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A list of the greatest Band Names never ever to be mentioned on Christian Radio (Original Post) MrScorpio Feb 2013 OP
I guess Elvis Hitler and Throbbing Gristle are okay then! kentauros Feb 2013 #1
Throbbing Gristle popped into my head when I saw the original post title auburngrad82 Feb 2013 #2
I don't know the origin of their name, kentauros Feb 2013 #11
Origin of Joy Division's name. auburngrad82 Feb 2013 #18
Wow. That's kind of ... shocking that they would choose a name kentauros Feb 2013 #19
The punk bands chose names that they thought would offend auburngrad82 Feb 2013 #27
Post-punk band The March Violets also employed a Nazi reference in their name Tom Ripley Feb 2013 #57
I have also read "Atrocity at Auschwitz" by Ka-tzetnik; it is another example of this weird nazi... Tom Ripley Feb 2013 #39
normally, I_T_W never listens to revolting cocks. just so you know. In_The_Wind Feb 2013 #42
I mostly listen to my Ipod but it occurs to me that I've never heard these bands on ANY station auburngrad82 Feb 2013 #3
NC gets some shows OriginalGeek Feb 2013 #9
The worst I can come up with on my Ipod is auburngrad82 Feb 2013 #25
Pat boone has a metal album OriginalGeek Feb 2013 #29
Check out the live music archive on archive.org auburngrad82 Feb 2013 #31
Downloading now! OriginalGeek Feb 2013 #35
Let me know what you think auburngrad82 Feb 2013 #37
I just grabbed the first thing OriginalGeek Feb 2013 #48
Pat Boone lived next door to Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne for a while TexasBushwhacker Feb 2013 #58
I am having fun OriginalGeek Feb 2013 #59
Listen to more public/college radio and you will! kentauros Feb 2013 #21
I mostly listed to my Ipod but Raleigh has an awesome funk show from Shaw University auburngrad82 Feb 2013 #26
Yeah, I'm hoping when my GF visits next month, kentauros Feb 2013 #28
Is Jesus Jones already irrelevant? sadbear Feb 2013 #4
There's definitely a bias here. sadbear Feb 2013 #5
I am guessing the Sodom Fudgesicles would be verboten as well.... yellowcanine Feb 2013 #6
lol, I've seen several of those bands live OriginalGeek Feb 2013 #7
I heard that you can book Wall of Smegma for Bar Mitzvahs nt MrScorpio Feb 2013 #8
Thanks for the tip! KamaAina Feb 2013 #12
I lol'd OriginalGeek Feb 2013 #30
So the Butthole Surfers are okay? KamaAina Feb 2013 #10
I guess they can talk about Killer Pussy Tabasco_Dave Feb 2013 #44
I wonder if they know what Steely Dan means KamaAina Feb 2013 #13
Right! I don't think many know. CrazyOrangeCat Feb 2013 #41
Kevin Ayers is the only musician who ever wrote to Burroughs and asked permission to use one of... Tom Ripley Feb 2013 #52
That's interesting. A polite rocker. n/t CrazyOrangeCat Feb 2013 #54
+ struggle4progress Feb 2013 #56
I wonder if the 60s rock group "The Nazz" aint_no_life_nowhere Feb 2013 #14
Gay Witch Abortion geardaddy Feb 2013 #15
Hallelujah for Gaye Bikers on Acid! mikeytherat Feb 2013 #16
I do agree with the terminating for someone mention Nickelback or Justin Bieber though. geardaddy Feb 2013 #17
Hey! Did they steal my iPod??? Initech Feb 2013 #20
Where is Jesus Lizard!? ismnotwasm Feb 2013 #22
I wonder if they're familiar with the origins of "Lovin' Spoonfuls" and "10cc"..... lastlib Feb 2013 #23
Butthole Surfers, Flaming Lips, and Jesus & Mary Chain are ok? NightWatcher Feb 2013 #24
I saw ismnotwasm Feb 2013 #32
Metallica looks so old. Saw them and GNR way back in early 90's NightWatcher Feb 2013 #33
That's what I told my daughter ismnotwasm Feb 2013 #36
I wonder if they'd hire me... OriginalGeek Feb 2013 #34
No "Creamy Jesus", "Joseph The Cuckold", or "Eat Me! This is My Body!"? Tom Ripley Feb 2013 #38
I just noticed that "Jucifer" is on that list. The mother of their singer/guitarist was a DU... Tom Ripley Feb 2013 #40
No kidding. I love Jucifer and enjoyed their club performances. aikoaiko Feb 2013 #45
I also love their truly earthshaking performances. They are very nice people, as well. Tom Ripley Feb 2013 #49
No "Diablo Swing Orchestra" either... kentauros Feb 2013 #43
Hey did you read the very bottom. aikoaiko Feb 2013 #46
I never heard of the last two MrScorpio Feb 2013 #47
I don't know either, but I get a kick out of Bieber being worse than anything else. aikoaiko Feb 2013 #50
Smother Theresa. Brilliant. MrSlayer Feb 2013 #51
I would like to know... uriel1972 Feb 2013 #53
Never heard Lubricated Goat but I have seenvthe Genitorturers OriginalGeek Feb 2013 #60
The Butthole Surfers went to my college!!! Manifestor_of_Light Feb 2013 #55
My favorite Butthole Surfers album is Independent Worm Saloon OriginalGeek Feb 2013 #61

