Calling bands by part of their name

[Steel Icarus]

And Mozart

 

[SpookyFrank]

Always done it. It's natural to shorten things.

The Weddoes
Kitchens
Dexys

British Sea Power did it themselves, as did Tyrannosaurus Rex, The Silver Beatles, Southern Death Cult, and Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young

Dexys shortened their own name as well. They've now officially dropped the 'Midnight Runners' bit.

 

[Yossarian]

I think we should all take a leaf out of Yeezy and Weezy's books, so the Happy Mondays could become known as Heezy, Stone Roses as Steezy, etc.

Not sure if Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds should become Neezy, Nick Cave and the Beezy, or Nick Cave and the Bad Seezy

 

[Elpenor]

Always done it. It's natural to shorten things.

The Weddoes
Kitchens
Dexys

British Sea Power did it themselves, as did Tyrannosaurus Rex, The Silver Beatles, Southern Death Cult, and Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young

And the (Dixie) Chicks too

 

[RevolutionSound]

Mondays, Roses, Floyd, Lace,.etc.

So annoying. Even worse, when preceeded by The.

The has a new album out later this year

 

[Yossarian]

The has a new album out later this year

I just hope Matt Johnson, aka Meezy, has moved on from vaccine conspiracy theories, hard to tell from the first single off that album

 

[Lord Camomile]

Oh, okay, they're BNL now? We need a shorthand for the Barenaked Ladies. That's how fundamental they are.

 

[Johnny Vodka]

The Fat Whites

 

[AverageJoe]

MAAAAAIIIIIIIDDDEEEEEEEENNNNNNN!!!!

puts foot on bass monitor and pretends to machine gun the audience

 

[Yossarian]

The Fat Whites

Not the Fatties or the Whities?

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

Dexys shortened their own name as well. They've now officially dropped the 'Midnight Runners' bit.

I think that was more a legal thing.

 

[Santino]

Not sure if Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds should become Neezy, Nick Cave and the Beezy, or Nick Cave and the Bad Seezy

Neezy Ceezy and the Beezy Seezy

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

I just hope Matt Johnson, aka Meezy, has moved on from vaccine conspiracy theories, hard to tell from the first single off that album

Oh christ, was he at that? I was a huge fan in the 80s. It's pretty much all been horse shit since Infected. I think I kind of liked one song on Dusk and that was it. Annoying because I pretty much loved everything he did from the first single up to (but not including) the Beaten Generation (ugh), even the shit stuff.

 

[Johnny Vodka]

Not the Fatties or the Whities?

I dunno, is that what people call them?

 

[Winot]

The Pixies

 

[Yossarian]

I dunno, is that what people call them?

Probably not, think I have only heard Fat Whites but seems to be room for more abbreviation

 

[Saul Goodman]

Sometimes I just call them “The”

'The The' used to be called 'The', until someone introduced them one night as The The, and it stuck.*

May not actually be true.

 

[Bus Honeygun]

Don't get me fucking started on people who just say "Silver Mt. Zion" instead of Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra and Tra-La-La Band with Choir! Where do people stand on initialisms, is it permissible to just say DRI and MDC instead of Dirty Rotten Imbeciles and Millions of Dead Cops?

I do genuinely make a point of always saying Godspeed You Black Emperor in full rather than Godspeed, though. Not sure why.

 

[RevolutionSound]

I just hope Matt Johnson, aka Meezy, has moved on from vaccine conspiracy theories, hard to tell from the first single off that album

I'd not actually heard that before. Quite like it, but yeah, if he's an anti vaxxer, that's quite disappointing!

 

[Sweet FA]

The world of metal loves an abbreviation

Sabs
Maiden
Priest
Led Zep

er..Acker Dacker.

 

[gentlegreen]

What is the oldest known music band? - Quora. The Kohathites were a section of the ancient Israelite tribe of Levi who were assigned to sing and play music in the worship of the Israelite God, Yahweh (I Chronicles 6:33). They were at least in operation by the time of King David in the tenth century BC.

 

[plurker]

I have real trouble with The The.

The The The? Or just The The?

 

[Chilli.s]

I have real trouble with The The.

Or as I call them the The The

 

[mojo pixy]

If I were from Yorkshire I'd call them t't'

 

[Monte]

Brighouse is the one that annoys me.

 

[DotCommunist]

quo

creedence

the stones are always the stones, nobody actually says the rolling stones do they?

I like acronym ones as well ELO. MOP.

 

[WouldBe]

Que?

 

[hitmouse]

The world of metal loves an abbreviation

Sabs
Maiden
Priest
Led Zep

er..Acker Dacker.

I think I'd tend to say "Napalm" rather than Napalm Death as well. Although I saw them touring with Pig Destroyer this year, never heard anyone shorten that one to either Pig or Destroyer.

 

[Silas Loom]

I do genuinely make a point of always saying Godspeed You Black Emperor in full rather than Godspeed, though. Not sure why.

Don’t you pronounce the exclamation mark?

 

[hitmouse]

quo

creedence

the stones are always the stones, nobody actually says the rolling stones do they?

I like acronym ones as well ELO. MOP.

I fully couldn't remember what MOP's full name is as well, I don't think anyone ever calls them Mash Out Posse on the relatively rare occasions when they come up in conversation. I keep wanting to read it as Means Of Production. And ELO is Emerson Lake Orchestra, right?