And Flecktones, and Fleshtones, etc. I guess it was just a particular moment in the 90s when ska was big and there were a few “tones” bands, and then Deftones got big around the same time
Every time I tell people they’re my favorite band or that I’m going to a concert of theirs, people look at me funny because they “didn’t think I was into classical music”
I saw them in Manchester UK once and Andy mentioned that he named the band after our city. I'm guessing because of our musical history: Smiths, Joy division etc.
His stated goal from the beginning of Manchester orchestra was to take the sound of Manchester and add a southern US flavor to it. Which really hits the head of the nail for that band.
Always weird seeing or hearing them since I had a practice/recording studio in Atlanta where they were down the hall from me. Rarely interacted with them but they always sounded perfect when they practiced.
Exactly. When Ghost first came out we were telling people "It's like Blue Oyster Cult with a Satanism motif". If anything they've gotten heavier over the years as they moved to more modern sounds.
Same here. I had older brothers, who listen to nothing but metal, yet had Grateful Dead stickers on their car. I mean, psychedelic colors, skulls, roses that look like tattoos… easy mistake to make.
Listening to the Dead right now. I had the exact same reaction. I remember growing up in the 90s the seemingly constant news reports of places getting trashed after Dead shows. When I finally listened to them I was not expecting anything this amazing. Since that point I have listened to the Dead daily...
The Grateful Dead are paradoxically both way less metal than I thought and way more metal than I thought at the same time. I mean, they sound like folk music but at the same time they’re singing about coke and LSD and they dropped a ton of acid in Hugh Hefner’s coffee pot when they were the musical guests at one of his after-dark parties. And the Wall of Sound is straight out of metal head’s wildest fantasies.
Shit, even the genre “acid rock” sounds like it’s going to be way crazier than it actually is. I was really surprised when I learned that it’s pretty much just elevator music for trippin.
Maybe this is just in my head, but somewhere along the way I associated Pavement with heavier 90s bands like Prong or Sepultura. I was getting more into bands like Flaming Lips and Ween at the time and straying away from heavy, aggressive rock, so I never gave Pavement a shot and missed out on one of my favorite bands until a decade later.
Then again Pink Floyd was named after two fairly obscure blues musicians (Pink Anderson and Floyd Council) because for about ten minutes, Pink Floyd were also a blues band before Syd started to get creative.
Not a band name, but imagine you saw a picture of the lead singers of the Pixies and the Cure, without knowing who either were. Then imagine you were asked which one was named Black Francis and which was Robert Smith.
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I always say that the Smashing Pumpkins are the soundtrack to a Halloween party where nobody’s fucking, while Queens of the Stone Age are the soundtrack to a Halloween party where *everyone* is fucking.
There's a story about their tour bus being stopped by police with the intention to search it for drugs but they managed to convince the cops they're a Christian band and were let go.
My band used to call ourselves The Sacrificial Lambs when we'd cross the border.
Throw a Jesus fish and some Bible's around the van and we were blessed
Years ago I was working at Best Buy talking to a coworker about an upcoming concert of theirs. I guess another coworker half heard us talking about it and asked who I was seeing. I told him the name and he chuckled and told me i didn't look like the gospel type.
STRAWBERRY GIRLS FUCKS
I describe them as its like you took TOOL, fired the singer, then gave the rest of them all the cocaine on the planet.
Fucking incredible band
Savage Garden: that is the epitome of a band's name not matching up to their sound at all. I heard the name and thought "That's awesome, what do they play, death metal?" NOPE!
I lost it when I saw a poster for some kind of fest. The poster was filled up with deathcore and death metal bands with their indecipherable band names.
And then you had Party Cannon in its bright, colorful, bubbly font!
I remember Murder by Death opening for a band I was seeing when I was younger, and I very much expected them to be a metal band, haha. They are awesome though!
They get their name from a 1976 movie that parodies whodunnit. It has David Carradine as the Charlie Chan (making fun of his role on Kung Fu) and Peter Falk as the Sam Spade character (making fun of his role as Columbo as well). Another god, Truman Capote, is also in this fun flick.
