# Bands that don't sound like their name **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 23, 2019, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-that-dont-sound-like-their-name/835927 "2019-06-23T13:20:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Toxylon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f05b48/32.png) [@Toxylon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Toxylon)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2019, 8:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-that-dont-sound-like-their-name/835927/61 "2019-06-26T08:52:07Z")
> [@Go\_Arachnid\_Laser](#): > > Of course they would. It would just need to be the mellowest, blandest possible kind of Death Metal. But they don’t play that kind of music, and if they did, no-one would listen to them. So it is obvious that they’re not the worst kind of Death Metal but something else entirely. ---
**Author:** ![Kobal2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kobal2/32/20_2.png) [@Kobal2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kobal2)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2019, 9:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-that-dont-sound-like-their-name/835927/62 "2019-06-26T09:27:06Z")
> [@Sitnam](#): > > Mannheim Steamroller is not a death metal band. That’s what I came to post. On the other hand, Trans-Siberian Orchestra \*is \*a metal band. ---
**Author:** ![Snake\_Plissken\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Snake\_Plissken\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snake_Plissken_1)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2019, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-that-dont-sound-like-their-name/835927/63 "2019-06-26T16:07:45Z")
‘Mighty-Mighty BossTones’. Sounds like a 40’s swing band. ---
**Author:** ![Vic\_Parrish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Vic\_Parrish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Vic_Parrish)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2019, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-that-dont-sound-like-their-name/835927/64 "2019-06-26T16:20:28Z")
Asylum Street Spankers - all acoustic band (no mikes!) playing Americana, Country, Folk, Blues. ---
**Author:** ![mtnmatt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a3d4f5/32.png) [@mtnmatt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mtnmatt)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2019, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-that-dont-sound-like-their-name/835927/65 "2019-06-26T16:41:46Z")
I always hoped that Echo and the Bunnymen would be a reggae band, but no. When I was a kid, my brother and I would scare each other with my Dad’s Grateful Dead album (Skulls & Roses), and then one day we put it on, and things were never the same. I remember during the Tipper Gore scare, CNN did a story about “satanic influence” of bands like The Grateful Dead, which amused us. ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2019, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-that-dont-sound-like-their-name/835927/66 "2019-06-26T17:15:56Z")
> [@mtnmatt](#): > > I always hoped that Echo and the Bunnymen would be a reggae band, but no. > > When I was a kid, my brother and I would scare each other with my Dad’s Grateful Dead album (Skulls & Roses), and then one day we put it on, and things were never the same. > > I remember during the Tipper Gore scare, CNN did a story about “satanic influence” of bands like The Grateful Dead, which amused us. Hey, [the friend of the devil was a friend of theirs](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XacvydVrhuI). Plus skull covers, satanism q. e. d. ---
**Author:** ![TimfromNapa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d26b3c/32.png) [@TimfromNapa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TimfromNapa)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2019, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-that-dont-sound-like-their-name/835927/67 "2019-06-26T20:22:58Z")
Lollipop Shoppe. The name sounds like they should have been a sunshine pop band, like Peppermint Trolley Company, or, well, The Sunshine Company. What they played was rough, moody, sometimes dark psychedelic garage rock. They are best remembered for their cult classic non-hit “You Must Be a Witch”. Definitely worth checking out. ---
**Author:** ![DrCube](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a3d4f5/32.png) [@DrCube](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrCube)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2019, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-that-dont-sound-like-their-name/835927/68 "2019-06-26T21:34:33Z")
I agree with the Grateful Dead. It was much harder to listen to new music in the 90s, they didn’t play the Grateful Dead on the radio, and a CD cost ~$20 which is a fortune to a kid, so you had to really want the CD to buy it. Anyway, in high school I got one of those Columbia House memberships where you pay 97 cents for 8 CDs and then agree to buy one a month at regular price for however many months, and one of the eight CDs I picked was _What A Long Strange Trip It’s Been_, which is all black with a skeleton and Gothic red lettering, and looks pretty hardcore to judge by the cover. I expected something heavy, maybe not Pantera heavy, but at least Black Sabbath heavy. Honestly, I liked them way more than I expected to (it’s still one of my favorite albums), but all my friends, even people who I knew had dancing bear posters in their room, liked them a lot less than they had expected. I’m proud to be the guy to introduce all my friends to the Grateful Dead. I remember one girl listening to them in my room for the first time, said, in utter shock and horror, “this… this is _country_!”. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2019, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-that-dont-sound-like-their-name/835927/69 "2019-06-28T02:05:58Z")
> [@RTFirefly](#): > > In case you’ve got a moment for a listen, [Old 97s - Good With God](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDMMd4zx7is) is one of my favorite songs from the past year or so. Heh. Little Baader Meinhof going on. Sitting at a bar right now and the the guitarist/one-man band kind of guy performing today just introduced a cover of the Old 97s. ---
**Author:** ![Personal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Personal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Personal)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2019, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-that-dont-sound-like-their-name/835927/70 "2019-06-28T04:18:39Z")
> [@EinsteinsHund](#): > > “I hate the fucking Eagles Of Death Metal, man…” I’m stealing that. Little River Band sounds like a jug band at a barn dance. ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2019, 6:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-that-dont-sound-like-their-name/835927/71 "2019-06-28T06:09:45Z")
> [@Kobal2](#): > > That’s what I came to post. > On the other hand, Trans-Siberian Orchestra \*is \*a metal band. Weren’t they more of a rock-opera thingie with about 4,317 musicians? Sure, their core had two former members of the somewhat glam-metally Savatage, but I always thought TSO was more of an epic rock extravaganza that probably required about 805 semis to transport all their touring stuff. ---
**Author:** ![Horatio\_Hellpop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Horatio\_Hellpop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatio_Hellpop)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2019, 8:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-that-dont-sound-like-their-name/835927/72 "2019-06-28T08:29:41Z")
> [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](#): > > Squirrel Nut Zippers? Not a clue. “Squirrel Nut Zippers” is a kind of candy regionally popular/available in the south (The band is from North Carolina, as I recall). It tastes a lot like “Bit o’ Honey.” ---
**Author:** ![Shearer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/57b2e6/32.png) [@Shearer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shearer)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2019, 8:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-that-dont-sound-like-their-name/835927/73 "2019-06-28T08:55:33Z")
Oasis, Nirvana, Soundgarden - All those New Age acts ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2019, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-that-dont-sound-like-their-name/835927/74 "2019-06-29T01:29:58Z")
> [@Personal](#): > > I’m stealing that. You’re welcome :). ---
**Author:** ![Ambivalid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a5b964/32.png) [@Ambivalid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambivalid)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2019, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-that-dont-sound-like-their-name/835927/75 "2019-06-29T02:48:23Z")
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