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Their music is sooo good tho. Like the name is cringe but i need me some hot jazz

What are you talking about, that's amazing

I offhandedly mentioned their band name in 7th grade and I couldn't understand why my counselor laughed and told me not to say it again

You trying to start a riot?

They were awesome!!

😅😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

Is that a Trump band???

Ew

Easy, that band was great and they taught a ton kids about the Zoot Suit Riots.

Hope they're not referencing their sons or daughters

Times were different then. Lol

ZOOT SUIT RIOT!

no lie

That punk zoot suit swing dance music thing in the '90s was a weird little wrinkle...

Time to form a new band.

There was never a band called Jethro Q. Walrustitty YET.

They were very sad

Yes, that name is a doozy 😅

I love Swing and Ska bands. Those two bands are awesome.

Imagine the cherry popped mommies...

Saw ‘Wayne County and the Electric Chairs’ at Reading Rock and Jazz Festival, 1977. 5hit name and as it turned out, a 5hit band too.

Thank you, I needed to hear this. 🤣

And let us not mention Kenny Kotex’s band

Pauly caught a bullet, but it only hit his leg. Well it should have been a better shot and got him in the head.

RIP Teresa Nervosa. Who inherited Madonna's pap smear?

I'll never forget my dad's face when I bought a boyfriend home who was wearing a Butthole Surfers t-shirt.

So true!!

this would only be cool if all of the members were lesbians

That’s disgusting.

Great band! Ever listen to them?

I always like the band called “Butthole Surfers”.

omg 🤮

Can’t name one song but sure know of the band. Hey guess what check out the misogyny of Stray Cat Blues and Some Girls and Under My Thumb. Ted Nugent has Jailbait on one of his albums.

Eww

Dear Lord

One time, my mom was in the room when their one song was playing on the radio. She expressed amazement at the swing music revival being a thing, then she asked what this band was called. I answered before I really thought about it. And then there was an awkward silence.

I still remember when they were introduced on Nickelodeon that time.

There was a band called Vowel Movement in the 90's that did one album. I feel that name's just as bad but at least it's a bit clever.

Lucky for me I don't determine my success based on how worse others are doing, how many people are in front of me on my climb, or who all I have climbed over on my way to the top. I'm not trying for the top. Serenity is my goal!🤣💖✨

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Huh, sounds like an idea stolen from a GWAR concert, haha.

Don’t even joke about that miserable name. Say it ain’t so, Joe

What, definitely more to this story 😆

Oy!

Vatican Sex Kittens?

Meat Beat Manifesto’s one of my all-time faves

Good Band Excellent flyers

And that’s really something

I have always loved that name. Great name for a swing band.

Eww 😷

That was Trump’s motto and half of his supporters.

… opening for Doug Clark & the Hot Nuts.

Lololol

And if you were purity cultured like I was you MAY have thought it was a band of guys who liked forcefully pull stems off cherries so it made a slight "popping" sound. You may also have been confused at the looks you'd get when you announced "I like popping cherries, too!"

That would be an awesome ending to this whole thread, and kudos to you for making me double-check. I have a playlist for funerals that has “Afterlife” by the Cherry Poppin Daddies. It’s about going to Hell, and makes me think of this Disney cartoon with dancing skeletons.

My brother in Christ, who do you think I’m refering to?

80s were better.

Well said.

Fun fact: that song was recorded on the first take

He HAS A Point

They were friends of mine! Great band, horrible horrible AWFUL FUCKED UP name.

They're amazing.

🤢

A fairer point has never been made

Yes, an unfortunate name for a very talented swing band.

It's a great band

What the actual

Christian Rock…

I enjoyed their music, and this is the first time, regrettably, after reading your post, that I recognize the creep factor of their name. I am quite naive apparently. :)

i search for that all the time

"I can't even search for 'Normal knuckcles' on the internet, I keep getting this fucking echidna. 'Human knuckles' just makes it worse!" - Max0r

Had a bad day?

I hated that name in 1996. And I still hate it.

Can’t wait for the collab!

Big hits ,here comes the snake and shake your lovermaker,some more bizarre band names come from punk, the vibrators,the slits, and of course in the rock and roll hall of fame , the sex pistols

But damn they’re a great band.

They play corporate gigs now and it’s honestly one of the best paying gigs a musician can land. The music is pretty tired though.

I lived in Eugene, their home town, for 14 years. Even when I tried to get past the name, never got past the music; so boring and derivative.

OMG!

BBVD were Assholes, CPD were actually very cool dudes.

BBVD was just as big where I was but I also went to a school where we would have likely been the weirdos in other schools. They did both get a lot of airplay on the LA radio stations.

Swing music & swing dancing is still ongoing, it just has fewer causals involved. You can find a Lindy Hop scene in every major city & their folks are good at finding the local Blues, Jump Blues, Swing, Rockabilly, etc. music scenes.

Perspective!

Could have been called “The Swinging Johnsons”…. Always a fan favorite

what about Butthole Surfers

You should check out Squirrel Nut Zippers or for something more recent, Caravan Palace.

Dropout TV's Smartypants Season 1 Ross Bryant's presentation. Highly recommend.

That moment in the 90s when we stared into the abyss of a swing revival and said no…the last time we stood as one as a country.

90% of their revenue on Spotify comes from, you guessed it, Matt Gaetz

I only know about them because of the Wrestlemania Rage party, because nothing says rage like a swing band.

Or Second Gate Sounds too much like 2nd rate

This is a huge own if you know how much brain space was dedicated to thinking up band names in the 90s, it was a lot

That’s true

Yikes

Good point. Thanks for the positive view! 😂

They're certainly not as bad as the Youth Pastor Finger-bangers.

Did they start as a Ted Nugent tribute band?

Yo ho! Come ooonnnn it was the 90's you know the best decade!🙏🐝👹🏴‍☠️

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They do not reflect any sort of approval of such things. The heavy use of minor chords provides the backdrop of such treatise. I love both traditional big band music, but also the darker cynical complexity of this marriage.

Y'all are aware what Jelly Roll is slang for, right?

Drunk daddy literally a song on first album

I've always hated that name, so tone deaf

they were an awesome band though and Zoot Suit Riot is a great album

Good band, tho...

No worse than Fine Young Cannibals or Bare Naked Ladies.

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