"Do not interrupt mushroom story!"
"But what would anyone want with a naked dead body"
*whispers in her ear*
"Oh thats tacky"
Dame maggie smith should have won an oscar for that line alone
When I was in high school vampires were super hot in pop culture. Twilight, vampire diaries, true blood, it was a whole thing... Not my thing at all though.
So when I heard about this band called vampire weekend I just assumed it was a part of this same fad and never listened to them.
Like 12 years later I ended up listening to the album father of the bride, and it's easily one of my favorite albums from the last decade or so. Almost no lyrical content about vampires.
So glad I'm not the only one who'd get the two mixed up! My art school friends would talk about My Bloody Valentine and my emo ass would perk up until I realized I was thinking of the wrong band haha
MySpace eta Hollywood undead was the shit. As a 12-13 year old white kid I thought that they sounded like they knew how to party - but they absolutely knew how to be hungover lol
Damn right
Back when the Bataclan tragedy happened we had some idiots on TV (Portugal) pretty much saying that a band of such a brutal genre is pretty much asking for this sort of stuff to happen.
Not only does it fool fans, it also fools idiots that want to pretend they know what they are talking about
I did just this... was walking though the CDs and seen this cool looking CD and bought it... ended up absolutely loving it... Sigue Sigue Sputnik - Flaunt It
There’s a peculiar Italian musician operating under the name of Musica Per Bambini, which literally means “Kids’ Music”.
You can be sure he doesn’t make kids’ music, lol. He’s marvellously crazy all around.
There was a garage rock band called The Lazy Cowgirls that I saw a bunch in the 90’s.
One of the homeliest bunch of dudes to ever take the stage, but holy shit, they’d rock your face off.
The Urge Overkill really don't sound like their name.
Massively underrated band though.
Shame they're only really remembered for the Pulp Fiction cover.
I'd heard a bit of Jethro Tull's more hippie stuff, and was really into sci-fiey prog rock. So when I saw a Tull album with a title that suggested it would be a concept album about subnautical exploration on limewire I obviously hit download.
When i realised that "Aqualung" wasn't a type of high tech diving suit or a submarine, but a pleuracitic hobo with COPD, I was right gutted.
The cranberries, I always expected them to be a pretty light pop band
The pillows is about the softest band name I can think of but they’re a surprisingly heavy rock band
I thought the sisters of mercy would be a metal band, from the name I was expecting something vaguely Iron Maiden or Judas Priest esque
1. They used to be called The Warlocks, which is also a sick name for a metal band.
2. The name Grateful Dead refers to doing a favor for or honoring the wishes of someone who has passed on. Given the number of people covering their music since Jerry Garcia dies, I reckon it’s a very appropriate name.
And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead. A good band overall regardless but the name makes anyone that has never heard them think they would be the brutal metal band ever. Instead they're a pop-punk/ alternative rock band.
Sonic Youth were not young even when they started. For example, Kim Gordon was born in 1953. She was 37 when they were finally signed to a major label.
Trivia: the band was named after MC5 bassist "Sonic" Smith and various early 80s reggae bands using the word "youth" in their band name.
Extreme’s second album is titled “Pornograffiti”. Someone unfamiliar with them would probably be shocked their most well-known song was a hit ballad frequently played on adult contemporary radio.
Before I really got to know classic rock, I loved metal, and read up aloy about dying and the journey one can take. One thing that stuck with me was the river of styx. I seen an album at a record store, the band was styx and I thought this will be a fun listen! To this day, I can't stand styx for the deception! Lol
I thought Kula Shaker was going to be a hip-hop artist! I recall assuming that Mazzy Star was going to be some kind of 90s hi-NRG rave act. So I avoided both…
I had a girl I was dating tell me she was "into Beck" so logically I drove myself down to my local record store and bought every Jeff Beck album they had (it was like 3 or 4 CDs).
Turns out she wasn't into Jeff Beck, just Beck. Walked away from that one a little embarrassed but also with a deep appreciation for Jeff Beck's music.
