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!!!
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Pronounced chk-chk-chk, which is cool.
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Pronounced chk-chk-chk, which is cool.
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Yeah, all their fans are cicadas.
[QUOTE=AskNott]
Several bands are named as words for penis or semen.
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Lovin’ Spoonful, 10cc
Strawberry Alarm Clock
[QUOTE=WordMan]
I love everything about it - except the sound. When I say the word Beatles it sounds the same as beetles. Bugs. Reading it is a whole 'nother matter - that keeps the magic intact…if that makes any sense…
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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 . . .
[QUOTE=Ichbin Dubist]
The Inalienable Right to Eat Fred Astaire’s Asshole.
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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.
[QUOTE=lissener]
Ladies and gentlemen, I give you . . .
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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.
[QUOTE=AskNott]
Several bands are named as words for penis or semen. Seems like there’s some girl groups named for vaginas, but I can’t recall them right now.
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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.
[QUOTE=Subterraneanus]
Foo Fighters is a dumb name. Then again, Foo fighters is a dumb band.
OK, flame away …
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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:
[QUOTE=Wikipedia]
The term foo fighter was used by Allied aircraft pilots in World War II to describe various UFOs or mysterious aerial phenomena seen in the skies over Europe and the Pacific theatre. Contemporary witnesses often assumed that the foo fighters were secret weapons employed by the enemy, and it was not until after the war that it was discovered neither side had anything to do with them. Despite these fears, foo fighters (whatever they might have been) were apparently never reported to have harmed or tried to harm anyone. To this day the case remains unexplained.
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[QUOTE=42fish]
From the boring names file, there’s Anderson, Bruford, Wakeman and Howe. That’s a name for a law firm, not a rock band.
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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.
[QUOTE=42fish]
From the boring names file, there’s Anderson, Bruford, Wakeman and Howe. That’s a name for a law firm, not a rock band.
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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?
[QUOTE=fishbicycle]
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?
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They should have just made it an acronym of their surnames: BWAH!
[QUOTE=Subterraneanus]
Then again, Foo fighters is a dumb band.
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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.