# Mainstream music makes the baby Jesus cry

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**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [September 28, 2010, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mainstream-music-makes-the-baby-jesus-cry/555393 "2010-09-28T20:45:39Z")\
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**Author:** ![OtisCampbellWasRight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/d78d45/32.png) [@OtisCampbellWasRight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OtisCampbellWasRight)\
**Post date:** [September 29, 2010, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mainstream-music-makes-the-baby-jesus-cry/555393/61 "2010-09-29T18:06:25Z")

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> [@Cisco](#):
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> > [@elmwood](#):
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> > Clear Channel is evil! Their stations would rather play old Journey songs, Lady Gaga and Britney Spears instead of quality bands like Stepping Worm, Speech Beat, Checkered Zombie, Slipping Devil, Canned Ache, Lewis and Clark LLC, The Hazard, Labrador Believer, The Red Stormy Guardians, The Big Mercury Major, Austin Death Trailer, Digital Bulldozers, Massive Stallions, The Cosmic Scoreboards, Red Rocket, The Silver Killers, The Tainted Poles, The Robert Taylor Project, Brave Nephews, The Wild Molesters, The Vital Plasticines, Don Cherry’s Jacket, Grotesque Soldiers, The Itch, The Stray Shaggers, Los Beammers, King Scissors, The Hidden Wolfram Commanders, Gamma Agents, Cobalt Trombones, The Frozen Vipers, Canyonero, The Vegetables, Persistent Invaders, Balloon Knot, Doggy Snakes, Mellow Sisters, Groin, Omega Omega, Brave Pineapples, The Dead Propellers, The Tunas, The Skin Flutes, Full Love, The Mercury Tigers, The Sleepy Giants, The Week, The Wild Rangers, Disco Sapphires, The Poseidon Butterflies, The Universal Remotes, Crying Summer, The Whitey Killers, Teal Generals, The Brigadiers, Anal Habitrail, The Hydrogen Giants, The Rebel Rubber Colonels and Angst Cart.
> 
> Oh my god, if you just made that list up, you’re brilliant.
> 
> For some reason I can’t explain, I can’t stop laughing at “Don Cherry’s Jacket”.

Dear Lord that is one amazingly well crafted list. You should write professionally. Seriously.

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**Author:** ![Bosstone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/22d042/32.png) [@Bosstone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosstone)\
**Post date:** [September 29, 2010, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mainstream-music-makes-the-baby-jesus-cry/555393/62 "2010-09-29T18:09:55Z")

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> [@elmwood](#):
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> Stepping Worm, Speech Beat, Checkered Zombie, Slipping Devil, Canned Ache, Lewis and Clark LLC, The Hazard, Labrador Believer, The Red Stormy Guardians, The Big Mercury Major, Austin Death Trailer, Digital Bulldozers, Massive Stallions, The Cosmic Scoreboards, Red Rocket, The Silver Killers, The Tainted Poles, The Robert Taylor Project, Brave Nephews, The Wild Molesters, The Vital Plasticines, Don Cherry’s Jacket, Grotesque Soldiers, The Itch, The Stray Shaggers, Los Beammers, King Scissors, The Hidden Wolfram Commanders, Gamma Agents, Cobalt Trombones, The Frozen Vipers, Canyonero, The Vegetables, Persistent Invaders, Balloon Knot, Doggy Snakes, Mellow Sisters, Groin, Omega Omega, Brave Pineapples, The Dead Propellers, The Tunas, The Skin Flutes, Full Love, The Mercury Tigers, The Sleepy Giants, The Week, The Wild Rangers, Disco Sapphires, The Poseidon Butterflies, The Universal Remotes, Crying Summer, The Whitey Killers, Teal Generals, The Brigadiers, Anal Habitrail, The Hydrogen Giants, The Rebel Rubber Colonels and Angst Cart.

Band name!

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**Author:** ![Wandering\_Hero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/ebca7d/32.png) [@Wandering\_Hero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wandering_Hero)\
**Post date:** [September 29, 2010, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mainstream-music-makes-the-baby-jesus-cry/555393/63 "2010-09-29T18:25:09Z")

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Their’s actually a song about this:  
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVftXmopJt4](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVftXmopJt4) .

Anyway… thats market for you. What flourishes isn’t what has the msot merit and its definately not what has the most depth, its whatever is the most marketable.

I’m sorry, did you assume Twilight was great literture?

