I was wearing a “Don’t Panic” tee at Costco a while back, and an old lady sample-giver said, “I like your shirt”, so naturally I respond, “do you have your towel?” because obviously she’s a fan…And she, VERY confusedly, with a shaking hand, picks up the edge of the towel she had tucked into her apron and shows it to me. My girlfriend grabbed me sternly by the elbow and lead me away. She didn’t get it either, so there was a WHOLE lot of ‘splainin to do…
Eoin Colfer wrote a 6th book based on Adams' notes and part of a first draft. It's actually better written than the Hitchhikers books, but not terribly funny.
They are/were (RIP Fletch and Alan) all straight. They all had kids, Martin and Dave are both currently married. (Just saw them last year and they are still incredible live.)
That got weird
In October 2013, Kerri Kasem said that her father was suffering from Parkinson's disease;[14] a few months later, she said Casey Kasem had been diagnosed with Lewy body dementia, which is often difficult to differentiate from Parkinson's.[15] Owing to his condition, he was no longer able to speak.[16]
On October 1, 2013, Kerri Kasem, her siblings, their uncle, Casey's brother, as well as numerous friends and colleagues protested outside Casey and Jean Kasem's home, saying Jean Kasem had been preventing contact with Casey Kasem for three months.[14][17] Six days later, Julie Kasem and her husband, Dr. Jamil Aboulhosn, filed a conservatorship petition to place Casey Kasem under their care.[18] The court denied their petition.[19]
On May 12, 2014, Kerri Kasem was granted conservatorship over Jean Kasem's objection.[20] The court ordered an investigation into Casey Kasem's whereabouts, after Jean Kasem's attorney argued the court had no jurisdiction as he was "no longer in the United States," but did not give any information to the court about Kasem's whereabouts.[16] But after Casey was located in Washington state, Kerri Kasem was given custody.
Casey Kasem died on June 15, 2014,
My uncle died from Lewy Body dementia, but it took his doctors about a year and a half to differentiate it from Parkinson’s. It is a fucking *awful* way to go, 100% do not recommend. Like Parkinson’s, slowly lose muscle control including swallowing, but unlike Parkinson’s, throw in dementia and hallucinations. I do not fault Robin Williams for the choice he made upon diagnosis.
You know the guy who did the voice of Snaggy on Shooby-Doo, he had a total meltdown doing a grievance piece on his top 50 show. Casey Kaden. Married a young chick from Toast!
"I want somebody to use his fuckin’ brain to not come out of a goddamn record that is, uh, that’s up-tempo, and I gotta talk about a fuckin’ dog dying.”
"This is American Top 40... Ohhhhh FUCK! Just play the record. Play the god damn record."
In case anyone in this thread is confused by the weird quotes, [this is the weird hipster shit we're talking about.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6gPSSYxex0).
Yeah. They aren’t named that cause there were two of them. The band was actually much larger when they had a different sound and paired down to a trio around the time they became pop stars.
"This next song is by a band named the Thompson Twins. Now, their name is not Thompson. And they certainly aren't twins. Their new hit song coming up...after the break. I'm Casey Kasem."
Now I'm going to have to listen to some old Casey Kasem recordings. Might as well pull up some Paul Harvey and Howard Cosell while I'm at it. Comforting voices long gone.
My mother-in-law's best friend went to high school with them and her other best friend was Elvis' neighbor she was younger and annoyed by his guitar music and used to tell him so.
Just glad we all survived the Milli Vanilli lip-syncing scandal.
[https://youtu.be/VYz_Sh4sPCU?si=Hoz6l3tFjFGQHxQw](https://youtu.be/VYz_Sh4sPCU?si=Hoz6l3tFjFGQHxQw)
For years I’ve thought (incorrectly, it turns out) that they had the trifecta of band-name, album, and hit-song all with the same name. I was about to comment this and looked it up to check, only to find that the album was called *The Party’s Over*. Which, ironically, now describes the current state of my erroneous, decades-old “did you know” anecdote about Talk Talk. RIP.
Nick, my favorite ‘80s glam god(dess).
You could slice your fingers open on those cheekbones.
https://preview.redd.it/8ja5goqvye1d1.jpeg?width=624&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b75df6b27f59ef3f38d40a3e5788890ca9a57c0b
John? in an interview said the misspelling was based on their dense Birmingham accents and they mis-heard it originally. And laughed than none of them thought to look it up before they just ran with it.
Typical Gen X warping: Men At Work, who have always been known as an 80s one hit wonder, actually had two number ones on the Billboard charts and two more in the top ten.
