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Fun Stuff => BAND => Topic started by: Snail of Doom on 25 Oct 2007, 14:57
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Hey, I did a bit of posting here a long time ago, and none of you probably remember me, but I posted a thread for people to make up band names. I searched and found no such thread anymore, so I'm doing it again, if that's okay. The rules: Don't steal band names from anybody who posts in this thread. Ask for permission and give credit if permission is granted. Oh, and point it out nicely if a name that somebody posts is already in use. Happy posting!
Oh, and if a name has an interesting story behind it, do tell.
My name ideas:
Red 40
Knock Off Clock
The Sleep Doctors
Brain Bucket
The Spectacular
King Jet
AyeHarTenWhy
Mr. Candidate and the Party Line
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All your base
Lolcat
Powerlevel 9000
Chargin' Lazer
I could go on like this for hours but then I kinda ran out of ideas.
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Has Ultimate Dicksucker been suggested?
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List Thread and The locked Topic
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Basically any character from the Section 8 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Section_8_(comics)) comic series would make a good band name.
That said, Dogwelder (combats evil by welding puppies to villains' faces) is already taken by my band.
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List Thread and The locked Topic
To avoid lockage:
Talk about the names! Tell us how you came up with them, discuss methods for making them, point out your favorites from other people's ideas!
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Spastic Cheese Monkeys (It's in another thread but I don't want to check who came up with it right now)
Hedjklipper (with metal umlaut on the i, based on an XKCD comic)
Orange Sex (something provided by someone on the XKCD fora)
Death by Ice Cream (I always associate ice cream with good things that don't last forever, and death with a polar opposite relating to the end of happiness)
Blissful Suicide (Oh come on now, oxymorons are ALWAYS in style)
Bodywash (This name for some reason makes me think of Death Cab's Plans, and you all notwithstanding I like that they at least have mature and interesting rather than cheesy and sappy lyrics)
Line X (Line In, Line Out, and of course, X is just an awesome letter)
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I always thought that the real-world island chain St. Vincent & The Grenadines had a great punk band name.
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reverb sally and the beachcombers
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Goatī
Enlarged so that you could see the umlaut.
Inspired by the photo of Magnum P.I. in tomselleck69's avatar.
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Pick a Cap'n Jazz song like those other bands: We Are Scientists and Scary Kids Scaring Kids.
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I wonder if that's where the Dandy Warhols/Bowie penned I Am a Scientist comes from.
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Too many bands these days lift their names from other bands' songs. Pretty Girls Make Graves and Stars of Track and Field, anyone?
Actually, I shouldn't say anything about that... my last attmepted band was called In Between Days. :|
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I kind of wanted to do The Bloodflowers earlier.
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WaveBird (because it's only the best wireless controller EVER!)
Set Phasers to RAVE!
PowerPulse (because it's part of my awesome soccer cleats)
Insponaneous Orgasm
Spread Your Legs and Say Yeah.
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I kind of wanted to do The Bloodflowers earlier.
Ok, I am assuming that is a song title, but no one ever name your band that.
Because of this:
(http://www.kotex.com/na/images/products/tampon_07.jpg)
All Kotex lady products have red flowers.
Though I guess maybe you could be in a riotgrrl band or something, in which case it would be an awesome allusion
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Oddly enough, we suggested Starfighter in the last band name thread, agreed it was awesome, but I don't think anyone used it.
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It's a Cure album/song title BrittanyMarie.
Geez, I didn't even think about that.
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Too many bands these days lift their names from other bands' songs. Pretty Girls Make Graves and Stars of Track and Field, anyone?
Actually, I shouldn't say anything about that... my last attmepted band was called In Between Days. :|
*cough Death Cab for Cutie cough*
I think I'm coming down with something.