I don’t know what can be done about it. Support obscure bands and promote them? Have small bands sell thier music online?

Complaing probably isn’t construtive, but I guess thats what this sub forum is for

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**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\
**Post date:** [September 29, 2010, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mainstream-music-makes-the-baby-jesus-cry/555393/64 "2010-09-29T19:46:05Z")

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Todd Snider wrote a song that fits, sorta.  
[Talkin’ Seattle Grunge Rock Blues](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYm8HotzmSw)

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**Author:** ![elmwood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmwood/32/3060_2.png) [@elmwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elmwood)\
**Post date:** [September 29, 2010, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mainstream-music-makes-the-baby-jesus-cry/555393/65 "2010-09-29T20:00:49Z")

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> [@Bosstone](#):
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> Band name!

I saw them a year ago with the Texas Ditchdiggers, John Fitzgerald Remedy, Ovum, Silver Shank, The Coalminer’s Daughters, Alabaster Ebony, Urban Thrall, The Desert Stevedores, The Planning and Groaning Commission, Rambler '64, Subcutaneous, Mind the Gap, Lemon, The Trailer Park Philharmonic, The Cigars, The Jewpopes, Frodo Unit, Los Alamos, Red Light Green Light, Taint, Candy Van, The Crabs, Mellophant, Highway To Swell, Utah Blue Book, Apartheid, Ransacked Flour, Donkey Show, The Picky Eaters, The September Thirty Firsts, The Joy of Concrete, Flow, The Piss Quivers, Tree of Life, Buck LeSabre, Uncle Pauly’s Hairpiece, Canker, The Travis County Mutineers, The Shaker Heights Mafia, The British Version, Flotsam, Saudi Aurora, Hanglady, Üüüüüü, The Foamers and the King Cnuts.

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**Author:** ![Doxy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f14d63/32.png) [@Doxy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doxy)\
**Post date:** [September 29, 2010, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mainstream-music-makes-the-baby-jesus-cry/555393/66 "2010-09-29T20:47:05Z")

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> [@Jonathan\_Chance](#):
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> It’s not often I get a set up so completely, well, set up…
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> > [@](#):
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> > Originally posted by Lee, Lifeson and Peart
> > 
> > All this machinery making modern music  
> > Can still be open hearted  
> > Not so coldly charted  
> > It’s really just a question of your honesty, yeah, your honesty
> > 
> > One likes to believe in the freedom of music  
> > But glittering prizes and endless compromises  
> > Shatter the illusion of integrity

Love me some Rush! 😃

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**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\
**Post date:** [September 29, 2010, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mainstream-music-makes-the-baby-jesus-cry/555393/67 "2010-09-29T20:52:43Z")

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> [@elmwood](#):
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> > [@Bosstone](#):
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> > Band name!
> 
> I saw them a year ago with the Texas Ditchdiggers, John Fitzgerald Remedy, Ovum, Silver Shank, The Coalminer’s Daughters, Alabaster Ebony, Urban Thrall, The Desert Stevedores, The Planning and Groaning Commission, Rambler '64, Subcutaneous, Mind the Gap, Lemon, The Trailer Park Philharmonic, The Cigars, The Jewpopes, Frodo Unit, Los Alamos, Red Light Green Light, Taint, Candy Van, The Crabs, Mellophant, Highway To Swell, Utah Blue Book, Apartheid, Ransacked Flour, Donkey Show, The Picky Eaters, The September Thirty Firsts, The Joy of Concrete, Flow, The Piss Quivers, Tree of Life, Buck LeSabre, Uncle Pauly’s Hairpiece, Canker, The Travis County Mutineers, The Shaker Heights Mafia, The British Version, Flotsam, Saudi Aurora, Hanglady, Üüüüüü, The Foamers and the King Cnuts.

Were they at that show with The Autotones, Ferrous Wheel, My Left Aquasock, Redd Foxx, Bigger than a Breadbasket, The Stinking Leeches, Hoof Arted, April’s New Dress, Skateboard Confessional, Todd’s Reverie, Squirt, The Wax Lips, Hardly Unamused, Charlie Brown’s Dog, Wheelie, Cousin Dickhead, Cuckoo Clock, Upstream, Tits on a Boar Hog, The Sugar Baker Boys, Autumn Romance, Five Lucky Gnomes, The Autogyros, Safe Under the Covers, Rainbow Yawn, The Giggity Giggities, Dropbear, Two Times a Lady, Sister Fister, Wayne’s Prosthetic Eyebrows, Tennis Skirt, The Lovely Parasols, Imitation Soy, Rainy Monday, Brunch with Granma Rae, The Deaf Moles, Soviet Bluejeans, and What Happened to Bud?

