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MrFab
Can't-Miss Band Name Formula
August 14, 2023 02:18PM
Musicians! Need a cool band name? Try the ol' "city name/noun" trick:

- London SS
- Berlin Blondes
- Berlin Blackouts
- Dresden Dolls
- New York Dolls
- N.Y.C. Peech Boys
-Bakersfield Boogie Boys
- Hollywood Brats
- Hollywood Vampires
- L.A. Vampires
- L.A. Witch
- Utah Saints
- Tokio Hotel
- Tokyo Police Club
- Detroit Cobras
- Detroit Emeralds

Weirdly enough, the above list almost seems to tell a story..?



Edited 3 time(s). Last edit at 05/30/2024 04:22PM by MrFab.
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zwirnm
Re: Can't-Miss Band Name Formula
August 14, 2023 02:25PM
Need something less decadent and gritty, more wholesome, something more like "Springfield Sisters" or "Des Moines Deacons."
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steevee
Re: Can't-Miss Band Name Formula
August 14, 2023 03:46PM
If Mattel wouldn't sue them, the San Francisco Barbies? Birmingham (Alabama) Rattlesnakes? A competing band from Birmingham, UK?
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breno
Re: Can't-Miss Band Name Formula
August 15, 2023 01:42AM
I don't know that the formula is foolproof. I can't imagine anyone getting too excited over the Scranton Foibles or the Moline Headlines.
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MrFab
Re: Can't-Miss Band Name Formula
August 15, 2023 08:51AM
True. So I guess it has to be a "cool" city, not just any place. And as Delvin pointed out, the wrong noun and you're sounding like a sports team.
Like, "Moscow" seems a natural, but can't think of anyone called The Moscow somethings. Go for it, bands!

Apparently, there really was a band called The Nashville Cats, but it was an informal group of session pros, like The Wrecking Crew. The Loving Spoonful song was about them. (This has been your Fun Fact of The Day.)
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Delvin
Re: Can't-Miss Band Name Formula
August 15, 2023 01:56AM
Too many such band names could easily be confused with sports teams.

That said, I do see a potential show theme ... or at least a block or two of songs. Thanks, Fab!
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MrFab
Re: Can't-Miss Band Name Formula
October 10, 2023 01:06PM
Delvin Wrote:
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> Too many such band names could easily be confused
> with sports teams.

I think that I initially thought that the name of the "LA Nuggets" box set was a reference to some sort of sports team.

Considering how thoroughly the Nuggets dispatched the Lakers these past playoffs, I would welcome an LA Nuggets team.
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ira
Re: Can't-Miss Band Name Formula
August 15, 2023 06:01AM
Detroit Spinners
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Delvin
Re: Can't-Miss Band Name Formula
August 15, 2023 06:20AM
Bay City Rollers
L.A. Guns
The Detroit Wheels

And, kind of the opposite approach ...

Sunny Day Real Estate
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Five*Words
Re: Can't-Miss Band Name Formula
August 15, 2023 04:41PM
Delvin Wrote:
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> And, kind of the opposite approach ...
>
> Sunny Day Real Estate

Architecture in Helsinki
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breno
Re: Can't-Miss Band Name Formula
August 16, 2023 12:49AM
Is it a noun or a verb?

Hanoi Rocks
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Bip
Re: Can't-Miss Band Name Formula
August 15, 2023 08:38AM
Village People
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Rhythm Bounder
Re: Can't-Miss Band Name Formula
August 15, 2023 12:53PM
Boomtown Rats?
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BCE
Re: Can't-Miss Band Name Formula
August 16, 2023 04:19AM
90's band Mary's Danish

The food item, the nationality, or something else?
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Delvin
Re: Can't-Miss Band Name Formula
August 16, 2023 06:58AM
Funny, I've always assumed that the band name refers to the pastry. It never occurred to me to interpret it as "Mary is Danish."
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Michael Toland
Re: Can't-Miss Band Name Formula
August 16, 2023 08:35AM
Same here! But Mary is Danish makes as much sense.
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Five*Words
Re: Can't-Miss Band Name Formula
August 16, 2023 04:01PM
I never heard a note of them, but I think I recall there being a band called “Foxboro Hot Tubs,” that I think had some Green Day connection?

