Band names your boss could see and think you are actually working

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I have a fairly large collection of .mp3s on my PC at work. Quite often I am in the act of browsing through my folders deciding what to enqueue in Winamp next, when my boss decides to walk right up to me and stare blankly at my monitor. Generally I am hip to this and minimize all the open "non-work" programs to make it look like I am working.

Yesterday however, I had open the folder for .mp3s by Metro Area and my boss came by and gave it an approving nod, thinking that it was work.

So ...

Please list "other band names your boss could see and think you are working" and the type of work you do. In my case I work for a pharmaceutical organization, so:

Morphine
Codeine
Ted Leo/Pharmacists

Keep 'em coming ...

― fields of salmon (fieldsofsalmon), Friday, 10 January 2003 15:44 (twenty-three years ago)

placebo!

― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Friday, 10 January 2003 15:52 (twenty-three years ago)

Is there a band called "Exposure"? I work in insurance.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 10 January 2003 15:55 (twenty-three years ago)

Filter
Add (N) to (X) -- or whatever the hell they're called
Chrome
AC/DC
Green on Red
Supersuckers
Weirmacht
Ash

― christoff (christoff), Friday, 10 January 2003 16:05 (twenty-three years ago)

spectrum
orbital
caustic resin
experimental audio research
bowery electric
Coil
DNA
Sparks
wire
associates
liquid liquid
crome

― A Nairn (moretap), Friday, 10 January 2003 16:24 (twenty-three years ago)

British Sea Power - he wouldn't think you were working, but rather looking for a motorboat, which he would probably heartily approve of. However, this may also lead to him thinking you like golf.

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Friday, 10 January 2003 16:30 (twenty-three years ago)

When I worked, I worked at an ad agency, so...

The Adverts
Television
Magazine

erm...

― kate, Friday, 10 January 2003 16:33 (twenty-three years ago)

Hmm, I work for a bank, so maybe the Toilet Boys?

― hstencil, Friday, 10 January 2003 16:34 (twenty-three years ago)

I work in an a/v dept. of a uni library, so anythign you can think of ias kind of fine, but jazz preferable.

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Friday, 10 January 2003 16:48 (twenty-three years ago)

unless there is a band called Bank or Finance then I'm dead.

― Chris V. (Chris V), Friday, 10 January 2003 16:52 (twenty-three years ago)

My friend wanted to call his band "Business" because he said they could have shit puns as album titles "getting down to Business" "getting back to Business" "taking care of Business" "A Business Trip" etc etc etc etc. I wish he actually did call it that but I think they changed the name in the end.

― Ronan (Ronan), Friday, 10 January 2003 16:54 (twenty-three years ago)

There is / was already an Oi! band called The Business

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Friday, 10 January 2003 16:56 (twenty-three years ago)

Chris V. - you'd best start falling in love with Free Loan Investments, then...

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Friday, 10 January 2003 16:59 (twenty-three years ago)

Oh, shame.

― Ronan (Ronan), Friday, 10 January 2003 17:00 (twenty-three years ago)

The Firm.

― Lord Custos Omega (Lord Custos Omega), Friday, 10 January 2003 17:02 (twenty-three years ago)

Free Loan Investments

Stevie Chick said All Girl Summer Fun Band were the tweest band ever. He was wrong.

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Friday, 10 January 2003 17:05 (twenty-three years ago)

ronan-the best bit about that band name would be that even if you thought they were shit,you would be forced to concede that they are "the business"

― robin (robin), Friday, 10 January 2003 19:50 (twenty-three years ago)

Certainly not Anal Cunt.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 10 January 2003 20:05 (twenty-three years ago)

flowchart! socket! or, uh, anything with a nonsensical three-character name preferably including a number. the joys of geek jobs. (lots of song titles which match this thanks to the kind of stuff i listen to, but surprisingly few band names. anyone who can get away with jega - "subdivision surfaces" gets a thump from me for having a much cooler job than i do. dammit, you'd better not just be inflicting more quake clones on what really ought to be a saturated market by now :)

e.u. might work no matter what kind of work you're supposed to be doing.

album pick: printf("shiver in eternal darkness\n");. well, i know, but my boss is probably getting used to what a coder's idea of a helpful error message is by now.

― serf, Friday, 10 January 2003 20:14 (twenty-three years ago)

Thinking Fellers Union Local 282!

― matt riedl (veal), Friday, 10 January 2003 21:04 (twenty-three years ago)

Boards Of Canada

― Mil, Saturday, 11 January 2003 01:14 (twenty-three years ago)

Preston School Of Industry

― Mil, Saturday, 11 January 2003 01:15 (twenty-three years ago)

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