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ELIZABETH COOK sounds like she should be writing for Mills & Boon!


Sometimes It Takes Balls to Be a Woman - Elizabeth Cook


Then again.......

10,000 Maniacs - eek sound like punks

Coboy Junkies - sound like grunge

Two great bands!

Cowboy Junkies - Sweet Jane or Sun Comes Up It's Tuesday Morning

10,000 Maniacs - Because The Night or Like The Weather

The one that does it for me is Death Cab for Cutie. They are an absolutely excellent band though.
If you've not heard them try

Death Cab for Cutie - I Will Follow You Into The Dark

Al.

#2 though nothing wrong with grunge or punk

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I think I disagree. What is a grunge?

Not sure but Julie and the daughter will know...

The Rudiments is about as dull a name as I can think of - it's not too late, lads, get it changed now before you become famous

Start to Roll - The Rudiments

and of course I'm really looking forward to

Sometime Around Midnight - Airborne Toxic Event,

which I'm hopefully assuming 'has to be in there'

Malcolm Middleton's latest incarnation completely baffles me, as no doubt intended

The H.D.B.A. Theme -

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Gretchen Wilson has to be Heidi's American cousin.


- Gretchen Wilson


Keep it Country!

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An anagram for Thing-Fish...


Walk Out Backwards -


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#9 If you say so.

System of a Down. What a cheery band name. IDTS!! (That's some sort of teenagey thingy whatnot!) Whateva.
Aerials
Not a hope. But, as you're in the area -
Aerials Up I Am

titter ye not ...

'False Jesii Part 2' ------- Pissed Jeans

... dirty boy (in a harry Hill stylee)

titter away ...



the cultish 'Singing Butts' ... take yer pick .........

Well, the problem is the name only sounds weird until you like the music and then it's totally accepted, so you can no longer remember how you felt about the name before capitulation and acceptance.

I instinctively dislike names that I think are pretentious or corny; like Frigid Pink, Barclay James Harvest, the Moody Blues ( not a trace of blues anywhere) Fatboy Slim, Fun Boy Three and zillions of others, though in all cases I went on to enjoy the music.

But for plain old corny strangeness, 'The Beatles' takes a bit of beating! - it is inculcated, so you never think about it. My ichoons library has named individual artists outnumbering bands by quite some distance, so maybe I'm bigoted against bands.

Here's some that I instinctively disliked the name of before falling in love with the music.

The Trashcan Sinatras - Obscurity Knocks this is fantastic.

Steely Dan - Third World Man I hated the name even without knowing they were named after a sex toy ( who would buy a sex toy with a name like that?) but the name fits with Donald Fagan's "languid and bittersweet" story lines - nobody does slease quite like Steely Dan. I wonder if the name influenced the output, living up to the name? So I've picked a truly beautiful piece of music with lyrics about South American drug war child soldiers with post traumatic stress disorder. Typical - but at least it's not about drug fuelled sex sessions.

Wilco - Sky Blue Sky Didn't know much about them until a friend encouraged me along to the Barrowland gig. Wow. great musicianship, this is Dylanesque and fabby.

Codeine Velvet Club - Begging Bowl Blues I instinctively didn't fancy the John Lawler (Fratelli) 'side project' because of the pretentious name -and i was right - if this has been put out as 'The Fratellis' (and let's face it, he was The Fratelli's) it would have been a worldwide smash. This is a remarkable record that through choosing the wrong marketing approach/name, hardly anyone has heard.Sometimes you pay a high price for yer art.

That'll do just now.. I could go on but it would be great to hear any one of these. Pretty unlikely though, as these wonderful tunes will doubtless be sidelined in the Pigs Will Fly list.

regardez youse

henri

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The Notorious Cherry Bombs


What kind of stupid name for a band is that?


It's Hard to Kiss the Lips at Night that Chew Your Ass Out all Day Long

Lordy Lordy ~ T. Distillers When I first saw this in the GIO Sceptics’ CD collection I mistakenly thought the violin lessons had paid off and she'd got into the Scottish Folk scene!

Belsen Was a Gas ~ T. Sex Pistols Even for me this was way too controversial.

Holiday In Cambodia ~ Dead Kennedys The picture sleeve carried more impact than any reference to the death of America's first Irish-Catholic president and his brother.

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First thoughts that came to me when I read the theme:
The Doobie Brothers. Odd name/great band. Please play "Long train running"
Mona - a rock band, not a solo artist - "Listen to your love"

More to follow


Joe
Linlithgow

Not surprised you like Wilco HH...they're fairly Beatles-influenced.

The first time I had ever heard of the bare naked ladies was when my son barely a teenager told me he was going to see them. That was an interesting conversation.