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The Fillet of Soul, The Wrathful Visions, The Cockroaches, the Senate and the People of Rome, the Ultraviolet Hippopotamus, The Thing on the Doorstep, Science and Health, Key to the Scriptures, the Glue Sniffers, King Kong and his Skull Island Dinosaurs, the Howard Johnson Hamburger, The Riot in Cell Block Ten, House of Frankenstein, The Signifying Monkey, The Damned Thing, The Orange Moose, The Indigo Banana, The Pink Elephant, Frodo Baggins and his Ring, The Mouse That Roars, Crew of the Flying Saucer, The Magnificent Ambersons, The House I Live in, Sound of One Hand, Territorial Imperative, The Druids of Stonehenge, The Heads of Easter Island, The Lost Continent of Mu, Bugs Bunny and his Fourteen Carrots, The Gospel According to Marx, The Card Carrying Members, Sands of Mars, The Erection, The Association, The Amalgamation, The St. Valentines Day Massacre, The Climax, The Broad Jumpers, The Pubic Heirs, The Freeks, The Windows, The Trashers, The Roofs, Steppenwolf, Moses and Monotheism, Civilisation and its Discontents, Poor Richard and his Rosicrucian Secrets, The Wrist Watch, The Nova Express, The Father of Waters, The Human Beings, The Washington Monument, The Thalidomide Babies, The Strangers in a Strange Land, Dr. John the Night Tripper, The Dead Mans Hand, Joker and the One Eyed Jacks, Peyote Woman, The Heavenly Blues, The Golems, The Supreme Awakening, The Seven Types of Ambiguity, The Cold War, The Street Fighters, The Bank Burners, The Slaves of Satan, The Domino Theory, Maxwell and His Demons, The Acapulco Gold Diggers, The Epic of Gilgamesh, The Second Law of Thermodynamics, Dracula and His Brides, The Iron Curtain, The Noisy Minority, The International Debt, Three Contributions to the Theory of Sex, The Cloud of Unknowing, The Birth of a Nation, The Zombies, Attila and his Huns, Nihilism, The Catatonics, The Thorndale Jag Offs, The Haymarket Bomb, The Head of a Dead Cat, The Shadow Out of Time, The Sirens of Titan, The Player Piano, The Streets of Laredo, The Space Oddysey, The Blue Moonies, The Crabs, The Dose, The Grassy Knoll, The Latent Image, The Wheel of Kharma, The Communion of Saints, The City of God, General Indefinite Wobble, The Left Handed Monkey Wrench, The Thorn in the Flesh, The Rising Podge, SHAZAM, The Miniature Sled, The 23rd Appendix, The Other Cheek, The Occidental Ox, Ms. and the Chairpersons, Cohen Cohen Cohen and Kahn, The Joint Phenomenon, The Wonders of the Invisible World, Maule's Curse, The Jesus Head Trip, Ahab and his Amputation, The Horseless Headsmen, The Leaves of Grass, The Gettysburg Address, The Rosy-Fingered Dawn, The Wine-Dark Sea, Nirvana, The Net of Jewels, Here Comes Everybody, The Pisan Cantos, The Snows of Yesteryear, the Pink Dimension, The Goose in the Bottle, The Incredible Hulk, The Third Bardo, Aversion Therapy, The Irresistible Force, MC Squared, The Enclosure Acts, Perpetual Emotion, The 99-Year Lease, The Immovable Object, Spaceship Earth, The Radiocarbon Method, The Rebel Yell, The Clenched Fist, The Doomsday Machine, The Rand Scenario, The United States Commitment, The Entwives, The Players of Null-A, The Prelude to Space, Thunder and Roses, Armageddon, The Time Machine, The Mason Word, The Monkey Business, The Works, The Eight of Swords, Gorilla Warfare, The Box Lunch, The Primate Kingdom, The New Aeon, The Enola Gay, The Octet Truss, The Stochastic Process, The Fluxions, The Burning House, The Phantom Captain, The Decline of the West, The Duellists, The Call of the Wild, Consciousness III, The Re-Organised Church of the Latter Day Saints, Standard Oil of Ohio, The Zig-Zag Men, The Rubble Risers, The Children of Ra, TNT, Acceptable Radiation, The Pollution Level, The Great Beast, The Whores of Babylon, The Waste Land, The Ugly Truth, The Final Diagnosis, Solution Unsatisfactoy, The Heat Death of the Universe, Mere Noise, I Opening, The Nine Unknown Men, The Horse of Another Color, The Falling Rock Zone, The Ascent of the Serpent, Reddy Willing and Unable, The Civic Monster, Hercules and the Tortoise, The Middle Pillar, The Deleted Expletive, Deep Quote, LuCiFeR, The Dog Star, Nuthin' Sirius, Preperation H, The American Medical Association.
