(Austin) Band Name Ideas

Band names used to make sense--they embodied some concept or ideal. Now they're so abstract, or arbitrary. I mean, what about Coldplay or Matchbox 20? See, back in the day, the latter would've been formed by a group of 20 guys who grew up together playing with their Matchbox cars. Now I don't know what the hell it means.

jym danyls would be a good name ( he was my sadistic phys.ed. coach) also, something with the word 'horde' in it... i dunno, i think band names are actually cooler now than they used to be (though i must confess i thought matchbox 20 was comprised of twenty guys who grew up together playing with matchbox cars)...

Love Hungry Mountain Gals. I like that.

yeah but it would just get abbreviated since we are too damned busy these days--lhmg? no....probably just "the gals" i thought matchbox 20 had to do with the cars too.....

LOL...ok, maybe the cars make sense. Bad example. Let's go with Coldplay, Everclear, and a whole horde of others. I can't even remember their names because they don't make any sense! I think the best new band names should borrow some of our Word Disassociation words, frankly. Just randomly pair two of them together, like Chipotle Hotbed.

horde.... heh, heh... (beavis moment... don't ask) *L, yeah, autumm, I was coming on to say just that... like, a name lottery, y'know? pick numbers-- say, 342, and 561, and combine that for a name.... (hmm... gonna look that up, i think...) Chipotle Hotbed? Was that just off the top of your head? Damn.... That's a good name... they can be one of those hybrid bands, like... a mariachi-metal-jazz fusion.... Coldplay's just a pretty sucky name. It doesn't mean anything- just bland and vague. And anything with numbers, really, (sum 41's just boring) there are so many lame ones out there. I just think, if you're gonna be obscure- go all the way, y'know? have some fun with it... But, if the rule was- having a band name that makes sense, describes it's members and is literal- then there is a band I just read about recently that wins the prize. It was in the austin chronicle and they were called "Big Hairy Dudes From Kentucky". and they had a picture-- lead guitarist i think-- and he really was big, and hairy, and they're all really from Kentucky! I'm fixing to clip the article and paste it here, once I figure out how to. Wolf's right about the abbrev. tendency-- in that same article they referred to them as BHDFK. And the band called "I love you but I've chosen Darkness" is most often referred to as just "The Darkness" or "Darkness". Hmm... one can have some fun with that... like, have a name that when abbreviated read something else... heh... i just thought... uh, nevermind. jeez- I'm so juvenile... Along with thinking up the names, I like to imagine the band itself... Like what kind of music would a band like... "The Spasmodic Horde" play? And what would their lead singer look like... Or maybe something hipper, more artsy, like "Nouveau Gauche". They'd all wear black turtlenecks and leather pants and they'll have an androgynous harpsichord player named "Franz". Love Hungry Mountain Gals, though, was actually from a preview for an Elvis movie. It was running on Turner Classic Movies, and the premise of the movie was Elvis and his hillbilly mountain twin, or cousin, or something, and the hordes of lusty mountain babes that inhabited the village. ... oh hey- I just remembered the name: Kissin Cousins.... Kissin Cousins. hmm.... that might be good...

(342, 561, just for kicks--) Transuranic Courtyard. (ehhh... hmm... i don't know...)

Hybrid Fruit! yeah! dig it...

this screwed forum is a bubbling vat of inspiration! "Bulimic Cannibals" although it's not very p.c....

I do like a band whose name tells you something about their music. Like the Dixie Chicks--you know it's all girls singing something with a twang. Same with the Big Hairy KY Dudes. Probably pure bluegrass sung by mountain men in flannel shirts. Nouveau Gauche sounds pop/new wave, like Depeche Mode. Spasmodic Horde sounds like latino guys that wear their pants down around their thighs with their underwear hanging out. Hybrid fruit sounds like gays in drag singing pop music, sort of a reinvented Village People. Bulimic Cannibals conjures up too much of a visual to be a mainstream name; I just picture a guy throwing up someone's toe or something.

Yeah, well...I have an answer to a July 1998 post from wolf. (a bit late, I know, but I just came across it.) According to a book of selected E. E. Cummings poems edited by Richard S. Kennedy, "somewhere i have never travelled" was a tribute to Anne Barton, Cummings' second wife.

thanks

bubbling bulimics bulimics on dope paunchy balding and a little pissed-off bulimic horde bulimic love-monkeys bulimic balding and a little pissed-off love me love my bulimia love-hungry bulimics bulimic latino guys with their underwear hanging out

LOL, Nick! paunchy balding and a little pissed-off: I think this is the name of Simon & Garfunkel's reunion tour...

