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Media section => Music => Topic started by: Lexi Darling on Mar 26, 2025, 08:39 PM

Title: Opposite bands!
Post by: Lexi Darling on Mar 26, 2025, 08:39 PM
Let's play a music game! I assure you all my degree from the Trollheart School of Music Games is fully legit.

So I'll post a made-up name for a band that would be the opposite of the name of a real band. Then you all guess which real band it's the opposite of, and then once it's guessed and approved by the original poster, the person who guessed correctly makes up their own "opposite band". Feel free to get creative with the words you "opposite-ify". I'll start:

Hotwork
Title: Re: Opposite bands!
Post by: jimmy jazz on Mar 26, 2025, 11:32 PM
Coldplay.

- Cock order
Title: Re: Opposite bands!
Post by: Lexi Darling on Mar 26, 2025, 11:39 PM
Quote from: jimmy jazz on Mar 26, 2025, 11:32 PMColdplay.

- Cock order

Correct!

Is it Pussy Riot?
Title: Re: Opposite bands!
Post by: jimmy jazz on Mar 26, 2025, 11:52 PM
Quote from: Lexi Darling on Mar 26, 2025, 11:39 PMCorrect!

Is it Pussy Riot?

Yes 😡

Your turn.
Title: Re: Opposite bands!
Post by: Lexi Darling on Mar 27, 2025, 12:16 AM
The Ordinaries
Title: Re: Opposite bands!
Post by: jimmy jazz on Mar 27, 2025, 12:23 AM
The Specials  8)

Shrink Satnavs
Title: Re: Opposite bands!
Post by: Trollheart on Mar 27, 2025, 01:31 AM
Quote from: Lexi Darling on Mar 26, 2025, 08:39 PMLet's play a music game! I assure you all my degree from the Trollheart School of Music Games is fully legit.

So I'll post a made-up name for a band that would be the opposite of the name of a real band. Then you all guess which real band it's the opposite of, and then once it's guessed and approved by the original poster, the person who guessed correctly makes up their own "opposite band". Feel free to get creative with the words you "opposite-ify". I'll start:

Hotwork

I am Trollheart and I approve this message.
Pending payment of my 10 percent commission, of course..
Quote from: Lexi Darling on Mar 26, 2025, 11:39 PMCorrect!

Is it Pussy Riot?

Never really seen a bunch of cats demonstrate, but I bet it's cute.
Title: Re: Opposite bands!
Post by: Saulaac on Mar 27, 2025, 10:03 PM
Quote from: jimmy jazz on Mar 27, 2025, 12:23 AMThe Specials  8)

Shrink Satnavs

I thought of Grow maps, but that sounds like an awful band name tbh.

An extra clue pls, JJ. Giz a clue!
Title: Re: Opposite bands!
Post by: jimmy jazz on Mar 27, 2025, 10:23 PM
Quote from: Saulaac on Mar 27, 2025, 10:03 PMI thought of Grow maps, but that sounds like an awful band name tbh.

An extra clue pls, JJ. Giz a clue!

You are very close 😯
Title: Re: Opposite bands!
Post by: Lexi Darling on Mar 27, 2025, 10:26 PM
Quote from: jimmy jazz on Mar 27, 2025, 10:23 PMYou are very close 😯

Swell Maps?
Title: Re: Opposite bands!
Post by: jimmy jazz on Mar 27, 2025, 10:54 PM
Quote from: Lexi Darling on Mar 27, 2025, 10:26 PMSwell Maps?

Yes  8)

Your turn.
Title: Re: Opposite bands!
Post by: Lexi Darling on Mar 27, 2025, 11:00 PM
February Freezes Green
Title: Re: Opposite bands!
Post by: Saulaac on Mar 27, 2025, 11:07 PM
Quote from: jimmy jazz on Mar 27, 2025, 10:54 PMYes  8)

Your turn.

Swell Maps, a very local band. I like the focus on the local. Looked it up on wiki and saw that "Swell Maps were an English experimental DIY, early punk and post-punk rock group from Birmingham".

"English experimental DIY"- Ooh matron.

That was a good one, JJ.


Sorry, back over to you, Lexi:

February Freezes Green

Title: Re: Opposite bands!
Post by: Lucem Ferre on Mar 28, 2025, 02:39 AM
August Burns Red?
Title: Re: Opposite bands!
Post by: Lexi Darling on Mar 28, 2025, 04:40 AM
Quote from: Lucem Ferre on Mar 28, 2025, 02:39 AMAugust Burns Red?

