Thinking of band names.

[racerevlon]

Watch out for copyright infringement using movie stuff.

The funniest thing I ever saw was a video tape from Japan my friend took while on tour over there. They have a little street area kind of like Venice, CA where performers, bands, merchants, etc. set up and do their thing. Seems the Japanese metal bands (of the time) really liked having American band names, but they had no idea what the words meant, so they would just pick three words in English, and go with it as their band name.

So my friend is walking down this street with his video camera, and you hear a band playing. He pans up to see them on stage, and they have a white sheet put up behind them with their band name written on it:

King Fucker Chicken



Another old trick is to grab a dictionary--open it once and point to any word--that's word 1, then repeat. One time we ended up with "Indistinct Resignation." Kind of like throwing darts.

 

[Motorpud]

BTW, a buddy and I came up with a perfect death metal band name, and a perfect punk band name.

Since death metal names always have something to do with going #2 or bloody body parts or some lame shit like that, I came up with "Weeping Urethra" So fucking metal!

And for a trashy sounding punk band, "Courtesy Flush"

How about "Tracheal Sodomy"?

 

[RJF]

Finger painting with phecies. You're welcome.....

 

[tweed]

Toxic Clit

 

[guitarslinger]

watch a movie.

I got my hair metal band name from Lost in Translation.

Midnight Velocity.

 

[Tawlks]

Dude, all the COOL bands name are taken. Forget it.

I'm actually... kinda inclined to agree with you. Even death metal bands have fucking ghey names these days.

My bassist wants something with 'ation' or 'iton' on the end. But all the words like Suffocation and Decapitation and stuff are taken. All the 'tion' words left are ghey ones.

 

[Tawlks]

Watch out for copyright infringement using movie stuff.

The funniest thing I ever saw was a video tape from Japan my friend took while on tour over there. They have a little street area kind of like Venice, CA where performers, bands, merchants, etc. set up and do their thing. Seems the Japanese metal bands (of the time) really liked having American band names, but they had no idea what the words meant, so they would just pick three words in English, and go with it as their band name.

So my friend is walking down this street with his video camera, and you hear a band playing. He pans up to see them on stage, and they have a white sheet put up behind them with their band name written on it:

King Fucker Chicken



Another old trick is to grab a dictionary--open it once and point to any word--that's word 1, then repeat. One time we ended up with "Indistinct Resignation." Kind of like throwing darts.

King Fucker Chicken. hahaha

FUCKING LOL. That's brilliant. I could do the opposite and pick some japanese words.

I'll see what the translation of Mutant Shapeshift Anus is in Japanese.

EDIT: Didn't work, in Czech though, it's Mutant tvar anus. Doesn't really work.

 

[reverymike]

My two year old son was watching Alvin and the Chipmunks the other day, and he kept calling them "Chick Monks." So there you go. . .Chick Monks.

You're welcome.

 

[D-Rock]

My favorite death metal band name is also already taken.
Prostitute Disfigurement.

 

[Mailman1971]

Or take it from the Hagar boys.........Chicken Foot........

 

[Spaceboy]

I let our drummer name our punk band (Axehandle Mountain) after an LSD-influenced trip he had through the woods at the local state park, at a time when wolves had escaped from the resident zoo and were running wild around the city. He fashioned a club out of an old axehandle to protect himself from wolves and renamed the park "Axehandle Mountain" after he survived the trip.

What a goon!

 

[Tawlks]

I let our drummer name our punk band (Axehandle Mountain) after an LSD-influenced trip he had through the woods at the local state park, at a time when wolves had escaped from the resident zoo and were running wild around the city. He fashioned a club out of an old axehandle to protect himself from wolves and renamed the park "Axehandle Mountain" after he survived the trip.

What a goon!

HAHAHA. That's awesome. One of the best stories I've heard in ages. I love hearing about people's drug trips, it's usually hillarious.

 

[King Guitar]

Can never go wring with"Free Beer". Always packs them in.

 

[billm408]

Bobbing For French Fries

 

[Chris6870]

The Flaming Hard-Ons.

 

[Tawlks]

Can never go wring with"Free Beer". Always packs them in.

Where I live, "miscellaneous hardcore band" would gather a bigger crowd. Good idea though.

 

[vultures]

I usually go through wikipedia looking up random/creepy/paranormal/space themed things. Use the title or random cool words that pop up

 

[Coopster]

I've always wanted to call a band Penisaurus Rex.

Since I'm not in one, you're welcome to it.

 

[Tawlks]

I usually go through wikipedia looking up random/creepy/paranormal/space themed things. Use the title or random cool words that pop up

Yeah, my thoughts were that I'd be reading a college textbook and just encounter a cool sounding word. My bassist likes Degravation.

 

[Ventura]

I've jammed with so many cats and their groups over the years - either as an add-on or with mixed members of different groups... We never cared about the name, but if anyone ever asked, we ALWAYS went with something funny.

A little while ago, the name that came to be that is STILL talked about to this day was:

Mutant Tampon Arrest Society

Put that one in yer pipe and smoke it - hahahahaha....

I just love the NON-serious side of music... I've said it before and I'll say it again - I cannot STAND the "serious musician face" in any and all of the magazines and eZines and shit...just makes me howl. Like, people, lighten up, it's music - don't take yourself so seriously.

I guess that's what years of Zappa influence has done to me

Just sayin'...
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