Motor City 5!!!
Leyton Buzzards
Lower East Side Stitches
Salem 66…?
Berlin. Irving Berlin
Saigon Kick (yikes, sorry)
Münchener Freiheit



Edited 5 time(s). Last edit at 08/16/2023 04:24PM by Five*Words.
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Delvin
Re: Can't-Miss Band Name Formula
August 16, 2023 06:59PM
Yeah, Foxboro Hot Tubs basically is Green Day pretending to be the early Kinks. (Which isn't to say their album Stop Drop & Roll!!! isn't worth hearing.)
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MrFab
Re: Can't-Miss Band Name Formula
August 16, 2023 07:01PM
Haha, I was thinking about how there’s so many “Detroit” bands and didn’t even consider the MC5.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 08/16/2023 07:02PM by MrFab.
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DuckRabbit
Re: Can't-Miss Band Name Formula
August 17, 2023 03:39AM
Sleaford Mods
Fontaines D.C. (Dublin City)
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DuckRabbit
Re: Can't-Miss Band Name Formula
August 17, 2023 01:21PM
Waco Brothers
Spandau Ballet
Guadalcanal Diary

Not quite fitting the paramaters:

Roman Holiday
Aztec Camera
Art Ensemble of Chicago
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MrFab
Re: Can't-Miss Band Name Formula
August 22, 2023 09:44AM
I saw a terrible group called Brooklyn Dreams on “American Bandstand” once. Maybe they could share a bill with the New York Dolls, Village People, Lower East Side Stitches, Crown Heights Affair, vintage jazz band The Harlem Hamfats, The Bronx (once they append a noun to their name), and, er, Queens…of the Stoneage?
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Delvin
Re: Can't-Miss Band Name Formula
August 22, 2023 08:04PM
I remember seeing Brooklyn Dreams on The Midnight Special. By that time, they basically were the backup group for Donna Summer. As I recall, though, it was pretty clear to see that the group's singer was Donna's main squeeze. (She married the guy in 1980; they stayed together until her death in 2012.)
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Delvin
Re: Can't-Miss Band Name Formula
August 22, 2023 08:08PM
> Is it a noun or a verb?
>
> Hanoi Rocks

Apparently a verb, judging from the title of their debut album Bangkok Shocks, Saigon Shakes, Hanoi Rocks.
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breno
Re: Can't-Miss Band Name Formula
August 23, 2023 01:59AM
> Apparently a verb, judging from the title of their debut album Bangkok Shocks, Saigon Shakes, Hanoi Rocks.

I dunno. Those could all be nouns. You might spill your Saigon shake while driving over Hanoi rocks if your Bangkok shocks aren't up to snuff.
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Delvin
Re: Can't-Miss Band Name Formula
August 23, 2023 11:19AM
As always, Reno, you're a total badass.
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Five*Words
Re: Can't-Miss Band Name Formula
August 23, 2023 06:44PM
Fab, can you fit the New York Citi Peech Boys in there, too?
And plain old Crown Heights…if they can find a stray noun?



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ira
Re: Can't-Miss Band Name Formula
August 24, 2023 02:04AM
Nyc area bandnames

Hackensack
Ho-Ho-Kus
White Plains
NY Loose
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MrFab
Re: Can't-Miss Band Name Formula
August 24, 2023 06:39AM
Wow, there really is a town in NJ called Ho-Ho-Kus, complete with hyphens and capitalizations.

(Sounds like the answer to: What does an angry Santa Claus say?)
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Five*Words
Re: Can't-Miss Band Name Formula
August 24, 2023 04:28PM
…The band Hopewell was named for their mid-Hudson Valley NY hometown of Hopewell Junction.
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MrFab
Re: Can't-Miss Band Name Formula
October 15, 2023 02:53PM
'80s glam-punks Soho Roses.

They were from London - not the NYC Soho. So, they could play with London SS, Sleaford Mods, and Leyton Buzzards.
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Delvin
Re: Can't-Miss Band Name Formula
October 15, 2023 07:36PM
Did anyone mention Fountains of Wayne?
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MrFab
Re: Can't-Miss Band Name Formula
December 13, 2023 01:48PM
I was going to add Brownsville Station to the list of NYC band names (a la Brownsville, Brooklyn) until I looked em up - they were from Detroit. But as there does not appear to be any place named Brownsville in Michigan, what the heck, let's add em anyway.
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breno
Re: Can't-Miss Band Name Formula
December 13, 2023 04:16PM
I had assumed they were from Texas before I found out they were from Michigan.
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