The Contrarians Presents: Bands Held Back by Their Names
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- Опубликовано: 11 сен 2024
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To quote Spinal Tap" There's a fine line between stupid and clever."
I remember a band whose initials were AC (that’s all I’m saying), they were never going to make it.
They were pretty well known (infamous) in certain circles, lol
Great band! Seth was a really cool, funny guy.
I know who AC were and you made the right call @TheGenreman!
A-word C-word 😝
Hey Grant, the topic was my suggestion. Sorry I couldn't make the show. Nice job gentlemen! Some of my picks would have been: Chilliwack, Giuffria and 3. And I can't forget Goblin Cock.
Although you wish you could! 😂 Great topic Bill.
@@parishofrock2963 😄 Goblin Cock are not bad, from what I remember. I still have two of their CDs around here somewhere.
@@parishofrock2963 What is so bad about Chilliwack..... that was their home town.
I think my bands name is holding us back. Kenny Ballbag and his Jizzmen.
😂no, surely not!
Yeah , I'd say so
Fläsket Brinner is Swedish for The pork is burning. Burning Flesh, the name of a metal band, could be seen an alternative translation of Fläsket Brinner.
Did Toe Fat ever tour with...Camel?
Two very famous bands' original names come to mind, namely Son of a Bitch and Bastards!
Fanny was a solid band with 2 Filipino sisters. Pretty cool.
Salty Dog, Smashed Gladys, Danger Danger, The Lord Weird Slough Feg.
Cherry Poppin Daddies
Nasville Pussy are great Rock band in the tradition of AC/DC and Motorhead who had a name you can't say on the radio and alienates people.
Definitely held them back
I recall one of their bassists bartending in Denver. Karen Cuda, a real cute rad tall rock chick 🤘
Budgie. Sounds like a yacht rock band
But they are a BATTLESHIP BAND 😁
I always equated Budgie with British or Australian slang for balls. Am I wrong? Like a dude who wears speedos “Budgie smugglers”? maybe I’m wrong lol
C'mon, man. A "BUDGIE" is a bird. And it's a cool name.
Budgie immediately came to mind. And also Cirith Ungol.
Budgie was great. And their name doesn't sound yacht rock at all.
Jeff needs to get himself a microphone.
Fanny is a GREAT band!!!!
Should be a Hard Meat greatest hits called, 'Easy Meat'.
🤣
Y&T!
Yes, It's short for Yesterday and Today... but that's not so great, either. The abbreviated moniker is just an awful band name. When the band finally signed to a major American label (A&M), the "suits" should've demanded a new band name as a requirement in the contract.
Slaughter was named after the lead singer, Mark Slaughter. He had previously replaced Robert Fleischman, in Vinnie Vincent Invasion who had a hit song, "Love Kills". And the band is still touring to this day.
The The
-"Here's the world's biggest band, The The!" Never gonna happen... More like, "Who are these friggin' smart-asses?"
Toad the Wet Sprocket
- I can't ever even remember whether it's 'wet' or 'west'...speaking of that..
Wet Wet Wet
- Well, they had some hits. Thanks to e.g. The Troggs (there's another one)
Even knowing the Leonard Skinner story, I've always considered Lynyrd Skynyrd a stupid name. And they even had to address that in the name of their first album! Didn't seem to hold them back much, though.
ABBA's Björn Ulvaeus' and Benny Andersson's '60s bands had pretty silly names; Björn had Hootenanny Singers and Benny had Hep Stars. Not sure about ABBA either, but one has gotten used to it. And it's better than BAAB or BABA, I guess.
I remember Pete pardo said that he was embarrassed to bring it. In the house when he was a embarrassed to Accept Balls to the wall in the house.. he hid it under his shirt
I have not finished but Wet Willie should get a mention.😀❤️🎼
NWOBH Band Satan were held back by the Name, at least in the 80s
Good choice. Definitely held them back.
Chickenfoot
I agree. I like the band, but the name is naff. Mrs Parish calls theChickensh*t & I suspect she’s not alone.
Piper - a mid 70's band with Billy Squier on guitar and lead vocals - It's a very bland and nondescript name that doesn't evoke any excitement what so ever - Makes ya think of a small piper cub airplane, the pied piper, or the nickname for a plumber - they had the same management as Kiss and even opened for them.
Found their record for $1 a few years back great band
Butthole Surfing is what dogs do when they have worms. They had a dog that used to slide around on the carpet to scratch its ass. Brilliant lol
The poster boys for this episode should be Ireland’s Horslips. A really cool band, with an all time terrible band name!
Hadn’t thought of them, good call
@parishofrock2963 Not as good as Mist though! 😂😂😂😂
Hoobastank is a god awful name but little girls seem to like them though.
