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Fun Stuff => BAND => Topic started by: jcknbl on 29 May 2006, 01:18
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Again and again I hear how bad certain band names are. Every name people think is either boring or absurdly stupid. So stop complaining and tell me, who has the best band name?
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I don't know about the best band name, but there's some boring riffrock band whove named themselves 'Default', and I find this incredibly cool and fitting, like they realized they were the basic default setting for a rock band.
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Devo: It's a band name, it's a theory, it's short, it's catchy!
I'm generally very fond of one word band names, especially just simple nouns. Like Food or Can (unless they mean it as in "I think I can")
I think the ultimate one, for me, is Pavement. I just think that's such a neat word to use as a name for a band. Pavement. Yes!
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Rush.
I agree with one word band names being cool as long as it's not a "the" band. Technically that's two words I guess.
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Led Zeppelin
The Talking Heads
Van Halen (What a kick ass last name)
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Cat Power
Explosions in the Sky
The Flaming Lips
Love
Stars
Spacemen 3
Spiritualized
Tortoise
Acid Mothers Temple and the Cosmic Inferno
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Mogwai
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Van Halen (What a kick ass last name)
or to a lesser extent Z'nuff.
and then you can always spell a word wrong such as:
Bigg Nife
Limozeen
Taranchula
(all jokes by Matthew today will be shamelessly ripped off from www.homestarrunner.com )
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Autechre
It looks cool. Doesn't quite sound as cool as it looks (Ortecker... hmm), but I still with I'd thought of it.
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Iron & Wine (really smooth sounding)
The Flaming Lips
The Arcade Fire
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or to a lesser extent Z'nuff.
Ladies and Gentlemen, the SB reference of the day.
/bow
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Slumber,Arch Enemy,The Tony Danza Tap-Dance Extravaganza.
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I'm not going to lie. 2 or so years ago, I thought Panic! At The Disco would be a really good band based on the fact that I thought it was a really, really good band name (really, I do). Luckily at the time I was at least smart enough to realize right away it was pure shit... and a dissapointment... why would such a band band have such a good name (in my opinion it's a good name)
Sorry About Dresdin
Benton Falls (it sounds like it has multiple meanings, or something)
The Acacia Strain
Zzzz (I like that no one is sure how to pronounce it. I've heard "Z's" and "Z-Z-Z-Z". The later makes you sound like an idiot, though.)
Libre Non-Stop (DeKalb band)
The Go! Team
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See, all those names are names I'd file under terrible.
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The 13th Floor Elevators
Acid Mothers Temple and the Melting Parasio U.F.O.
The Band (you can't really fuck with that considering who they are)
Biblical Proof of UFOs
Eagles of Death Metal
Masters of Reality
Mondo Generator
Om
Queens of the Stone Age
Subarachnoid Space
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Up-C Down-c Left-C-Right-C ABC+Start. (I am not sure if I did this right)
Saxon Shore.
Get Him Eat Him.
Destroyalldreamers.
Built To Spill.
65daysofstatic.
The first one was on a list of worst band names and I was amazed.
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A Gun That Shoots Knives
c'mon how insane do you have to be to call your band that!? and despite being long it somehow rolls off the tongue, i dunno.
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Kaizers Orchestra(it is important to note that Mr. Kaizer is frequently a character in their lyrics
about the devil, KGB, russian mafia/gangs and his girlfriend Constanze)
Under Byen((Below the City)
Matisyahu
The Pogues(derived from the gaelic pogue mahone which means kiss my ass)
Low(it fits really well for most part, it is just the right name for them)
Sonic Youth(same here)
Cocteau Twins(though it would have been cooler if they were twins)
Ulver
Hedningarna(The Heathens)
Mugison
Bandarbandid(Band of Brides or the Bride Band, it should either mean either, though my icelandic is well, rusty.
They play live dressed as brides btw. When they had a male drummer he did the same)
Gåte(I think it is Riddle in english)
Kitty Wu(from an Auster novel, also they play dark rock'n'roll that is thoroughly despressing in a good way)
The The(call it dumb, it is still an awesome name)
and so on and so forth...
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Sonic Youth(same here)
"insert obvious joke about their age"
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It would definitely be Anal Cunt.
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Ulver
Definitely. It's just such a powerful statement. The same with Burzum. You might as well just call yourself 'EVIL'.
Some others:
Acid Bath (It just perfectly describes them. You couldn't imagine them being called anything else)
Alien Vampires
Anorexia Nervosa
...And Oceans (I just love the engimatic feel of it)
Curse of the Golden Vampire
Fall of the Bastards
The Ghastly Ones
Navicon Torture Technologies
Skyclad (Once you listen to the song of the same title)
Zombina and the Skeletones
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Up-C Down-c Left-C-Right-C ABC+Start. (I am not sure if I did this right)
I would consider that a "worst band name ever", but also because isn't there another band called "Up Up Down Down Left Right Left Right"? If they are two different bands, it's officially an epiedemic.