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**Author:** ![Wheelz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wheelz/32/5718_2.png) [@Wheelz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wheelz)\
**Post date:** [September 29, 2010, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mainstream-music-makes-the-baby-jesus-cry/555393/68 "2010-09-29T20:55:19Z")

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> [@elmwood](#):
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> … The Piss Quivers …

We need a “spitting coffee on my keyboard” smiley for this one. If I’d been drinking coffee, that is.

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**Author:** ![bdgr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a87d85/32.png) [@bdgr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bdgr)\
**Post date:** [September 29, 2010, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mainstream-music-makes-the-baby-jesus-cry/555393/69 "2010-09-29T21:00:57Z")

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> [@mhendo](#):
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> > [@ladyfoxfyre](#):
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> > As to number 5 on your list, I think the OP may have already been here before. Sept 2010 and every post of his has some sort of in-joke, it’s fishy.
> 
> Yeah, i always get a bit suspicious when someone who joined five minutes ago uses a whole lot of Board in-jokes in their posts.
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> Of course, the usual response is something like, “I just joined, but i’ve been lurking for ages,” but i never really buy it.

Or, you know, he could have read the stickie in ATMB that lists them. Which is what happened, since I told him if he was going to post here he should read that.

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**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\
**Post date:** [September 29, 2010, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mainstream-music-makes-the-baby-jesus-cry/555393/70 "2010-09-29T21:03:36Z")

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I’m so stealing “The Jewpopes”

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**Author:** ![Gfactor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/9de053/32.png) [@Gfactor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gfactor)\
**Post date:** [September 29, 2010, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mainstream-music-makes-the-baby-jesus-cry/555393/71 "2010-09-29T21:23:31Z")

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> [@Michael\_Ellis](#):
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> OP, please consider suicide. You’re obviously too pure and clever for this corrupt world.

This violates The Pit Rules.

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**Author:** ![elmwood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmwood/32/3060_2.png) [@elmwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elmwood)\
**Post date:** [September 29, 2010, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mainstream-music-makes-the-baby-jesus-cry/555393/72 "2010-09-29T23:06:17Z")

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> [@Cisco](#):
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> Were they at that show with The Autotones, Ferrous Wheel, My Left Aquasock, Redd Foxx, Bigger than a Breadbasket, The Stinking Leeches, Hoof Arted, April’s New Dress, Skateboard Confessional, Todd’s Reverie, Squirt, The Wax Lips, Hardly Unamused, Charlie Brown’s Dog, Wheelie, Cousin Dickhead, Cuckoo Clock, Upstream, Tits on a Boar Hog, The Sugar Baker Boys, Autumn Romance, Five Lucky Gnomes, The Autogyros, Safe Under the Covers, Rainbow Yawn, The Giggity Giggities, Dropbear, Two Times a Lady, Sister Fister, Wayne’s Prosthetic Eyebrows, Tennis Skirt, The Lovely Parasols, Imitation Soy, Rainy Monday, Brunch with Granma Rae, The Deaf Moles, Soviet Bluejeans, and What Happened to Bud?

Dude, you call yourself a music fan? Everybody knows it was _Mister_ Fister at that show. Sister Fister has gone _so_ mainstream, since one of their tracks is on a compilation CD of Columbus scene bands with the Flaming Cuyahogas, The Wafers, Kosher Pork Biscuits, The Pitcairn Island Transit Authority, Mope, The Seeing Eye Wolverines, Jesus Christ Pornostar, Honey Do, Cornhat, The Fucks, Dutch Range, The Toledophiles, Extra Cheese, Chris Hansen’s Seat, Marry Merry Mary, The Sanjays, Cartman, Herd of Ghosts, Old Number Five, Slowkitty, The Dayton Secret Police, Knob, Spanish Flu, Jiminy Carter, Banned In Xenia, Queen Liver, Pain Bread, The Jukes, Lucy Lucid And The Dreamers, Balls of Mud, Rhymes With Orange, The Fluoroscopes, Maiden China, The Carburetors, Recliner Shiner, Bodyblow, St. Vincent And The Grenadines, The Barn Doors, The Black Pugs, Billions and Billions, Deputy Enos, Northern Dark, Red Shamrock, The Grocer’s Apostrophe’s, The Neros, Speedbrisket, The Scabs, The Joy Farmers, and The Grizzly Madams.

