It's not Burgess's fault that so many people ripped off his band name "A Clockwork Orange", and "Strawberry Alarmclock" isn't original enough to have ripoffs. But for saying "We want to be different but couldn't figure out how" in two words, I think they win. "Clap your hands say yeah" ("party music in English for people who don't understand it") and "I love you but I choose darkness" ("David Gahan is a songwriting GENIUS, compared to 10,000 bands just like us") aren't as tight.
A bad band name saves time like a bad trailer. A good bad band name says, "We may say a lot of words, but don't listen to them because we couldn't find two good ones in a row." Not that that always stops people, or even should. "Smells Like Teen Spirit"'s got something going for it, I guess, and it ain't the lyrics. (Even Cobain apparently knew that -- he didn't mumble so much on other songs whose lyrics weren't so bad.)
My "boring" alarm is going off, so I have to leave now. (It's not true that I like to listen to myself talk. I just don't know how to block out the noise.)
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Date: 2007-02-25 07:33 pm (UTC)A bad band name saves time like a bad trailer. A good bad band name says, "We may say a lot of words, but don't listen to them because we couldn't find two good ones in a row." Not that that always stops people, or even should. "Smells Like Teen Spirit"'s got something going for it, I guess, and it ain't the lyrics. (Even Cobain apparently knew that -- he didn't mumble so much on other songs whose lyrics weren't so bad.)
My "boring" alarm is going off, so I have to leave now. (It's not true that I like to listen to myself talk. I just don't know how to block out the noise.)