Ren: Don't you ever listen to the radio?
Willard: No. We got one radio at home, but it's never on.
Ren: You like Men at Work?
Willard: Which men?
Ren: Men at Work.
Willard: Where do they
work?
Ren: They're a music group.
Willard: What do they call
themselves?
Ren: Oh, no. What about the Police?
Willard: What about 'em?
Ren: Have you heard them?
Willard: No, but I seen 'em.
Ren: In concert?
Willard: No, behind you.
Ren: What? Oh, shit!
This is probably one of the funniest scenes in the original
Footloose movie. It is also the point in
my life when I realized that people didn’t quite understand the names of all my
favorite bands. That got me wondering how many other bands out there might
really confuse people with their names. I compiled a short list with a few anecdotes
behind them, again it is in no order and there are plenty of more out there,
but these are the ones I felt like writing about. After all It is my blog.
They had hits with Broken Wings and Kyrie, but doesn’t the
fact that they have not one but two titles without a surname bother anyone
else? I mean, I don’t know why they
can’t be Mr. Jones or Mr. Bojangles or something else. I have a hard enough
time talking; now when I try to tell my friend’s about this song Kyrie, they
think I have a stuttering problem, all because they had to call their band Mr.
Mister. (Coincidentally, does anyone
else giggle a little bit when you hear a pastor or Priest say Kyrie Eleison?)
Ok, I mean seriously, whenever I hear Owner of a Lonely
Heart I just shout Yes!, and no one ever gets the joke. But I mean the real good joke really happens
when someone says “hey, do you know who does this song?” Then you can simply say Yes and work your way
through a whole Abbot and Costello scene, without upsetting Charlie Babbitt.
The band has been around for my whole life(actually since the late sixties),
and their live work is actually pretty stellar. So, if you ask me what concert
you should go to, I will just say “yes”
Ok, so that is literally what the record has written on it.
Is it Mike, Bill , or Timmy and the Mysterians? No, the leader of the band goes by
the name Question Mark, even though his name is really Rudy. They had a decent
hit with 96 tears, and smash mouth covered, Can’t get enough of you baby, but
that was about it. I still like them though.
Plus I like the idea that if a radio station properly writes out the
name of the band it could possibly confuse my car stereo.
Anyone that loves this group as much as I do, or remembers
the 90’s knows exactly why this band name is listed here. Ben Folds plays piano
and sings, while Robert Sledge plays the bass and Darren Jesse plays the drums.
“What about the other two guys?” There
are no other two guys. Ben Folds is a quirky dude, but he makes great music.
According to Ben Folds, the name flows better than Ben Folds Three or The Ben
Folds Trio. And realistically it does. Maybe I wouldn’t have liked them as much had
they had a different name.
Aside from the fact that Barenaked is actually two words,
the main reason why I am adding them to the list is because, people are generally
confused by their name; at least my mom was when she wouldn’t let me go see
them, she thought it was a burlesque act, no joke! I assume that that may have
happened to many young boys. Not to mention, there are no women in the group,
and no one in their right mind would ever want to see the members of the group
naked. Ok maybe the bass player, but that’s just because people have a thing
for red heads.
Well, sorry to burst your bubble, but, there is no Hootie. Darius Rucker, who we all know now as a country
singer, was never called Hootie, until after his band became famous. It is just
a silly made up name, and actually is the nickname of one of Rucker’s friends. So realistically there was a Hootie, but he
was never in the band, as for the blowfish, you can look them up on some where
are they now blog, because I have no idea, maybe they are making music with
Andrew Ridgeley somewhere.
So, there isn’t a lot of mystery behind how they got their
name, or who is who. So why do they make the list? They make the list only
because, I was with them from the beginning, when Chris Carrabba left Further
seems Forever and released a solo album. Solo, as in one guy. So I never understood why it wasn’t just named
after the one guy. Then when all of a sudden the one guy started a new band,
the band had the same name as the one man act.
The whole thing has confused me, I still don’t know if I understand it.
Is Chris Dashboard and the other guys are a backup band? And if that is true,
it’s weird that it has been the same guys for so long. I mean, if you listen to what they did in
2003(after they plugged in) and compare it to the original songs, it is a whole
different feeling. I don’t know, I still don’t get it.
For those of you who don’t know the word ghoti is a weird
phonetic spelling for the word fish. Ok, so “gh” in rough or tough sounds like “f”
the “o” in the word women has a short” i” sound and” ti” in most words ending
in “tion” sounds like “sh”; so there you have it a phonetic spelling of fish. So really the band is called Fish Hook. But it
is not that simple, the name of the band
is actually pronounced “goatee.” If you have never heard of them, they were a
nineties Christian pop punk band, in the vein of mxpx or Blink 182(Blink 182
not being a Christian group of
course). Ghoti Hook’s cover of walking
on Sunshine is pretty kick ass. So, my
question is, why go through all of the trouble to spell out the word fish and
then not even pronounce it that way. It just makes me feel crazy inside.
It was Bill Shakespeare who once said something about a rose
being just as sweet by any other name. Truthfully it was Juliet in one of
Shakespeare’s most well-known plays, but the point that I was trying to make is
that, would any of these bands be just as popular in regards to what their name
is? It’s hard to say. But I know I would
rather listen to Pearl Jam than Mookie Blaylock, and has anyone ever heard of
the Quarrymen?
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