Influx of bad artist names

PVT

  On 6/27/2011 at 2:18 PM, Homestar Runner said:

  On 6/27/2011 at 1:32 PM, uptown devil said:

buck cherry

 

that's actually a band lol.

WOW! I never made that connection!

Bord on Grown

  On 6/27/2011 at 4:48 PM, jules said:

PVT

that doesn't count, they had to change their name otherwise they'd get sued.

besides, everyone in australia still calls them pivot, and they even call themselves pivot.

*pivot fanboy*

  On 6/27/2011 at 11:10 PM, modey said:

  On 6/27/2011 at 4:48 PM, jules said:

PVT

that doesn't count, they had to change their name otherwise they'd get sued.

besides, everyone in australia still calls them pivot, and they even call themselves pivot.

 

*pivot fanboy*

i know, it just jumped out. i likey pivot quite a bit too.

i played a show with AG AG Lady the other day.....

  On 6/27/2011 at 4:24 PM, patternoverlap said:

Can we add bands that take all of the vowels out of their names to the list as well?

Sbtrkt

HTRK

BTTLS

mstrkrft

  On 6/27/2011 at 4:48 PM, jules said:

PVT

Lynyrd Skynyrd

OOIOO (Can't think of another all vowel band name)

ABBA (worst of both trends)

Oh I see, the vowel bands stole theirs from the consonant bands.

  On 6/25/2011 at 6:59 PM, asymmetrical head said:

  On 6/22/2011 at 5:45 PM, Lube Saibot said:

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man there's a lot of bitterness going on in this thread. especially since most of the featured artists are guilty of the same shit. BoC? National Film Board of Canada. Because... you know... they are radiophonic-esque. Ehehe. And Ae are the worst offenders (if we consider this an offense)... they mashed a fucking keyboard and then touched up what came out a little so it sounded techy.

 

I'm not saying that the above are damnable acts in any way. Just trying to inject a little bit of perspective into what's become a snowball of passionate bitterness.

 

Com Truise... i liked the name instantly. I think it serves to evoke the feel of his music quite effectively. The Tom Cruise reference, the "Com" thing (as in communications) are quit apt at relaying the retro aesthetic. The music is ultimately what put me off him, not the name, and not because of it being bad, oh no, but because it is ultimately too BoC. His LP though is doing well to redeem that and I'm getting back into him.

 

My point is: there are artists who are as "good with words" as they are at making tunes. They will probably ponder their moniker intensely and come up with something that is equally phonetically effective, memorable, and close to their heart, or at least a summation of their aesthetic or inner mythology. Other artists will be very "traditional" about it and just use their given names (given that they are lucky enough to have a decent/easy to pronounce one). And other artists, who are bad at that, will just do a pisstake, and get it out of the way... i hate names like Samiyam, Yppah, Teebs, The Bloody Beetroots, i hate names that are unpronounceable, i hate names that just sound "off", i hate names from Raster Noton that are just sciency bullshit, i hate shit with triangles in it etc... but it's not going to deter me from paying attention to their music and being generally respectful of how they choose to present themselves. And if initials-subtitution, or an anagram, or any sort of gimmick is what is needed to arrive at a DECENT artist name, that's only a plus in my book. Hell, even some jokey one-offs from this thread could be good artist names IMO. Even "Venetian Snares", which i thing is a fantastic moniker and quite fitting for the music, is just something Aaron found in some random book and thought sounded cool. Not every micro-literary success in this world is achieved via sweat and blood.

 

And that should be taken to heart especially on this board where I've yet to encounter a moniker that's really stricken me. Except maybe for Akkad the Orphic Priest and that's just cause it gets a lot of insanity points. Fluorescent Grey is clever, and untouchable critically, but I still don't like it cause of random subjective quirks of mine (not memorable enough i guess... seems to evoke something too banal to do the music justice... i feel the same way about Plaid for instance). "Mitch Murder" i hated until data jokingly made if French, "Michel Meurtre", now i kinda get it and i see how it fits his music but i much prefer the French variant. And all of these are people whose music I like (love in Mitch's case) and I try not to get dissuaded by my own subjective feelings about the name. Which isn't the most important thing ultimately - the music is.

 

Many times I'm taken aback by how good a board handle is and how shit the artist name is and I'm puzzled as to why they didn't just use the board handle. I don't refuse to name other names, and the biggest offenders, but i think it would be detrimental to good vibes, and you know who you are. Try to measure yourself on the "Tht Tne!" scale, where "Tht Tne!" is the shittiest moniker ever conceived and the name least akin to "Tht Tne!" is the best name ever thought up.

 

Trolling aside, my point is the "pot is calling the kettle black" etc...

 

"Wevie Stonder" is fucking retarded though and i refuse to listen to his music on account of his name. For some reason, THAT ONE is just too much for me. A phonetic abortion. So i guess I'm no better.

 

 

You've made good points on this post. it is a bit broader though than switching letters around or adding an extra duran or just straight up lifting a well known artist/figure name (IE: Hype Williams, DJ Rollie Fingers, etc.). I fell victim to this once a few years ago when I was going to use Cecile Cooper as a side alias but decided against it and went with quiliuq instead.

 

On the other hand, I don't see a problem with names pulled from a story, book, news, movies, location (where I get most of my track names).

 

I just remembered when I was in high school there was a talent show and there was a band that got turned away because they were called "McDonalds Massacre" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Ysidro_McDonald's_massacre)

 

Perhaps we're all taking this moniker biz a bit too seriously.

Love me an epic Luke Saibot post.

Please tell me McDonalds Massacre were something other than a grindcore band, b/c that's quite brutal. Reminds me of when I heard someone say that after the Branch Davidian massacre people would joke that Waco stood for "What A Cook Out." I guess "Dead Kennedys" would be up there if it wasn't meant to be satirical.

tiger & woods

it doesn't stop.

James Noyce, Brolysses

  On 6/27/2011 at 3:24 PM, SPD² said:

 

 

Con Seannery

i like that one!

  On 6/28/2011 at 4:08 PM, joshuatxuk said:

ABBA (worst of both trends)

dude not cool...

Ruth Vader Ginsburg

  On 6/28/2011 at 7:12 PM, Ricky Downtown said:

  On 6/27/2011 at 3:24 PM, SPD² said:

 

 

Con Seannery

 

i like that one!

Use it. It's not taken.

Bed Tundy

Don JeLorean

I think the goal of this thread has become to make up the bad names before the artist do.

Wony Tilson

Chill Pollins

edit: FUCK

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQEyDV6iO-E

please tell me that's a watmmer, lol

Hark Mamill

  On 6/29/2011 at 2:22 AM, baph said:

Chill Pollins

 

edit: FUCK

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQEyDV6iO-E

 

please tell me that's a watmmer, lol

the only time i have ever tolerated copious use of autotune :sup:

  On 6/29/2011 at 1:43 AM, SPD² said:

  On 6/28/2011 at 7:12 PM, Ricky Downtown said:

  On 6/27/2011 at 3:24 PM, SPD² said:

 

 

Con Seannery

 

i like that one!

 

Use it. It's not taken.

I already have a band name it's Gond Birl

what about just terrible band names in general?

eg. job for a cowboy

  On 6/30/2011 at 4:54 AM, modey said:

what about just terrible band names in general?

 

eg. job for a cowboy

job for a cowboy is a fantastic name

Burt Bacharach