*L.... ".. and a little pissed off" they're paunchy, balding but EDGY! Grrr... oh, just to note- I was wrong about that band called Big Hairy Dudes From Kentucky. They're actually called "My Morning Jacket". The article called them that, and even abbreviated the name.... *shrug... I dunno, I think they'd be better off with "Big Hairy Dudes...", I mean, what's "My Morning Jacket" supposed to mean? It's very -yawn- very unmemorable. The journalist writing the article has better sense.

*LAUGH* this whole thing is crackin' me up!! like the big hairy dudes bandname--my morning jacket? ok, how'd you get those two mixed up? oh, and as to posts 11 & 12, thanks for posting my response jonquil flower--eventually i would've read it and thanked you personally. so, thank you! the spasmatic horde would always be a new gig since they're spasmatic, you never know what might come out of them!! how about a one-hit-wonder!! bulimic love-monkeys!! *LOL*

i thought we saw a big hairy dudes video on austin music... (almost sure we did)... spastic cannibals spastic monkey-love simian horde simian nation simian rice 10,000 bulimiacs

BIG HAIRY DUDES FROM KENTUCKY article i think this is how..... hope this works...

Just your everyday music listings for a local club here in Austin there's a band playing there, i think next week called "Crippled Bastards". Nick just suggested: "Spastic Bastards" some more: Crack Bastards Dainty Bastards Bulimic Bastards (??) Ballyhoo's Yo' Daddy Bovine Romeos The Burning Sensations Redneck Neurotics Redneck Crackheads The Reluctant Rednecks Daughters Of Redneck Klepto's Delusional Overachieving Rabid Kleptos (what else starts with a "K"?) Vegan Rednecks on Speed

Reluctant Rednecks! *LOL*

sensitive bastards vegan bastards vegans with bad attitudes vegans with bad haircuts (probably too, i dunno, true) vegans with bulimia vegans with fair posture (alt.- the sporadically erect) prissy vegan poseurs prissy vegans on crack vegans who smell like brussel sprouts the spastic poseur horde (i really like that one) spastic bowel syndrome

eeyuw... i told you- that last one's just seriously gross... Here are some real live bands with interesting names- -The String Cheese Incident -Dead Kennedys -The Sex Pistols -The Kinks -Grand Funk Railroad -The Who -Alice in Chains -The New Pornographers -All American Rejects -Lynrd Skynrd -Oingo Boingo there's also a band hereabouts- "Cobo Foofaroo". i'm not sure i like the name, but it's weird enough to make the list. hmmm.... i know there's more- i'll have to think about it... more ideas: -The Bad Eggs -Bored Senseless -The Yoga Killers -The Low Level Rebels (rip-off a line from a "The Odds" song- canadian band...) -We're Not Funny, We're Sick -The Holey Leotards -Patchouli Stank -Renegade Vegans -Drunken Monkeys -Leatherettes (actually, i think this is an actual band) -The Disgruntled -Vegan Rednecks -Foible Schmoibles -The Scallywags -The Waifs -Snooty Poodles -Chewy Nougat

Vegans Who Smell Like Brussel Sprouts... !!??!! (delayed reaction...) (L!)

Qkumba Zoo (S. African band)-got their name whilst boredly whittling animals out of cucumbers.... those band name ideas---spastic bowel syndrome holy leotards??? *LAUGH*

"Cucumber Dingos" ehh.... *shrug. interesting name.... is that pronounced "Kyuu Koomba?" or maybe "Kuh Koomba". Ah well. some others-- Siouxsee(sp?) and the Banshees The Cramps (local band, i think) The Yeah Yeah Yeah's ....

basically the letter Q and comebah the cramps? no wonder folks use their first names (either that or they're really vain)

actually, i think they were referring to a specifically female problem.. in the zoo/animal vein (real bands) - A Tiger Named Lovesick - Pedro The Lion - Kid Koala some other (fictional names) - A Vegan Named Eunice - A Vegan Named Bulimic - The Stomach Disorders - Three Boys Named Tad - Malodorous Megadorks - Affection Deprived CEO's - The Repressed Belles of St. Mary's - Blonde Bastards - The Histrionics

