Band names

[Peregrin Toker]

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.

I know, but adding "thunder" makes the name even weirder.

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

Since Bathory released their first album.

Wtf does "Dimmu Borgir" mean anyone know?

Dimmu Borgir's a geyser in Iceland IIRC. I think it means "Dark castle" in Icelandic.

Some Pink Floyd early names were:
The Abdabs
The Architectural Abdabs
The Megadeaths

So this is where Dave Mustaine got the idea from....

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?

Sorry, as an European I don't know much about American college boys. In Denmark, we have more pedestrian ways of bullying first-year students.

[Lord Pounder]

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?

Oh i played that once. The virsion i played was that the 1st to cum ate the biscuit and the last to cum won a fiver. I finished up last and quit playing while i was winning.

[Setzer]

Does anyone else think "Nerve Staple" should be the name of a heavy metal band? How about "Death Penis"?

[Howedar]

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"

And so it has been since the beginning of time. The quality or lack thereof of the noise in question is immaterial. Your kids will think it blows.

[Sriad]

I'd be impressed if anyone could help me explain the name of this band, Toad the Wet Sprocket.

Its called LSD, my friend.

And i guess Nine Inch Nail was someone bragging about ...........(fill in the blanc)

...That someone had nine penises each an inch long? Dude, that's not something to brag about, it's fuckin' creapy.

[Frank Hipper]

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?

Oh i played that once. The virsion i played was that the 1st to cum ate the biscuit and the last to cum won a fiver. I finished up last and quit playing while i was winning.

BLECCHH! I won't get into a semen ingestion conversation, but on a cookie? NASTY!
Very smart time to stop, Lord Pounder, as well!

[Asst. Asst. Lt. Cmdr. Smi]

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"

And so it has been since the beginning of time. The quality or lack thereof of the noise in question is immaterial. Your kids will think it blows.

It probably has. Parents nowadays don't like rap and nu-metal. Their parents didn't like the Beatles. Theri parents probably didn't like jazz, their parents probably didn't like ragtime, and so on. In fact, I'm sure J.S. Bach listened to one of his children's music and said "Carl, what is that crap?".

[UltraViolence83]

My mom throws a wrench into the "all parents hate their kids' music" crap. Hell, she likes fucking Pantera more than I do! She's also the one who got me into Alice In Chains, while I got her into Nine Inch Nails.

[Peregrin Toker]

Does anyone else think "Nerve Staple" should be the name of a heavy metal band? How about "Death Penis"?

Well, a finnish Black Metal band called Impaled Nazarene once made an album named "Motorpenis."

[Drewcifer]

I'd be impressed if anyone could help me explain the name of this band, Toad the Wet Sprocket.

The phrase comes from a Monty Python skit. Beyond that, I don't remember, so you're on your own

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

Nor are they a band anymore Most of the guys started a new band: Sparta And I will now make you jealous by stating that I saw ATDI at the Bowery Ballroom in NYC, October 2000. They rocked!

And i guess Nine Inch Nail was someone bragging about ...........(fill in the blanc)

I always figured it was a stigmata type reference, and nine inch nails are the biggest you can buy a regular hardware store (they're used to fasten gutters to fascia)

and Woo Hoo! I love google. Just found this great page:

http://www.geocities.com/krnboi78/bandnames.html

which includes these explanations:

10,000 MANIACS - Inspired by an old horror movie called "2000 Maniacs".

LIMP BIZKIT - They asked a friend what they should call their band. He was on speed and just said, "My brain feels like a Limp Biscuit".

NINE INCH NAILS - Trent Reznor thought NIN looked cool when he wrote it down, and this is evidently the length of coffin nails. Some think the nails used to crucify Jesus were nine inches long, but inches were not a unit of measurement back then.

NASHVILLE PUSSY - On Ted Nugent's "Double Live Gonzo" album he dedicates his song "Wang Dang Sweet Poontang" to "All that Nashville Pussy."

MEGADETH - Dave Mustane was inspired by a government pamphlet after getting kicked out of METALLICA. A Mega death is a military term for one million dead people, so World War II was responsible for 80 Mega deaths. MEGADETH is the phonetic spelling for Mega death.

BLINK 182 - They were originally called BLINK, but were forced to change their name because a techno band in Ireland was already called that. 182 are how many times Al Pacino said, "fuck" in the movie Scarface.

and the most fitting, for this thread:

TOAD THE WET SPROCKET - From a Monty Python sketch making fun of silly band names.

There's about a zillion more there, enjoy...

[Peregrin Toker]

Here are some other sources of band names - in this case, black/death metal bands:

BAL-SAGOTH: Short story by Robert E.Howard called The Gods Of Bal-Sagoth. It also sounds like the name of some phoenician weather-god.

BATHORY: Romanian noble house.

CELTIC FROST: I'm not sure, but it might be a reference to cold Scottish winters.

THE DARKEST OF THE HILLSIDE THICKETS: (OK, they play punk not metal - but they still have an odd name) Paragraph in H.P. Lovecraft's short story The Tomb reading "I will speak only of the tomb at the darkest of the hillside thickets." Appropiate name, since this band draws a lot of influence from Lovecraft.

EINHERJER: Old Norse for "ghost warriors".

FALKENBACH: Town in Germany.

FINNTROLL: They're finnish, and the lyrics are about trolls. What else would you call the band?

MAYHEM: Venom song "Mayhem with Mercy." The founder of Mayhem, Öystein "Euronymous" Aarseth was quite a Venom fan.

MYRKSKOG: Norwegian for "Dark forest."

RED WARSZAWA: Danish band playing a style they call "Polish punk", as in Punk from Poland. " The word "Red" denotes the band's Communist political views, and Warszawa is the Danish spelling of Warsaw.

SLOW HORSE: The band's music is really slow-paced. In fact, the band's goal is to be the slowest band in the world.

SODOM: Well.... (oddly enough, there's ANOTHER thrash band which happens to be called Gomorrah. But I don't think they have many connections - Sodom is from Germany while Gomorrah hails from Massachusetts, USA)

THOTH: This obscure metal band is named after the Egyptian god of scribes because one of the members thought it sounded funny if you said it repeatedly and very fast.

THYRFING: Supernatural sword in Scandinavian folklore.

TIAMAT: Babylonian sea goddess.

VINTERSORG: Means "wintersorrow" in Swedish. (and probably also Norwegian and Danish)

VOIVOD: Romanian word for "prince."

ZYKLON: Poisonous gas used in Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp.

[XaLEv]

My mom once called me and asked me to play Rammstein's Engel for her over the phone.