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Tuesday, December 14, 2010

Passion Pit/Temper Trap

I've been using Pandora for part of my music listening time at work recently, and the bands Passion Pit and Temper Trap both come up in my Sleigh Bells-based channel.

I have a persistent problem with confusing the names of the two bands. It's not because they sound a bit similar (and I'm not even that keen on Temper Trap). Rather, their names are parallel in several ways:

Passion Pit/Temper Trap
- two-syllable first word
- one-syllable second word
- both words can function as nouns
- but in this case, the first one is an adjective modifying the second (right?)
- first word can refer to heightened emotions
- second word is something you don't want to be in
- alliteration

My friend Mike is in a band called Saffron Holiday. I overhead someone apologizing to him: "Sorry we couldn't make the show the other night. We already had tickets to see Cardamom Vacation."