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The The is either the worst band name ever, or the best. I've never been able to actually decide. I've always thought it was a bit clever, in that there's a million "The _____s" out there, some good, some bad, so why not just be "The The"?

It's unique, you gotta admit that.

People overlook how difficult it is to come up with a band name. Something good, but also unique. The worst thing is settling on a band name, coming up with a logo and setting up gigs, then finding out there's a band on the other side of the country with the same name. I remember when Sloppy Seconds (granted, that's a dumb name, but a good band) was playing at a local club, and a bunch of us went only to find it was some local blues band who was totally unaware of the Indianapolis punk quartet that had been using the name for decades.

When I was in my band, it took six months to come up with a name. Our singer was laser focused on "Monkey Clumps", which is apparently a term for feces that I wasn't aware of. Yes, he wanted to name our band after literal shit. His other idea was "Dicky Moe". I don't even know what that meant. Our drummer was a gun nut, and he wanted to call us "Thirty Aught Six", and didn't like that I pointed out that most gun nuts have small penises and gun enthusiasm is their way to compensate. The bass player wanted to do the idea of just look at something in the room and there's your name, and settled on "Table Grapes", which was on a cardboard box in the garage we were practicing in. My idea was "Shark Taco", kind of a play on Spinal Tap's Shark Sandwich record, only with taco to represent our southern California culture. We ended up using something else that I'd prefer not to divulge here, only because they're still together to this day (minus me), have recorded several records, and would rather not generate them any traffic. Sorry.

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Cattle Decapitation.... terrible band name, but one of my favorite bands. Actually really enjoy most of your death metal list.

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!!! tops my list.

I hate more how it looks than how it sounds, but tUnE-yArDs are thankfully distancing themselves from the dumbass random capitalization these days.

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Very good example!

Or when Prince changed his name to that unpronounceable symbol, thus just becoming "The Artist Formerly Known as Prince".

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"Dicky Moe" is my new favorite band name!

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Google is also good with searches for The Band

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I always thought "Bush" was an odd name, especially here in Canada where they had to change their name to "BushX" because another unknown band in Canada from the 1970s already claimed that name.

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It's available if you want it, 'cuz I sure as shit vetoed it.

ETA: A quick Google search reveals it was a Tom and Jerry cartoon, a riff on Moby Dick.

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Any band with an intentional misspelling:

Def Leppard
Led Zeppelin
Motley Crue
The Beatles
Limp Bizkit
Chvrches (How the fuck do you pronounce this supposed word anyway?)
Probably a lot more of these out there.

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I'm bumping it up a notch and legally changing my name to Dicky Moe.

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I don’t mind those because the internet searches are more likely to get the right thing.

I mean, “deaf leopard” will get you big cats with hearing loss, not 80s hair rock.

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Yeah this is the first time I've ever heard someone complain about the name of a band called "The Beatles", but to be fair I wasn't alive in 1963.

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A few years ago at the GWARBQ, one of the bands was Bam Margera's band. (I didn't know he had a band, I am not really familiar with his creative output).
The band's name was
"F*ckface Unstoppable".
I did not get the tour shirt because I don't want to wear a shirt that has that on it (I'm OK with Kung Fu Dykes, Mobile Deathcamp, and the demon cooking a human leg on a BBQ grill).
Worst part is, they didn't even play, so I'm out a shirt because of a band that wasn't even there.

Other than that, yeah, bands with common-word names that are hard to search by. And bands that are hard to pronounce so when I say "Alexa, play XXX", she doesn't know what i"m talking about.

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Yeah, great band but not a great name. I understand why they went with that though, the band are hardcore vegans and animal rights activists, and it's a very confrontational name because of that. If someone complains about it, they probably say something like "Do you eat meat? Yeah? Then shut the fuck up because do you know the horrific things that happen to cows in meat processing plants?" They have a point, although their album art for their Humanure album was confrontational but particularly revolting. :lol:

The story I've heard with Led Zeppelin is that they were originally going to go with the name "Lead Zeppelin" (a play on "lead balloon" as in "Our new band will go over like a....") that I think Keith Moon came up with, but were worried that Americans would mispronounce "Lead" as "leed", so they dumbed down the spelling for them. :lol:

Pretty sure that "Chvrches" would be pronounced "Churches". Just like in metal circles, words like "trve" and "cvlt" are thrown around. Replacing "u" with "v" makes things cooler I guess? :shrug:

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It it not specifically "metal" music circles.

In older forms of latin there was no 'u' letter, where the letter "v" was used to express what would now be the 'u' and 'v' sounds.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V

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^One still occasionally sees it on old covrthovses.

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Oh yeah, that's true, it just seems like metal bands have picked up on it more than other genres. What about the band Behemoth using the spelling "Ov" instead of "Of" for their song titles that contain that word? Was that a legitimate spelling at one point in the past as well, or just an affectation of Nergal's to make the titles look "cool"?

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It happened slightly earlier with Pestilence's second album Consuming Impulse from 1989. On the front cover it was spelled as "consvming impvlse".

https://www.discogs.com/master/44460...U6NzUzMTAzMQ==

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Not entirely clear why Patrick Mameli chose such a spelling.

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IIRC in german, a letter 'v' is pronounced like an american english 'f'


So 'ov' spoken by a german speaker, would sound almost like 'of' in upper class rp british english.

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(To be more specific).

'o' as in

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Close-..._rounded_vowel


german 'v' or english 'f' as in

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voicel...ntal_fricative

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Amen to this.

I've recently gotten into a blues/rock artist named Dorothy. I guess she's going for the "Madonna, Cher, Beyonce" thing, but Dorothy is far too common to attempt that.

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Pro-tip: searched for Dorothy musician and bam! Top result-ptth-

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I don't know if you literally mean "XXX" as a band name, but every time I profess my love of Mary Timoni's current band Ex Hex, I have to spell it out because everyone thinks I'm referring to The XX.

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Google's algorithms are smart enough to figure out that something widely known/searched like The Band, without having to include "Robertson" or "Helm" in the search string.


For less popular or obscure bands with generic sounding names, this is not always the case. An example of this is the little known Boston punk rock band The Neighborhoods.

To get google to find mostly relevant pages about this band, one has to search with a string like "neighborhoods Minehan". (Minehan is the surname of the singer/guitarist).

A search string of "the neighborhoods" or "neighborhoods" dumps a lot of false positives, along with relevant ones.