auburngrad82

(5,029 posts)
2. Throbbing Gristle popped into my head when I saw the original post title
Fri Feb 15, 2013, 04:44 PM
Feb 2013

I don't think I've ever even heard them but why they didn't make the list is beyond me.

Joy Division could make it but I doubt most people are aware of the origin of the term.

kentauros

(29,414 posts)
11. I don't know the origin of their name,
Fri Feb 15, 2013, 05:08 PM
Feb 2013

only that I've liked their music in the past

I see the Revolting Cocks are okay to mention, too


auburngrad82

(5,029 posts)
18. Origin of Joy Division's name.
Fri Feb 15, 2013, 05:26 PM
Feb 2013
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_band_name_etymologies

Joy Division - In order to avoid confusion with the London punk band Warsaw Pakt, the band renamed themselves from Warsaw to Joy Division in late 1977, borrowing their new name from the prostitution wing of a Nazi concentration camp mentioned in the 1955 novel The House of Dolls.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_House_of_Dolls

House of Dolls is a 1955 novella by Ka-tzetnik 135633. The novella describes "Joy Divisions", which were allegedly groups of Jewish women in the concentration camps during World War II who were kept for the sexual pleasure of Nazi soldiers.

kentauros

(29,414 posts)
19. Wow. That's kind of ... shocking that they would choose a name
Fri Feb 15, 2013, 05:32 PM
Feb 2013

from that.

Now, it's interesting that Pansy Division has a semi-Nazi root, too:

Early days
Frustrated by the lack of openly gay musicians in independent rock, Jon Ginoli formed Pansy Division (the name itself a pun on Panzer division and the word "pansy&quot in San Francisco in early 1991.


Those crazy punks!

auburngrad82

(5,029 posts)
27. The punk bands chose names that they thought would offend
Fri Feb 15, 2013, 06:03 PM
Feb 2013

Part of the punk mindset.

Sex Pistols, the Damned, the Stranglers, Joy Division, etc.

I'm a huge fan of punk music. I don't think most people realize how much influence a handful of bands had on popular music in a short period of time.

Good times, good times. I have to keep saying that because I'm getting old enough that I have a hard time remembering if I put on my pants before I left for work, much less what I was listening to 35 years ago.

 

Tom Ripley

(4,945 posts)
39. I have also read "Atrocity at Auschwitz" by Ka-tzetnik; it is another example of this weird nazi...
Fri Feb 15, 2013, 08:55 PM
Feb 2013

torture/sex porn genre that was in vogue in Israel, of all places, in the 50s and 60s.

auburngrad82

(5,029 posts)
3. I mostly listen to my Ipod but it occurs to me that I've never heard these bands on ANY station
Fri Feb 15, 2013, 04:48 PM
Feb 2013

Either I'm sheltered here in NC or the bands don't care much about marketing their band.

Trivia item. 10,000 Maniacs was originally named Big Ass Truck but changed their name to a more marketable name. Maybe Shit Scum should consider a name like, oh I don't know, Skid Marks.

auburngrad82

(5,029 posts)
25. The worst I can come up with on my Ipod is
Fri Feb 15, 2013, 05:55 PM
Feb 2013

Black Sabbath
Body Count
Bonerama (really not as bad as it reads- they're an awesome brass band from NOLA with four, count them, four trombones)
The Coathangers
The Damned
Judas Priest
Meat Puppets
Nazareth
My Bloody Valentine
The Nuns
Roach Gigz
Sex Pistols
Steely Dan
The Stranglers
The Swingin' Richards
Wet Willie
Whitesnake

Truly the only thing on my Ipod that's questionable is Pat Boone, but that's just my opinion.

OriginalGeek

(12,132 posts)
29. Pat boone has a metal album
Fri Feb 15, 2013, 06:18 PM
Feb 2013

He covers Judas Priest and others on it. It's pretty lulzy.

I've got most all of those too but I am interested in that Bonerama. You can't go wrong with 4 trombones! Awesome Brass from NOLA sounds like a fine band to me.

