There's gonna be an accident

[venta]

I just misread one of my own posts. Specifically, I misread the "Music" line. And it amused me, and I think it could become a game.

It's simple - take a band name, add one letter to it. Make a new band name, and tell me the music they play.

So, the original one: Lots of young women who sing harmoniously as they slave away hammering out armour. Yes, it's...

Pretty Girls Make Greaves.

And look over there. The industrial, grinding noise of heavy agricultural machinery operated by benign, smiling little green ladies who wave their knitting at you as the push out another string of heavy bass.

It's... Alien Aunt Farm.

And who are those young gentleman in their crips white suits ? Their traditional rock'n'roll vibe makes them seem so cleancut, somehow.

Oh, they'll be the Dreftones.

(Barrel scraping there, I think.)

Now, of course, I'm trying to think of others, but I keep running into a few problems. A short band name, and it's not obvious what you're basing it on. Mash and Mouse are not readily identifiable as Ash and Muse. Use an obscure band name, and it's not obvious either. And, the worst pitfall of all - add one letter, and suddenly you've got not a bad pun, but a bad tribute band. Consider, if you will:

The Stoned Roses.

No, it's not a group of apple-cheeked English maidens playing on panpipes and sitars, it's clearly just a bunch of rocker-wannabes trotting out poor renditions of She Bangs The Drums.

Any offers ? Go on, even if you hate music this is just an excuse for bad puns. And however much they claim not to, everyone like a good bad pun. Readers are welcome to decry any new bands they consider to be mere cover outfits.

Comments

[zotz]

Mancunian existential malaise with a side-order of scatology - Joby Division.

Or is that not what you meant?

[zotz]

Newt Model Army, of course, are as noted for their dioramas of amphibians as for their music.

[venta.livejournal.com]

Or is that not what you meant?

Sadly, that is exactly what I meant :)

[venta.livejournal.com]

Ooh, splendid.

I mean, splendid pun. Not a splendid mental image.

[wimble.livejournal.com]

Is this a meme?

Clearly, calls for sheep in the garden!

(Baaa-der meinhof)

[venta.livejournal.com]

Stompy rock, with the guitarists pausing only to hurl custard pies across the stage.

The Food Fighters

I probably can't get any more mileage out of Dogs Die In Hot Carts, can I?

[nalsa.livejournal.com]

A religious self-harming drug-fuelled dance troupe, Pope will eat itself.

[venta.livejournal.com]

I can't.
But only because I've just gauged my eyes out with a biro.

[venta.livejournal.com]

Which means, of course, that I carefully measure the exact width of the socket and carefully calculated the force needed to extract them.

gouged

[venta.livejournal.com]

You're too damn good at this.

[mr-tom.livejournal.com]

Tart of Noise: Their experimental pie-based sounds are rich and creamy.

Blink 192: Their west-coast pop punk sings out the number you were looking for.

Dick Dalek: Virtuoso guitar playing combined with extra-terrestrial warblings.

Skate Bush: Warblings on wheels

[mr-tom.livejournal.com]

Yop La Tengo - Yoghurty indie pop.

[venta.livejournal.com]

Dick Dalek: Virtuoso guitar playing combined with extra-terrestrial warblings.

Best yet.

[venta.livejournal.com]

Sheep Won Drugs.

[neilh.livejournal.com]

Pat the Drive-in - an ex-truck driver who ate one too many hamburgers and can't climb into his cab any more, sings bad country songs for a living instead
Badly Drawn Body - an amputee punk band
Breastie Boys - crossdressering poodlehaired rock band
Birohazard - geeky looking chemists, lots of pyro in stageshow

oh, yes, I like this game

[elethiomel.livejournal.com]

The Beagles

A 70s West-Coast Rock phenomenon who have recently reformed after rediscovering their collective love of small dogs.

[neilh.livejournal.com]

Or Sheep on de rugs?

[secondhand-rick.livejournal.com]

meminem - Jim Henson inspired rapper
The Chives - not my favourite new band, I mean, they're ok but do they really contribute anything?
Piggy Pop - going straight after years of drug abuse, he really piled on the pounds
Mettalicat - They play thrash, they wear catsuits!
Nine Inch Snails - They're huge and coming for your cabbage!
Nob Doubt - Gwen Stefani sings of penis envy
Placebot - automatic Brian never moves
FU2 - Bono and the boys respond to their critics

[venta.livejournal.com]

Similarly, gentle ambient pop poured over shaved ice:

Goldfrappé

[venta.livejournal.com]

meminem - Jim Henson inspired rapper

I hate you.

green tea | nose > keyboard

[wimble.livejournal.com]

My German's not up to the job, so I relied on Lycos' translation facility, which clearly has as much difficulty with meinhof as I do ;-)

[venta.livejournal.com]

Sorry, my joke wasn't that sophisticated :)

You won't sensibly get a translation of Baader Meinhof from somewhere like that - it's the name of a terrorist cell in Germany in the (?)1930s. Google will know.

[diffrentcolours]

Aphex Twine - experimental musician makes noises by sampling vibrations on string.

Echo & The Bunnymenu - one man's life in an all-you-can-eat game restaurant

4fat Fingers - punk rockers who need session musicians to play guitars for them

Happy Moondays - Madchester funk-influenced serial bottom-exposers

DearthBoy - Pounding tek-punk, but strangely lacking something

Mortiiis - Makes no sense, but sometimes two i's aren't enough.

Pushing it a bit...

[venta.livejournal.com]

Bubblegum punk pop, wearing nice green tweeds, from Helen Lovet.

[venta.livejournal.com]

4fat Fingers - punk rockers who need session musicians to play guitars for them

Damn you, I was just typing that one! (Though worrying that not that many people would know the 4ft Fingers anyway.)