Your Name in Bands
Just for kicks. My wife stumbled across this last night–the challenge is to spell your name in bands (without cheating and looking them up).
Here’s me:
Jazz Butcher
Abecedarians
Mission UK
Einsterzende Neubaten
Styx
Hooters
Ambrosia
NWA
Loverboy
Echo and the Bunnymen
Yaz
No fair using bands I’ve named. Come up with your own.
Looking to blow off extra steam
quick weight loss Is Lindsay Being Replaced for Inferno
development rrdeas inside the fly fishing reel l
cartoon pornThe Sociopath’s Guide to Owning and Maintaining Classic Cars
cartoon pornThe Sociopath’s Guide to Owning and Maintaining Classic Cars
Michael Learns to Rock
U2
Rolling Stones
Amboy Dukes
Led Zeppellin
INXSReport
Pro level: Anantharaman Muralidharan. Go big or go home!Report
Aerosmith
No Doubt
ACDC
Nickelback
The Beastie Boys
Halestorm
ABBA
Red Hot Chilli Peppers
Alice Cooper
Maroon 5
Alien Ant Farm
Nirvana
Michael Learns To Rock
U2
Rolling Stones
Amway Dukes
Led Zeppelin
INXS
Deep Purple
Hanson
Air Supply
REM
Aha
N SyncReport
That should be Amboy Dukes. I don’t know how it came AmwayReport
Props to @murali here.
Except for invoking Nickelback.Report
I dedicate this song to @burt-likko
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I think it’s time for a revision of the commenting policy.Report
Although I agree with Burt that invoking Nickelback is off limits, Murali wins the thread for realz.Report
‘Amway Dukes’ is pretty hilarious actually.Report
“Awmay Dukes” is funny on multiple levels.Report
Using my nom de plum
Sex Pistols
Andrew Bird
Urge Overkill
Led Zepplin
Devo
Electronic
Green Pajamas
Rolling Stones
Antlers
White StripesReport
oooh, that’s a miss, re-using Zep….Report
Okay replace Zepplin with
LCD SoundsytemReport
@glyph
Small thread hijacking but here is a piece of art that is still causing a controversy and shocking. Bonus points because it is music:
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/21/arts/music/metropolitan-opera-forges-ahead-on-klinghoffer-in-spite-of-protests.html?_r=0Report
@glyph
I am more upset at myself for not using Stars or Sleater-Kinney. Speaking of which, did you see the news? New Sleater-Kinney!!Report
Yeah, I am going to try to snag tix on the presale tomorrow for my wife for the First Ave. show, it’s on Valentine’s Day and her brother lives in MPLS.Report
Saul,
Ain’t it funny that the deliberately anti-Jew characters don’t cause controversy?Report
Well, I failed on the presale. I got as far as selecting tickets but never could buy. Site was SWAMPED. I’ll try again when they go on sale for real.Report
@glyph
SK are not even playing in the Bay Area. I’ve never had luck with pre-sales.Report
I have to believe they will add dates, so long as they don’t completely hate each other. There’s a lot of interest in this.Report
Limiting myself to ones I’ve featured here:
Godspeed etc.
Laika
Yello
Psychedelic Furs
House of LoveReport
Rush
Oak Ridge Boys
Aerosmith
Devo
Supertramp
Cars
Heart
Ozzy Osbourne
Los Lobos
Abba
RadioheadReport
Just for the record, Saul’s submission wasn’t up yet when I was struggling. So… replace Devo with Dangermouse.Report
Caribou
Hundred Waters
Real Estate
Iceage
Spoon
All artists I listened to today. Booya! (On Songza, which I now use way too much.)Report
I haven’t heard the new Caribou or Iceage yet, are they good? Caribou puts on a good show, I’ve seen them several times dating back to when they were still Manitoba (yes, I know it’s one guy on record but live he brings a band).
My wife lurrrrves Real Estate; while I find them pleasant enough, I immediately forget their songs as soon as they end. However, I adore the stylistically very similar Beach Fossils, who get stuck in my head for days (she likes BF too). No idea why one and not the other for me though.
I’ve been playing the heck out of Objekt’s Flatland, but I am second-guessing myself – is it really as good as I think it is, or does it just check all of my electronic music boxes (Berlin; minimalist/functional moniker that evokes Plastikman; abstract black and white art; all that deep dark bass and those sculpted sonic surfaces)?
