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Bands that didn't foresee the advent of E-Bay or Google type search engines when they thought their name up
Posted by Paul Wad on 7 September 2010 - 1:56pm.
I'll start:
The The
The Bible
Jimmy Jimmy
The Act
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i want it, you can't have it
The Who
Live
!!!
Barenaked Ladies
Barenaked Ladies
Not just bands
Can you imagine how hard it was trying to find info about the singer who used to be known as Nut?
The Band
.
The Band...
Even "The Band" always leads me to The Allman Brothers Band, for some reason. Could be worse.
Wasn't there a band called Radio 4?
I could be wrong.
Yes, there is/was
They had a great single called Dance to the Underground. They sound(ed) quite a lot like !!! too (see above)
Just in case you were wondering what it meant...
...I wouldn't advise Googling 'Blonde On Blonde'.
Likewise
Big Black
Steve Albini's next band after Big Black
were called Rapeman.
And mighty fine they were too.
Fuck
Never likely to get onto Cheggers Plays Pop (see other thread).
Anal
C**t
.
Wasn't there a band called XX Teens or something like that (quite recently too)?
But it's the one word bland names that are hard to Google - Leaves, James, Therapy.
My fave band name at the moment is 'Pulled Apart by Horses' - makes me wince just typing it.
I would have thought
The XX would have been one but nope they are easy to find (but harder to avoid)
The Music
I would have thought the champions of this would be the aforementioned "The The", but Googling that string brings up as the band as first two hits. Maybe they have a fan at Google?
how about?
The Goo Goo Dolls
The Very Best. Except
The Very Best. Except obviously they did know.
Poor Mike Scott....
Waterboys dot com is something unmusical.
it's my own fault for looking...
*reaches for listerine*
Doesn't putting "band"
after their name usually sort out the problem on search engines?
Don't spoil the fun
.
try doing a search for
pop rockers Feeder...
a few more
Japan
America
Madness
Furniture
The Motors
Jet
Wings
The Cars
How about
The Sound
The Replacements
Wire
Broadcast
It's always hard
to find Free.
Double,
Bradford,
the word 'the' really helps a lot of bands - Cure, Doors, Streets, Jam.
Fire Engines' Davey Henderson's got a lot to answer for ....
.... firstly he calls his 80s postpunk popoid outfit the letter-challenged Win. Doesn't exactly help in narrowing down the several million hits this produces.
... and now his latest outfit are called The Sexual Objects. The first single from this outfit was called 'Full Penetration', I'll give typing that into Google's search field a miss!
BR
FT
Various Artists
Isn't there a band out there called Various Artists.If so, they would be a bugger to find.
As is often the case, an answer is Talk Talk
.
What about
Traffic
and
Weather Report
Not bands, but related:
The magazine Uncut.
The Monkee's movie Head.
A Melbourne band called the F**k F**ks. Although it's possible they were just looking for trouble.