Band names

Montcalm · Post by **Montcalm** » 2003-06-14 11:54pm

Well here`s a few names we know where they came from.

B52
U2
Foo Fighter

Peregrin Toker · Post by **Peregrin Toker** » 2003-06-15 02:24am

Due to my knowledge of underground music, I know some really weird band names..... such as:

Alabama Thunderpussy (I'm not joking, there IS a band called this!)
Are You God?
At The Drive-In
Beaten Back To Pure
Black Tape For A Blue Girl
By The Grace Of God
The Darkest Of The Hillside Thickets
Electric Frankenstein
Fields Of The Nephilim
Flying Testicle
I Mother Earth
Jesus Lizard
Jughead's Revenge
Kid With A Man's Head
My Life With The Thrill Kill Cult
Pig Destroyer
Slow Horse
Thee Michelle Gun Elephant
They Might Be Giants

(I must confess - of all these bands, I have only listened to The Darkest Of The Hillside Thickets and Slow Horse)

And when you think of it, "Limp Bizkit" is quite odd a name for a band. Why would anyone want to call their band THAT??

Frank Hipper · Post by **Frank Hipper** » 2003-06-15 02:32am

Alabama Thunderpussy has some seriously funny shit. Check 'em out.

There was a band called Vaginal Blood Fart, I just saw them mentioned at a site I was surfing, but still. Bravo!

The bands I've been in were called Bigger Than Jesus, Five Speed Rubber Monkey, Deep Floyd, Six Cents, and Snatch Ratchet, BTW.

SyntaxVorlon · Post by **SyntaxVorlon** » 2003-06-15 02:41am

I'm sure good band names come up in normal conversation, read Dave Barry articles.

Lord Pounder · Post by **Lord Pounder** » 2003-06-15 09:57am

POD is an abreviation of Payable On Death. Weird rasta christian rock what do you expect.

Post by **Vympel** » 2003-06-15 10:00am

The Electric Shoes.

XaLEv · Post by **XaLEv** » 2003-06-15 10:09am

Anal Cunt
Mr. Bungle

Peregrin Toker · Post by **Peregrin Toker** » 2003-06-15 10:44am

Frank Hipper wrote:Alabama Thunderpussy has some seriously funny shit. Check 'em out.

Aren't they some sort of groovy stoner band??

There was a band called Vaginal Blood Fart, I just saw them mentioned at a site I was surfing, but still. Bravo!

Let me guess - they play Death Metal??

SyntaxVorlon wrote:I'm sure good band names come up in normal conversation, read Dave Barry articles.

Good names for metal bands can also be derived from PETA ad campaigns. For example, they once called Burger King "Murder King" - and is there any better name for a metal band than "Murder King"??

Rye · Post by **Rye** » 2003-06-15 11:35am

XaLEv wrote:Anal Cunt
Mr. Bungle

Dern...i was gunna say them....bizarre

Lord Pounder · Post by **Lord Pounder** » 2003-06-15 05:27pm

A few friends an I where gonna start a band. Our name was gonna be Visceral Responce. While we had, IMHO, a kick ass name we where shit, i can't sing and my lungs aren't powerful enough to roar 3 minutes solid, and the other guys where crap except the drumer.

Montcalm · Post by **Montcalm** » 2003-06-15 05:30pm

Lord Pounder wrote:A few friends an I where gonna start a band. Our name was gonna be Visceral Responce. While we had, IMHO, a kick ass name we where shit, i can't sing and my lungs aren't powerful enough to roar 3 minutes solid, and the other guys where crap except the drumer.

Go for it anyway you can`t be worste than all those talentless jerk who succeed,like Marylin Manson or Rob Zombie.

Lord Pounder · Post by **Lord Pounder** » 2003-06-15 05:37pm

Hey! i actually like Marilyn Manson. Rod Zombie is ok but only for Dragula.

Montcalm · Post by **Montcalm** » 2003-06-15 05:40pm

Lord Pounder wrote:Hey! i actually like Marilyn Manson. Rod Zombie is ok but only for Dragula.

In 20 years your kids will say "Dad your choice in music suck"

aphexmonster · Post by **aphexmonster** » 2003-06-15 05:46pm

Frank Hipper wrote:
UltraViolence83 wrote:
Frank Hipper wrote:Mick Fleetwood has a little something to do with it.

How about Pink Floyd? I know, anybody else?
Umm...I think it's the name of a janitor or someone they used to see all the time.
Uh, nosir.

Syd Barret, the original guitarist, had two records by Georgia bluesmen, one was Pink Anderson and the other was Floyd Council.

