Entertainment For Lively Minds
a Word game
Posted by magneticfields on 26 November 2009 - 4:08pm.
I was half listening to the Janice Long show the other night and whichever musician she was interviewing [sorry not to be more accurate but I was dozing off at the time] was talking about a game his band used to play to kill time on the road.
What you do is take a band name and alter it by removing [or, I guess, adding] a single letter to make another word. Much hilarity ensues...
e.g. Chin Crisis or The Grateful Dad
Any more?
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I read a similar thing on Boo Hewerdine's blog.
Someone congratulated him on his fine work in the past with The Bile.
now you come to mention it
it might have been Boo Hewerdine on the JL show. Credit where credit's due.
Some more:
The unadvisably pedantic Petty Things
Ska pioneer and pound shop owner Price Buster
The poor quality guitarists of Dire Strats
Trevor Horn's first musical venture, a brass band called Bugles
lol'd @ Price Buster
very good.
The Beales
Doesn't bear thinking about really does it? "Kaaaaaaffff!!!"
And Macca’s post-Beales outfit
named after a popular line of Fabs merchandise: Wigs.
On holiday in Majorca in ~1997
Had Karaoke where we were staying. In the booklet on the tables - Paul McCartney and his Wigs.
The Inks
The Inks. Lovely boys, Ray and Dave. Did that nice song about their dear old mum, “A Well Respected Ma”
French tribute band
Le Zeppelin...
or indeed, the Italian version:
Led Zeppeli
Ron
Maiden
Mercyful Fat
Ron Maiden
Didn’t make it past the audition stage of X Actor
How About ???
Eric Idle and Neil Innes's brilliant "The Rules " , and new boys "The Artic Moneys" ??
The Moneys were heavily influenced by
The Moneys were heavily influenced by The Cash, particularly during the White Rio period.
Must stop this. Got wok to do.
Stop! You've underadvisedly
Stop! You've underadvisedly removed a letter from Monkeys instead of Monkees.
The Oral
The Oral
Those known caners The Lash
...and let's not forget The Litter Band. Not welcome at Keep Britain Tidy benefits.
That's because...
They were rubbish!
Ummm...
Merson, Lake & Palmer
The not to be trusted..
Lying Burrito Brothers
Neil Yung's backing band
Crazy Hose later went on to record with An McNabb, formerly of The Icicle Woks, who was formerly a contemporary both of The Eardrop Explodes and Big In A Pan, although neither band attained the chart success of Orchestral Manouevres in the Ark, also around on the scene at the same time... (cont'd p.94)
Bobby Gillespie's
Primal cream - Rock'n'roll Spinal tap style.
Robert Smith’s band of snooker fans
The Cue
Then there’s Lemmy’s not quite so threatening sounding rural band...
Moorhead
RT and co. if they’d formed at Heathrow...
Airport Convention
The heavy metal parodists if they were big iPhone fans...
Spinal Ap
And now I really must do some work!
The Rolling Tones
All those blues riffs recycled with lyrics in a plummy, middle class...oh, hang on. Bugger.
Warrant -> War Ant
what Dec calls his hetero life partner.
Lack Sabbath
not the same without Ozzy
I never knew
Susannah Hoffs was German...
The Angles
Would you prefer
Scottish synthesiser maestros Tangerine Dram?
Or perhaps the baroque surf harmonies of the Bach Boys?
Myself I have been known to be partial to a litle Pubic Image Limited.
An additional letter makes an Austrian Abba Tribute band
Introducing... Franz Ferdinando
variations
Former Roy Music keyboardist Brian No
Former Taking Heads producer and gastric cure Bran Eno
Domestic plumber
Turned-musical genius Prefab Spout
Brand new key
By Meanie was quite popular.
World Shut your mouth by Julia Coe
Sunshine of your love by Cram
Five leaves left is appropriate for Nick Rake
And this year we had a fine new album by Grizzly Ear.
Buddy Holly and the Rickets
.
Exploding drumkits, Power chords
and a bit of casual misogyny in a gangsta rap styleee..
I give you, The Ho!
Little Fat, and
...Spooky Toot
......and the imaginatively named Shane Fenton and the Fentons
Ink Floyd
-with their hit album, "Wish You Were Her".
did you leave
a consonant off the word 'hit' as well there?
Wirral Going Solo
Alf Man Alf Biscuit.
Eggy Suicide by Julian Cop
or Wees by Pup
He's Lost Control, Oy Division
etc
from Frasier...
Eddie And The Hot Ros
AKA The Royal Shakespeare Company...
..Oldplay
Grumpy ladies' outfitters... Hem
Not his first choice... Frank Zappa and the Others
Jewish boy band... Oyzone
and the titfer-pilfering... Take Hat
What munro-baggers spend their time doing...
Turin Braes (helps if yur fae Scotland)
The Soundtrack of Our Liver
offally corny I know...
Upper class pop star
Eton John
Meat Oaf
.
