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Music Names and Self-Promotion

TheOldMole
Oct 16 2007 08:11 PM

What acts have built self-promotion into their names?

I'm thinking of names like:

The Fantastic Johnny C

The Crazy World of Arthur Brown

The Amazing Rhythm Aces

John Cougar Lunchbucket
Oct 16 2007 08:18 PM

The Red Hot Chili Peppers
The Marvelous Three
The Cherry-Poppin' Daddies
The Fabulous Thunderbirds

DocTee
Oct 16 2007 08:28 PM

The Mighty, Mighty Boss Tones

The Killers

Edgy DC
Oct 16 2007 08:47 PM

Johnny Paycheck.

Cedric the Entertainainer.

Every hip hop act ever.

RealityChuck
Oct 17 2007 06:49 AM

Cream

Martin Mull and his Fabulous Furniture

The World's Most Dangerous Band

sharpie
Oct 17 2007 07:53 AM

The Supremes
Big Audio Dynamite

MFS62
Oct 17 2007 08:06 AM

Weird Al Yankovik

Later

Edgy DC
Oct 17 2007 08:30 AM

sharpie
Oct 17 2007 09:06 AM

The Big Bopper

soupcan
Oct 17 2007 10:02 AM

The Fantastic Four
The Amazing Mets
The Great Gazoo
The Great Gatsby
The Good Earth
The Best of Times
Marvelous Marv
Superman

OlerudOwned
Oct 17 2007 01:40 PM

Going in the opposite direction, there's Minor Threat and Less Than Jake.

soupcan
Oct 17 2007 01:46 PM

Bad Finger

TheOldMole
Oct 17 2007 01:59 PM

And going back in the opposite direction again, there's Better than Ezra.

OlerudOwned
Oct 17 2007 03:53 PM

I'm hoping for a supergroup called Ezra < x < Jake.

RealityChuck
Oct 17 2007 05:06 PM

Lyle Lovett and his Large Bad (not quite up to being a big band).

The Pretenders