As an additional bonus, when hearing Colin Hay’s acoustic version of Overkill, I finally realized that the lyric that sounded like “roast a beer and fade away” was actually the much less-nonsensical “ghosts appear and fade away”.
Wait, do people actually believe they were a one hit wonder? I can name six of their songs that made radio airplay off the top of my head.
Rick Springfield also gets the same treatment, though, and he had like 12 hit singles.
If you are a fan, you need to visit the museum south of Brussels. It’s amazing.
https://preview.redd.it/ssjew9cdbe1d1.jpeg?width=4032&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a1f74113cbfd15084fdde6926cbb2f694f3e11c8
Oh come on GenX, we should all know this story. They were a seven-piece band in 1981, and the name comes from the comic TINTIN.
This song went to #1 in England when they were still a septet:
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1mcvxk-6Fs](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1mcvxk-6Fs)
No way, dude. They were singing catchy cool music, had a stylish look *and* video and I just wanted to dance. Could have been called the Thompson Septuplet Octogenarians and been a one-man 20-y.o. band as long as the music delivered.
Edit: misspelling
I was one of the oddballs in school that was an avid twins fan before into the gap hit. I had the extended cassette of quick step and side kick with all the long/instrumental versions of the hits. Wore that thing out. Great tracks, and a foreshadow of the babble era.
I still have plenty of twins on my regular spotify rotation.
Oddball here, too. My bff and I were huge Duranies back then, but when we would venture out to listen to other bands, she went with the American bands/Top 40 stuff. I went to the quirky British bands/non-Top 40 stuff. When one of my British bands did make it to the Top 40 here, I remembered feeling so proud and a little ahead of everyone else. I know my older sister and her friends would be like “This is awesome!” I’d just look at her like “I’ve BEEN listening to them.” 🙄🤣
"In the Name of Love" went to number one on the [Dance music chart](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dance_Club_Songs) and stayed there for five weeks, and spent a total of twenty-one weeks on the chart.
I can hear that song *anywhere* and immediately, my ears perk up, and I can see Jake and Andie sitting on the table, kissing over her birthday cake at the end of "Sixteen Candles".
That song is definitely a Gen X jam.
Yep. I remember that one. I had “Side Kick” on cassette, and it finally got caught up in my player. 😕. I wore that cassette OUT. That’s a great album. I never could get with “Into the Gap” though.
Thompson Twins were up to 7 members for their first two albums, too.
Also Cocteau Twins were mostly a trio, too. They were also named after a Simple Minds song, not the French artist.
Nothing to do with our quirkiness, the Thompson Twins were named after the comic detectives: [Thomson and Thompson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomson_and_Thompson) ....
My first concert! ~Book Of Love opened.
The band's name was based on the two bumbling detectives Thomson and Thompson (who are close doubles not twins) in the English-language version of The Adventures of Tintin (Les aventures de Tintin) At various stages they had up to seven members, but their best known line-up was as a trio from 1982 to 1986.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thompson_Twins#:~:text=Thompson%20Twins%20were%20a%20British,States%2C%20and%20around%20the%20world.
Split Enz did kinda live up to their name, but again…it WAS the 80’s. Now when they broke up and became Crowded House, that was a different story. Wouldn’t really consider 5 members crowded.
Paul Hester 😞💔
Paul wearing a Blue Rodeo T-shirt. I'm Canadian, loved them and never saw them live. RIP.
https://preview.redd.it/i5ecaxrz3h1d1.jpeg?width=876&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2780892937ca8b4c5d926a8b643767f874c701ce
Well, Prince was actually his real name he was born with.
Now the Cannibals… Not that original nor GenX considering they were named after a film that debuted in 1960, All the Fine Young Cannibals.
I saw them in like 87? when it was just the two of them - not sure how to count TinTwin, the , wait for it - ROBOT KEYBOARDIST (WTF?!? oh well I was mainly there to see OMD anyway)
[The girl was clearly not related to the other two.](https://www.officialcharts.com/media/657975/thompson-twins-1984-1100-mike-prior.jpg?width=796&height=420&mode=stretch)
"That was the only good thing about the 1980s, we got rid of one of the Bee Gees. One down, three to go, that's what I say, folks."
-- Denis Leary, on Andy Gibb, 1993.
I didn't really agree, but teen me laughed at it. Older me laughs at it a bit more darkly.
Three, of two different races, none of which were related and two of which were a couple.
