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Hammok vs. Hammock: A Music Blogger's Lament About Indie Band Name Confusion

By

Tom Breihan

3h ago· 2 min readenOpinion

Summary

A humorous, meta-commentary piece about the confusion caused by two similarly named indie bands: Hammok (the subject) and Hammock (a different band). The author finds the song title "Blast Off (Blast Off) Blast Off" funny but struggles to remember which band is which, complaining about the unsustainable situation for music bloggers trying to keep them straight.

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"Blast Off (Blast Off) Blast Off" is an objectively funny song title, and I'm not likely to forget it anytime soon.
We simply cannot have indie bands called Hammok and Hammock operating at the same time. It's not fair to music bloggers.
We are human beings, which means that we are easily confused. You can't expect remember the difference between Hammok and Hammock.
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“Blast Off (Blast Off) Blast Off” is an objectively funny song title, and I’m not likely to forget it anytime soon. Too bad I can’t say the same thing about the band name Hammok. It would be bad enough if a different band called Hammock didn’t just releas

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