I THINK it sits kind of at a midpoint between Aphex/Autechre/Warp, and Scuba or Andy Stott; but OTOH this guy and his label/art team may just have my number and I am powerless to resist.Report
Icage: Yes! Along with Ought’s new(ish) album and No Age, they’ve been scratching an angsty post-punk itch really well. This, I believe, is the single, but it’s pretty representative:
Caribou’s new album is full of mellow catchiness. I have been listening to it at work for a couple weeks, and enjoying it, but it’s not something that really sticks with you outside of the catchiness. Here’s the opening track:
Real Estate isn’t a band I’d paid much attention to, but R. saw them at ACL a couple weeks ago and instantly became a fan. I’m going to have to see if she likes Beach Fossils as well.
I will have to check out Flatland too.
Oh, the other artist I’ve been listening to is Youth Code, but there aren’t any y’s in my name:
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Holy crap, that Youth Code – I’ve been wondering when the industrial revival would begin. Now I know. That really takes me back to club nights with Ministry & Nitzer Ebb.
Hey, that Ought is good! Def. pretty Pixies/Modest Mouse. Downloading now with some iTunes credit I had. If you like that, there is a band called Blood on the Wall you may dig.
Here’s some of that Objekt:
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Ought’s album is one of my top 10 of the year. Iceage is sneaking into that territory, though I have only been listening to it for a couple weeks.
Youth Code is seriously 90s. In fact, the first time I heard that particular song, I was only half paying attention and my first thought was, “Is this a Ministry/NiN song?” They can be a little preachy (the album opens with a song that is actually preaching), but they do a lot of hip hop/industrial hybrid stuff that I’m finding fun.Report
Dude, this Ought is AWESOME. This is what I wanted Parquet Courts to be. MM, Pixies, Pavement/Fall (“We have reached the intermission!”), maybe Feelies? Heads-via-CYHSY? I will be spending a lot of time with this, I think.
There needs to be a name for that jittery nasal neurotic vocal/lyrical style that runs from (at least) Tom Verlaine/David Byrne/Peter Perrett, through Black Francis/Gordon Gano, to Isaac Brock/Alec Ounsworth, and now this guy. “Too-much-coffee-rock.”Report
Dude, score! This may be my song of the year:
Ought “Today More Than Any Other Day” from Constellation Records on Vimeo.
I have a half-written post about Ought and The World Is a Beautiful Place and I am No Longer Afraid to Die… and Heidegg.er.Report
How bad a person am I if the only one of these above here that is remotely interesting to me is Youth Code?Report
That doesn’t mean you’re bad, it just means you’re a 15 year old in 1992. 😉Report
Well, I wasn’t back then, so I might as well be now.Report
Oh, and I didn’t include any songs from them here because I figure Glyph had probably heard the new album and they weren’t really up his ally, but I find it impossible not to like Hundred Waters, so maybe you will too:
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Chris,
You almost used all bands I’ve never heard of, but then you had to go and finish with Spoon.Report
They’re all relatively new artists with albums released this year.Report
Bachman-Turner Overdrive
U2
Rush
Tatu
Live
Imagine Dragons
Killing Joke
Kriss Kross
OutKastReport
Crap. Now I see U2 and Rush were both used previously.
Ugly Kid Joe
ReplacementsReport
@burt-likko – if you are actually a Replacements fan, this is a very good bootleg from the tour they did with Tom Petty (on which he presumably stole Paul’s line “rebel without a clue”):
The whole thing is good, but the 4-song run of “September Gurls” (Big Star) – “Another Girl, Anther Planet” (The Only Ones) – “Within Yr Reach” – “Left of the Dial” is FANTASTIC (“Within” in particular, slays the album version: “I never seen no mountain / ‘cept on a six-pack of beer”). “Gurls” starts at 9:36.Report
Dude, I’m a married man now, and my wife goes to bed early because she works an early shift so I’m not going to play the Replacements now because there’s no point playing them at all except at damn near maximum volume and then that’ll wake my wife up and make her ask “What’s that awful noise?” and then I’ll have to tell her “Honey, it’s the Replacements and they’re RULING!” and she’ll just shake her head and go back to bed mad at me.Report
…you’re…MOCKING me, aren’t you…
Kids, this is what it looks like when you capitulate to The Man. It’s 2014, so The Man may be a woman, but the principle is the same. Early bedtimes, noise ordinances. Burt used to rock and roll all night and party every day. Then it was every other day… now he’s lucky to find half an hour a week in which to get funky. He’s got to get out of this rut and back into the groove.Report
Burt needs to go scuba diving.Report
I’m surprised anyone remembers Live. I think I saw them in 1994 when I was in 8th grade.Report
Dude… Live *rules* it.Report
Super Furry Animals
Linus of Hollywood
Asylum Street Spankers
Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy
English Beat
Tally Hall
Hushdrops
Explorers Club
Living Color
Enuff Z’nuff
Van Morrison
Electric Light Orchestra
Len Price 3
Love and Rockets
Eels
Rum Drum Ramblers
The curse of a long nom d’internet. All are represented in my record collection.Report
The more I think about it, the more I think Slade’s name has the best playlist.Report
I make all my profits through volume. I’m the WalMart of LoOG commenting.Report
To be perfectly honest, half these names could be totally made-up and I wouldn’t know the difference.Report
Dang, I should have used Godzilla’s Butt Plug for mine.Report
Quite honestly, I wouldn’t have had the confidence to question it.
