Is this is a good band name?

[Jorum]

A friend of mine knows a ex-Menswear guy and someone from an Australian band Crawlspace, so he is doing some match-making for them to form a new band. Most important at the moment however is the critical and contentious issue of possible band names!

Not entirely sure what style of music we're looking at- mainly mellow chilled out jangly guitar - their inspirations are Nick Drake, Neil Young,
My Morning Jacket, Fleet Foxes etc..

Out of his suggestions, his favourite is "the Boulevardians". I think it's quite good name, someone else thinks it shite.

**CORRECTION** - should be "Boulevardiers" ***

So I've offered to seek feedback from the good people of Urban75, rightly known as the ultimate arbitors of all that is good.

 

[N_igma]

Sounds like a name some drab indie band would use IMHO.

 

[tufty79]

i think it's a bit pants


whisky bumlove. that's so much better - go on, suggest it to 'em

 

[DotCommunist]

I'm calling shite on this one- sounds like the sort of art-wank jason miraz noodling rubbish

 

[The Groke]

Peedos in Speedos is a good name.

You can't have it though.

 

[treefrog]

that name is cobblers, sorry.

 

[ChrisFilter]

Sounds like yet another pretentious and wank indie band. Try avoid usuing 'The' in the name, it tends to suggest wankness.

I've always liked 'StrangleWank' for a band name... or you can have 'Mousetrap' - we don't need it anymore.

 

[5t3IIa]

Boulevardians without the 'the' sounds tons better, but still a bit poor (for me).

Then again that's quite an impressive list of shit indie names with Menswear, My Morning Jacket and Fleet Foxes so if he wants to appeal to the same market it is actually brilliant. Def drop the 'the' though.

 

[Crispy]

bad name. drop "The" from it. If you absolutely have do have a "The", make it "The Noun" and not "The Collective Noun for a Bunch of Preening Indie Dicks"

 

[kained&able]

a couple to many syllables its well awkward to say.

and i wouldn't listen to any band called that on suspician of them being souless arty indie shite.

dave

 

[rutabowa]

everyone will say it;s shit, it doesn't matter though, i mean the Beatles was a well shit name and look how well they did.

 

[twistedAM]

A friend of mine knows a ex-Menswear guy and someone from an Australian band Crawlspace, so he is doing some match-making for them to form a new band. Most important at the moment however is the critical and contentious issue of possible band names!


Out of his suggestions, his favourite is "the Boulevardians". I think it's quite good name, someone else thinks it shite.

It's horrible. Strikes up some fey image of chaps wandering around Paris in the 30s, wishing they knew Camus.

I'll give you another piece of advice for free; don't give the guy who used to be in Crawlspace a say in the matter.

 

[Jorum]

hmm, I see a consensus forming here
now do I tactfully rephrase the feedback when passing it on or just expose him to the ego-crushing reality.

 

[Crispy]

Crush the egos. Covertly film it, if possible

 

[ChrisFilter]

hmm, I see a consensus forming here
now do I tactfully rephrase the feedback when passing it on or just expose him to the ego-crushing reality.

Ego crushing reality. Just print this out and show him.

Hello, I'm sorry about the shit name. Also, don't make shit music. There's already too much wank out there. How about some dubstep?

 

[Jorum]

**UPDATE**
I have been excitedly informed I have made a crucial error and the name should be "The Boulevardiers".

I've highlighted that this is probably isn't going to swing the balance in his favour, but hope springs eternal and so on.

 

[5t3IIa]

**UPDATE**
I have been excitedly informed I have made a crucial error and the name should be "The Boulevardiers".

I've highlighted that this is probably isn't going to swing the balance in his favour, but hope springs eternal and so on.

I voted 'yes' and still vote yes

 

[ChrisFilter]

That's even worse, if such a thing is possible. It brings to mind a bunch of Laurence Llwelyn Bowen lookalikes with Louis XVI wigs, lounging around looking wan and pompous.

"Bring me some more opium, Julian, for I am too weak to churn out another navel-gazing, cod-fey, pile of shit"

 

[DotCommunist]

it made me think of emo-Doctor paul mcann and his foppishness

 

[fractionMan]

It's so bad "abysmal" would be a better name

 

[clandestino]

One thing to remember is most people on this thread don't like the kind of music you've described. I, however, do like that kind of music very much. And I still think it's a crap name.

Hope that helps!

 

[5t3IIa]

That's even worse, if such a thing is possible. It brings to mind a bunch of Laurence Llwelyn Bowen lookalikes with Louis XVI wigs, lounging around looking wan and pompous.

"Bring me some more opium, Julian, for I am too weak to churn out another navel-gazing, fay, pile of shit"

Yes, and as such it is the perfect name for them, considering their lineage.

Let's face it: no-one who voted 'shat name' is ever going to listen to that dross bu definiation so they should take a step back and consider that shit band has shit name but in the whole scheme of things that is, in fact, the way it should be. Purely academic, considering the amount of attention they are going to get from anyone other than thin and lost 19 year olds and Jo Whiley.

 

[clandestino]

Also, from a more cynical point of view, it just seems like someone's put The Libertines into a thesaurus and that's what's come up...

 

[Jorum]

Strikes up some fey image of chaps wandering around Paris in the 30s, wishing they knew Camus

That's even worse, if such a thing is possible. It brings to mind a bunch of Laurence Llwelyn Bowen lookalikes with Louis XVI wigs, lounging around looking wan and pompous.

"Bring me some more opium, Julian, for I am too weak to churn out another navel-gazing, cod-fey, pile of shit"

To be honest I think that was the kind of image he was going for, so that's a good thing in way (or.....in a perhaps more realistic way..a bad thing).

Either way I'm having fun

 

[ChrisFilter]

One thing to remember is most people on this thread don't like the kind of music you've described. I, however, do like that kind of music very much. And I still think it's a crap name.

Hope that helps!

 

[ChrisFilter]

To be honest I think that was the kind of image he was going for, so that's a good thing in way (or.....in a perhaps more realistic way..a bad thing).

Either way I'm having fun

Well, if that's their aim, then it's fucking perfect

Just saying it makes me angry in the same way that 'the Camden indie scene' makes me angry. It's an intense loathing that also applies to skinny jeans.

 

[5t3IIa]

To be honest I think that was the kind of image he was going for, so that's a good thing in way (or.....in a perhaps more realistic way..a bad thing).

Either way I'm having fun

That was what I said, twice

 

[ChrisFilter]

That was what I said, twice

Did someone say something, or was that the wind?

 

[5t3IIa]

<-- with full-on bottom lip sticking out

 

[Jorum]

huh? why do blank posts keep appearing after ChrisFilter's?