Music Aug 12, 2010 at 4:00 am

A Survey of Seattle Bands Burdened with Same-Named Competition

Not British, decidedly stranger than some Sonic Youth rip-off. Ryan Furbush

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FYI -

The Girls (Dirtnap recs) are playing an early show @ the Funhouse Aug 21.
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There's Seattle's the Dutchess and the Duke, and NY's the Duke and the King.

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"Walls vs Walls" sounds like a cooler band name.
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as artists, you'd think they'd be a little more creative with their names. These all sound like they were picked out of some corporate band-name hat.
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LoVe Tan was originally Pyramids.

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I didn't think of, GREAT SPIDERS. Bogdan did
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Watery Graves & Watery Graves Of Portland
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The Bismarck was also employed by a Boston area band. after some initial weirdness we we able to work out an amicable no-compete agreement, whereby we would add "From Seattle" if we got too far east, and they would add "From Boston" if they got too far west. We thought about trying to have a Bismarck-off, to take place in Bismarck, ND of course.
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Yeah way to choose the most boring band names in existence for this article. There are hundreds of instances of this same issue, with more obscure names. I know because every time I'm in a band searching for a name, and we finally think we got something good, and obscure enough to not previously exist, we google it and rarely find less than 2-3 other bands with the same name..
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@4

you can go right ahead and fuck yourself. not every band wants to have a brilliantly pretentious name like Panic! At The Disco or Same-Sex Dictator. sometimes musicians just want to keep it simple and find just one or two words that they feel best defines the members and their sound. and since pop music's been around for about 60 years, they're likely to repeat themselves occasionally. it doesn't mean that the bands are necessarily cloying for corporate rock stature.

also, the Emeralds name-change is in the works. we are trying to do something that won't confuse people who know the band already and will think its not the same band or something. kinda like what happened with the Whore Moans... what the hell did they change their name to again?
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originality is never pretentious
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@4 yur dum
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@13

ah yes... I was 19 once too.
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this was a super fuckin stupid article; still fishing around for wet paint's balls in your throat?
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Eric forgot the Japanese garage band The Emeralds - they played at the High Dive's Japan Nite back in 2008 (I think).
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@15

Way to be a thin-skinned jerk.
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The Dictators are more than just a "punk rock footnote"! Learn your history.
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@18

part one didn't make sense, part two was right on.
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'cloying' was never implied, just boringness, but hey, if that's what you're going for...
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okay dude, it's clear I just should have let I'M 85 YEARS OLD do the talking for me because you have no grasp of hyperbole or sarcasm or humor or... I'm going to let this die now.

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