I always assumed Kurt Vile was a punkier pun on the Weimar era composer and Mr Lotte Lenya. Apparently it's his real name though.Thought it was a pun cos it was one I'd at least mentally played with myself a few decades ago.
― Stevolende, Saturday, 25 June 2022 17:44 (one year ago) link
I'd at least mentally played with myself a few decades ago
Don't worry, Stevolende. It's perfectly normal to do that.
― Nutellanor Roosevelt (Ye Mad Puffin), Saturday, 25 June 2022 17:56 (one year ago) link
Apparently it's his real name though.
Haha, I never knew that. Always assumed it was a Weill pun too! Apparently there was a Swiss vibraphinist called Kurt Weil to muddy the waters further.
― Grandpont Genie, Saturday, 25 June 2022 18:50 (one year ago) link
_The 1975_The Dirty Hit label alone has them, Wolf Alice, and beabadoobee, all three of which I wrote off for varying periods of time because of their names
― broccoli rabe thomas (the table is the table), Saturday, 25 June 2022 20:52 (one year ago) link
Massive lols at "just mustard", a spectacularly bad name.
― Kim Kimberly, Saturday, 25 June 2022 20:58 (one year ago) link
All these years and nobody mentioned Slightly Stoopid?
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Saturday, 25 June 2022 22:06 (one year ago) link
I avoided Mercury Rev for years because I can't stand the name. Finally got around to listening to them and fortunately disliked the music too. Awful singing, and not in a fun Flaming Lips way.
Flaming Lips is a ridiculously stupid name too but I love their '90s records. Managed to get past the name on that one.
― The Ghost Club, Saturday, 25 June 2022 22:41 (one year ago) link
Early Mercury Rev had another singer that made things less twee, the music was also more chaotic and exciting. Always liked the name though.
A friend told me about beabadoobee a few months ago and I nodded while they were talking but mentally said NOPE
― Cow_Art, Saturday, 25 June 2022 23:40 (one year ago) link
Just discovered the existence of a band called Sigourney Reverb and have already written them off because of their name
― von mannequin lives (Matt #2), Saturday, 25 June 2022 23:48 (one year ago) link
Surfer Blood fits alongside Dogs Die in Hot Cars as being like...nah, doesn't make me laugh, doesn't make me feel good.
― deep luminous trombone (Eazy), Saturday, 25 June 2022 23:58 (one year ago) link
I can't stand any band name that is a play on an existing name. That's the worst. Chet Faker? NOOOOOOO
― Cow_Art, Sunday, 26 June 2022 00:00 (one year ago) link
I guess I could give them another go... Any recommendations?
― The Ghost Club, Sunday, 26 June 2022 03:39 (one year ago) link
Yerself Is Steam and Boces are both awesome, the former is a hair better. Play it loud.
― Cow_Art, Sunday, 26 June 2022 12:24 (one year ago) link
Not sure what's wrong with Mercury Rev as a name either?
― Doodles Diamond (Tom D.), Sunday, 26 June 2022 12:30 (one year ago) link
Easily confused with Martin Rev?
― von mannequin lives (Matt #2), Sunday, 26 June 2022 12:41 (one year ago) link
Deafheaven
― assert (matttkkkk), Sunday, 26 June 2022 12:59 (one year ago) link
xp I heard something about the band reading a review of one of their gigs or something to that effect and having some words stand out in a way like how Exploding Plastic Inevitable was chosen. Mercurial.... & Rev... as part of a word elsewhere in the text that they connected. THink I heard it was a Chris Roberts review too. Memories of an early 90s Melody Maker double spread story if i'm remembering right.
― Stevolende, Sunday, 26 June 2022 13:00 (one year ago) link
Spotify at least used to have a couple of earlyish gig recordings available from teh David Baker era which is the earlier singer an dthe chaotic era. I think that direction slightly outlasted him and was going by about 95/96. The band became a bit less improvisational and started using strings and things in places. I always heard the early material as sharing some of teh same ballpark as Flaming Lips though the rhythm was a lot more fluid. Jonathan Donahue had played guitar with the Lips before going solo and leading Mercury Rev. I think the band had formed asa bunch of players who had come in to add playing to a soundtrack for subaquatic video footage . When they were doing so they were coming in at different times and overdubbing and I'm not sure they had played together as a band until after the lp was recorded. Which may be one reason that Boces is more coherent for the main part. Yerself Is Steam is pretty great though as are the singles and bsides from the era and whatever is on Lego My Ego and other mop up sets from the era.I find the Caribou Vibration Ensemble set with Marshall Allen that came with Rough Trade copie sof Caribou's Swim cd shares some of the same qualities as that David Baker era Rev.
― Stevolende, Sunday, 26 June 2022 13:09 (one year ago) link
I remember something about the Baker band being volatile; fistfights and general chaos. The side project Paralyzed Mind of the Archangel Void is one of my favorite heavy psych albums.
― Cow_Art, Sunday, 26 June 2022 16:17 (one year ago) link
Re: Just Mustard, first heard of them from a Maura recommendation so it was already too late for the name to bother me. Also I kinda like how it's something you could say if someone offered you Mayostard or Mustardayonnaise.
― sloop johnnin' skater (geoffreyess), Sunday, 26 June 2022 22:10 (one year ago) link
There was a band on a Max's Kansas City comp called Just Water, which I thought was a stupid name, but then I started hearing that phrase here and there (liquid spills, rain, etc) and came to appreciate the idea more.
