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Fun Stuff => BAND => Topic started by: glyphic on 23 Jan 2009, 11:40
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Hey. I have a project together, and none of us can come up with a name. I totally wanted to name us the Jesse Jackson Five, but there are only going to be four of us. None of us can agree on a name and I'm tapped out for ideas!
I suck at describing music, so I've got a purevolume set up with some ideas and rough tracks that we've come up with.
www.purevolume.com/glyphic17 (http://www.purevolume.com/glyphic17)
Here's the deal; take a listen and suggest names based on the style of music.
This is not a shameless bout of self-promotion. It is a cry for help. Forumites, assemble!
Thanks in advance!
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There is already a band called Samuel Jackson 5, I think.
Also, call your band The Almena Method.
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Not bad! Impressive for demos.
How about Cassiopeia's Children?
EDIT: Through a little research i found out Cassiopeia was in fact a very vain queen of unrivalled beauty. So this name should at least make you seem confident.
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Howsabout
Gerunding Rocks!
A gerund is a verb that ends in ING that acts as a noun. Gerunding is not technically a word, but if it were, it would be a gerund. This makes it ironic, and therefore funny? Also, random tidbit: a word that describes itself like that is called mimetic.
:D
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the music is good.
I think your band should be called
"Flirting With Normality"
the music isnt SUPER crazy, but its not exactly run of the mill either.
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How about you call yourselves BNH! for Band name help! ?
...I think it would be kinda cool.
...or not :(
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Tin Parliament is what you should be called. Then you can have album titles like all those other bands where it's called "...is in session" so the album cover looks like "Tin Parliament is in session" or some such. That would be rad!
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Good Name for a Band is a good name for a band.
Going Home would make more sense for Soylent Green fans.
Paucity's Finest for the ironic wordplay.
But Not a Fragment is ironic too.
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Pistol Shrimp
The Right to Arm Bears
John ROCKtor and the Salem Swingers
Various bands that I have played with have at some point in time used these, but we're not using them anymore. Right now we are called Dumbledore's Army.
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"the Right to Arm Bears" is an EXCELLENT band name.
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Suffering From Pecuniary Strangulation
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The (plural noun) of (descriptive obscure town/place)
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Oh! oh! call your band Melmoth and the Wanderers (after one of the few decent 19th century gothic novels, Melmoth the Wanderer). Trust me, it'll make you guys sound super smart.
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The (Location) Soccer Hooligans
The Loquacious Quartet
The Strokes II: The Strokening (ok, not really)
The Spinal Tap Drummers
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Oedipus and the Motherfuckers.
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Paper-Mâché Mephistopheles
Une Mort Imbécile
Russel's Paradox
Our Dear Sons, OH!
and for Zingoleb, Electra and the Daddy's Girls.
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This apple is rotten, why is it so delicious.
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I Couldn't I'd Never
Clocker
We Hardly Knew You
Pacer
The Starting Line
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Oedipus and the Motherfuckers.
Genius.
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pissfiddles
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Oedipus and the Motherfuckers.
Genius seconded.
The Starting Line
Isn't there already a reasonably well-known band with this name?
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Yes, there is.
So far Tin Parliament and Pistol Shrimp are the best.
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If Oedipus and the Motherfuckers doesn't get snapped up, I will use it for my own gigging purposes here in town.
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I would've liked "Oedipus and the Mothers" but Zappa had to ruin that one.
If someone *does* use Oedipus and the Motherfuckers that would be plain awesome and I want free tickets.
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Oedipus and the Motherfuckers.
Even I know that you're too late (http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=45185866) for that one.
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Motherchristing fuck the what?
Damn...
Glad it wasn't a name I wanted to use...
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Oedipus and the Motherfuckers. Wow, that name does sound awesome.
Paper-Mâché Mephistopheles is also cool, but only because I like the way it rolls off the digital tongue.
Yeah, your mom's digital tongue.
Also, somebody copy all the made up band names from the Talk the Talk thread.
I was proud of my contribution...
We Kick Cop Cars.
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Dirty Needle
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Oedipus and the Motherfuckers.
Even I know that you're too late (http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=45185866) for that one.
Those guys are TERRIBLE. Fuck, what a waste of a name.
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Man, I bet there's still time. They probably haven't copyrighted it yet.
First album for Oedipus and the Motherfuckers is called "WHY!?!!" and the cover shows a guy with a knife protruding from each eye. The name could be in a speech bubble...
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random name i came up with in biology.
sending signals to spaceships.
getting my alliteration on.
yeah.
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sending signals to spaceships.
I am positive this was in one of the older "Imaginary Band Name" threads. Maybe it was you.
EDIT: Also, "Can't Talk More Music"
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The Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeahs.
Moth Testicles.
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Man, I bet there's still time. They probably haven't copyrighted it yet.
*mumble mumble something about how there is no actual need to claim your "copyrights" and they are something that happens by default.*
It's not a copyright that I'm talking about, but I can't think of the exact term (so sue me).