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Godspeed You! Black Emperor
the boy least likely to
Head of Femur
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
Everything, Now!
A kid I used to know had a band called Captain! Sound the Alarm which I thought was quite swell as well.
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Well it's not a band name - although the band name is pretty awesome; The Pariahs - but the best damn album name I've ever heard is:
The Pariahs - Mouthful of Headache.
GENIUS.
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Mudhoney
(Iggy and) The Stooges (The Psychedelic Stooges sounds pretty good too)
Black Sabbath
Swans
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks
Candlemass
Lightning Bolt
I don't claim to be familiar with all of those bands, but I do like all their names.
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Gay Dad
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A Gun That Shoots Knives
c'mon how insane do you have to be to call your band that!? and despite being long it somehow rolls off the tongue, i dunno.
I have never heard of these people, but their name has inspired me to look them up on MySpace. That is, indeed, a tres cool name.
The only name I can think of that jumps out at me is "The Johnsons", which is only funny when they explain the name to you live before a highly-anticipated song. I suppose the name is an inside joke to The Johnsons fans. Meh.
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Faith No More, Sol Invictus and Stepenwolf are all cool sounding names.
System of a Down is also pretty cool if you read the poem on the back of debut.
Also, there is a local punk band around here called Deathmetal Supersquad, which I think is pretty awesome.
And I'm seconding Mugison, Anal Cunt and Skyclad.
Ps. Leftover Crack.
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The Psychic Ills
Skywave
The Jesus and Mary Chain
...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead
Sonic Youth
My Bloody Valentine
Slipstream
The Stone Roses
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I think Interpol is a band whose name perfectly syncs with their sound.
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Dr. Teeth and the Electric Mayhem.
(what do you mean, "Muppets don't count"?.....)
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My dad's old band: Cobra.
Kings of Leon
Reggie and the Full Effect
Thunderball
Bad Religion
American Analog Set
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I can't think of any, so I'm just going to give my suggestions of what names WOULD be cool for a band:
Apostrophe Catastrophe (They'd have to be a really electronic version of The Futureheads)
The Lemonhead Collective
Hopscotch Unit (Twee-pop by nerdy-looking guys with plaid sweatervests)
The Shits and Giggles (Think Frank Zappa fronting a bad punk band)
The Extemporaneities
Scream It Like You Hate That Bitch
The Staples (I don't know why.)
Wilhelm (Another WW1 reference to go along with Franz Ferdinand)
There we have it. I have completely broken the thread's point and now all hell will break loose. It's a mad house, I tell you, a MAD HOUSE!
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A Frames
Aquaduct
Architecture in Helsinki
Built to Spill
Idiot Pilot
Love Battery
Math and Physics Club
Mon Frere
Mono in VCF
Mother Love Bone
Mudhoney
Nada Surf
Neutral Milk Hotel
Post Stardom Depression
Screaming Trees
The American Analog Set
The Apples in Stereo
The Decemberists
The Helio Sequence
The Jesus and Mary Chain (I used to think they were called "Jesus and Mary Jane" which would be an even better name)
The Lonely H
The Schoolyard Heros
The Thrown Ups
The Vaselines
Violent Femmes
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Sudden Infant Dance Syndrome!!!!!!!!!!!!
(The exclamation marks are not part of the name I just put them there because I was excited).
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Blue carousel
it's the name of my mates indie band .... i just find it very catchy and cute
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Acid Hades.
This is not an actual band, but my History teacher used the phrase 'Acid Hades Rock' to describe Cathedral when my friend started playing it on his boombox in class. It is now my mission in life to create a musical project that lives up to that title.
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Funkadelic.
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re: Autechre, I always pronouced it(and heard it pronounced) aww-tet-chure. with the chure bit being ch as in chicken.
Other names:
Four Tet
Hrvatski
Calexico
[over the course of this edit spelling was corrected]
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Blind Idiot God
Best name ever.
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I dunno, I seem the have a thing for "Big Animal names"
like, Mastodon and Gojira (!!), plus my own band is called Kraken.
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I still say "the Unfuckable" is the best band name ever. I think they're from Sydney - don't know who they are, never heard 'em, but I saw their name in the Melbourne gig guide a few weeks ago.
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If you subtract the Nazi undertones, Joy Division is a really kick arse name for a band.
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Also, a band name which could just as well be the worst:
The Visitors.
I'm putting it in this thread though, simply because the irony of it and their background cracks me up.
