Best band names that are NOT NOUNS.

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We've done many different best-band-name threads, but I found nothing regarding bands-whose-names-are-NOT-NOUNS, ie verbs or adjectives etc.

So...

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 31 July 2003 12:17 (twenty-two years ago)

Chic, 23 Skidoo?

― Andrew Thames (Andrew Thames), Thursday, 31 July 2003 12:21 (twenty-two years ago)

Eric's Trip

― christoff (christoff), Thursday, 31 July 2003 12:23 (twenty-two years ago)

The Exploited
Heavenly

― dave225 (Dave225), Thursday, 31 July 2003 12:25 (twenty-two years ago)

Exploited being a verb used as an adjective that acts as a noun.

― dave225 (Dave225), Thursday, 31 July 2003 12:28 (twenty-two years ago)

I'll buy that.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 31 July 2003 12:32 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh and (thread promted by)...

WEEN!

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 31 July 2003 12:33 (twenty-two years ago)

The The

― Kim Tortoise, Thursday, 31 July 2003 12:34 (twenty-two years ago)

― Kim Tortoise, Thursday, 31 July 2003 12:47 (twenty-two years ago)

Refused! Rancid!

― Tom Breihan (Tom Breihan), Thursday, 31 July 2003 12:49 (twenty-two years ago)

t.A.T.u.

― The Lex (The Lex), Thursday, 31 July 2003 12:50 (twenty-two years ago)

Is Lush used as an adjective or a noun in their name?

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 31 July 2003 12:51 (twenty-two years ago)

Unsane?

― Øystein Holm-Olsen (Øystein H-O), Thursday, 31 July 2003 12:53 (twenty-two years ago)

Fugazi (i.e. Fouled Up, Got Ambushed, Zipped In)
Guided By Voices
Pleasure Forever
Drive Like Jehu
Good Riddance
Resplendent
Talk Talk
Timbuk 3
Ride
Why?

― christoff (christoff), Thursday, 31 July 2003 12:54 (twenty-two years ago)

Bikini Kill
Rush
High On Fire
Bantam
Love Spit Love
D.O.A.
Brassy

― Jeanne Fury (Jeanne Fury), Thursday, 31 July 2003 12:57 (twenty-two years ago)

Guided By Voices
Yo La Tengo
Quasi

― Jeanne Fury (Jeanne Fury), Thursday, 31 July 2003 12:58 (twenty-two years ago)

for crying out loud man, it's 95 per cent of bands in the history of the world...

― Dave Stelfox (Dave Stelfox), Thursday, 31 July 2003 13:01 (twenty-two years ago)

stellar*
sparks

― george gosset (gegoss), Thursday, 31 July 2003 13:02 (twenty-two years ago)

Really Dave? Most bands I can think of right away have noun names, or at least adjective+noun names = The Beatles, Beach Boys, Rolling Stones, Smashing Pumpkins (although that could also be a verb & object sentence fragment), The Verve, The White Stripes, Led Zeppelin, etc. etc.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 31 July 2003 13:29 (twenty-two years ago)

the thing is, once it becomes a band name, it's a noun.

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Thursday, 31 July 2003 13:44 (twenty-two years ago)

brian eno.

― fortunate hazel (f. hazel), Thursday, 31 July 2003 13:52 (twenty-two years ago)

WHAM!
Swearing at Motorists

― Emilymv (Emilymv), Thursday, 31 July 2003 14:42 (twenty-two years ago)

Flogging Molly

― Bryan Moore (Bryan Moore), Thursday, 31 July 2003 14:51 (twenty-two years ago)

Motorist is a Noun. Molly is a proper name, which is also a Noun.
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― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Thursday, 31 July 2003 15:01 (twenty-two years ago)

(I knew I should've specified "band names that are VERBS". This is where liberalization get's you, folks.)

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 31 July 2003 15:08 (twenty-two years ago)

pedantik (a group thats country of origin is unclear, ilm-ers who use the latest computer tech gear to lay out words that groove to the rhythm of a ticker-tape orx news-line bar, with the glitches in the lyrics)

― george gosset (gegoss), Thursday, 31 July 2003 15:22 (twenty-two years ago)

the phrases "flogging molly" and "swearing at motorists" are not noun phrases outside their meanings as band names. for example, you would not say, "move this flogging molly." these are verb or action phrases , such as "i was flogging molly." did you mean band names that do not contain nouns or band names that are not nouns as they appear?