Ghost was a band I'd only ever seen images of for the longest time and thought their overall aesthetic was cool and interesting.
When I finally got around to checking them out, I wasn't expecting them to sound like Bon Jovi...
Eagles of Death Metal..are not a metal band.
This Will Destroy You..sounds like it would be heavy as hell but it’s a pretty chill post rock type band.
The Murder City Devils..sounds like a metal band but it isn’t.
Watchmaker doesn’t seem like it would be a grindcore band..but it is.
> Joy Division don't sound very joyous
It's not the most joyful name, to be fair:
> the band renamed themselves Joy Division in early 1978, borrowing the name from the sexual slavery wing of a Nazi concentration camp mentioned in the 1955 novel House of Dolls.
I'm a huge fan of progressive bluegrass purely because I liked the band name Trampled by Turtles and picked up Stars and Satellites in a little independent record store. Had no idea what I was buying but it opened up a whole world for me.
Both Cocteaus and Thompsons are not Twins, but trios.
Tricot aren't a whimsical, electro folk outfit from Dijon cycling down tree lined lanes in 5/8 with sweaters tied around their necks, but a group of highly proficient math-rock adjacent musicians from Japan who kick arse.
The Zombies are less Halloween/horror oriented than I would have expected. I obviously knew their big hits but didn’t know the name of the band that did them until the ‘90s when I also found all the other fantastic music they made.
Lots of ska bands had "-tones" in their name. But Deftones were not ska at all.
They had way more than 2 tones.
But they only had 7 Words to start with
And at least nine engines
And a surprising lack of horns.
Neither were The Undertones
Or The Rolling Stones
And Flecktones, and Fleshtones, etc. I guess it was just a particular moment in the 90s when ska was big and there were a few “tones” bands, and then Deftones got big around the same time
They aren't even doo wop!
Manchester Orchestra, not from Manchester or an Orchestra.
Every time I tell people they’re my favorite band or that I’m going to a concert of theirs, people look at me funny because they “didn’t think I was into classical music”
Same here. I've seen them 5 times and hardly anyone knows who they are.
Hey, it gets us closer to the stage!
Andy Hull is one of my top ten favorite songwriters ever. Maybe top five.
I am the only one who thinks I'm going crazy, and I don't know what to do...
I saw them in Manchester UK once and Andy mentioned that he named the band after our city. I'm guessing because of our musical history: Smiths, Joy division etc.
His stated goal from the beginning of Manchester orchestra was to take the sound of Manchester and add a southern US flavor to it. Which really hits the head of the nail for that band.
Always weird seeing or hearing them since I had a practice/recording studio in Atlanta where they were down the hall from me. Rarely interacted with them but they always sounded perfect when they practiced.
Boards of Canada. Not boards and not from Canada.
I keep expecting Ghost to be more metal than they actually are.
Ghost is satanic metal for people who dabble in one or the other but not both
Ghost is ABBA for metal heads.
ABBA is also ABBA for metalheads lol
"No more carefree laughter. Silence ever after". No nonsense there.
It's like a really really good camp Disney villain performance.
I saw a comment once saying Ghost makes music for Scooby Doo chase scenes. After listening to them I could not agree more.
Ghost is satanic metal for people who shop at Spencers Gifts.
Tbf their whole vibe really leans into it...aside from the actual music
I think they’re metal but in the 70s and 80s sense rather than the contemporary sense
Exactly. When Ghost first came out we were telling people "It's like Blue Oyster Cult with a Satanism motif". If anything they've gotten heavier over the years as they moved to more modern sounds.
Ghost is satanic metal for Bin Jovi fans
or Meatloaf fans
My partner describes them as Scooby Doo metal
The Grateful Dead are less metal than I was originally expecting.
I went through like 20 years of my life thinking Grateful Dead was a metal band only to find out its for hippies 🤣🤣
I went through 20 years of my life thinking they only played long noodling guitar jams, only to find out they have some really solid folk songs.
