Not as visceral as a lot of the other options, but it is very annoying when bands (especially smaller bands) formed in the last 15-20 years choose names that make it difficult to find their music online. Saw a band as openers once called “1,2,3”. Similar for bands choosing very simple words like “Apartment”, “Paint”, or “Basement”. Even bigger bands like “Shame”, “Wednesday”, and “Idles” are tricky IMO.
Name your band whatever you want, of course, but understand the consequences of your actions!
There’s this band that I like called 3 - easy enough to Google if you search “3 band” - But if I’m driving in my car and I want to use voice commands to play music by them, well too fucking bad. I’m also not going to take my phone out of my pocket and look them up while driving. So I guess they won’t get the plays.
I miss having a CD player in my car with my sun visor CD slip.
Not as visceral as a lot of the other options, but it is very annoying when bands (especially smaller bands) formed in the last 15-20 years choose names that make it difficult to find their music online. Saw a band as openers once called “1,2,3”. Similar for bands choosing very simple words like “Apartment”, “Paint”, or “Basement”. Even bigger bands like “Shame”, “Wednesday”, and “Idles” are tricky IMO.
Name your band whatever you want, of course, but understand the consequences of your actions!
There’s this band that I like called 3 - easy enough to Google if you search “3 band” - But if I’m driving in my car and I want to use voice commands to play music by them, well too fucking bad. I’m also not going to take my phone out of my pocket and look them up while driving. So I guess they won’t get the plays.
I miss having a CD player in my car with my sun visor CD slip.