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Even if I wanted to, I don't think I could read all those. Too...many...words.
My made up band names are:
Tin Parliament (This was a phrase in a Neal Stephenson book that I though sounded really cool).
...and then Prague's Lights (A modified version of trail of the dead that I personally like better although I forget how I came up with it).
The Isosceles Umbrella Parade (Just b/c it's awesome).
Eskimo Eskimo (No story behind this either).
Inuit (If I had an ambient solo project that's more official than what I do now, I would call it this or the next two below this)
Nunatak (a Nunatak is the tip of a mountain protruding above the ice that ensconces the rest of the mountain. It's all glacial and what not)
Canons/Knives (There's a Sparrows Swarm and Sing song called 'Across Canyons/Canons/' This is that but modified.)
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My friend was eating a lamb burger yesterday and she said something about her burger not having real Tabouli on it, at which point I said "So it's pseudo-tabouli....I'd go see a band called Pseudo-Tabouli".
If I ever start a band I'm naming it that, but I welcome people to take it because it's VERY unlikely that I'll ever be in a band.
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I kind of wanted to do The Bloodflowers earlier.
You got beaten to it. Well, they spell it with a Z on the end, but yeah.
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Nirvana
whut
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Tyrannasaurus Flex (because it sounds tough. duh)
Velocirappers (white rap crew anyone?)
Zombie Jesus and the Orbiting Diety (originally thought of because of an Iron & Wine lyric)
Dave's Soap Box ( i actually found a wooden box in my parents old house that has this written in huge letters on the bottom. i dont know where it came from, or who dave is.)
The Truth About Bears (from my original perception of the "truth about bearded women" thread in movies/tv/books)
Can Eat More (robo-Lucy Liu from Futurama)
edit: i'm calling The Truth About Bears because some friends and I are going to start recording some jams next week and I'm gonna pitch that name to them and see how they like it.
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When I was looking for band names a while back for a band I was starting with some friends, I found two specific categories that are quite useful for this sort of thing.
Names of Airplanes:
Brewster Buffalo (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brewster_Buffalo)
The Stinson Reliant (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stinson_Reliant) (I call dibs on this one)
There were some more, but I can't find the list now.
Boxing Weight Classes (or at least just the ones that haven't already been taken):
Bantamweight (my favorite one, I also call dibs on this)
Minimumweight
Strawweight
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Bantamweight is a great word.
My personal favourite semi-unclaimed band name is 'Oscillating Badger Parade'. Mate of mine in a college band pitched it to the singer from Feeder at a signing and has an open invitation to tour with them anytime if he turns up with a band called Oscillating Badger Parade.
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The Ungiven Fuck(s)/Shit(s) (whatever sounds best to you).
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Snail of Doom is a pretty good name for a band. I just made it up.
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Zombie Jesus and the Orbiting Diety (originally thought of because of an Iron & Wine lyric)
Now I wish I hadn't named my band Moustache Division.
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Boxing Weight Classes (or at least just the ones that haven't already been taken):
Bantamweight (my favorite one, I also call dibs on this)
Minimumweight
Strawweight
There's a band in my city called Cruiserweight
@ScrambledGregs: This has been discussed before. It is my solo project name. Thanks for the appreciation!
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Zombie Jesus and the Orbiting Diety (originally thought of because of an Iron & Wine lyric)
Now I wish I hadn't named my band Moustache Division.
Glad you like it. Feel free to snake it if you ever start a new band or anything. No-one who will play music with me likes that name at all so I can't use it.
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*Jubilations!*
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my parents have two shetland sheepdogs, both from a sheltie association so I thought "Secondhand Shelties" would make a good band.
