Need to locate band information

September 6, 2007 2:42 PM

I have a ripped CD with music from a band I labeled as !!!

and now I can't figure out how to find them anywhere. Went to the original music site I bought the CD from-no help. Google just gives me a blank page. Has anyone heard of !!! and/or could point me to a way of finding them? Thanks.

posted by DeepFriedTwinkies to media & arts (13 comments total)

It's pronounced "chk chk chk," and you can find info here or at their official website.
posted by Tomorrowful at 2:43 PM on September 6, 2007

Erm, I apparently failed to set up that second link correctly:

Their official website.
posted by Tomorrowful at 2:44 PM on September 6, 2007 [1 favorite]

Sakes alive, that didn't take any time at all. Thanks very much, I appreciate it.
posted by DeepFriedTwinkies at 2:46 PM on September 6, 2007

Wikipedia's native search engine finds it, but that's about it. Interesting failure.
posted by smackfu at 3:17 PM on September 6, 2007

Using quote marks around the !!! should work on Google, in theory, but doesn't.

At the risk of stating the obvious: following Tomorrowful's first comment, Googling "pronounced chk chk chk" gets good results (including this one that discusses this very problem).
posted by Infinite Jest at 4:06 PM on September 6, 2007

Funny, I would have pronounced that "Bang, Bang, Bang".
posted by The Bellman at 4:25 PM on September 6, 2007

> Funny, I would have pronounced that "Bang, Bang, Bang"

You're showing your age, Bellman! And your geekiness. I dimly recall that the ! = chk paradigm is a linguistic one as opposed to the compsci ! = bang
posted by tim_in_oz at 4:35 PM on September 6, 2007 [1 favorite]

According to the band, while "chk chk chk" is the most popular pronounciation, any three exclamatory sounds can be used.
posted by YoungAmerican at 4:36 PM on September 6, 2007

I've never heard of "chk chk chk" used for this -- nor had I heard "bang" used until I started programming.

I guess there's not much reason for it to come up, generally. Of course, there's also this alternative.
posted by davejay at 5:25 PM on September 6, 2007

Huh, I never knew/thought that "bang" was a comp sci thing. I thought it was a writing/printing thing. After all, the interrobang was invented and its name coined in 1962, according to wikipedia. I wonder why it's called that to programmers and printers, but to few in between. :)

(When the question is answered by the first poster, the thread is allowed to have a lot of noise afterwards, right?)
posted by iguanapolitico at 5:35 PM on September 6, 2007

Interesting Failure...
probably a better band name than !!!. But !!! has some pretty cool songs. They blow it a lot too, though.
posted by BlackLeotardFront at 10:46 PM on September 6, 2007

i've heard the name also pronounced "pow pow pow" ... but for the last few years I've mainly heard the band called "chk chk chk" they're a great live band too.
posted by tundro at 5:28 AM on September 7, 2007

But !!! has some pretty cool songs. They blow it a lot too, though.

Their first album is spotty, I think, but Myth Takes is much better.

And regardless of your opinion of their albums, they're enough fun live that I'd give them a shot even if both albums leave you a bit cold.
posted by sparkletone at 7:24 AM on September 7, 2007