Bands whose name could be 'euphemisms' for rude stuff

diebitter · #1 09-02-2005, 05:42 AM

I ask, cos it's only just occurred to be what 'Pearl Jam' could actually mean.

pearljam · #2 09-02-2005, 05:43 AM

STFU

diebitter · #3 09-02-2005, 06:02 AM

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[rodney dangerfield]No offence![/rodney dangerfield]

daveymck · #4 09-02-2005, 07:22 AM

What about Anal [censored]

thatpfunk · #5 09-02-2005, 07:24 AM

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you are automatically ok in my book.

stigmata · #6 09-02-2005, 06:00 AM

"Joy Division" -- not exactly a euphimism, but it is a hidden meaning for something both rude and utterly sickening.

spamuell · #7 09-02-2005, 09:08 AM

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Explain please, I'm listening to Unknown Pleasures right now and I want to know which unknown pleasures they're alluding to.

stigmata · #8 09-02-2005, 09:14 AM

Great album.

"Joy Division" was a term used by nazi guards. It referred to the section of a concentration camp where they kept all the pretty young females.

spamuell · #9 09-02-2005, 09:19 AM

Wow. I heard that they were accused of being Nazi sympathisers, was it related to that?

stigmata · #10 09-02-2005, 09:29 AM

"New Order" is pretty suggestive too.... And I think their first single was released under the name "warsaw" and featured a nazi drummer boy on the cover. Ian Curtis was alleged to have said "Hess was right" at some point on the single, although this is highly debatable.

Knowing the bands political sympathies (northern, old-labour types), it's pretty difficult to believe they were Nazi sympathisers. All I do know is that Ian Curtis was a pretty [censored] wierd guy!