# Bands with slightly different names depending on where on the planet you are standing **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 2, 2025, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-with-slightly-different-names-depending-on-where-on-the-planet-you-are-standing/1021635 "2025-08-02T22:56:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/q.q.switcheroo/32/5713_2.png) [@Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.Q.Switcheroo)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2025, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-with-slightly-different-names-depending-on-where-on-the-planet-you-are-standing/1021635/41 "2025-08-03T20:49:34Z")
Lang Lang is billed with his surname first when he performs in China. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![markn\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@markn\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/markn_1)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2025, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-with-slightly-different-names-depending-on-where-on-the-planet-you-are-standing/1021635/42 "2025-08-03T22:00:28Z")
A few months ago I saw a YouTube video in which the narrator referred to a band by the name of “Ten Cubic Centimeters”. But I’m pretty sure that was just a clueless AI narrating, rather than the band actually using that name somewhere/somewhen. ---
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2025, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-with-slightly-different-names-depending-on-where-on-the-planet-you-are-standing/1021635/43 "2025-08-03T22:33:18Z")
> [@Askance](#): > > Iconic Australian rock band The Angels were known in the US as Angel City, I guess to avoid upsetting Xtians? 🤷‍♂️ Brit postpunkers The Comsat Angels had to be called The C.S. Angels across the pond when the satellite company raised a hue and cry. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2025, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-with-slightly-different-names-depending-on-where-on-the-planet-you-are-standing/1021635/44 "2025-08-03T22:37:27Z")
Only in jest (or at least by me, several times in jest in my lifetime) ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2025, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-with-slightly-different-names-depending-on-where-on-the-planet-you-are-standing/1021635/45 "2025-08-03T22:43:34Z")
> [@xtenkfarpl](#): > > I have never heard of them being called ‘The’ Cream. There is a live recording of Jimi Hendrix calling them “The Cream”, announcing that they had just broken up before launching into a cover of one of their songs. ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2025, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-with-slightly-different-names-depending-on-where-on-the-planet-you-are-standing/1021635/46 "2025-08-03T23:03:24Z")
> [@Cartooniverse](#): > > I asked her because the Brit husband of my dear old pal, who’s got about 7 years on me ( and so is around 70 ) has referred to them as “The Cream”. Without any wink or nod. And, he’s a drummer from wayyyyyy back. He’s just displaying how old and stubborn he is. Like someone who continues to refer to the Dixie Chicks even if they know better. It has nothing to do with nationality. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2025, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-with-slightly-different-names-depending-on-where-on-the-planet-you-are-standing/1021635/47 "2025-08-03T23:14:11Z")
> [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](#): > > He’s just displaying how old and stubborn he is. It may also be that he has stuck with their original name (which they only briefly used) to signal that he knew of and followed the band from the very start. ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2025, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-with-slightly-different-names-depending-on-where-on-the-planet-you-are-standing/1021635/48 "2025-08-03T23:15:07Z")
Kinda the same thing…but, yeah. What you said. ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2025, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-with-slightly-different-names-depending-on-where-on-the-planet-you-are-standing/1021635/49 "2025-08-03T23:45:15Z")
In regards to Eagles–as far as I can tell, the band name is just “Eagles” on all of their albums with the exception of the original UK vinyl, cassette and 8-track versions of _Their Greatest Hits ‘71-’75._ ---
**Author:** ![Cartooniverse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cartooniverse/32/3084_2.png) [@Cartooniverse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartooniverse)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2025, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-with-slightly-different-names-depending-on-where-on-the-planet-you-are-standing/1021635/50 "2025-08-05T16:20:58Z")
> [@RealityChuck](#): > > When I saw them in concert, Pink Floyd was billed at “The Pink Floyd.” When was this? And, fascinating. ---
**Author:** ![Cartooniverse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cartooniverse/32/3084_2.png) [@Cartooniverse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartooniverse)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2025, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-with-slightly-different-names-depending-on-where-on-the-planet-you-are-standing/1021635/51 "2025-08-05T16:26:25Z")
> [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](#): > > > [@Cartooniverse](#): > > > > I asked her because the Brit husband of my dear old pal, who’s got about 7 years on me ( and so is around 70 ) has referred to them as “The Cream”. Without any wink or nod. And, he’s a drummer from wayyyyyy back. > > He’s just displaying how old and stubborn he is. Like someone who continues to refer to the Dixie Chicks even if they know better. It has nothing to do with nationality. I only made mention of his nationality because that is the BAND’S country of origin as well. Perhaps they started as The Cream and then, well, skimmed off the “The”…. In 1979 I attended a concert by Canadian folk artist Stan Rogers. He and his group played a much-mourned and beloved small venue called The Main Point, on the Main Line outside of Philadelphia. Three things stood out from that evening. 1. He was incredible and his violinist was a god of blues and folk. 2. There were blood spatters EVERYWHERE. On the stage, the tables, the floor, etc. Apparently the night before a band called “Bloodless Pharaohs had played and during their set sprayed copious amounts of stage blood about. 3. There was a banner hanging on a side wall that read, “GENTLEMAN GEORGE THROGOOD AND THE DELAWARE DESTROYERS”. News to me, man. I know only of George Thorogood. Come to find out they went by 3 different names. The one mentioned just above. Then there was “George Throrogood and The Destroyers”, then just his name. Just saying. Things change. ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2025, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-with-slightly-different-names-depending-on-where-on-the-planet-you-are-standing/1021635/52 "2025-08-05T17:09:29Z")