(found this on word dissociation, posted by Stacey) - Great Green Globs of Mutilated Monkey Meat (now THAT's a great name)

Actually, Paula, that's a song! Geez, weren't you ever a girl scout?! LOL

Good band name. When's your next gig?

autumn, i remember that ditty but it's a bit different version (i think...) piles and piles of greasy grimy gopher guts, mutilated monkey meat, chopped up baby parakeet.....*laugh*

Yes!! We know Wolfie's logged some hours around the campfire! (*wink*)

sick bastards, those girls scouts.... heh... actually, no, i never had the privilege. how does it go? i'm really curious... does it rhyme? what's the tune? i know several versions of the "Comet" song... ("...it tastes like gasoline, COMET! la da da COMET...) i wish i DID play an intrument, and really was in band... then i could answer terry and say "We're playing our next gig at emo's" and then i'd get to say other cool things like "our bass player is passed out in a pool of her own puke in the tiki lounge" or... "Love Hungry Mountain Gal's artistic ambition is to unite the world with the power of punk" or... "Check, check, 1-- 2-- 3-- check, check, is this mike on?" *sigh... rock stars have all the fun.....

- The Tiki Lounge Cats (grass skirt wearing, coconut bra sporting, Vegas show tune crooners. On the bongos: Lucille, hepcat stand up bass: Bernadette, swinging voval vixen: Alma, and ukelele picker: Dolores) - Ultra Gangrenous Horde, or UGH. umm.... experimental industrial noise band. Rocco, Basher, and Gunther. - Bad Girl Scouts Living on the Edge (what's the girl scouts motto? is it "Be prepared"? or is that just for the boys scouts.... and what are Brownies? are they the same thing?)

it's been soooo long since i was a girlscout-all i remember is making these plastic woven cushions with newspaper between and walking a brownie over the bridge into girlscoutdom *LAUGH* don't remember the motto-isn't that sad-i've got a sash full of badges too!! boy scouts are "be prepared" (you can see where my priorities are-oops-were!!)

i wish i could sing so i could be in a band--at least look good enough to be in a band...damn, all i can do is maybe set up the stage or something...or the ticket taker..... i like band names using some obscure character in a classic novel...makes you wonder if they can really read or not...

i dunno, i think gangrenous horde sort of says it all... ultra gangrenous horde would just be overkill... swinging voval vixen works

Ahem--that was a "situpon" you made, Wolfie! Is it terribly pathetic that I still have mine? Wait, don't answer that. I think the GS motto is "Buy our cookies." A Brownie is a girl scout in grades 1-3. And yes, there are many songs...

yeah-a situpon, you REMEMBER that? i do remember that mine was aqua plastic but don't know where the thing went. we sat upon it during our meets. did GS in the 4th grade and was given a new badge for the beret--the one with the green/red/white ruffly thing around the GS logo--can't remember what it was for. does GS go into high school like the boy scouts turning into eagle scouts?

What are you talking about? No idea.

Yup, GS in high school are Seniors. My daughter (6th grade) is a Cadette. Don't know what the aforementioned ruffly thing is, though.

i saw an old girl scout uniform at the thrift store. it looked cute, and i really wanted it, but i thought maybe it was a little strange to wear around... i had this idea that maybe i could wear it for halloween, all smeared and bloodied up- y'know, girl-scout-attacked-by-bear or something-- but then i figured that might just be too dark or scary for the trick or treaters... we had quite a few of them too, more than we expected-- had the stereo blaring halloween noises through the window, and spiderwebs, and a stuffed pumpkin man, and a skeleton.... watched old horror movies, ate schlotskies sandwiches and candy.... *sigh... and now its all over.... *sigh... now theres thanksgiving and christmas.... already feel the shopping-cooking-stress anxiety coming on....

there was also a stuffed pumpkin boy (funny how you forgot him, isn't it?)

didn't have as many kids this year and not too many homes were giving out candy either--saw about 50 of those scream characters from scary movie *sigh* have already begun christmas shopping (actually started in late September)--got a long way to go though and with the way this year has been flying, it'll be here tomorrow!

