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

they are one of those like Cab Calloway / fedora bands but spooky. i think

The Hoars that Liked Sandwiches

Hoarhounds of Love

I love Sea And Cakes' The Fawn album, but when someone once asked me at work who I was listening to, I said "Tortoise".

Squirrel Nut Zippers were both better (in a musical sense) and less toxically masculine (in personnel and presentation) than the other neo-swing bands tho

They were much more 20s/30s hot jazz than 40s swing, and in terms of their approach I feel like they had more in common with weirdos like Tav Falco and Tom Waits than with the Cherry Poppin' Daddies or Brian Setzer. I mean, this is not the kind of thing you do in hopes of having a hit record or spawning a dance craze.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yS2IBMQIjDo

English Teacher? seriously??? ffs i've strained my eye-rolling muscles

it helps me that a lot of phc and emo bands have off-putting terrible names because i'm likely to find the music similarly terrible

I’ve always thought the main reason Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich have never had a real reappraisal is their name. They are one of the great singles bands of 60s and the albums are all good, but they’ve actually become a bit obscure comparative to their success - younger 60s heads aren’t really aware of their music and I think it’s the name.

Possibly, I mean they didn't take themselves very seriously and recorded a lot of gimmicky/ near novelty material so it's not surprising they aren't up there with, I don't know, the Kinks. Also they didn't write most of their big hits.

Most of the ppl here give off terrible vibes from their name.

the landfill that time forgot: crap uk bands of 00s/10s

I guess I’ve never had any problem with novelty stuff, so I’m the outlier here. What others see as novelty features on DDDBM&T records, I see as brilliant pop touches. I still think they’re closer to the big UK bands than they are usually considered. Manfred Mann, for example, didn’t write their A-sides and did plenty of singles that were arguably a bit novel, but they still command this ambient respect DDDBM&T never get and some of their stuff is still well-known and well-liked.

You're preaching to the converted here, I'm a fan of DDDBMT.

People don't really pay much attention to Manfred Mann these days either.

I guess not. I hate how ancient this music is now :(

i'm going to listen to 5-4-3-2-1 now, hope this helps

The DDDBM&T thread on here has at least twice as many posts as the Manfred Mann thread! That's not saying much though tbf.

DDDBMT?

maybe if the name was shorter, catchier, and had any euphony in it, there would be more recognition of ilthem. at this point the name sounds like a graveyard of tech or pharma names.

DDDBMT are the best band bloody ever

KMFDDDBMT

Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mike and Tich

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Dee,_Dozy,_Beaky,_Mick_%26_Tich

Terry, Blair & Anouchka
French Frith Kaiser Thompson
Emerson, Lake & Palmer

Are there any acts named after the members that can't be written off just for doing that? Even when Fred Frith is involved?

Anderson Bruford Wakeman Howe were pretty great. Better than whatever line-up of Yes was doing the rounds at the time.

By the time the Rabin/Squire/Kaye/White Yes actually put out another record and toured, they had reunited with ABWH!

Emerson, Lake, and Palmer does roll off the tongue somehow, Anderson Bruford Wakeman Howe does not

Uh, French Frith Kaiser Thompson are totally awesome…

d'oh, CSN(Y) of course.

Are there any acts named after the members that can't be written off just for doing that?

Um Simon & Garfunkel, Hall & Oates, Ashford & Simpson, Richard & Linda Thompson?

Loads of acts whose names include an ampersand are p cool. Heck, Loggins & Messina, Sonny & Cher, Ike & Tina, Tegan & Sara; Peter, Paul, & Mary

The real wall was the friends we mad etc.

Ergh, bad puffin, loose pasting/posting, sorry

OK maybe there's one or two or possibly more, but then again there's West, Bruce & Laing. Seems to be worse when the people involved are already known, i.e. a supergroup.

Case/Lang/Veirs were good

TS: Heck, Loggins & Messina vs. West, Bruce & Laing

Heck, Loggins & Messina otm for next band I see at a club in Portland

Will never not be delighted by the existence of Ezra Ray Hart

The Supergroup Ezra Ray Hart features Mark McGrath of Sugar Ray, Kevin Griffin of Better Than Ezra, and Emerson Hart of Tonic.

Crywank

ugh

i don't know anything about them. they may be the greatest band ever. but no.

Sissy Penis Factory

did they do "Finally"

OMG is that the pun they were going for? Dying.

I should have listened to it first. Of course.

I’d listen to Sissy Penis Factory based on name alone

Arists (sic) You've Pointedly listened to because of their name

That’s probably the best pun of this millennium so far