what do you think is/was the worst smelling band?

my vote's for sublime

I can't remember the name of the band. It was a late eighties, early nineties band that played electronics. I remember white dudes with dreads and lazers and synths. It had kind of a Hawkwind or Legendary Pink Dots feel , but it was just two dudes, I think. They were from England and somewhat famous. I'm hurting my brain trying to remember the name or find something to google. Maybe something about Octopuses.

I would be willing to bet that they smelled bad.

tad

I still can't remember what I was recollecting. It will come. In the meantime.

http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/images/pref_images/p00005yg1c6.jpg

Ozric Tentacles (above), The Levellers, New Model Army etc etc

Ozric Tentacles (above)

thank you. it was really bothering me to not pull the name out.

I imagine that Hawkwind smelt bad (Lemmy era, though not because of Lemmy)
http://assets.mog.com/pictures/wikipedia/13644/Hawkwind.jpg

Poison
Probably smelled like hairspray and semen.

Everybody Smells it could be a childrens' book. I think both Stevie Nicks and Joan Jett played my town tonight, they must have gotten all hot and sweaty. Especially Joan, because she had to play the horse track outdoors in the humidity.

I stayed home and watched sports, but I bet those ladies were ripe.

During a Lollapalooza stop, my friend Tim ran into Nick Cave at a Wendy's salad bar (back when Wendy's had a salad bar). After a short how-do-you-do, Cave revealed that L7 was really one of the smelliest collectives of people he'd ever encountered.

Lynyrd Skynyrd and Badfinger don't smell too well by now.

During a Lollapalooza stop, my friend Tim ran into Nick Cave at a Wendy's salad bar (back when Wendy's had a salad bar). After a short how-do-you-do, Cave revealed that L7 was really one of the smelliest collectives of people he'd ever encountered.

how did the conversation take that particular direction?

Tim asked him about all the other bands on the tour, and Cave immediately went into L7 first with a rant on how gross they were.

http://img212.imageshack.us/img212/5645/deftones.jpg

Korn probably smells worse than Deftones if I had to guess. They have dreads.

korn dont have fluctuating weight problems

Deftones looks like a group of clean young men who've just been out shopping for clothes together.

Amebix lived in a squat with no running water and invented a musical genre called "crust". I figure they probably didn't smell too good.

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It's Watain from Sweden and this issue was covered in my column in Metal Edge a few months ago. They have dead animals on stage and rub that shit all over themselves.

What the fuck is constantly going on in Scandinavia?

I'm guessing G.G. or someone in some crust band.

NB I'm drunk and not actually reading threads right now.

hoobastank by name, hoobaSTANK by reputation

Rob Zombie strikes me as a guy who isn't big on washing.

http://www.cowboymusicroundup.com/Performer%20Photos/WashtubJerry-01.gif

^^^I tell you one thing it ain't this guy.

Please, people. Could it really be anyone other than the Geeg?

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Runners=up: The Mentors!

http://www.giantrobot.com/blogs/martin/uploaded_images/Mentors1986-798932.jpg

I was never aware of The Mentors before a minute ago, but now I'm their biggest fan.

Maybe take a gander at their song titles before making that commitment.

Oh right, that's where El Duce came from...which ties into the Hole poll and the whole murder for hire conspiracy. Synchronicity on ILM!

"lady in red, is dancing with me..."

she's not part of the band isnt she?(and she doesnt mind the smell..)

No, sadly. That would have been quite excellent if she was, though. She was certainly with the band, though, if ya smell what I'm cookin'.

yeah, and they did it right after the picture was taken, in the black cave behind those rocks...

Yeah, that shot does kinda look like the missing scene/denoument of "Picnic at Hanging Rock".

Not to speak ill of the dead, but I once interviewed Blind Melon on their tour bus, and it smelled of feet worse than any place I've ever smelled. Like someone piped in the stink Vegas-casino-style. I coughed for like half an hour after I finally escaped into the sweet fresh air.

Rotten Melon

I was once backstage with the Deal sisters in 1993 and they were quite greasy and ... Natural smellin'.

They were opening for Sonic Youth, who didn't smell at all, even after show.

grateful dead dirty hippies lol amirite????????

my vote's for sublime

― macaulay culkin's bukkake shocker (bug), Sunday, May 3, 2009 9:07 AM (6 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Swear to God this was what I was thinking before I even clicked the link.

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phish

Oh dear.

Boomtown Rats
Carcass

I think crusty bands would win this- first, think about the worldview/hygiene habits implicit in crusty band names: Nausea, AusRotten, Infest, Amebix, Assuck, Excrement of War . . . need I go on?

Then, if you notice that crusty clothes, i.e. the crust vests and jackets are covered in 1000s of British "cone spikes" (ala Charged GBH, Kaaos,etc.) they basically can't be washed ever, because you can't put something that weighs 25 pounds and is mostly metal into a washing machine.

But. . . they tend to sew their patches onto clothes with dental floss, so perhaps their oral hygiene isn't so bad.

Oh, and how could I have forgotten Muckspreader and Face Down In Shit on that band list? Silly me.

Again, people -- G.G. Allin wins this. To not concede this point is to do the great man a disservice.

Gwar, esp. on a summer tour - that laytex body armor. I'll bet there is a lot of festering going on under there. Unless everyone in the band showers immediately after every show but, cmon, its Gwar.

Ever seen Gwar out of their gear? They look like grad students.

but I'll bet they fucking stink

Creed or Staind

xpost: high temperatures + non-breathable body covering + flailing around for a couple hours = putrid reek, horned rim glasses or no.

*horn

lol Gwar probably actually DO wear "horned-rim glasses" instead, tho

Shouldn't this be a band that was really popular before the widespread availability of air conditioning?

Maybe Benny Goodman's big bands?

Oh, and how could I have forgotten Muckspreader and Face Down In Shit on that band list? Silly me.

― Neotropical pygmy squirrel, Sunday, May 3, 2009 5:43 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

I wouldn't be surprised if these scatological band name members end up being really anal-retentive super-clean types, but I have no idea.

Watain man. The whole club smelled like death. It was bad.

http://shrani.si/f/3w/AW/2COQ9LH6/watain.jpg

What club or venue owner in their right mind would book them?

They packed in 200 people on a week night in Portland. And their show and music was great.

The point of my article on them was that one of the guitar players got a cut on his hand and ended up with a serious infection on that tour. He had to be hospitalized.

I don't know if I can post the article on here now that Metal Edge is over? It's short...

A friend of mine swears that Lenny Kravitz is a non-bather and smells terrible. I can believe it!

Shouldn't this be a band that was really popular before the widespread availability of air conditioning?

Maybe Benny Goodman's big bands?

― loaf man (Z S), Sunday, 3 May 2009 17:30 (5 hours ago)

Good point. I think Aretha refuses to perform with air-conditioning. For her Vegas a shows a couple years back she allowed it in the audience but not on stage. But I still imagine she smells nice.

Boomtown Rats
Carcass

^Carcass always seemed pretty well scrubbed to me.