Groups you would never even check out, due to their name.

Great band, pretty much every album is power pop/rock joy. Your loss.

 

LOL They're an amazing band. Your loss.

 

Step one, approach some muses:



Step two, attempt the equivalent of dwarf tossing with them:

 

Leonard Cohen

 

They are a spin-off group of Lynyrd Skynyrd.

 

Lynyrd Kyhn...I'll workshop it and get back to you.

 

It took me along time to listen to GROUPLOVE, I actually quite like them but the name put me off.

 

Any name that makes clear that the band is from a genre I do not care about. Rap, metal, reggae are things I can't get into.

 

British India
Boards Of Canada
The Presidents Of The United States Of America
Cold Chisel
Chet Faker
Powderfinger
Sick Puppies

 

I have checked them out and didn't mind what I heard, but King Gizzard And The Lizard Wizard is the worst name I've ever heard. This includes Seth Putnam's main project named on page one, '80s hair metal bands, lowercaselettersnospacesweresoironic, etc.

On the flip side, I bought an album by THE MOTARDS solely on the strength of the name alone. Can't remember if I listened to it or not. It was six bucks. Why not?

 

Greta Van Fleet
JRAD

 

Bread
America
Dawes
Snow Patrol

 

The 4 skins

 

I'm somewhat embarassed to admit that it was years before I noticed that this was a penile pun. Same deal with Poppa Chubby - I mean, the guy was fat.

 

You come across a band called Jesus On Extacy, you know not to bother. Knowing that they're a German industrial-metal band just confirms this.

I'm also predisposed to leave Cat Rapes Dog's album in the racks, after giving it a cursory "wtf?" look.

 

Great band, though, in my opinion. Very funky and kinda quirky.

 

There was also a 70's band that was just String Cheese, sans the incident.

 

I find something extremely annoying about band names like "British India" and "British Sea Power", and find it quite difficult to explain exactly they annoy me so much. Part of it is that they seem random, with nothing to do with the music, nor with the ethos, if any, of the band. Sure that criticism could be levelled at many other names, such as Porcupine Tree, but that at least has the virtue of being zany and sucking in the fans to try to find hidden meanings. "British India" has no possible hidden meaning. It's not clever, nor is it stupid, it's just... nothing.

I sometimes think it would be interesting if bands were simply assigned names in the way car owners are assigned licence plate numbers. There would of course have to be an international register and agreement on which "plates" were assigned to which countries to dish out. The name would tell you nothing about the music, it would only tell you how old the band was, and possibly the country of origin, therefore the music would have to stand on its own merits. Imagine attending a stadium concert by the mighty SNQ211, with TPB520 as the opening act!

Of course this problem will soon cease to exist, because as people keep telling us Spotify is killing off the music industry, so soon there will be no more musicians and no more concerts.

 

Geggy Tah

(sounds like something a baby would say)

 

Gorillaz is an amazing musical project. Push past those things and hear the music!!

 

I also initially Poppa Chubby was related to his size

 

The Lemon Chilli Project.
Original 3 piece band I was in a decade ago.
(Though live i had us play covers of Paint It Black & some Freddie King)

The singer/bassist/songwriters nickname was Chilli so he named the group......lame huh......
I think he still uses it on his website.

 

Any artist named Lil ...............................
Wanted to check the spelling and was rewarded with this:
Urban Dictionary: lil

Urban Dictionary: lil
A way for some rappers to let everyone know that they suck. If a rapper has the word "lil" in their name you can safely avoid listening to any songs by them.

 

You wrong yourself. I think that name is better than "The Red Hot Chilli Peppers". That name always annoyed me. We all know that chili peppers are hot, no need to tell us.