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Have you ever come across a word or phrase and thought, "You know, that'd be a great name for a band?" What was it, and what do you think they'd sound like?

― Prude, Saturday, 1 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

"Hypothetical Band Name". A very mysterious entity who would have albums called things like: "Nameless", "Untitled", "Unnamed", etc. They would make wheelchair pornography music.

― Kodanshi, Saturday, 1 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

kodanshi can i call my next record "wheelchair pornography music"?

― jess, Saturday, 1 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Free Beer

Everyone Gets Laid

The Warren Commission

― JM, Saturday, 1 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

It has been overused already, but when i first heard news commentators refer to Bush's "Charm Offensive" with legislators, I thought that would work nicely for a depressing dirge band.

― Curt, Saturday, 1 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

I could see Charm Offensive being a hyperactive all-girl punk-pop band. They'd wear sequins and do songs with lots of "yeah, yeah, yeah's" in the choruses.

― Prude, Saturday, 1 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Chemistry class was a wealth of exciting names. Electron Cascade! Watson-Crick Model! Double Helix!

― Lyra, Saturday, 1 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

'kodanshi can i call my next record "wheelchair pornography music"?' Yeah, sure. But what did you call your last record??

― Kodanshi, Sunday, 2 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

iron lung pornography music, of course. ;)

― jess, Sunday, 2 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

I want to call my band Queerer Du Bois but maybe thats only funny to candains

― anthony, Sunday, 2 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

also from chem:
Free Radicals
maths also great:
Cantor's Dust
The Julia Set
Boolean Criteria

― mark s, Sunday, 2 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

There are loads of utterly odd and wierd phrases in The Day Today that I thought would be good for bands. "Mussolini Cough Chutney", "Trust Me, I'm A Stomach", "Russia Elects Cobweb"...

― Croooooow, Sunday, 2 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

I was looking at the watches in the Argos catalogue the other day and one of the was described as having an electro-luminescent display.

― jamesmichaelward, Sunday, 2 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Yes, I recall THE DAY TODAY featuring a rapper played by their main news presenter. Except he looked like Ali G! He called himself Fur Q and did a remake of "Easy Lover" as "Uzi Lover". He also, according to their news programme, burned 5 members of his audience and then shot them in their faces. HARDCORE U KNOW THE SCORE!

― Kodanshi, Sunday, 2 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Driving down the Massachusetts Turnpike once, I saw a sign referring to the ridges embedded in the side of the road as a rumblestrip. I thought that'd be a great name for a cheesy German electronica act. They'd come onstage dressed like Mike Myers in Sprokets and say, "Vee ah...RRRRRROOMBULLSHTREEP!" For bonus points, there could be an umlaut over the "u."

― Prude, Sunday, 2 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

And isn't there already a band called The Free Radicals? As I remember, they had a song called "You Get What You Give" popular a couple years ago.

― Prude, Sunday, 2 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Race horses have some good names that can be "borrowed" such as Nichol Fifty, Bodakker , Multeen Jet, Scallybuck and Zietzig being a few that spring to mind...

― Debs, Sunday, 2 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Hyperion.

M9.

Egdon Heath.

Confluence.

Bopeep Conundrum.

Mercantile Credit Classic.

The New Internationalists.

The Alliance of Self-Hatred.

B312.

Huntsman and Captain Swing.

― Robin Carmody, Sunday, 2 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Shark Party is a personal favorite...

― Clarke B., Monday, 3 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Dry Riser Inlet.

The Artisans

If they're used I demand by 0.5% royalty now.

― Billy Dods, Monday, 3 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Fishsticks On The Highway

― Kodanshi, Monday, 3 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

my personal favorite band name (which is in use and thus doesn't really fit this question, but i don't care) is "Run For Your Fucking Life"

― Timothy, Monday, 3 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

OK, try this lot!!!!!!

Vigilante Shipbuilders- a new Manics-style band!??!
VGA Videostars- Daft Punksters!!!!
Get Carter- some London indie band's probably already used this!!!!
Uncle Bulgaria's Catflap- "quirky" Betaband type "experimental" "collective"!!!
Neo- hip band, obnoxious singer, "indie/dance" a la Republica, reference to The Matrix- what else would a band need to get a front cover on the NME!??! (Well, apart from losing all the post-1977 references, obviously...)
Plank & Sprockets- ultra-credible UK Garage DJ/Producer duo, currently sought out by Madonna for her next album!!!!!
F8-tah Liztik- ultra-hardcore "social realist" US rappy chappy!!!!!
Clump- really doomy metal band!!!!!
The Herpes- scuzzy US NY punk band, to be feted by NME as the best band since the Beatles!!! Will no doubt react to the inevitable storm over their name by claiming it's really a misspelling of "The Hairpiece", and donning wigs!!!!!!!
Er, I'm out of ideas!!!!!!!!!!!

Old Fart!!!!

― Old Fart!!!!, Tuesday, 4 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

nineteen years pass...

The Massive Idiots

― Party With A Jagger Ban (dog latin), Tuesday, 16 March 2021 00:01 (three years ago) link

Old Fart was awesome

― beer drops on my keytar (morrisp), Tuesday, 16 March 2021 00:03 (three years ago) link

Every hypothetical band name in this thread has now been taken

― Party With A Jagger Ban (dog latin), Tuesday, 16 March 2021 00:03 (three years ago) link

one year passes...

your personal fiscal year?

― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, December 23, 2022 11:57 AM

― Karl Malone, Friday, 23 December 2022 17:59 (one year ago) link

Texas Bitch, from an overheard phone conversation ("giiiirrl, you better tex' this bitch back"!!)

I think it sounds like a Jennifer Herrema side project.

― The field divisions are fastened with felicitations. (Deflatormouse), Friday, 23 December 2022 23:07 (one year ago) link

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