They are a crummy punk-band from the town I live in, and in the ten years they've existed, they've only played ONE gig that wasn't in our town, or in the immediate area. Considering how small a country denmark is, it's actually a bit pathetic.
They are all really nice guys, and the drummer is a good friend, but my god they suck.
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Cruachan
Therion
The Oddz (not sure why, just hits a good bone in me)
Vader
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If you subtract the Nazi undertones, Joy Division is a really kick arse name for a band.
Why do you have to subtract the nazi overtones? They're not nazis.
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I always thought Slowdive was a fitting bit of imagery. Also, Death. It's just so straightforward.
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The name of my imaginary band: Stevie and the Date Rapists.
It's awesome and its mine so nurr.
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re: Autechre, I always pronouced it(and heard it pronounced) aww-tet-chure. with the chure bit being ch as in chicken.
I've always heard it Aw-tek-er.
Made up names:
Hungry Geisha - I made up that one, I think it sounds really nice
Valhalla - My idea for the ultimate epíc metal band. Probably already taken by 50 other metal bands
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i always pronounced autechre like it was french. awww- tek ruh.
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If you subtract the Nazi undertones, Joy Division is a really kick arse name for a band.
Why do you have to subtract the nazi overtones? They're not nazis.
Indeed, Warsaw is also a great name for a band.
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Warszawa is better ;)
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The insider would be cool name. Does anyone know if it's taken?
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If I ever have a backing band, they will be called 'The Nouns.'
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Also: Holy Fuck is one of the best band names ever.
"Who are you going to see tonight?"
"Holy Fuck!"
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I think my fav band names are...
The Stone Roses
A Perfect Circle
The Sex Pistols
The Stooges (It fits their sound so well.)
Gorillaz (Normally I don't like z's instead of s's, but for some reason this works here.)
Adam & the Ants
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club (It doesn't describe them at all, and I think that's why I like it.)
Thievery Corporation
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i really like the name pink floyd. i don't know, it just sounds nice.
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Also: Holy Fuck is one of the best band names ever.
"Who are you going to see tonight?"
"Holy Fuck!"
I don’t like the name because you wouldn’t be able to tell your grandma or someone like that about them. I’m not saying that I would but like just imagine it…
“So deary, what kind of music are you listening to these days?”
“Holy Fuck!”
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that also would apply to anal cunt...
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Why do you have to subtract the nazi overtones? They're not nazis.
I know; I meant the Nazi origins of the name. Concentration camp prostitution and such.
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Black Rebel Motorcycle Club(It doesn't describe them at all, and I think that's why I like it.)
I thought it fitted quite well on Take Them On, On Your Own, but I suppose it doesn't fit the new album. Also Take Them On has the most badass bass opening to an album I have ever heard. You should own it just for that,
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There is a band called Captain out there if any one is interested. Weren't System of a Down just called System originally.
Some names that I really like
Iron and Wine
The Flaming Lips
Editors
Doves
The Rocket Summer
Be Your Own pet
Brigade
Air
Daft Punk
Get Cape Wear Cape Fly
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Acid Hades.
This is not an actual band, but my History teacher used the phrase 'Acid Hades Rock' to describe Cathedral when my friend started playing it on his boombox in class. It is now my mission in life to create a musical project that lives up to that title.
And a worthy mission it is.
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BRMC - A great band name, yes. It never ceases to amuse me that in one of their videos they had to drive to a gig or something and they took a car instead of motorbikes.
Pink Floyd - it's catchy, it sticks in the mind, it's unique, and it's very, very Syd.
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The most amusing band title I've heard over the last year has to be:
Oh No! Oh My! (plug)
Thank goodness they changed their old name. It was generic as hell.
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Black Sabbath. I cant believe nobody metioned them yet.
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a local two man band in my state is called
Best Fwends
i love the name cuz the two guy in the band are best friends ;)
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Do they play crustpunk? because that would make the best crustpunk band name ever.
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I agree with Anal Cunt. You can get around the whole "Holy Fuck" problem because most people "in the know" call them AxCx (so I'd go into stores in my hometown asking for AC and I'd get handed ACDC. Ugh).
My contributions:
John Cougar Concentration Camp
Frantic Romantic
Fat Girls at the Snack Table
All Girl Summer Fun Band
!!!
Jets to Brazil
Jud Jud
The Pixies
Talking Heads
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The name of my imaginary band: Stevie and the Date Rapists.
This made me laugh.
The Phemonenauts
Violent Femmes
Ladytron
The Dandy Warhols
Fantastic Plastic Machine
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bad yodelers bought their lp for about 1 buck for the name and then ive loved the music
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Elemeno P,After School Knife Fight,The Fucking Champs.