I had a friend that was asked to leave Auburn in 82ish - might have been 83 or 84... lol I think they disagreed with his personal marijuana policy - which was to have it it on him and in use at all times.

auburngrad82

(5,029 posts)
31. Check out the live music archive on archive.org
Fri Feb 15, 2013, 06:22 PM
Feb 2013

You can download free concerts. They're all approved by the bands so it's not bootleg performances.

The link is here:

http://archive.org/browse.php?collection=etree&field=%2Fmetadata%2Fcreator

Bonerama has 133 shows on archive.org

Check out their version of The Ocean by Led Zeppelin. I never thought a brass band version would work but it's really cool.

auburngrad82

(5,029 posts)
37. Let me know what you think
Fri Feb 15, 2013, 08:26 PM
Feb 2013

The quality varies widely. I tend to look for soundboard recordings and for the recordings that get the higher ratings, but you can always delete what you don't like.

Also check out the Bad Livers. A bluegrass band with a tuba, FFS, that covers punk songs? That's right up my alley.

A few other recommendations from Live Music Archive:

True Believers- their covers of the Velvet Underground songs Foggy Bottom and Train Came Round the Bend are incredible.
Alexandro Escovedo- Member of The Nuns, Rank and File, and the True Believers. Great roots rock artist whose Velvet covers and Mott covers are awesome.
SubDudes- A New Orleans rock band that's been compared to The Band and Little Feat.
Lots of older punk- Fugazi, Mekons, The Minutemen, etc.
A couple fun bands are Moxy Fruvous and Man or Astroman.

There are literally thousands of concerts available on LMA.

OriginalGeek

(12,132 posts)
48. I just grabbed the first thing
Fri Feb 15, 2013, 10:56 PM
Feb 2013

I found with The Ocean and I saw one with War Pigs so I got that too. Love them. That was at work, so now I'm gonna get them here at home too and can peruse more in depth without worrying about bosses snooping...

This is gonna be one of my new favorite websites lol. I love live music (I have shittons of Zep boots and listen to them more than studio) and I love all that old punk stuff.

Thanks again for turning me onto this!

TexasBushwhacker

(20,010 posts)
58. Pat Boone lived next door to Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne for a while
Sun Feb 17, 2013, 01:34 AM
Feb 2013

They said he was a wonderful neighbor and they got along great. When he moved and the neighbor from hell moved in, Sharon said that Ozzy would always talk about how much he missed Pat Boone.

OriginalGeek

(12,132 posts)
59. I am having fun
Sun Feb 17, 2013, 02:58 AM
Feb 2013

imagining Ozzy Osbourne sitting at the kitchen table and griping about the neighbors and missing Pat Boone.

kentauros

(29,414 posts)
21. Listen to more public/college radio and you will!
Fri Feb 15, 2013, 05:38 PM
Feb 2013

Locally, our Pacifica station, KPFT, has had both a punk show and, separately, a death-metal show. You'd likely hear pretty much all of those bands on that type of show. I can't say I've heard even a majority of these bands, but a good quarter are semi-familiar (I've seen the names associated with punk, death-metal, and noise bands, but not necessarily heard them.)

auburngrad82

(5,029 posts)
26. I mostly listed to my Ipod but Raleigh has an awesome funk show from Shaw University
Fri Feb 15, 2013, 05:57 PM
Feb 2013

There are a couple I like but we're usually in my wife's car and then I have to deal with her changing the station every 30 seconds.

kentauros

(29,414 posts)
28. Yeah, I'm hoping when my GF visits next month,
Fri Feb 15, 2013, 06:03 PM
Feb 2013

that she won't be constantly asking me to change to another album on my player! lol

I rarely listen to the radio any more, but wish I had a WiFi-capable stereo in my car in order to listen to somafm.com or WFMU

OriginalGeek

(12,132 posts)
30. I lol'd
Fri Feb 15, 2013, 06:19 PM
Feb 2013

my co-workers are are all looking at me funny. But not as funny as they would if I explained.

 

KamaAina

(78,249 posts)
10. So the Butthole Surfers are okay?
Fri Feb 15, 2013, 05:07 PM
Feb 2013

Cool!

But why can't they say Nickelback? Remember, "you're not making Christianity better, you're just making rock 'n' roll worse." (Hank Hill)

 

Tom Ripley

(4,945 posts)
52. Kevin Ayers is the only musician who ever wrote to Burroughs and asked permission to use one of...
Sat Feb 16, 2013, 01:12 AM
Feb 2013

his titles or phrases for a band name (Soft Machine)

aint_no_life_nowhere

(21,925 posts)
14. I wonder if the 60s rock group "The Nazz"
Fri Feb 15, 2013, 05:19 PM
Feb 2013

is one they'd want to add. Todd Rundgren's group supposedly named itself as a nickname for Jesus of Nazareth ("The Nazz&quot and if some bible thumpers would consider that blasphemous if they knew the meaning.

ismnotwasm

(41,885 posts)
32. I saw
Fri Feb 15, 2013, 06:26 PM
Feb 2013

Jesus Lizard, Butthole Surfers and Megachurch at the same concert.

