Listellany by John Rentoul

Author:John Rentoul
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781783960057
Publisher: Elliott & Thompson

GREAT BANDS WITH TERRIBLE NAMES

We have to start on this list, as Tom Doran suggested, by considering the Beatles, ‘as it’s just a rubbish pun’. Beat, Beatles, see? Although that would suppose that the Beatles were a great band. This list was a hotly contested, highly subjective affair. A bit like many words, if you look at band names long enough, you realise how peculiar they have been all along.

1. Humble Pie ‘Steve Marriott’s post-Small Faces band. Epically awful name; reminds me of Creme Brulée, which was Les McQueen’s former band in The League of Gentlemen,’ said Tom Doran.

2. Oasis

3. The Jesus and Mary Chain

4. Echo and the Bunnymen

5. Mott the Hoople Mind you, the band was called Silence before that.

6. Teenage Fanclub ‘I’ve got all the T-shirts, but boy am I ashamed to wear them,’ said Stuart Ritchie.

7. Joy Division Not my thing, but people like them and I’ve always thought it an unusually daft name.

8. Supertramp Taken from the title of a book by W.H. Davies, The Autobiography of a Super-Tramp.

9. Coldplay Anyone know why?

10. Led Zeppelin As Peter A Russell said, ‘When you think of it…’

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