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There was a band that won best band name in a local paper called "Icanlickanysonofabitchinthehouse" or something to that effect.
However i've always been partial to these band names.
Built to Spill, Broken Social Scene, and Neko Case and her Boyfriends.
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Ladytron is a good name! Dag, yo!
Tortoise and The Postal Service are also pretty good names I think.
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My made up band was always Shortwave Rhapsody or Oceanica
Olivia Tremor Control has always been one of my favorites, though really anything from Elephant 6 had a good name.
Elf Power was another one.
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Two (garage) bands that I was in for a short time before we gave up: The Last Conquistador, and (the better one) The Hubcaps of Courage. I now use both names in guitar hero.
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Pouches the crab, or Texas is on fire.
The postal service is a cool name, considering the music was sent between the artists via e-mail.
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Did you honestly just say Texas is on Fire? Man, fuck those guys. They were from my old town and they suck. Also, their singer is a prick.
And I have reason to believe they totally sotle their name From Texas is the Reason, just because I am a cynical ass.
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Einstürzende Neubauten
Dr Octagon
Zapp
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I've always like these...
Placebo
Marcy Playground
Architecture In Helsinki
Queens of the Stone Age
The Teaparty
Modest Mouse
The Pixies
Dogs Die In Hot Cars
They Might Be Giants
Velvet Revolver
Echo And The Bunnymen
Gomez
The Von Bondies
The Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Goo Goo Dolls
Liquido
and my all time favourite: Machine Gun Fellatio
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It would definitely be Anal Cunt.
Vaginal Jesus.
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Dogs Die In Hot Cars
My friends dog died in a hot car so this always makes me feel sad.
Also, I really like the name Motörhead. It just has a a really cool feel to it.
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i am the world trade center
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Ohh, that last name is the worst.
Some friends and I were supposed to start a band called "K like um". It never happened though. The name spawned from my roommate starting every damn thing she said with "K like, um...".
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trachtenburg family slideshow players
hedwig and the angry inch
sunny day real estate
a boy named pinfold
dismemberment plan
the appleseed cast
velvet underground
belle & sebastian
animal collective
twilight singers
mates of state
transoceanic
clem snide
aesop rock
viva voce
mogwai
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Squarepusher.
I love it.
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trachtenburg family slideshow players
hedwig and the angry inch
sunny day real estate
a boy named pinfold
dismemberment plan
the appleseed cast
velvet underground
belle & sebastian
animal collective
twilight singers
mates of state
transoceanic
clem snide
aesop rock
viva voce
mogwai
you could've organized them by size... it would make a lovelly pattern hehe
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trachtenburg family slideshow players
hedwig and the angry inch
sunny day real estate
a boy named pinfold
dismemberment plan
the appleseed cast
velvet underground
belle & sebastian
animal collective
twilight singers
mates of state
transoceanic
clem snide
aesop rock
viva voce
mogwai
I agree with all of the ones I've heard of from that bunch.
You also win for having a D Plan avatar.
My contribution:
Archie Bronson Outfit
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Well, the bad my roommates and I have is called 665.9.... but I hate that name. I thought The SRO's would be a good name. It refers to the old signs they'd put on venues that stood for Standing Room Only when it was really packed. Plus people wouldn't quite know how to say it. S-R-O's sound like a car or something, but Sroe's sound cool too.
I also thought David Bowie's band Tin Machine had a cool name. But I also love David Bowie, so I think Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars is pretty fucking tight as well.
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In high school, my buddies and I toyed with the idea of a band called "Ingrown Toenail".
Seriously, listening to us play was about as painful.
Our local group of metalheads, who actually DID make some money as a band at local functions, came up with a great mock band:
"Flourescent Dead Chihuahuas".
They drew up mock album covers and everything; it was hilarious.
- alcadema
Ahh, The Weirdness of my Youth
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The Crucifucks
Dead Kennedys
Apocalypse Hoboken
Mischief Brew
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Beat Happening
I knew i'd like them from the name alone
Casiotone for the Painfully Alone
Saturday Looks Good To Me
The Morning After Girls (shit local psychadelic band)
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Cute is What We Aim For
haha, just kidding.
Fugazi
Jawbreaker
The Weakerthans
Jets to Brazil
The Lawrence Arms
The Get Up Kids
Weezer
generally speaking, i think the best band names are no longer than three or four syllables wrong.
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Misantropical Painforest has to be the king of awesome band names
Other good ones:
My Dying Bride
Hecate Enthroned
Carpathian Forest
Axis of Advance
Grand Belial's Key
In The Woods...
Star of Ash
Neptune Towers
Something For Kate
Rainbow
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NEMBRIONIC HAMMERDEATH
I've never heard them, or heard of them, I cannot classify them, but I saw the name on some metal site and it is seriously the best band name I have ever seen.
