Good
- Biirdie – The only thing they have to fear are typos!
- Beatles – If Google existed in 1962, it would have been constantly asking people whether they really meant “Beatles?” But at least they would have found what they were looking for.
Bad
- The The – Repeated word *and* a definite article?! Guilty on both counts!
- Franz Ferdinand – This was a ballsy move, basically deciding up-front that you’re going to have to become more famous than the guy whose assassination started World War I. Hmm… actually on further reflection, maybe that is not such a bad bet.
- !!! – Ok, so maybe this one isn’t *really* difficult to search for but I’m just putting it in here because I really resent having to be informed of how to pronouce this band’s damn name (“chk, chk, chk”) every damn time I see it in print. THIS IS WHY WE HAVE A PHONETIC LANGUAGE DAMMIT!
- The M’s – Fighting Words!
- The Band – Not only is it impossible to search for, but you’ve also ruined it for thousands of future groups with bad names, whose only hope was appending “the-band” to their URL!
- NWA – That being said, I’ll bet Northwestern Airlines would be wayyy cooler if Eazy E *did* run it.
Ok, well those are all the ones of which I can recall at the moment, but I’ll add to this if any future googling should bring new shit to light.
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