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Removing single letters from band names
Posted by Brookster on 4 November 2010 - 1:35pm.
I remember Mr Hepworth mentioning this game on the podcast. I think he claimed that no one could beat Chin Crisis. However, can we do better than this? I don't remember a thread on the subject.
I'll start the ball rolling with New Model Arm.
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The Siths? Possibly a bit too Star Wars-y.
The Beales? Possibly a bit too Eastenders-y.
Damn
you got there first!
The *game* was called Chin Crisis...
...so named by the originator, Boo Hewerdine.
The unbeatable answer was 'Grateful Dad'.
I know this because it was (ahem) one of my tweets that got Boo to discuss the topic on the podcast.
My offering was 'Laughter and the Dogs'.
Aha
So is there a list somewhere?
Don't think so
I seem to recall it being discussed in the magazine at some stage, so when DH asked for questions for Boo for the podcast, that's the question I posed. I seem to recall my offering getting read out, the name of the game being clarified and the 'unbeatable' answer being given by Boo but little else.
Might be worth a trawl round Boo's blog - even if you don't find anything, it's an exceptionally good read anyway.
boohewerdinesblogthing.blogspot.com
Don't you mean...
"Ah"?
Or
ha?
Sorry - doesn't work
because you have to remove all the e's: Gratful Dad, which doesn't sound quite so good. Oh well...
Not my understanding of the rules...
The game is to take one letter away, and one letter only - regardless of how many appearances that letter makes.
Suggest you take it up with Boo - it's his game, his rules, his winner...
"uno dos tres cuatro" it's
"uno dos tres cuatro" it's The Ramons
The Fab Four go Eastenders: The Beales
Music For Tea Breaks:
Prefab Spout
Brue Springsteen
Boyband grow up, lose hair: Take Hat.
Pensioners playing spooky electro disco: Oldfrapp
Hmmm
Le Zeppelin
The White Tripes
Irish indie stars join U.S. West coast harmonisers shock
Crosby, Stills and Ash
Geological tabular sheet intrusions from Sefton, Merseyside...
...join Hollies singer to form Rock (geddit?) supergroup:
"Crosby Sills" and Nash.
I'm really very sorry.
My favourite headline
was about pro-drugs legislation campaigners standing in our Sefton constituency at the 1997 election:
Crosby, Pills and Hash
The Holies
The latest band of god-botherers, as seen on TV.
Skinhead Post-Punks
Oy Division
What the England cricket team will shortly be doing
Bat for Ashes
My wife
If she started a band it was going to be Jo(anne) Division.
Who have an album called...
... 'Loser.'
And then there's Bill Nelson's Red Nose
Brian No
Burning Pear
Charles Minus
Jon Mitchell
Clit Black
Freddie and the Reamers
Lice Cooper
Ham 69
Ace of Ass
Scitti Politti (well, Patrick'll get it)
Sow Patrol
Feet Foxes
Ultra-Ox
The Cash
Stone the Cows
Baroque close-harmonies...
.. from The Bach Boys.
On the execrable Lady Lynda
they nicked a Bach melody
Pure voiced folk singer does Manc monkey walk
Joan Bez
Nickelback
No missing consonants in the name but, by subtracting a letter, could we accurately describe them as having hit songs?
Creamadelica
Primal cream
Roy Music
Somebody's left their cigarettes in a puddle of ink.
Black Fag.
Lunch will be provided by...
... The Cater Family.
This means The Wanted
become The Waned. Figures...
Hip-hop jokes will be supplied by...
...Dr. Dr.
Which reminds me
Coming up...
...crooner metal from Ron Maiden.
Scottish supermarket bargain bin warbling from
Bonnie Price Billy.
If you remove one letter from The XX
do they disappear altogether? And what about !!!? Or Suede becoming Sud? Coldply. Kings of Len.
/coat
I'm recycling
the ones I used last time we played this. Mainly, because:
a) I'm too busy but I want to join in and;
b) I'm quite proud of them.
The Dan Chorus
On Iver
Lloyd Olé
Enfolds
Take Hat
Swell Aps
Super Fury Animals
Raftwerk
Jeff Buckle
Aircut One Undred
The cockerney version of the band
The Craps
not true, obv.
See also one-letter-wrong bands (easier)
The Sweat, Green Dad, Les Zeppelin, Snot Patrol, etc., etc.
A different sound of recognition
Ah
Well appointed grungesters
Royal Tux
The Cash
They were only in it for the money.