EDIT: They are apparently Dutch death metal.
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My ongoing quest to outright win every opinion thread on these forums continues with The Band With No Name.
I'm also fond of The Orb as a band name, I know not why.
Lastly, Runrig. The best band named after anything to do with agriculture.
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One day, I plan on forming a kitsch pop band called Jeremy and the Octopus, though it may just end up being called Jeremy.
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To be surprisingly generic, I love 'The Beatles'. It just makes me grin that it's so simple yet a nice pun.
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Ohh, that last name is the worst.
They called themselves that before 9/11. I think they just perform as 'I Am The...' now.
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did nobody mention 'morning wood' yet?
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I hate Morningwood so much.
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Screaming Trees
The Expendables
Pearl Jam, simply because they arent a jam band
The Casual Fiasco, who IS a jam band
Abandon Jalopy, just because of how silly it sounds
Also, i think that Black Cab Motorcade, a song by the band State Radio, would make an absolutely awesome band name. People could hire them to play on top of the cars in the motorcade of the funural of important people.
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pearl jam simply because it means smegma (if i'm not mistaking, and if it doesn't, it should)
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Echo and the Bunnymen
The Appleseed Cast
The Album Leaf
Deerhoof
Sufjan Stevens
Also, I have a friend who's band is called "Legato." Legato is a musical style defined as being a "smooth, even style without any noticeable break between the notes." This describes the band perfectly.
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I have a friend who's band is called "Legato." Legato is a musical style defined as being a "smooth, even style without any noticeable break between the notes." This describes the band perfectly.
As opposed to Coldplay, which is a musical style defined as being a "smooth, even style without any noticeable difference between the songs."
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Zing!
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Echo and the Bunnymen
The Appleseed Cast
The Album Leaf
Deerhoof
Sufjan Stevens
Also, I have a friend who's band is called "Legato." Legato is a musical style defined as being a "smooth, even style without any noticeable break between the notes." This describes the band perfectly.
It's not a musical style, per se, just a type of phrasing in music.
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pearl jam simply because it means smegma (if i'm not mistaking, and if it doesn't, it should)
I actually thought it referred to semen.
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Pickled Dick (They were playing near me. It struck me how people must be running out of names.)
Gay For Johnny Depp (They played at Download, I'd be tempted to go see them if I was there for that day.)
Propagandhi
Fugazi
Dead Kennedys
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Also: Holy Fuck is one of the best band names ever.
"Who are you going to see tonight?"
"Holy Fuck!"
holy fuck is one of the best BANDS ever dude, god
when i saw them before wolf parade.. it was religious man, the energy goin' through me.
not so great on recording but live.. almost intolerably awesome. where you'd have to close your ears "I WAS NEVER MEANT TO HEAR SOMETHIN' SO GOOD..".... i'm gonna get coffee.
oh for the thread:
Echo and the Bunnymen
Cat Power
Acid Mothers Temple
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah!
..nothing that wasn't already said i guess.
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I have a friend who's band is called "Legato." Legato is a musical style defined as being a "smooth, even style without any noticeable break between the notes." This describes the band perfectly.
As opposed to Coldplay, which is a musical style defined as being a "smooth, even style without any noticeable difference between the songs."
Hahahahahaha!
Oh man... nice.
It's not a musical style, per se, just a type of phrasing in music.
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Yeah, I know... it's usually used as a direction in a musical piece. It's just a great way to describe their songs and it IS a style of music.
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pearl jam simply because it means smegma (if i'm not mistaking, and if it doesn't, it should)
I actually thought it referred to semen.
I thought this too, but Eddie Vedder says it was named after his grandma 'Pearl' her hallucigenic Jam.
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Hmm...
I always liked "Passengers" for a band name. It's probably been used. I have a mental image of the eponymous album, with the band giving each other piggyback rides running along the top of a sand dune.
Anyway, a few real bands whose names I like...
The Ballistic Brothers
Thievery Corporation
Fila Brazilia
Morcheeba
Foundation
Nightmares on Wax
The Clash
Radar
The Exile Brothers
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It has, most notably as a collaboration between Brian Eno and U2:
(http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drc800/c858/c8588927el9.jpg)
Ghastly, no doubt.
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The Boy Least Likely To
because i'm twee as f*uck
also like The Stars of Track and Field, John Wesley Harding, and Gnarls Barkley
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I know it's been mentioned before, I but I love the name Skyclad. It's just such a wonderfully evocative name. Wearing the sky, as it were. A beautiful image.
Codeine. Short, and it fits the hazy, druggy music the band made.
The Fall. It's short, it's sharp, it's a Camus reference.
