The unGoogle-ables: They didn't see the Internet coming

By Rich Trenholm on 30 April 2009, 1:24pm

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Hey everybody, it's Anal C***! Charming.

Can you Google them?

Not with safe search on, no.

Who are they?

You don't want to know. Oh all right, they were a musically challenging/challenged grindcore act formed by vocalist Seth Putnam (pictured), guitarist Mike Mahan and drummer Tim Morse in 1988 and operating a revolving door line-up until the present day.

What were they thinking?

This is an outfit that started out as an experiment to create the most non-musical band in the world. With songs -- and we use the term loosely -- consisting of screaming noise and rarely lasting more than a minute, and titles such as Song titles Are F***ing stupid, I Got An Office Job For The Sole Purpose of Sexually Harassing Women, and way, way worse, we doubt they'll be too bothered about Google rankings.

Did it do them any harm?

It's a wind-up, innit. There's a certain self-knowledge in song titles such as I'm Not Allowed To Like AC Anymore Since They Signed to Earache, Our Band Is Wicked Sick (We Have The Flu), and Having to Make Up Song Titles Sucks. Accused of homophobia, they recorded a stab of noise called Homophobia is Gay. Challenging and confrontational, yes, but funny? That's up to you.