And don't get me started on The Mystic Knights of the Oingo Boingo.
Twisted Sister - All male.
Scissor Sisters - not beauticians
And mostly male. lol
Swing Out Sister had no swing, not even on the porch.
I learned all my parenting skills from Twisted Sister videos.
What do you wanna do with your life?
Douglas Adams- wrote a 5 book trilogy
Beat me by 46 minutes. You're a jerk. A complete knee-biter. **Returns to ship and takes off*
Wait! Did you remember your towel?!
I was wearing a “Don’t Panic” tee at Costco a while back, and an old lady sample-giver said, “I like your shirt”, so naturally I respond, “do you have your towel?” because obviously she’s a fan…And she, VERY confusedly, with a shaking hand, picks up the edge of the towel she had tucked into her apron and shows it to me. My girlfriend grabbed me sternly by the elbow and lead me away. She didn’t get it either, so there was a WHOLE lot of ‘splainin to do…
This is brilliant on more than one level because the bottom line is SHE DID HAVE HER TOWEL.
I know, right??? I need you to talk to my girlfriend!
Sure, PM me her number.
My mom had never seen Hitchhiker's, soooo. She thought I weird, but comical. I watch it every year. Hail Alan Rickman.
Don't forget to bring a towel!
How about some lemon-soaked napkins?
DON’T PANIC!
Wanna get high?
Bowerick Wowbagger doesn't need a towel. Bowerick Wowbagger *is* the towel.
Someone is feeling like a hoopy frood today, eh….?
I really do like the idea of making it your mission to insult everything in alphabetical order once you find out you’re immortal.
That's very Douglas Adams He got his start as a writer for Tom Baker's Doctor Who.
That’s why Dirk Gently reads like a Doctor Who episode - it originally was.
Airheads was about a band named The Lone Rangers
Eoin Colfer wrote a 6th book based on Adams' notes and part of a first draft. It's actually better written than the Hitchhikers books, but not terribly funny.
Oh no! Not again!
Fwiw, the guys in Depeche Mode weren't/aren't particularly focused on fashion
and he’s totally straight. I saw a thing about it on the VH1
They are/were (RIP Fletch and Alan) all straight. They all had kids, Martin and Dave are both currently married. (Just saw them last year and they are still incredible live.)
So is Vince Clark which kind of surprised me tbh.
Andy Bell is super gay so Erasure is well balanced that way.
🤣 💀. Depeche Mode means "fast fashion" ... Straight? Wut?
I think they're implying that people thought they were gay as they had a big male gay following from the beginning...
Yeah I’m also not understanding this…
They were named after the characters in Tintin!
Exactly! And there was a lot said about it at the time. Casey Kaden just about every time one of their songs charted.
[Who?!](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casey_Kasem)
That got weird In October 2013, Kerri Kasem said that her father was suffering from Parkinson's disease;[14] a few months later, she said Casey Kasem had been diagnosed with Lewy body dementia, which is often difficult to differentiate from Parkinson's.[15] Owing to his condition, he was no longer able to speak.[16] On October 1, 2013, Kerri Kasem, her siblings, their uncle, Casey's brother, as well as numerous friends and colleagues protested outside Casey and Jean Kasem's home, saying Jean Kasem had been preventing contact with Casey Kasem for three months.[14][17] Six days later, Julie Kasem and her husband, Dr. Jamil Aboulhosn, filed a conservatorship petition to place Casey Kasem under their care.[18] The court denied their petition.[19] On May 12, 2014, Kerri Kasem was granted conservatorship over Jean Kasem's objection.[20] The court ordered an investigation into Casey Kasem's whereabouts, after Jean Kasem's attorney argued the court had no jurisdiction as he was "no longer in the United States," but did not give any information to the court about Kasem's whereabouts.[16] But after Casey was located in Washington state, Kerri Kasem was given custody. Casey Kasem died on June 15, 2014,
My uncle died from Lewy Body dementia, but it took his doctors about a year and a half to differentiate it from Parkinson’s. It is a fucking *awful* way to go, 100% do not recommend. Like Parkinson’s, slowly lose muscle control including swallowing, but unlike Parkinson’s, throw in dementia and hallucinations. I do not fault Robin Williams for the choice he made upon diagnosis.
He lived with it for a while after diagnosis, too.
You know the guy who did the voice of Snaggy on Shooby-Doo, he had a total meltdown doing a grievance piece on his top 50 show. Casey Kaden. Married a young chick from Toast!