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Trademark?
I bet The Doughboys is already taken. Sucks, I was just reading a book set during WWI.
If you're doing death metal you could call yourselves "Bataan Death March".
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Or Rather, Alfred
No Time To Sum Up
The Be Bad, Bad, Bad
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The Porn Addicts
Bobo Doll Experiment
Delicious Pi
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Al J. Ziera?
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The Cromwell Initiative, if you're metal-influenced hard rock, or traditional metal. Damn, fuck, don't use that, I will. Or use it. Makes no difference.
Hands For Hire, for grimy, dirty-as-fuck blues rock.
Admiral Chord
Deathface
Starblighter (another one I should've used before blurting it out)
Hyrule Symphony Rockestra, if you eve rearrange video game music for a rock band
Sister Fister
Charlie Company
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You guys are awesome. I suggested "Tin Parliament" to my bandmates. They weren't too keen on it.
Although I thought up "Lindbergh Baby's Day Out" while we were practicing. They don't want to use it as a band name, but we're using it as a song name.
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I think only the people involved can and should come up with a good and fitting band name.
(It's the same with naming your business.)
External advice for such a personal matter, both free and paid for, seems unecessary.
Fun fact: The company "Adobe" was named after a river that ran by one of the guys' house.
That said, I like a lot of the suggestions.
So I may be wrong.
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Shitsplosion
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"The Name Of This Band Is."
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Hyrule Symphony Rockestra, if you eve rearrange video game music for a rock band
I want to do that. Before you mentioned it, even.
Look up "Jim Cook" if you get a chance, he does a Metal Zelda series. Gerudo Valley Theme is easily the best.
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At my gig on Saturday they asked us for a band name and we just said "Sorry dude, we got nothing" and they just called us "Got Nothing". I guess that is what we are called now.
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15 Year Anthem or The Alan Sparhawk Project?
Jeph didn't use them on the merch so they're up for grabs as I see it.
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John Brown's Army
It doesn't work for your band's sound really but I always thought "A Screaming Comes Across the Sky" would be a good band name (1st sentence of Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow)
I also kind of like Orpheus Descends although that too doesn't seem quite right for your band
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haven't listened to the music yet, but here goes:
Modern Movies and the Terrible Dialogues
Skinny 4 Life
Dave's Soap Box
3:??? 4:Profit!
Eaglebone
Grammarchery
Anti-Life/Pro-Noun
Megalodon Juan
Fanatical Neutrality
Piano It All
Alt+Tab
i like puns. can you tell?
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I want to do that. Before you mentioned it, even.
Fuck it, I'm going to start now.
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I come to the realization that all good names would stem from a Vonnegut book.
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Yeah, if I ever start a melodic metal group I'm calling it Ice Nine.
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I come to the realization that all good names would stem from a Vonnegut book.
hmmm...you may be on to something, there...
Paul Proteus and The Ghost Shirts
Tropical Mutants
The Tralfamador Five
I Met Hitler In Heaven
Isaac Newton's Ghost
i'm trying to think of one for Breakfast of Champions but i can't for the life of me remember what that book was about.
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I'd listen to Breakfast of Champions.
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Yeah, if I ever start a melodic metal group I'm calling it Ice Nine.
: ( (http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=IZRjW4bvqGs)
Everything Was Beautiful?
Bokonon Hypocrisy
The Boku-Maru Shogunate
Karass Musique
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Well fuck, that band blows.
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We Suck But Don't Judge
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We're Doing This On Purpose, Can You Tell?
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Yes, This Counts As Music
Completely off-topic: Crap, I just realized that my title is "Furry Furrier" and my avatar is a little furry thing. :-D
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Mitch Conroy and the Underachievers (kind of like Hootie and the Blowfish, there is no Hootie)
Burt Sampson and the Vacationing Dental Hygenists
or on a more serious note...
Blank Reflection
I didn't click your purevolume, so these names might not go with the genre.
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Breakfast In The PM
Diminished Standards
Quote This
You Have No Messages
Heaven's A Communist State
Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster
Gold Brick In A Dirty Sock
Inner Priest
Ivory Keys For Doors Ajar
(Ooo, I like that word) Mouths Ajar
Ajargon
Otters Aflame
Schrödinger's Cat Is Dead, Deal
Punching Emos
Punching Elmo (for that matter)
For That Matter (for that matter)
Point B
Knights In Rusted Armor
No Lead Guitar
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A "Return of the Jedi"-themed deathcore band called The Flaming Ewoks would be awesome.
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There's a death metal band called "Anchorhead" that has an album called "Return Of The Shredi".
Essentially, done and done. Without even touching the monstrosity that is deathcore.
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No Lead Guitar
An incredibly pretentious musical experimentation where there is no guitar, only three bassists trading leads. The drummer only has maracas and a triangle to work with. The drum solos are completely intolerable.