The Fanny name is very unfortunate. My wife, who is French, is called Fanny which is a pretty common name here. It's pronounced with the accent on the y. When we lived in Scotland, it reached a point where it was hard for her to meet new people because they would appear to be too awkward in her presence as they didn't know how to address her. It used to be a proper name in the UK before it came to refer to women's genitalia.
The Strawbs were named after a part of London that they came from called strawberry hill.
@@TheGenreman They sold a lot of albums !
The Kinks were held back and underestimated due to their name. It still keeps them from being rightly in the same company as The Stones and The Beatles. Also, The Jazz Butcher was a great act but the name was confusing and emphasized their humor at the expense of their great material.
Never really thought about that with The Kinks, but you could well be right. Great band!
How about The Butts Band! The mid 70s band that Robby Krieger & John Densmore were in.
Excellent choice.
😂😂😂
Fully agree on Accept , even Uriah Heep , I think with an awesome name and they would be talked about almost as much as Purple .., Budgie another ?? FM another perhaps , and I think they renamed , and even worse ??,
FM was on my longer list. Gave the impression of being a bland & boring, when in fact they were really good.
@@parishofrock2963 , agreed ..,
Lee Kerslake leaving to hook up with Uriah Heep, sure didn't help Toe Fat, probably Hensley too. Cool topic. 🎶🎶✌️
Chumbawamba were a DIY punk band. Shhh is a fantastic album.
here are some
Haphash and the colour coat
Blues magoos
Daddy Longlegs
9.30 fly
Stackwaddy
Weed
The Hard ons
Doggy Style
The Angels - were originally Called The Keystone Angels
Never knew that about the Angels.
Butthole Surfers is one of the best band names ever. You couldn't even say it on the radio for a long while. All power to any band that truly doesn't give a sh**. Their primary creative directive was to drop lots of LSD, gulp Wild Turkey double proof bourbon ... and see what happened. Lots happened.
Krautrock band called Frumpy ... Great band from the early 70s
Kathleen Turner Overdrive
😂😂😂love that one!
Jodie Foster's Army, Friends Of Dean Martin(ez), Elvis Hitler, Reagan Youth, the Dandy Warhols, Brian Jonestown Massacre
Budgie. Sorry.
Budgie was great
I really enjoyed 'The R*tist 4*merly Known as Dangerous Toys' their last album. It was almost kinda industrial sounding, didn't much listen to the earlier stuff
I'm a fan of the Butthole Surfers. I think their name is fine for their genre. All those bands had controversial sounding names to make them edgy. Just look at the early album titles: Rembrandt Pussy Horse, Locust Abortion Technician, etc. By the time they got to Electriclarryland they sounded much different.
I remember seeing a record back in the day I always wanted to buy, but I knew my parents would freak out. It was an all-female metal/punk trio. They album cover pictured them on the beach in S&M gear. The name of the band was "Oral". The name of the album was "Sex" and the name of the band and album title ran down the side repetitively:
ORAL
ORAL
SEX
ORAL
ORAL
SEX etc.
My friends were looking for the most ridiculous band or album title. One found Megadeath, the other said that's nothing and he pulls out Locust Abortion Technician by the Butthole Surfers. the drive home was half laughing our asses off and half getting really weirded out.
Good rocking band out of Hamilton Canada... Teenage Head. I had and wore a merch shirt for years lol. I think they had to change their band logo to Teenage Heads before getting a US release 😅
The Fartz
Ferlin Husky
I think Black Rebel Motorcycle Club is a name that kinda held the band back. Likewise Big Star....great band, awful name.
BRMC is a good shout. Names that long are too difficult to remember.
A great example of this is atomic rooster
🤣agreed. It even put me off the band
My pick is Gruntruck.
agreed great band discovered them on Beavis and butthead and liked their album
Google Translate says that Flasket Brinner means "the bottle is on fire" in Swedish..
The word is fläsket ('the pork'); notice the two dots (diaeresis). So, "the pork is on fire." 'The bottle' in Swedish would be 'flaskan'.
TOTO. Brilliant musicians, great music, lots of success. But a wimpy, wimpy, wimpy name.
Totally agree.
Great episode. Jeff needs a microphone. He always sounds like he’s talking through a cardboard tube.
Windhand, doom metal from Virginia. one might assume the name came from the gesture one would use to wave a bad smell away
😂😂
Bare Naked Ladies and Can
Melvins are a great band, but the name is not indicative of Metal music. It's kind of a good name and bad at the same time.
Steve Albini's band between Big Black and Shellac... Probably can't even write it out here.
Bootsauce was a great funk-rock band in the ‘90s.
My Sister’s Machine was a killer rock-grunge band in the early ‘90s.