Josef K. Science has proven that anything with nods to Kafka rules by default.
Banco de Gaia. I may be biased by the fact that I have an unhealthy, possibly illegal love for Toby Marks' music, but like Skyclad, this is one of those names that evokes beautiful images in my mind. Speaking of BdG, Toby's nightmare (http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:9men97bkkrjt) of has come true in the form of the Qinghai-Xizang railway line.
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Limp Biscuit!
We're talking about the worst band names, right . . ?
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The Artilleryman and the Fighting Machine (because the song from the War of the worlds soundtrack is cool as hell)
Circle Takes the Square (just because)
cLOUDDEAD (it's so damn artsy and snobbish that you can't help but like it)
Dat Politics (there's something glitchy and itchy in both the name and music)
Envy (...)
Heavy Heavy Low Low (very very stupid bandname but funny band, check their hidden track on Courtside Seats)
Johnossi (uhm dunno why)
Katzenstreik (german.. BOOYA!)
Mew (because you can write it backwards and all sorts of cool things)
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I know it's been mentioned before, I but I love the name Skyclad. It's just such a wonderfully evocative name. Wearing the sky, as it were. A beautiful image.
It really is a beautiful image, though to me it invokes hippy modern day pagans/Wiccas who use it as a synonym for 'naked'.
The Teardrop Explodes - Burroughs reference and great band name
Halo of Flies (dosen't the guy from that post here?)
Japanther
Guitar Wolf
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Banco de Gaia
This band name frustrates me because I always see them come way more frequently than what I'm actually looking for when looking for Banco del Mutuo Soccorso (often shortened to Banco). Same with Death in Vegas, Death in June, Death Cab for Cutie, etc, when searching for just plain Death.
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Damn Echo and his Bunnymen! Damn convergent evolution!
I like 'em short and punchy, much as I like my album covers bold and geometric. Bonus points for mental associations with a dark, Blade Runner-meets-Wipeout XL future.
Fluke
Underworld
Juno Reactor
808 State
Laibach
Kraftwerk
Squarepusher
Source Direct
Bola
Orbital
o9
Add N to {X}
The Future Sound of London
Mouse on Mars
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I think I've mentioned Gojira before in this thread, but without any significant explanation.
First of all, the name is just plain awesome. Short, catchy and easily shouted. Their lyrics also deal with a lot of environmental (mother Earth having her revenge, Flying Whales, that sort of stuff), where Godzilla has some significance. Godzilla was created by nuclear testing, ie. Man's carelessness with Nature, and that naturally resulted in Tokyo being laid to waste around 60 times. Nuclear testing's a bitch, ain't it?!
But the final touch, is that their sound and riff style fit the name even better. When they get heavy, they really do sound like some gargantuan force of nature, stomping along.
Emperor is also a favorite, because they really sound that majestic.
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Dredg is a neat name for a band. So's Giant Drag (http://www.giantdrag.com/), IQU (pronounced e-cue), Aphex Twin, Kasabian, and Deftones.
As for the best band name I came up with, it would probably be "Defecate Solo." Usuable with permission. (heh)
PS. As for Japanese bands, I'd have to say Tokyo Jihen, L'arc~en~Ciel, and Dir en Grey have great names.
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Angel Corpus Christi
Cellar Door
Echo & the Bunnymen
Horror Pops
Iggy Pop &/or The Stooges
Jesus Lizard
Killing Joke
Litmus Green
Meat Puppets
Mudhoney
Neutral Milk Hotel
Placebo
Screaming Trees
Slapstick
Slint
Sonic Youth
Strapping Young Lad
Velvet Underground
Violent Femmes
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Bell Orchestre
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I also think Giant Drag is a good name for a band, but I might be biased because I think they're also fucking ace.
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Candirú
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Welcome to my first post, my friends!
Anyways, if I were to start a band it would be called "Smart Cookie", but I'd probably get into legal issues with a cookbook with the same name.Meh....
Now, as for actual bands, I enjoy the name "Wolfmother", just because it really fits their stoner rock style of music.
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Wolfmother's name is awesome because they took it from a Tom Robbins book (Skinny Legs and All).
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Hmm, I didnt know that...................that's kinda interesting
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Wow... i hate them so much less now and will have a chat to them about Tom Robbins if i run into the guys
Seriously, they might be indie everywhere else but in Australia Wolfmother are EVERYWHERE. And i mean that their music is everywhere, the band is everywhere, people with the band's shirts are everywhere... its a bit nuts
as for Wolf bands, Wolf & Cub (local noise guys) is cool 'cause it comes from an awesome manga/movie series. and AIDS Wolf is just ace. as is Guitar Wolf
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Halo of Flies (dosen't the guy from that post here?)