Slightly more seriously, is there a proviso like, “has an album available on iTunes”? Because I can think of a couple local acts from the early eighties that I bet you’ve never heard of that put out an album and then promptly disappeared.Report
Oh, I used to listen to Godzilla’s Butt Plug… before they went all commercial.Report
The difference is: when I use totally made-up names, they’re for real.
[I know a guy who briefly had a group of musicians. They played on stage, but everytime they did, they chose a different name — so, um, you’ve never heard of them (maybe some of the folks from DC have)].Report
I’m tempting to say this entire post was an excuse to post the word “hooters,” but…
R Kelly*
Troggs
Oingo Boingo
Decemberists
Kinks
Electric Light Orchestra
Lumineers
Lambert, Hendricks & Ross
Young the Giant
*Because really, don’t I kind of have to?
Also, a shout out to @slade-the-leveller for the Asylum Street Spankers.Report
Reusin’ ELO…that’s a paddlin’.Report
Damn! Slade used ELO! Guess I’l have to go with my LAX-toPDX roots and use Everclear for “E”Report
And now, of course, I am kicking myself for not using Enter the Haggis.Report
Sheesh, this is like playing Scrabble without a dictionary and allowing proper nouns and foreign words.Report
For the uninitiated, here’s a Spankers tune I’ve been begging my band to cover, so far to no avail.
http://youtu.be/5Kl5M06iR5sReport
Kanye West
A Tribe Called Quest
Ziggy Stardust
Ziggy Stardust (I really hope I didn’t make this up because that would make two of my letters wrong)
YanniReport
Ziggy Stardust was the real name of astronaut Dr. David Bowman.Report
You can’t re-use, Kazzy. You need another Z band or you’re disqualified.Report
With reckless disregard for whether any of these have been used:
Kool Keith
Red Rider
Ozzy Osbourne
GG Allin
Elliott Easton
Rick Rubin
Foo Fighters
O . . . dammit, too many Os in my handle. Ornette Coleman.
Okkerville River
Tommy Tutone
My reach exceeded my grasp.Report
My handle is too long, but fortunately my real name is extremely common.
Ryan Adams
Iced Earth
Children of Bodom
King Crimson
Swans
My Dying Bride
Indigo Girls
Travis Tritt
HelloweenReport
Ass ponies
alvin bros
Rembrants
Omd
Nick cave
Dave Brubeck
Archers of loaf
Vince gil
Annie Lennox
Def tonesReport
Wow, misspelled my own name…Report
Well, you’re stuck with it now, @aaron-davad.Report
I’ve known some big Annie Lennox fans, but none so big that they’d change their names to include her.Report
We’ll just pretend you meant to stick Insane Clown Posse in there.Report
I’m giving myself the additional challenge of not using any groups that anyone has mentioned yet.
Veruca Salt
Iggy Pop
Kula Shaker
Rammstein
Amos, Tori
Morphine
Bonham, Tracy
Anthrax
The Cure
Hendrix, JimiReport
Oh, you’re just so lucky I didn’t specify more rules!Report
Jane’s Addiction
Oleander
New Order
Alabama
The Trews
Hot Hot Heat
Arcade Fire
Nirvana
Modest Mouse
Corrosion of Conformity
Lush
Eurythmics
One Sick Puppy
DioReport
Mozart
Ibert
Krumpholz
Elgar
Schubert
Cimarosa
Haydn
Ives
Lully
Loeillet
Ingegneri
Nielsen
GluckReport