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    Reading the offerings sounds like the line up to the death metal festivals I go to


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    Never cared much for provocative album covers or band names. Its just such an obvious and easy way to go. Its the opposite of "the white album" or even "smell the glove"

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    Quote Originally Posted by Rune Blackwings View Post
    Why? It's a German name of a city in former Yugoslavia I think


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    If you go to Ljubljana and refer to it as Laibach a lot, especially to old people, maybe you'll find out.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Yodelgoat View Post
    Never cared much for provocative album covers or band names. Its just such an obvious and easy way to go. Its the opposite of "the white album" or even "smell the glove"
    Well, then, I guess this thread isn't for you. Go piss in someone else's cornflakes.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Yodelgoat View Post
    Never cared much for provocative album covers or band names. Its just such an obvious and easy way to go. Its the opposite of "the white album" or even "smell the glove"
    Here are some less provocative band names for you:

    Bread
    Air Supply
    The Nice
    The Cranberries
    Donny and Marie

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    The cover of Autopsy's Shitfun album kind of gets to me. Can't say it's the MOST vulgar or offensive thing, but it just kind of hits the wrong nerves.

    Album itself isn't bad, in that early grind kind of way. I think I'll be seeing them in a couple of months @ MDF, in fact.
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    Jody Foster's Army always seemed audacious because of using her name that way. I wonder what name would have gotten them sued fastest (I don't know if Jody ever objected)?

    Colonel Sanders' Army
    Amy Carter's Army
    Walt Disney's Army
    Han Solo's Army

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    Quote Originally Posted by JKL2000 View Post
    Here are some less provocative band names for you:

    Bread
    Air Supply
    The Nice
    The Cranberries
    Donny and Marie
    Yes

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    Quote Originally Posted by JKL2000 View Post
    Jody Foster's Army always seemed audacious because of using her name that way. I wonder what name would have gotten them sued fastest (I don't know if Jody ever objected)?
    So, file alongside John Cougar Concentration Camp and The Voluptuous Horror of Karen Black, then? Or that guy who was calling himself Donna Summer until the real Donna Summer pressed legal action?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Progbear View Post
    So, file alongside John Cougar Concentration Camp and The Voluptuous Horror of Karen Black, then? Or that guy who was calling himself Donna Summer until the real Donna Summer pressed legal action?
    I always thought Jody would freak though, after already having someone shoot Reagan for her.

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    More ironic and humorous and less offensive--- The Negro Problem.

    Ironic as it's led by Stew, who is black.

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    I can't believe nobody's mentioned Slunt. Maybe it's because the only thing that's mildly offensive is their name.

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    Can we start a sub-thread? offensively named bands that you have personally seen live.

    My entry would be "Midget Handjob". A pretty decent improvising/noise collective. A lot like 90s Faust actually.

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    Quote Originally Posted by arturs View Post
    Can we start a sub-thread? offensively named bands that you have personally seen live.

    My entry would be "Midget Handjob". A pretty decent improvising/noise collective. A lot like 90s Faust actually.
    I saw the Violent Femmes when they were new. Somehow that name seems like it should be sort of offensive, but more to the band than anyone else.

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    I just remembered three of the top hardcore bands in early 1980s Boston:

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    Smegma and the Nuns
    Jerry's Kids
    Lou

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    In an answer to another thread, I was reminded of Frijid Pink.
    Lou

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    The cover of Mayhem's Dawn of The Black Hearts is pretty crazy. It's a photograph (taken by their guitarist) of their former lead singer's lifeless body after blowing his brains out with a rifle.

    Most of the Cannibal Corpse album covers are pretty eye-opening as well...
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    Quote Originally Posted by JKL2000 View Post
    If you go to Ljubljana and refer to it as Laibach a lot, especially to old people, maybe you'll find out.
    I see.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Progatron View Post
    The cover of Mayhem's Dawn of The Black Hearts is pretty crazy. It's a photograph (taken by their guitarist) of their former lead singer's lifeless body after blowing his brains out with a rifle.

    Most of the Cannibal Corpse album covers are pretty eye-opening as well...
    The whole thing about Dead was disturbing...
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    Hi again,

    Surprised no one mentioned this band yet:



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