I'm not from the 'real' Halo of Flies. I formed my project independently and released stuff before I found out about them, and when I did, didn't see why I should change the name, as I doubt commercial success will ever be forthcoming for me. Predictably, we both got the name from the same place: the kick-ass Alice Cooper song. It's just such a powerful little phrase, got completely stuck in my mind. (If anyone from the Minneapolis Noise Rock band also posts here, sorry guys).
Skyclads name is indeed associated with Wicca (kind of unsurprising since they're all Wiccans/other assorted pagans). The ever-obliging Martin Walkyier did in fact write a song (called, strangely 'Skyclad') about the meaning of the name on their first album, Wayward Sons of Mother Earth:
"We cannot see though clothes may maketh man they cannot give us shelter
On this mortal helter-skelter if our loyalties are torn,
Between the values we believe in and the egos we are feeding:
We stand all together naked as the day we were born.
And so cast off the lies that are our lives and find the truth within.
SKYCLAD! The veil has lifted,
SKYCLAD! Now I see through,
SKYCLAD! Your mask of illusion,
SKYCLAD! To the fake that is you."
The whole song in general is a brilliant piece of writing. SUCH A GOOD BAND.
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Dying Fetus (first one that came to mind)
Hecate Enthroned
Satyricon
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Since every kickass name has been taken i figured i would make my own up....
I just had to laugh
E string Cut (actually happened to me when my guitar string snapped)
Last Rope I Ever Saw
Unfinished Basment
The What
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A Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra & Tra-La-La Band.
I'm not sure why exactly... It's just fun.
Good music too.
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Since every kickass name has been taken i figured i would make my own up....
I just had to laugh
E string Cut (actually happened to me when my guitar string snapped)
Last Rope I Ever Saw
Unfinished Basment
The What
I like The What.
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A Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra & Tra-La-La Band.
I'm not sure why exactly... It's just fun.
Good music too.
I hate that name, but it's not the worse of the A Silver Mt. Zion ones, that honour is reserved for The Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra & Tra-La-La Band with Choir
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Since every kickass name has been taken i figured i would make my own up....
I just had to laugh
E string Cut (actually happened to me when my guitar string snapped)
Last Rope I Ever Saw
Unfinished Basment
The What
I like Last Rope I Ever Saw.
I also like the doors. An awsome name.
The deftones name actually got me into them, also team sleep is a cool name, it's chino's side proj. Milk's name got me into them as well, as well as a band called Subject, wich i don't think exists anymore. Sob. I also thought Led Zepplin was a sweet name, but I couldn't listen to their music. I just... can't. I don't know why. My brother and I were in a band called freak flag from a jimi hendrix tune. I was also in "House of Flies" from a deftones song, other names we bounced around:
The Chairs
N R Sleep (Get it? In our sleep, pretentious and lame at the same time!)
Spank
Che Guevara (did i spell that right?)
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skyclad -Cool name.. Also reminds me of something from a book called Northern Lights; A polar bear was clad in armour made of sky-metal, hence he was skyclad n_n
Arch Enemy - It 'feels' right.. With the A, then the E... If that makes absoultely no sense then.. well..yeh. But i do like the word Arch, so combining it with something always seems to sound nice to me.
Daft Punk, Pink Floyd - Hear the name once, and its always there.
Oasis - Just so different, not something i'd ever have thought of for a band name, but with their fame, they practically redefined the initially conidered meaning of the word.
I would have said the name Pantera but as its just spanish for panther.. It'd seem greater if it was its own word. It's always a nice-sounding word for me.
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I dunno if it's been mentioned, but Strapping Young Lad is a pretty great one, especially when you consider how it has absolutely nothing to do with their sound.
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Since every kickass name has been taken i figured i would make my own up....
I just had to laugh
E string Cut (actually happened to me when my guitar string snapped)
Last Rope I Ever Saw
Unfinished Basment
The What
I like The What.
"So who are you seeing tonight at the concert?'
"The What"
"the concert"
"THE WHAT!"
"do you have a hearing disorder?"
.....only if there was such a band..
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-Issei Sagawa
named after a japanese college student who killed and ate one of his classmates and managed to avoid prosecution somehow. he is now some sort of bizarre celebrity in japan, aparently.
-The Scumsluts
a local band. the name fits the music so well. they just get drunk and sound like shit and cover the occasional gg allin song. they have a song called "shootgun boos" (inside joke, mispelling of "shotgun booze") and during this song everyone in the band, and many audience members, shotgun a beer or 3. its alot of fun
also; i think The What is a cool name. if only....
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I've always thought Autopilot Off had a good name, regardless of what anyone thinks of their music.
And no one can deny the awesome power of the Embryonic Polka Dotted Rockabilly Fighter Pilots. Their theme song lives on forever in my head.