The Mall Faces - always hanging round the shopping precint.
(Oh christ i wish this hadn't cropped up. It's the sort of thing that wipes out whole afternoons, so I'd better bail out.)
Try these:
Art of Nose
The Cur
Kaiser Chefs
Age Against The Machine
Or
Rag Against the Machine - they'd clean up...
Former gobbing fire-arms
The Ex Pistols
Fruity grunge: Pear Jam
Top notch fossil fuels: Supergass
4 Real Scallies: Manc Street Preachers
Dance pioneers create lab-based troubles: Chemical Bothers
Those Birmingham-based electronica popsters...
Broadcat
All girl trio, before they got all cultured...
Au revoir Simon
Rapping lice
Pubic Enemy.
Which is also a song by..
...a Tribe Called Quest
Shakey's socks
Neil Young and Crazy Hose
Roy Wood in transvestite comedian shocker
Izzard
Jarvis, the early years
Pup
On a double bill with
The Cur?
Robert Smith teams up with Midge to form...
... The Ure.
Jarvis, the scary years
Ulp.
I'd better have a go
Sad
Bi In Japan
Alphavile
Fascinating Aid
The Ho'
The Fur Tops
The Birthday Arty
The Cue
Steve Albini
felt Big Lack were missing something and so branched out into hip hop as Rapman.
Unfortunately Shellac doesn't really work. Boo.
Jason Perry's band...
most famous song "Nothing" is quite fitting given that their name is .
Nice name, don't you think?
Winning the prize for Scripture Knowledge (much like Bertram)
RE
Agit-propsters
alienating the Animal rights wing
Gang of Fur.
Walking Like An Egyptian, but at 45 degrees:
The Angles
The verdict on the US's fave ice-cream inspiring touring band?
Pish
Apologetic punks
Extreme Noise Error.
They're a bit daft
The Divie Comedy
See also
Ian Dur
John Lydon goes maths
Pi
Somebody shoulda told Lowell George
Little Eat
One letter wrong, one letter gone
Folk-rockers and a kettle for a nice cup of tea.
Fairpot Convection
George Osborne's favourite 80s goth rockers
The Cut.
(did somebody say what about one letter wrong?)
Not wishing to boast
but in my swinging pre-disease days I was known as The Hose Of Love
American Slacker Hip-Hop Songsmith moves to Yorkshire
Eck
Cunting Crows
you mean
that isn't their actual name? Who knew?
Or their farmyard tribute band
Counting Cows
even better
The Cunt Bishops
2
The Beeees
From deepest Hertfordshire
The Incredible Tring Band
close...
BUT not the Incredible Sting Band . . please :-)
saatchi and saatchi supergroup
Ad Company
The And
Kss
MGM (beat that!)
Yoko No
Badly Drawn Bo
Lack Sabbath
Hot Hip
The Oral
Ate Bush
Ladies and Gentlemen
we have a winner.
Ate Bush.
Marvellous.
And as a direct response....
Lady Gag.
According to rumours
it's Lad Gaga
I wanted to try Ate Bush
But when I got home I found someone had left Pubic Enemy in the box..
(Cheers cpt ;)
Staid music for the elderly
Oldplay
Other options are available:
Break time in the school of fish - Codplay
Valley drama - Colplay
Unenthusiastic lover - Coldlay
Pensioners' winter heating bonus - Coldpay
New tissue brand - Coldply
Daft Pun
The Notorious Bi
Dad Weather
Sade
The Un-Loving Criminals
Grindrman
New! transferable garden storage solutions from
Portished
More
Not the doesn't, or a group of female deer? - Does
For the incontinent - Weeer
Bit embarrassed about them now - The Shame
Mat Puppets: Children's Entertainer
Jesus and Mary Chan - Christian Folk duo
The Koks - Oi! Band
And if I may be allowed two letters....
The Sane Clown Posse
Clowns
Given their recent outing as evangelicals, how about -
The Inane Clown Posse
Or maybe the New Wave version, The Insane Clown Pose
Shirley Manson's techno rockers in change of direction
Garage
and to my great despair - Gool Bordello isn't quite a dispiriting Lincolnshire whorehouse..
Oooo arrr Rob Tyner
The Westcountry bound Detroit rockers - the M5
Tragic toothsome 70s singer songwriter
Jim Croc
And his friend Harry Chain
As well as
Fleetwood Ma
The toffy nosed Eton John
The very moving Supertram
and the rather un PC Arcade Fir
Some 80s Indie
Red House Panters - accommodation for those of a portly nature.
