If you had a band, you would call it...
 

Suppose you started a new band, what would you call it:

Let hear what you have.


Videogame Coverband: "Psycho Mantis and the Time Splitters"
Emo band: "Multi-colored Shades of Grey"
Hard Rock: "Conviction Addict"
Indie Rock: "Kite Runner"

That's fucking brilliant, and totally tops the one I thought of last year for a game cover band me and my friends were thinking of forming, "Last Level."

Emo band: Since the dawn of time god has frowned upon us (since the trend nowadays is to make your band name REALLY REALLY LONG)

Metal bands:
Ebola
Sludge
Regurgitate
Jesus Impaler

I would definitely not call it "Vengeance".

There's already a Regurgitate out there, mind you. But it's not like it's all that unique of a word so another Regurgitate wouldn't be too bad.

I would love to name a band I Am... YAKUZA!!!. It'd probably be one of those "scene bands" that play jazz chords and scream incoherently and make 30-second songs filled with 25 different riffs and drumming patterns. Something like Daughters or As the Sun Sets, probably. Or even a screamo (as in pg.99 screamo, not From First to Last "screamo") band.

I'd probably name a dance-punk band hi-fidelity! lo-fidelity! infidelity!. It just wouldn't work if it was any other type of band. At least I don't think so.

Shit... If by some miracle of the cosmos and dimensions aligned in such a way that I had musical talent and I had a quasi-successful indie rock band I would call it "Suspending Sunrise".

If we were a Spanish rock band I'd either name it "El Aparato de Juan" or "La Ciudad de La Furia" (This one isn't really original; it's my favorite song by Soda Stereo)

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Speaking of which... Did you guys ever come up with a name for your band?

"Easier Said Than Done" I even made T-shirts T_T

My band would be called Chocolate Mariachi. Not because it has anything to do with mariachi music but because it sounds cool. We'd probably play some obscure fusion of like ten different genres like jazz/hiphop/tango/flamenco and all play weird instruments while dancing in tap shoes.

We would occasionally cover classic songs but arrange them extremely atypically; for example perform a bossa nova rendition of Led Zeppelin's When the Levee Breaks, complete with lyrics translated into Portuguese.

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Also then we'd probably play a blues-rock rendition of Aguas De Marco just to make up for it.

Which "you guys" are you talking about? The band project with a few friends of mine didn't really get off the ground (they say "shit happens", but "shit" also "doesn't happen"... if you get what I mean) but I've been planning on getting some sort of band together soon with cousins and a friend of mine. That doesn't have a name yet. I would so love to name that band I Am... YAKUZA!!!

This would actually be a cover of a song by Memphis Minnie, as Zeppelin's version was also a cover.

As for naming a band, I'd probably go with some obscure musical reference. I'm not really a very creative person, to be honest.

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Ok, I'm game to this:

Videogame Coverband:
Calamity from the Skies - I seriously would have my band named that if I ever did a cover band
WedNESday - Its a triple pun!

Emo band:
Four Before Six - Sounds like something typical
/b/ Not only does it have hilarity, it can also be pronounced "Slash Be Slash"
A Blind Looking-glass - Sup Alice?
The Meaningless Days - Cuz some days are pretty damm meaningless

Hard Rock/Metal:
Bish - A combination of a Bowl and a Dish.
Ix Chel - Sounded cool.
Dynamic Bass Attack! - Sounds better if you pronounce Bass as "bASS" instead of "Base"
The Devil Hanzo - Hittori would be honored.

I could only think of several names for imaginary bands I would like to be in:

Assorted Foreign Currency would be the "indie" band I suppose. I don't know what sort of music would come out of it.

Epimetheus would be best suited for a classical ensemble.

The Oldies would be a cover band for music that was once popular in the 1950s and 1960s, sometimes taking liberties with the established songs and giving them a new interpretation.

weNESday, teehee

Manshaft Armada

Hair metal revivalists.

wtf, don't you abandon the other founding member of the armada! \m/

Schizophrenic Chainsaw Squad. A metal band that explores many musical genres. Basically just so we can get away with playing anything.

i've always thought that something better would be a pretty rad name for a band.

Too bad it wasn't cool until Led Zeppelin did it.

I'd name my Radiohead-esque band Outer Heaven any time of the day!

See, that's too obvious. What you need to do is create a bubblegum-pop band and call them that. Go for the juxtaposition, it makes you seem artsy!

'Band'

"The Lords of Hi-Fi"

Orgies in the Vatican

One of my friends was looking for a band name many years ago, and it satisfied her requirement for offending a religious group and people in general. And it really happened! =0

I suppose Borgia would also work, but that sounds more like a metal band. Or Vierge Noires ('Black Virgins' -- French term for the black Virgin Mary statues and paintings of Europe).

I'm not sure what type of band to call it, but I would name a band

Avenue of Oblivion
The Anaesthetics(me and my friend actually called ourselves this...)

For Spanish Rock
Mugre

Either I'm going for a short or a long one here. I'm moreso aiming at the type of Aphex Twin solo work type stuff than anything else, as I doubt a band would want these awful names/song names:

· Pink Bunny Fights The Devil on Crowded Transit Bus - makes for a weird image
· Emo Scorpion Fights The Archangels On City Metro - ditto
· Planet Heart-sterpiece .vs. The Chaos/Order Metro!! - do what you will with this
· Planet Heartstepiece Between The Chaos Empire And The Clockwork Sky - this one too
· Xexxhoshi S. Omega - The one I'll mostly end up with, the above ones will probably be song names. PRonounced "Kseh-koh-shi". "S." = cool initial that no-one knows what it means. Omega = end of worls and all that.
· Gravitorbox - stole it off an ecco 2 level. It sounds cool.
· Ignite! - BANG BANG

I have about 20 or so of these names in reserve for songs I guess.

