Dogs Die In Hot Cars

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Yes, the worst band name ever...
...But I picked up the single "Godhopping" in London last week, and it is the most obscenely catchy thing I have heard in ages... amazingly, the reference points I can come up with for the band (based on this one song) are about as unhip as you can possibly get: Oingo Boingo, Midnight Oil, Rusted Root (really!), Men at Work... but it is just so impossibly catchy and fun.
Have any of you UK Ilxors seen them? Are they horribly obnoxious? Am I crazy to love this song? Tell me more about them, please... I am excited to hear more...

― Ben Boyer (Ben Boyer), Friday, 21 May 2004 17:15 (twenty-two years ago)

Godhopping is late-period XTC on uppers.
Next single, I Love You 'Cause I Have To, is possibly even better.

― edward o (edwardo), Friday, 21 May 2004 17:16 (twenty-two years ago)

hmm XTC comparison = curiosity piqued

― cutty (mcutt), Friday, 21 May 2004 17:19 (twenty-two years ago)

Aha! By the time you realise that it's a bit of a long bow being drawn it will be TOO LATE!

― edward o (edwardo), Friday, 21 May 2004 17:21 (twenty-two years ago)

God, totally -- XTC didn't even dawn on me. But it's very accurate.

The other thing I forgot to mention is that the opening piano riff (is it a "riff" on piano?) has almost the same melody as the enduring Sesame Street anthem "1,2,3,4,5 / 6,7,8,9,10 / eleevvven, twellllve."

When does that new single come out? How about a full length?

― Ben Boyer (Ben Boyer), Friday, 21 May 2004 17:24 (twenty-two years ago)

I Love You... July or August I think. It doesn't sound like XTC. Swygart's the resident DDIHC expert, and he said there was one coming, so him to thread.

― edward o (edwardo), Friday, 21 May 2004 17:26 (twenty-two years ago)

sadly i got barenakedladies running through my head when i heard this

― myke boomnoise (myke boomnoise), Friday, 21 May 2004 17:35 (twenty-two years ago)

EWWW curiousity puqued

― cutty (mcutt), Friday, 21 May 2004 18:05 (twenty-two years ago)

My 'ald drummer was in a band called Dogs Die in Hot Cars when he was about 14. I mentioned said fact on the old Greenspun and got an email from someone in the actual now band asking me what the hell I was going on about. Strange.

― Lynskey (Lynskey), Friday, 21 May 2004 18:16 (twenty-two years ago)

when i first saw the name i thought they were a british hardcore band or something

― myke boomnoise (myke boomnoise), Friday, 21 May 2004 18:17 (twenty-two years ago)

Actually, it might transpire that Charlie No4 is more knowledgeable of them. I think I Love You Cause I Have To is... July. Or June. I forget. It's all around the same time as the Futureheads, put it that way.

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Friday, 21 May 2004 20:25 (twenty-two years ago)

But yes, DDIHC are bloody lovely and will hopefully be huge.

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Friday, 21 May 2004 20:27 (twenty-two years ago)

great name,surely?

― robin (robin), Friday, 21 May 2004 20:49 (twenty-two years ago)

It is a great name UNLESS it is over-literalised on their album cover. Or perhaps ONLY IF this is done.

― edward o (edwardo), Friday, 21 May 2004 20:56 (twenty-two years ago)

Yes, but didn't we go through a ska revival about ten years ago with No Doubt and Mighty Mighty Bosstones? We need this like we need a Stray Cats/Rockabilly revival.

oof,

― hector savage, Saturday, 22 May 2004 09:40 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh, it's really only I Love You 'Cause I Have To that has vague ska tinges anyway, and it's LEARNED from the mistakes, because only half of it has said tinges anyway.

― edward o (edwardo), Saturday, 22 May 2004 09:41 (twenty-two years ago)

one year passes...

Yes, the worst band name ever...

Given that I've had former acquaintances of my family actually make the mistake of locking their dogs inside a car with the doors closed during a heatwave and killed them (this before it was considered "reportable" by the media), and also that fucked up loser from L.A. who made a media spectacle in the late 90s by shooting himself in the head in front of live cameras on top of a bridge over a major L.A. freeway after setting his truck on fire -- WITH HIS DOG INSIDE IT! -- I find it hard to believe that any band would name themselves this and think "yeah, it's got a nice ring to it. I like it!" without a) being complete fucking idiots, or b) just not giving a shit.. both of which are very suspicious to me.

I wouldn't be nearly as livid had the band name simply been truncated to "Dogs Die", as at least that doesn't imply awful tragedy that's avoidable.

I am personally projecting a lot here, I completely admit. I'm sure many have similar reasons to be equally outraged at the band names Joy Division or New Order, for historic/religious reasons. So, who am I to speak?

― donut debonair (donut), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 17:44 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.allaboutpetswa.com/rspcahotdogs-lg2.jpg

― Morley Timmons (Donna Brown), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 21:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Why just dogs though...

Kids Die In Hot Cars too.

― gygax! (gygax!), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 21:28 (twenty-one years ago)

one month passes...

fuck i love this album

― shine headlights on me (electricsound), Monday, 4 July 2005 01:48 (twenty years ago)

five years pass...

Was that it? Nothing more heard from them? Pity.

― paulhw, Tuesday, 15 February 2011 20:49 (fifteen years ago)

I think there was some kind of fan mixed and assembled second album after they split up? Never hear it though.

Everything Everything's "Photoshop Handsome" sounds a lot like them.

― if, Tuesday, 15 February 2011 20:52 (fifteen years ago)

Er, never heard it.

― if, Tuesday, 15 February 2011 20:53 (fifteen years ago)

Some of the songs from that second album are really great (better than stuff on the 1st album even). They were headed in the right direction for sure. Too bad they couldn't keep it together.

― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 16 February 2011 07:03 (fifteen years ago)

What a tremendous band name...........

― billstevejim, Thursday, 17 February 2011 01:57 (fifteen years ago)

i always liked these dudes, including their ridiculous band name, which used to pop into my head from time to time

― on some outer space shit (bernard snowy), Thursday, 17 February 2011 02:01 (fifteen years ago)

"no, sorry, we're gonna have to stop, i just totally lost it"

― on some outer space shit (bernard snowy), Thursday, 17 February 2011 02:02 (fifteen years ago)

(even more embarrassing: only after a couple years of this did it eventually dawn on me what the name 'meant')

― on some outer space shit (bernard snowy), Thursday, 17 February 2011 02:03 (fifteen years ago)

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