― Emilymv (Emilymv), Thursday, 31 July 2003 15:28 (twenty-two years ago)

flogging pedagogically

― george gosset (gegoss), Thursday, 31 July 2003 15:35 (twenty-two years ago)

Small

― Ess, Thursday, 31 July 2003 15:36 (twenty-two years ago)

Take That!

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 31 July 2003 15:36 (twenty-two years ago)

ok, seefeel and spiritualized.

― fortunate hazel (f. hazel), Thursday, 31 July 2003 15:45 (twenty-two years ago)

tricky

― brains (cerybut), Thursday, 31 July 2003 15:47 (twenty-two years ago)

My friend has a band called The Stunning, but maybe the "The" makes it a defacto noun.

― Matt Helgeson (Matt Helgeson), Thursday, 31 July 2003 16:30 (twenty-two years ago)

Come

― brg30 (brg30), Thursday, 31 July 2003 18:49 (twenty-two years ago)

When People Were Shorter and Lived Near the Water

We've Got a Fuzzbox and We're Gonna Use It (before they shortened it to "Fuzzbox", alas)

The Teardrop Explodes

And no wag had better say that "Come" is a noun....

― Nom De Plume (Nom De Plume), Thursday, 31 July 2003 19:09 (twenty-two years ago)

Scrawl

And You Will Know Us By The Trail of Dead

― Matt Helgeson (Matt Helgeson), Thursday, 31 July 2003 20:35 (twenty-two years ago)

frank junior junior junior

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 31 July 2003 21:39 (twenty-two years ago)

My friend has a band called The Stunning

Sorry for temporary thread derailment, but are they Irish? A mate of mine has been banging on for about a year about some Irish band he once heard called The Stunning and has been getting everyone he knows to look round record shops to see if they have anything released. Could I have found them for him?

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 31 July 2003 21:44 (twenty-two years ago)

Scraping foetus off the wheel.

― Daniel (dancity), Thursday, 31 July 2003 21:53 (twenty-two years ago)

The Beloved (adverb)
Run DMC (a verb and some letters)
Malk de Koijn (nonsense)

― Jay K (Jay K), Monday, 4 August 2003 09:27 (twenty-two years ago)

Talk Talk, innit.

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Monday, 4 August 2003 09:29 (twenty-two years ago)

Staind
Half Japanese
Dead Or Alive

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Monday, 4 August 2003 12:39 (twenty-two years ago)

OK Go

― NA (Nick A.), Monday, 4 August 2003 12:42 (twenty-two years ago)

Van Halen

― Chris V. (Chris V), Monday, 4 August 2003 12:46 (twenty-two years ago)

''Bikini Kill''

Call me a pedant (go on, you know you want to) but since when is Bikini not a noun!!! Just because it is followed by the word 'Kill' does it somehow become something else? If that's the case, I nominate Miranda Sex Garden as not being a noun.

― Kim Tortoise, Monday, 4 August 2003 14:43 (twenty-two years ago)

Miranda Sex Garden is more of a noun than Bikini Kill, especially if you follow your logic. It's a garden, hence it's a noun.
And Van Halen is a noun because it's a proper name.

― NA (Nick A.), Monday, 4 August 2003 15:02 (twenty-two years ago)

A-HA

!!!

― weatheringdaleson (weatheringdaleson), Monday, 4 August 2003 15:28 (twenty-two years ago)

Versus

― earlnash, Monday, 4 August 2003 18:45 (twenty-two years ago)

''Miranda Sex Garden is more of a noun than Bikini Kill, especially if you follow your logic.''

I know. I was just using it to prove a point. Incidentally, a noun is an absolute: there can't be one thing that is 'more of a noun' than something else. It's either a noun or it isn't.

― Kim Tortoise, Tuesday, 5 August 2003 14:13 (twenty-two years ago)

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