The Band Name/Naming/Re-Naming Thread

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"Catchy without a formula" is the band equivalent to saying "I write free-verse, man!" It's one thing to understand a formula and then purposely work outside of it...

I like the implied mutually exclusive relationship. "Melodic yet intense." "Hey everybody, we're served hot yet delicious!"

― martin m. (mushrush), Sunday, 6 November 2005 18:20 (eighteen years ago) link

Okay, I'm thinking of two new possible names for the band:

1) American Apparel

2) House Un-American Altitude Committee

― Hurting (Hurting), Monday, 7 November 2005 14:18 (eighteen years ago) link

Thanks for everyone's input.

Casuistry - you must be from Portland. Yeah, we're that Empty Set. Are the Minor Thirds still together?

And FWIW, I like American Altitude.

― darin (darin), Monday, 7 November 2005 17:19 (eighteen years ago) link

We are still together, but people are buying houses and stuff, so we probably won't be doing terribly much with ourselves until spring. Hopefully recording a new album or two before then. Solo shows, that's where it's at, right now. Or something.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 7 November 2005 23:10 (eighteen years ago) link

"Tantrum the Cat" could work but it screams "whimsical".

Hmmmm... never thought of that...

I'm also thinking of the name GrandFormat ("large size" awn zee frawn-say) for my house stuff.

― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Tuesday, 8 November 2005 01:18 (eighteen years ago) link

"tantrum the cat" sounds like the name of a band whose members probably play a lot of hacky sack and wear dr seuss hats.

― maria tessa sciarrino (theoreticalgirl), Tuesday, 8 November 2005 16:13 (eighteen years ago) link

Ouch. I didn't realize that the name had such horrible trustafarian patchouli stink vibes attached to it. I'm basically a house/tech/dancey/beats/whatever guy, and I liked the actual sound of the word "Tantrum", detached from its meaning. I was also kinda going for a Felix Da Housekat thing, too. But it seems like "Tantrum The Cat" is conjuring up exactly the wrong imagery for what I'm doing.

― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Tuesday, 8 November 2005 22:15 (eighteen years ago) link

Darin -- there's also a band called Great Lake Swimmers.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 8 November 2005 23:53 (eighteen years ago) link

Thanks - yeah, Great Lakes is out. I had a feeling it was just too good of a name to be unused.

― darin (darin), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 00:31 (eighteen years ago) link

Greater Lakes.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 08:37 (eighteen years ago) link

Greatest Lakes.

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 15:08 (eighteen years ago) link

Greatest Lakes' Greatest Takes

― Hurting (Hurting), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 15:30 (eighteen years ago) link

Great Fakes

― martin m. (mushrush), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 18:23 (eighteen years ago) link

Great Fictions

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 18:26 (eighteen years ago) link

The Greatful Dead Seas.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 20:28 (eighteen years ago) link

two months pass...

I'm fed up. We played a good venue, they put a huge ad in the voice, and they misspelled our name "American Attitude."

What do you guys think of The Sea Wolf as a name?

― Abbadavid Berman (Hurting), Monday, 9 January 2006 16:40 (eighteen years ago) link

Too many wolf bands these days.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 9 January 2006 16:52 (eighteen years ago) link

Yeah, that was one of my problems with it. How about Wolf Blitzer?

Another idea I had was calling the band Freehold, since the two founding members actually are from Freehold, NJ.

― Abbadavid Berman (Hurting), Monday, 9 January 2006 17:06 (eighteen years ago) link

three years pass...

a really awesome band name would be Woodstock 99.

― congratulations (n/a), Thursday, 13 August 2009 19:30 (fourteen years ago) link

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