Cocteau Tins - more of an installation than a band.
14 Iced Ears - the Osmonds central heating packs in.
The June Rides - exams over, not a care in the world. Those were the days...
Some Reggae
Hird World - all things Thora.
Price Buster - it's madness.
Tots & The Maytals - younger than Musical Youth.
Judge Dead - for crimes against reggae music.
Ee Perry - Yorkshire rasta.
Wet Wet We
Funnier read out aloud than written down. (This is one of Boo's)
The Mersey Eat
Echo And The Bunny Me
The Eardrop Explodes
Ah heat
Ink Military
The Oral
Dad Or Alive
The Lighting Seeds
A Lock Of Seagulls
The Oo! Radleys
Alek, I Love You
The Arm
Orchestral Manoevres In The Ark
It's Mmaterial
The Ale Fountains
and, of course
Half Man, Alf Biscuit
I got 3
Chap Trick
Glitter Ban (as there is, sort of)
My Winehouse
Cure
90s indie also-rans or enormo-goths?
The Cars: John Grant's old band or 80s new wavers?
Black Ox Recorder
The Ox Tops
Red Ox
Living in an Ox
(Cont page 94)
Two Scousers.
Stereola.
Two Scousers shoplifting at New Look.
Take Tat.
The up
is for Stereola
"Great stuff"
Shakin Stevens
Big Bother and the Holding
Big Bother and the Holding Company
More
Od Stewart (naturally)
Neil Da Mond (even more the lounge singer)
Carl Simon (the forgotten brother)
The Bee Gee (when Barry departs)
Cliff Ricard (the French equivalent)
Keith Richard (it's how he spelt it in the first place anyway)
Double your indoor marijuana crop with
Stereoponics
Tricky . . . .
Supertram
Blood Sweat and Ears
The Scorpios
They're OK but my best efforts so far are two Trevor Horn projects . .
The Bugles
and
THE ART OF NOSE
Mind you ADDING a letter gave me, I think, the incomparable -
Steve Marriot and The Small Faeces !!
Bristol triphopper
extends his acting career by taking over from Sid Owen in Eastenders
Rickyyyyyyyyy
...
Transvision Amp - it was always about the guitars.
The Blue Aeroplane - RAF cutbacks.
Ew Order - feeling a bit sheepish after singer died.
The Ho - Rog'n'Pete go hip-hop.
Steve Miller Ban - quite right too... I mean The Joker is bloody awful.
Mor
Seeper (Louise Wener gets a nasty infection)
Meat Oaf
Michelle Hocked (Times are hard for the camp-fire songstress)
Shania Twin (Oh Christ, there's two of them)
(Whatever happened to) Sunk Anansie?
Yah Yah Yahs (Karen O goes all la-di-da)
Two Shania Twains?
*Cough*
Obviously it's Boo's old band
The Bile.
The versatile Mael brothers offer their services:
Parks - Horticulture
Spars - Brawling in a minimart near you
Sarks - Channel Island duplication, with a raised eyebrow
Eck - The Yorkshire hipster
The Treets - Free strawberry mivvi with every copy of the new album
Pear Jam - They've always taken a home-made approach
PM Dan - Strictly first-name-terms psychedelic hip hop premier
Snoop Ogg - for comprizzling all yo' audizzle
Outkat - don't you dare soil the sofa again
Heckling provided by Booer T, (and Mozzer's guitarist Boz Booer)
Alice In Chins
slightly more appealing than Lice In Chains.
Ditto Rots Manuva.
And the less said about Bomb The Ass and Black Rape the better...
A few dark ones...
Die Straits
The Ex Pistols
Black Rape
Bomb the Ass
Lice in Chains
What are the chances of that,
eh?
...
Friends character goes postal - Guns'n'Ross
French/Somerset chill experts - Ar
Metal Legend is still capable - Alice Coper
Redneck Piano Man - Billy Joe
Southern boogie from the Isle of White - The Black Cowes.
Something to help the Queen Guitarist? - Bran May.
Cheer up Robert Cry.
Irritating pop moppets - the Koks
Putting on a bit around the middle - Kim Wide
Pastoral folk from the lecherous Nick Rake
Still looking for the spirit in the sky, it's Norman Greenbum (well it made me laugh)
Looking out for pigs with Sow Patrol
Due to expenses Free become Fee.
