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When it comes to unGoogleable artist names, Live, The Music, and !!! are definitely bad, but hands down the absolute worst of all time is the fucking idiot rapper who chose "Porn" as his stage name. I mean, how many millions of pages would you have to click through until you actually found a search result for him?
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Someone actually did that? (Naturally I don't even know where to begin Googling that one.)
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Originally Posted by xmd 5a
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There's a band called "CÜLO"? lol...
http://www.buzzfeed.com/mariasherm/2...ble-bands-ever
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I'm a Coil collector, so this is a total nightmare. You also have Icon of Coil, Toad Wet The Sprocket's "Coil" and a few other random things that make it a pain in the ass to find anything.
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I've found this to be a little more difficult than just that. We've been considering renaming our band for a while now, and we had a name chosen. It seemed like nobody else had the name from just googling it, but then when we went to make a soundcloud page, whoops.
Sure, the guy's soundcloud had like 2 songs on it, and nobody had listened to them, but that's more than I have under that name. And then what happens if he gains traction and gets a following. So, back to the drawing board.
In other news, every single english language monosyllabic word has been taken by a band apparently.
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Ah yes, -Icon and -Toad, now that you mention those two I clearly remember the trouble of sorting through those in napster. Oh how it made me hate Toad the Wet Sprocket even more than I did earlier.
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Hope this helps:
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You've got to give it to them, they mastered the art of writing onomatopoeic music that matches their dreadful band name to a tee.
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I'm generally pretty easy going about stupid band names, but still, some are just unforgiveable. Last time I clicked on Pitchfork I saw them pushing some band called Perfect Pussy. It's probably an overreaction, but when I saw that I sincerely thought to myself "I will DIE before I listen to this fucking band." Can you imagine telling someone about that? "Oh hey, have you heard that new Perfect Pussy song?" Fucking Christ.
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Pitchfork are such trolls. First I'm supposed to believe that Wavves is good music. Then Xiu Xiu's "Fabulous Muscles" is almost a perfect album. Then I'm supposed to believe that Chvrches is "forward thinking" future pop.
They're riding a nice balance now where they flaunt some terrible derivative shit, call it great, and people eat it up while they probably privately guffaw about how anyone is willing to buy this shit... and then they see people on the internet deride people for "hating on Pitchfork," and they laugh themselves to death.
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Having listened to a couple of songs, I'd have trouble recommending them anyway.
Besides, they Google, so it's a different category of stupid band name.
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Yes to everything besides that Chvrches record.
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Ive lost A LOT of respect for pitchfork in the fact they gave Arcade Fire's Reflektor a 9.2. They are just fucking wrong.
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I hope that we're agreeing that it deserved a much lower score
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Well sure, "Perfect Pussy" googles alright, but really, that's the least of their problems. It's gotta be one of the worst band names of all time. What else can possibly top it?
I'm sure one of those bullshit content farms has posted a "Worst Band Names of All Time" list, and if it's any good (which it won't be) it will look something like this...
Giraffes? Giraffes!
Gay Dad
Perfect Pussy
Hoobastank
Does It Offend You, Yeah?
Hootie and the Blowfish
Cute Is What We Aim For
Dananananaykroyd
I Love You But I've Chosen Darkness
Dale Earnheart Jr. Jr.
To Kill A Petty Bourgeoisie
Totally Enourmous Extinct Dinosaurs
fun.
Dr. Dog
Gatsby's American Dream
Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin
Diarrhea Planet
Com Truise
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
RUN DMT
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The new Gaga album is awesome, and I dare to say it's even better, than the Fame. I'm not fond of the two slower tracks (Gypsy, Dope), but I might get myself to like Dope.
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Mumford and Sons?
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Biffy Buffy or whatever their name is...ok, Biffy Clyro, is another name that does nothing for me. They once opened for QOTSA here in Sweden and no one [I knew] felt like checking them out. A couple of years later I decided to check them out on youtube and it proved once again that shitty band names often produce shitty music. Kinda makes sense, if you can't be creative and aesthetically pleasing with your band name, who will trust you with your music and lyrics? It doesn't mean that band names have to be amazing, they can be neutral, but amazingly shitty band names often deliver, shit.
Another band I can't take seriously somewhat based on their band name is Glasvegas. It's a little too "clever" with its Glasgow / Las Vegas hybrid name. We saw what you did there and the end result is obvious and uninteresting. I couldn't care less if you manage to tell your audience where you're from in your band name.
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3oh!3 fucking sucks.
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Add Family Force 5 to that list. Christian crunkcore. Yeah.
Also, any of those witch house bands with annoying pretentious symbols littered liberally throughout their names.
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Someone who I have developed a lot of respect for is Justin Timberlake - I read today that his albums this year sold nearly a million copies on first week in the US - BUT I really don't think he's been 'in my face' the whole time (unlike Katy Perry, Miley Cyrus and even Arcade Fire). There's something classy about him I think
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Not too fond of his stuff but I got to agree. Perfect example for how pop music can sell huge amounts of records without being shoved into your face on TV, the internet and the radio. I actually had to search for his new music video. I take a Timberlake anytime over the people you have mentioned and many many more.
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Now i remember there's a band called "3" that i like a lot! but damn their name is the ultimate trollage
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3_(band)
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Portugal, the Man is a personal hated band name of mine.
No, Portugal is a country, not a man, my friends.
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Yeah absolutely, but it's the clever little clarification that they do with their name that makes them so annoying, the way it sort of winks at you and says: "Not to be confused with Portugal the country!" There's a whole string of bands with a similar awkward structure to their names, but they're hands down the worst of their type.
Portugal the Man
Young the Giant
Cage the Elephant
Foster the People
Toad the Wet Sprocket
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I want to form a band called
Do You Go Gathering Nuts in May?
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I posted it in another thread long time ago, but since we're at band names... BNDS WH STLZ THR NMS LK THS piss me off
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Or bands that consider using L33tsp33k in their artwork and actually go through with it...
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^Hahaha... Oh man, I forgot that they did the album title like that. Holy shit that is so embarrassing. What an obnoxious thing to read.
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