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jpcamb

01-31-22 10:39 AM

Re: Bands with names you dislike

not sure it's the name or the band, but I really dislike the sound of 'Mumford and Sons'. It just feels awkward to say that word and I don't like the song I know by them.

dom56

01-31-22 10:49 AM

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Surprise no one mentioned A Flock of Seagulls. I liked their songs I Ran, Wishing, Space-Age Lovesong but that a strange name for a band.

Another one is The Thompson Twins there are three of them and they are not related so what give?

Paff	01-31-22 10:51 AM

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Originally Posted by morriscroy (Post 14050507)

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.

As much as I love them and enjoyed many many shows by them in my Boston U days, The Neighborhoods (plural) was always a really dumb name for a band anyway.

Jaymole

01-31-22 11:46 AM

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Most bands who think they are being witty with their name...Dandy Warhols come immediately to mind.

Paff	01-31-22 12:04 PM

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Originally Posted by dom56 (Post 14050523)

Another one is The Thompson Twins there are three of them and they are not related so what give?

There actually used to be substantially more than three unrelated members of the band. I believe they took the name from characters in an old comic strip.

The history of the band and the name is actually pretty interesting. They originally played more of a post-punk style (I think their early work reminds me of XTC). They had one "dance" song, In The Name of Love. Singer Tom Bailey decided to leave the band and form a group more focused on that type of music, but when told the rest of the band was breaking up anyway he decided to keep the name for his new project. And that's the Thompson Twins you know and (maybe) love.

Paff	01-31-22 12:08 PM

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What about the very brief trend of combining two unrelated terms that had a common first and last word? The most obvious example being Camper Van Beethoven. We had a local band that followed that style with Sugar Twin Reverb. And the band the Didjits used that "cleverness" on their albums Full Nelson Reilly and Little Miss Carriage.

mndtrp

01-31-22 12:13 PM

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Originally Posted by cultshock (Post 14049330)

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:

I went to a Cattle Decapitation show back in 2012, mainly because I was a good friend of one of the openers, Cattleist. Cattleist's songs at the time were mostly about eating beef, drinking beer, and smoking weed. They were big fans of Cattle Decap, but it definitely wasn't lost on them how far apart their ideology towards meat was.

printerati

01-31-22 12:25 PM

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Originally Posted by cultshock (Post 14049330)

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:

Their lead singer has mentioned three main reasons for the V. I knew about the last two:

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One, a friend created a band logo and it looked cool with its Roman numeral styling; two, tweaking the spelling made the trio way more searchable on the internet than if they went with the standard "Churches"; and three, perhaps most understandable of all, turns out there was already a band with the name here in the States, and that band, according to Mayberry, told them to add a "UK" to their name, in the spirit of The Charlatans and The Chameleons.

Of course, "Churches UK" would have led to some easily uttered "Churches Suck" retorts, so that was quickly abandoned.

Similarly, the Canadian band Alvvays (pronounced "always") went with two Vs due to the existence of a 90s band named Always.

Paff	01-31-22 12:34 PM

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Originally Posted by mndtrp (Post 14050596)

haha, reminds me of the time my band played a vegan cafe, and I wore my In-N-Out Burger T-shirt on stage.

Norm de Plume

01-31-22 03:14 PM

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Originally Posted by Paff (Post 14050587)

There actually used to be substantially more than three unrelated members of the band. I believe they took the name from characters in an old comic strip.

Of course! The two bumbling cops from "Tintin". It never occurred to me.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...6_Thompson.png

Josh-da-man

01-31-22 07:59 PM

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Originally Posted by Jaymole (Post 14050569)

Most bands who think they are being witty with their name...Dandy Warhols come immediately to mind.

I've always thought The Brian Jonestown Massacre was clever.

Jaymole

02-01-22 06:40 AM

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Originally Posted by Josh-da-man (Post 14050958)

I've always thought The Brian Jonestown Massacre was clever.

I can Dig that

GuessWho

02-01-22 10:18 AM

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Nick Danger

02-01-22 11:49 AM

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Edit: It doesn't even reproduce right here. The DVDTalk editor changes it to a lower case M.

windom

02-01-22 01:41 PM

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I always thought a great name for a band would be "Various Artists". They'd have a huge catalog to start with.

Paff	02-01-22 03:31 PM

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Originally Posted by windom (Post 14051393)

I always thought a great name for a band would be "Various Artists". They'd have a huge catalog to start with.

I hung around with a couple of struggling bands in the 80s, and they joked about one of them changing their name to Open Bar, while the other would be No Cover Charge.

Josh-da-man

02-01-22 03:43 PM

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I can sort of remember an urban legend about a bar band that called itself "Free Beer."

GuessWho

02-01-22 03:45 PM

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Originally Posted by milo bloom (Post 14049292)

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

It will actually lead you to the Deaf Leopards.... a school for the deaf with leopards as their mascot.

Of course, the band had to meet them!
https://www.edweek.org/education/dea...eppard/2016/05

Paff	02-01-22 04:01 PM

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Originally Posted by Josh-da-man (Post 14051477)

I can sort of remember an urban legend about a bar band that called itself "Free Beer."

The old EC Rocker used to have regular full page ads by a hair metal cover band called "Free Drinx", I'm guessing the spelling change became a requirement from places that booked them.

windom

02-01-22 04:07 PM

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I wonder if that worked in early days for the Barenaked Ladies.

Paff	02-01-22 04:11 PM

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Originally Posted by windom (Post 14051497)

I wonder if that worked in early days for the Barenaked Ladies.

Holy crap, it only just dawned on me that that's why they chose that name.

Nick Danger

02-01-22 04:25 PM

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Originally Posted by windom (Post 14051393)

I always thought a great name for a band would be "Various Artists". They'd have a huge catalog to start with.

I remember a band that called themselves The Original Artists.

https://www.discogs.com/release/4146...sts-Hit-Single

milo bloom

02-01-22 05:00 PM

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Originally Posted by Paff (Post 14051466)

I hung around with a couple of struggling bands in the 80s, and they joked about one of them changing their name to Open Bar, while the other would be No Cover Charge.

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Originally Posted by Josh-da-man (Post 14051477)

I can sort of remember an urban legend about a bar band that called itself "Free Beer."

I'm reminded of another urban legend about a casual league softball team that called themselves "No Game Scheduled", so if the other team didn't show they'd get the win by default.

cultshock

02-01-22 08:31 PM

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Originally Posted by Josh-da-man (Post 14050958)

I've always thought The Brian Jonestown Massacre was clever.

Yeah, I'll give them props for that one. :up:

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Originally Posted by Paff (Post 14051499)

Holy crap, it only just dawned on me that that's why they chose that name.

Damn, me too! :eek:

Josh-da-man

02-01-22 11:04 PM

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Originally Posted by windom (Post 14051497)

I wonder if that worked in early days for the Barenaked Ladies.

Probably not for long...

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