Bo Derek's short-lived pop career
Badly Drawn Bo
Sonny and Her
The Boer Rebellion
Dad Can Dance
Fist
Great Lake Simmers - extreme global warming
Nouvelle Ague
Solid rockers get patricidal...
And you will know us by the trail of dad
Scots indie kids get hard - Rab Strap
or go Israeli special forces, Arab Trap
American songwriter goes redneck for comeback - Billy Joe
Irish folkster hero gains messiah complex Christ Moore
I better stop or I'll be here all night
Lardy in Red
Chris de Urgh
Early 70''s Fenders
Dire Strats
Ham
With George McHael and N'Drew Ridgely
or in the post-split overeating years
Gorge Michael
Those soppy subaquatic chart-botherers: Wetlife
Courtney Love's merry band of gardeners: Hoe
That unpalatable Puerto Rican: Icky Martin
The minty-fresh Scottish crooner: Polo Nutini
Big
County
1000 Maniacs
I wouldn't normally do this kind of thing but...
The P.E. Shop Boys
Surprise, remembering surname
Oo Hewerdine
On the road again...
Artic Monkeys
Tonite at the Woolpack - Otley Crue
Tiger Wood's faves - Porno for Pros
Wayne Rooney's faves - The 'ho
There's a kind of plush - The Carpeters
Lynryd Skynryd - Oh, they beat me to it.
for all your stocking needs
The Hosiers
Too Many Firemen/Gardeners
Crowded Hose
XTC Turn Into Top Cat
T C
You Need A C Replacement
Hot Hip
MGMT Turn into GMT Greater Manchester Transport
I Am Loot have just won the lottery
Badly Drawn BO Can you draw Body Odour ?
The Inks,Black Or Blue Waterloo Sunset ?
Ate Bush, Not Recommended
Duff amazing what a Y does
EM without An R Just Electronic Mail
Supertram A New Mode Of Transport
Queeze without an S I Feel sick
Plum tuckered-out foot fetishist...
...with a taste for Western Swing style c&w
Asleep At The Heel
A Ragbag -
Ry Coder - Tried Programming
Pa Tillis - Wouldn't that be Mel?
Kate Ruby - a Yorkshire gem
The Moors - Airport anyone?
Planty - Irish Folkies go Led
Ryan Adams - Oh that's been done already
Eton John - (Thames) Valley boy
Stig
following his stint in Racing Cars
I think
Mr Hewerdine was right – there is indeed nothing that tops The Grateful Dad.
Grateful Dad is my favourite
Grateful Dad is my favourite too, closely followed by the somewhate related And you will know us by the trail of dad...
Wigs...
...the band The Beales could have been.
Although, how about
Ten Ears After?
Or
Blood, Sweat and Ears
As long as I don't have to eat
Them Cooked Vultures...
How about.....
meat oaf ?
and maybe...
Tears or fears (or indeed, ears for fears)
Cum on feel the noize..
..... Sade
Northern soul
Alicia Kes
plus,
not from Wales, the Manc Street Preachers
the somewhat bathetic The Kings of Len
the scientifically experimental Ion and Wine
and say it ain't so, Sandy Deny
Introducing Adam`s older sister....
Ada Ant.
Eighties Pop Rockers despise Killing Joke Frontman
Johnny Hates Jaz
Howsabout
Frightened Rabbi anyone?
Reminds me of that Unkle song with Thom Yorke
Rabbi In Your Headlights.
The movie organisation crooner:
Rank Sinatra
Susanne (cluck a doodle doo) by Leonard O'Hen
One of These Night by the Eagle
Black Eyed Boy by Teas
Been Drivin' All Night And I'm Quite Tired by Olden Earring
Shitloads of Money by the hirsute songstress, Liz Hair
Virtual Sunset (Bird of Prey) by Fatboy Sim
You Took The Food Right Outta My Mouth by Eat Loaf
etc and etc and etc
I previously thought better of this one but...
we've all seen Exile in Guyville - Liz Pair more like.
*exits thread in disgrace*
Ah, Meat Loaf...
(to recycle an old musos gag):-
'The artist formerly known as Mince'
Moron this
Gary Litter
Pubic Image Limited
Avid Bowie
Poon Loudon Wainwright
Poon
Loudon Wainwright II
Blue Ink
Cheap Tick
Che
Done already: The Aints
Loudon Wainwright II
Brilliant!
Make budgies bounce with health
Defunct Brixham indy rockers The Trills