In the end I want a sorta name that could mean many things and ideas, so it'd have to be an ambigious name.

Emo: Green-Stain'd Funeral For My Chemical Valentine Against The Mudvaynescence

Anything else: Tonewaves sounds cool.

Subatomic Ninja Space Pirates or maybe Scorpion Death Kill

Emo bands:

xTotalSorrowx
As I Lay in a Dark Corner Weeping Softly and Pooping on Myself

I've always wanted to name a band The Foreskins.

Go home ladies and gentlemen! We have a winner!

Obviously, it would have to be a rock band. Such a band allows me the ability to have the craziest name possible and no one really care about it. The process would simply be to take two words and put them together, possibly adding a preposition where needed. I will now ramble off names. Chocolate Toothbrush. Molten Lawn. Latte of Doom. Tsunami Fighters. Wax Skyscraper. Waves of Insanity. Furry Cucumber. Destructive Volleyballs.

Out of all of the ones I just thought of, I'll pick Latte of Doom. That sounds fun.

I always thought 'Grumpy Crampers' would be a good name for a punk band.

Power metal or spacey prog: Timelord. Could I -be- more dorky?!

I didn't come up with this, but my friends named their rock band The Winston Brigby Pop Experiment. I think it's a neat name.

A pop rock band called 145

The Blowholes, a Pete and Pete tribute band with a screen behind us constantly playing episodes

or maybe... Teddy Roosevelt and the Time Travelling Badasses!

It would be called Zanarkand. The band would be all about the joys of gaming and include many references to gaming culture in every song. The first album would have to be titled Play It Loud. The tracklisting would refer each song as 'level'.

Play It Loud.
- Level (read: song) 1. Loading screen.
A soft instrumental introduction to set up the mood and prepare the listener for the rest of the album. It would probably incorporate sound effects from the 8 bit generation (if it can be made without sounding cheesy).

- Level 2. The Sending.
A dance song with touching lyrics about not being able to let go.

- Level 3. Las Plagas.
Fast paced song about false friends who are around you just because of the benefits. Awesome guitar riff right in the middle!

- Level 4. Emerald Hill.
A song about having great riches at one point in life and then losing everything. It would have a calm 80s pop sound to it, representing the acceptance of that fact and being in a point where moving on can be achieved.

- Level 5. At Doom's Gate.
The music does a 360 with this haunting song about running out of ammo while battling demons on the moons of Mars. It must be a metaphor for something?

- Level 6. Feel The Magic..
A catchy electronic song without lyrics, a transitional track with a similar purpose to Loading Screen.

- Level 7. Gray Fox.
This song about saying goodbye to old friends ends the album.

It's gonna be a hit! Somebody design the cover artwork :doggy:

The Flying Buttresses.

I've always wanted to make a band just so I could use that name.

As I Slice my Wrisits would be a nice goth band name. Vaginal Discharge; that's good for anything. Urethra Bandits; perhaps some punk band. I personally would name my band Single Action Army, but I have a nagging feeling that it's already taken.

I've thought this one over...

Han Valen

I've always thought FYI was a good name, and the name of the band that I've created with my brothers is Four Minute Mile, credit given to my friend Taylor.

<3!

ever since art history last year, I have for some reason found the term flying buttresses absolutely hilarious.



as for me, I found a random name generator a long time ago. it asked a whole bunch of questions and gave you a whole bunch of names, one that included a band name. for me, I got The Happy Lipgloss and I like it, so if ever I was silly enough to be in a band, I'd like it to be called that.

can't seem to find it, but this one doesn't take too much effort. I got The BBQ Police out of that one. hay brent wanna be in my band. :rock:

When I think about band names there´s always "Ray´s Apartment" that I have stored somewhere in the back of my mind for a retro cheesy-as-fuck prog-rock style band. I have no idea why, but I think it´s kind of neat.

The band would have albums with pretentious song titles like "1st Floor: Rays Of Devastating Light Destroy Before Sunrise" and have loads of Marillion-esque keyboard sounds.

And a singer with a unlikely high voice as well.

Another name that I thought of was "Aitia", which I love because it´s a palindrome. It´s greek and means something like "reason". I even tried to start a band with that name, unfortunately it was a dead-end from the second the project started :/
Someday it will work!

i hope..

My band's name was Shopping for Fish, but now we're called Blizzard Eagle. I like both.

We're called iacon

For those who haven't heard the word before, its the name of the capital city of the Transformers' homeworld.

woot for semi-obscure 80s pop culture reference.

My last band has gone through plenty of changes regarding names, lol.
We used to call ourselves Paradox, but we found out that there was already an Irish rock band with that name. Then it went to Systalis(cross between System and Crysalis).
Now, I'm on a solo music project under the alias of Chaokaze(Chaos, drop the "s", then add "kaze", the Japanese word for wind.)

If I ever get back in a band, I'd like it to be called Former Dividing Line.

Cocks in the Abyss

Could be Depeche Mode, could be In Flames. The possibilities are endless!

As "Team Laser Explosion" seems to already have been taken, I'm all out of suggestions.

I Eyed Lolita. it of course would be techno >:3
i did have a band once. we never really got it together, so we seperated real fast. it was emo..i can't exactly remember the name but I wanna say The Monostones.

It would have to be 'She Adores My Cock!', or SAMC for short.