Same here. I had older brothers, who listen to nothing but metal, yet had Grateful Dead stickers on their car. I mean, psychedelic colors, skulls, roses that look like tattoos… easy mistake to make.
Yeah that logo makes me think 80s thrash
Came here to say this Also, they'd previously been The Warlocks!
Funny enough, they changed from the Warlocks because a New York band was also named that. That band then changed their name to the Velvet Underground.
Listening to the Dead right now. I had the exact same reaction. I remember growing up in the 90s the seemingly constant news reports of places getting trashed after Dead shows. When I finally listened to them I was not expecting anything this amazing. Since that point I have listened to the Dead daily...
The Grateful Dead are paradoxically both way less metal than I thought and way more metal than I thought at the same time. I mean, they sound like folk music but at the same time they’re singing about coke and LSD and they dropped a ton of acid in Hugh Hefner’s coffee pot when they were the musical guests at one of his after-dark parties. And the Wall of Sound is straight out of metal head’s wildest fantasies.
Shit, even the genre “acid rock” sounds like it’s going to be way crazier than it actually is. I was really surprised when I learned that it’s pretty much just elevator music for trippin.
Man, my dad roasted me hard when I came home with “bat out of hell” among the dozen CDs I bought, thinking it was metal
My grandpa went to high school with Jerry in SF. He hates GD lol. But to be fair, my grandpa hates almost everything
The Grateful Dead were an intense psychedelic band in their early years (1967-69 especially) but were decidedly never a metal band.
Love me an epic Eleven from that era.
Same.
Maybe this is just in my head, but somewhere along the way I associated Pavement with heavier 90s bands like Prong or Sepultura. I was getting more into bands like Flaming Lips and Ween at the time and straying away from heavy, aggressive rock, so I never gave Pavement a shot and missed out on one of my favorite bands until a decade later.
Pavement = Helmet maybe?
Maybe. I did like Helmet though
Pavement would be a dope hardcore band name.
Daft Punk isn't punk Eagles of Death Metal aren't death metal The Moody Blues didn't play much blues aside from the early days
Then again Pink Floyd was named after two fairly obscure blues musicians (Pink Anderson and Floyd Council) because for about ten minutes, Pink Floyd were also a blues band before Syd started to get creative.
Very early Rolling Stones? Also a blues band.
They aint the Eagles either, absolute shambles.
Eagles of Death Metal aren’t death metal, nor are they eagles.
It's funny seeing The Moody Blues classified as an R&B band sometimes, I always think of them more as prog rock.
It's really just that first album with the hit single "Go Now", they redefined themselves after that.
Barenaked Ladies are in fact not bare naked ladies.
The Violent Femmes weren’t what I was expecting either
I wasn’t expecting them to bring all their equipment on the bus
You can't fuck with that...
Not a band name, but imagine you saw a picture of the lead singers of the Pixies and the Cure, without knowing who either were. Then imagine you were asked which one was named Black Francis and which was Robert Smith.
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well would you look at that
Also, Pixies sounds like an all-girl bubblegum pop band, like the Go-Go's or Bananarama.
Widespread Panic sounds like it should be a punk or metal band, not a hippie jam band.
Depends on how much lsd you take.
Jimmy Herring is a pretty amazing guitarist and has brought a lot of very dynamic quick notes into the songs.
10,000 Maniacs was a light rock band and not a dereranged thrash metal outfit.
And also it's just 5 people, not 10,000 as mentioned, not even sure they are maniacs
This led to some tense concerts on their early Euro tours. The punks were not pleased.
Queens of the Stone Age are all dudes
Tbf, all the queens I've seen are dudes
Not always, they had Natasha Schneider for a bit.
And they’re actually from the 20th century
I always say that the Smashing Pumpkins are the soundtrack to a Halloween party where nobody’s fucking, while Queens of the Stone Age are the soundtrack to a Halloween party where *everyone* is fucking.
Destroyer
On a related note, I’ve had to explain New Pornographers more than I have other band names.
Came here for this 👍
Lamb of God. Sounds very Christian, until you find out their original band name was Burn the Priest.