You got it! Your turn now.
Title: Re: Opposite bands!
Post by: Lucem Ferre on Mar 28, 2025, 05:28 PM
The infection
Title: Re: Opposite bands!
Post by: tristan_geoff on Mar 28, 2025, 08:10 PM
Quote from: Lucem Ferre on Mar 28, 2025, 05:28 PMThe infection

The Cure



=+=+=+=+=

Red Night
Title: Re: Opposite bands!
Post by: Trollheart on Mar 28, 2025, 08:22 PM
Green Day

East death
Title: Re: Opposite bands!
Post by: Lexi Darling on Mar 28, 2025, 08:42 PM
Quote from: Trollheart on Mar 28, 2025, 08:22 PMGreen Day

East death

Westlife.

Saltvalley Loner
Title: Re: Opposite bands!
Post by: Saulaac on Mar 28, 2025, 09:43 PM
The Sugarhill Gang


The Neck-stretchers
Title: Re: Opposite bands!
Post by: jimmy jazz on Mar 28, 2025, 10:11 PM
Quote from: Saulaac on Mar 28, 2025, 09:43 PMThe Neck-stretchers

(https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:800/1*LwHBa0Br0FPTwnygn90wDg.png)
Title: Re: Opposite bands!
Post by: Saulaac on Mar 28, 2025, 10:30 PM
 :laughing: Not vertically, but horizontally.

Granted, a better proposition would be The Neck-liberators or the Neck-widerners.
Title: Re: Opposite bands!
Post by: Guybrush on Mar 29, 2025, 12:49 AM
You must mean Neckleback.. which is also slang for raising your shoulders and folding your neck and chin into your upper body 🍷
Title: Re: Opposite bands!
Post by: Trollheart on Mar 29, 2025, 01:31 AM
Surely though that would then be Dime Forward?
Title: Re: Opposite bands!
Post by: Saulaac on Mar 29, 2025, 10:35 PM
Quote from: Guybrush on Mar 29, 2025, 12:49 AMYou must mean Neckleback.. which is also slang for raising your shoulders and folding your neck and chin into your upper body 🍷

It's not Nickleback either. Nor is it The Gurners.  :P  :o


Another clue is "The Looseners" (in the Dime area). They were a kcor band from the KU, and had a lot of failure in the '70s, according to ikiw.

Title: Re: Opposite bands!
Post by: Trollheart on Mar 30, 2025, 05:51 PM
Surely not Squeeze? :-\
Title: Re: Opposite bands!
Post by: Saulaac on Mar 30, 2025, 10:25 PM
Nope not Squeeze. Correct hand movement though. But in the dime area. And there are a few of them, so it's The Xxxxxxxxxs"

I didn't realise the hits they wrote. Anyone recognize the excerpts below? I hope someone gets it soon, or else I'll have to try something completely different, such as going bonkers  :banghead:  :coldsweat:

Spoiler
Chorus song 1:
There's always the sun, mm (always the sun)
There's always the sun
Always, always (always the sun)


Chorus song 2:
...never a frown with golden brown...

[close]
Title: Re: Opposite bands!
Post by: Trollheart on Mar 30, 2025, 10:53 PM
Right. The Stranglers, doh.

Old suggestion
Title: Re: Opposite bands!
Post by: Lexi Darling on Mar 30, 2025, 11:00 PM
Quote from: Trollheart on Mar 30, 2025, 10:53 PMRight. The Stranglers, doh.

Old suggestion

New Order?
Title: Re: Opposite bands!
Post by: Trollheart on Mar 31, 2025, 02:09 AM
You got it, warrior woman! :love:
Title: Re: Opposite bands!
Post by: Lexi Darling on Mar 31, 2025, 02:38 AM
Yay :)

Super Nintendo
Title: Re: Opposite bands!
Post by: tristan_geoff on Mar 31, 2025, 06:28 AM
Phil Collins Genesis
Title: Re: Opposite bands!
Post by: Lexi Darling on Mar 31, 2025, 07:30 AM
Quote from: tristan_geoff on Mar 31, 2025, 06:28 AMPhil Collins Genesis

Genesis is correct! Your turn.  :)
Title: Re: Opposite bands!
Post by: Trollheart on Mar 31, 2025, 08:19 PM
I'm ashamed I didn't get that one.
:shycouch:
Title: Re: Opposite bands!
Post by: tristan_geoff on Mar 31, 2025, 10:06 PM
Quote from: Lexi Darling on Mar 31, 2025, 07:30 AMGenesis is correct! Your turn.  :)

lmao i didn't expect to get that right XD I said phil collins bc I thought it was the opposite of "Super", super being Peter Gabriel Genesis :P

ummm

Low on Water
Title: Re: Opposite bands!
Post by: Trollheart on Mar 31, 2025, 10:54 PM
High on Fire.