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I've always liked most post rock band names, like:
This is a Process Of A Still Life
Burn Rome In A Dream
God Is An Astronaut
We're From Japan!
Meanwhile, Back In Communist Russia...
On! Air! Library!
Japancakes
But, then again, I could just be name dropping.
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i guess ill have a crack at another batch of new Band titles...
Dead Tooth
3-4 AM stories
Open Door Locked Window-(vice versa if you like it that way)
Losing Chords
Blood (Brothers) Killing Blood (sisters)-(vice versa if you like it that way)
i was gonna use "iMonkeys" but this website already has it
http://www.robandelliot.cycomics.com/index.php
PS. The What © are now mine! unless one of you guys want to use it for a real band..
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Good band names to mess up flyers-
TBA
Free Beer
$50 Cover
Closed for Inventory
Live Girl Dancers
AA Meeting
Doors at 5:30
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People naming bands just so that they mess up flyers or for the purpose of conversations like this:
"Who are you going to see tonight?"
"Band name, like, Holy Fuck or The What or whatever else was mentioned"
"WHO/WHAT/OH FUCK"
"REPEAT"
Are pretty much my fucking pet peeve.
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Town Hall Steps
see, all the kids in town meet at the Town Hall steps. everyone meets there, but espeically the underage emo/goth/punk/metal kids. so naming a band after it tells you EXACTLY what you're going to see
like a warning
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Our town hall doesn't even have steps.
Woe is me.
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I don't even know where the fuck our town hall is. Do we have a town hall? I have no idea.
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deaf animal orchestra (http://www.myspace.com/deafanimalorchestra) -local band love the music almost as much as the name!
torann (http://www.torann.net) -local percussion group, they are great. their name means noise in irish
big paulie kool and the mental institution-absolut kick ass band i have never left one of their gigs disapointed!
couldnt find a link for big paulie so you will just have to trust me there!! but i command you to check the other two out especially torann, their theme is my favourite!
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Vincent Price's Orphan-Powered Death Machine.
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Skinny Yuppie.
It'd be a skinny puppy tribute band.
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Broken Social Scene is one of my favorite band names. It's just fun to say.
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Ten Thousand Statistically Grammar-Average Fake Band Names (http://alumni.media.mit.edu/~bwhitman/10000.html).
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There's this bit in Illuminatus! which is basically just a two and a half-page list of all the made up rock bands coming to attend this mass illuminati sacrifice disguised as a rock festival. They're all puns or references to the book, many of them rocking, and a good few, whether out of chance or tribute, have since become real bands, including Primal Scream, Dead Kennedys, Nirvana, Steppenwolf and the Justified Ancients Of Mu Mu.
There's probably a full-list somewhere, I can't be arsed to type it out, but a lot of them are great, although mainly only appropriate for stoner rock bands. I particularly like Acceptable Radiation, The Horseless Headsmen, The Damned Thing and Maxwell and his Demons, as well of course as The Windows and the The Roofs.
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I can`t believe no one`s mentioned the Butthole Surfers yet. Or for that matter Mission of Burma.
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Some of my favorite band names:
Parts and Labor
Gospel
Ours
Converge
The Fall of Troy
Weezer
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Ten Thousand Statistically Grammar-Average Fake Band Names (http://alumni.media.mit.edu/~bwhitman/10000.html).
DOES THE PAGE EVER END?
anyway, check out http://www.wolfmother.com/
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We have the best band name ever.
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There's this bit in Illuminatus! which is basically just a two and a half-page list of all the made up rock bands coming to attend this mass illuminati sacrifice disguised as a rock festival. They're all puns or references to the book, many of them rocking, and a good few, whether out of chance or tribute, have since become real bands, including Primal Scream, Dead Kennedys, Nirvana, Steppenwolf and the Justified Ancients Of Mu Mu.
There's probably a full-list somewhere, I can't be arsed to type it out, but a lot of them are great, although mainly only appropriate for stoner rock bands. I particularly like Acceptable Radiation, The Horseless Headsmen, The Damned Thing and Maxwell and his Demons, as well of course as The Windows and the The Roofs.
I was so happy when I found out the KLF were obsessed with that book.
I think Steppenwolf existed when the book was written. They're a reference to a Herman Hesse novel
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Weezer
The Cure
Joy Division
Broken Social Scene
The Smashing Pumpkins
The Dillinger Escape Plan
Also, the Acid Hades Rock thing is awesome.
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Lord God
Breakestra
The Ang Fang Quartet
Blackalicious
Cannonball Jane
Drunk With Joy
Mr Scruff
Hot Chip
King Bathmat
Son of Dave
Tigerbombs
Yonder Mountain String Band