Ryan Zepaltas wrote: Sun Jun 06, 2021 9:55 am Bitch Magnet

My immediate first thought when I saw the thread title. Took me years to get over it, even though I was into a bunch of their contemporaries and successors. I didn't give them a chance until the Temporary Residence 3xLP reissue, at which point I realized they (A) were freakin' amazing and (B) connect the dots between many of the aforementioned bands. Still a godawful name, though.

European rock can be really bad for this:

Does It Offend You, Yeah?
We Are Enfant Terrible
Kap Bambino

I sneered at all three when I saw them in record stores; now I own multiple albums by each

Youtube has algorithmed me a band or singer called Hiatus Kaiyote. A name like that definitely puts me off.

A_Man_Who_Tries wrote: Mon Jun 07, 2021 7:57 am Around the same time I can think of three other bands with godawful names, who were all godawful - Dearly Beheaded, Pist.On, and Pro-Pain. Pro-Pain get let off for being good lads when Johnny Morrow was sick on their Iron Monkey tour.

Pro-Pain were basically a poorer man's Biohazard, but early Crumbsuckers was good.

Krev wrote: Wed Jun 23, 2021 12:16 pm

A_Man_Who_Tries wrote: Mon Jun 07, 2021 7:57 am Around the same time I can think of three other bands with godawful names, who were all godawful - Dearly Beheaded, Pist.On, and Pro-Pain. Pro-Pain get let off for being good lads when Johnny Morrow was sick on their Iron Monkey tour.

Pro-Pain were basically a poorer man's Biohazard, but early Crumbsuckers was good.

Was Hank Hill their primary songwriter?

Buzzcocks

Yo La Tengo. For years. Even though they were on matador I just thickly assumed it would some salsa thing or something I wouldnt be into

They are now my fave band.

I missed out on Bark Psychosis for years, thinking "oh, another grindcore band."

still holding out on King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard

I dunno, are they great?

Dovira wrote: Wed Jun 23, 2021 12:02 pm Youtube has algorithmed me a band or singer called Hiatus Kaiyote. A name like that definitely puts me off.

I have a friend who's a mega fan. Take a late 90's R&B singer who can sing her ass off and put her with some Berkley School of Music kids who want to tone down the flash (slightly) to just groove over some compound time stuff. Add some social criticism poetry.

I'm still ambivalent but curious.