Bands you refuse to listen to because their name is awful

[killer b]

The Pork Dukes

crikey.

 

[skyscraper101]

‘The Music’

Fuck right off.

 

[krtek a houby]

There's room in my collection for both HMHB and U2. Irk the purists, indeed

 

[hitmouse]

Remember back in like the early-mid 2010s when Perfect Pussy were like a hype band for a bit? I usually quite like abrasive hardcore but I never really got what the fuss was about with them, and they had really shit sound the one time I saw them. Also they were called Perfect Pussy.

 

[hitmouse]

There's room in my collection for both HMHB and U2. Irk the purists, indeed

Ah, Irk The Purists, that first EP was a classic.

 

[beesonthewhatnow]

Clap Your Hands Say Yeah

 

[Orang Utan]

Kunt & The Gang

 

[fucthest8]

Everybody suddenly going 'yeh I've always loved Sabbath 4 and Hawkwind' helped.

Thing is, I've always loved Sabbath 4 and Hawkwind, but Pigs x 7 or whatever can fuck right off because Black Sabbath and Hawkwind already did it and much, much better.

I fucking hate them.

 

[hitmouse]

Oh, Joanna Gruesome, that's another one for the "bands I don't actually refuse to listen to because they are/were good but I really wish they were called something else" list. I reckon if it wasn't a Newsome pun it'd be fine, but the pun element tips it over the edge.

 

[fucthest8]

I'm not much of a fan of pigs x 7, but this is wildly wide of the mark - they languished in obscurity for a decade as various band members' joke side project before radio 6 mysteriously picked them up.

I wish they'd fucking stayed languishing

 

[AverageJoe]

Not just listening to, but I can't even pronounce this band that popped up on my Spotify last night..

(Fifth band down)

 

[fucthest8]

Sorry, just ranting now, apologies

Not sure I've ever avoided a band just because of their name.

Fucking wish I had with pigs pigs pigs pigs pigs pigs pigs pigs pigs pigs pigs pigs pigs pigs pigs pigs pigs pigs pigs pigs pigs pigs pigs pigs pigs pigs pigs pigs pigs pigs pigs pigs pigs pigs pigs pigs pigs pigs pigs pigs pigs pigs pigs pigs pigs pigs pigs pigs pigs pigs pigs pigs pigs pigs pigs pigs pigs pigs pigs pigs pigs pigs pigs pigs pigs pigs

 

[killer b]

Not just listening to, but I can't even pronounce this band that popped up on my Spotify last night..

(Fifth band down)

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it's morse code isn't it?

 

[cloudyday]

Dogshit Sandwich

saw this lot listed on some stage somewhere. knew they would be shit so I gave them a wide berth.

 

[Orang Utan]

 

[krtek a houby]

There's surely posters that folks won't read because of their usernames, too.

Back to the bands, Sunn 0))) was very off-putting, initially...

 

[maomao]

Not just listening to, but I can't even pronounce this band that popped up on my Spotify last night..

(Fifth band down)

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Erased (but in morse code).

 

[cloudyday]

Red Lorry Yellow Lorry

there was a goth I used to see at the weekly indie disco who had this painted on his coat. I always thought he was a bit of a spanner and it was a shit name for a band so have still never heard them.

 

[BCBlues]

The Pork Dukes

there was a bloke that used to deliver the Saturday evening sports paper back in the early 80s that had this painted badly on the back of his denim jacket. As a kid I used to make a note of band names painted on jackets to check out, but this blokes double denim outfit and greasy hair put me right off.

I've got this on 12" pink vinyl, its fucking crap. God knows how it got in my record collection but it's there with other embarrassing stuff like Paul Young.
I've not got a denim though so no, thats not me.

Anyway, I'd never buy anything by Michael Bubble cos his name is silly.

 

[hitmouse]

Not just listening to, but I can't even pronounce this band that popped up on my Spotify last night..

(Fifth band down)

God, that takes me back to the days of witch house. Can't say I ever really got into /// ▲▲▲ \\ or †‡† either. Maybe the music was great though.

 

[killer b]

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I'm intrigued by this one, and would like to listen to them. But how??

 

[killer b]

Oh, it's Freur. Actually I don't want to listen to them - I have a pre-Darren Emerson underworld album and it's truly terrible.

 

[mauvais]

Any band who's "clever name" is ungoogleable.

'A' is a good example. I did like em though. Perhaps a guilty pleasure.

 

[hitmouse]

Oh, Alvvays, I never listened to them until very recently but turns out I really like them, but again, crap name. I suspect I might well really like Wavves if I listened to them, but they're guilty of the double offence of being landlords and having their name spelt wrong, which puts them over the line for me. Any fucking band who spell the word "The" as "Thee", hate that.

 

[tufty79]

Oh, Alvvays, I never listened to them until very recently but turns out I really like them, but again, crap name. I suspect I might well really like Wavves if I listened to them, but they're guilty of the double offence of being landlords and having their name spelt wrong, which puts them over the line for me. Any fucking band who spell the word "The" as "Thee", hate that.

Have to grit my remaining Teeths to find peace with this lot. Wouldn't have bothered if it hadn't been for the berninger mindmeld el vy/oy vey 2015 brainchaos.

It's worth it though

 

[killer b]

Any fucking band who spell the word "The" as "Thee", hate that.

I generally like thee bands - Thee Oh Sees are good, all those Billy Childish bands are great, Thee Faction are pretty good iirc?

 

[skyscraper101]

There was a good thread on this 13 years ago </pogo>

Some choice reminders in there too including another pet hate band name 'Hoobastank' and 'Does It Offend You, Yeah?'

bands with really annoying names

i haven't actually heard either of these bands, purely because their names irritate me too much! daft i know (although i suspect not in the case of fucking 'hootie'!) but there you go. anyway, the two that spring immediately to mind are: Hootie and the blowfish Hadouken annoyingly, my pea...

www.urban75.net

 

[tufty79]

I was thinking about DIOYY the other day

 

[xenon]

Five finger death punch

Ha, I was literally going to post that. I’ve only heard a couple of songs fairly recently but quite like them now.

 

[tufty79]

I know nothing about them


Would a Decent Human Being like them, xenon ? I got given the name by a total fuckwallop