Calling bands by part of their name

[hitmouse]

Don’t you pronounce the exclamation mark?

This is now making me wonder if there's anyone who shortens !!! to just !

 

[DotCommunist]

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?

lol electric light orchestra. as for MOP (ante up bangs still) I never knew the official one I just heard they said it was 'my oversized penis' in an interview taking the piss

 

[Puddy_Tat]

Didn't the pogues become the pogues when the BBC found out that 'pogue mahone' wasn't very polite?

 

[Winot]

In my youth I used to borrow LPs from the local library. One has been catalogued as 'Artist: Rapid Eye Movement'.

 

[petee]

Sometimes I just call them “The”

yeh, that's what i call The The.

in h.s. a friend was way into Humble Pie and called them The Pie, which sounded really wrong.

 

[Buddy Bradley]

I usually shorten Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs to just Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs. It's just easier to say.

 

[ElizabethofYork]

'The Pie'

 

[belboid]

The Bunnymen will always be The Bunnymen, not least because they got rid of Echo before playing a gig.

Shambeko! Say Wah! went through various variations before settling upon just Wah!

 

[klang]

like acronym ones as well ELO. MOP.

CSN

 

[klang]

Festie was full of dead heads.

 

[hash tag]

Who

As opposed to the Hu ( who have a new album out any day ).
I got taken to see the Foo's on Thursday night. The were supported by "Shame".
Status Quo will forever be the Quo.

 

[rubbershoes]

Have we had the Quo?

 

[hash tag]

Have we had the Quo?

That sounds like someone who saw the Quo in their prime; superb atmosphere
The Sensational Alex Harvey Band were oft referred to as Sabs or shortened to Alex Harvey.

 

[Bus Honeygun]

Don’t you pronounce the exclamation mark?

No, I deliberately left that out just in case anyone thought I did.

Or thought! I did.

 

[Mattym]

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?

Didn't MDC mean a number of things (maybe depending on the album they made?- I was never really in to them.)You've just reminded me that I need to listen to the DRI album, though.

 

[klang]

Works also the other way around, eg bands using acronyms and expect their fans to fill the gaps.
INXS for a start.

 

[Mattym]

That sounds like someone who saw the Quo in their prime; superb atmosphere

Think this guy qualifies.......
Experience: I’ve seen Status Quo 487 times

 

[hash tag]

Emmerson Lake and Palmer commonly became known as ELP; was that official?
Same with OMD?

 

[A380]

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

Not forgetting

The Wh
ABB

And

Blu

 

[A380]

Ruddy

 

[hash tag]

Did public image limited become PiL or was that a shortening?

 

[Silas Loom]

Did public image limited become PiL or was that a shortening?

It was an abbreviation and logo used from the beginning alongside the full name.

 

[hitmouse]

As opposed to the Hu ( who have a new album out any day ).
I got taken to see the Foo's on Thursday night. The were supported by "Shame".
Status Quo will forever be the Quo.

Think they were supported by the Leg when they played near me.

 

[hash tag]

Also wet leg last night?

 

[CNT36]

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

Because you don't want to listen to 90's metal?

 

[Bus Honeygun]

Because you don't want to listen to 90's metal?

Or Godspell the musical.

 

[ddraig]

Furries

 

[rubbershoes]

I generally use the full name for the Bulgarian State Radio and Television Female Vocal Choir

 

[stavros]

Trail of Dead

 

[keybored]

I usually shorten Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs to just Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs. It's just easier to say.

"Wankers" isn't easier to say than "Idles", just better.