Thursday, February 11, 2010
Music Bad Trends In Music, Part Two: Unimaginative Band Names
Posted by Andria Lisle on Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 11:30 AM
UNIMAGINATIVE BAND NAMES
Exhibit B: The rising British country band The Gilded Palace of Sin. Way too obvious. They're fans of Gram Parsons. But "it’s kind of like taking Exile On Main Street as a moniker," as Popmatters noted last month.
Exhibit C: "Cheeky" dance producer Joy Orbison. Sure, it has more of a ring to it than his given name, Peter O'Grady, but, as noted on Buddyhead, appropriating the moniker of the "Crying" crooner makes for an "astonishingly terrible" name for a DJ.
Make it stop!
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Hey, not all band names can be as clever as "MGMT," right?
Fact is, the words "clever" and "band names" rarely come together. If nothing else will convince you, "Mott the Hoople," "Hootie and the Blowfish," and "Toad the Wet Sprocket" (the list is endless) should.
My favorites: Procol Harum, Lovin' Spoonful, The Fugs, The Hot Nuts (this list is not quite as endless as the other one).
What are some of y'all's favorites?
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Gilded Palace of Sin = great name for a tribute band. Not so much otherwise. Then again, not everybody can be a Papa Top's West Coast Turnaround.
Zippy... Good call. And for some interthread trivia: the G.I. share a contributor with PT's WCT.
I find it hard to top the "Butthole Surfers".
Come on! That was funny in more ways than I can count.
MM, my dad wasn't too happy when I sauntered down for breakfast in the summer of '84 wearing a LIVE PCPPEP pep t-shirt, after seeing the Butthole Surfers @ the Metroplex the night before. nowadays, according to People of Walmart, we have folks walking around in t-shirts that say stuff like "dick eater" or "I wouldn't fuck you if it was for practice."
some sorta-stupid names can transcend the inanity, thanks to great music.
and I love the whole tribute-band-name genre. minikiss, anyone?
but while I liked the guys in the Little Rock band Ho-hum -- and also liked their music, I never understood why anyone would go to the effort of forming a band, writing songs, recording, touring etc. with such a deliberately mediocre name. there, the irony was lost.
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