All The Good Band Names Are Taken
 

:( .

I love those guys!

All the bad band names are taken, too.

Iknow, but every once in a while somebody starts a thread about "cool names for a band" ....and many of those names are awesome, funny, or gross.

Post Traumatic Sex I thought would make a good band name, but no band mates I've brought it up to have ever liked it.

Dick Shivers

i dunno. a lot of the bands i hear on myspace seem to have put more time into finding a catchy name than they have writing a catchy song.

I like Teeth Orgasm.

yeah, like circle jerks

I come up with great band names all the time. It's quite simple actually.

you're so cool, Adam. you do everything better.

Um, okay. If you say so. I'm actually not very good at a lot of things, but I'll take your word for it. And while I appreciate your sarcasm, I really am not condescending, egotistical, or delusional in the least, I'm just honest...

..and anyway, this isn't something that takes any talent or skill -- a monkey can (and has) put words together. There's, what, 50 BILLION words, at least? So, what is that -- literally, an infinite number of combinations for those 50,000,000,000+ words?...

The trick is to come up with band names that can be searched on google to ONLY bring up your band's name. When I came up with "Scissor Shock" and "RUINHORSE"... well, look... nothing comes up except things related to those bands. As for Robe., a bunch of bullshit (usually related to WoW) comes up in google, but I made sure and added the period at the end to make it more distinct and important-sounding.

The only problem with that is you can have some alright tunes and come up with a band name bygrayvpartynmyrytarm, which is a terrible, terrible name of a good friend's very new band.

that name is so brilliant!

band names are hard... they have to stand for nothing and everything at the same time.

My sentiments exactly.

I can't even bring up the names I've been debating, for fear that they will be snatched and gobbled up by you name-hungry babarians!!

I think the best band names are the ones that really accent the tone of the band itself. I also like when it's embarrassingly simple that you kick yourself for not thinking of it first.

Lightning Bolt comes to mind, that name captures the band's tone perfectly and has just a good sound to it.

I have/had/will have again a band called Meat Maggot. Sometimes people will call it Maggot Meat, which is an equally acceptable name. We have only one song, it's never been recorded, never will be recorded, will never have a name. And we'll probably play once every three years. I think that's a pretty good band name.

My best band name was Prick Jagger.

To me their name suggest a scandinave death metal band, with epic solo, lots of make up, satanic imagery etc.

I agree, I feel I lucked out with our band name for that reason.

The Harlequins.

So many definitions but the main and most associated one refers to the comic relief, the nihilistic clowns in old italian theatre that really served no purpose except to entertain.

But then you have harlequin baby syndrom, some fucked up disease and that style works more for offesive art and then also harlequin romance novels and etc.


So all in one name you have something upbeat, something downbeat and something in between and really they all have nothing to do with what we sound lke or are about...



side note: Scissor Shock & Ruinhorse are both excellent band names adam! They flow

The Harlequins is pretty cool dude.

my band's name is Parallel Mirrors.

1) Google searches don't influence the fact that a band name might be original yet not very good.
2) So many of those billions of words don't stick well together when combined, so the infinite possibilities theory is a debatable thing.

A band's name doesn't really make the band, anyway. Nirvana didn't have an original name, Sonic Youth don't have a good one (personal opinion) etc.

Google indicates that Anti-Climacus hasn't been taken.

If anyone wants to form an apocalyptic folk, I think that might work.

^^^ can I play tambourine and write doom-flavored lyrics?

Neither of those are good names. I don't want to be a cunt, so I'm saying this in the context that Sonic Youth is one of the worst names I can think of. My only real rule of band names is that any band featuring the word 'jazz' in their name is automatically shit, regardless of the quality of the music.

Animals that generally make shit band names include bears, cats, dogs.
Skating on thin ice: horses, giraffes, tigers.

Yes. Great one.

Wolf being too shit to even include in a list of shit animals, presumably?

Yes, wolves are shit when it comes to band names. Take Wolf Eyes. Wolves have shit eyes and they're passive-aggressive cunts. Or Aids Wolf, for example. Aids Squirrels sounds better.

My band's name is Poliomyelitis Me Over In The Clover

I like the idea of a band name beginning with 'The'. There's a certain sobriety to it. Mostly though I like band names that feel like almost no thought has gone into it. Off the top of my head, The Envelopes is a good solid name for a group.

Mine's Jesus and Mary's Mother's Temple. Our albums include ''Confusion is Rob(e).''.

have you ever seen the list of bands in the Illuminatus Trilogy by Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson?


damn

Fuck man... it ain't easy. I don't mind Sonic Youth though.

I dunno about all that wolf talk in band names. But Wolfsblood is a great song title.

My next movie is going to be called THE OPPOSITE OF HEAVEN IS EARTH.

I like "Buster Hyman"

I prefer single word or long phrase band names. not so much in between.

i prefer The Mosquitoes than The Beatles.

My favorite bandnames are:

The Boredoms (best 'the' bandname ever I think)
Slint
Fear
Meat Puppets
Man or Astroman?
Deerhoof
Black Flag
oh, and Butthole Surfers

The Dung Beatles