What a #$^%*ing great topic! I read the whole thing wondering why you didn't mention !!!, and was delighted by your link to them at the end.
And I want to add a shout out to Prince's love symbol and to Meshell Ndegeocello, who somehow saw the accent marks from a press release become misinterpreted as an essential part of her name for a while.
While not directly related to band names, I have to say that the outstanding compilation coming from Red Hot in November has left me searching out the original email so I can give you a copy/paste for this: TRANƧA.
One note I can chime in with is the embellishments of unique and/or foreign characters+symbols. One of my favorite alt-hip-hop bands is ¡Mayday!. Be it a lack of keyboard prowess on my part, or a seemingly arbitrary code written to determine sort order across various music libraries, the Spanish punctuation is either integral to find online or in a library, nearly impossible to utilize, or "pointless" to have.
What a #$^%*ing great topic! I read the whole thing wondering why you didn't mention !!!, and was delighted by your link to them at the end.
And I want to add a shout out to Prince's love symbol and to Meshell Ndegeocello, who somehow saw the accent marks from a press release become misinterpreted as an essential part of her name for a while.
In many ways, Prince is the quintessential artist for this topic
I'm sure it's apocryphal but I always loved the story of German fans chanting 'Mutley Cruh! Mutley Cruh!' when the 'Crüe first played there...
I believe it!
While not directly related to band names, I have to say that the outstanding compilation coming from Red Hot in November has left me searching out the original email so I can give you a copy/paste for this: TRANƧA.
At least you can sort of pronounce that name lol
One note I can chime in with is the embellishments of unique and/or foreign characters+symbols. One of my favorite alt-hip-hop bands is ¡Mayday!. Be it a lack of keyboard prowess on my part, or a seemingly arbitrary code written to determine sort order across various music libraries, the Spanish punctuation is either integral to find online or in a library, nearly impossible to utilize, or "pointless" to have.