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**Author:** ![rhubarbarin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/eb9ed0/32.png) [@rhubarbarin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rhubarbarin)\
**Post date:** [September 29, 2010, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mainstream-music-makes-the-baby-jesus-cry/555393/73 "2010-09-29T23:17:27Z")

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I hope this thread goes on for years. Still giggling over The Penis Girdles.

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**Author:** ![elmwood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmwood/32/3060_2.png) [@elmwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elmwood)\
**Post date:** [September 29, 2010, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mainstream-music-makes-the-baby-jesus-cry/555393/74 "2010-09-29T23:23:21Z")

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> [@Jack\_Batty](#):
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> I’m so stealing “The Jewpopes”

Go ahead. One of their songs, _Hail Morty_, was supposedly just played on KDIC at Grinnell College. Bunch of fucking sellouts, I’ll tell you what.

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**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\
**Post date:** [September 29, 2010, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mainstream-music-makes-the-baby-jesus-cry/555393/75 "2010-09-29T23:30:06Z")

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I much prefer the Flaming Shitmonkeys. Not in the same league as truly underground bands such as Macrohard, Michael Moore and the Holidays in the Sun, Tappanzee Cantilever, Homo Erectus, Og Kush, Porno for Pyrolysis, Duckin Reficulous, Kensington, Dawn of War, Dictionary of Chemistry, Your Mom, The Guns of August, PC Load Letter, Botanica, Beavers and Butthairs, The Fountainblow, James Q. Moonraker, Leia Shot First, or Death By Snooker, but they have some awesome tracks.

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**Author:** ![Wheelz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wheelz/32/5718_2.png) [@Wheelz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wheelz)\
**Post date:** [September 29, 2010, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mainstream-music-makes-the-baby-jesus-cry/555393/76 "2010-09-29T23:54:27Z")

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We get some pretty good live music around here, too. Just in the past few months I’ve seen The Canadian Bar Association, Sharting Farmers, Brainberry, A Sofa Named Bobby, Hans Device, The Marx Sisters, Judas-In-Law, Shadow Pez, Guitary McSingy, The Newts, Olive Lucite, Woody & the Vernal Equinox, Baseball Penalty, Uncle Becky, Oblong “Blinky” Guffaw, Shallot, Road Mung, Calico Sandwich, My Middle Gonad, Carnal Vortex, The Pencilnecks, and Cock of Christ.

I’ll be checking the local papers to see who’s in town this weekend.

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**Author:** ![elmwood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmwood/32/3060_2.png) [@elmwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elmwood)\
**Post date:** [September 30, 2010, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mainstream-music-makes-the-baby-jesus-cry/555393/77 "2010-09-30T00:19:01Z")

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> [@Ludovic](#):
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> PC Load Letter

Didn’t they also go by The Furious Shih Tzus, Infinity Minus One, The Orbs, Dreadnought, Miss Wisconsin, The Meter Readers, The Meatflaps, Ausfahrt, Timmy’s Helmet, Choose Your Destiny, The Homeosexuals, Capital Schwa, and most recently, the Natural Socialists?

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**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\
**Post date:** [September 30, 2010, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mainstream-music-makes-the-baby-jesus-cry/555393/78 "2010-09-30T00:22:32Z")