We had maybe 20, tops. My older daughter was a spy and the younger was a Chinese girl. It was a perfect night for trick-or-treating, though, almost balmy at 68 degrees (very warm for Oct in MD). It's supposed to be 76 tomorrow... What in the heck are schlotskies sandwiches?

OMG--those are the best!! and there are none in SoCal......

How 'bout Arm A Dillo.

Yeah! Their posters/album covers could have an armadillo wielding a sawed-off shotgun. I bet that one earns a parental advisory sticker based strictly on that!

i could see that one turning into a political statement too!

(i think your affection for pumpkin boy is unhealthy. now that halloween's over, he needs to be put away. maybe you need to be put away too, dear... in a nice fluffy room.) damn, september? that's the way to do it though.... nothing quite as hazardous and ultimately unpleasant as a crowd of frenzied holiday shoppers. i wish we could just get everybody fruitcake and be done with it. Arm. A Dillo, eh? yeah.... ooh... how bout-- The Hot Mamadillos or.... Armadillo Pie (like Humble Pie, except, well...) maybe a Southern Fried Motown trio... Armadillouttes actually, the football cheerleading team of San Saba are called the Dilloettes and they just won first prize for something or other and get to dance with the Dallas Cowboy cheerleaders at some event. - The Fruitcake Project - And they will know us by the trail of dead armadillos - Armadillogedon oh, and schlotsky's sandwiches are these round toasted sourdough bread sandwiches with olives and salami and ham and... um... cheddar and.. a buncha good stuff. i've heard it's kinda like a muffeletta, although i've never had one of those myself.

Right the big original. Big cheeses. Good article today about Wi Fi Hot Spots around Austin, that AAS Section is going to travel in my laptop bag. It's in Tech Monday business section. Bigcheeseadillos http://www.statesman.com/business/content/norails/business/1102wifi.html is the map to wi fi heaven.

Dilloettes is actually pronounced 'dillerettes', for some reason or other...

hotdangdillers?

and where'd the name come from anyway (dilloettes)??? muffeletta's are yummy too and are usually served warm. they have a great olive mix piled on top of the fixin's and that's the best part! i always got the turkey sourdough at schlotsky's-my favorite!!

You can buy the olive mixture at Trader Joe's (and possibly other stores)--it's just called Muffaletta spread. It's yummy on pasta and veggie burgers.

oh that's great to know! thanks!!

Veggie and the Burgers?

hee hee

Sounds like a winner to me. Green or ripe olives? I am still getting over eating slimy "fried" okra.

This was actually a 'working name' for a punk band I wanted to start back in my college days: 'Screaming Lutherans From Whittenberg' album title: 'A diet of wurms'

I LOVE IT!!!! hahahaha

What's your instrument?

that made me laugh too!

His instrument?

*LMAO* we should've known that was coming (*blush* did i pun again?)

A big ol' Gibson Bass Guitar, that is....

Uh huh. The little kids were entertaining but Mike did answer my question. Do I have to expurgate my own posts? *sigh* you guys !!! *;)

Good thing Mike said his big old Gibson was a bass guitar. The little kids of Spring would have had a field day if Johnson had made it. never mind

True.

HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!! wer, how did you and i become "the little kids of Spring"? actually, i don't mind that title at all *grin*

I don't know, I'll be 40 next summer...

you Can't be!!! I thought Terry connected Spring to the Fountain of Youth. NO wonder they never found it. And I should quit posting at 2 am. I never know what might appear in the cold light of dawn that sounded so good the night before.

No problem here...

(well, not entirely true, just unrelated)

mm yes, know all about those. Actually I attracted a lot of attention sneaking in here at 2 am and collapsing helplessly laughing about the "instrument" in question. So I had to read the posts aloud. We were indulged with a smile and he went back to work on the grave houses paper.

wer, i can't believe you'll be over the hill next year!!! don't worry, honey, i'm right behind you..... marcia, we weren't offended in the least---i thought it was too funny!!

Oh good ! If laughter is good for the soul, I got a huge helping last night and really enjoyed it *;)

good! nothing beats a good laugh that brings tears to the eyes!

no..., not taking 60 as my age or name just yet... keyboard foobar... If I had an instrument named johnson, I would have listed it... Ok, I meant MUSICAL INSTRUMENT....

Good thing it wasnt a flute....

not a flute!

I am so disappointed. Wow ! the possibilities! (I love laughing at this stuff!)

me too!