat Headrest once.

xp Evan, I think this is the post.

Alfred Sisley