Band Names
Wed, 2008-08-20 04:44
#1
Band Names
Wed, 2008-08-20 04:44
#2
[url=http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/music/2008/08/name.html]web page[/url]
Along with the sentences, another alarming trend is to shove an expletive into your name. Forget Male Shoe Woman Poo, I'm talking Fuck Buttons, Selfish Cunt, Holy Fuck and their like. Not since schoolboys doodled fantasy bands in their rough books have there been so many expletives. Or names deliberately chosen to provoke: step forward Aids Wolf and Gay Beast. And these are frequently quite listenable, commercial acts, not hardcore or death metal where there are always piles of Anal Whores, Faeces Eruptions and Cunt Grinders.
ETA this is probably in the wrong place, but there was some discussion of this in a previous thread under National news re arts funding cuts by the harpies
Jake
[ 20 August 2008: Message edited by: Jake ]
[ 20 August 2008: Message edited by: Jake ]
[ 20 August 2008: Message edited by: Jake ]
Wed, 2008-08-20 05:10
#3
I could care less what a band calls themselves and seriously fail to see why this topic was brought up. We are adults. Not kids. Why does anyone care what a band names themselves and why is this an issue to begin with?
Do you want to become the morality police, and frankly Holy Fuck is not even remotely offensive.
Wed, 2008-08-20 05:10
#4
Forgive me for biting on this one, when I should probably just leave it alone, but honestly, who cares? I've seen Holy Fuck live half a dozen times and I'd do the same whether their name was forgettable or sensational. Point is, their music isn't forgettable — end of story.
I wonder what the point of this thread is. In any case, I'm moving it to the culture forum.