> [@Cartooniverse](#): > > > [@RealityChuck](#): > > > > When I saw them in concert, Pink Floyd was billed at “The Pink Floyd.” > > When was this? And, fascinating. [Here’s a concert poster from 1969](http://www.pinkfloydarchives.com/posters/PFpost/1969/Plum1969/080869p.jpg) ---
**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:** [August 5, 2025, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-with-slightly-different-names-depending-on-where-on-the-planet-you-are-standing/1021635/53 "2025-08-05T17:14:10Z")
> [@blondebear](#): > > Here’s a concert poster from 1969: Interestingly, the band Yes also seems to be on the bill, as “Yes!” with an exclamation mark. Was this their original moniker? The only other band I know that had an exclamation mark in their band name was Neu!, but they came a few years later. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2025, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-with-slightly-different-names-depending-on-where-on-the-planet-you-are-standing/1021635/54 "2025-08-05T17:15:18Z")
> [@Cartooniverse](#): > > Perhaps they started as The Cream and then, well, skimmed off the “The”…. AFAICT, that is _exactly_ what happened, as I noted (with a cite) upthread. They only used “The Cream” for a very short time. And, as I suggested, I would not be surprised if the guy in question continues to call the band “The Cream” to signal “I was there, and I was a fan, when they first formed.” ---
**Author:** ![Cartooniverse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cartooniverse/32/3084_2.png) [@Cartooniverse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartooniverse)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2025, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-with-slightly-different-names-depending-on-where-on-the-planet-you-are-standing/1021635/55 "2025-08-05T17:17:02Z")
> [@blondebear](#): > > > [@Cartooniverse](#): > > > > > [@RealityChuck](#): > > > > > > When I saw them in concert, Pink Floyd was billed at “The Pink Floyd.” > > > > When was this? And, fascinating. > > [Here’s a concert poster from 1969](http://www.pinkfloydarchives.com/posters/PFpost/1969/Plum1969/080869p.jpg) Wow. I’m a massive YES fan. What jumps out to me is the mention of “Yes!” as a band appearing on the evening of August 9th. Never have I seen the band name with an exclamation point added. ---
**Author:** ![Cartooniverse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cartooniverse/32/3084_2.png) [@Cartooniverse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartooniverse)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2025, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-with-slightly-different-names-depending-on-where-on-the-planet-you-are-standing/1021635/56 "2025-08-05T17:17:45Z")
> [@kenobi\_65](#): > > > [@Cartooniverse](#): > > > > Perhaps they started as The Cream and then, well, skimmed off the “The”…. > > AFAICT, that is _exactly_ what happened, as I noted (with a cite) upthread. They only used “The Cream” for a very short time. > > And, as I suggested, I would not be surprised if the guy in question continues to call the band “The Cream” to signal “I was there, and I was a fan, when they first formed.” Likely the Straight Dope on this one. His age and location does fit with the nascent era of “Cream”. ---
**Author:** ![chappachula](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/d2c977/32.png) [@chappachula](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chappachula)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2025, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-with-slightly-different-names-depending-on-where-on-the-planet-you-are-standing/1021635/57 "2025-08-05T17:29:04Z")
> [@RealityChuck](#): > > When I saw them in concert, Pink Floyd was billed at “The Pink Floyd.” Here is a thread on Reddit which discusses the name “THE Pink Floyd”, with a number of links to specific examples of the name being used in 1967 [Reddit - The heart of the internet](https://www.reddit.com/r/pinkfloyd/comments/18iujhw/when_did_the_pink_floyd_turn_into_pink_floyd/) ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2025, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-with-slightly-different-names-depending-on-where-on-the-planet-you-are-standing/1021635/58 "2025-08-05T23:35:40Z")
> [@Cartooniverse](#): > > > [@RealityChuck](#): > > > > When I saw them in concert, Pink Floyd was billed at “The Pink Floyd.” > > When was this? And, fascinating. Boston Music Hall, November 11, 1971. That was the name on the marquee. ---
**Author:** ![nightshadea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7ba0ec/32.png) [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2025, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-with-slightly-different-names-depending-on-where-on-the-planet-you-are-standing/1021635/59 "2025-08-05T23:47:27Z")
the Ramones had the same problem for the longest time until joey got annoyed with it and started correcting people ---
**Author:** ![Askance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/askance/32/8281_2.png) [@Askance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askance)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2025, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-with-slightly-different-names-depending-on-where-on-the-planet-you-are-standing/1021635/60 "2025-08-05T23:52:28Z")
Not to mention that “The Bonzo Dog Doo-dah Band” dropped the Doo-dah bit in that poster. Of course what the poster artist wrote may not be exactly what the band wanted them to. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-with-slightly-different-names-depending-on-where-on-the-planet-you-are-standing/1021635.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-with-slightly-different-names-depending-on-where-on-the-planet-you-are-standing/1021635.md?page=4)