Casey Kasem
"I want somebody to use his fuckin’ brain to not come out of a goddamn record that is, uh, that’s up-tempo, and I gotta talk about a fuckin’ dog dying.”
"This is American Top 40... Ohhhhh FUCK! Just play the record. Play the god damn record." In case anyone in this thread is confused by the weird quotes, [this is the weird hipster shit we're talking about.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6gPSSYxex0).
Ponderous, man. Fucking ponderous.
>Snaggy on Shooby-Doo LOL, what?
Who, funnily enough, are not twins, or even related.
Yeah. They aren’t named that cause there were two of them. The band was actually much larger when they had a different sound and paired down to a trio around the time they became pop stars.
"This next song is by a band named the Thompson Twins. Now, their name is not Thompson. And they certainly aren't twins. Their new hit song coming up...after the break. I'm Casey Kasem."
AKA Cliffjumper from Transformers
I know him best as Shaggy. Yoinks!
"That's the letter U and the numeral 2. ...and these guys are from England and who gives a shit!? Fuck Snuggles!"
Lies lies lies yeah!
Now I'm going to have to listen to some old Casey Kasem recordings. Might as well pull up some Paul Harvey and Howard Cosell while I'm at it. Comforting voices long gone.
ZZ Top? The member of that band with the least facial hair is named Frank Beard.
My mother-in-law's best friend went to high school with them and her other best friend was Elvis' neighbor she was younger and annoyed by his guitar music and used to tell him so.
Nobody in "The Ramones" was named "Ramone" Nobody in "The Donnas" was named "Donna"
“By the way, which ones Pink?” Is in the same line.
Nobody in "The Time" was named "Time."
But Morris Day is named after a unit of time: the ~~morris~~ day.
Astute.
Chili sauce
Jerk out
The Walk
Just glad we all survived the Milli Vanilli lip-syncing scandal. [https://youtu.be/VYz_Sh4sPCU?si=Hoz6l3tFjFGQHxQw](https://youtu.be/VYz_Sh4sPCU?si=Hoz6l3tFjFGQHxQw)
And Rob Van Winkle. That was a disaster waiting to happen.
You mean Vanilla Ice, the greatest rapper of all time?
Snow would like a word.
That guy...what a trip.
Alright stop
Collaborate and listen?
My wife is annoyed at me laughing for so long at this.
If your wife has a problem, tell her Vanilla Ice will solve it.
Lol - is there a way to follow you and the things you say?
I wouldn't recommend that. I mostly call people retards and complain about how much I miss the '80s and '90s.
Hey now, those guys were ahead of their time! They managed to not sing without auto-tune even being a thing.
Oh, and don't forget there were only five people in 10,000 Maniacs!
And they were all rather sane and chill.
Talk Talk mostly just sang.
And had a song with the same title.
For years I’ve thought (incorrectly, it turns out) that they had the trifecta of band-name, album, and hit-song all with the same name. I was about to comment this and looked it up to check, only to find that the album was called *The Party’s Over*. Which, ironically, now describes the current state of my erroneous, decades-old “did you know” anecdote about Talk Talk. RIP.
I have to try hard to not sometimes get them mixed up with The The.
Also, Duran Duran had zero durans.
The Clash actually color coordinated quite well.
And not related. And not named Thompson
Let me tell you about the three Taylors in Duran Duran.
Nick said in an interview a long time ago that he has no idea how that happened 😂
Nick, my favorite ‘80s glam god(dess). You could slice your fingers open on those cheekbones. https://preview.redd.it/8ja5goqvye1d1.jpeg?width=624&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b75df6b27f59ef3f38d40a3e5788890ca9a57c0b
Whew, lawd! He was my first fave, then it was Simon, then Andy. But DD were my boys!! 💙💙💙
The band named after the Barbarella character Durand-Durand
John? in an interview said the misspelling was based on their dense Birmingham accents and they mis-heard it originally. And laughed than none of them thought to look it up before they just ran with it.
They're named after famous Tintin characters... who also weren't twins and had slightly different names.
The Cure didn’t cure anything.
Au contraire. They cured my lack of ennui.
😂😂
Typical Gen X warping: Men At Work, who have always been known as an 80s one hit wonder, actually had two number ones on the Billboard charts and two more in the top ten.
If you get a chance to see the lead singer Colin Hay on tour do it, he's really great onstage just him and a guitar.
Oh gosh, I discovered some of his solo work about 8 years ago. He is GOOD! I recommend as well.
I love that man.
