Bands with appropriate (or inappropriate) names - Music Banter Music Banter

Go Back   Music Banter > The Music Forums > General Music
Register Blogging Search Today's Posts Mark Forums Read
Welcome to Music Banter Forum! Make sure to register - it's free and very quick! You have to register before you can post and participate in our discussions with over 70,000 other registered members. After you create your free account, you will be able to customize many options, you will have the full access to over 1,100,000 posts.

Reply
 
Thread Tools Display Modes
Old 07-19-2015, 08:09 PM   #1 (permalink)
Born to be mild
 
Trollheart's Avatar
 
Join Date: Oct 2008
Location: 404 Not Found
Posts: 26,970
Default Bands with appropriate (or inappropriate) names

A lot of bands don't, but there are some who when you hear their name you can kind of picture either what they're going to look like or sound like, or what they stand for, and if you didn't know the genre they operate in you could probably guess from their name.

Who do you think fits this bill?

For me, you know what to expect, even if you've never heard the bands, when you hear these names:
Slayer
Motorhead
Black Sabbath
Manowar
Cannibal Corpse
Iron Maiden (yeah they're all working out as metal bands so far aren't they?)
Twisted Sister

What about the reverse?

You hear Styx for the first time, probably thinking of doom or death metal (if you know your Greek mythology) but no, a pomp/AOR band

Can't think of any others at this hour at the moment...
__________________
Trollheart: Signature-free since April 2018
Trollheart is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 07-19-2015, 08:20 PM   #2 (permalink)
Mate, Spawn & Die
 
Janszoon's Avatar
 
Join Date: May 2007
Location: The Rapping Community
Posts: 24,593
Default

Appropriate
Deströyer 666—These guys sound almost exactly how you think they'd sound: rowdy metal.
Charlie Hunter Trio—Is a jazz trio. Surprise, surprise.

Inappropriate
Massive Attack—They sound like they'd be very in-your-face and aggressive rather than the chilled out, atmospheric band that they are.
Bohren & der Club of Gore—I would expect something avant-garde, violent and provocative, rather than the ultra-minimalistic jazz they play.
Janszoon is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 07-19-2015, 08:24 PM   #3 (permalink)
Exo
All day jazz and biscuits
 
Exo's Avatar
 
Join Date: Feb 2010
Location: NJ
Posts: 7,359
Default

Inappropriate

Tony Danza Tap Dancing Extravaganza - It's not a sexy Italian guy tap dancing I'll tell you that much.
__________________
LastFM

SUPREME POO BAH MODERATOR EXTRAORDINAIRE
Exo is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 07-19-2015, 09:04 PM   #4 (permalink)
Mate, Spawn & Die
 
Janszoon's Avatar
 
Join Date: May 2007
Location: The Rapping Community
Posts: 24,593
Default

Quote:
Originally Posted by Exo View Post
Inappropriate

Tony Danza Tap Dancing Extravaganza - It's not a sexy Italian guy tap dancing I'll tell you that much.
And yet it still somehow suits their sound.
Janszoon is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 07-19-2015, 09:22 PM   #5 (permalink)
SOPHIE FOREVER
 
Frownland's Avatar
 
Join Date: Aug 2011
Location: East of the Southern North American West
Posts: 35,548
Default

Inappropriate: The Pop Group. But that's kind of the point.
__________________
Studies show that when a given norm is changed in the face of the unchanging, the remaining contradictions will parallel the truth.

Frownland is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 07-19-2015, 09:26 PM   #6 (permalink)
Mate, Spawn & Die
 
Janszoon's Avatar
 
Join Date: May 2007
Location: The Rapping Community
Posts: 24,593
Default

Quote:
Originally Posted by Frownland View Post
Inappropriate: The Pop Group. But that's kind of the point.
Also Swans. But that too is the point.
Janszoon is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 07-19-2015, 09:48 PM   #7 (permalink)
Fck Ths Thngs
 
DwnWthVwls's Avatar
 
Join Date: May 2014
Location: NJ
Posts: 6,261
Default

I think all of these bands are deceiving.

Onyx
Shit Robot
Star Fucker
__________________
I don't got a god complex, you got a simple god...

Quote:
Originally Posted by elphenor View Post
I'd vote for Trump

Last edited by DwnWthVwls; 07-19-2015 at 10:03 PM.
DwnWthVwls is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 07-19-2015, 10:05 PM   #8 (permalink)
Caesar is home.
 
Thelonious Monkey's Avatar
 
Join Date: Sep 2014
Posts: 876
Default

Quote:
Originally Posted by Frownland View Post
Inappropriate: The Pop Group. But that's kind of the point.
yEAH, my mate thought they were actual pop, jokes on him
Thelonious Monkey is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 07-19-2015, 10:41 PM   #9 (permalink)
carpe musicam
 
Neapolitan's Avatar
 
Join Date: Apr 2009
Location: Les Barricades Mystérieuses
Posts: 7,710
Default

Acid House Kings
Eagles of Death Metal
I'm from Barcelona (they're not from Barcelona, they are from Jönköping, Sweden.)
Brazilian Girls (they are not from Brazil, they are from NYC)
Cheap Girls (they're an all male band)
__________________
Quote:
Originally Posted by mord View Post
Actually, I like you a lot, Nea. That's why I treat you like ****. It's the MB way.

"it counts in our hearts" ?ºº?
“I have nothing to offer anybody, except my own confusion.” Jack Kerouac.
“If one listens to the wrong kind of music, he will become the wrong kind of person.” Aristotle.
"If you tried to give Rock and Roll another name, you might call it 'Chuck Berry'." John Lennon
"I look for ambiguity when I'm writing because life is ambiguous." Keith Richards
Neapolitan is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 07-19-2015, 11:57 PM   #10 (permalink)
Mate, Spawn & Die
 
Janszoon's Avatar
 
Join Date: May 2007
Location: The Rapping Community
Posts: 24,593
Default

Quote:
Originally Posted by DwnWthVwls View Post
I think all of these bands are deceiving.

Onyx
Shit Robot
Star Fucker
How is Onyx deceptive?
Janszoon is offline   Reply With Quote
Reply

Thread Tools
Display Modes

Similar Threads



© 2003-2024 Advameg, Inc.