Sunday 18 November 2007

Stuff 'n' that

Inspired by watching a band called Free 'n' Easy, while eating fish 'n' chips with liberal application of salt 'n' vinegar, I felt it was time for a list of bands with 'n' in their name.


  • Guns 'n' Roses. Controversial. Appetite for Destruction's original cover has Guns N' Roses, while its replacement has two blobs that might be meant to be apostrophes, one either side of the N. The general consensus seems to be Guns N' Roses.
  • Salt 'n' Pepa. Controversial. Wikipedia has them down as Salt-n-Pepa, which would rule them out for this list; their album Hot, Cool & Vicious has Salt 'n Pepa on the cover, Very Necessary has Salt 'n' Pepa. What is a pedant to do?
  • Sniff 'n' The Tears (Wikipedia - sad to read that they failed to get Driver's Seat into the UK Top 40 because of a problem at the pressing plant)
  • Kid 'N Play. Ruled out for only ever using one apostrophe on their covers. And for favouring a capital N.
  • Steve 'n' Seagulls. From Finland!

3 comments:

Unknown said...

Kid 'n' Play anyone?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kid_'n_Play

No? Fair 'n' ough

Ian Hall said...
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Ian Hall said...

Kid 'N Play seem to be consistent in their use of only one apostrophe, so I'm ruling them out. There must be more bands out there using a proper 'n'.