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Delvin
Favorite band name?
July 28, 2005 04:39PM
New topic ... or at least, one I haven't seen on this board:

Your favorite band name? Doesn't matter if the band is well-known. (If it's a local band that never did get widespread recognition, please be sure to mention that.)
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erikalbany
Re: Favorite band name?
July 28, 2005 06:20PM
When I was at NYU in 1990 or so there was a band that played the college bars called When People Were Shorter and Lived Near the Water. I almost went to see them based on name alone. Never happened though, and I have no idea what they sounded like.
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Delvin
Re: Favorite band name?
July 28, 2005 06:27PM
That band is reviewed on this site.
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breno
Re: Favorite band name?
July 28, 2005 06:41PM
There's a St. Louis area country band called the Well Hungarians.
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erikalbany
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July 28, 2005 07:14PM
Oops. I guess I could have done a bit of research. But I stand by my decision all those years ago to not see them!
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satchmykels
Re: Favorite band name?
July 28, 2005 06:48PM
!!!


i still don't know where to file their records (shutup baker, i'm not filing em in the recycling bin)...



Post Edited (07-28-05 15:48)
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Delvin
Re: Favorite band name?
July 28, 2005 07:51PM
There was a band in Denver in the early '80s called "Crank Call Love Affair." That one has stuck with me over the years. (Never actually saw or heard the band, but I sure dug the name.)

A friend of mine currently has a band called "The Neverland Ranch Janitors."
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MrFab
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July 28, 2005 09:20PM
LA bands who had to change their name for legal reasons:

REO Speedealer
The Greatful Dead Kennedys
Blob Dylan
Pink Floyd The Barber

(Pink Floyd The Barber changed their name to Double Naught Spy Car - good surf band, think they're still around)
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mats84
Re: Favorite band name?
July 28, 2005 10:39PM
Lubricated Goat simply because it has the greatest "what the f***?" value among mainstream people. In fact, they are the band I always used to scare away annoying record store clerks in places like Sam Goody who would ask if I needed help. Nothing shuts up a record store clerk in a mainstream music store faster than saying (loudly) "Yes, where is the Lubricated Goat? I can't find the Lubricated Goat."

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MrFab
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July 29, 2005 07:09PM
"Bass player CAPTAIN SENSIBLE reveals the hidden punk fact in a new documentary, PUNK: ATTITUDE...Chrissie [Hynde] was in an early incarnation of The Damned, which she wanted to call
MIKE HUNT'S HONOURABLE DISCHARGE - a charming name."

- contactmusic.com
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michael baker
Re: Favorite band name?
July 29, 2005 10:53PM
just proves that wit runs deep in west akron
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carmen
Re: Favorite band name?
July 30, 2005 07:10PM
softboys
10,000 maniacs
i love you but i've chosen darkness

how about favorite album titles?
the orphans: more orphan than not
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Matt
Re: Favorite band name?
July 31, 2005 07:33AM
When it comes to album titles, my favorite is still BGK's "Nothing Can Go Wrogn!"
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mats84
Re: Favorite band name?
July 31, 2005 10:54AM
Album Titles : Bullet LaVolta "The Gun Didn't Know That I Was Loaded" and Joe Walsh "Got Any Gum?" just for its simplicty....

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Delvin
Re: Favorite band name?
August 04, 2005 11:24PM
Classic album title: The Mekons' *The Quality of Mercy is Not Strnen*.

I had liked that title for many years by the time I saw *The Merchant of Venice* for the first time. When I heard the line "The quality of mercy is not strained" in the play, I thought of the title -- and the cover photo, showing a chimpanzee sitting at a typewriter -- and it all made sense.
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Delvin
Re: Favorite band name?
July 29, 2005 01:04PM
Double Naught Spy Car? I like that!
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madisdadi
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July 29, 2005 01:56PM
Chocalate Watch Band

Tonto's Expanding Headband

Early Pink Elevators

Punk Floyd

Rapeman
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michael baker
Re: Favorite band name?
July 29, 2005 12:48AM
starvation army
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STEVE
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July 29, 2005 03:31AM
The Weapons of Mass Destruction
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Matt
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July 29, 2005 10:09AM
The Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy
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ira
Re: Favorite band name?
July 29, 2005 10:11AM
Spermblast

Sweaty Betty and the Human Tripod
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Numavox!
Re: Favorite band name?
July 30, 2005 02:25PM
Love Is Colder Than Death

This Mortal Coil

Ultravox

XTC

Delerium

Joy Division

Cocteau Twins

London After Midnight



Numavox!
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ira
Re: Favorite band name?
July 31, 2005 10:00PM
Dain Bramage
Dylsexia
Somebody Good
Kathleen Turner Overdrive
Sandy Duncan's Eye
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wilson
Re: Favorite band name?
July 31, 2005 10:35PM
The Scrotum Poles
Death by Milkfloat
Joan of Arse
Nocturnal Emissions
Coming Blood

Favourite song title: "The Idea of Peter North" -- Ex Models
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Floyd Eberhard
Re: Favorite band name?
August 01, 2005 03:58AM
the buzzcocks
!!!
eat
eve's plum
yeah yeah yeahs
...and they will know us by the trail of dead
meat puppets
the the
we've got a fuzzbox and we're gonna use it
southern culture on the skids
violent femmes
the who
x
heartless bastards
the sid presley experience
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Aitch
Re: Favorite band name?
August 01, 2005 04:31AM

John Cougar Concentration Camp

I always thought it would be cool if they did a gig with the Brian Jonestown Massacre purely for marketing reasons.

