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[-] BrickTamland@lemm.ee 127 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Idk how to do spoiler blues on text but I'm going to say what I think all the bands are below:

-Counting Crows, Rolling Stones, Grateful Dead, Def Leppard, Led Zeppelin, The Doors

I love this game btw

[-] semi_sentient@sh.itjust.works 66 points 1 year ago

Just out of frame: Three Doors Down

[-] PM_Your_Nudes_Please@lemmy.world 28 points 1 year ago

And this is actually exactly where the name “Led Zeppelin” came from. One of the members was told “your band will take off like a lead zeppelin.” Basically saying it would never get off the ground. So they made that the band name, changing it to “led” to avoid it being mispronounced.

[-] ThePantser@lemmy.world 27 points 1 year ago

Ah yes Lead Zeppelin the front most zeppelin

[-] bratosch@lemm.ee 12 points 1 year ago

....aaand that is exactly why they spell it "led" instead of "lead". "Because those fucking Americans are gonna pronounce it Leed instead of Lehd" - Plant (paraphrasing)

[-] hushable@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago
[-] bratosch@lemm.ee 13 points 1 year ago

No , it's pronounced lead. Not lead

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[-] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago

Reminds of the story of Mark Knopfler and his band ... one of their friends saw how they were living at the time and said they looked like they were in dire straits .... and the stories of Mark go on when he recounted coming across a band name on one of their early traveling shows and saw the name 'The Sultans Of Swing' at a bar.

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[-] MrShankles@reddthat.com 16 points 1 year ago

Thank you. Couldn't figure out Grateful Dead. My mind kept thinking "bones" and I was stumped

[-] 0ops@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

I got them all after about a minute, but that one took me the longest

[-] echodot@feddit.uk 2 points 1 year ago

I kept thinking of Flower Skeleton.

The trouble is band names are so stupid they literally they could be anything.

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[-] rekabis@programming.dev 6 points 1 year ago

That leopard looks shocked, not deaf. It needs a face of confusion, not a face that looks like it took the mother of all suppositories unexpectedly.

[-] Ashyr@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 year ago

Those were my assumptions as well.

Quite cute and a fun format.

[-] FunkyMonk@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

I was guessing loud cheetah so thanks.

[-] dandroid@dandroid.app 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
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[-] breakcore@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 year ago

Okay, so I didn't know how to make spoilers either, so I thought to find out.

A hidden message

Now the question is how do escape the code for spoilers, so I can display it here, without making more spoilers …

[-] lseif@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 year ago
A hidden reply You can escape it with a codeblock i think
[-] CodexArcanum@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I think maybe Lemmg and Kbin work differently. Different apps seem to handle spoiler tags inconsistently as well. Here's how Sync for Android does them:

!Here's how Sync for Android does them.!<

This style, with a title,Doesn't work in preview, but is hidden for me after posting.

When I went to edit this post, the spoiler tags were removed. And after revealing them, I couldn't get the text to go back to hidden when viewing the post. So handling for spoilers is janky in this app, apparently.

[-] JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

Isn't it just :::?

[-] walthervonstolzing@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

I was thinking 'The Yardbirds' for the first one; though I wasn't at all sure, bcs that didn't take into account the '1 ... 2 ... 3'

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[-] MargotRobbie@lemm.ee 104 points 1 year ago

In case anyone didn't get this comic, each of these panel is a literal illustration of the name of a famous band, which are:

  • Three Jackdaws
  • Nano Avalanche
  • Flower for Bony Jerry
  • Turn Down for What?
  • Airship Down
  • The Stanley Parable
[-] ElectroLisa 13 points 1 year ago

Stanley took the door to the left

[-] RangerOs@feddit.de 8 points 1 year ago

Thanks! That was very helpful 😁

[-] MargotRobbie@lemm.ee 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Phew. For a moment I thought I might have got some of them wrong there.

[-] ReplicantBatty@lemmy.one 3 points 1 year ago

Flower for Bony Jerry would unironically be an awesome band name

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[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 42 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Counting Crows

Rolling Stones

Grateful Dead

Def Leopard

Led Zeppelin

The Doors

Try this one:

[-] wraith@lemm.ee 42 points 1 year ago

Radiohead

Hole

Alice In Chains

Soundgarden

Smashing Pumpkins

Nine Inch Nails

Matchbox 20

Pearl Jam

Screaming Trees

[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 10 points 1 year ago
[-] andrewta@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Thank you I had the stones and the doors. I failed on the others

[-] ElJefe@lemm.ee 13 points 1 year ago
[-] rosymind@leminal.space 4 points 1 year ago

Yeah, that was fun

[-] Underwaterbob@lemm.ee 9 points 1 year ago

Counting Crows seem a bit out of place. Especially compared to the likes of Led Zeppelin and Rolling Stones. Not so sure about Def Leopard either, really.

[-] SkippingRelax@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Thanks number one that was the only one that I didn't get

[-] Cylusthevirus@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago
[-] agent_flounder@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

:D

As a matter of fact, yes.

[-] niktemadur@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Then you start playing with phonetic similarities in different languages.
Take Spanish:
Flock Of Seagulls sounds like Flaca Seagulls, "flaca" is the singular female of "skinny".
So you bend and break the grammar a little bit and get
Las Gaviotas Flacas - The Skinny Seagulls

Not unlike
"Está café"
How do you say "café" in English?
Brown.
"Está ca-brown"
"Está cabrón", a versatile slang vulgar similar to "it's fucking hard" and "it's fucked".

[-] Naveen000can@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago
[-] Agent641@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago

Numbered Birds, sentient kidney stones, friendly skeleton, easily offended panther, heavy blimp, shitty apartments

[-] Grass@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago

Please tell me these are also real band names

[-] Thermal_shocked@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago
[-] RogueBanana@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 year ago

All of them are band names as explained in another comment

https://lemm.ee/comment/7058209

[-] Lemmyvisitor@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 year ago

I thought the last one was two door cinema club

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