― nickn, Monday, 27 June 2022 00:15 (one year ago) link
They did a cover of "SIngin' in the Rain," didn't they? Used to hear it on the radio all the time back then.
― Build My Gallows Hi Hi Hi (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 27 June 2022 02:00 (one year ago) link
Not rain, just water
― Vinnie, Monday, 27 June 2022 05:49 (one year ago) link
Thanks for the recs, will give them a go. Haven't been in a heavy psych mood for a while but it's about time to try again!
I dunno, it's just visceral for me. Instant bad vibes. I think maybe 'Rev' just makes me think of gross boy things?
― The Ghost Club, Monday, 27 June 2022 07:25 (one year ago) link
Obviously Rev must have connotations I'm not aware of.
― Eavis Has Left the Building (Tom D.), Monday, 27 June 2022 08:13 (one year ago) link
I just realized I only consciously realize I've written off an artist because of their name when one of their songs comes up in a Spotify playlist and I think "huh, maybe the War on Drugs are worth listening to"
― Vinnie, Monday, 27 June 2022 12:07 (one year ago) link
Mudvayne
― m0stly clean (Slowsquatch), Saturday, 30 July 2022 06:04 (one year ago) link
That reminds me. Collapsed Lung. They did "Eat my Goal". How does it go? I have no idea. The name puts me off.
― Ashley Pomeroy, Saturday, 30 July 2022 18:35 (one year ago) link
sexual jeremy
― Goose Bigelow, Fowl Gigolo (the table is the table), Saturday, 7 January 2023 23:03 (one year ago) link
Eyehategod
― m0stly clean (Slowsquatch), Saturday, 7 January 2023 23:05 (one year ago) link
Kurt Vile
didn't even realise it was his real name
― PaulTMA, Saturday, 7 January 2023 23:12 (one year ago) link
King Gizzard and the whatever Lizard
― Wet Legume (morrisp), Saturday, 7 January 2023 23:18 (one year ago) link
Kurt Viledidn't even realise it was his real name
― Lord Pickles (Boring, Maryland), Sunday, 8 January 2023 00:09 (one year ago) link
Big Head Todd and the Monsters
Well, the name and the fact that the lead vocalist seemed very skeezy during an appearance on The Real World 25+ years ago
― beamish13, Sunday, 8 January 2023 00:11 (one year ago) link
morrissey
― assert (matttkkkk), Sunday, 8 January 2023 00:11 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZxK-jFI9xPUbefore the name got any recognition. I think I saw something saying they cherry picked the name from a longer sentence or had teh significant parts revealed to them from their state of intoxication or something. Something about it being part of a Chris Roberts review or something.
I came across the lp in the 2nd hand record shop I used to frequent when they were still very unknown. Pink/puke coloured vinyl lp somehow new in an otherwise 2nd hand record shop. I picked it up put it on the listening player, liked what I heard so bought it. & hearsd later taht I got it oddly early, Seemed to be before the actual release date. Yerself Is Steam.
I caught a few dates on the end of the tour they had started supporting Ride on. They did about 4 more dates on their own.
― Stevolende, Sunday, 8 January 2023 12:16 (one year ago) link
I don’t care how many AOTYs it gets, I’m not listening to a band called Jockstrap
― josh az (2011nostalgia), Sunday, 8 January 2023 12:26 (one year ago) link
Peaness.
Would make a good double bill with Jockstrap.
― Dan Worsley, Sunday, 8 January 2023 14:43 (one year ago) link
Couple more novelty band name I recently came across:
Lana Del RabiesMichael Cera Palin
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 1 August 2023 02:43 (seven months ago) link
Tallest Man In the WorldPortugal the Man
probably some other bands with "man" in the name
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Tuesday, 1 August 2023 02:54 (seven months ago) link
"Lana Del Rabies" and "Joanna Gruesome" are both incredible names because the reference material is somewhat insular, as opposed to awful names like "Wevie Stonder" or whatever
― sean paul akerman (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 1 August 2023 02:58 (seven months ago) link
I wrote off Portugal the Man because of their name and finally broke down and listened and there i was writing Portugal the Man off again
― linoleum gallagher (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 1 August 2023 02:59 (seven months ago) link
Tallest Portuguese Man in the World
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Tuesday, 1 August 2023 03:02 (seven months ago) link
I had a dream the other night about a band called The One Night Show with Lay Jeno, which they subsequently shortened to Lay Jeno. I would not listen to them either way, if they actually existed.
― wronger than 100 geir posts (MacDara), Tuesday, 1 August 2023 10:15 (seven months ago) link
Happy The Man
― nickn, Tuesday, 1 August 2023 15:47 (seven months ago) link
Mortugal the Pan
― mirostones, Tuesday, 1 August 2023 23:46 (seven months ago) link
Blake Mills
― Xgau Murder Spa (nikola), Thursday, 3 August 2023 17:02 (seven months ago) link
Cage the elephantFoster the people
― /asarco (AcnalbasacNoom), Thursday, 3 August 2023 17:10 (seven months ago) link
Was shocked to learn that Blake Mills was not a Detroit techno guy...
― henry s, Thursday, 3 August 2023 17:15 (seven months ago) link
Ha Ha The Moose
(docked an additional star for being a moe. side project)
― henry s, Thursday, 3 August 2023 17:17 (seven months ago) link