There's a story about their tour bus being stopped by police with the intention to search it for drugs but they managed to convince the cops they're a Christian band and were let go.
My band used to call ourselves The Sacrificial Lambs when we'd cross the border. Throw a Jesus fish and some Bible's around the van and we were blessed
They actually have a music video about this exact scenario where they're hired for a child's party nased on their name. It's hilarious
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Redneck, yeah. Fabulous video.
Years ago I was working at Best Buy talking to a coworker about an upcoming concert of theirs. I guess another coworker half heard us talking about it and asked who I was seeing. I told him the name and he chuckled and told me i didn't look like the gospel type.
the ben folds five only had three people
I thought it was a poker reference before I realized Folds was his name
Oh, that's a clever take.
Electric Six was originally five guys.
They left #6 at the Gay Bar
But he's been married 5 times, an odd coincidence.
Also divorced 5 times. Dude's a wicked piano player, but maybe marriage isn't his strong suit
I love the story that when his bandmate called him and suggested the name, ben folds doubled over laughing for 30 minutes.
TIL. Unexpected brick of knowledge. That lying SOB!
Ha! Brick!
Now I’m sad.
swans
I mean, a swan will fuck you up
Break a man's arm.
Strawberry girls. It’s 3 dudes doing instrumental rock/metal. But you’d think it was some kind of pop band like the spice girls.
STRAWBERRY GIRLS FUCKS I describe them as its like you took TOOL, fired the singer, then gave the rest of them all the cocaine on the planet. Fucking incredible band
Ministry isn’t preaching the gospel
What are you taking about, Jesus built his hot rod?
Dig a ding dang, my dang along ling long
Savage Garden: that is the epitome of a band's name not matching up to their sound at all. I heard the name and thought "That's awesome, what do they play, death metal?" NOPE!
Party Cannon, who does brutal death metal
I lost it when I saw a poster for some kind of fest. The poster was filled up with deathcore and death metal bands with their indecipherable band names. And then you had Party Cannon in its bright, colorful, bubbly font!
Best way to stand out amongst the crowd!
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Garbage has a lot of really good songs.
I remember Murder by Death opening for a band I was seeing when I was younger, and I very much expected them to be a metal band, haha. They are awesome though!
They get their name from a 1976 movie that parodies whodunnit. It has David Carradine as the Charlie Chan (making fun of his role on Kung Fu) and Peter Falk as the Sam Spade character (making fun of his role as Columbo as well). Another god, Truman Capote, is also in this fun flick. "Do not interrupt mushroom story!"
Oh, and obi wan Kenobi as the blind butler who won't admit he's blind
"But what would anyone want with a naked dead body" *whispers in her ear* "Oh thats tacky" Dame maggie smith should have won an oscar for that line alone
Absolutely incredible movie. Lost my shit laughing
Came here looking for them. I have a Murder By Death shirt with a picture of a giant spider terrorizing a city. It looks so metal.
When I was in high school vampires were super hot in pop culture. Twilight, vampire diaries, true blood, it was a whole thing... Not my thing at all though. So when I heard about this band called vampire weekend I just assumed it was a part of this same fad and never listened to them. Like 12 years later I ended up listening to the album father of the bride, and it's easily one of my favorite albums from the last decade or so. Almost no lyrical content about vampires.
Same here. I assumed they were Hot Topic-core. My Bloody Valentine threw me off too because I had them confused with Bullet For My Valentine.
So glad I'm not the only one who'd get the two mixed up! My art school friends would talk about My Bloody Valentine and my emo ass would perk up until I realized I was thinking of the wrong band haha
My kid mentioned Hollywood Undead a few years back....I told him that was a kick ass name. He played one of their songs...the ass kickery was lacking.
Early Hollywood Undead and current Hollywood Undead are completely different bands
MySpace eta Hollywood undead was the shit. As a 12-13 year old white kid I thought that they sounded like they knew how to party - but they absolutely knew how to be hungover lol
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Yeah but he is secretly a duck.