AND

I Spit On Your Gravy

The Band Who Shot Liberty Valance

(Both of whom share a common member)
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michael baker
Re: Favorite band name?
August 01, 2005 12:20PM
beasts of bourbon
penis fly trap
The Fall
ping pong bitches



Post Edited (08-01-05 10:20)
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cbtaco19
Re: Favorite band name?
August 01, 2005 04:11PM
REO Speedealer (may be the best name of all time)

Thelonious Monster

JFKFC

Buttrumpet

Texass


Favorite Album Title: Thanks, I'll Eat It Here (Lowell George's solo album)
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breno
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August 01, 2005 04:21PM
I've always loved the Teardrop Explodes.

Someday I'd like to track down a copy of the comic it came from. I know it's something the Sub-Mariner yells in an old issue of Daredevil, but I've always wondered what the context was. What was the teardrop, why did it explode, and why did it upset the Sub-Mariner so much when it did?
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michael baker
Re: Favorite band name?
August 01, 2005 07:26PM
don't know the context but comic pal says it's in this issue

[www.tomheroes.com]


have fun on e bay!
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michael baker
Re: Favorite band name?
August 01, 2005 08:01PM
from another friend

"The story follows our heroes teaming up to investigate
a strange teardrop-shaped object appearing in Central
Park - an object that's also attracted the attention of
Namor The Submariner. Misunderstandings lead to our
heroes kicking the crap out of each other until the
teardrop explodes - with hilarious consequences."


Here's the panel:

[screamingsecrets.com]


It doesn't look like Namor yells "The teardrop explodes!",
it looks like it's part of the narrative.
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Paganizer
Re: Favorite band name?
August 02, 2005 12:14AM
Speaking of Henry Miller:
The Cosmodemonic Telegraph Company

and other bands named from comics:
Let's Active
Love and Rockets
My Bloody Valentine (weren't they named from the Simspon's episode?)



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breno
Re: Favorite band name?
August 02, 2005 01:42AM
Was My Bloody Valentine named after a comic? I thought it was a horror B-movie, but i could be wrong.
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michael baker
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August 02, 2005 10:01AM
[www.imdb.com]
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Peter in New Hampshire
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August 01, 2005 09:32PM
The Screaming Blue Messiahs
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breno
Re: Favorite band name?
August 01, 2005 11:30PM
RE: The Teardrop Explodes link

The teardrop and that building in the background, a half naked man holding up a tree while another more timid one has thoughts of God and mommy ....hmmmm....then an explosive climax in the next panel with an exploding of the teardrop, golden fire painting things.....no, there's no subtext happening here, folks. Go about your business.

Now I really have to find that comic. I have to know what the hell was going on there. I'm thinking it's probably better than a Henry Miller novel.



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cbtaco19
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August 02, 2005 02:40PM
Speaking of Screaming Blue Messiahs: I saw them in college, about '87. They were pretty good, very intense and rocking. One of those bands that was very hyped for a few months and then just seemed to evaporate into oblivion.
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Paganizer
Re: Favorite band name?
August 02, 2005 06:48PM
The SBM's WERE pretty good live. Listen to Spencer Blues' (orange, for example) and draw parallels.
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Delvin
Re: Favorite band name?
August 02, 2005 06:55PM
Saw the Messiahs in '87; they were smokin' live.
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Delvin
Re: Favorite band name?
August 04, 2005 11:18PM
Another cool band name, this one from the '90s: Ed's Redeeming Qualities.
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KyDoug
Re: Favorite band name?
August 06, 2005 01:26AM
Speaking of John Cougar Concentration Camp:

I used to work at a record store and one of my friends who worked there told me some poor chap came in on Christmas Eve looking for a present for his girlfriend. The customer was decked out in a cowboy hat & western wear. He picked out a JC Concentration Camp CD and said something to the clerk about how his girlfriend "always liked this singer." My friend, who has a wry sense of humor, kept his mouth shut and sold him the CD. Of course, the CD was back in the used bin first thing on Dec. 26. I would've loved to have been at their house on Christmas morn', though.

Other good band names:
Bitch Magnet
Ted Bundy's Volkswagen & Pontius CoPilot & Veterans of Future Wars
(all 3 in Lexington, KY)
Swollen Colon
Pig Destroyer

Song title: Details on how to get ICEMAN on your license plate-Don Caballero

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Stuart Gardner
Re: Favorite band name?
August 08, 2005 01:10AM
Devo.
There's so much in those two syllables (a contraction of the word devolution). The name speaks of the band's thematic concerns. And I've always loved the fact that it works as a noun, an adjective, etc.
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