Pronounced chk-chk-chk, which is cool.
Yeah, all their fans are cicadas.
Lovin’ Spoonful, 10cc
Strawberry Alarm Clock
Makes complete sense because “magic” shows you see it too. Would you use “magic” so casually in the same sentence with any other band name? And magic just means it’s a thing able to be contemplated, an objet d’art. Rotating the object, so to speak, while gazing at it, is our attempt to get around it, to understand it. The fact we never succeed is the magic, the art, in the creation.
We all perceive differently. It has always surprised me Beatles does not call to my mind beetles. The ‘e’ to ‘a’ cleanses it. I assumed it’s that way for everyone. (We all know what happens when we ass-ume.) I liked Thudlow’s suggestion, though: try always hearing it as if spoken in Liverpudlian accent.
Ladies and gentlemen, I give you . . .
I’ll waive my rights, thank you. :dubious:
I do, however, call dibs on Eleanor Powell’s labia minora.
As a musician of many years experience, I’ve run across many a stupid/ offensive band name. Some of the worst, off the top of my head:
Screaming Monkey Boner (now Screaming Mechanical Brain)
Mary’s Cunt
Anal Cunt (already mentioned)
The Motherfuckers (hilariously offensive stickers though!)
Follen Garde
Truck
Damidol (pronounced “damn it all”, but they were so bad we called them Da Midol, as in give me some for this headache.)
Urge Overkill
1910 Fruitgum Company
The Bob Band
Then again, maybe I shouldn’t cast aspersions, as I’ve been told more than once my current (main) band’s name is pretty dumb. On the plus side, I didn’t come up with it.
Allow me be the first to mention two local, pretentious, and very very bad bands: Dappled Cities Fly, with an honourable mention for Architecture In Helsinki.
At first I thought the band was actually named … , e.g. an ellipsis.
The link cleared up that misconception.
Foo Fighters is a dumb name. Then again, Foo fighters is a dumb band.
OK, flame away …
From the boring names file, there’s Anderson, Bruford, Wakeman and Howe. That’s a name for a law firm, not a rock band.
Steely Dan was named after a steam-powered steel dildo in Naked Lunch. (Why does the spellchecker underline “dildo?” It’s a fucking legitimate word, right?)
I hate most jam band names. (Along with most jam bands.) String Cheese Incident - STUPID! moe. - stupid pretentious lowercase name with a stupid pretentious period at the end. Leftover Salmon - ugh, disgusting. Umphrey’s McGee - stupid (although I can actually enjoy some of their music.)
Such unbridled silliness…I don’t like it. I like my band names to be either mysterious sounding or clever.
Hey, to each their own. No flaming necessary. However, it’s not as dumb as it sounds. The name is a relic of World War II:
Do you feel the same way about Medeski, Martin and Wood? I don’t, because those three names flow together way better than your example, and there are only three guys and not four. Also, the guy named Wood plays the upright bass, which I find very fitting.
You probably wouldn’t like Hamilton, Joe Frank & Reynolds either. And yes, that’s Joe Frank, not Joe, Frank - the guy’s name was Joe Frank Carollo.
Yeah, it’s boring, but you know, it was 4/5 of Yes. They couldn’t call themselves that, as there was already a band working under that name and recording contract. But the names were recognizable as the guys who used to be in Yes, and it was a darn sight easier than trying to come up with an alternate identity, no?
Not a band name, but a rapper: Chamillionaire. I HATE that name with a passion. What the hell is it supposed to be? Why does it make me so angry?
They should have just made it an acronym of their surnames: BWAH!
The thing you don’t understand is that their first album was awesome. You can’t hear “X-static,” “Exhausted,” or “For All The Cows,” and not love it.
Assuck. The u has an umlaut but I don’t know how to do that.