Let's try something a bit more difficult..

Clockwork Dark Band
Title: Re: Opposite bands!
Post by: jimmy jazz on Mar 31, 2025, 11:40 PM
Quote from: Trollheart on Mar 31, 2025, 10:54 PMHigh on Fire.

Let's try something a bit more difficult..

Clockwork Dark Band

Electric Light Orchestra.

Difficult my bellend!

Library Rain.
Title: Re: Opposite bands!
Post by: tristan_geoff on Apr 01, 2025, 02:55 AM
Quote from: jimmy jazz on Mar 31, 2025, 11:40 PMElectric Light Orchestra.

Difficult my bellend!

Library Rain.

Arcade Fire

here's a real tricky one

Michelle Flatsoda
Title: Re: Opposite bands!
Post by: Lexi Darling on Apr 01, 2025, 03:24 AM
Quote from: tristan_geoff on Apr 01, 2025, 02:55 AMArcade Fire

here's a real tricky one

Michelle Flatsoda

Hmmm. Is it Michael Buble?
Title: Re: Opposite bands!
Post by: tristan_geoff on Apr 01, 2025, 05:12 AM
Quote from: Lexi Darling on Apr 01, 2025, 03:24 AMHmmm. Is it Michael Buble?

yes lmao
Title: Re: Opposite bands!
Post by: Lexi Darling on Apr 01, 2025, 06:05 AM
Yayyy

Diamond Jelly
Title: Re: Opposite bands!
Post by: tristan_geoff on Apr 01, 2025, 06:46 AM
Quote from: Lexi Darling on Apr 01, 2025, 06:05 AMYayyy

Diamond Jelly

Pearl Jam

Hell
Title: Re: Opposite bands!
Post by: Trollheart on Apr 01, 2025, 08:12 PM
Heaven?

John Viscount and the Princes and Princesses
Title: Re: Opposite bands!
Post by: Saulaac on Apr 01, 2025, 10:28 PM
The only band coming to mind is Christine and the Queens, but I don't think they're well known outside of France.

Could you add a hint or two, TH? Is it a literal one, i.e. in the spirit of "Jeanne McVities and the Peasants and Shoe Polishers"?
Title: Re: Opposite bands!
Post by: Trollheart on Apr 01, 2025, 10:31 PM
All I'll say is that John Viscount usually performs alone under his own name, the Princes and Princesses are his band but not normally mentioned (think Nick Cave/Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds) and we're talking just a regular guy here, who does it the hard way down Copperhead Road. If that don't give it away, well, shoot, you're all a buncha Johnny Come Latelys.
Title: Re: Opposite bands!
Post by: Saulaac on Apr 01, 2025, 10:53 PM
I was never very good at the long band names, so I probably won't get this one but will keep thinking.
Unless it's Mike and the Mechanics? I'm sure they would have been up for a bit of hard-wiring with a bit of copper. :laughing:
Title: Re: Opposite bands!
Post by: Trollheart on Apr 01, 2025, 10:55 PM
Negatory, good buddy. Think more American. Think more country.

One last clue: The revolution starts now, apparently.
Title: Re: Opposite bands!
Post by: Saulaac on Apr 01, 2025, 11:45 PM
Okay, so I won't propose Gil Scott and the Herons.

Trying to think Country, perhaps American rock and bluegrass (which I lump together..)
Title: Re: Opposite bands!
Post by: tristan_geoff on Apr 02, 2025, 03:51 AM
Quote from: Trollheart on Apr 01, 2025, 08:12 PMHeaven?

John Viscount and the Princes and Princesses

it was actually Nirvana
Title: Re: Opposite bands!
Post by: Trollheart on Apr 02, 2025, 04:02 AM
Quote from: tristan_geoff on Today at 03:51 AMit was actually Nirvana


Oops! Sorry.
:shycouch:
Title: Re: Opposite bands!
Post by: Lisnaholic on Apr 02, 2025, 05:31 PM
Quote from: Trollheart on Apr 01, 2025, 08:12 PMHeaven?

John Viscount and the Princes and Princesses

How about Steve Earle and The Dukes ? (though I don't know how John is the opposite of Steve)