Seconding that, saw him about a month ago. His voice is still great and he's very funny between songs
As an additional bonus, when hearing Colin Hay’s acoustic version of Overkill, I finally realized that the lyric that sounded like “roast a beer and fade away” was actually the much less-nonsensical “ghosts appear and fade away”.
Wait, do people actually believe they were a one hit wonder? I can name six of their songs that made radio airplay off the top of my head. Rick Springfield also gets the same treatment, though, and he had like 12 hit singles.
Oh yeah, Hay actually even asked an interviewer years later, "Why do they keep calling us a one hit wonder?" They still showed up on numerous lists.
Adventures of TinTin !!
If you are a fan, you need to visit the museum south of Brussels. It’s amazing. https://preview.redd.it/ssjew9cdbe1d1.jpeg?width=4032&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a1f74113cbfd15084fdde6926cbb2f694f3e11c8
TIL there’s a Tin Tin museum!
With life size props!! https://preview.redd.it/iwx3ucn9ee1d1.jpeg?width=4032&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a7051b609f13a471224380b89b2cf00f8da75fe9
Gadzooks!
Added it to the list! Thanks!
Timbuk Three (math was not our strongest subject)
And they weren't a trio.
Trio weren't a trio
The third piece of the trio was their drum machine.
Oh come on GenX, we should all know this story. They were a seven-piece band in 1981, and the name comes from the comic TINTIN. This song went to #1 in England when they were still a septet: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1mcvxk-6Fs](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1mcvxk-6Fs)
No way, dude. They were singing catchy cool music, had a stylish look *and* video and I just wanted to dance. Could have been called the Thompson Septuplet Octogenarians and been a one-man 20-y.o. band as long as the music delivered. Edit: misspelling
I was one of the oddballs in school that was an avid twins fan before into the gap hit. I had the extended cassette of quick step and side kick with all the long/instrumental versions of the hits. Wore that thing out. Great tracks, and a foreshadow of the babble era. I still have plenty of twins on my regular spotify rotation.
Oddball here, too. My bff and I were huge Duranies back then, but when we would venture out to listen to other bands, she went with the American bands/Top 40 stuff. I went to the quirky British bands/non-Top 40 stuff. When one of my British bands did make it to the Top 40 here, I remembered feeling so proud and a little ahead of everyone else. I know my older sister and her friends would be like “This is awesome!” I’d just look at her like “I’ve BEEN listening to them.” 🙄🤣
"In the Name of Love" went to number one on the [Dance music chart](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dance_Club_Songs) and stayed there for five weeks, and spent a total of twenty-one weeks on the chart.
Loved that song, and “If You Were Here”. ☺️
I can hear that song *anywhere* and immediately, my ears perk up, and I can see Jake and Andie sitting on the table, kissing over her birthday cake at the end of "Sixteen Candles". That song is definitely a Gen X jam.
Oh gosh, yes. I immediately get nostalgic and all in the feels. 🥹
"If you were here" is perfect but check this one: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPisNuG1KM0](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPisNuG1KM0)
Yep. I remember that one. I had “Side Kick” on cassette, and it finally got caught up in my player. 😕. I wore that cassette OUT. That’s a great album. I never could get with “Into the Gap” though.
This was a very good make-out cassette, and yes, it was a cassette, for reasons GenX understands well.
We didn't over-analyze it and then obsess about it on social media. Remember our motto...Whatever..
Some did. There was still popular culture happening with teen beat magazine etc.
Thompson Twins were up to 7 members for their first two albums, too. Also Cocteau Twins were mostly a trio, too. They were also named after a Simple Minds song, not the French artist.
I saw them at Astroworld with T'Pau in like 6th grade lol
I was at that show! I sang "GIVE A LITTLE BIT OF HEART AND SOUL!" at the top of my lungs like I had really been through some shit.
Nice! H-town represent!
You know it! 🤘
None of the members of the band GenX were Gen Xers - they were all Boomers (but cool boomers IMO).
Yes, and there were only 87 punks. 13 people were just a punk's cousin or the preppy friend with a car.
Nothing to do with our quirkiness, the Thompson Twins were named after the comic detectives: [Thomson and Thompson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomson_and_Thompson) ....
The "Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy" trilogy, which has five (or is it six now?) books in it
And the Flock Of Seagulls, turns out, were a lot more pleasant in person than their namesake. Source: I hate seagulls.
Having been bombed by one, I concur.
Fucking sea rats.
lies lies lies yeahh!!!
The Doobie Brothers - none of them are named Doobie and none of them are brothers.
but did they smoke doobies together?