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The Selfish Schemers (A band name I once pulled out of a hat from some magazine scraps)
Aeëtes (since I'm sure Jason and the Argonauts has been played out already somewhere else EDIT:Maybe not, but it WAS an XTC song)
Counterfeit Machinery (different from machinery that counterfeits)
Late Night at the Laundromat (c'mon, it's catchy)
Change Massage (apparently this is often done in some parts of China.
Organ Grinders (meat processing jokes anybody?)
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twisted ouroboros
starry dynamo in the machinery of the night
the midpoint of A
this possibility
perpetual money machines
and my absolute favourite: Royal Astronomical Society
I do this all the time but sometimes i go that little bit further and imagine what they'd play.
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Carnage Cathedral
Slaughter Squad
Symphony of Skulls
Dethrone The Debaucher
Death Dick
Penis Police
Penis Patrol
Moonshine In Mozambique
Asshole Anatomy
Vagina Service
Power Penis
Penis Power
Avalanche Academy
Thunderbolt Autopsy
Crackpipe Fracture
Fellatio Factions
Rhymenocerous
Hiphopapotamus
This Dickless Endevour
Tertiary Tits
Crystal Cunt
Reccomendation Of Resistance
Rapestick And His Ragtime Band
Unimpressed By Your Shit
Radio Repeat Offenders
Ooooaaah-ooaaah-oooaaah-oaaahoooaaaah
Creamed Cunt
Take an original theme or name and work through association.
Not that I did that with this post.
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It's people like you that are responsible for Anal Cunt.
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The Zombies
Did you just put one or two real ones in there to see if anyone would actually read your Wall O' Text post?
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In my early teens, I wanted to name my band 'Authorized Personnel'. My logic was you could get into ANYWHERE. I figured you could just open a door and be like "We're cool man, we're Authorized Personnel."
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MadassAlex, i think you have a fixation on the penis.
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Oh Jesus you folk basically have no culture.
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I always had this idea to have a group release albums all with the same title, but each time as a "different" band.
And I always thought along with this that my albums would be called Fire in the Hole.
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Car Gay Car.
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I was going to suggest Plaid Hats (yeah, OK, whatever). Then, I thought, 'what? why not The Plaid Hats? what's up with people eschewing the definite article...other than that it adds another agonizing decision to organizing mp3 files.' And then, I had a breakthrough. The Definite Article. We could bring grammar rock back.
...And screw this guy (http://www.angfang.com.au/floydthursby/html/index2.htm).
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I always thought that the real-world island chain St. Vincent & The Grenadines had a great punk band name.
My first band was almost called that!
At the local hospital there is a sign which reads "Chest Pain Unit". I have no idea what exactly that means, but it would make for a damn good name for a -core band.
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I am pretty sure Khar just looked around his room
Everything on that list is like a comic book or something
NERD
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The Repeated Redundancies, while we're in a grammatical mode?
The List Threads? No, it doesn't really work.
Black Bear at Night (Maybe this is cause there was a "progressive eatery" in Morgantown with the name Black Bear that this occurs to me, also Calvin and Hobbes)
DAEMON SEED LEECH (A metal band that for some reason gives Google results that all point to Torrent sites)
The Lazy Beavers (Make up your own reason for why this would(n't) work.)
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At the local hospital there is a sign which reads "Chest Pain Unit". I have no idea what exactly that means
My guess would be it's a section of the hospital devoted to people with pain in their chests. Seems pretty silly for that symptom to have its own unit though.
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Well i guessed that much. But I have no idea what they actually do there. Also you have to keep in mind that this is a german hospital, which makes the English sign more confusing.
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Tommydski's Third Testicle
Jeph and the No F's
Khar Thieves
What's His Face
Drinking Solution
Ice Tetrahedron
Bull Semen & Horse Steroids
SeXxX!!!
Pollu Shun
Can Sir
Syndicated Incorporated
Crotch Rocket
The Pen 15 Club
Commie Pinko and the Faggots (I stole this from a dude I knew in college)
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The Rambling Faggots