Here's a good compendium of all of those lists. And, thanks to someone with too much free time, there's one list from a survey sent to critics all across the country. And, he ain't kidding around. It's got 1300 albums on the list, not counting the 513 re-issues on a separate list, all sorted by demographics as well. Now I know the westerners rank the Hold Steady as #12, while the Midwest and Canada rank them #1. Here's the top ten:
1. TV on the Radio - Return to Cookie Mountain (1338 points in 125 votes)
2. Ghostface Killah - Fishscale (1247 points in 118 votes)
3. The Hold Steady - Boys and Girls in America (1073 points in 95 votes)
4. Clipse - Hell Hath No Fury (1057 points in 102 votes)
5. Joanna Newsom - Ys (883 points in 84 votes)
6. Bob Dylan - Modern Times (749 points in 70 votes)
7. Gnarls Barkley - St. Elsewhere (623 points in 61 votes)
8. The Knife - Silent Shout (607 points in 56 votes)
9. Neko Case - Fox Confessor Brings the Flood (588 points in 58 votes)
10. Belle & Sebastian - The Life Pursuit (586 points in 54 votes)
But even better, the Onion AV Club made its annual list of the worst band names.
Here are my favorites (and no, I'm not making these up):
Genital Hercules
Urban Funk Ordinance
Guns 'N Rosa Parks
Honkeytonk Homeslice
Corpse Vomit
Lyin’ Bitch & The Restraining Orders
Tony Danza Tap Dance Extravaganza
The Busiest Bankruptcy Lawyers In Minnesota
You Ruined Christmas
5 comments:
I'm really glad you preemptively answered the question whether they were real or not.
I actually own a CD by a band called John Cougar Concentration Camp. And I've paid money to see a band called Kathleen Turner Overdrive.
So I can't exactly throw stones here.
I'm not thinking that either of those rises to the level of "genital hercules."
Which I'm not not loving.
My brother was in a band called "Animal Tyler Moore." And they were... really good.
I think "Honkeytonk Homeslice" might be the best name ever. It's gonna be the name of my band. Oh. Wait.
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