Acts Whose Names Contradicted Their Styles

[Satchmo Distel]

Savage Garden were very tame

Jimmy Young always sounded ancient, even in his crooning career

[delicatemoth]

I remember when MC Hammer came out, there was a promo shot of him laughing and the title of his record 'Please Hammer Don't Hurt 'Em'. I thought he was going to sound like Geto Boys.

[Walter Knight]

Eagles of Death Metal?

[Benjm]

There's a Scottish band called Party Cannon whose style is described as brutal death metal.

Their logo stands out on festival bills among the more traditionally metallic designs of their peers.

[Toby Gymshorts]

Eagles of Death Metal?

Apparently dreamt up along similar lines to QOTSA ("You're so heavy, you're like the Queens of the Stone Age"). There's nothing death metal about EODM, as we all know (and leaving aside Jesse Hughes' unfortunate politics "I Came To Make A Bang" remains brilliant).

Party Cannon are, indeed, crushingly heavy. I don't like death metal much in honesty, but fair fucks to them for at least taking the piss out of themselves in a field of otherwise depressing band names.

[Toby Gymshorts]

I say "much", I mean "at all". I just don't get it.

[Guy Profumo]

And Billy Fury was always a very mild mannered man

[Sean of the Shed]

And Billy Fury was always a very mild mannered man

Yes, a shy and quietly spoken spotty little bloke. Back when my mum was a teenager she sold him a packet of fags in the newsagents she worked in (Meltons opposite the bus station for those who know Lincoln).

[Sean of the Shed]

Jimmy Nail is shit at DIY.

[Sean of the Shed]

Billy Ocean can't swim.

[ad hoc]

Black Francis is white

[Sean of the Shed]

Barry White is black.

[Auntie Beryl]

Extreme

[Jah Womble]

Brand New Heavies (acid jazz, as opposed to hard rock)
Vampire Weekend (tame US indie rather than Goth/schlock)
Cutting Crew (lame-assed transatlantic pop-rock, and not a young hip-hop posse)

[Sits]

Barenaked Ladies

[Toby Gymshorts]

Toy Dolls

[MarkF]

Sam Brown isn’t.

[Hot Pepsi]

Billy Ocean can't swim.

How do you know that?

[MrLeam]

I remember when MC Hammer came out, there was a promo shot of him laughing and the title of his record 'Please Hammer Don't Hurt 'Em'. I thought he was going to sound like Geto Boys.

Musically, yeah. In real life, Hammer was more gangster than you'd guess.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/so-...ngster.124223/

[Satchmo Distel]

The Carpenters failed their woodwork classes.

David Soul didn't have any.

[Sporting]

Barry White is black.

Nowt to do with musical style.

[3 Colours Red]

I always though that the name Soundgarden may have suggested something rather more experimental and ethereal.

[Sean of the Shed]

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[Jah Womble]

We had an amusing thread surrounding such death-metal band logos a few years back. Party Cannon indeed amusingly stood out - while virtually every other name was either illegible, or looked like a cluster of arachnid sheddings.

[3 Colours Red]

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Maybe but you can't deny it's still applicable.