Good band names?

[dilute micro]

I mean, look at the all time greats:

The Beatles
The Rolling Stones
Nirvana
Stitched-Back Foot Airman

All crap.

The beatles name was innovative at the time. So it's not crap.

 

[twistedAM]

Just looking through my booking sheet and good band names include:

The Winter Olympics
Lets Wrestle
It’s A Musical
Betty & The Werewolves
Bop Social
Two Cow Garage

And i think I like An Experiment On A Bird In The Air Pump

There's a hundred meh ones on there.

 

[scifisam]

'The Winter Olympics' is shit because they won't turn up on Google until they're more famous than the Winter Olympics.

Lets Wrestle is shit, unless someone else left out the apostrophe. People do that to us all the time.

 

[upsidedownwalrus]

Good bands with Good Names?

The Jesus Lizard
And You Will Know Us By The Trail of Dead cool
Public Enemy

 

[twistedAM]

'The Winter Olympics' is shit because they won't turn up on Google until they're more famous than the Winter Olympics.

Lets Wrestle is shit, unless someone else left out the apostrophe. People do that to us all the time.

When I'm looking to find a band I just type the name in google along with myspace and guess what. the first site listed was TWO's myspace page.

The worst band name of all in that respect in Women.

 

[scifisam]

Good bands with Good Names?

And You Will Know Us By The Trail of Dead cool

That is an excellent one.

 

[twistedAM]

Good bands with Good Names?


And You Will Know Us By The Trail of Dead cool

You've forgotten the very important ... at the start of the name

 

[scifisam]

When I'm looking to find a band I just type the name in google along with myspace and guess what. the first site listed was TWO's myspace page.

The worst band name of all in that respect in Women.

Hmm, true. OTOH, that will just give you their myspace, not any reviews or gig listings elsewhere.

I once knew a fabulous band, really great music, who were called The Buzz. Search their name without Myspace and you just got loads of vibrators.

 

[upsidedownwalrus]

That is an excellent one.

The band tell people that it's from a Mayan ritual, but apparently that's just a joke

 

[upsidedownwalrus]

You've forgotten the very important ... at the start of the name

Pedant!

 

[twistedAM]

The band tell people that it's from a Mayan ritual, but apparently that's just a joke

I met them a few times in the early days and it's so long ago that I've forgotten what they said but I think there was some truth in it as Uni of Texas has a big Mayan department and even runs a annual festival on Mayan culture. At least one of the band worked in the Uni.

What was that you said about pedantry?

 

[isitme]

I think 'The Killers' is a good name

 

[asbestos]

Good:

Nurse With Wound
Soft Pink Truth
:Zoviet*France:
Some Kinda' Earthquake


Bad:

Peter and the Test Tube Babies
Toxic Kangaroo Babies
The Inspiral Carpets
Boys to Men

 

[electrogirl]

I think 'The Killers' is a good name

Yeah it is actually. I really like Los Campesinos! Mainly for the exclamation mark I think. It makes you say it in a certain way.

 

[isitme]

Yeah it is actually. I really like Los Campesinos! Mainly for the exclamation mark I think. It makes you say it in a certain way.

it would be even better if it had the upside down exclamation mark like spanish do

we should so adopt upside down exclamation marks, they make exclamations much more exclamatory

 

[bluestreak]

Good bands with Good Names?

The Jesus Lizard
And You Will Know Us By The Trail of Dead cool
Public Enemy

Pop Will Eat Itself.

/thread

 

[scifisam]

I still think 'Helen's Evil Twin' is a great name.

*blows raspberry at you all*

I do honestly think Atomic Suplex is a great band name, too. It would make me perk and wonder what they were like, and wonder if they lived in a super-duplex.

Any other urban band names on here?

 

[Voley]

And i think I like An Experiment On A Bird In The Air Pump

I think they're named after a painting in the National Gallery.

ETA: Joseph Wright of Derby

 

[The Groke]

it would be even better if it had the upside down exclamation mark like spanish do

we should so adopt upside down exclamation marks, they make exclamations much more exclamatory

What, you mean the letter "i"?

That would just confuse thingsi

 

[El Jefe]

Jon Cougar Concentration Camp
REO Speeddealer
Joan of Arse

i have records by these people

 

[Orang Utan]

St Winifred's School Fire

 

[Voley]

Wacky.

*voms*

 

[twistedAM]

REO Speeddealer


i have records by these people

I used to have the T-shirt
Always a popular one to have at SXSW along with Fuck Emo's

 

[El Jefe]

St Winifred's School Fire

one of the best

 

[twistedAM]

Some memorable ones i remember from the 90s

Thomas Jefferson Slave Apartments
The Negro Problem
I Am The World Trade Center
(who actually continued gigging after 9/11)

 

[rutabowa]

The Thirteenth Floor Elevators is an excellent name now i think about it, like where did they get that from?

 

[twistedAM]

The Thirteenth Floor Elevators is an excellent name now i think about it, like where did they get that from?

There's a kind of trend emerging here in that many of the names mentioned have been Texan bands

 

[rutabowa]

There's a kind of trend emerging here in that many of the names mentioned have been Texan bands

Ernest Tubb and the Texas Troubadours isn't bad... not exactly inspired though

 

[twistedAM]

Ernest Tubb and the Texas Troubadours isn't bad... not exactly inspired though

Kinky Friedman and The Texas Jewboys

 

[rutabowa]

ok you beat me!!