Not sure if it’s because their music is generally terrible but I hate the name “Imagine Dragons”
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Friday, 24 February 2023 18:14 (one year ago) link
Yeah me too. It's one of those superficially clever band names because one can read it in the imperative: "imagine (that there are) dragons." Or one can read implied punctuation such as "imagine... dragons!" as in sheesh, what the fuck are dragons doing here?
Ditto "Cage the Elephant," which has an imperative reading: "cause that elephant to be caged," as well as the slightly twee notion that there is an elephant named Cage, hence an implied comma: "Cage, the elephant, wishes to be fed more peanuts."
Lots of band names can just die in fire. Maybe bands should all just be issued a number like the Social Security system.
I am guilty too; during an especially weird part of the twentieth century I was in an experimental jazz band that spelled its name differently for every show. I vaguely wish I had kept some of the posters. Curds and Whey, Kurds n Way, Curds + Weigh, Kurds & Whey, etc.
― nat king cole slaw (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 24 February 2023 21:17 (one year ago) link
Oh, I wanna sit awkwardly on a bed with somebodyI wanna wear a shirt with somebody
I wanna wear a shirt with somebody
Underrated post
― pee change (flamboyant goon tie included), Friday, 24 February 2023 21:34 (one year ago) link
It's one of those superficially clever band names because one can read it in the imperative: "imagine (that there are) dragons." Or one can read implied punctuation such as "imagine... dragons!" as in sheesh, what the fuck are dragons doing here?Ditto "Cage the Elephant," which has an imperative reading: "cause that elephant to be caged," as well as the slightly twee notion that there is an elephant named Cage, hence an implied comma: "Cage, the elephant, wishes to be fed more peanuts."
🤯 tbh
― The field divisions are fastened with felicitations. (Deflatormouse), Friday, 24 February 2023 21:36 (one year ago) link
Hed PE
Is it a Public Enemy reference?
― INDEPENDENTS DAY BY STEVEN SPILBERG (President Keyes), Saturday, 25 February 2023 21:08 (one year ago) link
i always thought it was an abbreviation for "planet earth"
― up and down. SO FAST! stay together.💙 (Austin), Saturday, 25 February 2023 21:10 (one year ago) link
hey i was kinda right
Hed PE (also known as (hed) Planet Earth and stylized as (həd) p.e. or as (Hed)pe[12] or (Hed)PE[13]) or (həd) Planetary Evolution, is an American rock band from Huntington Beach, California.
― up and down. SO FAST! stay together.💙 (Austin), Saturday, 25 February 2023 21:12 (one year ago) link
also lol @ all those different variations and me still sitting here going, "so is it like, head pee or HEAD PEE EE?"
― up and down. SO FAST! stay together.💙 (Austin), Saturday, 25 February 2023 21:15 (one year ago) link
Their / They're / There
― enochroot, Thursday, 4 May 2023 13:26 (eleven months ago) link
oh jeez
― Cthulhu Diamond Phillips (Neanderthal), Thursday, 4 May 2023 14:08 (eleven months ago) link
Makes sense considering the three members were previously in such bands as Cap'n Jazz, Into It. Over It., and Loose Lips Sink Ships.
― henry s, Thursday, 4 May 2023 15:15 (eleven months ago) link
might as well name their next one Well, Akshually
― Cthulhu Diamond Phillips (Neanderthal), Thursday, 4 May 2023 15:17 (eleven months ago) link
Pretty good song titles
― Are You There God? It's a-Me, Mario (morrisp), Thursday, 4 May 2023 15:34 (eleven months ago) link
There's a local shit deathcore band called Catcher And the Rye
― linoleum gallagher (Neanderthal), Saturday, 8 July 2023 19:13 (nine months ago) link
I am fairly sure they're just idiots that think that is the title of the book. They are humongous douchebags
probably for a different thread, but cant find one suitable, what's the most obvious band name that hasn't been "taken" yet? Taken by a somewhat notable band who would stop someone else using it I mean.
― the world is your octopus (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Saturday, 8 July 2023 21:53 (nine months ago) link
I have been thinking about this. Animal names are popular - Eagles, scorpions, Owls, Wolves, Coyotes, Worms, Otters, Bonobos, Giraffes, Zebra, Naked Mole Rats, Wallabies, Sloths, Tardigrades, Yellowjackets, Fruit Bats, Bandicoots? Apparently all taken.
But there are some still sitting out there unclaimed. I am not aware of a band called the Ring-Tailed Lemurs, or the Earwigs.
The sneakiest move would be to call your next band The Beetles. Technically it hasn't been taken.
― pomplamoose and circumstance (Ye Mad Puffin), Saturday, 8 July 2023 22:21 (nine months ago) link
Earwig has already been used - early 90s shoegazer band who later turned into Insides
― NickB, Saturday, 8 July 2023 22:40 (nine months ago) link
I once read that the most common band names in America are Paradox; The Rain; and some third one I forgot. Googling confirms that Paradox is a top 10 name, as are Apollo, Atlas, and Zero.
― Josefa, Saturday, 8 July 2023 22:43 (nine months ago) link
These are fun things to check out on last.fm, for example https://www.last.fm/music/Paradox
― the world is your octopus (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Saturday, 8 July 2023 23:04 (nine months ago) link
The 1960s was a huge landgrab for common words. You just had to plant a “The” flag in front of it.
― Alito Bit of Soap (President Keyes), Sunday, 9 July 2023 12:48 (nine months ago) link
xxxpost, I check every once in a while, but there's never been a hardcore band called Lifetime of Abusethere is Life is Abuse but I don't like the ring of that as well
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Sunday, 9 July 2023 13:28 (nine months ago) link
I was pretty upset to discover Moni Jitchell recently - I thought we'd agreed to stop doing this shit
― your original display name is still visible (Left), Sunday, 9 July 2023 14:13 (nine months ago) link
Buckcherry should have been the last word in that nonsense
― henry s, Sunday, 9 July 2023 15:13 (nine months ago) link
pro-tip - if you used to be in the band Saliva and you want to go on tour and do their songs, but Saliva still exists and you can't legally use their name, perhaps best not to use the naming convention "Josey Scott's Saliva"
― linoleum gallagher (Neanderthal), Sunday, 16 July 2023 13:55 (nine months ago) link
lol
― Deflatormouse, Monday, 17 July 2023 01:32 (nine months ago) link
i had a really good "worst band name" idea last night, but forgot it! it was 2 words and one of the words was 'Pizza'
― Deflatormouse, Monday, 17 July 2023 01:33 (nine months ago) link
Sounds like band-name trauma induced by this:https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F1F4B-7agAEotGg?format=jpg&name=large
― Bittern Storm Over My Hammy (morrisp), Monday, 17 July 2023 01:59 (nine months ago) link
Pizza Great Guy
― Alito Bit of Soap (President Keyes), Monday, 17 July 2023 13:47 (nine months ago) link
The "ILM Best of 2023 Tracks Nominations" playlist just served me up a song by needanamebro.
― enochroot, Friday, 5 January 2024 17:12 (three months ago) link
they got a new name now bro
https://www.instagram.com/saynow
they're great but I'm glad they changed it that name wasn't doing them any favours
― Left, Friday, 5 January 2024 17:18 (three months ago) link
ruby the hatchet
― organ doner (ledge), Thursday, 18 January 2024 13:44 (three months ago) link
...I had avoided "Amp Fiddler" until a couple weeks ago due to the truly dire choice of name, but turns out he's great!
― m0stly clean (Slowsquatch), Thursday, 18 January 2024 14:39 (three months ago) link