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> [@elmwood](#):
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> > [@Cisco](#):
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> > Were they at that show with The Autotones, Ferrous Wheel, My Left Aquasock, Redd Foxx, Bigger than a Breadbasket, The Stinking Leeches, Hoof Arted, April’s New Dress, Skateboard Confessional, Todd’s Reverie, Squirt, The Wax Lips, Hardly Unamused, Charlie Brown’s Dog, Wheelie, Cousin Dickhead, Cuckoo Clock, Upstream, Tits on a Boar Hog, The Sugar Baker Boys, Autumn Romance, Five Lucky Gnomes, The Autogyros, Safe Under the Covers, Rainbow Yawn, The Giggity Giggities, Dropbear, Two Times a Lady, Sister Fister, Wayne’s Prosthetic Eyebrows, Tennis Skirt, The Lovely Parasols, Imitation Soy, Rainy Monday, Brunch with Granma Rae, The Deaf Moles, Soviet Bluejeans, and What Happened to Bud?
> 
> Dude, you call yourself a music fan? Everybody knows it was _Mister_ Fister at that show. Sister Fister has gone _so_ mainstream, since one of their tracks is on a compilation CD of Columbus scene bands with the Flaming Cuyahogas, The Wafers, Kosher Pork Biscuits, The Pitcairn Island Transit Authority, Mope, The Seeing Eye Wolverines, Jesus Christ Pornostar, Honey Do, Cornhat, The Fucks, Dutch Range, The Toledophiles, Extra Cheese, Chris Hansen’s Seat, Marry Merry Mary, The Sanjays, Cartman, Herd of Ghosts, Old Number Five, Slowkitty, The Dayton Secret Police, Knob, Spanish Flu, Jiminy Carter, Banned In Xenia, Queen Liver, Pain Bread, The Jukes, Lucy Lucid And The Dreamers, Balls of Mud, Rhymes With Orange, The Fluoroscopes, Maiden China, The Carburetors, Recliner Shiner, Bodyblow, St. Vincent And The Grenadines, The Barn Doors, The Black Pugs, Billions and Billions, Deputy Enos, Northern Dark, Red Shamrock, The Grocer’s Apostrophe’s, The Neros, Speedbrisket, The Scabs, The Joy Farmers, and The Grizzly Madams.

I’m going _way_ back to remember that comp (what was it, 3 years ago?), but wasn’t it on that big corporate label that also signed The Virginia Plan, Radical Sabbatical, Noah’s Dinosaur, Turkish Delight, Life of a Salesman, The Clogging Arteries, Plunger Breath, Big Wave Dave and the Nurse Sharks, How it Happened to Sarah, Winnie the Poop, Percy and the Fag Hags, Snarf’s Paws, The Dancing Plums, Mother Theresa’s Porn Stash, Bucket List, The Nights of Columbus, Zitpop, Have-a-Tampa, Staff, Terry and the Taint-Teasers, Nostrildamus, Skinny Albert, Thanks for the Beer, Godzilla Egg, Shanksville Plot, Band Camp, Doug’s Last Hope, Booger Sugar, Kissing Frogs, Nails, The Goobersmoochers, High on Pheremones, Burnt Cup, Saliva Breath, The Snoogans, Larry Lapper and the Lesbians, Bread and Butter, Yield, Bubble Gum Machine Gun, Vladamir and Estragon, Sally Matters, The Beautiful Uglies, Milkrocket, Those Damn Aarons, Hotbox, The Gimp, Stupid Mimes, and Joe Son Dough?

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**Author:** ![BayouHazard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/d78d45/32.png) [@BayouHazard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BayouHazard)\
**Post date:** [September 30, 2010, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mainstream-music-makes-the-baby-jesus-cry/555393/79 "2010-09-30T00:41:53Z")

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I’m looking through these lists, looking for band names _that were actually used by bands around here_.:p:p:p

After all, I was a fan of Sad Pygmy, before they broke up and half of them became Rusted Shut Amerika. Also had a friend who used to play in a band called Primer Gray Erection, which is just an absolutely _great_ name for a band.

My fave local band name, though, has to be “The Killbillies” (a psychobilly band). Lead singer’s stage name:“Willie Killigan.” Extra bonus: from the town of Cut-And-Shoot, Texas. Yes, they really are.

Please note: none of the above is a fabrication. Swear to Gawd.

I’m pretty sure the Texas Ditchdiggers are in fact a country swing band, but that’s not really my genre.

If I ever sing in a band again (highly unlikely), I hope we call it “Frieda’s eyebrow.”

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**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\
**Post date:** [September 30, 2010, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mainstream-music-makes-the-baby-jesus-cry/555393/80 "2010-09-30T00:52:23Z")

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> [@elmwood](#):
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> > [@Ludovic](#):
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> > PC Load Letter
> 
> Didn’t they also go by The Furious Shih Tzus, Infinity Minus One, The Orbs, Dreadnought, Miss Wisconsin, The Meter Readers, The Meatflaps, Ausfahrt, Timmy’s Helmet, Choose Your Destiny, The Homeosexuals, Capital Schwa, and most recently, the Natural Socialists?

I think so, but I know I’ve seen their members in The Magyar Torpedoes, Five on the Floor, I Killed Scout, No Rest for the Drying, John McCain and the Kenyans, and Magic Sword of Love.

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