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Crazy Names; Can anyone beat this?
Topic Started: Jul 17 2011, 02:16 PM (355 Views)
rumbaba
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"Tav Falco's Unapproachable Panther Burns" is the strangest band name I have encountered but I am sure there are loads more out there. click here



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becky sharp
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Quite like the sound of that,Rum...(not the name, the song.. :D ) a bit Nick Cavish
Edited by becky sharp, Jul 17 2011, 02:34 PM.
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Alex Chilton played in 'The Burns' for a short while at one time

I'm guessing you will like this Tav track less :)

Tav Falco

Edited by rumbaba, Jul 17 2011, 04:28 PM.
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rumbaba
Jul 17 2011, 04:12 PM
Alex Chilton played in 'The Burns' for a short while at one time

I'm guessing you will like this Tav track less :)

Tav Falco

Sure that's not Chiltern.. ;)

I've heard worse ...didn't catch all the lyrics though...
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Nope, not Alex on this track, as far as I know.

'It came from Memphis' by Robert Gordon is a very good book on the whole Memphis scene, mainly the music. There are some great characters like wrestler Sputnik Munroe, as well the usual suspects like Jim Dickinson, Dan Penn, Alex, etc. It came from Memphis review . Tav was part of the Memphis scene at the time.
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Never mind that though, any crazy names?
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rumbaba
Jul 17 2011, 08:46 PM
Nope, not Alex on this track, as far as I know.
That was my attempt at a joke .. :D ..seeing as how I had spelt his name on the other thread
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rumbaba
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Oops, sorry Becks, I'm a bit thick at the moment :(
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May-Cee

I have a few good tracks by early versions of the Panther Burns combo on a couple of Rough Trade compilations.

These are fairly (in some cases very) well-known names; that somehow don't seem all that strange now that we're so used to them:

* And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead

* Scraping Foetus Off The Wheel / You've Got Foetus On Your Breath (And other, equally cheery, variations.)

* Throbbing Gristle

* Bark Psychosis

* Justified Ancients Of Mu-Mu (AKA The KLF, of course.)

* Gorky's Zygotic Mynci (And Welsh compadres, Super Furry Animals)


And, like Foetus, two bands who more or less changed their name with every new record:

Wah! Heat & Spizz Oil
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Great stuff May Cee, that's what we want! ok1
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Hugh Mosby-Joaquin
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It's not so much that bands have crazy names, it's more the motivation that arose for themselves to self-apply the appellation. Or was it them? Could it have been the insistence of their manager or agent? Or were they being coyly provocative? Every name must have a story.

A here-yesterday, gone-the-next band in my neck of the woods styled themselves 'Duck sick'; revolting enough and more so if one considers the spoonerism...

For some reason I remember a Sheffield-based band calling themselves 'Gomez' after the guitarist's dog, which seems a strange notion and one that they were warned against at the time. Whether or not they still exist I know not, but does the name in their case really matter? It's merely a title that suggests very little, apart from the possibility of envisaging a mariachi band or similar, I suppose.

And Ian Anderson's 'Jethro Tull' does offer a ruralistic harking-back to an earlier age (although the original Mr Tull was all for mechanisation, I assume), but the original single was put out as being by 'Jethro Toe', presumably because the on-disc information was given over a bad phone-line. A rare record, incidentally; keep an eye out for a copy!

I was a friend of the band 'Free Sandwiches', whose name on the flyer of local pubs would at least attract a few starving skinflints to attend in the hope it were true....

...apart from that, I offer 'Hapshash and the coloured coat featuring the human host and the heavy-metal kids'...but they were about, briefly, in the heady, hippy days of the 1970s. 'Nuff said....
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I used to have a Liberty records sampler called 'Gutbucket' that featured 'Hapshash and the Coloured Coat', along with The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band' and a host of others Gutbucket - here

Oh, it has 'The Bonzo Dog Do dah Band' too laugh
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'Gutbucket'

That with with a lurid cover-design featuring a pig at dinner, if memory serves. I never had that, but I did once own the sampler called 'El Pea' which featured inner sleeves with foamy-bits on the edges to clean the disc on replacement...and to scratch it on removal with the accumulated dust, one assumes.
And I've still got a 'Harvest' sampler, of that era, but cannot remember it's title.

Biggest regret? Giving away my copy of 'Girls Together Outrageously' (I was a Zappa fan, you see). Ghastly group, but the LP commands quite a price, I believe.
Best move? Buying 'Amm' for 10/- whilst at college, years ago. Amm! A group (lead by Cornelius Cardew; that explains a lot) who nearly played music, but whose disc (the Yellow lorry cover; not unsurprisingly played too often..) earned me about £60 recently.
However, records are about music and nostalgia, not financial gain. Well, not essentially... Rumbaba and The Emoticons .......... devil
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Hugh Mosby-Joaquin
Jul 20 2011, 03:27 PM
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'Gutbucket'

That with with a lurid cover-design featuring a pig at dinner, if memory serves.
Click the link above to see the cover :)
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"Biggest regret? Giving away my copy of 'Girls Together Outrageously' (I was a Zappa fan, you see). Ghastly group, but the LP commands quite a price, I believe."

Did you have the 'An Evening with Wild Man Fischer' album too - another Zappa wind up laugh

Merry go round
Edited by rumbaba, Jul 20 2011, 07:50 PM.
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May-Cee

* How To Destroy Angels

* Neutral Milk Hotel

* Six Organs Of Admittance

* Godspeed You! Black Emperor

* Some Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin

* Fuck / Fucked Up / Holy Fuck / Fuck Buttons
(Wogan could never decide which of those combos he liked best.)



Enjoy Belgrade, Rum!
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May-Cee

Correction:

* Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin
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Just got to Belgrade. Staying at the IN hotel, which is ok and has free hard wired internet ok1
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May-Cee

Get a load of the combo on "Jazz On 3" tonite:

* Mostly Other People Do The Killing
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Blimey :(
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rumbaba
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I love The Squirrel Nut Zippers, here's a nice track

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZDWoLPxCXk
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Did anyone notice that Wild Man Fisher has just gone and died ........ ?

My friends and i used to sing "Which Way Did The Freaks Go? ( a 'question' song title!)
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In 1969 a NZ band formed with the name Hogsnort Rupert's Original Flagon Band, later shortened to Hogsnort Rupert. They are still playing today apparently. Played jokey songs when they were at the peak of their popularity. Don't know what they do now.
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caissier
Aug 14 2011, 10:37 PM
Did anyone notice that Wild Man Fisher has just gone and died ........ ?

My friends and i used to sing "Which Way Did The Freaks Go? ( a 'question' song title!)
I didn't know that Caissier. I remember 'Merry go round'

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Hogsnort Rupert's Original Flagon Band,

I'd like to imagine them on a double-bill with the now defunct Bristol based Scrumpy & Western group, The Pigsty Hill Light Orchestra...
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I forgot about 'Carter, the unstoppable sex machine'
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