The Siths
Ryan's Worst Nightmare
So Bryan Adams does at last become Ryan Adams and Johnny Cash becomes Johnny Ash. Level 42 become Level 4.
aniseed flavoured
Little Ricard
Steve Harley and his london based Scottish dance group
Cockney Reel
Roy Music
The skinflint Cheap Rick
Conway Titty
Killing Joe
David Gates’ bookish balladeers Read
Lloyd Coe - doing the theme
Lloyd Coe - doing the theme for the London olympics ?
US super producer/group with Scot singer, play in Garage.
Songs about storage containers from the Cocteau Tins (well, that one may be true but who knows).
Brummie ska legends The Bat, and spin offs The Bet and General Pubic.
Australian ska/skinheads Midnight Oi
Andover soccer crowd Ref
3 wise musicians
The Magi Numbers
Boys from the blackstuff: Big Tar
Ladies and Gentlemen, please welcome ...
1) He He
2) The Ex Pistols
3) Odd Rundgren
Parsimonius Geordie warbler
Stinge
Saga rebellion
- Age Against The Machine
Noise-averse Norn Irn punk-poppers - Sh
French dub pioneer - Le Perry
Rap consultant - Dr. Dr
Unattractive jazzer - Charles Mings
The well-endowed ballet dancer's faves...
Crowded Hose
Or for those working in Abattoirs
Cowded House
more
The Bono Dog Band [AKA The Bonos - how scary a thought is more than one of them?]
The mildly sanctimonious Righteous Bothers
Down on her luck, Michelle Hocked
The unwashed crooner Rank Sinatra
Yorkhshire's favourite sons:
Rapid Ee Movement
The Ars
Just What I Needed.
Bo Dylan's enigmatic The And.
Pul Weller better since he left The Am
present tense afficianados: As Not Was
greedy gays: Bronski Eat
not so greedy: Little Eat
can you imagine Sade singing Cum On Feel The Noize?
Or Ade doing Smooth Operator?
Britney Pears...
1000
Maniacs
Big
County
Gorge Michael Ate Bush
Well known equipment polishers...
Rag Against the Machine
A bit salty for my tastes
Briney Spears
or maybe she's taken up boxing
Britney Spars
How about the support act...
The Brighouse and Rastrick Bras Band
I would pay
hard cash to see them.
O
Put your hand down Count Basie. You're not allowed to play
More..
The Electric Flight Orchestra
Joy's Division
Ricky
Terse Russian affimative:
Steely Da...
Rock-hard Hamlet:
Steely Dane
Folk-rock supermarket:
Steeleye Spa
All around my sunhat-
Steeleye Spain
Don't jump!
Sister Ledge
Manchester-based Jam tribute band
Jams
Rapper from the right side of the tracks
Erminem
Pimp my scooter:
Depeche Mod
Prog Bands of biblical proportions...
Ye
The Wo
Fast
Geesis
Ast of Eden
Oft Machine
The Fower Kings
ELOW
Hits include Living Thin and Tower Crane Diver.
In with a bullet...
Rex
Roy
Ha
Gender-swapping
Lorence and The Machine
Help my hair is on fire
The Flaming Clips
and a couple for the Animal Police
Sow Patrol
Lambcop
My turn then
Oo Fighters - A bit camp those rockers
Sh - Northern irish quiet guys
Oldfrapp - Alisons getting on a bit now
Queer - need I say more
The Smith - How approriate, thats` just what he wanted
Few Order - ever decreasing band members
Nappy Mondays - Worse than your hangover
Randaddy - got here as fast as I could, father
British Seal Power - Well they are animal lovers aren`t they?
Duff - Who knew?
Dimple Minds - running out of `humour` now
The Gluetones - they have stuck around, haven`t they?
Passive Attack - you`ll like them but won`t know it
Echo & the Runnymen - You can get pills for that, you know
The C**t - She Sells Sanctuary indeed...
Go Wes
.
Z Top
'And And f*ckin And?'
Et Et Et
'owzabout
Blodwyn Pi (maths set to Welsh language)
Nik Rake (Gardening thieves)
MOT The Hoople (Your Ford Hoople? Costa fortune to fix that mate!)
The Punthanks
to magnetic fields for suggesting this thread.
A band for vampire killers
Stake That
From North Yorkshire...
Big County
Festive Heavy Metal
with Sled Zeppelin.
It's not them.
aint Etienne...
Cross dressing
Van Morrison and Hem.
Glasgow's finest simian strummers..
..Orang Juice.
Please can I do 2 letters?
Kylie Minge
The Cash
with Bankrobber
Folkal improvisation with
Scat Stevens.
Unthinkable for a metal band, but..
..Irony Maiden?
Here we go
Lack Sabbath - atheist metal
Pink Loyd - Grossman goes prog
Tubway Army - overweight electro types
GMT or MGM
Kaiser Chefs - I predict a ratatouille
My Winehouse
The Lash - punk s&m
OK
Big meeting at Heathrow - Airport Convention
New range of cookware - Steeleye Pan
Briefly tried as J.Marr's replacement:
Ron Ex-Smith
A slight tangent but
I recall that Sounds once had a competition to find the best anagram of 'Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark' (at that point, pre-hit trendies). The winner still makes me laugh: Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Krad
Yes, I am indeed easily amused, thank you for asking.