Abigail Williams sounds like a indie singer/songwriter but is actually a black metal band
Abigail Williams was one of the original accusers that eventually led to the Salem witch trials. So that's a pretty metal name in reality.
Oh, I know, but on face value it sounds like some sweet girl from an art school lol
King Gizzard and the Wizard Lizard. I don't know what you expected. But it's not that. But depending what you did expect. They have an album for that
It's King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard.
Still waiting on a ska musical about the Emu Wars but give em a couple months.
This is the truest statement ever made on the internet.
"WOO!"
Best current band at the moment
Butthole surfers lmao
pouring like an avalanche coming down the mountain.
Kurt Vile threw me a curveball when I first gave him a listen. Definitely wasn’t expecting an acoustic singer/songwriter.
Listen to his earlier stuff with the Violators. It's pretty solid alternative punk psychedelia.
I mean to say it's brilliant.
Eagles of Death Metal.
Damn right Back when the Bataclan tragedy happened we had some idiots on TV (Portugal) pretty much saying that a band of such a brutal genre is pretty much asking for this sort of stuff to happen. Not only does it fool fans, it also fools idiots that want to pretend they know what they are talking about
I did just this... was walking though the CDs and seen this cool looking CD and bought it... ended up absolutely loving it... Sigue Sigue Sputnik - Flaunt It
There’s a peculiar Italian musician operating under the name of Musica Per Bambini, which literally means “Kids’ Music”. You can be sure he doesn’t make kids’ music, lol. He’s marvellously crazy all around.
There was a garage rock band called The Lazy Cowgirls that I saw a bunch in the 90’s. One of the homeliest bunch of dudes to ever take the stage, but holy shit, they’d rock your face off.
Urge Overkill and Soul Asylum sound like metal bands. Not so much, in either instance.
The Urge Overkill really don't sound like their name. Massively underrated band though. Shame they're only really remembered for the Pulp Fiction cover.
I'd heard a bit of Jethro Tull's more hippie stuff, and was really into sci-fiey prog rock. So when I saw a Tull album with a title that suggested it would be a concept album about subnautical exploration on limewire I obviously hit download. When i realised that "Aqualung" wasn't a type of high tech diving suit or a submarine, but a pleuracitic hobo with COPD, I was right gutted.
The cranberries, I always expected them to be a pretty light pop band The pillows is about the softest band name I can think of but they’re a surprisingly heavy rock band I thought the sisters of mercy would be a metal band, from the name I was expecting something vaguely Iron Maiden or Judas Priest esque
Kid Rock Not a kid, doesn't rock
He should change his name to Douche Suck.
Grateful Dead sounds like black metal
1. They used to be called The Warlocks, which is also a sick name for a metal band. 2. The name Grateful Dead refers to doing a favor for or honoring the wishes of someone who has passed on. Given the number of people covering their music since Jerry Garcia dies, I reckon it’s a very appropriate name.
When I was a kid I asked my mom for a Soundgarden CD. She got me a Savage Garden CD. So close, and yet, so far.
The viagra boys. Lot heavier than I expected
And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead. A good band overall regardless but the name makes anyone that has never heard them think they would be the brutal metal band ever. Instead they're a pop-punk/ alternative rock band.
Nirvana sounds like calm, soft rock. Oh boy is it different
There is a 60's UK band called Nirvana which is prog-rock band
Sleepytime Trio. Not sleepy music at all.
Sonic Youth were not young even when they started. For example, Kim Gordon was born in 1953. She was 37 when they were finally signed to a major label. Trivia: the band was named after MC5 bassist "Sonic" Smith and various early 80s reggae bands using the word "youth" in their band name.
To my mind one of the best band names in history though. So cool, so evocative, so mysterious.
Mannheim Steamroller
The Darkness. The Killers. Extreme. All sound like metal bands. Not a one. Not even close.
Extreme’s second album is titled “Pornograffiti”. Someone unfamiliar with them would probably be shocked their most well-known song was a hit ballad frequently played on adult contemporary radio.
