John’s band is listed in today’s Slate.com Why Do Bands Give Themselves Unprintable Names? article. The Fucking Ocean have indeed released a very good record, it’s La Main Rouge on Double Negative Records, and if you don’t have a copy you should nab one from iTunes or DNR right now!
Too fucking right
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It kind of bothers me that all the other band names mentioned in that article are so uninventive. Holy Shit, Fucked up. Come on. And Psychidelic Horseshit. Hm. That is simply an awful name.
On the other hand, the Fucking Ocean. I just love saying it. I acutally would like to remember this name so that I can try saying it when I’m alone during lunch hours.
Hi EJ ^/^
John tells the story better than I do, but when they were trying to come up with a name for a band and Elias (who has something of a Greek accent) said “what about Foggy Notion” - he meant the Velvet Underground song - but John thought he said “Fucking Ocean” and that was it.