[kj] OT: End of the Year! Post your BEST OF lists

[Christof hamille]

When I was in school I could play Revolting Cocks on the radio but could not say their name.

Now I can whip it out at a half time show and no one will be repremanded except for local radio stations

;)

Chris


> From: vassifer at earthlink.net

> To: gathering at misera.net

> Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2008 08:21:02 -0500

> Subject: Re: [kj] OT: End of the Year! Post your BEST OF lists

> 

> When I was the "fine arts editor" of my college newspaper (the  

> Denisonian), I wasn't allowed to put the name "BUTTHOLE SURFERS" in a  

> headline (I'd written a review of a show of theirs in Columbus, Ohio  

> on the LOCUST ABORTION TECHNICIAN tour). I had to refer to them in the  

> headline as the "B.H. SURFERS".

> 

> Times have indeed changed.

> 

> Alex in NYC

> 

> 

> 

> On Jan 8, 2008, at 6:21 AM, B. Oliver Sheppard wrote:

> 

> > Yeah, Agoraphobic Nosebleed have been around awhile. I've always  

> > been partial to The Exploding Plastic Fuck Dolls' name.

> >

> > It's a testament to punk's subsumption into mainstream culture that  

> > there is a show in TV in the UK now called "Nevermind the  

> > Buzzcocks," which, from what I have seen, has little to do with  

> > punk, or the Buzzcocks. Or that the Buzzcocks have a commercial for  

> > AARP. I mean, not even 15 years ago, a band with a name like  

> > "Buzzcocks" might find it hard to get exposure or airplay, just  

> > based on their name, taken from an x-rated rag. Now we regularly  

> > have kids saying names like "Buzzcocks," or "Butthole Surfers,"  

> > which is arguably worse.

> >

> > And, man, in the real dark ages, even The Damned complained they  

> > were told their name was a barrier to commercial viability; they  

> > were often urged to change it in the early 80s when they were  

> > starting to work with MCA.

> >

> > Times sure have changed. I'd like a world where "Butthole Surfers"  

> > and "Anal Cunt" are regularly spoken by 5 year olds.

> >

> > -Oliver

> >

> >

> >

> > Alexander Smith wrote:

> >>

> >> Bahahahahahahaaha.

> >>

> >> The best I'd heard this year was Agoraphobic Nosebleed.

> >> Alex in NYC

> >>

> >> On Jan 7, 2008, at 2:03 PM, fatpotanga wrote:

> >>

> >>> On 7 Jan 2008, at 18:58, Alexander Smith wrote:

> >>>

> >>>> I love that there's a band called BLOODY PANDA.

> >>>

> >>> the best band name I heard last year was bipolar bear

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