Syd was the original lead singer....

and i think they should of named the band " The anderson Council Experiance "

aphexmonster · Post by **aphexmonster** » 2003-06-15 05:50pm

Montcalm wrote:
Lord Pounder wrote:A few friends an I where gonna start a band. Our name was gonna be Visceral Responce. While we had, IMHO, a kick ass name we where shit, i can't sing and my lungs aren't powerful enough to roar 3 minutes solid, and the other guys where crap except the drumer.
Go for it anyway you can`t be worste than all those talentless jerk who succeed,like Marylin Manson or Rob Zombie.

Rob zombie was hella bad ass when he was with White Zombie... those guys had hella tallent. Marilyn Manson also should be credited for more than being a talentless jerk. any person who can command such a relentless following has to be doing something right, obviously some kind of tallent.

... and at the drive in is not underground anymore

Montcalm · Post by **Montcalm** » 2003-06-15 05:55pm

Where is the time when people appreciated singer who could sing without screaming in or eating the microphone.

aphexmonster · Post by **aphexmonster** » 2003-06-15 06:11pm

Montcalm wrote:Where is the time when people appreciated singer who could sing without screaming in or eating the microphone.

I still enjoy a singer who can sing ... its just sometimes i appreciate variety... its the spice of life, and i would rather not confine myself to a specific quota of anything ... especially not singers.

Montcalm · Post by **Montcalm** » 2003-06-15 06:20pm

I appreciate variety too but i want to understand what they`re saying.
Here is a list of what l i like.
Elvis Presley
The Beatles
The Rolling Stones
KISS
Village People
Chicago
Pat Benetar
Starship
Twisted Sister
Beasty Boys
New Kids on the block
Backstreet Boys
Alice Cooper

Death from the Sea · Post by **Death from the Sea** » 2003-06-15 06:41pm

aphexmonster wrote:Keep
it
simple
stupid...

Damn someone beat me to it....

Rye · Post by **Rye** » 2003-06-15 08:54pm

Lord Pounder wrote:Hey! i actually like Marilyn Manson. Rod Zombie is ok but only for Dragula.

Rob Zombie is great! "Feel So Numb" and "superbeast" and "iron head" are all my songs of the moment they're that good.

Wtf does "Dimmu Borgir" mean anyone know?

UltraViolence83 · Post by **UltraViolence83** » 2003-06-15 11:52pm

I like the name Down. When I first got into them I kept repeating "Down, Down, Down" all the time.

I'm in an aspiring (read: we don't have a clue what we're doing just yet) band with my brothers called "Lynchpin." So far we've got a sucky vocalist (me. I sound like Marilyn Manson with a head cold.), a clueless guitarist and a lazy bassist along with acoustic and electric guitars and a bass guitar. I though of some other names like "Born Again," "Machine Terrorist," "An Aborted Prodigy," "Locust," "Overmind," and "Hate American Style."

Yeah I put a good amount of thought into naming...I got "lynchpin" from a Fear Factory single I saw at Hot Topic and then changed the spelling. I think there's a serious impact on popularity with what a band's name is. Hell, Hootie And The Blowfish wouldn't be anywhere without their name.

I'm thinking of the band being a combination of hard rock/metal and industrial/dark electronic. Think late Alice In Chains meets early to mid Nine Inch Nails! I'll expect Frank Hipper to be looking out for us in the underground scene 5 years from now.

Frank Hipper · Post by **Frank Hipper** » 2003-06-16 12:15am

aphexmonster wrote:Syd was the original lead singer....

Yes. But Richard Wright was also singing at that time, with Roger Waters not too far behind. Richard Wright also was the only one back then to actually be writing songs other than Syd. And Syd was the only guitarist until David Gilmore joined in '68, almost two years after their formation. So he was their first guitarist, as well as singer.

Some Pink Floyd early names were:
The Abdabs
The Architectural Abdabs
The Megadeaths
There were one or two more, I think. And technically, they're The Pink Floyd. At least they were in the early days. Dunno when they dropped it.

Post by **Gandalf** » 2003-06-16 01:44am

aphexmonster wrote: anybody remember PUSA ?

Aye, the Presidents of the USA.

Hootie and the Blowfish is a damn confusing one.

Stampede · Post by **Stampede** » 2003-06-16 02:39am

Simon H.Johansen wrote:Due to my knowledge of underground music, I know some really weird band names..... such as:

Alabama Thunderpussy (I'm not joking, there IS a band called this!)

there's a band called Nashville Pussy also.

InnerBrat · Post by **InnerBrat** » 2003-06-16 04:00am

Simon H.Johansen wrote:And when you think of it, "Limp Bizkit" is quite odd a name for a band. Why would anyone want to call their band THAT??

I don't know whether you were asking for a meaning, but in the UK, 'soggy biscuit' is a game played in all boys schools as some sort on initiation right. you all stand around the biscuit. Cover it with 'cream' - thus making it soggy - and make some poor hapless first year eat it.
It sound slike the kind of thing American frats would do, so maybe it's called Limp Biscuit over there, misspelt because it's cool, dontcha know?