Good times. Never did see Jesus and Mary Chain

Now my 14 year old wants me to take him to Metallica.

ismnotwasm

(41,885 posts)
36. That's what I told my daughter
Fri Feb 15, 2013, 06:47 PM
Feb 2013

They're just about my age. She also told him *I* have to take because she wasn't going to do it. Upon which I reminder her I took her to both Metallica and Nirvana. Didn't work.

He's a budding guitarist and quite good, somehow they've turned into his favorite band.

OriginalGeek

(12,132 posts)
34. I wonder if they'd hire me...
Fri Feb 15, 2013, 06:41 PM
Feb 2013

I know a lot of bands they shouldn;t mention

Fuck...I'M Dead
Dead Congregation
Cock and Ball Torture
Christ Denied
Cattle Decapitation
Circle of Dead Children
Defecation
Filthy Christians
Foetopsy
Fuck You All
Godflesh
Goatsemen
Gorebortion
Gorefest
Gorerotted
Gorguts <--(Best of the GORE's)
Hate Eternal
Hatebeak
Hellbastard
I'd say "Kronos" but I bet those uneducated twits don't even know who he is - but if they did Kronos would be on the list lol (Same with Ackercocke and Anaal Nathrakh and Immortal)
Luceferion
Lawnmower Deth but only because they have a hilarious song called Satan's Trampoline
Ludichrist
Malevolent Creation
Marduk
Morbid Saint
Necrophagist
Necrophobia
Necroabortion
Possessed

I don't know why they have Morbid Angel and Deicide on the list but not Atheist - all three bands started in Tampa around the same time. Originators of the Florida Death Metal sound along with Death and Obituary.
Not sure how they 'd feel about Atheist drummer Steve Flynn's side project Gnostic but they are a great band.

And that doesn't even begin to touch on the thousands of bands with less obviously sacrilegious names but still have pretty anti-theist lyrics.

 

Tom Ripley

(4,945 posts)
38. No "Creamy Jesus", "Joseph The Cuckold", or "Eat Me! This is My Body!"?
Fri Feb 15, 2013, 08:45 PM
Feb 2013

Note: "Creamy Jesus" is written with those SS/Kiss lightning bolt ss

 

Tom Ripley

(4,945 posts)
40. I just noticed that "Jucifer" is on that list. The mother of their singer/guitarist was a DU...
Fri Feb 15, 2013, 09:09 PM
Feb 2013

member who was highly sensitive to any perceived insult to religion.

aikoaiko

(34,113 posts)
46. Hey did you read the very bottom.
Fri Feb 15, 2013, 10:39 PM
Feb 2013

The big list names leads to suspension, but the little list leads to termination.

Who's on the little list on the bottom?

Fall Out Boy, Nickelback, Lady Gaga, Justin Bieber, West Gate and P Little Italy.

Bieber worse than Shit Scum!!!

uriel1972

(4,261 posts)
53. I would like to know...
Sat Feb 16, 2013, 01:23 AM
Feb 2013

How did they put this list together, how they could bring themselves to write down such blasphemous or profane words
and more importantly how did they not think putting down a list of profane and blasphemous band names would lead to many
actively seeking out said bands?

Hmmm, I remember seeing a band called Lubricated Goat who performed naked and greased on television, I think they would be banned if the writer knew of them

OriginalGeek

(12,132 posts)
60. Never heard Lubricated Goat but I have seenvthe Genitorturers
Sun Feb 17, 2013, 03:14 AM
Feb 2013

and if you think about what that names sounds like they do in their stage show, they do. I'm 92% sure the "random" people pulled on stage for the act are willing and pre-approved.

Side note - Vocalist Gen is married to David Vincent who is the bassist and vocalist for Morbid Angel. (for most of their albums anyway.)

 

Manifestor_of_Light

(21,046 posts)
55. The Butthole Surfers went to my college!!!
Sat Feb 16, 2013, 11:54 PM
Feb 2013

A few years after I graduated.

I remember a music critic in the Houston Chronicle that had to write "B.H.Surfers" in her reviews.

A right wing Hearst paper, of course.


OriginalGeek

(12,132 posts)
61. My favorite Butthole Surfers album is Independent Worm Saloon
Sun Feb 17, 2013, 03:21 AM
Feb 2013

It was produced by John Paul Jones. (The Led Zeppelin bassist, not the Father of the US Navy)

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