Not impressed

Limp Bizkit? Styxx (or pretty much anything from the eighties)?


Best band name ever: High on Fire.

Wow, that was like watching a car crash. I need to figure out a userscript that prevents me from reading starpulse drivel.

FTFA: Rock band Death Cab For Cutie's name may seem satirical in nature, but the band's name comes more across as being whacky!



Promising new music artist Santogold is musically diverse, but her stage moniker unfortunately sounds like an international hits collection of songs.

Something tells me that neither she nor the writer has any knowledge of the weirdness that her namesake is responsible for. She probably doesn't even have her own scream bag.

/what a useless article

It's not news, it's Starpulse.com?

deevo: Wow, that was like watching a car crash. I need to figure out a userscript that prevents me from reading starpulse drivel.

No kidding. Did the writer get paid to write that? I would gladly churn out craptastic drivel like that for some extra cash. I didn't know the bar was set that low.

ZOMG and did you hear that the DONNAS aren't all named DONNA!?!?! OMGLMAOROTFBBQKRS1!!!!!

/can someone please punch the "author" of that "article" in the solar plexus?

"Death Cab for Cutie."

THANK YOU. Their name gets on my nerves almost as much as their music does.

And before all the wrong-headed hipsters of Fark pile onto me, please bear in mind--I'm (mostly) one of you. I just hate DCFC!.

(and Cat Power)
(Bright Eyes, too)

HIM

The Goth Rock band HIM strangely carries a name that has long been traditionally regarded as a religious associative term. Plus, finding the band on some music search engines is still like trying to find a needle in a haystack.

Really? On google they are the main page.

Wrong_Intentions: Best band name ever: High on Fire.

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Second.

Transpogue: ZOMG and did you hear that the DONNAS aren't all named DONNA!?!?! OMGLMAOROTFBBQKRS1!!!!!

/can someone please punch the "author" of that "article" in the solar plexus?DICK!
_FTFM

awfulperson: "Death Cab for Cutie."

THANK YOU. Their name gets on my nerves almost as much as their music does.

I used to be in agreement with you, but that band was replaced on my list with "My Morning Jacket."

I like how the list pointlessly focuses on Screamo (Red Jumpsuit, Kill Hannah) and indie rock (Death Cab). Sorry author, not all of us can have cool rap names like eminem or soulja boy.

ukiah: I like how the list pointlessly focuses on Screamo (Red Jumpsuit, Kill Hannah) and indie rock (Death Cab). Sorry author, not all of us can have cool rap names like eminem or soulja boy.

...or Bone Thugs 'n Harmony.

i liked alot of those, especially 'the black kids'.

I really wish I hadn't wasted 20 seconds reading that "article."

If I look through my hipster brother's playlist and find 10 bands with funny names, can write a stupid two-sentence blurb about each and get some money, too?

Cause that would be sweet.

The Wikitubes reveal that "HIM" has had some name problems:

Their first band name was His Infernal Majesty. The band changed the name to HIM from the "Wicked Game" single onwards [...] Their second major US release, Razorblade Romance, was released under the name HER because a Chicago based post-rock band named HiM held the trademark on the name. While they toured Europe, primarily Germany, at this time, they used the name HIM and HER.

Maybe they should just take a Prince-like approach and use a symbol rather than a word:

Phh. To anyone involved with their local music scene this lot look pretty ordinary, some of the metal bands I've seen over the years... Godslide was quite good, but got beaten to the punch by Godsmack.

But I was in M.Y.R.I.A.D. in the late '80s (stood for Moody Youths Rocking In A Dustbin, yes, I know, but we thought we were satirising the Sleaze-Rock bands around at the time with the whole look-like-a-junkie-in-an-alley thing) and in the early '90s I played in a funk/grunge band called A Dog Called Hash, which had to be the single worst name ever. Shame, we were quite good, imagine Soundgarden crossed with Funkadelic...

Right now I'm trading under Zem The Mattress for my Industrial outfit and Mister Clippy (yes, for the annoying Office "helper") for my gay-club-techno project. Old habits die hard, and band-names will always be stupid, it's part of the fun. Just don't take it seriously.

No postrock?

I like Kill Hannah.

I saw HIM live once. They were... OK. I had never been around so many Hot Topic teens in my life, though.

Kill Hannah

The Rock band name Kill Hannah garners the strangest first impressions away from the band like who's Hannah?

Punctuation. It's your friend. Please use it.

De/Vision

Like the electronic band called De/Vision, any band that thinks it's cool to split up bands names with dashes, commas, or some other form of punctuation must remember this: IT"S A MUSIC RETAILING NIGHTMARE!

Doesn't anybody proofread this shiat?

10 Years
Visually speaking it can be seen here above why this Alternative/Rock act's name does not work. Secondly, when was the last time there was a #1 charting music act with a number listed in the first part of the band's name?

4 Non Blondes - "What's Up? (#1 in 1993 Germany & Netherlands)
10,000 Maniacs - "These Are Days" (#1 in 1992)
2Pac - "Dear Mama" (#1 in 1994)
3 Doors Down - "Kryptonite" (#1 in 2000)

STFU.

When it comes to search engines, !!! probably worse than HIM.

Best band name evar: The Beets (originally The Pickled Beets).

Uzzah: FTFA: Rock band Death Cab For Cutie's name may seem satirical in nature, but the band's name comes more across as being whacky!

Someone's gonna make you pay your fare. (new window)

puckrock2000: Kill Hannah

The Rock band name Kill Hannah garners the strangest first impressions away from the band like who's Hannah?

Punctuation. It's your friend. Please use it.

De/Vision

Like the electronic band called De/Vision, any band that thinks it's cool to split up bands names with dashes, commas, or some other form of punctuation must remember this: IT"S A MUSIC RETAILING NIGHTMARE!

Doesn't anybody proofread this shiat?

10 Years
Visually speaking it can be seen here above why this Alternative/Rock act's name does not work. Secondly, when was the last time there was a #1 charting music act with a number listed in the first part of the band's name?

4 Non Blondes - "What's Up? (#1 in 1993 Germany & Netherlands)
10,000 Maniacs - "These Are Days" (#1 in 1992)
2Pac - "Dear Mama" (#1 in 1994)
3 Doors Down - "Kryptonite" (#1 in 2000)

STFU.

Trying too hard. U2.

scuba noa: Best band name evar: The Beets (originally The Pickled Beets).

Winner!

/needs more allowance

It was either a Goo Goo Dolls or Foo Fighters interview where they said it seemed like a good idea at the time. You can see why I'm uncertain.

Several years ago it was hard to find De/vision albums/info online-
now not a problem.

Allmusic.com makes it easy to get band info.

/Strange Affection (Mesh Remix) FTW!

I realize I'm #30 to say this, but wow, that constitutes an article? In the wide, wide sea of music acts with nonsensible names, he grabs a few and then does the least interesting commentary. "This one is too long." "This one is hard to google." "This one is weird!" It's like he opened a Rolling Stone, picked the first few names that didn't sparkle with brilliant clarity, and then gave them arbitrary criticism.
He also didn't even research the groups' names. Love or hate Death Cab For Cutie, they didn't invent that phrase--it's the name of a song released as far back as 1967, so pointing at them and shouting "Whacky!" has the journalistic credibility of a Jr. High video report on the Lincoln assassination.
I'm tired of these shenanigans!