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Old 06-14-06 | 11:15 AM
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Naming your band an unpronouncable word (!!! for example)

!!!
Doesn't this kind of limit your chances for making it?

"Do you have the new album by !!!?"

"I'd like to buy tickets for !!!"
Old 06-14-06 | 11:59 AM
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I think so.
Old 06-14-06 | 12:45 PM
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I don't know...Prince survived the



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Old 06-14-06 | 12:55 PM
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It worked for during that phase just because he at least had the Prince name to play off of, "Artist formerly known as..." etc.

According to wikipedia...
!!! (pronounced chk chk chk, or any other syllable repeated three times — pow pow pow, uh uh uh, etc.)
Kind of silly, IMO.
Old 06-14-06 | 12:59 PM
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! is known as "bang" in the Unix world. So it could be Bang Bang Bang.
Old 06-14-06 | 01:40 PM
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"Chk chk chk" is by far the most common pronounciation for the band. I wasn't aware of any alternate ones until I read this thread.
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WTF? I would've pronounced it "exclamation point, exclamation point, exclamation point".
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"tba"
Old 06-17-06 | 01:56 AM
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The clever thing about that name, though, is it's at the top of artist lists when sorting alphabetically.

I've also always heard it as "chk, chk, chk". I've never heard the music, though.
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Maybe they should try ^^^ formerly known as !!!.
Old 06-17-06 | 05:27 PM
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Is the Piano Man ruined by every person in the crowd singing along to it? That always annoyed me when that song turned into karokee night.
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Is the Piano Man ruined by every person in the crowd singing along to it? That always annoyed me when that song turned into karokee night.
I'm confused.
Old 06-18-06 | 01:14 PM
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So was !!! formerly known as Billy Joel?
Old 06-18-06 | 04:34 PM
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I'm a fan of the umlaut that Björk and a lot of heavy bands use so copiously. Somebody seriously needs to start a band called Ümläüt and the Öömpä-Löömpäs.


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I went to see Silverchair once, and the band supporting them were call Nujahoda or something.
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I can't wait until some band names itself:

(i.e. a blank space)

It's coming (if it hasn't happened already), I'm sure.
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I bet they're an emo band.
Old 06-20-06 | 01:06 AM
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!!! makes some really fun music. also, the wikipedia definition is correct. while the band is normally referred to as chk chk chk (i think that is supposed to be three quick, staccato symbal taps), they insist that any (musical?) sound repeated three times suffices. very post mod, i guess. anyway, check out the music.

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