[artists: names] bands I love for their name alone without worrying about their music
Submitted by Nick Vane on Fri, 10/11/2002 - 03:47
Tags:
- Fugazi
- Big Black
- Sunny Day Real Estate
- Mission of Burma
- X
- Gang Starr
- The Stone Roses
- Wire (also: Wir)
- The Holy Modal Rounders
- Yo La Tengo
- Os Mutantes
- The Slits
- Televsion
- Joy Division
- Average White Band
- Jurassic 5
- the The
- The Stooges
- It's a Beautiful Day
- Minutemen
- Valparaiso
- We Talked About Murder
- Fairport Convention
- Let's Active
- The Tremeloes
- Sonic Youth
- MC5
- The Police
- Gang of Four
- Big Star
- Save Ferris
- Pavement
- The Grateful Dead
- The Left Banke
- The Dead Milkmen
- Texas Is the Reason
- Queens of the Stone Age
- Milemarker
- When People Were Shorter and Lived Near the Water
- The Clash
- Death Cab For Cutie
- Train
- They Might Be Giants
Author Comments:
this is an expansion of my rockcritics.com post.
by the way, the band on this list I can't stomach is Save Ferris. It irks me no end that a band as sucky as this piece of ska detritus gets to honor one of the funniest movies of the 1980s. Guacala.
c'mon, trains! the link to an America we no longer know! trains!
What, no "Butt Hole Surfers" or "Dead Presidents"? The MC5 ("Motor City Five") is a great choice.
the 'Surfers may end up on my list of "Bands I Like Despite Their Names"...
Oops, Meant Dead Kennedys.
I just figured you meant the hip-hop group. No worries!
Anyone ever hear about Butt Trumpet?
My favourite name for a band was 'The Only Ones' (OO). They also made some pretty decent music, contemporories of The Buzzcocks and The Smiths (two more great band names).
The Snivelling Sh*ts.
The Tony Danza Tapdance Extravaganza. (Actually a band. Based on their name, they're probably horrible, but I do like the name.)
What about "Pretty Girls Make Graves" or "And They Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead" or even "The Drive-By Truckers"?