Bands with Confusing Names

GuD · 12-09-2014, 08:41 PM

The Pains of Being Pure at Heart always annoyed me with their stupid long ass name.

Dylstew · 12-10-2014, 04:30 AM

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Originally Posted by Frownland

Adolph Hitler's Nipples is already taken. ****. I was going to call my next side project that.

Why not go for ''Adolf Hitler's left nipple and the chest hairs''

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Originally Posted by Lisnaholic

As someone has already mentioned, band names that are sentences are very annoying for some reason, but I have no problem with names that don´t mean anything. After all, a name doesn´t really have an obligation to mean anything; what does Beyoncé mean, or Wayne, or Hertz? They´re just names.

^ Janszoon has beaten me to it with this observation. Some bands chose a name that is just swamped with links when you try to search for them. Two examples are the German bands Vox and Can, although to be fair they chose their names before web searching was commonplace.
Other bands, though, shoot themselves in the foot right from the start by choosing a name which is difficult to spell or pronounce. Step forward OFGKTA, the band that Machine mentioned, and Lynerd Skynerd.

Heh, I had the same problem looking up Can a while ago.

Also, the Flaming Tsunamis is pretty ridiculous.

CharlesDillon · 12-10-2014, 04:41 AM

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Originally Posted by Janszoon

I think they have a fairly literal name actually. Rather than being an actual band".

Yeah, exactly. Like Helmet, James, Kansas, Say Anything, Boys Like Girls, Muse.

The Batlord · 12-10-2014, 04:43 AM

Or you could always look up "can band".

Dylstew · 12-10-2014, 04:44 AM

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Originally Posted by The Batlord

Or you could always look up "can band".

I know, I realised that later.
I'm surprised ''The Band'' is actually one of the first things to come up when you type in the band.

Lisnaholic · 12-10-2014, 06:05 AM

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Originally Posted by Machine

OFWGKTA can be really confusing because they go by that, Wolf Gang, Odd Future, OF, Golf Wang, Odd Future Wolf Gang Kill Them All, and Odd Future Wolf Gang Kill Them All Don't Give A ****. So it gets really muddled sometimes.

^ Wow! If this thread is about commercially disastrous band names, I think you´ve picked the winner !

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I'm surprised ''The Band'' is actually one of the first things to come up when you type in the band.

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Yeah, who would´ve expected that ?

Is Hitler´s Nipples really a band ? Can´t think of any examples off-hand, but any band name that is likely to offend is a big mistake in my opinion. Dead Babies, Dead Kennedys; names like that are guaranteed to alienate some people, though, thinking about it, paradoxically they may attract quite an audience too.

The Batlord · 12-10-2014, 07:06 AM

Let's not forget Godspeed You! Black Emperor. There's no way whatever that might mean can be creative enough to make up for how absurd a name that is.

~~James~~ · 12-10-2014, 07:23 AM

Dead Kennedys is one of my favourite band names.

Isbjørn · 12-10-2014, 07:54 AM

Kairon; IRSE!
The World is a Beautiful Place and I Am No Longer Afraid to Die
Empire! Empire! (I Was a Lonely Estate)

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I Wrote Haikus About Cannibalism In Your Yearbook

Sounds like something Briks would do.

Ninetales · 12-10-2014, 12:33 PM

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Let's not forget Godspeed You! Black Emperor. There's no way whatever that might mean can be creative enough to make up for how absurd a name that is.

post-rock in general is filled with awful awful names

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