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Why do bands have such shit names nowadays?

kilgore-trout [Edit] [Delete] 21:29, 9 June '11

I've just had a look through the NME's top 50 new bands thing and I've also noticed looking through the lineups from smaller stages at festival that loads of new bands just choose one boring noun for their name that doesn't seem to have any meaning or significance.

Examples: Cults, Braids, Tribes, Spark, Fixers, Towns, Fiction, Mazes, Alpines, Brother, Flats, etc.

They're really forgettable and extremely annoying as it takes a few seconds longer to google them. If bands like Cerebral Ballzy and Fist Fuck Deluxe can put some effort into coming up with a good name there's no reason why other bands can't.


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