tommydski wrote:big_dave wrote:Bands that have names that permanently link them to things that they "move on from", so to speak. Pere Ubu, R.E.M., Sonic Youth, The Fall, etc.
How do you figure Big Dave?
Bands that have names that link them to stuff that the band moves on from pretty quickly. The "literary" side of the Fall was pretty much over with MES' puberty, R.E.M. gave postpunk the heave-ho, Sonic Youth ditched the reggae and Pere Ubu decided that Europe was basically a backwater that crushed the spirits of the "rubes" and never produced anything they'd connect themselves to.
Oh yeah, ZZ Top eventually ditched the blooz. I guess that counts.