Both band names were awful…
Mist... nice. It literally means "manure" :D
Exactly! & that’s the polite version. 😂
Metallica is actually a pretty cringy moniker, a total high-school teenager name, but it didn't seem to hinder them any.
That was their target audience...
I hated that name back in 1983. Love the band back then, but the name was cheesy as hell.
Lillian Axe. Good band, cringe name.
Lillian Axe is Molly Hatchett's first cousin.
If a band with a name as lame as The Beatles can be the biggest band of all time a bad band name is no excuse for not making it.
I always thought The Beatles was a cool name bearing in mind they started as part of the Beat movement.
@@parishofrock2963 They weren't a part of the beat movement, which was a US centered thing.
Nobody knows how they ended up with that name; even Paul McCartney doesn't remember (he talked about this in a recent podcast).
There are several urban legends people parrot about how they got the name including that it was a nod to Buddy Holly's band The Crickets.
The most plausible explanation however is that it was just a retooling of their previous name, The Silver Beetles.
@@b.g.5869 fair enough. However there was a music paper in the early 60s called the Mersey Beat, which spawned the musical term Merseybeat for bands from Liverpool at that time including Gerry & The Pacemakers, Billy J Kramer & The Beatles. I’ve always assumed the Beatles name was a play on that.
To the guy in bottom right corner:
Here's how you know yhe difference between ANGEL and ANGEL CITY...
You know ANGEL (on Casablanca) in the mid 70s, and then, in say, maybe 1980, you dicover ANGEL CITY wuth their cool "Darkroom" LP. And go from there.
Angel is from Washington, DC
Angel City (or The Angels) is from Australia.
Basically, grow up in the 1970s and dig and learn about ROCK.
You seem not to know but Fanny is also a girl's name
Which doesn’t help at all.
Not outside of North America it isn't. And neither is "Randy" a boys' name elsewhere in the Anglosphere...
Which, of course, is where the phrase Sweet Fanny Adams came from.
Kinda surprised no one mentioned Birth Control or CAN.
I submit Root Boy Slim and the Sex Change Band!
Is that one or two?
@@parishofrock2963 One very weird, funny band.
The Rainbow Ffolly
It may be appropriate for Nick to actually STATE his first choice!
the toilet boys!!!!
I'd say that TOE FAT is a pretty bad name.
What, are you gonna open up for The Hairy Nostrils?
And the name makes no sense either. Who has fat toes? Well, I guess fat people do. Still, its a stupid name.
For the record, I have a TOE FAT 2CD set on BGO (first two LPs) which has a horrifying cover!...and also a CD from Hairy Chapter as well.
I seldom listen to either.
I don't know if they where held back by it but Toad the Wet Sprocket is bloody awful band name, they certainly did nothing here in the UK.
It was a rubbish name. There was NWOBHM called also Toad The Wet Sprocket. Neither did well.
Blodwyn Pig
How about a band called Dust!
That's not too bad a name
How about mammas boys? Horrible name.
I agree, always hated it.
I disagree with Krokus. I think its a very cool name. Bad pick
Me too.
April Wine's cover of Bad Side of the Moon was much better than Toe Fat's
I never liked the name April Wine. But they were good
Dare I say “eyehategod”
Butthole Surfers. Awesome band, but weird as Hell.
Great name lol
VULVA
Pen pal to rob halford huh? Done
Mozart , great band from LA [search Adam Paskowitz]. Worst name ever as searches always show the composer! DUH! Roy Thomas Baker produced their debut. Very Queen like!
Always hated the name Drivin' n' Cryin'. I know absolutely nothing about the band, but the name is awful.
Mystery Road is great.
They just played in a club in Ft Walton FL… amazingly.
Great band. Silly name
Terrorvision...pop/rock band with a far too heavy name.
Agree, name sounds like a thrash band. Great band though
worst band name ever by orders of magnitude has to be Oingo Boingo. Say it out loud and people think you're an idiot.
The The is a terrible band name. That one has always pissed me off.
Haha no way. The The is quite good
Sweaty Nipples. 😅
The dumbest band name ever....... The The
Maybe the person that named the band had a stutter , the same person suggested the names Duran and Talk !
This is not a subject worthy of an hour-long conversation. Get a life for criminy's sake.
😂Fair enough, but we enjoyed it.
@@parishofrock2963 in that case, I'll put it in the "win" column 😄
I’ll save you some time- this channel does not attempt to solve world problems.
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@@czarevich if it did, it would take three times longer than needed to do so
One of Butthole Surfers early names: Nine Foot Worm Makes Its Own Food🪱 😝
Suicidal Angels are a great european thrash band but the name sounds like something a 13 would come up with