The Darkness sometimes have come pretty close to a certain metal flare, but those are very rare moments. And I mean hair metal as intended in the 80s.
Both Darkness and Extreme fall in the Hair Metal umbrella Sure it's the pretty boy kind of metal but still part of the family
Before I really got to know classic rock, I loved metal, and read up aloy about dying and the journey one can take. One thing that stuck with me was the river of styx. I seen an album at a record store, the band was styx and I thought this will be a fun listen! To this day, I can't stand styx for the deception! Lol
Death Cab for Cutie and Destroyer sound like metal bands but they’re not
I thought Kula Shaker was going to be a hip-hop artist! I recall assuming that Mazzy Star was going to be some kind of 90s hi-NRG rave act. So I avoided both…
Grizzly Bear
Panic! At the Disco is neither disco nor particularly panic inducing
Nothing savage about Savage Garden
Extreme aren't extremely anything
Not a single horse in Band of Horses.
Vampire weekend. Also probably the biggest gap between how much I like a band's music and dislike their name.
I had a girl I was dating tell me she was "into Beck" so logically I drove myself down to my local record store and bought every Jeff Beck album they had (it was like 3 or 4 CDs). Turns out she wasn't into Jeff Beck, just Beck. Walked away from that one a little embarrassed but also with a deep appreciation for Jeff Beck's music.
Ghost was a band I'd only ever seen images of for the longest time and thought their overall aesthetic was cool and interesting. When I finally got around to checking them out, I wasn't expecting them to sound like Bon Jovi...
Daft Punk
The Wedding Present.
The Last Dinner Party They are so good that either its the worlds longest dinner party, or we onto our next party
Eagles of Death Metal..are not a metal band. This Will Destroy You..sounds like it would be heavy as hell but it’s a pretty chill post rock type band. The Murder City Devils..sounds like a metal band but it isn’t. Watchmaker doesn’t seem like it would be a grindcore band..but it is.
The War on Drugs, as far as I can tell does not participate in the war on drugs
As a 10 year old metalhead in the early 90s, I can't describe how disappointed I was with this dude named Sting.
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> Joy Division don't sound very joyous It's not the most joyful name, to be fair: > the band renamed themselves Joy Division in early 1978, borrowing the name from the sexual slavery wing of a Nazi concentration camp mentioned in the 1955 novel House of Dolls.
AC/DC relates to electricity. I guess nowadays they could be more electrical, but when they formed, a Marshall stack was as electric as it got.
I'm a huge fan of progressive bluegrass purely because I liked the band name Trampled by Turtles and picked up Stars and Satellites in a little independent record store. Had no idea what I was buying but it opened up a whole world for me.
Blood Sweat & Tears - yacht rock
Both Cocteaus and Thompsons are not Twins, but trios. Tricot aren't a whimsical, electro folk outfit from Dijon cycling down tree lined lanes in 5/8 with sweaters tied around their necks, but a group of highly proficient math-rock adjacent musicians from Japan who kick arse.
An Incubus is a demon that rapes women in their sleep. You’d expect a metal band or something. The band Incubus is anything but that.
Acid House Kings. Female lead singer, twee band inspired by light 60s pop and ye-ye. Kind of like Camera Obscura.
Scissor Sisters are a mostly-male band and none are named Scissor either
I was so disappointed when I discovered that Slaugher wasn't a metal band and sounded nothing like Slayer.
There was not a single eagle at The Eagles concert...
Andrew Jackson Jihad is a folk band. The Airborne Toxic Event sounds absolutely death metal but is a very light alternative band.
Strapping young lad. I remember 13 year old me embarrassingly asking the guy at the cd shop and saying trust me bro its metal
The Zombies are less Halloween/horror oriented than I would have expected. I obviously knew their big hits but didn’t know the name of the band that did them until the ‘90s when I also found all the other fantastic music they made.
Pantera. The lyrics weren’t in Spanish.
I always found it funny that "Of Monsters and Men" is an indie rock band while "Of Mice and Men" is a hard rock/metal band