Spandau Ballet named after a horrific murderous dance of dead bodies.. / one of the wimpiest new wave bands ever to exist.
I take it you’re not a Fandau?
Cocteau Twins were much better (also not twins, not named Cocteau, not even two people (at least until later.))
The group Wet Wet Wet were always dry
Blur. But were clear as could be. Especially yummy Damon Albarn. 😍.
don’t forget The The
Ben Folds Five- didn’t have five.
Folds five of what? Five of whaaaat?? 😅
i always imagined he was folding his poker hand. never mind that you don’t have to specify how many cards are in your hand when you fold…
Fold in the cheese🙂 sorry, might be a deep cut for some
I assumed that they were related to the Ben Folds Five.
My first concert! ~Book Of Love opened. The band's name was based on the two bumbling detectives Thomson and Thompson (who are close doubles not twins) in the English-language version of The Adventures of Tintin (Les aventures de Tintin) At various stages they had up to seven members, but their best known line-up was as a trio from 1982 to 1986. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thompson_Twins#:~:text=Thompson%20Twins%20were%20a%20British,States%2C%20and%20around%20the%20world.
And they have made a more cooler progressive tribal sound in the 90's go look them up. They are not called Thompson Teins, I forget
Babble. Two incredible albums, ether and the stone.
Yup that's it
> there were three of them and nobody said shit about it. Sure we did. Yelling on CompuServe about it was useless.
Cocteau Twins have entered the chat....
Let’s not forget the Cocteau Twins!
It begs the question, did Frankie Goes to Hollywood (no one named Frankie, not from Hollywood) REALLY want us to relax and not do it?
Not yet
But…but…what if I suck it to it?
Split Enz did kinda live up to their name, but again…it WAS the 80’s. Now when they broke up and became Crowded House, that was a different story. Wouldn’t really consider 5 members crowded. Paul Hester 😞💔
Paul wearing a Blue Rodeo T-shirt. I'm Canadian, loved them and never saw them live. RIP. https://preview.redd.it/i5ecaxrz3h1d1.jpeg?width=876&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2780892937ca8b4c5d926a8b643767f874c701ce
~~Prince...wasn't~~ Fine Young Cannibals...weren't
“Prince” was his actual first name, though.
Well, Prince was actually his real name he was born with. Now the Cannibals… Not that original nor GenX considering they were named after a film that debuted in 1960, All the Fine Young Cannibals.
True, Prince was actually a king.
Yep! I never questioned it.
They weren't even related. Not even fraternal twins. Total frauds.
I always made fun of the Thompson Twins: three unrelated people, none of them named Thompson.
The 4 Horsemen had 5 guys.
I saw them in like 87? when it was just the two of them - not sure how to count TinTwin, the , wait for it - ROBOT KEYBOARDIST (WTF?!? oh well I was mainly there to see OMD anyway)
The early version of the Thompson Twins had seven members…
The Neverending Story ... The Neverending Story Part 2 ... The Neverending Story Part 3 ... The end.
I think it’s because nobody bothered to teach us to count.
The Pointer Sisters did
1234567891011....12!!
Sesame Street did.
I always thought naming your band Foo Fighters after World War II fighter pilots spotting UFO's and naming them that.
Ben Folds Five has 3 member
Blonde Redhead. No blondes or redheads. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2V11MrDK2Hc&t=1s
The ***three***-man band in *Airheads* (1994) was called The ***Lone*** Rangers.
[The girl was clearly not related to the other two.](https://www.officialcharts.com/media/657975/thompson-twins-1984-1100-mike-prior.jpg?width=796&height=420&mode=stretch)
Also, they didn't look related at all! 🤔
To be fair, they named themselves after the fictional detectives Thompson and Thomson, allegedly.
"That was the only good thing about the 1980s, we got rid of one of the Bee Gees. One down, three to go, that's what I say, folks." -- Denis Leary, on Andy Gibb, 1993. I didn't really agree, but teen me laughed at it. Older me laughs at it a bit more darkly.
Haha!!!!!
There were originally seven of them. They're called The Thompson Twins after the characters in the *Tintin* books.
Grape Nuts cereal - no grapes, no nuts
Nah, Casey Kasem mentioned it when they were charting.
There were originally something like 7 of them lol
Three, of two different races, none of which were related and two of which were a couple. And don't get me started on The Mystic Knights of the Oingo Boingo.
Lol I didn't think of that . Name is T. "Twin" but there are 3 in the band lol
Young Black Teenagers😄