Heres three bands whose music I would have avoided for their names alone but who have had the odd decent track

When I still have thee / Teenage fanclub
Into oblivion / Funeral for a friend
Hooverville / The Christians

#13 exactly what I was thinking, Henri - I can remember several names that seemed pretty stupid/pretentious when I first heard them and now can't for the life of me think what they were, because it's all about the music.

I'm fairly sure The Low Anthem seemed an oddly unappealing name till I heard Charlie Darwin; My Morning Jacket is another.

The Low Anthem - To Ohio
My Morning Jacket - Victory Dance

and I thought PJ Harvey was a sort of k.d. Lang (and therefore dismissed as not for me) till I listened to Let England Shake. Sorry, k.d. fans, this is far more to my liking

either

Let England Shake
or
On Battleship Hill - PJ Harvey

typical irish punks, wit ur they like?

advice to the choosing panel...........my taste is impeccable (as yiz ken) so you dont have to bother listening to this gem from the wonderful cd 'rogues gallery' (i'm trying to help you here!!)...a treasure chest (geddit?) of sea chanties (another clue). i think its about havin' a punch up in the alley after a boozy nite oot...aye that's right a bit like byres road on a wet wednesday....the nation will love ya for playing it.......i'll go into hiding.....but not before i've heard the accordion bit in the middle.

'bully in the alley'..................three pruned men

cheers frae the dale

The Flaming Lips

Where did that come from????


The Ya Ya song please

DC

Always thought Elvis Costello sounded like a cross between Elvis Presley and half of Abbot and Costello!

Chumbawamba... what's all that about?

but to my request....

John Cougar Mellencamp... so daft that he eventually dropped the 'Cougar'.... but not until he had made some great albums.
Would love to hear 'Check It Out' from the 'Lonesome Jubilee' album (equally daft title)!

Name sounded more like a law firm or something that might grow on the side of your house.


Climie Fisher - Love Changes Everything


also for consideration


Hootie & The Blowfish - Only Wanna Be With You


Al.

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Theme suggestion:


Bands and singers with names bereft of vowels.


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Gimme Three Steps - Lynyrd Skynyrd



Kp t Cntry!

Did we do a theme a while back where an explanation was given to explain how the band got their name?

#25 is allegedly because of the PE teacher at the singer's school (Mr Leonard Skinner)

Garbage-I think I'm Paranoid
Plastic Bertrand-Ca Plane Pour Moi
Duffy-Warwick Avenue

'Boa v's Python' ~~ Test Icicles

'Sleep Deprivation' ~~ Simian Mobile Disco

'Short Sharp Shock' ~~ (we are) Performance

'MechANIcal Heart' ~~ Nostalghia

'Nine Million Rainy Days ~~ The Jesus & Mary Chain

Def Leppard - Pour some sugar on me

Al.

#9 Awkward blackouts

I've always thought that Bullet For My Valentine is very unromantic ☺

Get Cape, Wear Cape, Fly - 'Call me Ishmael'

The Meat Purveyors - 'Burr Under My Saddle'

Tunng - Sashimi

Porcupine Tree - Stranger By The Minute

Here's a few more where i instinctively couldn't relate to the name but love the music:

A Tribe Called Quest - I Left My wallet In El Segundo

Prefab Sprout - Life Of Surprises

Pink Martini - Autrefois

Little Feat - Rock N Roll Doctor

The Leisure Society - If God Did Give Me A Choice

It would be good to hear any of these...especially the Leisure Society.. I heard someone famous in a Sunday column raving about them.Well, that's two of us.

regardez youse

henri

IS IT MY BODY? from LOVE IT TO DEATH by ALICE COOPER

who turned out to be nothing like Mary Hopkin

Given Blur's success at the fantastic Brits...

Kingdom Of Doom ~ The Good, The Bad & The Queen

GIO please!

What's that? The new Charles Tyrwhitt catalogue has arrived, I'll be right there!

At work so not listening till later...have they played the Maccabees yet...named after a Jewish army but don't sound at all warlike that I've heard. Think they've made the Radio Scotland playlist recently but I'd quite like Toothpaste Kisses again...lovely wee song.

Oh well...back to the grind...carry on chaps!

Babs, Cage Fighting... surely that would fit with ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Sport Relief?

Nope - we've been getting Randy Van Warmer -which I'd always presumed was a made up name, but apparently not. You couldn't make it up.

#37 I prefer TM Lewin :-)

#38

Nae "9 BELOW ZERO with THREE TIMES ENOUGH" again tonight!

#41 I did too until they stopped doing shoes L.O.L.