I just heard Ratatat for the first time. Looking at their logo, and that name, I kinda expected some kind of Does It Offend You, Yeah? type band.
And I avoided Trail of Dead for ages because I assumed, because of their name and that gothy-style logo, that they were going to be some kind of death metal band. Now they're one of my favourite bands....
What other bands have you been surprised by cos their name doesn't fit?
Holy Fuck....
...I just expected something completely different!
I still haven't heard them
But I keep meaning to. I'm expecting some kind of dancy loud rocky stuff.
I'll listen now.
Woah.
Yep. They're ace, but not Holy Fuck.
murder by death
^ i came here to write that!
yes
x 100
Vampire Weekend
Rock Plaza Central
A Place to Bury Strangers
Nirvana
Nada Surf
Massive Attack
Yeah
I definitely agree about Vampire Weekend...
are ratatatatatat and DIOYY that different?
i think the classic is Destroyer. although i do like the name, people automatically assume it's metal
Well listening to it now
Ratatatatatatatatataattataattaatatatatatattatatat is quite chilled out and kinda atmospheric in comparison to DIOYY...?
their latest album is
check Seventeen years
Destroyer
Sounds like a thrash metal band
^
this
The Clash
you expect some attitude with a name like that. What do you get instead? A load of bollocks with crap singing.
Iiiiiiiiiiiin one
I was just about to post this
Johnny Foreigner
I'd gone ages thinking they were some sort of Sam Duckworth solo acoustic person
Shame on me
they are awesome
I think the name is really great too, now I know its for a band and not a person
Panic At The Disco
With a name like that I was expecting to hear some kind of filthy dirrrty dirged up electro beats not teenage emo crap as dished up by this lot.
You can't say that on here
nowadays
Favours for Sailors?
suppose its better then Cuntattack though.
why not?
hearing Panic At the Disco's first clutch of singles was nearly enough to make me slit my wrists. No way am i going to listen to their second album, life is too short.
I wasn't being serious
Just joking about the turnaround of attitude towards the band
^ this
Wild Beasts
they don't seem wild or beastly
^
this.
Also, the guy with the moustache annoys me...I'd let the other dude sing the whole time.
^ unlike Wild Man Fischer
who was totally, er, wild.
This man sounds ace
iLiKETRAiNS
Stupidly stupid name - seriously serious music.
I'd say Carter USM
... i think Jimbob is pretty stoppable.
A Perfect Circle
I went to see them at Glastonbury when they were promoting Mer De Noms, not knowing anything about them.
I was expecting a Murmur-era REM-influenced alternative/indie band.
What I got was an amazing rock/metal band. Totally unexpected, but utterly brilliant.
Fiery furnaces
When I mention them to people who have no concept of them assume they are some metal / heavy rock band.
xx teens
nada surf
Death Cab for Cutie
not the cheerleader-dicing-and-slicing thrash metal I expected.
Beloved - not the whimsical indie I expected but metal instead!
i miss beloved :(
Godspeed You! Black Emperor
i expected Les Savy Fav to be a dance/electro act too.
what expectations did you have of
Godspeed You! Black Emperor?
metal band
as did my friend
I expected LSF to be French
The Eagles Of Death Metal
It's niether death metal nor eagles
The Beatles
I don't know, doesn't seem to fit somehow. Maybe something like "The Beethovens".
^
they couldn't even spell 'beetles'
It's a terrible pun.
Clap your hands say yeah
The Darkness
sonic youth
because groan they are groan old
they weren't though
back in 1878 when they released 'Confusion is Sex'
...And you will know us by the trail of dead
ive never heard their music but someone said it to me once. erm.
Planes mistaken for stars
not a twee emo band but a pumelling metal assault
Savage Garden
should be a Def Leppard-esque 80s hair-metal band. Which would still be preferable to the reality.
you know "Fuck Buttons" really through me
When I first heard of them I was thinking snotty punkers but then I read some of the discussion and learned that they were "experimental" and that threw me a curve- had to try them- love them - would like to rename them- "Space Church"
whoops, "Fuck Buttons" THREW me
they really did
I remember trying to force albums on my girlfriend
Me: I've found this really nice post-rock band you might like, they're really chilled
Her: Oh cool, what are they called?
Me: This Will Destroy You
Her: :////////
I read you rusername as part of that exchange
it worked.
I talked to one of the TWDY guitarists
He said the name was sort of a joke, to trick heavy music fans into coming to see them!
I'd never seen a band like them live before, so the intense bits did really destroy me...it's not completely inaccurate as a name!
post-holy bible
manic street preachers. really should have changed their name new order-style
Franz Ferdinand
I was hoping to find some motorik electro kraut blast and all I got was four angular pop stomping idiots
The Dismemberment Plan
I expected more metal.
Don't stop them being brlliant though...
Scouting For Girls
great name, terrible band
What's so great
about their band name?
This Will Destroy You
surely win this thread. They won't destroy me, they'll mildly divert me sure, but destroy me? No.
Again a name far more suited to an extreme metal band.
Hell is for Heroes
It sounds like a sort of hair metal covers band
No,
The Thrills win this thread.
haha
they're aren't even remotely thrilling are they?!
Thomas Tantrum is also a ridiculous name, you'd think it'd be some preppy scouting-for-girls type but I never expected a female singer when i first heard it
what MrScagdenSir said
This Will Bore You, would be more appropriate.
It would be a ridiculously long name but
'This Will Divert You, Or Bore You, Depending Upon Your Feelings About Post Rock'
would be a pretty good autodescriptive name.
or 'Like Explosions In the Sky But Not Really As Good'
Eagles of Death Metal
Nowhere near as hardcore as they sound
Sorry
Just realised someone had already mentioned Eagles of Death Metal
I think...
Arctic Monkeys is a pretty awful name for a group. As in, I've just noticed it, now I have one of their songs on my iPod.
I would've expected Feist to've been more feisty.
I thought The Master Musicians Of Hop-Frog would've sounded like the perfect accompaniment for a spot of morris dancing.
Um, Neon Neon, too, maybe.